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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

• (August) The Idiot, Elif Batuman
• (July) Call Me By Your Name, Andre Aciman (Re-read)
• (July; Present) I’ll Steal You Away, Niccolo Ammaniti
• (July) Never Let Me Go, Kazuo Ishiguro
• (June) Finistère, Fritz Peters
• (June) Faster Higher Farther, Jack Ewing
• (May) On Living, Kerry Egan
• (May) Flowers for Algernon, Daniel Keyes (Re-read)
• (April; Present) Active Liberty, Stephen Breyer
• (April; Present) Pure Colour, Sheila Heti
• (April) 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

• Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World
• Kafka on the Shore
• The Idiot, Either/Or
• Tuesdays wih Morrie (Stefan)
• 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)