My Five-Star Reads
11 books — five stars
Unreasonable Hospitality: The Remarkable Power of Giving People More Than They Expect
Will Guidara
The Mountains Sing
Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai
Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood
Trevor Noah
Eating Animals
Jonathan Safran Foer
Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams
Matthew Walker
Eat a Peach
David Chang
Trustworthy Online Controlled Experiments: A Practical Guide to A/B Testing
Ron Kohavi
Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea
Barbara Demick
Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men
Caroline Criado Pérez
How to Change Your Mind: The New Science of Psychedelics
Michael Pollan
Steve Jobs
Walter Isaacson
Other Reads
41 books
Project Hail Mary
Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World – and Why Things Are Better Than You Think
The Island of Sea Women
Daughters of Shandong
The House in the Cerulean Sea (Cerulean Chronicles, #1)
Convenience Store Woman
When Breath Becomes Air
Abroad in Japan: Ten Years in the Land of the Rising Sun
Against the Loveless World
The Travelling Cat Chronicles
Outlive: The Science & Art of Longevity
American Dirt
Pure Invention: How Japan Made the Modern World
Pachinko
Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow
Just Keep Buying: Proven Ways to Save Money and Build Your Wealth
Build: An Unorthodox Guide to Making Things Worth Making
The Power of Regret: How Looking Backward Moves Us Forward
The Choice: Embrace the Possible
Crying in H Mart
The Secret Life of Groceries: The Dark Miracle of the American Supermarket
How to Avoid a Climate Disaster: The Solutions We Have and the Breakthroughs We Need
Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning
Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City
A Man Called Ove
Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup
White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism
Educated
The Ride of a Lifetime: Lessons Learned from 15 Years as CEO of the Walt Disney Company
The 5 Love Languages: The Secret to Love That Lasts
How to Be an Antiracist (One World Essentials)
Maybe You Should Talk to Someone: A Therapist, Her Therapist, and Our Lives Revealed
So You Want to Talk About Race
We Should All Be Feminists
Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
Vagabonding: An Uncommon Guide to the Art of Long-Term World Travel
Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly
Outliers: The Story of Success
Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future
Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future