Here's my annual "Books I read" series. This was a slower year.
Doctored : the disillusionment of an American physician by Sandeep Jauhar. An insight into the dysfunction that is our health-care system.
Elon Musk : Tesla, SpaceX, and the quest for a fantastic future by Ashlee Vance. I must admit that I didn't quite finish this one.
The future of the mind : the scientific quest to understand, enhance, and empower the mind by Michio Kaku. And this one, like the Physics of the future that I read last year, is fascinating too.
High output management, by Andrew Grove. This was a second reading.
In Europe's shadow : two cold wars and a thirty-year journey through Romania and beyond by Robert D. Kaplan. This one was geopolitics and travelogue rolled in one. I like Robert Kaplan's writing by other favorites are: The Revenge of geography and Monsoon.
A time for truth : reigniting the promise of America, by Ted Cruz. I read this early in the year when I thought there might be a chance for him to win the primaries. And two chapters into the book, I realized that there is no way he's going to make it.
The new paradigm for financial markets : the credit crisis of 2008 and what it means by George Soros. More an insight into George Soros mind than an insight into financial markets.
The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail-but Some Don’t by Nate Silver. Ah, the book was insightful, but left me wondering whether he's a marketing guy or a math guy. His fivethirtyeight.org had issues with understanding and explaining probability.
The Sleepwalkers: How Europe Went to War in 1914 by Christopher Clark. This is the magnum opus that's a must read for understanding Europe of today. I really liked it.
The Undoing Project: A Friendship That Changed Our Minds by Michael Lewis. A lively narrative of Kahneman and Tversky's (Thinking fast and slow, Kahneman won the 2002 Nobel prize for Economics for his joint work with Tsversky) journey. There is something about the way Michael Lewis writes.
And, in fiction:
Harry Potter and the Cursed Child - Parts One and Two by JK Rowling.
The Hunger games trilogy (Hunger Games, Catching Fire, Mockingjay) by Suzanne Collins.
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