2019: Wishful Reading List

Non-Fiction

Media/Tech

  1. Meredith Broussard - Artificial Unintelligence
  2. Marshall Phelps and David Kline - Burning The Ships
  3. Thomas H. Davenport - Only Humans Need Apply
  4. Neil Postman - Technopoly
  5. Yuval Noah Harari - 21 Lessons for the 21st Century
  6. Tim Wu - The Curse of Bigness: Antitrust in the New Gilded Age
  7. Ken Kocienda - Creative Selection
  8. Jon Ronson - So You've Been Publicly Shamed
  9. Hans Rosling - Factfulness
  10. Ed Catmull - Creativity, Inc.
  11. Matt Bai - All The Truth Is Out
  12. Peter Chippindale - Stick It Up Your Punter!
  13. Ken Auletta - Three Blind Mice
  14. Richard R. John - Network Nation
  15. Susan Crawford - Fiber
  16. An Xiao Mina - From Memes to Movements
  17. Arthur C. Clarke - Profiles of the Future
  18. Judea Pearl and Dana Mackenzie - The Book of Why
  19. Caroline Criado Perez - Invisible Women

Current Affairs/History

  1. Jeffrey Sachs - A New Foregin Policy
  2. Jill Lepore - These Truths
  3. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn - The Gulag Archipelago
  4. Ta-Nehisi-Coates - Between the World and Me
  5. Charles C. Mann - The Wizard and the Prophet: Two Remarkable Scientists and Their Dueling Visions to Shape Tomorrow’s World
  6. Elizabeth Kolbert - The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History
  7. Julia Boyd - Travellers in the Third Reich
  8. Matthew Scully - Dominion
  9. Michael McFaul - From Cold War to Hot Peace
  10. Yuri Slezkine - The House of Government: A Saga of the Russian Revolution
  11. Matt Haig - Notes on a Nervous Planet

Non-Fiction Biographies/Memoirs

  1. Dava Sobel - Galileo's Daughter
  2. Jason Rezaian - Prisoner
  3. Anthony Bourdain - Kitchen Confidential

Other

  1. Nassim Nicholas Taleb - Fooled by Randomness
  2. Chris Hayes - Twilight of the Elites: America After Meritocracy

Fiction

  1. Donna Tartt - The Secret History
  2. David Foster Wallace - Infinite Jest*
  3. Thomas Pynchon - Gravity's Rainbow*
  4. Lisa Halliday - Asymmetry
  5. Mary McCarthy - The Group
  6. Louis-Ferdinand Céline - Journey To The End Of The Night
  7. Jean Genet - The Thief's Journal
  8. Nadine Gordimer - July's People
  9. Adam Johnson - The Orphan Master's Son
  10. Yu Miri - Tokyo Ueno Station
  11. Heather Morris - The Tattooist of Auschwitz

Sci-Fi and Fantasy

  1. Cixin Liu - Death's End
  2. Iain M. Banks - Use of Weapons
  3. Iain M. Banks - The Player of Games
  4. Iain M. Banks - Consider Phlebas
  5. Edgar Rice Burroughs - Pricess of Mars
  6. Ursula Kroeber Le Guin - The Left Hand of Darkness
  7. Frank Herbert - Dune
  8. Samuel R. Delany - Fall of the Towers trilogy
  9. Margaret Atwood - Lady Oracle
  10. Stanisław Lem - The Futurological Congress

Essays and Short Stories

  1. Niccoló Machiavelli - On Conspiracies (Penguin Great Ideas)
  2. Jean-Jacques Rousseau - The Social Contract (Penguin Great Ideas)
  3. George Orwell - Facing Unpleasant Facts
  4. Alice Munro - Dear Life
  5. David Foster Wallace - A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again
  6. Fred Brooks - The Mythical Man-Month
  7. Thomas Mann - Death in Venice and Other Stories
  8. Isaac Asimov - Franchise

*been on my reading list for about five years