Sam T. Huang 黃子軒

It's not what you do but how you do it.

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1. Life After Life—Kate Atkinson
2. 故宮六百年 上—閻崇年

2026 6 books

1. 漢字的故事—Cecilia Lindqvist
2. Laozi's Dao De Jing—Ken Liu
3. Bel Canto—Ann Patchett
4. 從價值系統看中國文化的現代意義—余英時
5. 東京一年—蔣方舟
6. 我在北京送快递—胡安焉

2025 28 books

1. Small Things Like These—Claire Keegan
2. 不一樣的中國史 8 (五代十國、宋)—楊照
3. 山鏡—張郅忻
4. 敵我之間—呂世浩
5. All the Beauty in the World—Patrick Bringley
6. 海市—張郅忻
7. 帝國崛起—呂世浩
8. Thunderclap—Laura Cumming
9. 中國畫論史—葛路
10. 不一樣的中國史 7 (隋、唐)—楊照
11. 一句頂一萬句—劉震雲
12. 秦始皇—呂世浩
13. Martyr!—Kaveh Akbar
14. 日本人與中國人—陳舜臣
15. 袒露的心—平路
16. 不一樣的中國史 6 (魏晉南北朝)—楊照
17. 鴻：三代中國女人的故事—張戎
18. 織—張郅忻
19. 夢魂之地—平路
20. Make It Stick—Peter C. Brown, Henry L. Roediger III, Mark A. McDaniel
21. 婆娑之島—平路
22. 不一樣的中國史 5 (東漢、魏晉)—楊照
23. The Secret History—Donna Tartt
24. 東方之東—平路
25. 白色畫像—賴香吟
26. 不一樣的中國史 4 (西漢)—楊照
27. Duveen—S. N. Behrman
28. 宋徽宗時代—余耀華

2024 25 books

1. 不一樣的中國史 3 (春秋、戰國、秦)—楊照
2. 不一樣的中國史 2 (周)—楊照
3. 不一樣的中國史 1 (夏、商)—楊照
4. With Art As My Weapon—Soichiro Fukutake
5. 天橋上的魔術師—吳明益
6. Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow—Gabrielle Zevin
7. 琴史與琴器—王風
8. 細讀宋朝三百年—劉路
9. The Overstory—Richard Powers
10. Shōgun—James Clavell
11. 明朝簡史—吳晗
12. 美 いのり—加山又造
13. Ashikaga Yoshimasa and the Silver Pavilion—Donald Keene
14. A New Name: Septology VI–VII—Jon Fosse, tr. Daimon Searls
15. I Is Another: Septology III–V—Jon Fosse, tr. Daimon Searls
16. 君たちはどう生きるか—吉野源三郎
17. 中國大歷史—黃仁宇
18. The Other Name: Septology I–II—Jon Fosse, tr. Daimon Searls
19. 殘骸書—陳列
20. 坊っちゃん—夏目漱石
21. 一口氣讀完大清史—孫秀玲
22. 銀河鉄道の夜—宮沢賢治
23. A Shining—Jon Fosse
24. Snow Country—Yasunari Kawabata, tr. Edward G. Seidensticker
25. The World of Sex—Henry Miller

2023 16 books

1. Trust—Hernan Diaz
2. Far from the Tree—Andrew Solomon
3. 台北人—白先勇
4. Shift—Hugh Howey
5. SPQR—Mary Beard
6. The Staff Engineer's Path—Tanya Reilly
7. Bluets—Maggie Nelson
8. The Employees—Olga Ravn, tr. Martin Aitken
9. You Are Not Expected to Understand This—ed. Torie Bosch
10. Wool—Hugh Howey
11. Utopia for Realists—Rutger Bregman
12. The Left Hand of Darkness—Ursula K. Le Guin
13. God Emperor of Dune—Frank Herbert
14. The Wind's Twelve Quarters—Ursula K. Le Guin
15. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time—Mark Haddon
16. The Dispossessed—Ursula K. Le Guin

2022 9 books

1. A Player of Games—Iain M. Banks
2. I, Claudius—Robert Graves
3. Hiroshima—John Hersey
4. Factfulness—Hans Rosling, Ola Rosling, Anna Rosling Rönnlund
5. The Bomber Mafia—Malcolm Gladwell
6. The Plague—Albert Camus
7. Circe—Madeline Miller
8. The Soul of a New Machine—Tracy Kidder
9. 流浪蒼穹 (Vagabonds)—郝景芳

2021 18 books

1. 我的精神家園—王小波
2. 一只特立獨行的豬—王小波
3. Children of Dune—Frank Herbert
4. Design is Storytelling—Ellen Lupton
5. The Pragmatic Programmer—David Thomas, Andrew Hunt
6. 複眼人—吳明益
7. The Song of Achilles—Madeline Miller
8. The Hidden Girl and Other Stories—Ken Liu
9. The Night Watchman—Louise Erdrich
10. Tokyo Ueno Station—Yu Miri
11. The Midnight Library—Matt Haig
12. Dune Messiah—Frank Herbert
13. A Crack in Creation—Jennifer Doudna & Samuel Sternberg
14. A Little Life—Hanya Yanagihara
15. The Order of Time—Carlo Rovelli
16. Man's Search for Meaning—Viktor Frankl
17. Dune—Frank Herbert
18. A Gentleman in Moscow—Amor Towles

2020 11 books

1. User Friendly—Cliff Kuang & Robert Fabricant
2. No Rules Rules—Reed Hastings & Erin Meyer
3. The Handmaid's Tale—Margaret Atwood
4. The Death of Truth—Michiko Kakutani
5. The Dutch House—Ann Patchett
6. The Broken Earth: The Stone Sky—N. K. Jemisin
7. The Silk Road—Peter Frankopan
8. The Broken Earth: The Obelisk Gate—N. K. Jemisin
9. Dear Ijeawele—Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
10. The Broken Earth: The Fifth Season—N. K. Jemisin
11. The Pleasure of the Text—Mary Gaitskill

2019 18 books

1. Educated—Tara Westover
2. The Book Thief—Markus Zusak
3. The Goldfinch—Donna Tartt
4. The Four—Scott Galloway
5. Creative Selection—Ken Kocienda
6. Don't Make Me Think—Steve Krug
7. The Hours—Michael Cunningham
8. Pachinko—Min Jin Lee
9. Amsterdam—Ian McEwan
10. The Headspace Guide to Meditation and Mindfulness—Andy Puddicombe
11. Shoe Dog—Phil Knight
12. 蛙—莫言
13. 21 Lessons for the 21st Century—Yuval Noah Harari
14. Bad Blood—John Carreyrou
15. Capitalism Without Capital—Jonathan Haskel & Stian Westlake
16. Enlightenment Now—Steven Pinker
17. When Breath Becomes Air—Paul Kalanithi
18. A Walk in the Woods—Bill Bryson

2014–2018 34 books

1. The Shadow of the Wind—Carlos Ruiz Zafón
2. Upheaval—Jared Diamond
3. Amity and Prosperity—Eliza Griswold
4. How the World Thinks—Julian Baggini
5. Memoirs of a Geisha—Arthur Golden
6. Ready Player One—Ernest Cline
7. 活著—余華
8. 皮囊—蔡崇達
9. 天才在左，瘋子在右—高銘
10. Algorithms to Live By—Brian Christian & Tom Griffiths
11. The Paper Menagerie—Ken Liu
12. The Everything Store—Brad Stone
13. Becoming Steve Jobs—Brent Schlender & Rick Tetzeli
14. Steve Jobs—Walter Isaacson
15. Einstein—Walter Isaacson
16. Sapiens—Yuval Noah Harari
17. The Language Instinct—Steven Pinker
18. Visual Intelligence—Amy E. Herman
19. Atlas Shrugged—Ayn Rand
20. Into the Wild—Jon Krakauer
21. 死神永生—劉慈欣
22. 黑暗森林—劉慈欣
23. 三體—劉慈欣
24. 巨嬰國—武志紅
25. The Little Prince—Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
26. Wind, Sand and Stars—Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
27. Flight to Arras—Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
28. Night Flight—Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
29. The Age of Cryptocurrency—Paul Vigna & Michael J. Casey
30. A Little History of the World—E. H. Gombrich
31. Fahrenheit 451—Ray Bradbury
32. We—Yevgeny Zamyatin
33. 1984—George Orwell
34. Quiet—Susan Cain