Favorite Books

An incomplete list of books I revisit and think about often. Please see What I Talk About When I Talk About Reading for more thoughts on reading.

Fiction

• Charles Dickens, Great Expectations
• Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment
• Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo, The Three Musketeers
• F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
• Hermann Hesse, Siddhartha
• Daniel Keyes, Flowers for Algernon
• Jose Saramago, The Gospel According to Jesus Christ
• John Steinbeck, East of Eden, The Grapes of Wrath
• Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina, War and Peace

Non-Fiction, Biographies, & Memoirs

• Hannah Arendt, Eichmann in Jerusalem
• Walter Isaacson, Steve Jobs, Benjamin Franklin
• Paul Kalanithi, When Breath Becomes Air
• Phil Knight, Shoe Dog
• C. S. Lewis, Mere Christianity
• J. R. Moehringer, The Tender Bar
• Akio Morita, Made in Japan
• Haruki Murakami, What I Talk About When I Talk About Running
• Don Norman, The Design of Everyday Things
• Randy Pausch, The Last Lecture
• Plutarch, Parallel Lives
• Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America