Bookshelf
I love reading, and especially reading with friends.
I also love giving and getting book recommendations. I like science fiction (Ken Liu, Ted Chiang, Hao Jingfang, Liu Cixin), memoirs, and anything about the history of technology and Silicon Valley. If there's anything you think I would enjoy, please send it my way! Below are some books I've read recently.
* = one of my favorite reads
Gambling Man: The Wild Ride of Japan's Masayoshi Son
Lionel Barber
Current!
Who Knew*
Barry Diller
Jul 2025
Range
David Epstein
Jul 2025
Lean In
Sheryl Sandberg
Apr 2025
The Return of the King
J.R.R. Tolkien
Apr 2025
The Two Towers
J.R.R. Tolkien
Apr 2025
The Fellowship of the Ring*
J.R.R. Tolkien
Mar 2025
Glossy: Ambition, Beauty, and the Inside Story of Emily Weiss's Glossier
Marisa Meltzer
Dec 2024
The Cliffs
J. Courtney Sullivan
Sep 2024
Wonder Boy
Angel Au-Yeung and David Jeans
Aug 2024
Delivering Happiness
Tony Hsieh
Aug 2024
The End of Normal
Stephanie Madoff Mack
Jul 2024
Acceptance
Emi Nietfeld
Jul 2024
Autobiography of Red
Anne Carson
Jun 2024
Elon Musk
Walter Isaacson
Apr 2024
The Alchemist
Paulo Coelho
Feb 2024
Artificial: A Love Story
Amy Kurzweil
Dec 2023
Attached
Amir Levine
Dec 2023
Tiny Beautiful Things
Cheryl Strayed
Oct 2023
活着*
余华
Oct 2023
Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow
Gabrielle Zevin
Aug 2023
Burn Rate*
Andy Dunn
Jun 2023
Without a Doubt
Surbhi Sarna
Jun 2023
This is How You Lose Her
Junot Diaz
Apr 2023
What I Talk About When I Talk About Running
Haruki Murakami
Mar 2023
北京折叠*
郝景芳
Feb 2023
The Closing of the American Mind
Allan Bloom
Jan 2023
Submission
Michel Houellebecq
Jan 2023
How to Be a Friend: An Ancient Guide to True Friendship
Marcus Tullius Cicero
Dec 2022
How Will You Measure Your Life*
Clay Christensen
Sep 2022
The Sun Also Rises
Ernest Hemingway
Sep 2022
No One Succeeds Alone
Robert Reffkin
Sep 2022
A Thousand Years of Good Prayers
Yiyun Li
Apr 2022
The Contrarian
Max Chafkin
Mar 2022
One Bullet Away
Nathaniel Fick
Mar 2022
The Life-Changing Manga of Tidying Up
Marie Kondo
Feb 2022
Joan is Okay*
Weike Wang
Feb 2022
Identity
Francis Fukuyama
Jan 2022
The Four Loves*
C.S. Lewis
Jan 2022
Privilege
Ross Douthat
Dec 2021
Mindshift
Barbara Oakley
Dec 2021
Zero to One
Peter Thiel
Oct 2021
Boys and Sex
Peggy Orenstein
Aug 2021
Exhalation
Ted Chiang
Jun 2021
Till We Have Faces*
C.S. Lewis
May 2021
You Think It, I'll Say It
Curtis Sittenfeld
Mar 2021
The Elements of Style
William Strunk Jr. and E.B. White
Mar 2021
The Cleaners
Ken Liu
Jan 2021
Lavinia
Ursula Le Guin
Jan 2021
Secrets of Sand Hill Road
Scott Kupor
Jan 2021
The Ride of a Lifetime
Bob Iger
Jan 2021
Jonathan Livingston Seagull
Richard Bach
Nov 2020
Song of Achilles
Madeline Miller
Nov 2020
What It Takes: Lessons in the Pursuit of Excellence
Stephen A. Schwarzman
Nov 2020
Educated
Tara Westover
Sep 2020
AI Superpowers
Kai-Fu Lee
Aug 2020
Night Sky with Exit Wounds
Ocean Vuong
Aug 2020
De Rerum Natura
Lucretius
Jul 2020
De Vita Caesarum
Suetonius
Jul 2020
Thyestes
Seneca
Jul 2020
Decode and Conquer
Lewis Lin
Jul 2020
Between the World and Me
Ta-Nehisi Coates
Jun 2020
You Know You Want This: "Cat Person" and Other Stories
Kristen Roupenian
May 2020
Reset
Ellen Pao
May 2020
Modern Love, Revised and Updated: True Stories of Love, Loss, and Redemption
Edited by Daniel Jones
May 2020
Brotopia
Emily Chang
May 2020
The Privileged Poor
Anthony Abraham Jack
Apr 2020
The Hidden Girl and Other Stories*
Ken Liu
Apr 2020
When I Grow Up I Want to Be a List of Further Possibilities
Chen Chen
Apr 2020
X-treme: All the Latin You Need to Know for Surviving the 21st Century
Henry Beard
Apr 2020
Shoe Dog
Phil Knight
Apr 2020
Digital Minimalism
Cal Newport
Apr 2020
The Education of an Idealist
Samantha Power
Apr 2020
Cranesong
Rona Wang
Mar 2020
Everybody Is Different: A Book for Young People Who Have Brothers or Sisters with Autism
Fiona Bleach
Mar 2020
The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Milan Kundera, Michael Henry Heim (Translator)
Mar 2020
Talking to Strangers
Malcolm Gladwell
Mar 2020
Girls & Sex
Peggy Orenstein
Mar 2020
How to Win at College
Cal Newport
Mar 2020
Small Fry
Lisa Brennan-Jobs
Mar 2020
Tuesdays with Morrie
Mitch Albom
Mar 2020
The Boys of My Youth
Jo Ann Beard
Mar 2020
Excellent Sheep: The Miseducation of the American Elite and the Way to a Meaningful Life
William Deresiewicz
Mar 2020
Know My Name
Chanel Miller
Mar 2020
Steve Jobs
Walter Isaacson
Mar 2020
The Mueller Report Illustrated
The Washington Post
Mar 2020
When Breath Becomes Air
Paul Kalanithi
Mar 2020
The Moth Presents All These Wonders: True Stories About Facing the Unknown
Catherine Burns, Neil Gaiman
Mar 2020
Notes on Camp
Susan Sontag
Mar 2020
A Feather on the Breath of God
Sigrid Nunez
Mar 2020
The Poems of Catullus: An Annotated Translation
Catullus
Mar 2020
Privilege
Shamus Khan
Mar 2020
Normal People
Sally Rooney
Mar 2020
Becoming
Michelle Obama
Mar 2020
No Matter the Wreckage
Sarah Kay
Mar 2020
Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine
Gail Honeyman
Mar 2020
On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
Ocean Vuong
Mar 2020
My Own Words
Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Mar 2020
Uncensored
Zachary Wood
Mar 2020
The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories
Ken Liu
Aug 2019
It Takes a School: The Extraordinary Story of an American School in the World's #1 Failed State
Jonathan Starr
Jul 2019
First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers
Loung Ung
Jul 2019