2019: Books Read

Non-Fiction

Media and Technology

  1. Kai Fu Lee - AI Superpowers
  2. Meredith Broussard - Artificial Unintelligence
  3. Susan Crawford - Fiber
  4. Harold Ebelson, Gerald Jay Sussman and Julie Sussman - Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs*
  5. Ken Kocienda - Creative Selection: Inside Apple's Design Process During the Golden Age of Steve Jobs
  6. Jonathan Taplin - Move Fast and Break Things: How Facebook, Google, and Amazon Cornered Culture and Undermined Democracy
  7. Pratik Sinha, Dr. Sumaiya Shaikh, Arjun Sidharth - India Misinformed: The True Story
  8. Nick Diakopoulos - Automating the News

Autobiographies, Biographies, and Memoirs

  1. Michelle Obama - Becoming (audio book)
  2. Nadia Murad - The Last Girl
  3. Leander Kahney - Tim Cook: The Genius Who Took Apple to the Next Level

Geopolitical | History and Current Affairs

  1. Ronan Farrow - War On Peace*
  2. Astra Taylor - Democracy May Not Exist, but We'll Miss It When It's Gone
  3. Ronan Farrow - Catch and Kill: Lies, Spies, and a Conspiracy to Protect Predators (audio)
  4. Anand Gopal - No Good Men Among the Living

General Non-Fiction

  1. Johann Hari - Lost Connections: Uncovering the Real Causes of Depression—and the Unexpected Solutions
  2. Melinda Gates - The Moment of Life: How Empowering Women Changes the World
  3. David Spiegelhalter - The Art of Statistics: Learning from Data

Fiction

  1. Gail Honeyman - Eleanor Oliphant is Perfectly Fine
  2. Lisa Halliday - Asymmetry
  3. Donna Tartt - The Secret History
  4. Elizabeth Strout - Olive Kitteridge
  5. Sally Rooney - Normal People
  6. Sally Rooney - Conversations with Friends
  7. Daphne Du Maurier - Rule Britannia
  8. Yaa Gyasi - Homegoing

Children's Books, Sci-Fi, and Fantasy

  1. Philip Pullman - La Belle Sauvage (Book of Dust 1)
  2. Cixin Liu - The Three-Body Problem (audio book)
  3. Cixin Liu - The Dark Forest
  4. Cixin Liu - Death's End
  5. Cressida Cowell - The Wizards of Once
  6. Cressida Cowell - The Wizards of Once: Twice Magic
  7. J.K. Rowling - The Tales of Beedle the Bard
  8. Patrick Ness - The Knife of Never Letting Go
  9. Patrick Ness - The Ask and the Answer
  10. Patrick Ness - Monsters of Men
  11. Philip Pullman - The Secret Commonwealth (Book of Dust 2) (audio book)
  12. Philip Pullman - Northern Lights (His Dark Materials 1) (audio book) (re-read)

Essays, Short Stories, and Novellas

  1. Neil Gaiman & Chris Riddell - Art Matters
  2. Stefan Zweig - Chess
  3. Edith Wharton - Roman Fever & Other Stories

*currently reading