books/to-read
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)