50 Book Posts Finished! – Razzaq Mohammed

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Recently, I achieved a milestone by completing 50 blog posts focused on books. Most of these posts are reviews, while others take the format of “10 Things I Learned from This Book.” My journey into writing about books began in 2019 during my Master’s degree. Since relocating to Canada, my access to books has significantly improved. Initially, I had the resources available at the university campus, and later, I explored the local library networks. I made sure to get library cards from each city I lived in: first in Vancouver with the Vancouver Public Library, then in Kelowna with the Okanagan Regional Library, and finally in Langley with the Fraser Valley Regional Library. The majority of the books listed below are sourced from these libraries.

Here’s a list of the books I’ve read, along with links:

  1. Maphead
  2. Mad Like Tesla: Underdog Inventors and their Relentless Pursuit of Clean Energy
  3. The Castle of Otranto
  4. Clean Car Wars: How Honda and Toyota are Winning the Battle of the Eco-Friendly Autos
  5. Shackleton: Antarctic Odyssey
  6. Let it Shine: The 6,000-Year Story of Solar Energy
  7. Saladin: The Life, The Legend, and the Islamic Empire
  8. The Engineer in History
  9. Inglorious Empire: What the British did to India
  10. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
  11. Michael Faraday and the Electrical Century
  12. China Syndrome: The True Story of the 21st Century’s First Great Epidemic
  13. Private Empire: ExxonMobil and American Power
  14. At the Mountains of Madness
  15. How to be an Explorer of the World
  16. A Concise History of Canada’s First Nations
  17. Invention by Design: How Engineers Get from Thought to Thing
  18. The Third Industrial Revolution: How Lateral Power is Transforming Energy, the Economy, and the World
  19. Coal
  20. A Brief History of Creation: Science and the Search for the Origin of Life
  21. Simply Electrifying: The Technology that Transformed the World, from Benjamin Franklin to Elon Musk
  22. Apollo’s Legacy: Perspectives on the Moon Landings
  23. Cool: How Air Conditioning Changed Everything
  24. The Battery: How Portable Power Sparked a Technological Revolution
  25. Built: The Hidden Stories Behind Our Structures
  26. Genghis Khan: And the Making of the Modern World
  27. After Cooling: On Freon, Global Warming, and the Terrible Cost of Comfort
  28. Jerusalem: The Biography
  29. Insane Mode: How Elon Musk’s Tesla Sparked an Electric Revolution to End the Age of Oil
  30. The Intel Trinity: How Robert Noyce, Gordon Moore, and Andy Grove Built the World’s Most Important Company
  31. Einstein’s Fridge: How the Difference Between Hot and Cold Explains the Universe
  32. The West Beyond the West: A History of British Columbia
  33. How to Avoid a Climate Disaster: The Solutions We Have and the Breakthroughs We Need
  34. The Story of Buildings
  35. The Age of Wood
  36. The Last Days of the Incas
  37. Jungle of Stone: The True Story of Two Men, Their Extraordinary Journey, and the Discovery of the Lost Civilization of the Maya
  38. Conquistadores: A New History of Spanish Discovery and Conquest
  39. The Great American Railroad: The History of Trains in America
  40. Building Canada
  41. Space Race: The Epic Battle Between America and the Soviet Union for Dominance in Space
  42. White Mughals: Love and Betrayal in Eighteenth Century India
  43. Lords of the Deccan: Southern India from the Chalukyas to the Cholas
  44. Forgotten Muslim Empires of South India: Bahmani Empire, Madurai, Bijapur, Ahmadnagar, Golconda & Mysore Sultanates
  45. The Nuclear Barons: The Chilling Story of How a Small Band of Scientists, Generals, Politicians, and Businessmen Created the Life-and-Death Issue Confronting Us Today—Our Nuclear World
  46. How Big Things Get Done: The Surprising Factors That Determine the Fate of Every Project, from Home Renovations to Space Exploration and Everything in Between
  47. España: A Brief History of Spain
  48. The First Shots: The Epic Rivalries and Heroic Science Behind the Race to the Coronavirus Vaccine
  49. How We Learn: The Surprising Truth About When, Where, and Why It Happens
  50. The Ornament of the World: How Muslims, Jews, and Christians Created a Culture of Tolerance in Medieval Spain

Here are my library cards:


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