2016 Reading List

To match up with the list of books and films read or watched in 2015 is a list of books that I hope to get to this year. There are a lot of re-reads in here. I am finding that as I get older I am much more inclined to step back and re-read a good book then I am to always be searching for the next great thing. I’ve also grown a lot more choosy on what it is I do start up reading. There just isn’t enough time in a year to rush though a paperback a week like I did way back in High School. I also suspect the list will evolve substantially as the year goes on based upon my seasonal whimsy and discovery of new authors.

*Re-read

Fiction

(Total: 22)

Novels

• The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R Tolkien
• The Darma Bums by Jack Kerouac
• The Sea of Fertility Tetralogy by Yukio Mishima
  • Spring Snow
  • Runaway Horses
  • The Temple of Dawn
  • The Decay of the Angel
• IQ84 by Haruki Murakami
• South of the Border, West of the Sun by Haruki Murakami
• The Master of Go by Yasunari Kawabata
• Time Enough for Love by Robert A. Heinlein
• The Moon is a Harsh Mistress by Robert A. Heinlein
• The Martian by Andy Weir
• Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain

Graphic Novels

• Nausicaa of the Valley of the Winds by Hayao Miyazaki
• Galaxy Express 999 by Leiji Matsumoto (French Translation)
• Mobile Suit Gundam: The Origin by Yashokazu Yasuhiko
• A Bride’s Story by Kaoru Mori
• Solanin by Inio Asano
• The Metabarrons by Alejandro Jodorowsky, Juan Gimenez and Das Pastoras
• Akira by Katsuhiro Otomo
• Buddha by Osamu Tezuka
• Showa by Shigeru Mizuki

Non-Fiction

There is no way I will be getting to all of these volumes. For a lot of them, like Pic Iyer’s Falling Off the Map, The Open Road, and The Art of Stillness – I inclined to only read one. Likewise, a lot of the philosophy texts, I doubt I will be getting to all of them. And my employer also gives me a reading list of sorts which I haven’t added to the pile of computing volumes.

(Total: 27)

General Non-Fiction

• Che Guevara: A Revolutionary Life by Jon Lee Anderson
• Che Guevara Reader by Che Guevara
• The Life Changing of Tidying Up by Marie Kondo
• Democracy Incorporated by Sheldon S. Wolin
• By Pico Iyer:
  • The Art of Stillness
  • Falling Off the Map
  • The Open Road

Computing

• Godel, Escher & Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid by Douglas R. Hofstadter
• Code Complete by Steve McConnell
• The Pragmatic Programmer by David Thomas

Philosphy, Zen & Theology

• The Way of Zen by Alan W. Watts
• The Portable Nietzsche by Friedrich Nietzsche
• The Chomsky Reader by Noam Chomsky
• The Gospels
• Zen Mind, Beginner’s Mind by Shunryu Suzuki
• An Introduction to Zen Buddhism by D.T. Suzuki
• Meditations in First Philosophy by Rene Descartes
• Existentialism is a Humanism by Jean Paul Sartre
• An Inquiry Concerning Human Understanding by David Hume
• The Socratic Dialogs by Plato
• Mediations by Marcus Aurelius
• The Problems of Philosophy by Bertrand Russell
• Discipline & Punish by Michel Foucault
• The Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant
• Either/Or by Soren Kierkegaard
• The Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes

Roleplaying Game Rulebooks

• Pathfinder by Paizo
• Dungeons & Dragons 5th Edition by Wizards of the Coast