Books

Some favorites.

Nonfiction

The Basic Laws of Human Stupidity, Carlo M. Cipolla

The Selfish Gene, Richard Dawkins

The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down, Anne Fadiman

What My Bones Know: A Memoir of Healing from Complex Trauma, Stephanie Foo

Being Mortal, Atul Gawande

How Doctors Think, Jerome Groopman

The Machinery of Life, David S. Goodsell

When Breath Becomes Air, Paul Kalanithi

I Contain Multitudes: The Microbes Within Us and a Grander View of Life, Ed Yong

Fiction

A Man Called Ove, Fredrik Backman

The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas, Ursula K. Le Guin

1Q84, Haruki Murakami

Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage, Haruki Murakami

1984, George Orwell

Bel Canto, Ann Patchett

The Catcher in the Rye, J. D. Salinger

Kusamakura, Natsume Sōseki

The Death of Ivan Ilyich, Leo Tolstoy

A Little Life, Hanya Yanagihara

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