In 2019, I somehow managed to read more than a book a week with 59 books in total and nearly 20k pages (19,965). But all of these are vanity metrics, I felt like reading a lot this year partly because I had to write my dissertation. School is an easy time to get external reading done: the boundaries for “work” are very vague.
The books in bold are the ones I would recommend (* are must reads). Please reach out if you’d like to discuss any!
| Letters to a young contrarian* |
| On Grand Strategy |
| The Trial of Henry Kissinger |
| How Proust can change your life |
| Time Series Analysis |
| Beginning of Infinity |
| Death of Nietzsche’s Zarathustra |
| The New New Thing* |
| Coddling of the American Mind |
| The Little History of Philosophy |
| The Strange Death of Europe |
| Efficiency (WSP) |
| The Course of Love |
| Why Nations Fail |
| Street of Eternal Happiness |
| PayPal Wars |
| Genius: Feynman* |
| The Beautiful and The Damned |
| The Revolt of the Public |
| Crash Early, Crash Often |
| Insane Mode |
| The Four |
| The Buy Side |
| Living in the End Times |
| Rocket Billionares |
| The Cambridge Economic History of Modern Britain: Volume 2 |
| Handbook of Macroeconomics |
| Hitch 22: A memoir of Christopher Hitchens |
| Range: How Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World |
| Japan and the Shackles of the Past* |
| The Master and the Margarita |
| One Giant Leap |
| The Empire of Air |
| The Facebook Effect |
| Icarus Fallen |
| The Radiologist Report |
| Road to React |
| The Seekers |
| The Airbnb Story |
| The Quants: How a New Breed of Math Whizzes Conquered Wall Street |
| The Seven Ages of Paris |
| Dateonomics |
| Super Pumped: The Battle for Uber |
| Algorithms to live by |
| The Concept of the Political |
| Bullshit Jobs* |
| The Madness of Crowds* |
| The World of Yesterday* |
| Down and Out in Paris and London* |
| George Orwell’s A Collection of Essays* |
| Bronze Age Mindset |
| Road to Wigan Pier |
| Lifespan: Why We Age—and Why We Don’t Have To |
| Naked Statistics |
| This is Not the End of the Book* |
| A World lit only by Fire |
| Wittgenstein: Duty of Genius* |
| The Collected Short Stories of Stefan Zweig |
Anirudh Pai 