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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: Paradoxes of Power
Stephen Kotkin
Understanding how the Soviet state emerged from the chaos of revolution and civil war. The odd success of the 'Bolshevik' minority.
Foundations of Optimization
Osman Guler
Recommended by a professor. Rigorous treatment of optimization theory at just the right level of mathematical sophistication.
Favourites
Flowers 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
5/5