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All Kinds of Books to Read

November 14th, 2011 — 9:37pm

I’m in a rather unfamiliar state right now. Last year I was struggling to find books to read as I towards my goal of reading 50 books in a year. Now I’ve got 3 books that I’m working through, another 4 already queued up, and then a list of 10 more that I want to read after that.

What’s going on here?!

As you can see on the sidebar to the right, I’m currently working my way through the Steve Jobs biography by Walter Isaacson, Basketball on Paper, and The Waste Lands, which is the 3rd of 7 books in Stephen King’s Dark Tower series. After that I’ve got the remaining 4 Dark Tower books already lined up, which is about 2400 pages of adventure through a post-apocalyptic world.

Here are 10 more that I’ve decided I want to read as well. Any feedback on some of these or even a couple more recommendations would be awesome.

Surely You’re Joking, Mr. Feynman! – Richard Feynman
What Do You Care What Other People Think? – Richard Feynman
Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid – Douglas Hofstadter
Ishmael – Daniel Quinn
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance – Robert Pirsig
The Miracle of Mindfulness – Thich Naht Hanh
The Razor’s Edge – W. Somerset Maugham
The Fall – Albert Camus
Infinite Jest – David Foster Wallace
The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber – Ernest Hemingway

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