Favorite Books

I like reading nonfictions, and my favorite genres include biography, memoir, history, and scicence.

Top Ten Favorite Books (updated on April 21, 2019)

1. Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience and Redemption
   by Laura Hillenbrand

2. The Lost City of the Monkey God: A True Story
   by Douglas Preston

3. The Neptune File: A Story of Astronomical Rivalry and the Pioneers of Planet Hunting
   by Tom Standage

4. Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mount Everest Disaster
   by Jon Krakauer

5. Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania
   by Erik Larson

6. The Knife Man: Blood, Body Snatching, and the Birth of Modern Surgery
   by Wendy Moore

7. Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen
   by Christopher McDougall

8. The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary
   by Simon Winchester

9. Endurance: Shackleton’s Incredible Voyage
   by Alfred Lansing

10. The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory
    by Brian Greene

All Read Books

–Biography–

1. Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience and Redemption
   by Laura Hillenbrand

2. Steve Jobs
   by Walter Isaacson

3. Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future
   by Ashlee Vance

4. Obsessive Genius: The Inner World of Marie Curie
   by Barbara Goldsmith

5. Gloriana: The Years of Elizabeth I
   by Mary M. Luke

6. Mary Queen of Scotland and The Isles
   by Margaret George

7. The Young Victoria
   by Alison Plowden

8. The Knife Man: Blood, Body Snatching, and the Birth of Modern Surgery
   by Wendy Moore

9. The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary
   by Simon Winchester

10. The Map That Changed the World
    by Simon Winchester

11. Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time
    by Dava Sobel

12. Maphead: Charting the Wide, Weird World of Geography Wonks
    by Ken Jennings

13. The Man Who Loved China: The Fantastic Story of the Eccentric Scientist Who Unlocked the Mysteries of the Middle Kingdom
    by Simon Winchester

–Memoir–

1. The Glass Castle
   by Jeannette Walls

2. Inside the Kingdom: My Life in Saudi Arabia
   by Carmen Bin Ladin

3. A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail
   by Bill Bryson

4. When Breath Becomes Air
   by Paul Kalanithi

5. When in Rome: A Journal of Life in the Vatican City
   by Robert J. Hutchinson

–History–

1. The Lost City of the Monkey God: A True Story
   by Douglas Preston

2. Gods, Graves and Scholars: The Story of Archaeology
   by C. W. Ceram

3. Last of the Incas: The Rise and Fall of an American Empire
   by Edward Hyams

4. Lost and Found: Heinrich Schliemann and the Gold That Got Away
   by Caroline Moorehead

5. Salt: A World History
   by Mark Kurlansky

6. Blood: An Epic History of Medicine and Commerce
   by Douglas Starr

7. Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania
   by Erik Larson

8. The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America
   by Erik Larson

–Science–

1. Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can’t Stop Talking
   by Susan Cain

2. Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers
   by Mary Roach

3. A Brief History of Time
   by Stephen Hawking

4. The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory
   by Brian Greene

5. The Neptune File: A Story of Astronomical Rivalry and the Pioneers of Planet Hunting
   by Tom Standage

6. Astrophysics for People in a Hurry
   by Neil deGrasse Tyson

7. The Black Hole War: My Battle with Stephen Hawking to Make the World Safe for Quantum Mechanics
   by Leonard Susskind

8. Dark Life: Martian Nanobacteria, Rock-Eating Cave Bugs, and Other Extreme Organisms of Inner Earth and Outer Space
   by Michael Ray Taylor

9. Genome: The Autobiography of a Species In 23 Chapters
   by Matt Ridley

10. The Genetic Strand: Exploring a Family History Through DNA
    by Edward Ball

11. The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales
    by Oliver Sacks

12. The Making of the Atomic Bomb
    by Richard Rhodes

13. The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark
    by Carl Sagan

–Adventure–

1. Into the Wild
   by Jon Krakauer

2. Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mount Everest Disaster
   by Jon Krakauer

3. Endurance: Shackleton’s Incredible Voyage
   by Alfred Lansing

4. Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen
   by Christopher McDougall

5. Hooked: Pirates, Poaching, and the Perfect Fish
   by G. Bruce Knecht

–Religon–

1. Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith
   by Jon Krakauer

2. Nine Parts of Desire: The Hidden World of Islamic Women
   by Geraldine Brooks

–Social Topic–

1. Missoula: Rape and the Justice System in a College Town
   by Jon Krakauer

2. Three Cups of Tea: One Man’s Mission to Promote Peace … One School at a Time
   by Greg Mortenson

–Novel–

1. The Shadow of the Wind
   by Carlos Ruiz Zafón