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Here are some books I've read. I tend to enjoy history, economics, and biographies.

I've bolded some of my favorites.

Autumn in the Heavenly Kingdom — Stephen R. Platt
Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality — Eliezer Yudkowsky
The Power Broker — Robert Caro
Grant — Ron Chernow
The Dark Forest — Cixin Liu
The Path to Power — Robert Caro
The Passage of Power — Robert Caro
Master of the Senate — Robert Caro
Death's End — Cixin Liu
Postwar — Tony Judt
Basic Economics — Thomas Sowell
The Autobiography of Malcolm X — Malcolm X
Political Order and Political Decay — Francis Fukuyama
The Age of Eisenhower — William Hitchcock
Sapiens — Yuval Noah Harari
Black Flags — Joby Warrick
All the Light We Cannot See — Anthony Doerr
The Age of Jihad — Patrick Cockburn
Dune — Frank Herbert
Means of Ascent — Robert Caro
Barbarians at the Gate — Bryan Burrough and John Helyar
Team of Rivals — Doris Kearns Goodwin
The Chip — T. R. Reid
The Age of Empire, 1875–1914 — Eric Hobsbawm
The Age of Capital, 1848–1875 — Eric Hobsbawm
Stories of Your Life and Others — Ted Chiang
If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies — Eliezer Yudkowsky and Nate Soares
Nicholas and Alexandra — Robert Massie
The Age of Revolution, 1789–1848 — Eric Hobsbawm
How to Win Friends & Influence People — Dale Carnegie
Why We're Polarized — Ezra Klein
Impro — Keith Johnstone
The Rise and Fall of American Growth — Robert Gordon
The Origins of Political Order — Francis Fukuyama
Truman — David McCullough
Thinking, Fast and Slow — Daniel Kahneman
Steve Jobs — Walter Isaacson
When Breath Becomes Air — Paul Kalanithi
Hard Landing — Thomas Petzinger Jr.
Between the World and Me — Ta-Nehisi Coates
How Democracies Die — Steven Levitsky
The Making of the President 1960 — Theodore White
Zero to One — Peter Thiel
One Hundred Years of Solitude — Gabriel García Márquez
Elon Musk — Ashlee Vance
The Unbearable Lightness of Being — Milan Kundera
A Little History of the World — E. H. Gombrich
Why Nations Fail — Daron Acemoğlu
Valley of Genius — Adam Fisher
The Three-Body Problem — Cixin Liu
Fooled by Randomness — Nassim Nicholas Taleb
High Stakes, No Prisoners — Charles Ferguson
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? — Edward Albee
The Innovator's Dilemma — Clayton Christensen
Animal Farm — George Orwell
The Structure of Scientific Revolutions — Thomas Kuhn
For Whom the Bell Tolls — Ernest Hemingway
The Black Swan — Nassim Nicholas Taleb
The Book of Why — Judea Pearl
The Great Gatsby — F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Second Machine Age — Erik Brynjolfsson
Fascism: A Warning — Madeleine Albright
Identity: The Demand for Dignity and the Politics of Resentment — Francis Fukuyama
Forbidden Nation — Jonathan Manthorpe
The Great Stagnation — Tyler Cowen
Imperial Twilight — Stephen R. Platt
Dreadnought — Robert Massie
Dance Dance Dance — Haruki Murakami
Emergent Tokyo — Jorge Almazán
Norwegian Wood — Haruki Murakami
A Wild Sheep Chase — Haruki Murakami
The Dragon Republic — R. F. Kuang
The Poppy War — R. F. Kuang
Babel — R. F. Kuang
China's War with Japan, 1937–1945 — Rana Mitter
The Burning God — R. F. Kuang
Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World — Haruki Murakami
China's Economy: What Everyone Needs to Know — Arthur R. Kroeber
The Trial — Franz Kafka
India After Gandhi — Ramachandra Guha
A Monetary and Fiscal History of the United States, 1961–2021 — Alan Blinder
Snow Crash — Neal Stephenson
The Fall of the Ottomans — Eugene Rogan
The Arabs — Eugene Rogan
Hyperion — Dan Simmons
One Billion Americans — Matthew Yglesias
Israel: A Concise History — Daniel Gordis
Submission — Michel Houellebecq
Freedom — Daniel Suarez
Daemon — Daniel Suarez
Yellowface — R. F. Kuang
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao — Junot Díaz
The English and Their History — Robert Tombs
Invisible Child — Andrea Elliott
Liftoff — Eric Berger
The Price of Peace — Zachary D. Carter
Pachinko — Min Jin Lee
American Moonshot — Douglas Brinkley
How Asia Works — Joe Studwell
The Right to Sex — Amia Srinivasan
The Making of the Atomic Bomb — Richard Rhodes
Nixonland — Rick Perlstein
There Is No Antimemetics Division — qntm
Talent — Tyler Cowen and Daniel Gross
Normal People — Sally Rooney
Conversations with Friends — Sally Rooney
My Brilliant Friend — Elena Ferrante
The Founders — Jimmy Soni
Slouching Towards Bethlehem — Joan Didion
The Death and Life of Great American Cities — Jane Jacobs
The Hard Thing About Hard Things — Ben Horowitz
The Master of Go — Yasunari Kawabata
The Contrarian — Max Chafkin
The Power Law — Sebastian Mallaby
The Man Who Knew — Sebastian Mallaby
The Fire Next Time — James Baldwin
The Selfish Gene — Richard Dawkins
Guns, Germs, and Steel — Jared Diamond
Antifragile — Nassim Nicholas Taleb
The Idea Factory — Jon Gertner
Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software — Charles Petzold
And the Band Played On — Randy Shilts
Fundamental Principles of Go — Yilun Yang
Evicted — Matthew Desmond
Shoe Dog — Phil Knight