Books To Read

Novels

• Everything Is Illuminated, Jonathan Foer
• The Gulag Archipelago, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
• The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon
• The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen
• The Magic Mountain, thomas mann
• Grapes of Wrath
• The Sympathizer by Viet Thanh Nguyen

Old Classics:

• The Plum in the Golden Vase
• Romance of the Three Kingdoms
• Dream of the Red Chamber

Science/Tech

• Engines of Creation
• The Society of Mind by Minsky
• Mind Children
• War in the Age of Intelligent Machines by Manuel De Landa
• Nonlinear Time Series Analysis, Holger Kantz Thomas Schreiber
• Field Notes on Science & Nature

Philosophy

• The Ethics of Ambiguity, Simone de Beauvoir
• She Came to Stay, Simone de Beauvoir
• The Second Sex, Simone de Beauvoir
• The Order of Things, Foucault
• Structuralism, Piaget
• Archaeology of Knowledge, Foucault
• The Origins of Totalitarianism, Hannah Arendt

History and Politics

• Origins of Totalitarianism by Arendt
• Swaraj, Gandhi
• Reflections on the Revolution in France by Edmund Burke
• The Art of Intelligence by Henry Crumpton (CIA history)
• The Conscience of a Conservative “by” Barry Goldwater

Chinese History:

• A Concise History of China, j.a.g. roberts
• Columbia Guide to Modern Chinese History, keith schoppa
• On China, kissinger

Other Non-Fiction

• Looking for a Ship, John McPhee (merchant marine)