Project Fifty

Book Reviews of 2022

'Tis always good to think critically about that which our minds ingest. My goal for 2022 is to not only read 50 books, but to write about each one whether I enjoyed it or not. This list will obviously have a surviorship bias, because I allow myself to put down books that seem to be a waste of time without finishing them.

1 Desire by Haruki Murakami
2 The Terminal Man by Michael Crichton
3 Let Freedom Ring: Winning the War of Liberty Over Liberalism by Sean Hannity
4 Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones by James Clear
5 13 Bankers: The Wall Street Takeover and the Next Financial Meltdown by Simon Johnson and James Kwak
6 1000 Years of Joys and Sorrows by Ai Weiwei
7 Treason: Liberal Treachery From the Cold War to the War on Terrorism by Ann Coulter
8 You Only Live Twice by Ian Fleming
9 The Little Black Book On Test Design by Rikard Edgren
10 A Beautiful Question by Frank Wilczek
11 A Shot in the Arm: How Science, Engineering, and Supply Chains Converged to Vaccinate the World by Yossi Sheffi
12 Rules of Estrangement: Why Adult Children Cut Ties & How to Heal the Conflict by Joshua Coleman
13 Perge-Aspendos and Side by İ. Akan Atila
14 Animal Weapons: The Evolution of Battle by Douglas J. Emlen
15 No Rules Rules: Netflix and the Culture of Reinvention by Reed Hastings and Erin Meyer
16 101 Ord Du Trodde Du Kunne by Atle Antonsen
17 Die Weiße Fürstin by Rainer Maria Rilke
18 Zen and the Art of Saving the Planet by Thich Nhat Hanh
19 Kindred: Neanderthal Life, Love, Death and Art by Rebecca Wragg Sykes
20 Das Stunden-Buch by Rainer Maria Rilke
21 Fighting and Suffering. The Polish Experience in World War II by Bogusław Kopka and Paweł Kosiński
22 This Way for the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen by Tadeusz Borowski
23 No More Mr. Nice Guy: A Proven Plan For Getting What You Want in Love, Sex, and Life by Robert A. Glover
24 Prague in Black and Gold: The History of a City by Peter Demetz
25 100 Poems by Seamus Heaney
26 Dutch: A Memoir of Ronald Reagan by Edmund Morris
27 Brighton Rock by Graham Greene
28 The Social Instinct: How Cooperation Shaped the World by Nichola Raihani
29 A World Lit Only By Fire: The Medieval Mind and the Renaissance: Portrait of an Age by William Manchester
30 The Confederacy's Secret Weapon: The Civil War Illustrations of Frank Vizetelly by Douglas W. Bostick
31 George Washinton's Secret Six: The Spy Ring That Saved the American Revolution by Brian Kilmeade & Don Yaeger
32 Measure What Matters: OKRs - the simple idea that drives 10x growth by John Doerr
33 Post Office by Charles Bukowski
34 A Moveable Feast: The Restored Edition by Ernest Hemingway
35 Good Omens by Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman
36 The Bell in the Lake by Lars Mytting
37 The Historical Atlas of the Celtic World by John Haywood
38 The Astonishing Elephant by Shana Alexander
39 Nathaniel's Nutmeg: How One Man's Courage Changed the Course of History by Giles Milton
40 Under the Black Flag: The Romanace and the Reality of Life Among the Pirates by David Cordingly
41 The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams
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