This is an ongoing list of books I've read this year. I like to maintain a healthy balance between fun reads—mostly science fiction and fantasy—and more serious reads, such as psychology, literature, and occasionally a bit of self-help to keep me engaged.
But now, the question is whether I can persuade you to read a book with just a few lines?
[1/52] Fourth Wing - The Empyrean #1
A dragon without its rider is a tragedy.
A rider without their dragon is dead.
Hope is a fickle, dangerous thing.
It steals your focus and aims it toward the possibilities instead of keeping it where it belongs—on the probabilities.
One generation to change the text.
One generation chooses to teach that text.
The next grows, and the lie becomes history.
[2/52] The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows
scabulous
adj. proud of a certain scar on your body, which is like an autograph signed to you by a world grateful for your continued willingness to play with her, even if it hurts.
[3/52] Iron Flame - The Empyrean #2
Love doesn’t even have the decency to die. It just transforms into abject misery.
Secrets die with the people who keep them.
[4/52] Light Bringer - Red Rising Saga #6
Does no mercy go unpunished?
What concerns are there but honor?
What is there to lose but life?
Be wary of tyrants: they will help you today and own you tomorrow.
Golds are a faithless breed, founded in the gross soberiety of athiesm, but the rest of Colors are willing to believe.
He doesn't create questions to which he doesn't have answers.
Worry is a spiral with death at its center.
Honor, if it ever existed, was the first casuality.
I pity anything and anyone that has his full attention.
What's a soul to an atheist?
The greater the trauma, the longer the peace.
The ranks are best treated like mushrooms: spoiled like shit and kept in the dark.
Alexander of Macedon.
Ceasar of Rome.
Genghis of Mongolia.
Ayaz of the Turks.
Butchers of millions.
Human history is proof of one thing: violence builds empires.
Violence is worshied, respected, heeded.
Humans are heard animals. We do as our fellows do, for few can bear the shame of doing otherwise.
Why else war?
Why else traditions?
[5/52] The Psychology of Money
[6/52] House of Sky and Breath - Crescent City #2
[7/52] Gödel, Escher, Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid
Dense Reading
[8/52] House of Flame and Shadow - Crescent City #3
[9/52] Outliers: The Story of Success
[10/52] The 22 Immutable Laws of Marketing
A set of neither immutable nor laws of marketing
[11/52] Kafka: The Definitive Guide, 2nd Edition
Learning the art of handling big data in motion
[12/52] The Courage to Be Disliked
