Books
A list of books I have recently read.
| Title | Author | Started | Completed |
|---|---|---|---|
| Butter | Asako Yuzuki | 05/2025 | In Progress |
| Hard Landing | Thomas Petzinger | 05/2025 | In Progress |
| Talking to Strangers | Malcolm Gladwell | 04/2025 | 05/2025 |
| The Formula | Clegg & Robinson | 03/2025 | 04/2025 |
| The Upstairs Delicatessen | Dwight Garner | 02/2025 | 04/2025 |
| The Temple of the Golden Pavillion | Yukio Mishima | 02/2025 | 03/2025 |
| A Cook’s Tour | Anthony Bourdain | 12/2024 | 01/2025 |
| The Elephant Vanishes | Haruki Murakami | 12/2024 | 12/2024 |
| Rise | Siya Kolisi | 11/2024 | 12/2024 |
| Ikigai | Garcia, Miralles | 09/2024 | 09/2024 |
| Meditations | Marcus Aurelius | 09/2024 | 11/2024 |
| The Death and Life of Great American Cities | Jane Jacobs | 06/2022 | In Progress |
| Wa | Kaki Okumura | 08/2024 | 08/2024 |
| The Screwtape Letters | C.S. Lewis | 08/2024 | 08/2024 |
| Game | Grant Hill | 06/2024 | 07/2024 |
| Charlie y La Fábrica De Chocolate | Roald Dahl | 06/2024 | 08/2024 |
| The Simple Path to Wealth | JL Collins | 06/2024 | 07/2024 |
| I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings | Maya Angelou | 05/2024 | 06/2024 |
| The Art Thief | Michael Finkel | 05/2024 | 05/2024 |
| Bullshit Jobs | David Graeber | 04/2024 | 06/2024 |
| When McKinsey Comes to Town | Bogdanich, Forsythe | 02/2024 | 04/2024 |
| Life Is Not an Accident | Jay Williams | 02/2024 | 02/2024 |
| Dr. Deming: The American Who Taught the Japanese About Quality | Rafael Aguayo | 01/2024 | In Progress |
| Human Compatible | Stuart Russell | 01/2024 | 02/2024 |
| The Way of Zen | Alan Watts | 08/2023 | 01/2024 |
| Skin in the Game | Nassim Nicholas Taleb | 12/2023 | 12/2023 |
| スラムダンク (1-6) | 井上雄彦 | 10/2023 | 12/2023 |
| All the Lovers in the Night | Mieko Kawakami | 12/2023 | 12/2023 |
| First Person Singular | Haruki Murakami | 11/2023 | 12/2023 |
| The Ten Most Beautiful Experiments | George Johnson | 11/2023 | 11/2023 |
| Memoirs of a Geisha | Arthur Golden | 11/2023 | 12/2023 |
| The Sailor Who Fell From Grace with the Sea | Yukio Mishima | 11/2023 | 11/2023 |
| The Shadow of the Wind | Carlos Ruiz Zafón | 01/2021 | 10/2023 |
| Japan 1941: Countdown to Infamy | Eri Hotta | 08/2023 | 09/2023 |
| Five Moral Pieces | Umberto Eco | 07/2023 | 08/2023 |
| Animal Farm | George Orwell | 07/2023 | 07/2023 |
| Men Without Women | Haruki Murakami | 07/2023 | 07/2023 |
| The Inner Game of Tennis | Timothy Gallwey | 06/2023 | 06/2023 |
| Born a Crime | Trevor Noah | 06/2023 | 07/2023 |
| Kitchen Confidential | Anthony Bourdain | 05/2023 | 05/2023 |
| Coach K: The Rise and Reign of Mike Krzyzewski | Ian O’Connor | 04/2023 | 06/2023 |
| Eat a Peach | David Chang | 04/2023 | 06/2023 |
| The Unconsoled | Kazuo Ishiguro | 02/2023 | 04/2023 |
| The Poetry of William Wordsworth | Alan Gardiner | 12/2022 | 02/2023 |
| A Promised Land | Barack Obama | 12/2022 | In Progress |
| Nudge | Thaler & Sunstein | 12/2022 | 12/2022 |
| Greenlights | Matthew Mcconaughey | 12/2022 | 12/2022 |
| Celebrations | Maya Angelou | 11/2022 | 12/2022 |
| Norwegian Wood | Haruki Murakami | 11/2022 | 12/2022 |
| Red and Me | Bill Russell | 11/2022 | 11/2022 |
| Go Up for Glory | Bill Russell | 11/2022 | 11/2022 |
| Murder on the Orient Express | Agatha Christie | 08/2022 | 08/2022 |
| Caste | Isabel Wilkerson | 08/2022 | 11/2022 |
| Sputnik Sweetheart | Haruki Murakami | 08/2022 | 08/2022 |
| Four Thousand Weeks | Oliver Burkeman | 06/2022 | 07/2022 |
| Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup | John Carreyrou | 06/2022 | 06/2022 |
| Things Fall Apart | Chinua Achebe | 04/2022 | 05/2022 |
| Crying in H-Mart | Michelle Zauner | 01/2022 | 01/2022 |
| Open | Andre Agassi | 12/2021 | 01/2022 |
| Becoming | Michelle Obama | 12/2021 | 12/2021 |
| An Artist of the Floating World | Kazuo Ishiguro | 08/2021 | 08/2021 |
| The Alchemist | Paul Coelho | 07/2021 | 07/2021 |
| Cork Dork | Bianca Bosker | 07/2021 | 06/2022 |
| God of Small Things | Arundhati Roy | 05/2021 | 07/2021 |
| ハリー・ポッターと賢者の石 | J・K・ローリング、松岡 佑子 | 01/2021 | In Progress |
| Language and Problems of Knowledge | Noam Chomsky | 01/2021 | 07/2021 |
| Fear and Trembling | Amélie Nothomb | 12/2020 | 12/2020 |
| Embracing Defeat | James Dower | 05/2020 | 12/2020 |
| Kitchen | Banana Yoshimoto | 12/2020 | 12/2020 |
| Convenience Store Woman | Sayaka Murata | 12/2020 | 12/2020 |
| The Lady Tasting Tea | David Salsburg | 12/2020 | 12/2020 |
| Everyday Ubuntu | Mungi Ngomane | 11/2020 | 12/2020 |
| The Buried Giant | Kazuo Ishiguro | 10/2020 | 11/2020 |
| Leading with the Heart | Mike Krzyzewski | 10/2020 | 10/2020 |
| Emperor of All Maladies | Siddhartha Mukherjee | 06/2020 | 08/2020 |
| Invictus | John Carlin | 05/2020 | 05/2020 |
| What is Japanese Architecture? | Kazuo Nishi | 04/2020 | In Progress |
| A Fine Mess | T.R. Reid | 04/2020 | 05/2020 |
| The Signal and the Noise | Nate Silver | 04/2020 | 05/2020 |
| Where the Crawdads Sing | Delia Owens | 03/2020 | 03/2020 |
| Eleven Rings: The Soul of Success | Phil Jackson | 03/2020 | 03/2020 |
| The Healing of America | T.R. Reid | 02/2020 | 02/2020 |
| The Paper Menagerie (Short Story) | Ken Liu | 12/2019 | 12/2019 |
| Go Ahead in the Rain: Notes to A Tribe Called Quest | Hanif Abdurraqib | 12/2019 | 12/2019 |
| The Sympathizer | Viet Thanh Nguyen | 11/2019 | In Progress |
| The Buddha in the Attic | Julie Otsuka | 12/2019 | 12/2019 |
| Missing Persons | Patrick Modiano | 10/2019 | 11/2019 |
| The Black Swan | Nassim Nicholas Taleb | 01/2020 | 02/2020 |
| Astroball | Ben Reiter | 10/2019 | 11/2019 |
| Nocturnes | Kazuo Ishiguro | 09/2019 | 10/2019 |
| Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World | Haruki Murakami | 09/2019 | 10/2019 |
| In Praise of Shadows | Junichiro Tanizaki | 09/2019 | 09/2019 |
| The Metamorphosis | Franz Kafka | 09/2019 | 09/2019 |
| Remains of the Day | Kazuo Ishiguro | 08/2019 | 09/2019 |
| The Art of Statistics | David Spiegelhalter | 07/2019 | 08/2019 |
| When: The Scientific Secrets to Perfect Timing | Daniel H. Pink | 08/2019 | 08/2019 |
| Never Let Me Go | Kazuo Ishiguro | 07/2019 | 08/2019 |
| Pachinko | Min Jin Lee | 06/2019 | 08/2019 |
| The Art of Possibility | Rosamind and Benjamin Zander | 06/2019 | 07/2019 |
| The New Jim Crow | Michelle Alexander | 01/2018 | 07/2019 |
| Siddhartha | Herman Hesse | 06/2019 | 06/2019 |
| A Modern History of Japan | Andrew Gordon | 05/2019 | 06/2019 |
| Kafka on the Shore | Haruki Murakami | 04/2019 | 05/2019 |
| The Design of Everyday Things | Donald Norman | NA | 04/2019 |
| Shoe Dog | Phil Knight | NA | 03/2019 |
| The Book of Why | Judea Pearl | NA | 03/2019 |
| Hundred Years of Solitude | Gabriel Gacria Marquez | NA | 02/2019 |
| Crazy Rich Asians | Kevin Kwan | 01/2019 | 01/2019 |
| Uncensored | Zachary Wood | NA | 12/2018 |
| The Sun Also Rises | Ernest Hemingway | NA | 12/2018 |
| Fahrenheit 451 | Ray Bradbury | NA | 11/2018 |
| The Power of Habit | Charles Duhigg | NA | 11/2018 |
| Of Mice and Men | John Steinbeck | NA | 11/2018 |
| Guns, Germs, and Steel | Jerad Diamond | NA | 11/2018 |
| Harry Potter and the Order of the Pheonix | JK Rowling | NA | 09/2018 |
| 1984 | George Orwell | NA | 09/2018 |
| Happy City | Charles Montgomery | NA | 09/2018 |