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)