Reading List

Current

• Silence | Shusaku Endo
• On not speaking Chinese | Ien Ang
• We have no idea | Jorge Cham and Daniel Whiteson

Past

• Foreign Studies | Shusaku Endo
• Gödel, Escher, Bach: and Eternal Golden Braid | Douglas R. Hofstadter
• Python tricks: the book | Dan Bader
• 2312 | Kim Stanley Robinson
• Consider the fork | Bee Wilson
• Lelaki Harimau | Eka Kurniawan
• I contain multitudes | Ed Yong
• Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality | Eliezer Yudkowsky
• Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West | George Maguire
• Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail | Cheryl Strayed
• Miss Smilla’s Feeling for Snow | Peter Høeg
• Les Misérables | Victor Hugo
• The Lake | Banana Yoshimoto
• The Luminaries | Eleanor Catton
• Midnight Children | Salman Rushdie
• 1984 | George Orwell
• Brave New World | Aldous Huxley
• The Apprenticeship of Big Toe P | Rieko Matsuura
• All You Need Is Kill | Hiroshi Sakurazaka
• The Glass Bead Game | Herman Hesse
• Siddhartha | Herman Hesse
• Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha | Roddy Doyle
• Life of Pi | Yann Martel
• Zen and the art of motorcycle maintenance | Robert M. Pirsig
• The God of small things | Arundhati Roy

Authors whom you should read the all the works

• Liu Cixin: The Three Body Problem
• Kim Stanley Robinson: Mars trilogy
• Haruki Murakami: 1Q84
• Margaret Atwood: The Handmaid’s Tale
• Paulo Coelho: The Alchemist
• Fyodor Dostoyevsky: Crime and Punishment, The Brothers Karamazov
• Natsuo Kirino: Out
• Keigo Higashino: The Devotion of Suspect X, Salvation of a saint, Naoko
• GK Chesterton: Father Brown series
• CS Lewis: The Four Loves, The Problem of Pain, The Screwtape letters
• JRR Tolkien: The Hobbit, Lord of the Rings trilogy
• FW Boreham: A Handful of Stars, Mushrooms on the Moor
• Viktor Frankl: Man’s Search for Ultimate Meaning
• Søren Kierkegaard: Fear and Trembling