Reading List

When I was younger, I read so much that my mother was near driven mad by the number of books piled up all around the house, and the most effective threat was to take them away from me. I once stayed awake for over 3 days because I was so engrossed in the stories. When I got older, and busier, reading suddenly became a chore - something I had to do in order to succeed. Fiction got put to the side as I laboriously made my way through course and university reading lists.

I am now making a concerted effort to read outside of my set texts, to rediscover my love of reading and learning. Here is a collection of books I recommend, have been recommended, or am planning on reading in the near future.

Fiction

• Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar
• Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina
• Alex Williams, The Talent Thief
• Emma Cline, The Girls
• Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness
• Daphne du Maurier, Rebecca
• David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest
• Voltaire, Candide, ou l'Optimisme
• Donna Tartte, The Secret History

Poetry

• Hollie McNish, Plum!
• Rupi Kaur, Milk & Honey
• Robert Hass, Praise

History & Politics

• David McKittrick & David McVea, Making Sense of the Troubles, A History of the Northern Ireland Conflict
• Andrew Gamble, The Free Economy & the Strong State
• Alan Ryan, On Politics: A History of Political Thought from Herodotus to the Present
• Antonio Costa Pinto, Salazar's Dictatorship & European Fascism
• Julian Casanova & Carlos Gil Andres, Twentieth-Century Spain: A History
•  Ian Morris, Why the West Rules - For Now

Economics

• Richard Thaler, Nudge
• David Halpern, Inside the Nudge Unit
• William Easterly, The White Man's Burden
• Thomas Sowell, Discrimination & Disparities
• Greg Gliner, Global Macro Trading

Philosophy

• David Hume, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding
• Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphys

Feminism

• bell hooks, Feminist Theory: From Margin to Center
• Virginia Woolf, A Room of One's Own

Other Non-Fiction

• Daniel James Brown, The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans & their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics
• Marya Hornbacher, Wasted: A Memoir of Anorexia & Bulimia