📚 My Reading Goals
Reading is a lifelong project. My goal is to read deeply across multiple dimensions—technical, philosophical, literary, psychological, and scientific. Here’s an evolving list of books I want to tackle.
🧠 Personal Growth & Psychology
- Thinking, Fast and Slow – Daniel Kahneman
- The War of Art – Steven Pressfield
- How to Win Friends and Influence People – Dale Carnegie
- The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People – Stephen Covey
- Quiet – Susan Cain
- Unmasking the Social Engineer – Christopher Hadnagy
- Emotional Intelligence – Daniel Goleman
- Influence – Robert Cialdini
- The Laws of Human Nature – Robert Greene
- Man’s Search for Meaning – Viktor Frankl
🧬 Science, Society & Critical Thinking
- The Social Animal – David Brooks
- Brief Answers to the Big Questions – Stephen Hawking
- The Elegant Universe – Brian Greene
- Cosmos – Carl Sagan
- Superintelligence – Nick Bostrom
- The Signal and the Noise – Nate Silver
- The Beginning of Infinity – David Deutsch
- Why We Sleep – Matthew Walker
- The Information – James Gleick
📚 Literature (Classics & Modern)
- White Nights – Fyodor Dostoevsky
- Crime and Punishment – Fyodor Dostoevsky
- The Brothers Karamazov – Fyodor Dostoevsky
- War and Peace – Leo Tolstoy
- The Idiot – Fyodor Dostoevsky
- The Stranger – Albert Camus
- The Metamorphosis – Franz Kafka
- Anna Karenina – Leo Tolstoy
- 1984 – George Orwell
- The Count of Monte Cristo – Alexandre Dumas
💼 Technology & Professional Development
- Clean Code – Robert C. Martin
- Clean Architecture – Robert C. Martin
- The Pragmatic Programmer – Dave Thomas & Andy Hunt
- Designing Data-Intensive Applications – Martin Kleppmann
- Refactoring – Martin Fowler
- Soft Skills – John Sonmez
🧭 Philosophy & Existentialism
- Thus Spoke Zarathustra – Friedrich Nietzsche
- Civilization and its Discontents – Sigmund Freud
- Meditations – Marcus Aurelius
- The Republic – Plato
- The Gay Science – Nietzsche
- Beyond Good and Evil – Nietzsche
- The Myth of Sisyphus – Albert Camus
- The Ethics – Spinoza
- Critique of Pure Reason – Immanuel Kant
- Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus – Ludwig Wittgenstein
- The World as Will and Representation – Schopenhauer
✅ Final Thoughts
This is a living list. I’ll update it as I discover new books and finish others. My aim is to cultivate a diverse reading habit that enriches my understanding of the world and myself.
If you have any recommendations aligned with my interests—especially in technology, philosophy, psychology, or classics—I’d love to hear them! Contact me at my email: crisarandosyse@gmail.com or the social media links below.