With my yearly reading goal of 20 books, every year I carefully pick 20 books to read, review, and reflect.
📚 Reading of Current Season
📖 2020 Reading List So-Far (Re-read books excluded)
📖 2019 Reading List
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My Brilliant Friend by Elena Ferrante
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The Story of a New Name by Elena Ferrante
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Dostoevsky: a Writer in His Time by Joseph Frank 👍🏻
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Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak 👍🏻
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And Quiet Flows the Don by Mikhail Sholokhov 👍🏻
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Dangerous by Milo Yiannopoulos
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Principles by Ray Dalio 👍🏻
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The Right Side of History by Ben Shapiro
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82년생 김지영 by 조남주 👍🏻 📝
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The Complete Presepolis by Marjane Satrapi 👍🏻
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The Language of Food: a Linguist Reads the Menu by Dan Jurafsky 👍🏻
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Personal History by Katharine Graham
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Educated by Tara Westover 👍🏻
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How to Live: Or a Life of Montaigne in One Question and Twenty Attempts at an Answer by Sarah Bakewell
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At the Existentialist Café by Sarah Bakewell 👍🏻
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紅太陽是怎樣升起的——延安整風運動的來龍去脈 by 高華
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世界中心的貧民窟：香港重慶大廈 by 麥高登 👍🏻
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巨嬰國 by 武志紅 👍🏻
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The Strange Death of Europe: Immigration, Identity, Islam by Douglas Murray
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人生 by 路遥
📖 2018 Reading List
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Portfolios of the Poor by Daryl Collins et al.
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Poor Economics: A Radical Thinking of the Way to Fight Global Poverty by Abhijit Banerjee
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The Origins of the English Parliament 924-1327 by J. R. Maddicott
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Origins of the Common Law by Arthur Hogue
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History of the Common Law by John Langbein et al.
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The Nine: Inside the Secret World of the Supreme Court by Jeffrey Toobin 👍🏻
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The Boys int he Boat by Daniel Brown
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Asian Americans: an Interpretive History by Sucheng Chan
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Margaret Thatcher, At Her Zenith: in London, Washington and Moscow by Charles Moore
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Margaret Thatcher: the Autobiography by Margaret Thatcher 👍🏻
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The Downing Street Years by Margaret Thatcher 👍🏻
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The Path to Power by Margaret Thatcher
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The Collected Stories of Stefan Zweig by Stefan Zweig 👍🏻
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The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky 👍🏻
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The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoevsky
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Demons by Fyodor Dostoevsky 👍🏻
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Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
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Great Short Works of Fyodor Dostoevsky by Fyodor Dostoevsky 👍🏻
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The Red Flag: a History of Communism by David Priestland
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The Party: the Secret World of China's Communist Rulers by Richard McGregor
📖 2017 Reading List
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Reflections on the Revolution in France by Edmund Burke
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Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City by Matthew Desmond 👍🏻
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Putin Country: a Journey into the Real Russia by Anne Carrels
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The Fever of 1721: the Epidemic That Revolutionized Medicine and American Politics by Stephen Coss
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Imprudent King: a New Life of Philip II by Geoffrey Parker
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The Park Chung Hee Era: the Transformation of South Korea by Byung-Kook Kim
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The Origins of the Choson Dynasty by John Duncan
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In Order to Live by Yeonmi Park
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Guns, Germs, and Stell: The Fates of Human Societies by Jared Diamond 👍🏻
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Gödel, Escher, Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid by Douglas Hofstadter 👍🏻
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Works of Love by Søren Kierkegaard 👍🏻
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Either/Or Vol. I by Søren Kierkegaard 👍🏻
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The Sickness Unto Death by Søren Kierkegaard 👍🏻
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Fear and Trembling/Repetition by Søren Kierkegaard 👍🏻
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A Kierkegaard Anthology by Robert Bretall
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Fin-De-Siecle Vienna: Politics and Culture by Carl Schorske
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City of Fortune: How Venice Ruled the Seas by Roger Crowley
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Margaret Thatcher, From Grantham to the Falklands by Charles Moore
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Strange Rebels: 1979 and the Birth of the 21th Century by Christian Caryl 👍🏻
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The Man Who Stayed Behind by Sidney Rittenberg and Amanda Bennett
📖 2016 Reading List
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甲午战争史 by 戚其章 👍🏻
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200年日本史：德川以來的近代化進程 by 安德魯·戈登 👍🏻
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跨海之战——金门，海南，一江山 by 刘统
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戰後70年臺灣史（1945~2015）by 陳世昌
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My Fight for a New Taiwan: One Woman's Journey from Prison to Power by Hsiu-lien Lu
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东晋门阀政治 by 田余庆 👍🏻
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村上春樹 雑文集 by 村上春樹 👍🏻
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坂の上の雲（一）〜（八） by 司馬遼太郎 👍🏻
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Escape from Manchuria by Paul Maruyama
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Manchurian Legacy by Kazuko Kuramoto
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何有此生——一个日本遗孤的回忆 by 中岛幼八
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The Rising Sun: The Decline and Fall of The Japanese Empire by John Toland
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Sapiens: a Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari 👍🏻
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Le capital au XXI siècle by Thomas Piketty
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法律之门 by 约翰·博西格诺
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The Birth of Politics by Melissa Lane
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日本文化史 by 叶渭渠 👍🏻
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Voices from Chernobyl: the Oral History of a Nuclear Disaster by Svetlana Alexievich
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Eastward to Tartary: Travels in the Balkans, the Middle East and the Caucasus by Robert D. Kaplan
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The Impossible Country: a Journey Through the Last Days of Yugoslavia by Brian Hall