I started this year with the good intention of writing a paragraph or three for each book I read. A short review so to speak. I managed for about 15 books up to April. It's too much work to write about what I just read. Easier to read something new. So here's my reading list for this year (managed to read a lot of technical shit):

[*] greatly enjoyed
[x] deeply annoying in some way

1. Stendhal, The Red and the Black
2. Steig Larson, The Girl who kicked the Hornet's Nest
3. [*] Neil Howe and William Strauss, The Fourth Turning
4. [*] Edith Wharton, "Age of Innocence".
5. [*] Gary Taubes, "Why we get Fat"
6. Nathan Haren & Mike Cliffe Jones, "Beyond Blogging"
7. Jules Verne, "Voyage au Centre du Monde"
8. [*] Rino Breerbaart, "Song Logic"
9. Mario Vargas Llosa, "Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter"
10. Henry James, "Portrait of a Lady"
11. [x] "Persian Fire", Tim Holland
12. "La Chartreuse de Parme", Stendhal
13. Clay Shirky, "Cognitive Surplus"
14. [*] Collette, "Cheri"
15. [x] Tea Obreht, "The Tiger's Wife"
16. [*] Simon Schama, "The Power of Art"
17. [*] Aristotle, "Poetics"
18. [*] Simon Schama, "Rembrandt's Eyes"
19. David Foster Wallace, "Consider the Lobster"

20. Micheal Lewis, "The Big Short"

21. Edward L. Glaeser, "Triumph of the City"

22. [x] E.L. Doctorow, "Ragtime"
23. [*] Barry Strauss, "The Trojan War"
24. [*] Patrick White, "Tree of Man"
25. William Bengston, "The Energy Cure"
26. [*] John Man, "Alpha Beta: How 26 Letters Shaped the Western World"
27. Vanessa Veselka, "Zazen"
28. [*] Alex Ross, "Listen to This"
29. [*] Andrei Alexandrescu, "The D Programming Language"
30. Hugh Mckay, "What Makes Us Tick"
31. Clifford Pickover, "Archimedes to Hawking: Laws of Science"
32. G.R.R. Martin, "The Game of Thrones"
33. Barry Strauss, "The Battle at Salamis"
34. [*] Alberto Miguel, "A History of Reading"
35. [*] David Sloan Wilson "Darwin's Cathedral"
36. Colin Wright,"Networking Awesomely"
37. [*] Joey Comeau, "The Girl who couldn't Come"
38. [*] Tina Fey, "Bossypants"
39. John Kenneth Galbraith, "The Great Crash 1929"
40. [x] Fiona McGregor, "Indelible Ink"
41. Ethan Marcotte, "Responsive Web Design"
42. Richard Ellis, "Aquagenesis"
43. William Calvin, "A Brief History of the Mind"
44. [*] Miles Franklin, "My Brilliant Career"
45. Michael Lewis, "Boomerang"
46. Jim Collins and Morten T. Hansen, "Great by Choice"
47. [*] Karen Armstrong, "The Great Transformation"
48. Marshall Rosenberg, "Non-Violent Communication"
49. [*] Norman Wade. "The Faith Instinct"
50. [*] Charles Pinter, "The Theory of Abstract Algebra"
51. [*] Piela, "Ideas in Quantum Chemistry"
52. Keith McFarland, "The Breakthrough Company"
53. Mark Sisson, "The Primal Blueprint"
54. [*] Lisa See, "Shanghai Girls"
55. [*] M. G. Bulmer, "Principles of Statistics"