Currently reading:
Walden | Henry David Thoreau
2025
Free Food for Millionaires | Min Jin Lee
John and Paul | Ian Leslie
**Pachinko | Min Jin Lee
**Coalitions of the Weak: Elite Politics in China from Mao’s Strategem to the Rise of Xi | Victor Shi
This is It | Alan Watts
What I Talk About When I Talk About Running | Haruki Murakami
Talking to My Daughter About the Economy | Yanis Varoufakis
Before the Coffee Gets Cold | Toshikazu Kawaguchi
2024
How Do You Live? | Genzaburo Yoshino
The Alchemist | Paulo Coelho
The Gate to China: A New History of the People’s Republic & Hong Kong | Michael Sheridan
It’s OK to be Angry About Capitalism | Bernie Sanders
On Equal Terms: Redefining China’s Relationship with America and the West | Mingxun Zheng
After Dark | Harkuki Murakami
**Stay True | Hua Hsu
**Alexander Hamilton | Ron Chernow
Educated | Tara Westover
The Great Gatsby | F. Scott Fitzgerald
Kafka on the Shore | Haruki Murakami
The Worlds I See | Fei-Fei Li
2023
Norwegian Wood | Haruki Murakami
Death’s End | Cixin Liu
The Dark Forest | Cixin Liu
The Three-Body Problem | Cixin Liu
A Promised Land | Barack Obama
**On China | Henry Kissinger
The Prince | Niccolo Machiavelli
The Storm Before the Storm | Mike Duncan
Shoe Dog | Phil Knight
Atomic Habits | James Clear
The Undoing Project | Michael Lewis
Crying in H Mart | Michelle Zauner
2022
1984 | George Orwell
**The Vital Question | Nick Lane
Man’s Search for Meaning | Viktor E. Frankl
A Thousand Brains: A New Theory of Intelligence | Jeff Hawkins
**On Intelligence | Jeff Hawkins
Genius Makers | Cade Metz
CEO Excellence | Carolyn Dewar