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This Year I Didn't Do Much, Just Read Books

2025-01-28

Looking back at this year, I didn’t really do anything particularly big—mainly just read books😊.

Listed below are the books, not counting all the random ones I read halfway through, or the borrowed ones whose titles I’ve forgotten.

Fiction

  • To Kill a Mockingbird

  • The Brothers Karamazov

  • Gone with the Wind

  • White Night

  • Letter from an Unknown Woman

  • Tales of Hulan River

  • The Painted Veil

  • The Lady of the Camellias

  • My First Best Friend

  • Anne of Green Gables

  • The Catcher in the Rye

  • The Old Man and the Sea

  • Siddhartha

  • Orbital (read a clunky AI translation version🤣)

  • The Little Prince

  • The Moon and Sixpence

  • Love in the Time of Cholera

  • One Hundred Years of Solitude

  • Moral Tales

  • The Razor’s Edge

  • Educated

  • Typhoon Day

Non-Fiction

  • Classical Chinese Medicine for Beginners

  • The Details of Rule of Law

  • Unity of Knowledge and Action

  • Rich Dad’s Cashflow Quadrant (German edition: Kira und der Kern des Donuts)

  • The Courage to Be Disliked

  • Don’t Waste Your 20s to 30s

  • You Don’t Need to Compare Yourself to Others

  • The Science of Running

  • The Amazing Gene

  • What Matters More Is Living Well Today

  • Pick a City and Lie Flat

  • Reading Books on the Island

  • Deep Work

  • There’s No Permanent Rejection, You’re Just Not Accepted Yet

  • Boundless Growth

  • The Worlds I See (memoir)

  • Becoming (memoir)

  • Thinking in Bets

  • Designing Your Life

  • Stories of the Sahara

  • The Sahara Stories

  • Mindsight

  • Looking at Education from East to West

  • Same as Ever

  • The Almanack of Naval Ravikant

  • Outliers

  • Influence