Reading List

Some of the books that I've read over the couple years

2021

1. Moby Dick, Herman Melville
2. The Varieties of Religious Experiences, William James
3. Rhinoceros, Eugene Ionesco
4. Metamorphoses, Ovid
5. Orientalism, Edward Said
6. At home, Bill Bryson
7. Intermediate Microeconomics: A Modern Approach, Hal Varian
8. Botany for Gardners, Brian Capon
9. The Joy Luck Club, Amy Tan
10. Ethics and the Military Profession, George Lucas and Rick Rubel
11. Barry Goldwater, Robert Goldberg
12. The American Language, H. L. Mencken
13. The Piano Lesson, August Wilson
14. The American Canon, Harold Bloom
15. African Dominion, Michael Gomez
16. The Golden Bough (Part 1), James Frazer
17. Tales from Shakespeare, Charles and Mary Lamb
18. What If, Randall Munroe
19. Go Tell It On the Mountain, James Baldwin

2020

1. The Story of Art, Ernst Gombrich
2. The Iliad, Homer
3. The Aeneid, Virgil
4. A History of Japan 1615-1867, George Sansom
5. Eichmann in Jerusalem, Hannah Ardent
6. Macroeconomics, George Mankiw
7. Africa: A Biography of the Continent, John Reader
8. Black Reconstruction in America 1860-1880, W.E.B. Du Bois
9. The History of Jazz, Ted Gioia
10. Grant, Ron Chernow
11. The Library of Greek Mythology, Apollodorus
12. Master Harold...and the boys, Athol Fugard
13. A Peace to End All Peace, David Fromkin
14. China: A History, John Keay
15. As I Lay Dying, William Faulkner
16. Darkness at Noon, Arthur Koestler
17. Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are dead, Tom Stoppard
18. Osman's Dream, Caroline Finkel
19. A Brief History the Late Ottoman Empire, M Sukru Hanioglu
20. Hegel in 90 Minutes, Paul Strathern
21. Empire of the Mind: A History of Iran, Michael Axworthy
22. The Social Contract, Jean-Jacques Rousseau