Books¶
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.
Featured¶
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