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Currently reading and favourites.
Currently Reading
Anna Karenina
Leo Tolstoy
"The three greatest novels are Anna Karenina, Anna Karenina, and Anna Karenina." — Faulkner. Part of a recent interest in Tsarist Russia and the events leading to revolution and catastrophe.
Stalin: Waiting for Hitler, 1929-1941
Stephen Kotkin
Continuing the tale of how a uniquely capable dictator ruined millions of families' lives while gearing up to win a world war.
Foundations of Optimization
Osman Guler
Recommended by a professor. Rigorous treatment of optimization theory at just the right level of mathematical sophistication.
Favourites
Stalin: Paradoxes of Power by Stephen Kotkin
5/5Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes
5/5Guns, Germs, and Steel by Jared Diamond
5/5The Myth of Sisyphus by Albert Camus
5/5Atomic Habits by James Clear
5/5Empire of Pain by Patrick Radden Keefe
5/5There Is No Antimemetics Division by qntm
5/5The Will of the Many by James Islington
5/5Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir
5/5The Anxious Generation by Jonathan Haidt
5/5Children of Time by Adrian Tchaikovsky
4/5The Tipping Point by Malcolm Gladwell
5/5Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell
5/5Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens
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