Made by Hand: Searching For Meaning in a Throwaway World by Mark Frauenfelder
The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine by Michael Lewis
Fat: An Appreciation of a Misunderstood Ingredient, with Recipes by Jennifer McLagan. By fat she means animal fat.
No One Would Listen: A True Financial Thriller by Harry Markopolos
Wide Awake: A Memoir of Insomnia by Patricia Morrisroe
Malignant Medical Myths: Why Medical Treatment Causes 200,000 Deaths in the USA Each Year, and How to Protect Yourself by Joel Kauffman
The Strangest Man: The Hidden Life of Paul Dirac by Graham Farmelo
Country Driving: A Journey Through China From Farm to Factory by Peter Hessler
China’s Megatrends: The 8 Pillars of a New Society by John & Doris Naisbitt. Just a teensy bit more persuasive than The Coming Collapse of China (2001) by Gordon Chang.
The Thing Around Your Neck by Chimanda Adichie
4 thoughts on “Books I’m Looking Forward to Reading”
I liked Malignant Medical Myths. I plan to revisit it every year, just before my annual physical, to refresh what he writes about blood pressure. And statins. The man obviously has no holdings of Big Pharma stock.
The Strangest Man was excellent. You should really enjoy it. Also good and along the same subject was American Prometheus. Having listed to these as well as Einstein, it is interesting to listen to biographies with overlapping characters (e.g. Oppenheimer and Einstein to Dirac, Dirac and Einstein to Oppenheimer, etc).
I liked Malignant Medical Myths. I plan to revisit it every year, just before my annual physical, to refresh what he writes about blood pressure. And statins. The man obviously has no holdings of Big Pharma stock.
I am curious, how many books do you read per year?
Not many. In China, a few per month if I’m lucky. In Berkeley, I leaf through 20-30 books/month and read cover to cover maybe 3.
The Strangest Man was excellent. You should really enjoy it. Also good and along the same subject was American Prometheus. Having listed to these as well as Einstein, it is interesting to listen to biographies with overlapping characters (e.g. Oppenheimer and Einstein to Dirac, Dirac and Einstein to Oppenheimer, etc).