Read 52 books a year.
In 2017, after witnessing countless unspeakable things, I went on a relentless search by finishing one book/paper a week. Below is my reading list over the years.
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2017
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Book 1 – 1/1/2017 – University of Success by Og Mandino
Book 2 – 1/16/2017 – Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien
Book 3 – 1/21/2017 – The Book of Joy by Dalai Lama & Desmond Tutu
Book 4 – 1/29/2017 – The Gospel in Brief by Leo Tolstoy
Book 5 – 2/11/2017 – The First Step by Leo Tolstoy
Book 6 – 2/16/2017 – A Letter to a Hindu by Leo Tolstoy
Book 7 – 2/18/2017 – Start Late, Finish Rich by David Bach
Book 8 – 2/19/2017 – Success Principles by Jack Canfield
Book 9 – 3/2/2017 – My Religion: What I Believe by Leo Tolstoy
Book 10 – 3/7/2017 – God Has a Dream by Desmond Tutu (Nobel Peace Prize , 1984)
Book 11 – 3/10/2017 – The Giver by Lois Lowry
Book 12 – 3/12/2017 – The Christmas Box by Richard Paul Evans
Book 13 – 3/22/2017 – Get Clients Today by Christian Mickensen
Book 14 – 3/30/2017 – Les Miserables by Victor Hugo (My Favorite Novel)
Book 15 – 4/2/2017 – The 6-Figure Speaker by Brian Tracy
Book 16 – 4/7/2017 – And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie
Book 17 – 4/13/2017 – The Screwtype Letters by C.S. Lewis
Book 18 – 4/15/2017 – Jonathan Livingston Seagull by Richard Bach
Book 19 – 4/23/2017 – One Minute Millionaire by Mark Victor Hansen
Book 20 – 4/28/2017 – The Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx & Friedrich Engels
Book 21 – 5/1/2017 – The Happy Prince and other Tales by Oscar Wilde
Book 22 – 5/7/2017 – The Gift of the Magi by O. Henry
Book 23 – 5/17/2017 – Family Happiness by Leo Tolstoy
Book 24 – 5/24/2017 – Giving it All Away by David Green
Book 25 – 6/3/2017 – The Death of Ivan Ilyich and Other Stories by Leo Tolstoy
Book 26 – 6/9/2017 – The Eight Steps to Success by Andy Albright
Book 27 – 6/17/2017 – The Fortune of the Republic by Ralph Waldo Emerson
Book 28 – 6/23/2017 – Civil Disobedience by Henry David Thoreau
Book 29 – 8/3/2017 – The Gospel According to Jesus Christ by Jose Saramago (Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, 1998)
Book 30 – 8/4/2017 – Jesus and Nonviolence: A Third Way by Walter Wink
Book 31 – 8/13/2017 – Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck (Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, 1962)
Book 32 – 8/18/2017 – Preaching Like Jesus by Rick Warren
Book 33 – 8/20/2017 – My Experiments with Truth – M.K. Gandhi
Book 34 – 8/24/2017 – The Law of Love and the Law of Violence by Leo Tolstoy
Book 35 – 8/26/2017 – The Time Machine by H.G. Well
Book 36 – 9/5/2017 – Strength to Love by Martin Luther King, Jr. (Nobel Peace Prize, 1964) (My All Time Favorite!!!)
Book 37 – 9/9/2017 – Unto This Last by John Ruskin
Book 38 – 9/12/2017 – Jesus and the Disinherited by Howard Thurman
Book 39 – 9/29/2017 – What Jesus Means to Me by M.K. Gandhi
Book 40 – 10/5/2017 – Pathway to God by M.K. Gandhi
Book 41 – 10/10/2017 – Xiao Bo’s Empty Chair by Perry Link
Book 42 – 10/14/2017 – Alice in the Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
Book 43 – 10/21/2017 – Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro (Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, 2017)
Book 44 – 10/26/2017 – Night – Elie Wiesel (Nobel Peace Prize, 1986)
Book 45 – 11/5/2017 – The Grand Inquisitor by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Book 46 – 11/8/2017 – Indian Home Rule by M.K. Gandhi
Book 47 – 11/12/2017 – I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
Book 48 – 11/18/2017 – The Great Divorce by C.S. Lewis
Book 49 – 11/27/2017 – Walden by Henry David Thoreau
Book 50 – 11/28/2017 – The Strangest Secret by Earl Nightingale
Book 51 – 11/30/2017 – The Power of Habit by Charles Duhigg
Book 52 – 12/6/2017 – To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee (Very Moving!)
Book 53 – 12/16/2017 – Emerson: We are the Builders of our Fortunes
Book 54 – 12/20/2017 – Tao Te Ching by Lao Tzu
Book 55 – 12/23/2017 – Bhagavad Gita translated by Stephen Mitchill
Book 56 – 12/30/2017 – Life and Death are Wearing Me Out by Mo Yan (Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, 2012)
One glance at a book and you hear the voice of another person,
Carl Sagan
Perhaps someone dead for 1,000 years. To read is to voyage through time.
2018
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Book 1 – 1/4/18 – The Book of Jubilee by Joseph Lumpkin
Book 2 – 1/7/18 – The Stranger by Albert Camus
Book 3 – 1/11/18 – Hukou System: Discrimination and Reforms by Scholar’s Choice
Book 4 – 1/16/18 – Eternity in Their Hearts by Don Richardson
Book 5 – 1/18/18 – The Tao of Pooh by Benjamin Hoff
Book 6 – 1/26/18 – Apology: The Trial and Death of Socrates by Plato
Book 7 – 1/26/18 – Satyagraha in South Africa by M.K. Gandhi
Book 8 – 2/2/18 – Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens (My Christmas Favorite!)
Book 9 – 2/8/18 – Living Buddha, Living Christ by Thick Nhat Hanh
Book 10 – 2/24/18 – The Bhagavad Gita According to Gandhi by M.G. Gandhi
Book 11 – 2/28/18 – Tuesday with Morrie by Mitch Albom
Book 12 – 3/4/18 – Dear Tolstoy, Yours Gandhi by Jonathan Kid-Lev
Book 13 – 3/8/18 – Dinner with a Perfect Stranger by David Gregory
Book 14 – 3/26/18 – The Kingdom of God is Within You by Leo Tolstoy
Book 15 – 4/19/18 – The Jefferson Bible by Thomas Jefferson
Book 16 – 4/26/18 – Non-Violent Resistance by M.G. Gandhi
Book 17 – 5/5/18 – How to Read the Declaration and Constitution by Paul B. Skousen
Book 18 – 5/15/18 – The Autobiography of Martin Luther King, Jr. by Clayborne Carson (My Favorite Autobiography!)
Book 19 – 5/26/18 – 7 Habits of Highly Effective People by Stephen Covey (A Must Read for Paradigm Shift)
Book 20 – 5/31/18 – The Message of Jesus Christ by M.K. Gandhi
Book 21 – 6/2/18 – The Gospel According to Jesus Christ by Stephen Mitchell
Book 22 – 6/5/18 – Reality Revealed by Ziad Masri
Book 23 – 6/6/18 – Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
Book 24 – 6/10/18 – My Inventions: The Autobiography of Nikola Tesla (Very Inspiring!)
Book 25 – 6/14/18 – Save The Cat by Blake Snyder
Book 26 – 6/28/18 – The Princess and the Goblins by George MacDonald
Book 27 – 7/7/18 – Wise Thoughts For Everyone by Leo Tolstoy
Book 28 – 7/10/18 – A Calendar of Wisdom by Leo Tolstoy (A Wonderful Way To Start the Day)
Book 29 – 7/21/18 – Strength to Love by Martin Luther King, Jr.
Book 30 – 7/22/18 – A Wrinkle In Time by Madeleine L’Engle
Book 31 – 8/8/18 – The Nonviolence Handbook by Michael Nagler
Book 32 – 8/11/18 – The Law of Love & The Law of Violence by Leo Tolstoy
Book 33 – 8/15/18 – Gandhi The Man by Eknath Easwaran (Very Powerful)
Book 34 – 8/16/18 – The Republic by Plato
Book 35 – 8/22/18 – Introduction to the Hong Kong Basic Law by Danny Gittings
Book 36 – 8/23/18 – Umbrella Movement by Joannes Chan
Book 37 – 9/1/18 – Hind Swaraj or Indian Home Rule by M.K. Gandhi
Book 38 – 9/12/18 – Sermon on the Mount by Emmet Fox
Book 39 – 9/17/18 – Tao Te Ching by Lao Tze
Book 40 – 9/20/18 – Christ in a Poncho by Adolfo Ewquivel
Book 41 – 9/25/18 – War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
Book 42 – 9/26/18 – 5 Steps to Self-Publishing by Bookbaby
Book 43 – 10/10/18 – Won by Love by Norma McConvey
Book 44 – 10/17/18 – Divine Comedy: Inferno by Dante
Book 45 – 11/9/18 – Emotional Intelligence 2.0 by Travis Bradberry
Book 46 – 11/14/18 – Mahatma Gandhi’s Ideas by C.F. Andrews
Book 47 – 11/16/18 – The Soul as it is & How to Deal with it by Gilbert Murray
Book 48 – 12/1/18 – A Confession by Leo Tolstoy
Book 49 – 12/8/18 – The Go-Giver by Bob Burg and John Mann
Book 50 – 12/15/18 – Long Walk to Freedom by Nelson Mandela (Nobel Peace Prize, 1993)
Book 51 – 11/22/18 – Divine Comedy: Purgatory by Dante
Book 52 – 12/21/18 – Mahatma Gandhi’s Ideas 2 by C.F. Andrews
You can find magic wherever you look.
Dr. Seuss
Sit back and relax. All you need is a book!
2019
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Book 1 – 1/15/19 – A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
Book 2 – 1/19/19 – Divine Comedy: Paradise by Dante
Book 3 – 1/25/19 – From Pagan to Christian by Yin Yutong
Book 4 – 1/31/19 – The Art of War by Sun Zi
Book 5 – 2/3/19 – Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
Book 6 – 2/10/19 – Gandhi, Attorney at Law by Charles Disalvo
Book 7 – 2/16/19 – The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
Book 8 – 2/27/19 – A Return to Love by Marianne Williamson
Book 9 – 3/3/19 – Paradigm Found by Anne Murray
Book 10 – 3/9/19 – The City of God, Book 1-3 by St. Augustine
Book 11 – 3/15/19 – The City of God, Book 4 by St. Augustine
Book 12 – 3/22/19 – The City of God, Book 5 by St. Augustine
Book 13 – 3/24/19 – 大逃港 by 陳秉安
Book 14 – 4/11/19 – The City of God, Book 6 by St. Augustine
Book 15 – 4/19/19 – The City of God, Book 7 by St. Augustine
Book 16 – 4/25/19 – Lincoln the Unknown by Dale Carnegie (Very Engaging & Inspiring!)
Book 17 – 4/16/19 – The City of God, Book 8 by St. Augustine
Book 18 – 5/3/19 – The City of God, Book 9 by St. Augustine
Book 19 – 5/14/19 – On Managing Yourself by Harvard Business Review
Book 20 – 5/25/19 – The Power of the Powerless by Vaclav Havel
Book 21 – 5/28/19 – The City of God, Book 10 by St. Augustine
Book 22 – 6/3/19 – Why I Write by George Orwell
Book 23 – 6/6/19 – The City of God, Book 11 by St. Augustine
Book 24 – 6/13/19 – The City of God, Book 12 by St. Augustine
Book 25 – 6/21/19 – The Common Denominator of Success by E.G. Gray
Book 26 – 6/27/19 – The City of God, Book 13 by St. Augustine
Book 27 – 7/5/19 – The City of God, Book 14 by St. Augustine
Book 28 – 7/12/19 – The City of God, Book 15 by St. Augustine
Book 29 – 7/19/19 – The City of God, Book 16 by St. Augustine
Book 30 – 7/20/19 – Charter 77 by Vaclav Havel
Book 31 – 7/26/19 – The City of God, Book 17 by St. Augustine
Book 32 – 7/30/19 – The Barefoot Lawyer by Chen Guangcheng
Book 33 – 8/2/19 – The City of God, Book 18 by St. Augustine
Book 34 – 8/16/19 – The City of God, Book 19 by St. Augustine
Book 35 – 8/20/19 – The City of God, Book 20 by St. Augustine
Book 36 – 8/27/19 – The City of God, Book 21 by St. Augustine
Book 37 – 9/8/19 – The City of God, Book 22 by St.Augustine (My Year Long Journey with St. Augustine Finished!!!)
Book 38 – 9/13/19 – Freedom’s Battle by M.K. Gandhi
Book 39 – 9/16/19 – Public Law by Le Sueur. Sunkis, Murken
Book 40 – 9/28/19 – Public Law Q & A by Richard Glancey
Book 41 – 10/5/19 – The One Minute Salesperson by Spencer Johnson
Book 42 – 10/26/19 – The Richest Man in China by Liu Xing (Christmas with Chinese Characteristics!)
Book 43 – 10/30/19 – The Speed of Trust by Stephen Covey
Book 44 – 10/31/19 – The Soul as it is & How to Deal with it by Gilbert Murray
Book 45 – 11/8/19 – Strength to Love by Martin Luther King, Jr.
Book 46 – 11/19/19 – Guerrilla Publishing by Derek Murphy
Book 47 – 11/24/19 – Civil Disobedience by Henry David Thoreau
Book 48 – 11/24/19 – Indian Home Rule by M.K. Gandhi
Book 49 – 12/12/19 – King Henry VI by William Shakespeare
Book 50 – 12/19/19 – Martin Luther by Eric Metexas
Book 51 – 12/28/19 – 朝花夕拾 by 魯迅 (A Chinese Classic!)
Book 52 – 12/31/19 – My Utmost For His Highest by Oswald Chambers (A Christian Classic!)
If you don’t like to read, you haven’t found the right book.
J.K. Rowling
2020
Go to Cassy”s curated 2020 book list
Book 1 – 1/4/20 – 死水 by 聞一多
Book 2 – 1/11/20 – 背影 by 朱自清
Book 3 – 1/11/20 – Bhagavad Gita by Eknath Easwaran
Book 4 – 1/26/20 – 小王子 by 張小嫻
Book 5 – 1/30/20 – A Gift of Love by Martin Luther King, Jr. (Best Known Sermons of MLKJ)
Book 6 – 2/9/20 – 7 Habits of Highly Effective People by Stephen Covey
Book 7 – 2/15/20 – A Confession by Leo Tolstoy
Book 8 – 2/16/20 – You Can’t Spell Truth Without Ruth by Maya Zaia
Book 9 – 3/1/20 – My Religion by Leo Tolstoy
Book 10 – 3/7/20 – Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson (A Very Powerful True Story)
Book 11 – 3/10/20 – Life Without Principles by Henry David Thoreau
Book 12 – 3/20/20 – Contract Law LA 1040 by University of London
Book 13 – 3/20/20 – Criminal Law LA 1010 by University of London
Book 14 – 3/21/20 – Lord of the Flies by William Golding
Book 15 – 3/29/20 – Paradise Lost by John Milton (An Epic Poem Exploring Human Existence)
Book 16 – 4/5/20 – Thurgood Marshall by Montrew Dunham
Book 17 – 4/9/20 – Walden by Henry David Thoreau
Book 18 – 4/28/20 – Tao Te Ching by Lao Tse
Book 19 – 5/2/20 – Charity Case by Dan Pallotta
Book 20 – 5/7/20 – Parenting Teens with Love & Logic by Cline & Fay
Book 21 – 5/22/20 – Gandhi: His Life & Message for the World by Louise Fisher
Book 22 – 6/5/20 – Stride Toward Freedom by Martin Luther King, Jr. (An Excellent Read)
Book 23 – 6/11/20 – Letter From the Birmingham Jail by Martin Luther King, Jr. (Experience the Healing Power of Love!)
Book 24 – 6/14/20 – All American Boys by Reynolds & Kiely
Book 25 – 6/20/20 – Resist by Veronica Chambers
Book 26 – 7/3/20 – The Gospel in Brief by Leo Tolstoy
Book 27 – 7/21/20 – Common Sense by Thomas Paine
Book 28 – 7/28/20 – The Hunchback of Notre Dame by Victor Hugo
Book 29 – 7/29/20 – The Path of the Law by Oliver W. Holmes
Book 30 – 8/8/20 – Beloved by Toni Morrison (Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, 1993)
Book 31 – 8/10/20 – A Letter to a Hindu by Tolstoy & Gandhi
Book 32 – 8/13/20 – Living Buddha, Living Christ by Thick Nhat Hanh
Book 33 – 8/19/20 – Civil Disobedience by Carl Cohen
Book 34 – 9/4/20 – Caste by Isabel Wilkerson
Book 35 – 9/7/20 – On Tyranny by Timothy Snyder
Book 36 – 9/11/20 – Resurrection by Leo Tolstoy (My Favorite Novel of Tolstoy)
Book 37 – 9/14/20 – On the Duty of Civil Disobedience by Henry David Thoreau
Book 38 – 9/16/20 – Crazy Love by Francis Chan
Book 39 – 9/22/20 – The Gift of Anger by Arun Gandhi (Extraordinary Life Lessons)
Book 40 – 9/29/20 – Almost American Girl by Robin Ha
Book 41 – 10/11/20 – 7 Habits of Highly Effective People by Stephen Covey
Book 42 – 10/24/20 – Getting to Yes by Fisher, Ury & Patton
Book 43 – 11/1/20 – Man’s Search For Meaning by Viktor Frankl (A Book that I go back to Again & Again…)
Book 44 – 11/2/20 – Meditations by Marcus Aurelius
Book 45 – 11/8/20 – The Art of Writing & The Gift of Writers by C.S. Lewis
Book 46 – 11/15/20 – Where Love is, There God is Also by Leo Tolstoy (A Very Profound Short Story!)
Book 47 – 11/22/20 – Crucial Conversations by Patterson, Grenny, McMillian & Switzler
Book 48 – 11/29/20 – The Unconscious God by Viktor Frankl
Book 49 – 12/6/20 – Love is the Cure by Elton John
Book 50 – 12/12/20 – Animal Farm by George Orwell (A Must Read to Understand Human Nature)
Book 51 – 12/15/20 – The Art of War by Sun Zi
Book 52 – 12/23/20 How the Grinch Stole Christmas by Dr. Seuss
Some books leave us free
Ralph Waldo Emerson
and some books make us free
2021
Go to Cassy’s 2021 curated book list
Book 1 – 1/3/21 – If I Were a Czech by M.K. Gandhi
Book 2 – 1/7/21/ – Tort Law LA 2001 by University of London
Book 3 – 1/15/21 – Gitanjali by Rabindranath Tagore (Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, 1913)
Book 4 – 1/20/21 – Property Law LA 2003 by University of London
Book 5 – 1/26/21 – EU Law LA 2024 by University of London
Book 6 – 2/3/21 – Crucial Conversations by Grenny, Patterson, McMillian & Switzler
Book 7 – 2/7/21 – Apology by Plato (My Favorite Book of Philosophy)
Book 8 – 2/12/21 – The Unconscious God by Viktor Frankl
Book 9 – 2/20/21 – Society and Solitude by Ralph Waldo Emerson
Book 10 – 2/24/21 – Gandhi: The Years that Changed the World by Guha Ramachandra
Book 11 – 3/8/21 – Bhagavad Gita by Sir Edwin Arnold
Book 12 – 3/14/21 – The Jefferson Bible by Thomas Jefferson
Book 13 – 3/20/21 – What Men Live By & Other Tales by Leo Tolstoy (Excellent Short Stories)
Book 14 – 3/30/21 – American Born Chinese by Gene Luen Yang
Book 15 – 4/8/21 – 12 Years a Slave by Soloman Northup (A True Story!)
Book 16 – 4/19/21 – Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
Book 17 – 4/30/21 – The 5 Love Languages of Teenagers by Gary Chapman
Book 18 – 5/8/21 – Civil Resistance by Erica Chenoweth
Book 19 – 5/15/21 – 7 Habits of Highly Effective People by Stephen Covey
Book 20 – 5/21/21 – Land Law by John Duddington
Book 21 – 5/22/21 – How to Talk so Teens will Listen & Listen so Teens will Talk by Faber & Mazlish (Very Insightful!)
Book 22 – 5/24/21 – Land Law Q & A by Rosalind Malcolm
Book 23 – 6/4/21 – Daughters of Grace by Kristin Schmucker
Book 24 – 6/12/21 – Point Made by Ross Guberman
Book 25 – 6/13/21 – Go Set a Watchman by Harper Lee
Book 26 – 6/17/21 – Apology by Plato
Book 27 – 6/25/21 – Christian Non-Resistance by Adin Ballou
Book 28 – 7/10/21 – A Single Spark can start a Fire by Mao Zedong
Book 29 – 7/17/21 – Last Days of Socrates by Plato
Book 30 – 7/21/21 – The Giving Tree by Shel Silversten
Book 31 – 7/26/21 – Organizing Through Division & Exclusion: China’s Hukou System by Wei Ling Wang
Book 32 – 8/6/21 – Little Book of Wisdom by C.S. Lewis
Book 33 – 8/12/21 – The 95 Theses & Other Writings by Martin Luther
Book 34 – 8/18/21 – The 4 Gospels From a Lawyer’s Standpoint by Edmund Bennett
Book 35 – 8/27/21 – The Imitation of Christ by Thomas Kempis
Book 36 – 9/2/21 – The Spirit of the Laws by Montesquieu (An Important Read)
Book 37 – 9/11/21 – Soul Mountain by Tao Xingjian (Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, 2000)
Book 38 – 9/17/21 – The Case of the Speluncean Explorers by Lon Fuller
Book 39 – 9/25/21 – On the Sermon of the Mount by St. Augustine
Book 40 – 9/30/21 – The Moral Equivalent of War by William James
Book 41 – 10/9/21 – The First Step by Leo Tolstoy
Book 42 – 10/13/21 – The Dhammapada by Eknath Easwaran
Book 43 – 10/20/21 – The Bhagavad Gita by Eknath Easwaran
Book 44 – 10/28/21 – A Search for a Nonviolent Future by Michael Nagler (My Favorite Teacher)
Book 45 – 11/9/21 – What Every Christian Needs to Know About the Quran by James White
Book 46 – 11/12/21 – Colossians: How to Know the Truth in a World of Divided Opinions by Kayla Ferris
Book 47 – 11/17/21 – Utopia by Thomas More
Book 48 – 11/27/21 – From Dictatorship to Democracy by Gene Sharp
Book 49 – 12/1/21 – Jurisprudence & Legal Theory LA 3005 by University of London
Book 50 – 12/8/21 – A Gift of Love by Martin Luther King, Jr.
Book 51 – 12/14/21 – Civil & Criminal Procedure LA 3004 by University of London
Book 52 – 12/16/21 – How to be Rich by Andy Stanley
We read to know we are not alone
C.S. Lewis
2022
Go to Cassy’s 2022 curated book list
Book 1 – 12/29/21 – Harry Potter and the Deathly Hollows by J.K. Rowling
Book 2 – 1/6/22 – Equity & Trusts LA 3002 by University of London
Book 3 – 1/9/22 – Gene Sharp: How to Start a Revolution by Ruariah Arrow
Book 4 – 1/21/22 – On Liberty by John Stuart Mill (Very Inspiring!)
Book 5 – 1/30/22 – The Greatest Salesman in the World by Og Mandino
Book 6 – 2/6/22 – How to Start a Profitable Blog by Neil L.
Book 7 – 2/12/22 – 7 Habits of Highly Effective People by Stephen Covey
Book 8 – 2/16/22 – Civil Disobedience by Henry David Thoreau
Book 9 – 2/26/22 – The Concept of Law by H.L.A. Hart
Book 10 – 3/5/22 – The Emotionally Healthy Woman by Geri Scazzero
Book 11 – 3/12/22 – If I were a Czech by M.K. Gandhi
Book 12 – 3/19/22 – Indian Home Rule by M.K. Gandhi
Book 13 – 3/25/22 – A Gift of Love by Martin Luther King Jr.
Book 14 – 4/2/22 – The Little Prince by Antoine De Saint-Exupery
Book 15 – 4/6/22 – Apology by Plato (Very Moving!)
Book 16 – 4/12/22 – Why The Law Is Just by Stephen Guest
Book 17 – 4/18/22 – The Idea of Equality by Bernard Williams
Book 18 – 4/28/22 – Bhagavad Gita by Stephen Mitchell
Book 19 – 5/5/22 – Letter to a Hostage by Antoine De Saint-Exupery
Book 20 – 5/11/22 – Tao Te Ching by Lao Tze
Book 21 – 5/19/22 – The Communist Manifesto by Marx & Engels
Book 22 – 5/28/22 – The Doctrine of The Lesser Magistrates by Matthew Trewhella
Book 23 – 6/2/22 – Tao Te Ching (Laws Divine & Human) by Lao Tze
Book 24 -6/11/22 – Black Box Thinking by Matthew Syed
Book 25 – 6/14/22 – Letters to a Young Poet by R.M. Rilke
Book 26 – 6/25/22 – The Lean Startup by Eric Ries
Book 27 – 6/29/22 – Ivan the Fool by Tolstoy
Book 28 – 7/5/22 – Lincoln the Unknown by Dale Carnegie
Book 29 – 7/12/22 – Rich Dad Poor Dad by Robert Kiyosaki
Book 30 – 7/19/22 – The 40 Rules of Love by Elif Shafak
Book 31 – 7/29/22 – Rumi’s Little Book of Life by Rumi
Book 32 – 8/6/22 – 12 Rules For Life by Jordan Peterson
Book 33 – 8/10/22 – One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Alexander Solzhenitsyn
Book 34 – 8/19/22 – Drop Your Weapons by Erica Chenoweth
Book 35 – 8/23/22 – God Hears Her: 40 Days Devotional by Our Daily Bread
Book 36 – 8/24/22 – USIP Education & Training in Nonviolent Resistance by Nadine & Bloch
Book 37 – 8/28/22 – The Nuremberg Trial: The Nazi & their Crimes against Humanity by Paul Roland
Book 38 – 9/13/22 – Atomic Habits by James Clear
Book 39 – 9/15/22 – Canvas Core Curriculum: A Guide to Effective Nonviolent Struggle by Srdja Popovic
Book 40 – 9/20/22 – The Hero with a Thousand Faces by Joseph Campbell
Book 41 – 9/28/22 – SNAP: Synergizing Nonviolent Action & Peacebuidling Action Guide by United States Institute of Peace
Book 42 – 10/16/22 – The Will to Power by Nietzsche, Friedrich
Book 43 – 10/19/22 – The Weakness of Xi Jinping: How Hubris and Paranoia threaten China’s Future by Cai Xia
Book 44 – 10/21/22 – The Einstein Theory of Relativity by H.A. Lorentz (Very Engaging!)
Book 45 – 10/23/22 – The Secret of The Golden Flower: A Chinese Book of Life by Richard Wilhelm with commentary by C.G.Jung
Book 46 – 10/26/22 – Relativity: The Special & The General Theory by Albert Einstein
Book 47 – 10/28/22 – The Grand Inquisitor by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Book 48 – 11/4/22 – Starry Messenger: Galileo Galilei by Peter Sis
Book 49 – 11/10/22 – Relativity: The Special & The General Theory by Albert Einstein (World-changing!)
Book 50 – 11/17/22 – Modern Man in Search of a Soul by Carl Jung
Book 51 – 11/29/22 – Computing Machinery and Intelligence by Alan M. Turing
Book 52 – 12/6/22 – The Influence of Archetypal Ideas on the Scientific Theories of Kepler by W. Pauli
Book 53 – 12/10/22 – The Hidden Messages of Water by Masaru Emoto
Once you learn to read, you will be forever free.
Frederick Douglass
2023
Go to Cassy’s 2023 curated book list
Book 1 – 1/6/23 – The Undiscovered Self by C.G. Jung (Another Book I often Go Back to)
Book 2 – 1/9/23 – The Illustrated Theory of Everything by Stephen Hawking
Book 3 – 1/16/23 – Copenhagen by Michael Frayn
Book 4 – 1/19/23 – The Quantum Moment by Robert Crease & Alred Goldhaber
Book 5 – 1/27/23 – The Art of war by Sun Zi
Book 6 – 1/29/23 – Answer to Job by C.G. Jung (Very Thought-Provoking!)
Book 7 – 1/30/23 – He’s Not Lazy by Adam Price
Book 8 – 2/18/23 – Einstein: His Life and Universe by Walter issacson
Book 9 – 2/23/23 – Synchronicity: An acausal Connecting Principle by C.G. Jung (Another Book I often Go Back to)
Book 10 – 2/28/23 – Preventing Violence by James Gilligan
Book 11 – 3/9/23 – Choose Peace by Galtung & Ikeda
Book 12 – 3/13/23 – The Grand Design by Stephen Hawking
Book 13 – 3/28/23 – Atomic Physics & Human Knowledge by Niels Bohr
Book 14 – 4/3/23 – Memories, Dreams, Reflections by C.G. Jung
Book 15 – 4/5/23 – The Physics of Dissent & the Effects of Movement Momentum by Erica Chenoweth & Margherita Belgioioso
Book 16 – 4/12/23 – The Development of Quantum Mechancis by Werner Heisenberg (Nobel lecture, 1933)
Book 17 – 4/21/23 – Gandhi the Man by Eknath Easwaran
Book 18 – 4/22/23 – Atom & Archetype by Jung & Pauli
Book 19 – 4/27/23 – The Principle of Least Action by Richard Feynman
Book 20 – 5/5/23 – The Structure of Scientific Revolutions by Thomas S. Kuhn
Book 21 – 5/10/23 – The Structure of the Atom (Nobel Lecture, Dec 11, 1922) by Niels Bohr
Book 22 – 5/17/23 – A Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawking
Book 23 – 5/30/23 – The Red Book: Liber Novus by C.G. Jung
Book 24 – 6/5/23 – A Theory of Human Motivation by Abraham Maslow
Bool 25 – 6/9/23 – Purpose Driven Life by Rick Warren
Book 26 – 6/10/23 – The Third Harmony by Michael Nagler
Book 27 – 6/27/23 – What is Life? by Erwin Schrodinger (My Favorite Science Classic!)
Book 28 – 6/28/23 – Dynamical Laws and Statisical Laws by Max Planck
Book 29 – 7/2/23 – The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success by Deepak Chopra
Book 30 – 7/3/23 – The Big Bang and its Dark-Matter Content: Whence, Whither, and Wherefore by Roger Penrose
Book 31 – 7/14/23 – Six Easy Pieces: Essentials of Physcis explained by its most brilliant teacher by Richard Feynman
Book 32 – 7/29/23 – The Bhagavad Gita by Eknath Easwaran
Book 33 – 8/5/23 – The Emperor’s New Mind by Roger Penrose (Very Inspiring!)
Book 34 – 8/11/23 – Is Graviton Detectable? (Poincare Prize Lecture 2012) by Freeman Dyson
Book 35 – 8/21/23 – The Greatest Salesman in the World by Og Mandino
Book 36 – 8/25/23 – Symposium by Plato (Very Telling!)
Book 37 – 9/1/23 – The Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins
Book 38 – 9/14/23 – On the Revolutions of Heavenly Spheres by Nicholas Copernicus
Book 39 – 9/20/23 – QED: The Strange Theory of Light and Matter by Richard Feynman
Book 40 – 9/23/23 – The Upanishads by Eknath Easwaran
Book 41 – 10/5/23 – 太乙金華宗旨 （The Secret of the Golden Flower) by 佚名
Book 42 – 10/8/23 – The First Step by Leo Tolstoy
Book 43 – 10/18/23 – The Aims of Education by Alfred Whitehead
Book 44 – 10/27/23 –On Psychic Energy by C.G. Jung
Book 45 – 11/1/23 – 慧命經 (The Book of Consciousness and Life) by 柳華陽 (Liu Huayang)
Book 46 – 11/2.23 – Constructive Programme: Its Meaning and Place by M.K. Gandhi
Book 47 – 11/11/23 – LLC & S-Corp Beginner’s Guide by Steven Carlson
Book 48 – 11/27/23 – Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
Boo 49 – 11/28/23 – Book of Changes 易經 by James Legge
Book 50 – 12/15/23 – Twelve Angry Men by Reginald Rose (Very Engaging!)
Book 51 – 12/18/23 – Doctrine of the Mean by Confucius (A Chinese Classic)
Book 52 – 12/28/23 – The Singularities of Gravitational Collapse and Cosmology by Steven Hawking & Roger Penrose
The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest minds of past centuries.
Rene Descartes
2024
Go to Cassy’s 2024 curated book list
Book 1 – 1/3/24 – Quantum Theory and Free Will: How Mental Intentions Translate into Bodily Actions by Henry Stapp
Book 2 – 1/11/24 – Consciousness: Confessions of a Romantic Reductionist by Christof Koch
Book 3 – 1/18/24 – Classical Electrodynamics in Terms of Direct Interparticle Action by John Wheeler & Richard Feynman
Book 4 – 1/20/24 – Man’s Search For Meaning by Viktor Frankl
Book 5 – 1/21/24 – Letter From Birmingham Jail by Martin Luther King, Jr.
Book 6 – 1/23/24 – Molecular Structure of Deoxypentose Nucleic Acids (DNA) by James Watson & Francis Crick
Book 7 – 1/24/24 – Genetic Implication of The Structure of Deoxyribonucleic Acid by James Watson & Francis Crick
Book 8 – 1/25/24 – Peace as a Paradigm Shift by Michael Nagler
Book 9 – 1/28/24 – Is a Graviton Detectable? by Freeman Dyson
Book 10 – 1/30/24 – Information, Physics, Quantum: The Search For Links by John Wheeler
Book 11 – 2/3/24 – The Double Helix: A Personal Account of the Discovery of the Structure of DNA by James D. Wason
Book 12 – 2/8/24 – The Three Questions by Leo Tolstoy
Book 13 – 2/15/24 – Ether and the Theory of Relativity by Albert Einstein
Book 14 – 2/26/24 – On the Influence of Gravitation on the Propagation of Light (1911) by Albert Einstein
Book 15 – 3/2/24 – The Feeling of Life Itself: Why Consciousness is Widespread and Cannot be Computed by Christof Koch (Highly Recommended!)
Book 16 – 3/4/24 – On the Theory of Light Production and Light Absorption (1906) by Albert Einstein
Book 17 – 3/9/24 – Aion: Reseaches into the Phenomenology of the Self by C.G. Jung (Another book I often go back to)
Book 18 – 3/12/24 – Atomic Energy In Cosmic and Human Life: 50 Years of Radioactivity by George Gamow
Book 19 – 3/13/24 – The Quantum Soul: A Scientific Hypothesis by Stuart Hameroff and Deepak Chopra
Book 20 – 3/29/24 – Quantum Body by Deepak Chopra
Book 21 – 4/5/24 – Edward Teller 1908 -2003: A Biographycial Memoir by Freeman Dyson
Book 22 – 4/7/24 – The Marriage of Heaven and Hell by William Blake
Book 23 – 4/15/24 – Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems by Galileo Galilei
Book 24 – 4/26/24 – Strength in the Struggle: A Bible Study Workbook for Women on Letting Go of Fear and Aniexity by Lauren Ibach
Book 25 – 4/30/24 – The Quantum Origin of Life: How the Brain Evolved to Feel Good by Stuart Hameroff
Book 26 – 5/3/24 – Symposium by Plato
Book 27 – 5/9/24 – The Formation of the Noosphere by Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
Book 28 – 5/14/24 – The Einstein Theory of Relativity by H.A. Lorentz
Book 29 – 5/21/24 – 30 Years That Shook Physics: The Story of Quantum Theory by George Gamow (A Must Read for Science Lovers)
Book 30 – 5/24/24 – Gravity by George Gamow
Book 31 – 5/31/24 – The Fundamental Idea of Wave Mechanics (1933 Nobel Lecture) by Erwin Schrodinger
Book 32 -6/2/24 –Research on the Theory of Quanta by Louis de Broglie
Book 33 – 6/8/24 – Collected Ppaers on Wave Mechanics, Together with Four Lectures by Erwin Schrodinger
Book 34 – 6/9/24 – The Development of Quantum Mechanics (1933 Nobel Lecture) by Werner Heisenberg
Book 35 – 6/10/24 – Quantum Mechanics of Collision Processes by Max Born
Book 36 – 6/18/24 – A Dynamical Theory of the Electromagnetic Field by James Clerk Maxwell
Book 37 – 6/19/24 – On Continued Gravitational Contraction 1939 by J.R. Oppenheimer & H. Snyder
Book 38 – 6/26/24 – The I Ching or The Book of Changes by Richard Wilhelm, C.F. Baynes & C.G. Jung (A Chinese Classic)
Book 39 – 6/30/24 – The Phenomenon of Man by Pierre Teilhard de Chardin (A book I go back to again and again)
Book 40 – 7/1/24 – The General Theory of Relativity and Wave Mechanics 1940 by Erwin Schrodinger
Book 41 – 7/2/24 – The Big Bang and its Dark-Matter Content: Whence, Whither, and Wherefore by Roger Penrose
Book 42 – 7/8/24 – The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
Book 43 – 7/8/24 – White Holes by Carlo Rovelli (A Wonderful Journey of Experiencing Space-time!)
Book 44 – 7/19/24 – Cycles of Time: An Extraordinary New View of the Universe by Roger Penrose
Book 45 – 8/7/24 – Causality and Complementarity (1937) by Niels Bohr
Book 46 – 8/8/24 – How Come the Quantum? (1986) by John Archibald Wheeler
Book 47 – 8/12/24 – Seven Brief Lessons on Physics by Carlo Rovelli (Highly Recommended!)
Book 48 – 8/14/24 – What is the Theory of Relativity? by Albert Einstein
Book 49 – 8/21/24 – God is not Dead by Amit Goswami
Book 50 – 8/30/24 – The Origin of Species by Charles Darwin
Book 51 – 9/3/24 – Thus Spoke Zarathustra by Friedrich Nietzsche
Book 52 – 9/10/24 – Consciousness in the Universe: Neuroscience, Quantum Space-Time Geometry & Orch OR Theory by Roger Penrose & Stuart Hameroff
Book 53 – 9/12/24 – On the Influence of Gravitation on the Propagation of Light (1911) by Albert Einstein
Book 54 – 9/16/24 – Spacetime by Minkowski (Revolutionary! Very Inspiring.)
Book 55 – 9/30/24 – Silicon: From the Invention of the Microprocessor to the New Science of Consciousness by Federico Faggin
Book 56 – 10/21/24 – The Nature of Space and Time by Stephen Hawking & Roger Penrose
Book 57 – 10/29/24 – Scientific Autobiography and Other Papers by Max Planck
Book 58 – 12/3/24 – Feyman’s Lost Lecture: The Motion of the Planets Around the Sun by David & Judith Goodstein (Absolutely Phenomenal!)
Book 59 – 12/8/24 – Relativity and Idealistic Philosophy by Kurt Godel
Book 60 – 12/9/24 – Journey to the Edge of Reason: Life of Kurt Godel by Stephen Budiansky
Book 61 – 12/22/24 – Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus by Ludwig Wittgenstein (An Important Read on Philosophy)
Mark Twain
The man who does not read
has no advantage over the man who can’t read
2025
Go to Cassy’s 2025 curated book list
Book 1 – 1/1/25 – A Speciman of Dynamics by G.W. Leibniz
Book 2 – 1/8/25 – Thoughts on the True Estimation of Living Forces by Immanuel Kant
Book 3 – 1/11/25 – Hamlet by Shakespeare (Timeless!)
Book 4 – 1/18/25 – Can Quantum Mechanical Description of Physcial Reality Be Considered Complete? by Einstein, Podolsky & Rosen
Book 6 – 1/31/25 – The Troublemaker by Mark Clifford
Book 7 – 2/3/25 – On Nature Itself (1698) by G.W. Leibniz
Book 8 – 2/4/25 – On Copericanism and the Relativity of Motion by G.W. Leibniz
Book 9 – 2/5/25 – Gravitation and Electricity (1918) by H. Weyl
Book 10 – 2/6/25 – On the Electrodynamics of Moving Bodies (1905) by Albert Einstein
Book 11 – 2/14/25 – Theory of Relativity by Wolfgang Pauli
Book 12 – 2/17/25 – Discourse on Metaphysics by W. Leibniz
Book 13 – 2/20/25 – Evolution and Thermodynamics (1941) From Time: A Refreshing River by Joseph Needham
Book 14 – 3/6/25 – On the Quantum Mechanics of Collisions (1962) by Max Born
Book 15 – 3/20/25 – Quantum Theory, the Church-Turing Principle & the Universal Quantum Computer by D. Deutsch
Book 16 – 3/22/25 – Shadows of the Mind by Roger Penrose (My Favorite Book of Penrose)
Book 17 – 3/30/25 – Autobiographical Notes by Albert Einstein (Phenomenal & Thought-Provoking!)
Book 18 – 4/2/2025 – Letter from Birmingham Jail by Martin Luther King, Jr.
Book 19 – 4/9/2025 – Why Does E=mc2? (And Why Should we Care?) by Brian Cox & Jeff Forshaw
Book 20 – 4/15/2025 – Black hole, Quantum Mechanics and Cosmology by Roger Penrose
Book 21 – 4/20/2025 – The Universe in a Single Atom by Dalai Lama
Book 22 – 5/1/2025 – Letters to a Young Poet by Rainer M. Rilke
Book 23 – 5/22/2025 – Maxwell/s Influence on the Development of the Conception of Physical Reality by Albert Einstein (1931)
Book 24 – 5/23/2025 – On the Method of Theoretical Physics by Albert Einstein (1934)
Book 25 – 5/24/2025 – The New Earth: Awakening to Your Life’s Purpose by Eckhark Tolle
Book 26 – 6/6/2025 – Life After Life: A Groundbreaking Exploration of Near Death Experiences by Raymond Moody Jr., M.D.
Book 27 – 6/24/2025 – The Principles of Livelihood by Sun Yat-sen
Book 28 – 6/30/2025 – The Principles of Mathematical Physics by Henri Poincare
Book 29 – 7/17/2025 – After: A Doctor Explores What Near-Death Experiences Reveal about Life and Beyond by Bruce Greyson (Revolutionary & Moving!)
Book 30 – 7/29/2025 – The Third Jesus: A Christ We Cannot Ignore by Deepak Chopra (An important book on understanding the message of Christ)
Book 31 – 7/30/2025 – The Einstein Theory of Relativity by H.A. Lorentz
Book 32 – 8/6/2025 – Relativity: The Special and the General Theory by Albert Einstein
Book 33 – 8/11/2025 – My View of the World by Erwin Schrodinger (Refreshing & Stimulating!)
Book 34 -8/29/2025 – The Soul as It is and How to Deal with It by Gilbert Murray
Book 35 – 9/1/2025 – Atomic Peace: 10 Principles to Unleash the Living Force by Cassy Liu
Book 36 – 9/9/2025 – Three Questions by Leo Tolstoy
Book 37 – 9/14/2025 – The Vegetarian by Han Kang (Winner of The 2024 Nobel Prize in Literature)
Book 38 – 10/7/2025 – Nonviolent Communication: A Language of Life by Marshall Rosenberg
Book 39 – 10/9/2025 – Six Cornered Snowflake: A New Year’s Gift by Johannes Kepler
Book 40 – 10/12/2025 – The Influence of Archetypal Ideas on the Scientific Theories of Kepler by Wolfgang Pauli (Very insightful and worth reading!)
Book 41 – 10/16/2025 – The Remark About the Relationship between Relativity Theory and Idealistic Philosophy by Kurt Gödel (Very stimulating!)
Book 42 – 10/28/2025 – The Little Book of Restorative Justice by Howard Zehr
Paper 43 – 10/20/2025 – Energy-Level Quantization in the Zero-Voltage State of a Current-Biased Josephson Junction (1985) by Clarke, Devoret & Martinis (Winner of The 2025 Nobel Prize in Physics)
Paper 44 – 10/21/2025 – Measurements of Macroscopic Quantum Tunneling out of the Zero-Voltage Sate of a Current-Biased Josephson Junction (1985) by Clarke, Devoret & Martinis
Paper 45 – 10/22/2025 – Quantum Mechanics of a Macroscopic Variable: The Phase Difference of a Josephson Junction (1988) Clarke, Devoret & Martinis
Paper 46 – 10/23/2025 – Question of Parity Conservation in Weak Interaction (1956) by Lee & Yang (Winner of The 1957 Nobel Prize in Physics)
Book 47 – 11/2/2025 – A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens (A timeless epic of human conditions)
Paper 48 – 11/7/2025 – On the Relation between Quantum Mechanics of Heisenberg, Born and Jordan and that of Schrödinger by Erwin Schrödinger
Book 49 – 11/22/2025 – Infinity and the Mind by Rudy Rucker (A incredible read with real mathematical depth and profound philosophical insight)
Paper 50 – 11/25/2025 – From Relativity to Mutability by John A. Wheeler
Book 51 – 12/3/2025 – Song of Myself by Walt Whitman (An illuminating poem)
Book 52 – 12/6/2025 – The Tao of Physics by Fritjof Capra
Book 53 – 12/26/2025 – Answer to Job by C.G. Jung
Victor Hugo
To learn to read is to light a fire,
every syllable that is spelled out is a spark.
2026
Go to Cassy’s 2026 curated book list
Paper 1 – 1/2/2026 – The Big Bang and its Dark-Matter Content: Whence, Whither, and Wherefore by Roger Penrose
Paper 2 – 1/5/2026 – A Spin Entanglement Witness for Quantum Gravity by Sougato Bose
Book 3 – 1/14/2026 – Subtle is the Lord: The science and the life of Albert Einstein by Abraham Pais (An extremely inspiring study of the life of Einstein!)
Book 4 – 1/17/2026 – Why War? by Albert Einstein & Sigmund Freud
Atomic Peace 