Bibliography

I'm working on a personal bibliography (a literary uses page if you will). Here's what I have so far.

Life stuff:

  • Man's Search for Meaning by Frankl. Probably the most influential book in my life, I read it in high school or college. Haven't re-read it in a while, need to pick it back up again.
  • Sacred Journey by Mike Riddell. A modern book of wisdom for life by one of my favorite authors.
  • The Second Mountain by David Brooks. I'm only just now reading this book, slowly, two chapters a week, as part of my self-organized book club (which has 5 members, including myself), but it fits this sequence of life advice / modern wisdom tomes.
  • Designing Your Life by Burnett and Evans. Same with this book, I'm only about 33% through, but working through it carefully.
  • Deep Work by Cal Newport. Same again! But this sequence really works for me, going from high level down to more tactical as one works down this list.

Leadership stuff:

  • The Five Dysfunctions of a Team by Patrick Lencioni. Quick read and a classic business leadership and collaboration book.
  • Recovering Leadership by Tom Hill III. 

Engineering stuff:

  • The Phoenix Project
  • An Elegant Puzzle by Will Larson

Fiction:

  • Neuromancer by Willian Gibson
  • Any early Xanth novel by Piers Anthony
  • The Rider by Tim Krabbe

What would be in your personal bibliography?
Abraham Kim
Dance Dance Dance
by 
Haruki Murakami
 
This story is one that makes me feel no anxiety about dying without writing my own book. It basically encapsulates me as i see myself. Read this in my mid twenties.

The Great Gatsby
Haven't read this since high school but this is the first book that I "read". This was the first book that I read on my own accord where I thought "this is actually not a story but this is real life."

The Idiot
by 
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Emotions captured in ways i see accurate.

The short story 
Three Thousand Dollars
by 
David Lipsky
. I no longer identify with this but there was a time where this was my bible.
2021-11-30 01:01:47
Drew
I don't know if these are MOST impactful or rated by any ranking system, but some that come to mind:

Khalil Gibran gave me a huge respect for poetry in more fluid/prose form, and tossing up canyon-deep ideas in a quick 100 word story. If you've never toed into his world, I highly recommend The Madman.

Jesus's Son was a huge book more recently that introduced the idea of a choppy storytelling style, that you don't have to paint the whole picture as long as each stroke you cut across the pages is another that your readers can follow along with.

cliche as it is I like hemingway's economic style of language. Saying more with less is a fun style to try to use.

I guess this is less so a bibliography of my life and more of my writing influences. I'd have to ponder the former moreso to come up with a list. Khalil Gibran would still be on it.
2021-12-02 13:29:06