Reading List
Books I particularly enjoyed are denoted with a *
2021
| Category |
Title |
Author |
| Nonfiction |
Think Again: The Power of Knowing What You Don’t Know |
Adam Grant |
| Memoir |
A Promised Land* |
Barack Obama |
| Business |
An Ugly Truth: Inside Facebook’s Battle for Domination* |
Sheera Frenkel, Cecilia Kang |
| Nonfiction |
How Will You Measure Your Life? |
Clayton Christenson |
| Nonfiction |
Designing Your Life |
Bill Burnett & Dave Evanson |
| Business |
The First 90 Days |
Michael Watkins |
2020
| Category |
Title |
Author |
| Biography |
Man’s Search for Meaning |
Viktor E. Frankl |
| Business |
Loonshots: How to Nurture the Crazy Ideas That Win Wars, Cure Diseases, and Transform Industries |
Safi Bahcall |
| Business |
The Ride of a Lifetime: Lessons Learned from 15 Years as CEO of the Walt Disney Company* |
Robert Iger |
| Grand Strategy |
The New Rules of War: Victory in the Age of Durable Disorder |
Sean McFate |
| Literary Nonfiction |
Educated* |
Tara Westover |
| Literary Nonfiction |
Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion* |
Jia Tolentino |
| Literary Nonfiction |
Uncanny Valley* |
Anna Wiener |
| Memoir |
Shoe Dog |
Phil Knight |
| Nonfiction |
Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup* |
John Carreyrou |
| Politics |
Revolution Française: Emmanuel Macron and the Quest to Reinvent a Nation |
Sophie Pedder |
| Politics |
The Room Where It Happened |
John Bolton |
| Politics |
Why We Are Polarized* |
Ezra Klein |
| Public Policy |
Jump-Starting America: How Breakthrough Science Can Revive Economic Growth and the American Dream |
Simon Johnson |
2019
| Category |
Title |
Author |
| Biography |
When Breath Becomes Air |
Paul Kalanithi |
| Business |
The CEO Next Door |
Elena L. Botelho, Kim R. Powell, Tahl Raz |
| Fiction |
To Live / 活着* |
余华 |
| Fiction |
China in Ten Words* |
余华 |
| History |
Forgotten Ally: China’s World War II, 1937–1945 |
Rana Mitter |
| Nonfiction |
Factfulness |
Hans Rosling |
| Politics |
Destined for War: Can America and China Escape the Thucydides Trap? |
Graham Allison |
| Politics |
The Great Delusion: Liberal Dreams and International Realities* |
John J. Mearsheimer |
| Politics |
Identity: The Demand for Dignity and the Politics of Resentment |
Francis Fukuyama |
| Science |
The Simulation Hypothesis* |
Rizwan Virk |
| Skills |
The Minto Pyramid Principle |
Barbara Minto |
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