Reading List

I’ve been inspired by the recent trend of people posting their reading lists so I’m joining in on the fun. The plan is to read (at least) one book a month and keep that going as long as I can.

Note: This is a no research paper zone, just leisure reading :)

Currently Reading

• The Apollo Murders, Chris Hadfield
• On a Night of a Thousand Stars, Andrea Yaryura Clark

The Backlog

• When I’m Gone, Look For Me in the East, Quan Barry
• The Cloud Revolution, Mark P. Mills
• The Power Law, Sebastian Mallaby
• River of the Gods, Candice Millard
• They Thought They Were Free, Milton Mayer
• The Gene: An Intimate History, Siddhartha Mukherjee
• The Emperor of All Maladies, Siddhartha Mukherjee
• The Song of the Cell, Siddhartha Mukherjee
• You Can’t Be Neutral on a Moving Train, Howard Zinn
• The Candy House, Jennifer Egan
• The Ministry for the Future, Kim Stanley Robinson
• Youthquake: Why African Demography Should Matter to the World, Edward Paice
• The Knowledge Machine: How Irrationality Created Modern Science, Michael Strevens
• Status: Why is it Everywhere? Why Does it Matter?, Cecilia Ridgeway
• The Three-Body Problem, Cixin Liu
• The Sun Does Shine, Anthony Ray Hinton
• Ghost Season, Fatin Abbas
• The Fractalist: Memoir of a Scientific Maverick, Benoit Mandelbrot
• The Covenant of Water, Abraham Verghese
• Remarkably Bright Creatures, Shelby Van Pelt
• Yellowface, R.F. Kuang
• River Spirit, Leila Aboulela
• The Starless Sea, Erin Morgenstern
• Educated, Tara Westover
• 1Q84, Haruki Murakami
• Normal Accidents, Charles Perrow
• The Answer Is … : Reflections on My Life, Alex Trebek
• The Spy Who Came in from the Cold, John le Carré
• Under a White Sky: The Nature of the Future, Elizabeth Kolbert
• The New Climate War: The Fight to Take Back Our Planet, Michael Mann
• Global Warming: The Complete Briefing, John Houghton
• Parable of the Sower, Kim Stanley
• The Code Breaker, Walter Isaacson
• The Premonition, Michael Lewis
• Wind, Sand and Stars, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
• The Overstory, Richard Powers
• Due Diligence: An Impertinent Inquiry Into Microfinance, David Roodman
• The Precipice: Existential Risk and the Future of Humanity, Toby Ord
• What We Owe the Future, Will MacAskill (coming in 2022?)
• Fuzz: When Nature Breaks the Law, Mary Roach
• Rationality: What It Is, Why It Seems Scarce, Why It Matters, Steven Pinker
• The Loneliest Americans, Jay Caspian Kang
• Scarcity: Why Having Too Little Means So Much, Eldar Shafir & Sendhil Mullainathan
• Humankind: A Hopeful History, Rutger Bregman
• Who We Are and How We Got Here, David Reich
• The WEIRDest People in the World, Joseph Henrich
• Walking the Bowl, Chris Lockhard & Daniel Mulilo Chama
• The Anatomy of a Moment, Javier Cercas
• Stolen Focus, Johann Hari
• The Anarchy: The Relentless Rise of the East India Company, William Dalrymple
• The Rise and Decline of Nations: Economic Growth, Stagflation, and Social Rigidities, Mancur Olson
• The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder, David Grann

The Timeline

• I Contain Multitudes, Ed Yong (March 2023)
• Babel, or the Necessity of Violence, R.F. Kuang (March 2023)
• Swimming Back to Trout River, Linda Rui Feng (February 2023)
• The Midnight Library, Matt Haig (December 2022)
• Legends & Lattes, Travis Baldree (December 2022)
• Happy City: Transforming Our Lives Through Urban Design, Charles Montgomery (December 2022)
• The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida, Shehan Karunatilaka (December 2022)
• The Glass Hotel, Emily St. John Mandel (November 2022)
• Haven, Emma Donoghue (November 2022)
• The Old Woman with the Knife, Gu Byeong-Mo (October 2022)
• Kaikeyi, Vaishnavi Patel (July 2022)
• Empire of Pain, Patrick Radden Keefe (June 2022)
• Sea of Tranquility, Emily St. John Mandel (June 2022)
• The Entrepreneurial State, Mariana Mazzucato (June 2022)
• The Wonder, Emma Donoghue (May 2022)
• Tokyo Vice, Jake Adelstein (May 2022)
• Shape: The Hidden Geometry of Information, Biology, Strategy, Democracy, and Everything Else, Jordan Ellenberg (April 2022)
• Super Pumped: The Battle for Uber, Mike Isaac (March 2022)
• When We Cease to Understand the World, Benjamin Labatut (February 2022)
• Utopia for Realists, Rutger Bregman (January 2022)
• Plutocrats, Chrystia Freeland (January 2022)
• How to Pronounce Knife, Souvankham Thammavongsa (January 2022)
• Numbers Don’t Lie: 71 Things You Need to Know About the World, Vaclav Smil (December 2021)
• What To Expect When You’re Expecting Robots: The Future of Human-Robot Collaboration, Julie Shah & Laura Major (November 2021)
• Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup, John Carreyrou (October 2021)
• And Then There Were None, Agatha Christie (September 2021)
• How to Avoid a Climate Disaster, Bill Gates (August 2021)
• A Crack in Creation: Gene Editing and the Unthinkable Power to Control Evolution, Jennifer Doudna & Samuel H. Sternberg (July 2021)
• Astrophysics for People in a Hurry, Neil deGrasse Tyson (June 2021)
• The Universe in a Single Atom, The Dalai Lama (May 2021)
• Fierce Kingdom, Gin Phillips (April 2021)
• Billion Dollar Whale, Tom Wright & Bradley Hope (March 2021)
• A Promised Land, Barack Obama (February 2021)
• The Book of Why: The New Science of Cause and Effect, Judea Pearl & Dana Mackenzie (January 2021)
• Causal Inference, Miguel A. Hernán & James M. Robins (January 2021)
• The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming, David Wallace-Wells (November 2020)
• The Wanderers, Meg Howrey (August 2020)
• The Night Circus, Erin Morgenstern
• All The Light We Cannot See, Anthony Doerr
• Station Eleven, Emily St. John Mandel
• The Martian, Andy Weir