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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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## Featured

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__Nguyễn, Việt Thanh__ - _The Sympathizer_ [:simple-goodreads:{ .foreground }](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23168277-the-sympathizer "Goodreads")

__Nguyễn, Việt Thanh__ - _The Committed (Sequel to The Sympathizer)_ [:simple-goodreads:{ .foreground }](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 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_

## Textbooks

- [Hadley Wickham - R for Data Science](https://r4ds.hadley.nz/)