1. Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy
2. A Dance with Dragons by George R.R. Martin
3. Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan
4. Meditations by Marcus Aurelius
5. On The Road by Jack Kerouac
6. The Winds of Winter Preview Chapters by George R.R Martin
7. 1984 by George Orwell
8. Big Fish by Daniel Wallace
9. Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman
10. Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage by Alfred Lansing
11. Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer
12. Can't Hurt Me by David Goggins
13. I Am a Strange Loop by Douglas Hofstadter
14. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari
15. The Way of Zen by Alan Watts
16. Lone Survivor by Marcus Luttrell
17. Bravo Two Zero by Andy McNab
18. The Beginning of Infinity by David Deutsch
19. Brave New Words: How AI Will Revolutionize Education (and Why That's a Good Thing) by Sal Khan
20. Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir
21. Flash Boys: A Wall Street Revolt by Michael Lewis
22. Fooled by Randomness by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
23. Dune by Frank Herbert
24. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S. Thompson
25. Contagious: Why Things Catch On by Jonah Berger
26. Black Holes by Brian Cox and Jeffrey Forshaw
27. Hackers and Painters by Paul Graham
28. Antarctica by Claire Keegan
29. What's Our Problem?: A Self-Help Book for Societies by Tim Urban
30. Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI by Yuval Noah Harari
31. Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid by Douglas R. Hofstadter
32. The Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins
33. Surely You’re Joking, Mr. Feynman! by Richard P. Feynman
34. Deep Work by Cal Newport
35. The Art of Learning by Josh Waitzkin
36. Zero to One by Peter Thiel
37. Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert M. Pirsig
38. When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi
39. The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
40. Never Split the Difference by Chris Voss

#Reviews

Small Things Like These# by Claire Keegan

Heartwarming novella, reminiscent of Foster. Keegan uses simple, yet sophisticated language combined with the Irish vernacular to convey how doing of the smallest of things can make the biggest impact on the lives of others.

A Dance with Dragons# by George R.R Martin

The fifth book in the A Song of Ice and Fire series. Martin continues to create an atmosphere of tension as things come to a head in Westeros. Tyrion's chapters in particular are a highlight, as he navigates the political landscape of Essos and experiences firsthand the experience of being a slave.

It is worth noting, Martin intended for there to be a five-year gap between A Storm of Swords and both A Feast for Crows and A Dance with Dragons, however, disagreements with editors and the complexity of the story led to the gap being abandoned.

There is, however, much to look forward to in the upcoming The Winds of Winter. Including the fate of Jon Snow, the battle at Winterfell, and the mystery of the Pink Letter. That is, if George R.R Martin ever actually finishes the book...

In the meantime, I compiled all the preview chapters of The Winds of Winter into a PDF, eBook and Kindle formats. You can download them here.

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