Favorite Books of 2019
Last January, I decided to start waking up at 5 AM (as much as possible) and to read at least 50 books in 2019. Here is a list of my favorites:
The Back Channel: A Memoir of American Diplomacy and the Case for Its Renewal
by William J. Burns
Good Economics for Hard Times
by Abhijit Banerjee and Esther Duflo
Talking to Strangers: What We Should Know about the People We Don't Know
by Malcom Gladwell
Figuring
by Maria Popova
A Thousand Small Sanities: The Moral Adventure of Liberalism
by Adam Gopnik
Catch and Kill: Lies, Spies, and a Conspiracy to Protect Predators
by Ronan Farrow
A World in Disarray: American Foreign Policy and the Crisis of the Old Order
by Richard Haass
The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting Up a Generation for Failure
by Greg Lukianoff and Jonathan Haidt
On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous: A Novel
by Ocean Vuong
The Nickel Boys
by Colson Whitehead
Honorable Mention: Being Mortal by Atul Gawande; God by Reza Aslan; Fear by Bob Woodward; The Looming Tower by Lawrence Wright