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I prefer to listen to the audiobook version when available. I've read/listened to the books listed here at least once. Frequent interested genres include: general nonfiction, history, crime, science, and mathematics.

Nguyễn, Việt Thanh - The Sympathizer

Nguyễn, Việt Thanh - The Committed (Sequel to The Sympathizer)

Art, Design & Writing

  • Heschong, Lisa - Thermal Delight in Architecture
  • Mars, Roman - The 99 Percent Invisible City: "A Field Guide to the Hidden World of Everyday Design"
  • Norman, Don - The Design of Everyday Things
  • Strunk, William - The Elements of Style

Biography, Autobiography & Memoir

  • Bùi, Thi - The Best We Could Do: An Illustrated Memoir
  • King, Stephen - On Writing
  • Obama, Barack - A Promised Land
  • Yamashita, Karen Tei - Letters to Memory

Business

  • Bogle, John C. - Stay the Course
  • Bogle, John C. - Little Book of Common Sense Investing
  • Graham, Benjamin - The Intelligent Investor
  • Graham, Benjamin - The Interpretation of Financial Statements
  • Zuckerman, Gregory - The Man Who Solved the Market: "How Jim Simons Launched the Quant Evolution"
  • Zweig, Jason - The Devil's Financial Diction

Comedy

  • Carlin, George - When Will Jesus Bring the Pork Chops?

Crime

  • Capote, Truman - In Cold Blood
  • Cullen, David - Columbine
  • Gentry, Curt and Bugliosi, Vincent - Helter Skelter
  • Grann, David - Killers of the Flower Moon
  • Guinn, Jeff - Road to Jones Town: "Jim Jones and the Peoples Temple"
  • Keefe, Patrick Radden - Empire of Pain: "The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty"
  • Keefe, Patrick Radden - Say Nothing: "A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland"
  • Keefe, Patrick Radden - The Snakehead: "An Epic Tale of the Chinatown Underworld and the American Dream"
  • Nelson, Maggie - The Red Parts: "Autobiography of a Trial"
  • Parry, Richard Lloyd - People Who Eat Darkness: "The True Story of a Young Woman Who Vanished from the Streets of Tokyo--and the Evil That Swallowed Her Up"

Essays

  • Grann, David - The Devil and Sherlock Holmes

Fiction

  • Cliche, Ernest - Ready Player One
  • Haddon, Mark - The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
  • Hamid, Moshin - Exit West
  • Johnson, Adam - The Orphan Master's Son
  • Lee, Chang-Rae - Native Speaker
  • Mahajan, Karan - The Association of Small Bombs
  • McBride, James - Deacon King Kong
  • McGuire, Ian - The North Water
  • O'Farrell, Maggie - Hamnet and Judtih
  • Otsuka, Julie - The Buddha in The Attic
  • Tarantino, Quentin - Once Upon a Time in Hollywood

Graphic Novels

  • Backderf, Derf - My Friend Dahmer (2012)
  • Backderf, Derf - Trashed (2015)
  • Bechdel, Alison - Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic (2006)
  • Campbell, Eddie - Alec: The Years Have Pants (2009)
  • Delisle, Guy - A User’s Guide to Neglectful Parenting (2013)
  • Delisle, Guy - Burma Chronicles (2008)
  • Delisle, Guy - Factory Summers (2021)
  • Delisle, Guy - Hostage (2017)
  • Delisle, Guy - Jerusalem: Chronicles from the Holy City (2012)
  • Delisle, Guy - Pyongyang: A Journey in North Korea (2005)
  • Derf Backderf - Kent State: Four Dead in Ohio (2020)
  • Eisner, Will - A Contract with God and Other Tenement Stories (2017)
  • Eisner, Will - A Contract with God (1978)
  • Guerse, Guy - Albert and the Others (2007)
  • Sacco, Joe - Footnotes in Gaza (2009)
  • Schechter, Harold & Powell, Eric - Did You Hear What Eddie Gein Done? (2021)
  • Spiegelman, Art - Maus: A Survivor's Tale (1986)
  • Windsor-Smith, Barry - Monsters (2021)

History

  • Applebaum, Anne - Gulag: A History
  • Chammah, Maurice - Let the Lord Sort Them: "The Rise and Fall of the Death Penalty"
  • Davis, Jack E. - The Gulf: "The Making of An American Sea"
  • Deyle, Steven - Carry Me Back: "The Domestic Slave Trade in American Life"
  • Dolnick, Edward - The Clockwork Universe: "Saac Newto, Royal Society, and the Birth of the Modern World"
  • FitzGerald, Frances - Fire in the Lake: "The Vietnamese and the Americans in Vietnam"
  • Golding, William - The Inheritors
  • Graeber, David - Debt: The First 5000 Years
  • Harari, Yuvai Noah - _Homo Deus (Sequal to Sapiens)"
  • Harari, Yuvai Noah - Sapiens
  • Johnson, Walter - Soul by Soul: "Life Inside the Antebellum Slave Market"
  • Keefe, Patrick Radden - Say Nothing: "A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland"
  • Kiernan, Ben - Việt Nam: "A History from Earliest Times to the Present"
  • Li, Tana - Nguyen Cochinchina: "Southern Vietnam in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries"
  • Logevall, Fredrik - Embers of War: "The Fall of An Empire and the Making of America's Vietnam"
  • Morris, Stephen J. - Why Vietnam Invaded Cambodia: "Political Culture and the Causes of War"
  • Rhodes, Richard - The Making of the Atomic Bomb
  • Tuchman, Barbara W. - The Guns of August
  • Wilkerson, Isabel - The Warmth of Other Suns: "The Epic Story of America's Great Migration"
  • Winegard, Timothy C. - The Mosquito: "A Human History of Our Deadliest Predator"

Poetry

  • Nguyễn, Du - Truyện Kiều / The Tale of Kiều (Billingual Ed. translated by Huynh Sanh Thong)
  • Tennyson, Alfred - Poems

Politics

  • Rhodes, Ben - The World as It Is
  • Sharpio, James S. - Shakespeare in a Divided America: "What His Plays Tell Us About Our Past and Future"

Philosophy

  • Becker, Ernest - The Denial of Death
  • Galloway, Scott - The Algebra of Happiness
  • MacMillan, Margaret - War: How Conflict Shaped Us
  • Taleb, Nassim Nicholas - Fooled by Randomness
  • Taleb, Nassim Nicholas - The Black Swan
  • Taleb, Nassim Nicholas - The Bed of Procrustes

Religion

  • Fry, Stephen - Mythos
  • Fry, Stephe - Heroes
  • Skilton, Andrew - A Concise History of Buddhism

Science, Economics & Mathematics

  • Ackerman, Jennifer - The Bird Way
  • Akerlof, George A. and Shiller, Robert J. - Animal Spirits: "How Human Psychology Drives the Economy, and Why It Matters for Global Capitalism"
  • Akerlof, George A. and Shiller, Robert J. - Phishing for Phools: "The Economy of Manipulation and Deception"
  • Gawande, Atul - _Being Morta_l: "Medicine and What Matters in the End"
  • Geithner, Timothy F. - Stress Test: "Reflections on Financial Cries"
  • Godfrey-Smith, Peter - Metazoa: "Animal Life and the Birth of the Mind"
  • Godfrey-Smith, Peter - Other Minds: "The Octopus, the Sea, and the Deep Origins of Consciousness"
  • Huff, Darrell - How to Lie with Statistics
  • Kahneman, Daniel - Thinking, Fast and Slow
  • Levitt, Steven and Dubner, Stephen - Freakonomics
  • Lewis, Michael - Boomerang: "Travels in the New Third World"
  • Lewis, Michael - Moneyball
  • Lewis, Michael - The Big Short
  • Lewis, Michael - The Fifth Risk
  • Lewis, Michael - The Premonition: "A Pandemic Story"
  • Marshall, Tim - Prioners of Geography: "Ten Maps That Explain Everything About the World"
  • Mukherjee, Siddhartha - The Emperor of All Maladies: "A Biography of Cancer"
  • Zucker, Caren and Donvan, John - In a Different Key: "The Story of Autism"

Short Stories

  • Butler, Robert Olen - A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain

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