Reading List
Some of the books that I've read over the couple years
2022
- The Masters and the Slaves, Gilberto Freyre
- The Last of the Mohicans, James Fenimore Cooper
- The Song of Achilles,Madeline Miller
- The Art of Doing Science and Engineering, Richard Hamming
- How Markets Fail: The Logic of Economic Calamities, John Cassidy
2021
- Moby Dick, Herman Melville
- The Varieties of Religious Experiences, William James
- Rhinoceros, Eugene Ionesco
- Metamorphoses, Ovid
- Orientalism, Edward Said
- At home, Bill Bryson
- Intermediate Microeconomics: A Modern Approach, Hal Varian
- Botany for Gardners, Brian Capon
- The Joy Luck Club, Amy Tan
- Ethics and the Military Profession, George Lucas and Rick Rubel
- Barry Goldwater, Robert Goldberg
- The American Language, H. L. Mencken
- The Piano Lesson, August Wilson
- The American Canon, Harold Bloom
- African Dominion, Michael Gomez
- The Golden Bough (Part 1), James Frazer
- Tales from Shakespeare, Charles and Mary Lamb
- What If, Randall Munroe
- Go Tell It On the Mountain, James Baldwin
- History of Opera, Stanley Sadie
- The Stores if F. Scott Fitzgerald Volume 5, F. Scott Fitzgerald
- Defeat into Victory, William Slim
2020
- The Story of Art, Ernst Gombrich
- The Iliad, Homer
- The Aeneid, Virgil
- A History of Japan 1615-1867, George Sansom
- Eichmann in Jerusalem, Hannah Ardent
- Macroeconomics, George Mankiw
- Africa: A Biography of the Continent, John Reader
- Black Reconstruction in America 1860-1880, W.E.B. Du Bois
- The History of Jazz, Ted Gioia
- Grant, Ron Chernow
- The Library of Greek Mythology, Apollodorus
- Master Harold...and the boys, Athol Fugard
- A Peace to End All Peace, David Fromkin
- China: A History, John Keay
- As I Lay Dying, William Faulkner
- Darkness at Noon, Arthur Koestler
- Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are dead, Tom Stoppard
- Osman's Dream, Caroline Finkel
- A Brief History the Late Ottoman Empire, M Sukru Hanioglu
- Hegel in 90 Minutes, Paul Strathern
- Empire of the Mind: A History of Iran, Michael Axworthy
- The Social Contract, Jean-Jacques Rousseau