Kelvin Yelyen

Books

A collection of books I've read over the years, organized by year.

2025

  • Kitchen — Banana Yoshimoto

2024

  • Man's Search for Meaning — Viktor E. Frankl
  • Meditations — Marcus Aurelius
  • The Setting Sun — Osamu Dazai
  • Fire and Blood — George R.R. Martin
  • Tao Te Ching — Laozi

2023

  • The Great Gatsby — F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • American Spy — Lauren Wilkinson
  • After Dark — Haruki Murakami
  • 1984 — George Orwell
  • The Thing Around Your Neck — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
  • No Longer Human — Osamu Dazai
  • Paradise — Toni Morrison
  • The Metamorphosis — Franz Kafka
  • Mastery — Robert Greene
  • Free Will — Sam Harris
  • Kafka on the Shore — Haruki Murakami
  • Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less — Greg McKeown
  • After the Quake — Haruki Murakami
  • The Pragmatic Programmer — Andrew Hunt, David Thomas

2022

  • Self-Knowledge — Mark Manson
  • Life Purpose — Mark Manson
  • Self-Discipline — Mark Manson
  • Healthy Relationships — Mark Manson
  • Men Without Women — Haruki Murakami
  • A Happy Death — Albert Camus
  • 21 Lessons for the 21st Century — Yuval Noah Harari

2021

  • Ikigai — Héctor García, Francesc Miralles
  • The Stranger — Albert Camus
  • The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck — Mark Manson
  • Atomic Habits — James Clear

2020

  • MERN Quick Start Guide — Eddy Wilson Iriarte Koroliova
  • React and React Native — Adam Boduch
  • Eloquent JavaScript — Marijn Haverbeke