My new years resolution in 2017 was to read 40 books by the end of the year, which ended up being one of my main sources of joy/sanity this year.

This is the list of books I finished. I generally start a lot more books than I finish, so any book that made it here is something I found at least some level of interesting, informative, entertaining, etc. My favorites (the ones that stuck with me or changed the way I think about something) are highlighted -- all strongly recommended!

• States and Social Revolutions by Theda Skocpol
• The Muhammad Ali Reader by multiple authors, ed. Gerald Early
• Quantum Mechanics and Experience by David Albert
• CEO, China by Kerry Brown
• Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri
• The Gene: An Intimate History by Siddartha Mukherjee
• The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz
• Zealot by Reza Aslan
• White Teeth by Zadie Smith
• Pedagogy of the Oppressed by Paolo Freire, trans. Myra Ramos
• The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
• Lessons In Play by Michael Albert, Richard Nowakowski, and David Wolfe
• On Tyranny by Timothy Snyder
• Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
• Toussaint Louverture: A Revolutionary Life by Phillipe Gerard
• Twitter and Tear Gas by Zeynep Tufekci
• One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, trans. Gregory Rabassa
• Chemistry by Weike Wang
• Notebooks of a Chile Verde Smuggler by Juan Felipe Herrera
• The White Album by Joan Didion
• The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka, trans. Stanley Corngold
• The Theory of the Leisure Class by Thorstein Veblen
• The History of White People by Nell Irvin Painter
• Discourse on Method by Rene Descartes
• Play It As It Lays by Joan Didion
• All About Love by bell hooks
• The Man with the Compound Eyes by Wu Ming-Yi
• The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri
• My Promised Land by Ari Shavit
• The Battle for Justice in Palestine by Ali Abunimah
• The Assistant by Bernard Malamud
• The Tale of Genji by Murasaki Shikibu, trans. Edward Seidensticker
• Evicted by Matthew Desmond
• The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
• Holy the Firm by Annie Dillard
• What Happened by Hillary Rodham
• Moving Out of Poverty by multiple authors, ed. Deepa Narayan and Patti Petesch
• Housekeeping by Marilynne Robinson
• The Omnivore's Dilemma by Michael Pollen
• Crazy Rich Asians by Kevin Kwan

Update 2020 — I wasn't able to keep up this pace during grad school, but here are some more books I liked since 2017:

• The Invisibility Cloak by Ge Fei
• Glass, Irony, and God by Anne Carson
• Beloved by Toni Morrison
• The Ethical Slut by Dossie Easton and Janet Hardy
• Aspects of the Theory of Syntax by Noam Chomsky
• Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng
• The Dispossessed by Ursula Le Guin
• Haroun and the Sea of Stories by Salman Rushdie
• We Were Eight Years In Power by Ta-Nehisi Coates
• What Are We Doing Here? by Marilynne Robinson
• The Subtle Knife by Philip Pullman
• Feel Free by Zadie Smith
• Mules and Men by Zora Neale Hurston
• Concerning the Nature of Things by William Bragg
• A Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies by Bartolome de las Casas
• Discourse on Colonialism by Aime Cesaire
• Introduction fo Elementary Particles by David Griffiths
• A Shorter Model Theory by Wilfrid Hodges
• The Black Jacobins by C.L.R. James
• After Physics by David Albert

If you have a book you think I'd like, or you want a specific recommendation, email me!