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Reading
My reading habits are sinusoidal, but I’m working at making them more regular.
I enjoy books that help me think in new perspectives. I have a particular affinity for books that are emotionally devastating.
I don’t think I have a favorite book. I regularly read the NYT, WSJ, Brookings, AER, AER: Insights, and TED Ideas. I also enjoy Psyche and Aeon.
2022
- (April; Present) Active Liberty, Stephen Breyer
- (April; Present) Pure Colour, Sheila Heti
- (April; Present) Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead, Olga Tokarczuk
- (April) War Dances, Sherman Alexie
- (April) Asymmetry, Lisa Halliday
- (April; Present) Reel Bay, Jana Larson
- (March) On Living, Kerry Egan
- (March) The Plot, Jean Hanff Korelitz
- (March) And Now You Can Go, Vendela Vida
- (March) Project Hail Mary, Andy Weir
- (March) A Little Life, Hanya Yanagihara (Re-read)
- (February; Present) The Art of Doing Science and Engineering, Richard Hamming
- (February) Infomocracy, Malka Older (Re-read)
- (January) Autonomous, Annalee Newitz
- (January) The Road, Cormac McCarthy (Re-read)
2021
- (December) Lost And Wanted, Nell Freudenberger
- (December) One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, Ken Kesey (courtesy to Chaytan for the recommendation)
- (December; Present) Walden, Henry David Thoreau (courtesy to Chaytan for the recommendation)
- (December) The Great Alone, Kristin Hannah
- (December) A Single Man, Christopher Isherwood (Re-read)
- (December) Cold Mountain, Charles Frazier
- (November) Melisande! What are dreams?, Hillel Halkin (courtesy to Stefan for the recommendation and loan)
- (August) When Breath Becomes Air, Paul Kalanithi
- (August) Carry On, Rainbow Rowell
- (August) A Single Man, Christopher Isherwood
- (August; Paused) The Story of a Brief Marriage, Anuk Arudpragasam
- (August; Paused) Where Reasons End, Yiyun Li
- (July) Imagine Me Gone, Adam Haslett
- (July) Red Pill, Hari Kunzru
- (July) Being Mortal, Atul Gawande
- (July; Paused) The Age of Turbulence, Alan Greenspan
- (July; Paused) The Art of Doing Science and Engineering, Richard W. Hamming
- (July) A Little Life, Hanya Yanagihara
- (June) Pachinko, Min Jin Lee
2020
- (September; Paused) Powerful: Building a Culture of Freedom and Responsibility, Patty McCord
- (August) The Gift of Therapy, Irvin Yalom, MD
- (August; Paused) Being Mortal, Atul Gawande
- (July; Paused) A Little Life, Hanya Yanagihara
- (July; Paused) Everything I Never Told You, Celeste Ng
- (June) Normal People, Sally Rooney
- (June) Little Fires Everywhere, Celeste Ng
- (June) The Road, Cormac McCarthy
- (June) Becoming, Michelle Obama
- (Jan) The Friend, Sigrid Núñez
2019
- (Dec) Find Me, André Aciman
- (Nov) Call Me By Your Name, André Aciman
- (Nov) When Breath Becomes Air, Paul Kalanathi
- (Oct) Give and Take, Adam Grant
- (Aug) Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness, Susannah Cahalan
- (Apr) A Mind Unraveled, Kurt Eichenwald
- (Mar) Bad Blood, John Carreyrou
To-Read
- The books of Jacob (Jakub)
- Sea of Tranquility
- The Trouble with Happiness: And Other Stories
- Letters to a Young Poet, Rainer Maria Rilke
- Parable of the Sower (Chaytan)
- The other Wes Moore (Jackie)
- prodigal summer (Kohya)
- Cooked (Kohya)
- The Sellout (Kohya)
- red white and royal blue (Shumaila)
- The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon (Josh Raines)
- the lily of the field and the bird of the air (Lamar)
- Scarcity: Why Having Too Little Means So Much (Mike Schwartz)
- Austin Kleon books (https://austinkleon.com/books/)
- Shockwave Rider (Simson Garfinkel)
- Did You Ever Have a Family
- The Kite Runner; A Thousand Splendid Suns; And the Mountains Echoed (Michelle)
- Citation (Nathan W)
- Pessoa: A Biography (NYT)
- Beggars in Spain (Zoe)
For Policy Statements
- This Is How They Tell Me the World Ends: The Cyberweapons Arms Race (Jeanna)
- The Age of Surveillance Capitalism (Jeanna)
- Weapons of Math Destruction (Jeanna)
- Coded Bias (Jeanna, https://lin-web.clarkson.edu/~jmatthew/films2021/)
Econ Research
- The Microsoft Antitrust Cases: Competition Policy for the Twenty-first Century, By Andrew I. Gavil and Harry First (Yuya)