last updated January 19, 2024
I’m currently reading Septology by Jon Fosse and The Pilgrim’s Progress by John Bunyan.
Below is a list of books I’ve really enjoyed or that made an impact on me.
fiction
science fiction
- Book of the New Sun by Gene Wolfe
- Roadside Picnic by Arkady Strugatsky
- A Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter Miller
- Unsong by Scott Alexander
general fiction
- All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Remarque
- The Great Divorce by C.S. Lewis
- Diaspora by Greg Egan
- Laurus by Eugene Vodolazkin
- Days of Abandonment by Elena Ferrante
- Brideshead Revisted by Evelyn Waugh
nonfiction
- A Distant Mirror: A Calamitous 14th Century by Barbara Tuchman
- A Concise History of the Catholic Church by Thomas Bokenkotter
- Bach: Music in the Castle of Heaven by John Eliot Gardner
philosophy
- Anarchy, State and Utopia by Robert Nozick
- Strangers Drowning by Larissa MacFarquhuar
- Reasons and Persons by Derek Parfit
- Animal Liberation by Peter Singer (1975)
- Confessions by St Augustine
economics/finance
- Big Ideas in Macroeconomics by Karthik Artheya
- The Worldly Philosophers by Robert Heilbronner
- Development as Freedom by Amartya Sen
- Slouching Towards Utopia: An Economic History of the 20th Century by Brad deLong
- Expected Returns by Antti Ilmanen
- Secrets of the Temple by William Greider
cookbooks
- Xi’an Famous Foods
- The Food of Sichaun
- Flour Water Salt Yeast
- Bras: A Taste of Aubrac
- Bien Cuit
- Jerusalem
- Plenty
- The Nordic Baking Book
- Dishoom