Books I’ve enjoyed or planning to read

  • A Farewell to Alms (Gregory Clark, 2007)
  • A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction (Christopher Alexander, 1977)
  • And Then There Were None (Agatha Christie, 1939)
  • Angela’s Ashes: A Memoir (Frank McCourt, 1996)
  • Anna Karenina (Leo Tolstoy, 1877)
  • Bargaining for Advantage (G. Richard Shell, 2006)
  • Cod: A Biography of the Fish that Changed the World (Mark Kurlansky, 1997)
  • Crime and Punishment (Fyodor Dostoevsky, 1866)
  • Foreign Affairs (Alison Lurie, 1984)
  • Good-Bye to All That: An Autobiography (Robert Graves, 1929)
  • How Computers Really Work: A Hands-On Guide to the Inner Workings of the Machine (Matthew Justice, 2021)
  • How to Prove It (Daniel J. Velleman, 2006)
  • How to Solve It (George Pólya, 1945)
  • Lolita (Vladimir Nabokov, 1955)
  • Meditations (Marcus Aurelius, approx. 180 AD)
  • Murder of Roger Ackroyd (Agatha Christie, 1926)
  • My Life as a Quant: Reflections on Physics and Finance (Emmnuel Derman, 2004)
  • On War (Carl von Clausewitz, 1832)
  • On Writing Well (William Zinsser, 1976)
  • Shoe Dog (Phil Knight, 2016)
  • Snow Country (Yasunari Kawabata, 1947)
  • Survival of the Prettiest: The Science of Beauty (Nancy Etcoff, 1999)
  • The Book of Evidence (John Banville, 1989)
  • The Concepts and Practice of Mathematical Finance (Mark S. Joshi, 2003)
  • The Edogawa Rampo Reader (Edogawa Rampo, 2018)
  • The Groves of Academe (Mary McCarthy, 1952)
  • The Hollow Man (John Dickson Carr, 1935)
  • The Inner Game of Tennis (W. Timothy Gallwey, 1974)
  • The Lean Startup (Eric Ries, 2011)
  • The Little Book of Common Sense Investing: The Only Way to Guarantee Your Fair Share of Stock Market Returns (John C. Bogle, 2007)
  • The Shadow University: The Betrayal Of Liberty On America’s Campuses (Alan Charles Kors and Harvey Silverglate, 1998)
  • The Wit and Wisdom of Charles T. Munger (Charlie Munger, 2018)