Pranav Reddy

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2024
A Dying Colonialism
Franz Fanon
A Grief Observed
C.S. Lewis
A Happy Death
Albert Camus
A Random Walk Down Wall Street
Burton Malkiel
Amp it Up
Frank Slootman
Days at the Morisaki Bookshop
Satoshi Yagisawa
Dune
Frank Herbert
Dune: Messiah
Frank Herbert
Eichmann in Jerusalem
Hannah Arendt
Exile and the Kingdom
Albert Camus
Finite and Infinite Games
James Carse
Flowers for Algernon
Daniel Keyes
Going Infinite
Michael Lewis
Heart of a Dog
Mikhail Bulgakov
Man's Search for Meaning
Viktor Frankl
Mathematica
David Bessis
Minor Feelings
Cathy Park Hong
Narrative Economics
Robert J. Shiller
Normal People
Sally Rooney
Notes on Complexity
Neil Theise
Nuts and Bolts
Roma Agarwal
Orbital
Samantha Harvey
Power: A New Social Analysis
Bertrand Russell
Pure Color
Sheila Heti
Scarcity
Sendhil Mullainathan
Shoe Dog
Phil Knight
Subprime Attention Crisis
Tim Hwang
The Alchemist
Paulo Coelho
The Creative Act
Rick Rubin
The Fall
Albert Camus
The Glass Castle
Jeannette Wells
The House of Dimon
Patricia Crisafulli
The Man Who Solved the Market
Gregory Zuckerman
The Master Switch
Tim Wu
The Myth of Sisyphus
Albert Camus
The Outsiders
William N. Thorndike Jr.
The Reckless Mind: Intellectuals in Politics
Mark Lilla
The Rosie Project
Graeme Simsion
The Sellout
Paul Beatty
The Sense of an Ending
Julian Barnes
The Sickness Unto Death
Søren Kierkegaard
They're Going to Love You
Meg Howrey
Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow
Gabrielle Zevin
Trillion Dollar Coach
Alan Eagle, Eric Schmidt & Jonathan Rosenberg
2023
A Course in Game Theory
Ariel Rubinstein & Martin J. Osborne
A Short History of Financial Euphoria
John Kenneth Galbraith
eBoys
Randall E. Stross
Gay Bar: Why We Went Out
Jeremy Atherton Lin
How to Win Friends and Influence People
Dale Carnegie
Human Acts
Han Kang
Hyperbole and a Half
Allie Brosh
Intimacies
Katie Kitamura
Joan is Okay
Weike Wang
Less is Lost
Andrew Sean Greer
Liar's Poker
Michael Lewis
Noise
Daniel Kahneman, Olivier Sibony & Cass R. Sunstein
QED
Richard P. Feynman
The Golden Thread
Kassia St Clair
The Intervals of Cinema
Jacques Rancière
The New New Thing
Michael Lewis
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Oscar Wilde
The Premonition
Michael Lewis
The Undoing Project
Michael Lewis
Working
Robert A. Caro
2022
All Over Creation
Ruth Ozeki
Apex Hides the Hurt
Colson Whitehead
Crip Kinship
Shayda Kafai
Disability Visibility
Alice Wong
Fury
Salman Rushdie
How Can I Help?
Ram Dass & Paul Gorman
I Like to Watch
Emily Nussbaum
John Henry Days
Colson Whitehead
Manufacturing Consent
Edward S. Herman & Noam Chomsky
Nickel Boys
Colson Whitehead
No One is Talking About This
Patricia Lockwood
The Confessions of Max Tivoli
Andrew Sean Greer
The Darker Nations
Vijay Prashad
The Lowland
Jhumpa Lahiri
The Politics of Design
Ruben Pater
The Sellout
Paul Beatty
Unaccustomed Earth
Jhumpa Lahiri
Whereabouts
Jhumpa Lahiri
White Tiger
Aravind Adiga
Women, Culture & Politics
Angela Davis
2021
Austerlitz
W.G. Sebald
Bad Blood
John Carreyrou
Color of Law
Richard Rothstein
Inflamed
Raj Patel & Rupa Marya
Know My Name
Chanel Miller
Modern Love
Daniel Jones
My Year of Meats
Ruth Ozeki
Shame
Salman Rushdie
Sister Outside
Audre Lorde
The Bell Jar
Sylvia Plath
The Color Purple
Alice Walker
The Doctor and the Saint
Arundati Roy
The Emigrants
W.G. Sebald
The Making of Asian America
Erika Lee
The Midnight Library
Matt Haig
The Price of Inequality
Joseph E. Stiglitz
There There
Tommy Orange
2020
1984
George Orwell
Being Mortal
Atul Gawande
Chaos Monkeys
Antonio Garcia Martinez
Critical Race Theory
Richard Delgado
Educated
Tara Westover
Let Me Go
Kazuo Ishiguro
Love in the Time of Cholera
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Midnight's Children
Salman Rushdie
Outlaw Culture
bell hooks
Purple Hibiscus
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Ten Great Ideas About Chance
Brian Skyrms & Persi Diaconis
The Elements of Typographic Style
Robert Bringhurst
The Underground Railroad
Colson Whitehead
2019
All the Light We Cannot See
Anthony Doerr
Capital
Thomas Piketty
Chemistry
Weike Wang
Getting Things Done
David Allen
Hillbilly Elegy
J.D. Vance
I Will Teach You to be Rich
Ramit Sethi
Just Mercy
Bryan Stevenson
On Grand Strategy
John Lewis Gaddis
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Ken Kesey
Supermarket
Bobby Hall
The Checklist Manifesto
Atul Gawande
The Four Steps to the Epiphany
Steven Blank
The Master and Margarita
Mikhail Bulgakov
The Satanic Verses
Salman Rushdie
2018
A Tale for the Time Being
Ruth Ozeki
Basketball (and Other Things)
Shea Serrano
Between the World and Me
Ta-Nehisi Coates
Biology Under the Influence
Richard Levins & Richard Lewontin
China Men
Maxine Hong Kingston
En Otras Palabras
Jhumpa Lahiri
Everything I Never Told You
Celeste Ng
Fatal Invention
Dorothy E. Roberts
Go Tell it on the Mountain
James Baldwin
Half of a Yellow Sun
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Little Fires Everywhere
Celeste Ng
Men Without Women
Haruki Murakami
Milkman
Anna Burns
On Palestine
Noam Chomsky & Ilan Pappe
Pachinko
Min Jin Lee
Protest Psychosis
Jonathan Metzl
Sapiens
Yuval Noah Harari
The Argumentative Indian
Amartya Sen
The Bluest Eye
Toni Morrison
The Design of Everyday Things
Donald A. Norman
The End of Imagination
Arundhati Roy
The Fifth Risk
Michael Lewis
The Israel Lobby
John Mearsheimer & Stephen Walt
The Karma of Brown Folk
Vijay Prashad
The Lean Startup
Eric Ries
The Luzhin Defense
Vladimir Nabokov
The Namesake
Jhumpa Lahiri
The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down
Anne Fadiman
The Sympathizer
Viet Thanh Nguyen
The Thing Around Your Neck
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
The Woman Warrior
Maxine Hong Kingston
Thinking, Fast and Slow
Daniel Kahneman
This is How You Lose Her
Junot Diaz
What Doctors Feel
Danielle Ofri
2017
Americanah
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Dubliners
James Joyce
Evicted
Matthew Desmond
God of Small Things
Arundhati Roy
Invisible Man
Ralph Ellison
Less
Andrew Sean Greer
The Better Angels of Our Nature
Steven Pinker
The Wretched of the Earth
Frantz Fanon
When Breath Becomes Air
Paul Kalanithi
2016 & earlier
Creativity in Engineering
David H. Cropley
Discipline & Punish
Michel Foucault
Ender's Game
Orson Scott Card
Fahrenheit 451
Ray Bradbury
Hegemony or Survival
Noam Chomsky
Interpreter of Maladies
Jhumpa Lahiri
Mrs. Dalloway
Virginia Woolf
Orientalism
Edward Said
Pedagogy of the Opressed
Paulo Freire
Practical Ethics
Peter Singer
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
Tom Stoppard
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
Junot Diaz
The Great Gatsby
F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Heart of Darkness
Joseph Conrad
The Joy Luck Club
Amy Tan
The New Jim Crow
Michelle Alexander
The Stranger
Albert Camus
Their Eyes Were Watching God
Zora Neale Hurston
Zero to One
Peter Thiel