2024 Reading List

A ritual that I adopted since 2021, inspired by Barrack Obama, is to create a reading wishlist at the start of every year and to reflect on the completed and abandoned book list as the year concludes.

The wishlist has served me this far as a structure of goals that I am excited about for the year.

Here is my 2024 wishlist.

The Maniac, Benjamin Labatut
Rebecca, Daphne Du Maurier
Humanly Possible , Sarah Bakewell (Audible)
The Best Minds, Jonathan Rosen
All the Sinners Bleed, SA Cosby
Wellness, Nathan Hill
Bittersweet, Susan Cain
Night Crawling, Leila Motley
Think like a Monk, Jay Shetty
The Adapted Mind, John Tooby
There Are Places in the World Where Rules Are Less Important Than Kindness, Non Fiction, Carlo Rovelli
Until the End of time, Brian Greene
Short stories by Nobel Prize winners- collection
The Ultimate Deepak Chopra collection (Audible)

2023 list: https://deepthig.blogspot.com/2023/01/2023-book-list.html

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