--- icon: material/book-open-outline tags: - Evergreen --- # 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.
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__Nguyễn, Việt Thanh__ - _The Sympathizer_ [:simple-goodreads:{ .goodreads }](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23168277-the-sympathizer "Goodreads") __Nguyễn, Việt Thanh__ - _The Committed (Sequel to The Sympathizer)_ [:simple-goodreads:{ .goodreads }](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/52260627-the-committed "Goodreads") ## 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 Mortal: 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_ ## Textbooks - [Hadley Wickham - R for Data Science](https://r4ds.hadley.nz/)