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  • The Human ConditionHannah Arendt

    As Archimedes said, “Give me a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it, and I shall move the world.”

  • Silent SpringRachel Carson
  • The Loneliness of Sonia and SunnyKiran Desai
  • Boom: Bubbles and the End of StagnationByrne Hobart and Tobias Huber

    The chapters on the Manhattan Project and the Apollo program are amazing.

  • The Harry Potter SeriesJ.K. Rowling

    As good as it was in elementary school. Not so good for my exam studying.

  • The Memory PoliceYōko Ogawa

    Unsatisfying ending.

  • American PrometheusKai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin

    The only time I’ve liked the movie better.

  • The NamesakeJhumpa Lahiri

    “You remind me of everything that followed.”

  • Stay TrueHua Hsu

    A privilege to read.

  • Nineteen Eighty-FourGeorge Orwell

    Mildly ashamed I didn’t read it earlier.

  • One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against ThisOmar El Akkad

    “It is a hallmark of failing societies, I’ve learned, this requirement that one always be in possession of a valid reason to exist.”

  • The Three-Body ProblemLiu Cixin

    So much physics.

  • The IdiotElif Batuman

    I loved it.

  • When Breath Becomes AirPaul Kalanithi

    Cried.

  • SiddharthaHerman Hesse

    I then began reading an extensive history of Buddhism.

  • Sapiens: A Brief History of HumankindYuval Noah Harari

    This should be a textbook in schools, I think.

  • Principles for Navigating Big Debt CrisesRay Dalio

    Spreadsheets in the 80s would have ripped.

  • Normal PeopleSally Rooney
  • The Bell JarSylvia Plath
  • The Handmaid’s TaleMargaret Atwood
  • Their Eyes Were Watching GodZora Neale Hurston
  • The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ckMark Manson

    Incredibly inspiring. I would do well to follow this more often.

  • Interpreter of MaladiesJhumpa Lahiri

    This is my favorite book of all time.