Favorite Books
45 of my favorite books, in no particular order.
- The Jakarta Method: Washington's Anticommunist Crusade and the Mass Murder Program that Shaped Our World ＊
Vincent Bevins - Washington Bullets: A History of the CIA, Coups, and Assassinations ＊
Vijay Prashad - How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States
Daniel Immerwahr - The End is Always Near: Apocalyptic Moments from the Bronze Age Collapse to Nuclear Near Misses
Dan Carlin - How Europe Underdeveloped Africa ＊
Walter Rodney - Neo-colonialism: The Last Stage of Imperialism
Kwame Nkrumah - Bengali Harlem and the Lost Histories of South Asian America
Vivek Bald - On Cuba: Reflections on 70 Years of Revolution and Struggle
Vijay Prashad - Lost Enlightenment: Central Asia's Golden Age from the Arab Conquest to Tamerlane
S. Frederick Starr - Ghost Wars
Steve Coll - The Silk Roads: A New History of the World ＊
Peter Frankopan - The New Silk Roads: The Present and Future of the World
Peter Frankopan - The Anarchy: The Relentless Rise of the East India Company
William Dalrymple - King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa ＊
Adam Hochschild - Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives
Siddharth Kara - Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage
Alfred Lansing - A History of the World in 6 Glasses ＊
Tom Standage - The Question of Palestine
Edward Said - Shattered Lands: Five Partitions and the Making of Modern Asia
Sam Dalrymple - The River of Lost Footsteps: Histories of Burma
Thant Myint-U - Educated: A Memoir ＊
Tara Westover - Survival in the Killing Fields
Haing Ngor - The Choice: Embrace the Possible
Dr. Edith Eva Eger - Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman! (Adventures of a Curious Character)
Richard P. Feynman - Permanent Record
Edward Snowden - When Breath Becomes Air ＊
Paul Kalanithi - The Latehomecomer: A Hmong Family Memoir
Kao Kalia Yang - Daughters of the Flower Fragrant Garden: Two Sisters Separated by China’s Civil War
Zhuqing Li - Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
Frederick Douglass - Between the World and Me
Ta-Nehisi Coates - They Poured Fire on Us From the Sky
Benson Deng, Alephonsion Deng, Benjamin Ajak - The Design of Everyday Things
Donald A. Norman - Islamic Design: A Genius for Geometry ＊
Daud Sutton - Islamic Art in Cairo
E. Prisse d'Avennes - Vagabonding: An Uncommon Guide to the Art of Long-Term World Travel ＊
Rolf Potts - Mountaineering: Freedom of the Hills ＊
The Mountaineers - Full Tilt: Ireland to India with a Bicycle
Dervla Murphy - Journeys North: The Pacific Crest Trail
Barney Scout Mann - One Hundred Years of Solitude ＊
Gabriel García Márquez - Robot Dreams (Remembering Tomorrow)
Isaac Asimov - The Sympathizer
Viet Thanh Nguyen - Dune
Frank Herbert - The Distance of the Moon
Italo Calvino - Bend In The River
V. S. Naipaul - For Esme, With Love and Squalor
J. D. Salinger
History
Memoir & Biography
Design & Art
Travel
Fiction
＊ = Highly Recommend