As always, you can find what I’m currently reading on Goodreads.

2020

• Fermat’s Enigma — Simon Singh

• The House of Morgan — Ron Chernow

• The Box: How The Shipping Container Made ThAnd The World Economy Bigger — Marc Levinson

  • Who know something as mundane as a shipping container was so instrumental Globalization? Fascinating story of its impact.

• The Silk Roads: A New History of the World — Peter Frankopan

  • Highly recommend this one. It really brings today’s globalization into perspective. I wrote a review here.

• Augustus: First Emperor of Rome — Adrian Goldsworthy

• The Fifth Risk — Michael Lewis

2019

• Knife — Jo Nesbø

• Leadership In War: Essential Lessons from Those Who Made History — Andrew Roberts

• The Rise And Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany — William Shirer

  • An incredible, eye-opening anthology of the inner workings of Nazi Germany. I would read it again had it not been nearly a 1000 pages. Review incoming.

• Liar’s Poker — Michael Lewis

  • I wrote a review! ML is one of my favorite contemporary authors so it’s the least I could do.

• Origin — Dan Brown

• The Lessons of History — Will Durant

  • This was a repeating recommendation on the Tim Ferris Podcast. Having a keen interest in history I wanted to see what unifying strains Will Durant was able to extract across numerous events. In short, this is a good, concise read (literally — it’s 100 pages long). TLDR — History repeats itself and the economic inequality we see rising about us will invariably lead to a complete destabilization of society.

• Inglorious Empire: What the British Did To India — Shashi Tharoor

  • This book is an eye-opener & certainly requires me to write a thorough review — which I plan on getting to. In short, you should read this to get perspective on the depravities of colonialism.

• Bad Blood: Secret And Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup — John Carreyrou

• March of Folly — Barbara Tuchman

  • An incredible follow-up to the Guns of August. If you want a brief history on how mistakes alter the course of history this is a must-read. My full review is here.