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2022

Currently Reading

  • First in His Class: A Biography Of Bill Clinton by David Maraniss
  • The Reading List by Sara Nisha Adams

In Queue

  • You May Also Like: Taste in an Age of Endless Choice by Tom Vanderbilt
  • The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins

Completed

  • First in His Class: A Biography Of Bill Clinton by Bill Clinton (currently reading)
  • My Life (Volume 1) by Bill Clinton (completed Jun 3)
  • The Audacity of Hope by Barack Obama (completed April 15)
  • Intimacies by Katie Kitamura (completed Mar 10)
  • Genius Makers: The Mavericks Who Brought AI to Google, Facebook, and the World by Cade Metz (completed Feb 19)
  • Better: A Surgeon's Notes on Performance by Atul Gawande (completed Feb 19)
  • Beartown by Fredrick Backman (completed Feb 15)
  • Dear America: Notes of an Undocumented Citizen by Jose Antonio Vargas (completed Jan 18)
  • What I Talk About When I Talk About Running by Haruki Murakami (completed Jan 18)

2021

  • The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon by Brad Stone (completed Aug 1)
  • Remote: Office Not Required by David Heinemeier Hansson and Jason Fried (completed Aug 1)
  • Custodians of the Internet: Platforms, Content Moderation, and the Hidden Decisions That Shape Social Media by Tarleton Gillespie (completed July 19)
  • A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backman (completed June 30)
  • How to Avoid a Climate Disaster by Bill Gates (completed May 24)
  • The Scout Mindset: Why Some People See Things Clearly and Others Don't by Julia Galef (completed May 2)
  • Maybe You Should Talk to Someone: A Therapist, Her Therapist, and Our Lives Revealed by Lori Gottlieb (completed Apr 22)
  • A Promised Land by Barack Obama (completed Mar 4)
  • Humor, Seriously by Jennifer Aaker & Naomi Bagdonas (completed Feb 25)
  • Book Thief by Markus Zusak (completed Jan 19)

2020

Nonfiction

  • Doing Good Better: How Effective Altruism Can Help You Make a Difference by William MacAskill (completed Nov 20)
  • r2i: Return to India: A tale of living India-genously by Parth Pandya (completed Nov 29)
  • Troublesome Words: A Writer's Guide to Getting It Right by Bill Bryson (completed Nov 13)
  • The Moment of Lift: How Empowering Women Changes the World by Melinda Gates (completed Nov 11)
  • Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Tell You Everything You Need To Know About Global Politics by Tim Marshall (completed Oct 25)
  • Obama: An Intimate Portrait by Pete Souza (completed Aug 13)
  • The World as It Is: A Memoir of the Obama White House by Ben Rhodes (completed Aug 11)
  • Becoming by Michelle Obama (completed July 23)
  • Whistleblower: My Journey to Silicon Valley and Fight for Justice at Uber by Susan Fowler (completed June 24)
  • Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance by Angela Duckworth (completed Apr 18)
  • The Elephant in the Brain: Hidden Motives in Everyday Life by Kevin Simler and Robin Hanson (completed Mar 7)
  • Justice: What's the Right Thing to Do by Michael Sandel (completed Mar 28)

2019

Nonfiction

  • Measurement by Paul Lockhart (in progress)
  • Turtles All the Way Down by John Greene (completed Dec 31)
  • Shoe Dog by Phil Knight (completed in Nov)
  • Bad Blood by John Carreyrou (completed Aug 3)
  • Being Mortal by Atul Gawande (completed Jun 5)
  • Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi (completed Jun 25)
  • Factfulness by Hans Rosling (completed Feb 3)
  • Educated by Tara Westover (completed Jan 13)

(Loosely) Academic (for general audience)

  • The Gene by Siddhartha Mukherjee (in progress)
  • The Ethical Algorithm by Michael Kearns and Aaron Roth (completed on Dec 17)
  • Rebooting AI by Gary Marcus and Ernest Davis (completed, Oct)

Queue

  • The Enigma of Reason by Hugo Mercier
  • The Book of Why: The New Science of Cause and Effect by Judea Pearl, Dana Mackenzie
  • On Being a Therapist by Jeffrey A. Kottler

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