Reading

I enjoy collecting physical books, but lament that doing so is rather difficult when (i) moving frequently, and (ii) much of my reading is short form and online. Alas, in the absence of a physical library, I'll settle for a digital one. 

Below is an (unranked) list of books, essays, and miscellanea that I've found particularly interesting.

Always looking for recommendations; drop me a line.

Books

• The Structure of Scientific Revolutions.

• Exit, Voice, and Loyalty.

• Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, A Man Who Would Cure the World.

• The Swerve: How the World Became Modern.

• A History of Economic Thought: The LSE Lectures.

• To End a Plague: America's Fight to Defeat AIDS in Africa.

• An Uncertain Glory: India and its Contradictions.

• The Education of An Idealist: A Memoir.

• Paper: Paging Through History.

• From Third World to First: The Singapore Story: 1965-2000.

• The Silk Roads: A New History of the World.

• Connectography: Mapping the Future of Global Civilization.

• Infections and Inequalities: The Modern Plagues.

• The Good Earth.

• Empire of Cotton: A Global History.

• Unbound: A True Story of War, Love, and Survival.

• Crashed: How a Decade of Financial Crises Changed the World.

• The Hollow Hope: Can Courts Bring About Social Change?

• The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate – Discoveries from a Secret World.

• Stress Test: Reflections on Financial Crisis.

• Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies.

• Rough Sleepers: Dr. Jim O'Connell's Urgent Mission to Bring Healing to Homeless People

• A Truth Universally Acknowledged: 33 Great Writers on Why We Read Jane Austen.

• GDP: A Brief But Affectionate History.

• Atonement.

• King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror and Heroism in Colonial Africa.

• Where Good Ideas Come From: The Natural History of Innovation.

• Research Through Imperial Eyes.

• The Lemon Tree: An Arab, a Jew, and the Heart of the Middle East.

• Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World — and Why Things are Better Than You Think.

• The Poverty of Historicism.

• Things Fall Apart.

• "A Problem from Hell": America and the Age of Genocide.

• Development as Freedom.

• The Rise and Decline of Nations: Economic Growth, Stagnation, and Social Rigidities.

• Orientalism.

• The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic – and How it Changed Science, Cities and the Modern World.

• Barracoon: The Story of the Last "Black Cargo."

• A Tree Grows in Brooklyn.

• Encountering Development: The Making and Unmaking of the Third World.

• Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of Our Time.

• The White Tiger.

• The Underground Railroad.

• In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex.

• The Light That Failed: Why the West is Losing the Fight for Democracy.

• The Merchant of Venice.

• The God of Small Things.

• China Road: A Journey into the Future of a Rising Power.

• I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings.

• Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China.

• No Exit and Other Plays.

• Poor Numbers: How We Are Misled by African Development Statistics and What to Do About It

• A Tale of Two Cities.

• The Great Transformation.

• The China Mirage: The Hidden History of American Disaster in Asia.

• Where Good Ideas Come From: The Natural History of Innovation.

• Angels in America.

• Love, Sex, and Tragedy: How the Ancient World Shapes Our Lives.

• Pathologies of Power: Health, Human Rights, and the New War on the Poor.

• The Residence: Inside the Private World of the White House.

• Dream of Ding Village.

• Institutions, Institutional Change, and Economic Performance.

• The Kite Runner.

• Blue Latitudes: Boldly Going Where Captain Cook Has Gone Before.

• Cod: A Biography of the Fish that Changed the World.

• How Europe Underdeveloped Africa.

• Pachinko.

• Over the Edge of the World: Magellan's Terrifying Circumnavigation of the Globe.

• The Map Thief: The Gripping Story of an Esteemed Rare Map Dealer Who Made Millions Stealing Priceless Maps.

• The Wealth of Nations (Book I): Of the Causes of Improvement in the Productive Powers of Labour.

• Americanah.

• Breaking Open Japan: Commodore Perry, Lord Abe, and American Imperialism in 1853.

• Economics: Making Sense of the Modern Economy.

• 1968: The Year that Rocked the World.

• Development Microeconomics.

Short Form

• Description as Choice.

• Slouching Towards Bethlehem.

• Economics of Development and the Development of Economics.

• Instruments, Randomization, and Learning About Development.

• On Exactitude in Science.

• Development's Paradox: Is Washington DC a Third World City?

• Indian Traditions and the Western Imagination.

• The Housing Theory of Everything.

• Achieving Universal Health Insurance Coverage in the United States: Addressing Market Failures or Providing a Social Floor?

• Economic Development: A Semantic History.

• Delivering World Class Healthcare, Affordably.

• The Generalizability Puzzle.

• Should We Pay More Attention to South-North Learning?

• Walrasian Economics in Retrospect.

• Harry Truman's Four Points.

• Why We Didn't Get a Malaria Vaccine Sooner.

• Development: Which Way Now?

• Toward a Counter-Counter Revolution in Development Theory.

• Adam Smith, Behavioral Economist.

• An Essay on the Nature and Significance of Economic Science.

• The Economics of Life and Death.

• I, Pencil: My Family Tree.

• Reciprocity and the State.

• The New Development Economics: We Shall Experiment But How Shall We Learn?

• Experimentation at Scale.