Readings
An incomplete list, in no particular order, of books that have shaped my mind over the years.
Administrative Behavior
Models of My Life
View with a Grain of Sand
Under the Glacier
A Farewell to Arms
A Mencken Chrestomathy
Development Projects Observed
Exit, Voice, and Loyalty
A Moveable Feast
The Anxiety of Influence
Stories of Your Life and Others
If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know that is poetry.
Emily Dickinson
Eichmann in Jerusalem
Passion and Craft
The Selected Letters of Tennessee Williams
On Chinese Gardens
Tao Te Ching
The Conquest of Happiness
River Town
Proper Doctoring
Escape from Freedom
Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind.
Bertrand Russell
The Glass Castle
The Importance of Being Earnest
Democracy in America
The Catcher in the Rye
Nineteen Eighty-Four
Sonnets from the Portuguese
The secret of happiness is freedom, and the secret of freedom is courage.
Thucydides
The Economic Consequences of the Peace
Capitalism, Socialism, and Democracy
Extraordinary Popular Delusions
The Death and Life of Great American Cities
The difficulty lies not so much in developing new ideas as in escaping from old ones.
John Maynard Keynes
Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell
The Reckoning
The Plague
Surely You’re Joking, Mr. Feynman
Pioneer
The Making of Modern Medicine
William Osler: A Life in Medicine
Love Poems
The Sirens’ Song
Stalin: Waiting for Hitler, 1929–1941
The Beginning of Infinity
The Metaphysical Club
I would rather be ashes than dust! I would rather that my spark should burn out in a brilliant blaze than it should be stifled by dry-rot.
Jack London