TONY WANG

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2025

death's end | cixin liu

make believe: poems for hoping again | victoria hutchins

sunrise on the reaping | suzanne collins

charlie y la fábrica de chocolate | roald dahl

the order of time | carlo rovelli

flowers on the moon | billy chapata

the analects | confucius

a ballad of songbirds and snakes | suzanne collins

2024

the dark forest | cixin liu

a court of thorns and roses | sarah j maas

spies, lies, and algorithms: the history and future of american intelligence | amy zegart

know my name | chanel miller

zero to one | peter thiel

yellowface | r.f. kuang

tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow | gabrielle zevin

crying in h mart | michelle zauner

eclipse | wilder poetry

steve jobs | walter isaacson

as the last i may know | s.l. huang

foundation | isaac asimov

frankenstein | mary shelley

the alchemist | paulo coelho

the three-body problem | cixin liu

how to be a founder: how entrepreneurs can identify, fund and launch their best ideas | alice bentinck & matt clifford

pale blue dot | carl sagan

mono no aware | ken liu

on the rainy river | tim o'brien

system error: where big tech went wrong and how we can reboot | tim o'brien

how to do nothing: resisting the attention economy | jenny odell

educated | tara westover

2023

this is water: some thoughts, delivered on a significant occasion, about living a compassionate life | david foster wallace

ozymandias | percy bysshe shelley

the road not taken and other poems | robert frost

the awakened brain: the new science of spirituality and our quest for an inspired life | lisa miller

on earth we're briefly gorgeous | ocean vuong

the paper menagerie | ken liu

this time will be different | misa sugiura

letter from utopia | nick bostrom

braiding sweetgrass: indigenous wisdom, scientific knowledge, and the teachings of plants | robin wall kimmerer

the myth of sisyphus | albert camus

attention is all you need | ashish vaswani, et al.

superintelligence: paths, dangers, strategies | nick bostrom

the universe in zero words: the story of mathematics as told through equations | dana mackenzie

little fires everywhere | celeste ng

face to face with vincent van gogh | aukje vergeest

computing machinery and intelligence | alan turing

the precipice | toby ord

dune | frank herbert

when breath becomes air | paul kalanithi

the scout mindset: why some people see things clearly and others don't | julia galef

2022 - 2023

the song of achilles | madeline miller

the sun is also a star | nicola yoon

this book is gay | juno dawson

a modest proposal | jonathan swift

beloved | toni morrison

born a crime | trevor noah

a hunger artist | franz kafka

the catcher in the rye | j.d. salinger

the killer angels | michael shaara

2019 - 2021

the great gatsby | f. scott fitzgerald

the jungle | upton sinclair

julius caesar | william shakespeare

things fall apart | chinua achebe

outliers | malcolm gladwell

the kite runner | khaled hosseini

red white and royal blue | casey mcquiston

battle hymn of the tiger mother | amy chua

milk and honey | rupi kaur

the sun and her flowers | rupi kaur

the house on mango street | sandra cisneros

tao te ching | laozi

anne frank: the diary of a young girl | anne frank

american born chinese | gene luen yang

illuminae | amie kaufman & jay kristoff

metamorphosis | franz kafka

warriors don't cry | melba pattillo beals

the odyssey | homer

of mice and men | john steinbeck

romeo and juliet | william shakespeare

persepolis | marjane satrapi

the absolutely true diary of a part-time indian | sherman alexie

the bean trees | barbara kingsolver

before 2019

the grapes of wrath | john steinbeck

the lord of the flies | william golding

to kill a mockingbird | harper lee

the fault in our stars | john green

20,000 leagues under the sea | jules verne

13 reasons why | jay asher

cinder | marissa meyer

love and gelato | jenna evans welch

the call of the wild | jack london

the outsiders | s.e. hinton