My 2019 Reading: And How to Read More

I try to read about a book per week. Here are all the books I read in 2019, with the "top 5" at the top. Previously: 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015.

Non-fiction

1. Range
2. What You Do is Who You Are
3. How to do Nothing
4. Stillness is Key
5. Subliminal: How Your Unconscious Mind Rules Your Behavior

Fiction

1. The Cake Tree in the Ruins
2. All The Names They Used for God
3. Tape for the Turn of the Year
4. The Parade
5. I Remember

The Rest

• Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup
• The Complete Stories: Flannery O'Connor
• Look Alive Out There
• How Did You Get This Number
• Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar
• The Carrying: Poems
• The Iceman Cometh
• The Time Machine Did It
• What Every Web Developer Should Know About HTTP
• Tape for the Turn of the Year
• Double Wonderful
• Spy of the First Person
• My Documents
• The Rider
• Arlo Finch and the Lake of the Moon
• Coraline
• Great Dream of Heaven
• My Side of the Mountain
• Educated
• The Bleaker House
• The Cake Tree in the Ruins
• All The Names They Used for God
• Keep Going
• Ruined by Design
• True West
• But What if We're Wrong?
• The Parade
• On Writing Well
• Subliminal: How Your Unconscious Mind Rules Your Behavior
• I Remember
• How to do Nothing
• Dead Men Scare Me Stupid
• Elastic
• The Four Obsessions of an Extraordinary Executive
• The Five Temptations of a CEO
• Silos, Politics, and Turf Wars
• A Grief Observed
• The Ideal Team Player
• Death by Meeting
• Getting Naked
• The Five Dysfunctions of a Team
• Range
• Get Shorty
• Normal People
• Thinking in Systems: A Primer
• Sum: Forty Tales from the Afterlives
• Stillness is Key
• Do the Work
• How the Water Feels to the Fishes
• Hard to Admit and Harder to Escape
• Minor Robberies
• That Will Never Work
• The Effective Engineer
• What You Do is Who You Are
• Can't and Won't

How to Read More

1. Read things that are interesting to you.
2. Read widely.
3. Stop reading books you don't like, mid-sentence, without guilt.

Also I feel that I should mention: the Dangerous Effects of Reading.