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Welcome to my Book Collection
Reading has been my leisure pursuit since I was a high school student. To me, sharing information and experiences is giving and caring. Sharing books is even more special since reading is learning from the most updated, well-organized sources of information.
Reading challenge in 2020
53/40
books
Reading challenge in 2019
35/30
books
Genres: biography, business, historical-fiction, history, memoir, non-fiction, philosophy, psychology, science, social science, self-help, thriller
2020
Reading challenge in 2021
6
6/45
books
- THE LASTEST BOOKS I READ -
The Emperor of All Maladies
Siddhartha Mukherjee
There is no doubt Siddhartha Mukherjee is a gifted storyteller who knows how to integrate history into a compelling chain of events. Like what he beautifully did in The Gene, The Emperor of All Maladies is skillfully...
The Marshmallow Test
Walter Mischel
An exemplar of succinct and valuable writing. From the “Don’t Eat the Marshmallow!” iconic T-shirts, to the remarkable success of the Sesame Street television series, to the scientific “willpower-fatigue” interpretation of famous-people scandals...
Confessions of an Economic Hit Man
John Perkins
As I am who I am, frankly I enjoy American politics. I had no perception of my obsession with American news until lately as the American presidential election ends. I could not give up my daily 30-min NBC news, still. As tolerant to different...
The Righteous Mind
Jonathan Haidt
2020 is an odd year when people might feel like they are balancing on the edge of frantic chaos, isn’t it? I doubt if I would have ever felt so if I had stayed far away from the hectic revolution of the...
Happy Money
Ken Honda
The concept of happy money is as abstract as I speculated. Though I just started my working life without yet making “big” money, my experiences resonate with every line written in the book. From the significant...
Drive
Daniel H. Pink
Drive is the first book I read from this author, and it tells me that Daniel is a pragmatic theorist who can deftly balance conceptual notions and practical exercises in a relatively short book. In Drive,...
David and Goliath
Malcolm Gladwell
David and Goliath is Malcolm’s fourth book I read, and that leaves me with the last (a recent published) book: Talking to Strangers, which I plan to read next year. What can I say?..., well, what I can...
Lean In
Sheryl Sandberg
When a woman excels at her work, her colleagues may appreciate her accomplishment, but she is “not well-liked by her peers.” People feel like she is “too aggressive,” “not a team player,” “a bit political,”...
The Power of Less
Leo Babauta
Acknowledging limitations and learning to focus on one matter at a time does not make you earn less. While the quality of our daily tasks is diluted with the endless stream of information, LESS is more! As simple as...
Ebola
David Quammen
Rated 4/5, the book yet deserves 5/5 if you are like me, a first-time reader on the topic of Ebola. As Carlos Ruiz Zafon (the well-known novelist who wrote The Shadow of the Wind) famously expressed “Books are mirrors: you only see in them...
The Shock Doctrine
Naomi Klein
The Shock Doctrine a thought-provoking publication on a radical form of capitalism (neo-liberalism) nurtured by Milton Friedman as a significant economic ideology of the 19th century. The shock doctrine highlights a “doctrine”...
The Psychopath Test
Jon Ronson
The Psychopath Test captivated my curiosity from the first look as it is written about the hidden industry of madness. I felt overjoyed at the thought of me touching into one of the most sensitive realms of human morality. l was wondering...
The $100 Startup
Chris Guillebeau
100$ is a title symbolic of “micro,” or small business. The book endorses the concept of keeping things personal, manageable and self-sustained...
Wild
Cheryl Strayed
I was born in comfort and serenity of unfathomable love and in an anxiety-free post-war stretch that left behind a thousand years of conflict. In love and peace, I had spent my whole life, still agonizing over the...
The Gene
Siddhartha Mukherjee
I was reflecting on my painful shortness of breath and chest tightness on freezing days back in Hanoi almost a decade ago while studying this book. I was born with asthma (typically known for narrow airway)...
The Art of Choosing
Sheena S. Iyengar
“Life is C between B and D," meaning that the life we live is the choices we make between the "B" of birth and the "D" of death, Jim Kwik said in his book Limitless. The Art of Choosing is a book about ...
Talking to my daughter about the economy
Yanis Varoufakis
As a social science major undergrad, I scrutinized capitalism in terms of social impacts of a free market, the widening inequality, the conflicts...
Monkey Business
John Rolfe & Peter Troob
An incredible book in which two Associates recount their hundred-hour weeks at Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette (DLJ, acquired by Credit Suisse in 2000) as investment bankers. DLJ has faded into its...
TOP5 in 2019
Top 5 books I love in 2019
As leaves turn grey, chilly breezes blow dead leaves, scatters the last fragile piles of leaves over the silent streets, 2019 is coming to the end. In the last 10 months of 2019, I have read 35 books and completed my goal of 30 books...
/// BEST Science, Social Science, Psychology
/// BEST Business, Economics
/// BEST Philosophy, History, Biography
/// BEST Novel
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