Recommended Books
You can find books I have read (and recommend) or books I am currently reading here.
Currently Reading
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind - Yuval Noah Harari
Writing Your Journal Article in Twelve Weeks: A Guide to Academic Publishing Success (second edition) - Wendy Laura Belcher
To Save and to Destroy - Viet Thanh Nguyen
Have Read
Science: Psychology, Cognition & Human Behavior
Psychology of Prejudice and Discrimination — Mary E. Kite, Bernard E. Whitley Jr., Lisa S. Wagner
Face Value: The Irresistible Influence of First Impressions — Alexander Todorov
Thinking, Fast and Slow — Daniel Kahneman
Biased: Uncovering the Hidden Prejudice That Shapes What We See, Think, and Do — Jennifer L. Eberhardt
Poor Economics: A Radical Rethinking of the Way to Fight Global Poverty — Abhijit V. Banerjee
Unequal Childhoods: Class, Race, and Family Life — Annette Lareau
Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World — David Epstein
Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams - Matthew Walker
Education, Teaching & Academic Life
Teaching as if Learning Matters: Pedagogies of Becoming by Next-Generation Faculty — Jennifer Meta Robinson
The Writing Workshop: Write More, Write Better, Be Happier in Academia — Barbara Sarnecka
Air & Light & Time & Space: How Successful Academics Write - Helen Sword
Asian and Asian American History, Social Analysis, Memoir, and Fiction
The Making of Asian America: A History - Erika Lee
Asian American Histories of the United States - Catherine Ceniza Choy
The Asian American Achievement Paradox - Jennifer Lee, Min Zhou
On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous - Ocean Vuong
The Emperor of Gladness - Ocean Vuong
All My Rage - Sabaa Tahir
The Sympathizer - Viet Thanh Nguyen
The Refugees - Viet Thanh Nguyen
Stay True - Hua Hsu
How to Write an Autobiographical Novel - Alexander Chee
Babel, or the Necessity of Violence - R. F. Kuang
Yellowface - R. F. Kuang
Educated - Tara Westover
Interior Chinatown - Charles Yu
Little Fires Everywhere - Celeste Ng
Everything I never Told You - Celeste Ng
Afterparties - Anthony Veasna So
Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning - Cathy Park Hong
The Vegetarian - Han Kang
Crying in H Mart - Michelle Zauner
The Leavers - Lisa Ko
Feel-good illustrations
The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse - Charlie Mackesy
Always Remember: The Boy, the Mole, the Fox, the Horse and the Storm - Charlie Mackesy