Bookshelf

I enjoy reading. Below is an arbitrary subset of books I recommend. Those that I felt were particularly great are marked with a ⭐ and those read as a child with a 🍼.

A full list of books I have read can be found on Goodreads.

Biography

• The Fish That Ate the Whale Rich Cohen
• ⭐ American Prometheus: Robert Oppenheimer Kai Bird
• An Unfinished Life: JFK Robert Dallek
• Steve Jobs Walter Isaacson
• ⭐ Napoleon: A Life Andrew Roberts
• ⭐ Deng Xiaopeng and the Transformation of China Ezra Vogel
• Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman! Richard Feynman
• 🍼 Boy and Going Solo Roald Dahl

History & Politics

• An Era of Darkness: The British Empire in India Shashi Tharoor
• Patton, Montgomery, Rommel: Masters of War Terry Brighton
• ⭐ The End of History and the Last Man Francis Fukuyama
• Secondhand Time: The Last of the Soviets Svetlana Alexievich
• The Problem of China Bertrand Russell
• The Last Emperor of Mexico Edward Shawcross
• The Blood Telegram: Nixon, Kissinger, and a Forgotten Genocide Gary Bass
• The Origins of Political Order Francis Fukuyama
• China & Japan: Facing History Ezra Vogel
• Blood and Iron: The Rise and Fall of the German Empire Katja Hoyer

Science Fiction

• ⭐ Remembrance of Earth's Past: The Three-Body Trilogy Liu Cixin
• The Left Hand of Darkness Ursula Le Guin
• ⭐ The Dispossessed Ursula Le Guin
• The Sparrow Mary Doria Russell
• ⭐ The Player of Games Iain Banks
• ⭐ Starship Troopers Robert Heinlein
• Red Rising Saga Pierce Brown
• The Lathe of Heaven Ursula Le Guin
• A Canticle for Leibowitz Walter Miller Jr.
• The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas Ursula Le Guin

Fantasy

• ⭐ The Kingkiller Chronicle Trilogy Patrick Rothfuss
• ⭐ The Witcher Series Andrzej Sapkowski
• 🍼 The Phantom TollboothNorton Juster
• 🍼 Narnia #5 - The Horse and His BoyC.S. Lewis
• 🍼 Narnia #6 - The Magician's NephewC.S. Lewis

Asian Literature

• ⭐ Runaway Horses Yukio Mishima
• Norwegian Wood Haruki Murakami
• Men Without Women Haruki Murakami
• ⭐ Ramayanam Valmiki
• The Complete Stories of Lu Xun Lu Xun
• Beauty and Sadness Yasunari Kawabata

Western Literature

• Soumission Michel Houellebecq
• ⭐ The Tartar Steppe Dino Buzzati
• The Unbearable Lightness of Being Milan Kundera
• The Great Gatsby F. Scott Fitzgerald
• ⭐ A Gentleman in Moscow Amor Towles
• The Master and Margarita Mikhail Bulgakov
• Siddhartha Hermann Hesse
• Candide Voltaire
• The Stranger Albert Camus

Textbook

• Fundamentals of Aerodynamics John D. Anderson Jr.
• Financial Calculus: An Introduction to Derivative Pricing Martin Baxter, Andrew Rennie
• ⭐ An Introduction to the Mathematics of Financial Derivatives Salih N. Neftci
• Game Theory: An Introduction Steven Tadelis
• The Little Schemer Daniel P. Friedman, Matthias Felleisen

Miscellany

• The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine Michael Lewis
• Liar's Poker Michael Lewis
• Sports Gene David Epstein
• Make Something Wonderful Steve Jobs