I Post Every Book I Read In Late 2019

Here’s the pasted list of every book I read in the second half of last year, in no particular order.

I really am an omnivorous reader.

Note that I’ve left out technical books entirely, since there’s no end to those. Books I picked up on a whim at a bookstore, read, and then got rid of are also missing here, though not on purpose (probably).

Many of these titles will feel like old news, but the time I carved out to read these “books I meant to read but never got around to” felt genuinely worthwhile.

Sleep Is the Ultimate Solution

21 Lessons for the 21st Century

The Popular NYU Course HAPPINESS: Life Strategy for the GAFA Era

The Essence of Failure

Akira Ikegami’s View of the World: Britain and the EU – A Kingdom in Turmoil

The Analects and the Abacus

Madness and Bubbles

Startup Investment Guidebook

100,000 Years of Human and Climate History: What Happened in the Past, What Will Happen Next (Blue Backs)

You Can’t Afford Not to Know: The Essentials for Seeing Through the News

Money 2.0: The New Rules of Economics and How to Live by Them (NewsPicks Book)

The Myth and Structure of Consumer Society (New Edition)

Visionary People

Can the Laws of Success Be Scientifically Proven?

The Richest Man in Babylon: How Prosperity, Wealth, and Happiness Are Built

Surveying the Grand Sweep of History: The Creation and Record of Humanity’s Legacy

What Money Can’t Buy: The Limits of Markets

Cultivating Strategic Wisdom: A World History of War and Diplomacy

Silicon Valley-Style Strongest Development: The New Common Sense of Talent Management — One-on-One Meetings

The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism (Iwanami Bunko)

How to Live

Justice: What’s the Right Thing to Do? — Philosophy for Surviving the Present (Hayakawa Nonfiction Bunko)

50 Great Works of Economics Explained in One Book

The Art of Non-Reaction: Buddha’s Ultra-Rational “Way of Thinking” That Makes All Worries Disappear

Dale Carnegie’s How to Win Friends and Influence People

Das Kapital of the Merchant of Venice (Chikuma Gakugei Bunko)

Measure What Matters: The Legendary Venture Capitalist’s OKR Method Taught to Google (Nikkei Business Publications)

Learn Workplace Productivity from the Germans: Higher “Efficiency,” More “Days Off”

Organizational Poison: A CyberAgent Vice President’s Columns to Employees (NewsPicks Book)

Ultra-Translated Das Kapital: Your Life Changes Once You Understand Money

Hard Work: Mind-Setting for Victory (Kodansha+α Bunko)

Modern History for Working Adults That School Never Taught You: Professor Akira Ikegami’s Tokyo Tech Lectures, International Edition (Bunshun Bunko)

A Study of “Atmosphere” (Bunshun Bunko)

[Illustrated] Four Years of University-Level Finance in 10 Hours

Ultra-Translated Han Feizi: A Textbook for Leaders

Overseas TV Dramas Are Made of Just 350 Words

Ultra-Translated Analects

The Night Is Short, Walk On, Girl (Kadokawa Bunko)

I’ll Give You a “Map of Knowledge” for Fighting in This Society: Professor Akira Ikegami’s Tokyo Tech Lectures (Bunshun Bunko)

The Theory of War Only the Japanese Don’t Know

Originally published in Japanese at https://clazytech.com/2020/01/294/. Translated with LLM assistance and reviewed before publication.