Books

Books I learnt from; suggest to people from time to time; remember.

1984 by George Orwell
Alone Together by Sherry Turkle (review)
Animal Farm by George Orwell
A Voyage For Madmen by Peter Nichols (review)
Barbarian Days by William Finnegan (review)
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
Cosmos by Michel Onfray (review)
Flow by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
Hackers and Painters by Paul Graham
Hong Kong et Macao by Joseph Kessel
How To Fail At Everything And Still Win Big by Scott Adams (review)
In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
Journey Under the Midnight Sun (白夜行, Byakuyakō) by Keigo Higashino (review)
King Kong Theorie by Virginie Despentes
La Promesse de l’Aube by Romain Gary
La Longue Route by Bernard Moitissier
Letters From a Stoic by Seneca
L’Étudiant by Philippe Labro
Man’s Search for Meaning by Viktor E. Frankl (review)
Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
Never Split The Difference by Chris Voss (review)
Nothing to Envy by Barbara Demick
Un Peuple de Promeneur by Alexandre Romanès (review)
Rules for Radicals by Saul Alinsky
Sex at Dawn by Cacilda Jetha Christopher Ryan
Surveiller et Punir by Michel Foucault
The Age of Surveillance Capitalism by Shoshana Zuboff
The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro (review)
The Spy Who Came in from the Cold by John le Carré
The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera
Walden by Henry David Thoreau
Wasi-Sabi by Leonard Koren
– Joseph Conrad
– Michel Houellebecq
– Haruki Murakami

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