Kevin Anderson

2023 in Reading

2023-12-23T00:00:00+00:00

I had two goals with my reading this year: more fiction and less business.

I read too many business books in 2022. I say “too many” because even many of the good ones could have been a long blog post. The time investment is generally not a favorable one for me, and as a result you’ll see few of them recommended here. I wish I had read more fiction, but overall I think this is a better split than last year. I was more selective in what I finished, with only 8.7% being stinkers vs 17% in 2022.

I was really happy a friend inspired me to read more philosophy. Time spent thinking about deep questions brings me a kind of peaceful happiness. If you’re curious but not sure what to start with, there are some great YouTube channels on philosophy such as Overthink Podcast</a> or you can’t go wrong with the Simon Blackburn book below.

Another friend joked after last year’s list that I should read 100 books. I didn’t think this was possible until I realized that I spend an incredible amount of time on trains, usually about 15 hours per week. Due to that unusual circumstance (which is temporary) I was able to read 138. I’ll deliberately be reading less in 2024 to focus on other goals, but it was a fun experiment to see what my “max” is. Hopefully you don’t spend as much time commuting, so here’s what I’d recommend:

Must Reads, Non-Fiction</h2> West With the Night, Beryl Markham</h3>

To see ten thousand animals untamed and not branded with the symbols of human commerce is like scaling an unconquered mountain for the first time, or like finding a forest without roads or footpaths, or the blemish of an axe. You know then what you had always been told—that the world once lived and grew without adding machines and newsprint and brick-walled streets and the tyranny of clocks. </blockquote>
Tekniska museet, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons</a>

I could ask, ‘Why risk it?’ as I have been asked since, and I could answer, ‘Each to his element.’ By his nature a sailor must sail, by his nature a flyer must fly. I could compute that I had flown a quarter of a million miles; and I could foresee that, so long as I had a plane and the sky was there, I should go on flying more miles.
There was nothing extraordinary in this. I had learned a craft and had worked hard learning it. My hands had been taught to seek the controls of a plane. Usage had taught them. They were at ease clinging to a stick, as a cobbler’s fingers are in repose grasping an awl. No human pursuit achieves dignity until it can be called work, and when you can experience a physical loneliness for the tools of your trade, you see that the other things—the experiments, the irrelevant vocations, the vanities you used to hold—were false to you. </blockquote>
Beryl Markham was the first person to fly solo, non-stop across the Atlantic from Britain to the United States. Before this she spent time as a bush pilot and racehorse trainer in Kenya where she grew up. On top of all of this she was an excellent writer, which is fortunate for all of us because she was able to describe her adventurous life in such a captivating way.
Deserts on the March, Paul Bigelow Sears</h3>
It is crazy to me that this book was written in 1935, and also tragic that we knew about the increasing danger of deforestation and desertification so long ago and have done surprisingly little to slow it. One of the most surprising things about becoming a pilot is that you develop an entirely different view of the world from up there. Most of the earth is actually kind of a wasteland, and humanity inhabits the coasts and tiny cracks of water which cut through the continents. Irrigation has expanded this (see: the American West) but as Sears ominously notes: no irrigated society has ever avoided collapse.
Think: A compelling Introduction to Philosophy, Simon Blackburn</h3>
Probably the best intro to philosophy I’ve found. A Quick summary of most of the major themes and questions. I read this because I had a goal of reading more philosophy this year and I had no idea where to begin. If you’re trying to study more philosophy yourself, I’d say pick this up and select 2-3 themes you’re most curious about and just google the canonical works. This is how we ended up with…
The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt, Albert Camus</h3>
The Myth of Sisyphus, Albert Camus</h3>
…two essays by Camus on the must read list. Absurdism is fascinating to me. If the universe is irrational and meaningless, what should we do? how should we live? Camus argues that we should revolt by embracing all our unpredictable and unexplainable world has to offer.

What counts is not the best living but the most living. </blockquote>
Picture This: How Pictures Work, Molly Bang</h3>
The only book about composition that I’ve ever enjoyed, and I think it’s worth reading even if you are not a visual artist. The author teaches you composition as a storytelling tool by…telling a story. Along the way you also learn why the human brain responds like it does to different visual cues and colors.
Must Reads, Fiction</h2>
The Brothers Karamazov</h3>
Does God exist? Is this the greatest novel ever written? It’s a top 3 for me. It has everything: mystery, murder, money, matrimony and monks. Dad and son fall in love with the same woman— murder, hilarity and a debate over the meaning of an increasingly secular society in a world where God exists…or doesn’t depending on the brother, ensue. I’d recommend the Pevear and Volokhonsky translation (McDuff is brutal).
The Metamorphosis</h3>
Follow along with Gregor Samsa as he is transformed into a “monstrous vermin” and struggles to keep the increasingly absurd world around him from falling apart. This will probably be the craziest book you read this year. Debate continues over what the allegoric meaning of the story is, Vladimir Nabokov believed it had none. Given Kafka’s personal life, you could certainly draw parallels between himself and Samsa’s struggles with their respective societies.
Klara and the Sun</h3>
This is a story set in the future where children have sentient robot friends which explores what it means to love and be human. Is love a strictly human experience? This is put to the test when Klara concludes that what makes someone human is the love they inspire in other people. If this is all humanity is, then can the object of that love be replaced by something else if others don’t notice the change?
The Power and the Glory</h3>
I also read The Lawless Roads, which is the account of the real journey to Mexico which inspired Graham Greene to write this novel. I would also recommend that, if you like Mexican history and have the time.
The Mexican Constitution of 1917 included a provision known as the Calles Law which strictly mandated separation of church and state, and to that end were enacted severe restrictions on the Catholic church. Priests were required to register with the government and could not wear their robes in public; many churches, monasteries, convents and religious schools were closed. The restrictions eventually caused an uprising by Catholic peasants known as the Cristero War.
The Power and the Glory follows a “whiskey priest” who is on the run from the government, namely the Lieutenant whose life is solely devoted to capturing and executing said priest. Along the way, the priest is forced to wrestle with a past filled with adultery and drinking while traversing a barren landscape where time, memory and home have all ceased to exist. You will be tossed from disgust to sympathy for the priest as he explores his own soul’s fate.
Five Stars, but not must-read</h3> The Sun Also Rises, Ernest Hemingway1</a>
Shape Up: Stop Running in Circles and Ship Work that Matters, Ryan Singer
It Doesn’t Have to Be Crazy at Work, Jason Fried
The Killing Zone, Paul Craig2</a>
Stick and Rudder: An Explanation of the Art of Flying, Wolfgang Langewiesche 3</a>
How to Read Literature Like a Professor, Thomas Foster
Zorba the Greek, Nikos Kazantzakis
The Gulag Archipelago 1918-1956: An Experiment in Literary Investigation, Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn
Principles: Life and Work, Ray Dalio
Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty, Patrick Radden Keefe
The Nix: A novel, Nathan Hill
Helgoland: The World of Quantum Theory, Carlo Rovelli
Cadillac Desert: The American West and Its Disappearing Water, Revised Edition, Marc Reisner
The Lawless Roads, Graham Greene
Denial: Why Business Leaders Fail to Look Facts in the Face–and What to Do About It, Richard S. Tedlow
The Great Reversal: How America Gave Up on Free Markets, Thomas Philippon
Four Stars</h3>
How Civil Wars Start, and How to Stop Them, Barbara Walter
The Science of Storytelling, Will Storr
Wind, Sand and Stars, Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Can’t Hurt Me, David Goggins
All the Shah’s Men: An American Coup and the Roots of Middle East Terror, Stephen Kinzer
Surfaces and Essences: Analogy as the Fuel and Fire of Thinking, Douglas Hofstadter
Looking Backward, Edward Bellamy
Leviathan Wakes, James Corey
Either/Or, Soren Kierkegaard
The Sickness Unto Death, Soren Kierkegaard
Into Thin Air, Jon Krakauer
Great Expectations, Charles Dickens
Siddartha, Herman Hesse
The Fall (La chute), Albert Camus
Fear and Trembling, Soren Kierkegaard
Dust (Silo #3), Hugh Howey
In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex, Nathaniel Philbrick
Shift (Silo #2), Hugh Howey
The Problems of Philosophy, Bertrand Russel
Letters on Ethics, Seneca
The Wright Brothers, David McCollugh
Wool Omnibus (Silo #1), Hugh Howey
Poverty, by America, Matthew Desmond
Dune, Frank Herbert
The Flowers of Evil, Charles Baudelaire
Tastes Like War: A Memoir, Margaret Cho
Know My Name, Chanel Miller
To Start a War: How the Bush Administration Took America Into Iraq, Robert Draper
The Fabric of the Cosmos: Space, Time, and the Texture of Reality, Brian Greene
No Rules Rules: Netflix and the Culture of Reinvention, Reed Hastings, Erin Meyer
The Light of Days: The Untold Story of Women Resistance Fighters in Hitler’s Ghettos, Judy Batalion
She Has Her Mother’s Laugh: The Powers, Perversions, and Potential of Heredity, Carl Zimmer
The Lessons of History, Will Durant, Ariel Durant
Madhouse at the End of the Earth, Julian Sancton
This is Your Mind on Plants, Michael Pollan
Disrupted: My Misadventure in the Startup Bubble, Dan Lyons
Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism, Amanda Montell
The Origins Of Totalitarianism, Hannah Arendt, Anne Applebaum
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich: A Novel, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
The Bad Guys Won: A Season of Brawling, Boozing, Bimbo Chasing, and Championship Baseball, Jeff Pearlman
Blitzed: Drugs in the Third Reich, Norman Ohler
Something Deeply Hidden: Quantum Worlds and the Emergence of Spacetime, Sean Carroll
The Man Who Loved Only Numbers, Paul Hoffman
Rabbit, Run, John Updike
The Botany of Desire: A Plant’s-Eye View of the World, Michael Pollan
How to Change Your Mind: What the New Science of Psychedelics Teaches Us About Consciousness, Dying, Addiction, Depression, and Transcendence, Michael Pollan
Love in the Time of Cholera, Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The Jungle Grows Back: America and Our Imperiled World, Robert Kagan
The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion, Jonathan Haidt
The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power, Shoshana Zubof
The Storm Is Here: An American Crucible, Luke Mogelson
When McKinsey Comes to Town: The Hidden Influence of the World’s Most Powerful Consulting Firm, Walt Bogdanic
Digital Minimalism: Choosing a Focused Life in a Noisy World, Cal Newport
The Road to Unfreedom: Russia, Europe, America, Timothy Snyder
Competing Against Luck: The Story of Innovation and Customer Choice, Clayton Christensen
You’re Not Listening, Kate Murphy
Three Stars</h3>
The Gift of Death & Literature in Secret, Jacques Derrida
More Ketchup Than Salsa: Confessions of a Tenerife Barman, Joe Cawley
Escape from Camp 14: One Man’s Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West, Blaine Harden
The Untethered Soul: The Journey Beyond Yourself, Michael Singer
Raven Rock: The Story of the U.S. Government’s Secret Plan to Save Itself–While the Rest of Us Die, Garrett Graff
Never Let Me Go, Kazuo Ishiguro
Homage to Catalonia, George Orwell
American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer, Kai Bird, Martin Sherwin
Dune Messiah, Frank Herbert
Meditations, Marcus Aurelius
The Lucifer Effect: Understanding How Good People Turn Evil, Philip Zumbardo
Introducing Python: Modern Computing in Simple Packages, Bill Lubanovic
Your Inner Fish: A Journey Into the 3.5 Billion-Year History of the Human Body, Neil Shubin
River of the Gods: Genius, Courage and Betrayal in the Search for the Source of the Nile, Candice Millard
Clanlands: Whisky, Warfare, and a Scottish Adventure Like No Other, Same Heughan, Graham McTavish
Life’s Edge: The Search For What it Means to Be Alive, Carl Zimmer
What We Owe The Future, William MacAskill
The Blind Side, Michal Lewis
The Bomber Mafia, Malcom Gladwell
How To Avoid a Climate Disaster: The Solutions We Have and the Breakthroughs We Need , Bill Gates
Walden Two, B. F. Skinner
Bright Lights, Big City, Jay McInerney
Staff Engineer: Leadership beyond the management track, Will Larson, Tanya Reilly
The Order of Time, Carlo Rovelli
We Have No Idea: A Guide to the Unknown Universe, J. Cham
How to Astronaut: An Insider’s Guide to Leaving Planet Earth, Terry Virts
Destiny of the Republic: A Tale of Madness, Medicine and the Murder of a President, Candice Millard
Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis, J.D. Vance
Bangkok Babylon: The Real-Life Exploits of Bangkok’s Legendary Expatriates are often Stranger than Fiction, Jerry Hopkins
Look Homeward, Angel: A Story of the Buried Life, Thomas Wolfe
Excellent Sheep: The Miseducation of the American Elite and the Way to a Meaningful Life, William Deresiewicz
The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers, Ben Horowitz
Skin in the Game: Hidden Asymmetries in Daily Life, Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Masters of Scale: Surprising Truths from the World’s Most Successful Entrepreneurs, Reid Hoffman
The Insect Crisis: The Fall of the Tiny Empires That Run the World, Oliver Milman
Of Paradise and Power: America and Europe in the New World Order, Robert Kagan
Contagious: Why Things Catch On, Jonah Berger
An Ugly Truth: Inside Facebook’s Battle for Domination, Sheera Frenkel
Where Good Ideas Come From: The Natural History of Innovation, Steven Johnson
Stalling for Time: My Life as an FBI Hostage Negotiator, Gary Noesner
The Now Habit: A Strategic Program for Overcoming Procrastination and Enjoying Guilt-Free Play, Neil Fiore
The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business, Charles Duhigg
Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy, Cath O’Neil
A Mind For Numbers: How to Excel at Math and Science (Even If You Flunked Algebra), Barbara Oakley
Stinkers</h3>
Love and Math: The Heart of Hidden Reality, Edward Frenkel
Built to Last: Successful Habits of Visionary Companies, Jim Collins
Vanderbilt: The Rise and Fall of an American Dynasty, Anderson Cooper
Scaling Up Excellence: Getting to More Without Settling for Less, Robert I. Sutton, Hayagreeva Rao
The Way of All Flesh, Samuel Butler
Win Bigly: Persuasion in a World Where Facts Don’t Matter, Scott Adams
Building a StoryBrand: Clarify Your Message So Customers Will Listen, Donald Miller
Microserfs, Douglas Coupland
The Seven Basic Plots: Why We Tell Stories, Christopher Booker
Anarchy, State, and Utopia, Robert Nozick
What the hell?</h4>
Ca$hvertising: How to Use More Than 100 Secrets of Ad-Agency Psychology to Make BIG MONEY Selling Anything to Anyone, Drew Whitman
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technically a must-read but I can’t recommend it every year I read it
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must read, if you’re into aviation
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must read, if you’re a pilot
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2022 in Reading

2022-12-30T00:00:00+00:00

I set a goal each year to read at least 50 books, and people ask me for recommendations from time to time so I figured this year I’d start a tradition of making a formal list. This year I finished 54, of which 9 were duds. This means only 83% of the books I finished were actually worth the time, which is a crummy rate but I’ve always found it difficult to drop a book without completing it. Hopefully you find something interesting here, and if you do please tell me about it! I’m also open to recommendations (many of these were), so please pass along any you have. On to the books.
There are four tiers here:

Must Read</li>
Highly Recommended (read if you have time)</li>
Recommended (read if you have time and are interested in the subject)</li>
Not Recommended (I gained nothing from reading this, but not necessarily a terrible book)</li> </ol>
Must Read</h3>
Godel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid, Douglas Hofstadter</h4>
This was the best book I read this year, and probably one of the top 5 most thought provoking books I’ve ever read. This book attempts to explain how we can map firing neurons, to ideas and further to consciousness. It’s almost unbelievable that this book was published in 1979, when we had only just discovered the structure of DNA. Interwoven with the mind-bending subject matter is a dialog between a lively cast of characters which serves as an allegory to the themes of the book. This book changed how I think about thinking.
The Tiger: A True Story of Vengeance and Survival, John Valliant</h4>
If you are looking to learn about Amur Tigers, the history of the Russian people in the far east, life in the wilderness and the power of the human spirit in one book, here you go. I always knew tigers and other large cats were dangerous, but this book opened my eyes to the myriad ways tigers specifically have evolved to be one of the greatest predators to inhabit the Earth. I particularly enjoyed learning about the thought process of wilderness animals as they interpret the world around them.
The Big Picture: On the Origins of Life, Meaning, and the Universe Itself, Sean Carroll</h4>
If you are in my age cohort (30s at the time of writing) or older, most of the physics you learned about the beginning of the universe in high school and/or undergrad is now outdated. The field has had some incredible discoveries in the past decade and this book does a fantastic job of tying it all together and relating it back to what you may have learned back in the dark ages when we didn’t even have a Large Hadron Collider.
Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men, Caroline Criado Perez</h4>
This is a very thorough look into the harm which has been caused to women from simply not collecting enough data about how they live, work and interact with the world. Particularly notable and infuriating to me is the dearth of research on how women specifically respond to different medical conditions and treatments. It’s incredibly sad to me that failure to collect data is shortening womens’ lives.
Red Famine: Stalin’s War on Ukraine, Anne Applebaum</h4>
I’ll be honest and admit I only picked up this book because when the war in Ukraine broke out, I realized that I had almost no historical context for it. This book lays out the sheer insanity and brutality of the Soviet system and how its objectives were carried out in Ukraine. If you’re curious why the war is so important and why the world cannot afford to give up on Ukraine, read this.
Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin, Timothy Snyder</h4>
If after reading Red Famine you still haven’t gotten your fill or 20th century brutality, this is a terrifying account of the eastern front of World War 2. Everyone has (hopefully) learned of the atrocities against European Jews during this time, but the amount of other civilian deaths adds substantially to the total destruction caused by these two lunatics, one of whom was our ally.
The Code Breaker: Jennifer Doudna, Gene Editing, and the Future of the Human Race, Walter Isaacson</h4>
Step inside the surprisingly dramatic and competitive world of DNA research. A great overview of what CRISPR is, how it works and its limitations (for now) alongside an equally compelling story about the brilliant scientist Jennifer Doudna who helped bring it to the world.
Merchants of Doubt, Naomi Oreskes & Erik M. Conway</h4>
Sort of a history of disinformation since World Ware II, starting with the tobacco industry’s efforts to conceal the harm done by smoking all the way to the present “debate” about climate change. The most fascinating part to me is that a half century failed government policy on health and the environment was influenced in large part by a small handful of obsessively anti-communist cold war hawks, who may not have even understood the harm they were doing.
The Pyramid Principle: Logic in Writing and Thinking, Barbara Minto</h4>
As my career progresses I find myself writing and reading more docs, and writing and reading less code. Writing is a known weak spot for me, and this book teaches a great framework to help you ensure your ideas are coherent and easily digestible in both written and presentation format. I normally wouldn’t say a work-related book is a must read, but the concepts here are almost universally applicable.
Highly Recommended</h3>
Pakistan: A Hard Country, Anatol Lieven</h5>
Pakistan is indeed a hard country. The environment is harsh and getting worse, the law and who exactly is in power at any given time can be ambiguous, and other countries can’t seem to stop meddling in its affairs. Mix in nuclear weapons and a long-standing border dispute with its neighbor India and this is a country everyone should know more about. This book provides a great overview of the modern history of this nation, and explains the complex machinations that make up the Pakistani political system.
The Four: The Hidden DNA of Amazon, Apple, Facebook and Google, Scott Galloway</h5>
Galloway’s predictions about business and economics may have a mixed record but if there is one niche where he seems to be prescient it is Big Tech. If you work in the industry you probably won’t learn anything new, but for everyone else this is a valuable read. There are many reasons to be wary of the increasing power and control big tech companies have over most aspects of our lives.
Human Compatible: Artificial Intelligence and the Problem of Control, Stuart Russell</h5>
While I don’t think T-1000s will show up any time soon, I think there are real dangers and threats posed by AI. A surprising amount of what we see on the internet is decided by AI systems based on knowledge they have about us. What does that mean for humanity? This book is a great exploration into some particular problems posed by this technology and how we might solve them.
The Master Algorithm: How the Quest for the Ultimate Learning Machine Will Remake Our World, Pedro Domingos</h5>
This is a great intro to machine learning if you have no prior knowledge of the field at all. I’d recommend this to anyone non-technical who is curious about this technology and the many ways it does and will impact humanity.
Marching Powder: A True Story of Friendship, Cocaine, and South America’s Strangest Jail, Thomas McFadden</h5>
In many South American countries, the judicial system is responsible for inmates while they are incarcerated yet they have no actual personnel within prisons. The result is that many prisons are simply a wall that is guarded by normal police with total anarchy within. This is one inmate’s story while incarcerated at San Pedro in Bolivia, which is almost a self-contained city of crime within La Paz.
The Metaverse: And How it Will Revolutionize Everything, Matthew Ball</h5>
Before reading this I associated “the metaverse” with an overhyped useless VR world that seemingly no one needs but every (business) wants. It turns out this is correct, but only for a very narrow application of the concept and misses the bigger picture which is that we aren’t sure how the metaverse will ultimately evolve and VR is just one possibility. Think of the metaverse more as the next iteration of the internet and the hype makes more sense. Ball is also quick to point out that we still have enormous technical limitations to overcome. While this change won’t happen overnight, it’s probably prudent to start thinking about how it will affect our lives before it happens so we can shape it to be something we want instead of what corporations want.
Non-fiction (Recommended)</h3>
The Biggest Bluff: How I Learned to Pay Attention, Master Myself, and Win, Maria Konnikova
The Bootlegger: The Good, The Bad & The Tasty, Karl Phillips
Danger Zone: The Coming Conflict With China, Michael Beckley
The Effective Engineer: How to Leverage Your Efforts In Software Engineering to Make a Disproportionate and Meaningful Impact, Edmond Lau
The Great Illusion: A Study of the Relation of Military Power to National Advantage, Norman Agnell
The Happiest Man on Earth: The Beautiful Life of an Auschwitz Survivor, Eddie Jaku
How to Solve It: A New Aspect of Mathematical Method, George Polya and John Conway
In Praise of Slowness: Challenging the Cult of Speed, Carl Honore
The Innovator’s Dilemma: The Revolutionary Book That Will Change the Way You Do Business, Clayton Christensen
The Island at the Center of the World: The Epic Story of Dutch Manhattan and the Forgotten Colony that Shaped America, Russel Shorto
Made in Japan: Akio Morita and Sony, Akio Morita
Nudge: The Final Edition, Richard Thaler
The Ride of a Lifetime: Lessons Learned from 15 Years as CEO of the Walt Disney Company, Robert Iger
Technology Strategy Patterns: Analyzing and Communicating Architectural Decisions, Eben Hewitt
On Intelligence, Jeff Hawkins
Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture, Martin Fowler
Playing Dead: A Journey Through the World of Death Fraud, Elizabeth Greenwood
Practical Doomsday: A Sensible Field Guide to Surviving Disasters, Michael Zalewski
Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Tell You Everything You Need to Know About Global Politics, Tim Marshall
Probably Approximately Correct: Nature’s Algorithms for Learning and Prospering in a Complex World, Leslie Valiant
Radical Candor: Be a Kickass Boss Without Losing Your Humanity, Kim Scott
The Second Machine Age: Work, Progress, and Prosperity in a Time of Brilliant Technologies, Erik Brynjolfsson
The Staff Engineer’s Path, Tanya Reilly
Twilight of Democracy: The Seductive Lure of Authoritarianism, Anne Applebaum
Fiction (Recommended)</h3>
The Bonfire of the Vanities, Tom Wolfe
The Glass Bead Game, Herman Hesse
The Heart of Darkness, Joseph Conrad
The Master and Margarita, Mikhail Bulgakov
Les Miserables, Victor Hugo
Robinson Crusoe, Daniel Defoe
Non-Fiction (Not Recommended)</h3>
The Book of Five Rings, Miyamoto Musashi
Clean Meat: How Growing Meat Without Animals Will Revolutionize Dinner and the World, Paul Shapiro
How Highly Effective People Speak, Peter Andrei
The Larder: Food Studies Methods from the American South, John T. Edge
Lying, Sam Harris
Post Corona: From Crisis to Opportunity, Scott Galloway
Memoirs of Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowd, Charles McKay
Fiction (Not Recommended)</h3>
Tender is the Night, F. Scott Fitzgerald
This Side of Paradise, F. Scott Fitzgerald

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The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt, Albert Camus</h3>

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Must Read</h3>

Highly Recommended</h3>

Fiction (Not Recommended)</h3> Tender is the Night, F. Scott Fitzgerald</em></p> This Side of Paradise, F. Scott Fitzgerald</em></p>

Fiction (Not Recommended)</h3>
Tender is the Night, F. Scott Fitzgerald</em></p>
This Side of Paradise, F. Scott Fitzgerald</em></p>