Contents
Fiction
- I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings - Maya Angelou
- One Crazy Summer
- The Bear - William Faulkner
- H is for Hawk - Helen Macdonald
- A Strangeness in My Mind – Orhan Pamuk
- Grimm Tales: For Young and Old - Philip Pullman
- The Tiger’s Wife - Tea Obreht
- Chango’s Beads and Two-Tone Shoes – William Kennedys
- The Angel Esmeralda: Nine Stories – Don DeLillo
- Parallel Stories – Peter Nada
- What Was Promised - By Tobias Hill
- Eyrie - Tim Winton
- Sula - Toni Morrison
- Changing My Mind: Occasional Essays – Zadie Smith
- Cairo Trilogy - Naguib Mahfouz
- Slipping - Mohamed Kheir
- Pulphead: Essays - John Jeremiah Sullivan
- Various Pets Alive and Dead - Marina Lewycka
- Moonglow - Michael Chabon
- The Nickel Boys - Colson Whitehead
- Commonwealth - Ann Patcher
- IQ - Joe Ide
- The Leopard – Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa
- Vengeance Is Mine, All Others Pay Cash - Eka Kurniawan
- The Harp in the South - Ruth Park
- A Pale View of Hills - Kazuo Ishiguro
- Nine Perfect Strangers - Liane Moriarty
- Dispatched - Michael Herr
- The Mountain Lion - Jean Stafford
- There There - Tommy Orange
- The Parking Lot Attendant - Nafkote Tamarat
- The Truth About Animals - Lucy Cooke
- Everything Happens for a Reason - Kate Bowler
- Lincoln in the Bardo
- Chango’s Beads and Two-Tone Shoes
- Exit West
- Outline Trilogy
- Convenience Store Women
- The Sympathizer
- The Captive Mind
- The Day the Sun Died
- The Snow Leopard - Peter Matthiessen
- Small Country - Gael Faye
- A Gentleman in Moscow - Amor Towles
- The Porpoise - Mark Haddon
- A Thousand Ships - Natalie Haynes
- Milkman - Anna Burns
- Exhalation - Ted Chiang
- Lab Girl - Hope Jahren
- Inland - Tea Obrhet
- On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous - Ocean Vaughn
- The Memory Police
- Catherine House
- Bangkok Wakes to Rain
- One Thousand and One Nights
- Severance
- Station Eleven
- The Lonely City
- Gingerbread by Helen Oyeyemi
- Black Leopard, Red Wolf by Marlon James
- Queenie by Candice Carty-Williams
- Amiable with Big Teeth
- The Shadow King
- The Water Dancer
- Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982, by Cho Nam-Joo
- A Burning, by Megha Majumdar
- Breasts and Eggs, by Mieko Kawakami
- Beowulf: A New Translation
- The Vanishing Half
- Burnt Sugar
- A Call from the Goon Squad
- Peaces
- Against the Loveless World
- Goldfinch
- How beautiful we were
- Appleseed
- Milk blood heat
- American Delirium
- The Return of Faraz Ali - Aamina Ahmad
- Glory - NoViolet Bulawayo
- Americanah
- Sleepless Nights - Elizabeth Hardwick
- Afterlives
- Fen, Bog and Swamp
- The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida
- Terrace Story - Hilary Leichter
- Sea of Tranquility - Hilary St John Mandel - https://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0593321448/ref=nosim/0sil8
- Middlemarch
- Brotherless Night
- A Strange Tale from East of the River
- “The Confounding Island: Jamaica and the Postcolonial Predicament,” by Orlando Patterson.
- The Furrows, by Namwali Serpell
- Trust, by Hernan Diaz
- The Argonauts
- Suite Francaise Irene Ñemirovsky
- Carpenteria
- Our missing hearts - Celeste ng
- Rangikur
- Tail of the Blue Bird
- The Hare - Melanie Finn
Business / Economics / Psychology
- Gawande, A. (2009). The Checklist Manifesto: How To Get Things Right.
- Heath, C. & Heath, D. Switch: How To Change Things When Change Is Hard.
- Superforecasting: The Art and Science of Prediction
- 101 Things I Learned in Engineering School
- Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion - Robert Cialdini
- Superintelligence - Nick Bostrom
- How To Measure Anything - Douglas W. Hubbard
- Getting Past NO - William Ury
- The Essays of Warren Buffett: Lessons for Corporate America, Third Edition
- Cyrus the Great — The Arts of Leadership and War
- Letters From a Self-Made Merchant to his Son
- The Logic of Life: The Rational Economics of an Irrational World - Tim Harford
- The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers - Ben Horowitz
- Inspired: How to Create Products a Customers Love - Marty Cagan
- Data Smart - John Foreman
- Crossing the Chasm - Geoffrry Moore
- Start-up Nation
- When Markets Collide: Investment Strategies for the Age of Global Economic Change – Mohamed El-Erian
- Lords of Finance - Liaquat Ahamed
- Simple Rules: How to Thrive in a Complex World - Donald Sull
- Made in Africa
- Progress: Ten Reasons to Look Forward to the Future. By Johan Norberg.
- Hit Makers - Derek Thompson
- Capital
- The Ostrich Paradox
- Thanks death of expertise
- The Prediction Machine - Ajay Agrawal
- Capitalism with Capital
- Diary of a Very Bad Year
- Innovator’s DNA
- How Asia Works
- Radical Candor
- Resonate
- The Pyramid Principle
- Well Designed
- Lean Startup
- Scout Mindset
- Noise
- Creativity - Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
- Escaping the Build Trap
- On Writing
- Influence without Authority
- The Power of Positive No
- Non-violent communication
- Pixar Storytelling
- The Art of Statistics - David Spiegelhalter
- Obviously Awesome
- It was the best of sentences, it was the worst of sentences~
- The Elements of Style~
- Build - https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/59696349-build
- Thinking 101 - Thinking 101: Lessons on How To Transform Your Thinking and Your Life https://amzn.asia/d/9UqqRiL
- The sense of style
- Style: lessons in clarity and grace
History
- Germany by Neil McGregor
- Faisal I of Iraq. By Ali A. Allawi
- Dancing in the Glory of Monsters – Jason Stearns
- Istanbul: Tale of Three Cities – Bettany Hughes.
- Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity – Katherine Boo
- Secondhand Time: The Last of the Soviets – Svetlana Alexievich
- Algeria 1830-2000: A Short History
- The Unwomanly Face of War. By Svetlana Alexievich
- Aboriginal Australians A History since 1788
- Forgotten War - Henry Reynolds
- The Songlines - Bruce Chatwin
- Australia: A Biography
- Energy and Civilization - Vaclav Smil
- Africa: A Modern History - Guy Arnold
- The Dawn of Eurasia
- Origin Story: A Big History - David Christian
- The World in a Grain
- Gnostic Gospels
- Kindred: Neanderthal Life, Love, Death and Art
- The Wars of the Roses - Dan Jones
- The Nine Lives of Pakistan
- Four Hundred Souls
- Avengers of the New World - Laurent Dubois
- Postwar by Tony Judt
- All that she carried https://bookshop.org/a/12476/9781984854995
- The Anarchy: The East India Company… - William Dalrymple
- Two Wheels Good
- When the Plums are Ripe
- Postwar
- Fifth Sun: A New History of the Aztecs
- Redeemers: Ideas and Power in Latin America
- Budapest. By Victor Sebestyen
- The World: A Family History. By Simon Sebag Montefiore
- Afterlives by Abdulrazak Gurnah
- Bad Mexicans by Kelly Lytle Hernández
- Weavers, Scribes and Kings - https://www.amazon.com/Weavers-Scribes-Kings-History-Ancient/dp/0190059044/
- Fall of Constantinople
- An Oral History of the Palestinian Nakba edited by Nahla Abdo and Nur Masalha
- The Question of Palestine by Edward W. Said / The Selected Works of Edward Said
- The Yom Kippur War: The Epic Encounter That Transformed the Middle East
- The Realness of Things Past - Greg Anderson
Science
- Feynman Lectures on Physics - Richard Feynman
- The Quantum Universe: Everything That Can Happen Does Happen - Brian Cox
- Life on the Edge: The Coming of Age of Quantum Biology - Jim Al-Khalili and Johnjoe McFadden
- Black Dragon River: A Journey Down the Amur River at the Borderlands of Empires - Dominic Ziegler
- Ends of the World
- The Gene: An Intimate History – Siddhartha Mukherjee. Scribner;
- Fundamentals
- An Immense World - Ed Yong
- American Prometheus
Design & Built Environment
- The Social Life of Small Urban Spaces by William H. Whyte
- The City Shaped: Urban Patterns and Meanings Through History by Spiro Kostof
- Walkable City: How Downtown Can Save America, One Step at a Time by Jeff Speck
- Walkable City Rules - Jeff Speck
- The Death and Life of Great American Cities by Jane Jacobs
- The Lonely City - Olivia Liang
- City: A Guidebook for the Urban Age - P.D. Smith
- “A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction,” Christopher Alexander, Sara Ishikawa and Murray Silverstein
- The New Urban Crisis - Richard Florida
- How to Kill a City
- Learning from Las Vegas
- Seeing Like A State
- Evicted - Matthew Desmond
- Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men
- Sub Saharan Africa Architectual guide https://dom-publishers.com/products/sub-saharan-africa
- Design Emergency
- Stop Stealing Sheep
- Design is Storytelling
- User Friendly
- The Work of Art - Adam Moss
- Language of Buildings
General Non-Fiction
- The Power Broker - Robert Caro
- Unfinished Business – Anne-Marie Slaughter
- Seeking Wisdom: From Darwin to Munger
- Letters from a Stoic - Seneca
- The Moral Sayings of Publius Syrus
- Universal Principles of Design - William Lidwell
- Exodus: How Migration is Changing Our World - Paul Collier
- The Confidence Trap: A History of Democracy in Crisis from World War I to the Present - David Runciman
- Joyriding in Riyadh: Oil, Urbanism, and Road Revolt in Saudi Arabia. By Pascal Menoret
- The Rule of Law – Tom Bingham
- The Beginning of Infinity: Explanations That Transform the World - David Deutsch
- World Order - Henry Kissinger
- It’s What I Do: A Photographer’s Life of Love and War – Lynsey Addario
- Making the Modern World: Materials and Dematerialization - Vaclav Smil
- The Life and Death of Democracy - John Keane
- The New New Deal: The Hidden Story of Change in the Obama Era - Michael Grunwald
- Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity and Poverty - Daron Acemoglu and James Robinson
- The Paper Trail: An Unexpected History of the World’s Greatest Invention - Alexander Monro
- The Fourth Revolution: The Global Race to Reinvent the State - John Micklethwait and Adrian Wooldridge
- The Master Algorithm – Pedro Domingos
- The Art of Memoir – Mary Karr
- The Lessons of History – Will Durant
- Zen in the Art of Archery – Eugene Herrigel
- Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance – Robert Pirsig
- The Art of the Restaurateur - Nicholas Lander
- Blood and Thunder - Hampton Sides
- Half-Lion: How P.V. Narasimha Rao Transformed India – Vinay Sitapati
- But You Did Not Come Back – Marceline Loridan-Ivens.
- East West Street: On the Origins of Genocide and Crimes Against Humanity – Philippe Sands.
- Cleverlands: The Secrets Behind the Success of the World’s Education Superpowers – Lucy Crehan.
- The Return: Fathers, Sons and the Land in Between By Hisham Matar
- The Truly Disadvantaged – William Julius Wilson
- Twilight of the Elite – Chris Hayes
- Ghettoside
- Sapiens – Yuval Noah Harari
- Homo Deus – Yuval Noah Harari
- The Lady Tasting Tea: How Statistics Revolutionized Science in the Twentieth Century – David Salsburg
- Designing Your Life: How to Build a Well-Lived, Joyful Life - Bill Burnett
- What Color Is Your Parachute? 2017: A Practical Manual for Job-Hunters and Career-Changers – Richard Bolles
- The Subjection of Women – John Stuart Mills
- An Alexandria Anthology: Travel Writing Through the Centuries
- Stories of Your Life
- The River of Consciousness
- The Philadelphia Negro - W.E.B. Dubois
- Tip of the Iceberg - Mark Adams
- A Winter in Arabia - Freya Stark
- Give People Money - Annie Lowrey
- Digital Democracy, Analogue Politics
- A Field Guide to Getting Lost
- The Attention Merchants - Tim Wu
- Upheaval - Jared Diamond
- The Future of Capitalism - Paul Collier
- In Putin’s Footsteps
- Ottoman Odyssey
- Horizon - Barry Lopez
- The Secret Lives of Color - Kassia St Clair
- Wave by Sonali Deraniyagala
- Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity by Katherine Boo
- Random Family: Love, Drugs, Trouble, and Coming of Age in the Bronx by Adrian Nicole LeBlanc
- We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed With Our Families: Stories From Rwanda by Philip Gourevitch
- The Tennis Partner: A Doctor’s Story of Friendship and Loss by Abraham Verghese
- What You Have Heard is True
- The Body - Bill Bryson
- Sister Outsider - Audrey Lorde
- Racecraft: The Soul of Inequality in American Life
- Grand Union - Zadie Smith
- Oracle Bones - Peter Hessler
- Catfish and Mandala
- Trace
- Animals Strike Curious Poses
- The Songs of Trees
- Horizon - Barry Lopez
- Other Minds: The Octopus,The Sea,and The Deep Origins of Consciousness
- Every Day the River Changes: Four Weeks Down the Magdalena
- Burn the Place
- Factory Girls
- The Party: The Secret World of China’s Communist Rulers
- Our women on the ground
- Nomads: The Wanderers Who Shaped Our World
- The Search for Modern China
- Chinas Economy
- Sacred Nature
- We Don’t Know Ourselves, by Fintan O’Toole
- The Narrow Road to the Deep North - Matsuo Basho
- https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/books/98/06/07/specials/naipaul-india.html
- https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/jack-turner/spice/
- Do Interesting
- Liliana’s Invincible Summer
- Chip Wars
- Says Who? By Anne Curzan
- Between Two Kingdoms
- The Sabbath - Herschelel
- The Coming Earth
- Coming into the Country
Cookbooks