Books I’ve enjoyed or planning to read
- 40 Puzzles and Problems in Probability and Mathematical Statistics (Wolfgang Schwarz)
- A Death in Tokyo (Keigo Higashino)
- A Farewell to Alms (Gregory Clark)
- A Midsummer’s Equation (Keigo Higashino)
- A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction (Christopher Alexander)
- A Practical Guide To Quantitative Finance Interviews (Xinfeng Zhou)
- A Quiet Place (Matsumoto Seicho)
- Academically Adrift: Limited Learning on College Campuses (Richard Arum, Josipa Roksa)
- All She Was Worth (Miyuki Miyabe)
- And Then There Were None (Agatha Christie)
- Angela’s Ashes: A Memoir (Frank McCourt)
- Anna Karenina (Leo Tolstoy)
- Bargaining for Advantage (G. Richard Shell)
- Cod: A Biography of the Fish that Changed the World (Mark Kurlansky)
- Confessions (Kanae Minato)
- Crime and Punishment (Fyodor Dostoevsky)
- Death in the House of Rain (Szu-Yen Lin)
- Don’t Make Me Think (Steve Krug)
- Endless Night (Agatha Christie)
- Foreign Affairs (Alison Lurie)
- George Marshall: Defender of the Republic
- Good-Bye to All That: An Autobiography (Robert Graves)
- Grotesque (Natsuo Kirino)
- How Computers Really Work: A Hands-On Guide to the Inner Workings of the Machine (Matthew Justice)
- How to Prove It (Daniel J. Velleman)
- How to Solve It (George Pólya)
- How to Write Science Fiction and Fantasy (Orson Scott Card)
- In the Miso Soup (Ryu Murakami)
- Introduction to the Theory of Econometrics (Jan Magnus)
- Journey Under the Midnight Sun (Keigo Higashino)
- Lolita (Vladimir Nabokov)
- Magpie Murders (Anthony Horowitz)
- Malice (Keigo Higashino)
- Meditations (Marcus Aurelius)
- Murder in the Crooked House (Soji Shimada)
- Murder of Roger Ackroyd (Agatha Christie)
- My Life as a Quant: Reflections on Physics and Finance (Emmanuel Derman)
- Naoko (Keigo Higashino)
- Newcomer: A Story of Destined Tokyo (Keigo Higashino)
- Numerical Matrix Analysis (Ilse Ipsen)
- On War (Carl von Clausewitz)
- On Writing Well (William Zinsser)
- Out (Natsuo Kirino)
- Penance (Kanae Minato)
- Points and Lines (Seicho Matsumoto)
- Problems and Snapshots from the World of Probability (Dennis Sandell, Gunnar Blom, and Lars Holst)
- Real World (Natsuo Kirino)
- Salvation of a Saint (Keigo Higashino)
- Sherlock Holmes: The Hound of the Baskervilles, A Study in Scarlet, The Valley of Fear, The Sign of Four (Arthur Conan Doyle)
- Shoe Dog (Phil Knight)
- Silent Parade: A Detective Galileo Novel (Keigo Higashino)
- Snow Country (Yasunari Kawabata)
- Survival of the Prettiest: The Science of Beauty (Nancy Etcoff)
- The Book of Evidence (John Banville)
- The Concepts and Practice of Mathematical Finance (Mark S. Joshi)
- The Decagon House Murders (Yukito Ayatsuji)
- The Devotion of Suspect X (Keigo Higashino)
- The Edogawa Rampo Reader (Edogawa Rampo)
- The Final Curtain (Keigo Higashino)
- The Goddess Chronicle (Natsuo Kirino)
- The Groves of Academe (Mary McCarthy)
- The Hollow Man (John Dickson Carr)
- The Honjin Murders (Seishi Yokomizo)
- The Inner Game of Tennis (W. Timothy Gallwey)
- The Lady Killer (Masako Togawa)
- The Lean Startup (Eric Ries)
- The Likeness (Tana French)
- The Little Book of Common Sense Investing: The Only Way to Guarantee Your Fair Share of Stock Market Returns (John C. Bogle)
- The Master Key (Masako Togawa)
- The Mill House Murders (Yukito Ayatsuji)
- The Miracles of the Namiya General Store (Keigo Higashino)
- The Murder of Roger Ackroyd (Agatha Christie)
- The Mystery of the Yellow Room (Gaston Leroux)
- The Name of the Game is a Kidnapping (Keigo Higashino)
- The Shadow University: The Betrayal Of Liberty On America’s Campuses (Alan Charles Kors and Harvey Silverglate)
- The Splendid and the Vile: A Saga of Churchill, Family, and Defiance During the Blitz
- The Tattoo Murder Case (Akimitsu Takagi)
- The Tokyo Zodiac Murders (Soji Shimada)
- The Wit and Wisdom of Charles T. Munger (Charlie Munger)