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My reads

I read religiously on medicine, sociology, philosophy, psychology, historical fiction, business, etc. I greatly admire books with extreme details (references and footnotes are my favorite) including the author’s reflection on the topic’s past, present, and future. Some of the authors that I like to read are David Quammen, Elif Shafak, Orhan Pamuk, Atul Gawande, and Siddhartha Mukherjee. I am privileged to live in a city with access to an amazing public library. Essentially, it is a free resource and I can get almost every book that I desire to read. I hope to keep updating my learning from the books that I read.

My 2025 reading:

  1. There are Rivers in the Sky by Elif Shafak
  2. Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents: How to Heal from Distant, rejecting, or Self-Involved parents by Lindsay C. Gibson
  3. Determined: A Science of Life without Free Will by Robert M. Sapolsky
  4. The Great Halifax Explosion by John U. Bacon
  5. Tell Me How it Ends: An Essay in Forty Questions by Valeria Luiselli
  6. Love me! :One woman’s search for a different happy ever after by Marianne Power
  7. Life After Death: The burden of proof by Deepak Chopra
  8. Psycho-Cybernetics: A new way to get more living out of life by Maxwell Maltz

My 2024 reading:

  1. The Lean Startup by Eric Ries
  2. My Name is Red by Orhan Pamuk
  3. A Swim in a Pond in the Rain: In which four Russians give a master class on writing by George Saunders
  4. Celebrations: Rituals of Peace and Prayer by Maya Angelou
  5. 101 Essays That Will Change the Way You Think by Brianna Wiest
  6. HBR’s 10 Must Reads on Entrepreneurship and Startups
  7. The Architect’s Apprentice by Elif Shafak
  8. Going Solo: Everything you need to start your business and succeed as your own boss by Julie Barlow and Jean-Benoit Nadeau
  9. Feel Good Productivity by Ali Abdaal
  10. Successful Social Media Marketing by Nick Smith
  11. Attachment and Loss Trilogy by John Bowlby (a personal favorite and so appropriate to what humans face. It helps me better understand why people do things the way they do)
  12. Yellowface by R.F. Kuang (could have been better)
  13. The Mango Tree: A Memoir of Fruit, Florida, and Felony by Annabelle Tometich
  14. The Complete Poems of Anna Akhmatova
  15. Solenoid by  Mircea Cărtărescu
  16. Hello Beautiful by Ann Napolitano

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