Lists

I like to share what I have been reading/watching/listening to keep me motivated. I also have a Goodreads account, which I have not been updating. Publications that I especially loved are marked with an asterisk. My all-time favorites are marked with double asterisk.

Reading list

2020

1. The 5 Choices: Achieving Extraordinary Productivity Without Getting Buried Alive, Kory Kogon, Adam Merrill, Leigh Stevens
2. Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones, James Clear
3. Talking to Strangers: What We Should Know about the People We Don’t Know, Malcolm Gladwell*
4. The McKinsey Way, Ethan M. Rasiel
5. Tomorrow (original title: Demain), Guillaume Musso
6. Freakonomics, Stephen J. Dubner and Steven Levitt*
7. Powerful: Building a Culture of Freedom and Responsibility, Patty McCord
8. Quiet, Susan Cain
9. The Choice: Embrace the Possible, Edith Eger
10. Calm the f*ck down, Sarah Knight & Sasha O’Hara

2019

1. Will You Be There?, Guillaume Musso
2. The Silent Patient, Alex Michaelides
3. Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy, Cathy O’Neil
4. The Paradox of Choice: Why More Is Less, Barry Schwartz
5. Educated, Tara Westover*

2018

1. The Firm: The Story of McKinsey and Its Secret Influence on American Business, Duff McDonald
2. Changing Places, David Lodge
3. Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead, Sheryl Sandberg
4. Factfulness: Ten Reasons We’re Wrong About the World – and Why Things Are Better Than You Think, Hans Rosling**
5. Start Something That Matters, Blake Mycoskie
6. Pour Your Heart Into It: How Starbucks Built a Company One Cup at a Time, Howard Schultz*

Watching list

I have probably watched more shows and movies than I could recall. I have always biased toward older movies, partly due to its originality and vintage-color pictures. Here are the top classic movies (which I don’t mind watching again):

1. Love Actually (2003)
2. Picture Perfect (1997)
3. La La Land (2016)
4. Notting Hill (1999)
5. The Aftermath (2019)
6. Watchmen (2019)
7. Doctor Strange (2016)
8. Friends (1994)
9. The Imitation Game (2014)
10. The Big Short (2015)
11. Moneyball (2011)
12. Good Will Hunting (1997)
13. Parasites (2019)
14. Fight Club (1999)
15. Allied (2016)
16. Sherlock (2010)
17. Emma (1996)
18. Normal people (2020)
19. The Good Place (2016)
20. Sorry To Bother You (2018)
21. A Beautiful Mind (2001)
22. The Lover (1992)
23. Sleepless In Seattle (1993)
24. You’ve Got Mail (1998)
25. Spirited Away (2001)
26. Howl’s Moving Castle (2004)
27. Community (2009)
28. The Firm (1993)
29. A Star Is Born (2018)
30. Hamilton (2020)
31. Cheers (1982)
32. Succession (2018)
33. The Crown (2020)