#52books52books Below is the list of books I have read in 2015. More information about the books is available at this Goodreads link.
(5 – worth multiple reads, 4 – a must read!, 3 – worth the read, 2 – meh!, 1 – run head first into a brick wall, it’s better entertainment.)
| Title | Author | My Rating | Goodreads Average Rating |
|---|---|---|---|
| Be Unstoppable: The 8 Essential Actions to Succeed at Anything | Alden Mills | 4 | 4.38 |
| Vagabonding: An Uncommon Guide to the Art of Long-Term World Travel | Rolf Potts | 4 | 3.92 |
| The Way of Men | Jack Donovan | 2 | 3.91 |
| Satin Island | Tom McCarthy | 5 | 3.24 |
| Gut: The Inside Story of Our Body's Most Underrated Organ | Giulia Enders | 4 | 3.97 |
| Bad Feminist | Roxane Gay | 4 | 3.88 |
| The Year of the Runaways | Sunjeev Sahota | 5 | 3.84 |
| Ender's Game (Ender's Saga, #1) | Orson Scott Card | 3 | 4.29 |
| The One World Schoolhouse: Education Reimagined | Salman Khan | 3 | 4.29 |
| The Art of Stillness: Adventures in Going Nowhere | Pico Iyer | 3 | 3.72 |
| The Miracle Morning: The Not-So-Obvious Secret Guaranteed to Transform Your Life (Before 8AM) | Hal Elrod | 3 | 4.01 |
| Van Diemen's Land | James Boyce | 3 | 4.22 |
| Fahrenheit 451 | Ray Bradbury | 5 | 3.96 |
| Good Omens | Terry Pratchett & Neil Gaiman | 4 | 4.25 |
| Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything | Steven D. Levitt & Stephen J. Dubner | 3 | 3.92 |
| Escape from the Lion’s Paw: Reflections of Singapore’s Political Exiles | Teo Soh Lung | 3 | 4.2 |
| The Fall Of Singapore | Timothy C. Hall | 4 | 3.5 |
| The 4-Hour Workweek: Escape 9-5, Live Anywhere, and Join the New Rich | Timothy Ferriss | 4 | 3.81 |
| Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind | Yuval Noah Harari | 4 | 4.32 |
| Think Like a Freak | Steven D. Levitt & Stephen J. Dubner | 4 | 3.81 |
| All The Pretty Horses | Cormac McCarthy | 3 | 3.96 |
| So Good They Can't Ignore You: Why Skills Trump Passion in the Quest for Work You Love | Cal Newport | 5 | 4.05 |
| The Art of Learning: A Journey in the Pursuit of Excellence | Josh Waitzkin | 5 | 4.07 |
| For the good of the cause | Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn | 3 | 3.49 |
| To A God Unknown | John Steinbeck | 3 | 3.92 |
| Cloud Atlas | David Mitchell | 3 | 4.01 |
| The Adventures of Johnny Bunko: The Last Career Guide You'll Ever Need | Daniel H. Pink | 4 | 3.75 |
| Statesman (Bio of a Space Tyrant, #5) | Piers Anthony | 3 | 3.71 |
| Executive (Bio of a Space Tyrant, #4) | Piers Anthony | 3 | 3.72 |
| Politician (Bio of a Space Tyrant, #3) | Piers Anthony | 4 | 3.71 |
| The Mother Tongue: English and How It Got That Way | Bill Bryson | 3 | 3.96 |
| The Virgin Way: How to Listen, Learn, Laugh and Lead | Richard Branson | 4 | 3.96 |
| On Being a Teacher | Jonathan Kozol | 2 | 3.8 |
| An Illustrated Book of Bad Arguments | Ali Almossawi | 3 | 3.8 |
| Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? (And Other Concerns) | Mindy Kaling | 4 | 3.84 |
| From India with Love | Latika Bourke | 3 | 3.4 |
| A Guide to the Good Life: The Ancient Art of Stoic Joy | William B. Irvine | 4 | 4.17 |
| Mercenary (Bio of a Space Tyrant, #2) | Piers Anthony | 2 | 3.77 |
| Refugee (Bio of a Space Tyrant, #1) | Piers Anthony | 3 | 3.7 |
| The Last Great Strike: The Untold Story of the Strike That Closed the Straits Times. by Clement Mesenas | Clement Mesenas | 2 | 3.5 |
| Making Ideas Happen: Overcoming the Obstacles Between Vision and Reality | Scott Belsky | 4 | 3.9 |
| Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness | Richard H. Thaler & Cass R. Sunstein | 4 | 3.78 |
| So You've Been Publicly Shamed | Jon Ronson | 3 | 3.9 |
| Resilience: Hard-Won Wisdom for Living a Better Life | Eric Greitens | 5 | 4.34 |
| The Wife Drought | Annabel Crabb | 4 | 4.06 |
| Out of Our Minds: Learning to Be Creative | Ken Robinson | 4 | 3.91 |
| The Obstacle Is the Way: The Timeless Art of Turning Trials into Triumph | Ryan Holiday | 4 | 4.07 |
| Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions | Dan Ariely | 4 | 4.09 |
| The Good Life | Hugh Mackay | 3 | 3.54 |
| Justice: What's the Right Thing to Do? | Michael J. Sandel | 4 | 4.23 |
| Bossypants | Tina Fey | 3 | 3.94 |
| I Am Malala: The Story of the Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban | Malala Yousafzai | 4 | 4.03 |
| Tall Man: The Death of Doomadgee | Chloe Hooper | 4 | 4.15 |
| Why Orwell Matters | Christopher Hitchens | 5 | 3.91 |
| Mr. Cheerful | Roger Hargreaves | 5 | 3.95 |
| The Passion | Jeanette Winterson | 4 | 4.12 |
| The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business | Charles Duhigg | 3 | 4 |
| Once There Was a War | John Steinbeck | 3 | 3.82 |
| Ministry of Moral Panic | Amanda Lee Koe | 4 | 4.21 |
| Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly | Anthony Bourdain | 3 | 3.99 |
| Smoke Gets in Your Eyes: And Other Lessons from the Crematory | Caitlin Doughty | 3 | 3.99 |
| Dead Europe | Christos Tsiolkas | 3 | 3.21 |
| The Narrow Road to the Deep North | Richard Flanagan | 5 | 4 |
| The Antidote: Happiness for People Who Can't Stand Positive Thinking | Oliver Burkeman | 5 | 4.05 |
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