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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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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

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
• Harari, Yuvai Noah - Sapiens
• Harari, Yuvai Noah - Homo Deus (Sequal to Sapiens)
• Golding, William - The Inheritors
• Graeber, David - Debt: The First 5000 Years
• 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 - Other Minds: The Octopus, the Sea, and the Deep Origins of Consciousness
• Godfrey-Smith, Peter - Metazoa: Animal Life and the Birth of the Mind
• 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