Book recommendations 2022

Summary

During this year, my focus lay on history and trying to relate past event with the eyes of an adult. I spent a great deal of time reading and educating myself in the financial and investment sector.

My top 10 books recommendations are the following:

The picture of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde

Short and concise, this book details the story of Dorian, a beautiful yet egocentric young man. It goes through the nature of the human being and how emotions impact the soul and vice versa. Nothing can be said better than the actual experience arising when reading this book.

The Intelligent Investor - Benjamin Graham

This book is widely acclaimed book on value investing and provides strategies on how to successfully incest in the stock market. It stands for the long time one of the most popular book on investing. At first, some finance-related have been hard to understand, but with time, the actual lessons are invaluable.

Security Analysis - Benjamin Graham

As a precursor to The Intelligent Investor by the same author, this book lays the intellectual foundation of value investing. It teaches by historical events how to invest and understand patterns in market behaviour.

Moby Dick - Herman Melville

This book is centered on the sailor Ishmael’s narrative for vengence against Moby Dick, the giant white sperm whale. It is a funny retelling of life on sea with very fun and interesting characters.

Ask a Science Teacher - Larry Scheckel

Why does the earth have gravity? How was the internet invented? How do airplanes stay up in the air? We have all had questions about everyday’s life events, that we can’t bother looking up. The books collects 250 questions about how everyday stuff works and explains them at a school level for everyone to understand.

The Shadow of the Sun - Ryszard Kapuscinki

A very memorising book. It is a collection of journalistic accounts and essays by a Polish write and journalist in Africa. The author’s accounts are still very unique because it opens the gateway to understanding life in Africa just before, during and after independance. A must-read for anyone interested in the advent of changes a society can experience following a radical change in governance.

We wish to inform you that Tomorrow we will be killed with our Family - Philip Gourevitch

This book describe’s Gourevitch’s travel in Rwanda after the Rwandan Genocide during which he interviews survivors and gathers information. A trilling novel about manipulation, lies and control. A novel about how far one can change after the other and the nature of human behavior.

Die Weltgeschichte in 12 Bänden - Heinrich Pleticha

From beginning of mannkind to the current present, this novel submirizes great historical events and is written so to be read one book per month.

Gone Girl - Gillian Flynn

Gone Girl is a crime thriller novel written by Gillian Flynn and lead the reader into doubting whether Nick Dunne is responsible for the disappearance of his wife Amy. I decided to get this book, simply because of the film adaptation, which i think is much superior.

The Tales of Two Cities - Charles Dickens

This book is set in London and in Paris before the and during the French Revolution. It tells the story of the French Doctor Manette, his 18-year long imprisonment in the Bastille in Paris and his release to live in London with this daughter Lucie, whom he never met. The story is set against the conditions that led up to the French Revolution and the Reign of Terror.