My Year in Books 2017

I took only one course at Queen's in 2017:

• CISC 102 Discrete Math for Computing I

Highly Recommended

The standout books for me in 2017:

• Harris, Dan. 10% Happier. Day Street Books, 2019.

Not Recommended

As always, these are books that did not strike a chord at this time. Some of them I will likely re-read. I often find a second reading at a different time can make all the difference. Sometimes you are just not yet ready for a particular book.

• Epstein, Mark. Going to Pieces Without Falling Apart. Harmony, 1999.
• Goldstein, Joseph. Insight Meditation. Shambala, 2003.
• Harris, Sam. Waking Up. Simon & Schuster, 2014.
• Hough, David L. Proficient Motorcycling. CompanionHouse Books, 2013. Most of this book is filler.

Everything Else

These are all worthwhile:

• Cowen, Tyler. The Complacent Class. St. Martin's Press, 2017.
• Dodek, Adam. The Canadian Constitution. Dundurn, 2016.
• Hamilton, Peter F. The Reality Dysfunction. Orbit, 2008.
• Harris, Sam. The Moral Landscape. Free Press, 2011.
• Kasparov, Garry. Winter is Coming. PublicAffairs, 2016.
• Kim, Gene. The Phoenix Project. IT Revolution Press, 2018.
• Leckie, Ann. Ancillary Justice. Orbit, 2013.
• Malcolmson, Patrick. The Canadian Regime. University of Toronto Press, 2016.
• Parks, Lee. Total Control. Motorbooks, 2015. The only motorcycling skills book I have read so far that I recommend.
• Simmons, Dan. The Fall of Hyperion. Spectra, 1995.
• Stephenson, Neil. Snow Crash. Del Ray, 2000.
• Tolkien, J.R.R. The Lord of the Rings (Trilogy). Unwin, 1988.