Thus an old alchemist gave the following consolation to one of his disciples: "No matter how isolated you are and how lonely you feel, if you do your work truly and conscientiously, unknown friends will come and seek you."
I love discovering other people's reading lists, so here's mine. This is a selection of books I recommend, with those I found particularly impactful marked with a ★. These recommendations have shaped my thinking and I hope you might find something worthwhile among them.
My full reading list can be found on Goodreads.
- Asian Literature
- Runaway Horses,
- Norwegian Wood,
- Ramayanam,
- The Complete Stories of Lu Xun,
- Beauty and Sadness,
- Western Literature
- Soumission,
- The Tartar Steppe,
- The Great Gatsby,
- A Gentleman in Moscow,
- The Master and Margarita,
- Biography
- The Fish That Ate the Whale,
- American Prometheus: Robert Oppenheimer,
- Napoleon: A Life,
- Deng Xiaopeng and the Transformation of China,
- Boy and Going Solo,
- History & Politics
- Patton, Montgomery, Rommel: Masters of War,
- The End of History and the Last Man,
- Secondhand Time: The Last of the Soviets,
- The Blood Telegram: Nixon, Kissinger, and a Forgotten Genocide,
- China & Japan: Facing History,
- Blood and Iron: The Rise and Fall of the German Empire,
- Science Fiction
- Remembrance of Earth's Past: The Three-Body Trilogy,
- The Left Hand of Darkness,
- The Dispossessed,
- The Sparrow,
- The Player of Games,
- Starship Troopers,
- Red Rising Saga,
- A Canticle for Leibowitz,
- The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas,
- Fantasy
- The Kingkiller Chronicle,
- The Witcher Series,
- The Phantom Tollbooth,
- Narnia #5 - The Horse and His Boy,