TONY WANG

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2025

death's end | cixin liu

a little life | hanya yanagihara

cradle to cradle: remaking the way we make things | william mcdonough, michael braungart

the portable nietzsche | translation by walter kaufmann

abolish silicon valley: how to liberate technology from capitalism | wendy liu

bhagavad gita | translation by stephen mitchell

chip war: the fight for the world's most critical technology | chris miller

gödel, escher, bach: an eternal golden braid | douglas r. hofstadter

like a sky inside | jakuta alikavazovic

orientalism | edward said

retribution: donald trump and the campaign that changed america | jonathan karl

hope for cynics: the surprising science of human goodness | jamil zaki

the happiness hypothesis | jonathan haidt

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

home body | rupi kaur

the opposite of depression | david m carreon

paradise lost | john milton

philosophy 101: from plato and socrates to ethics and metaphysics, an essential primer on the history of thought | paul kleinman

the princess saves herself in this one | amanda lovelace

she followed the moon back to herself | amanda lovelace

2024

the three-body problem | cixin liu

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

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 | jeremy m. weinstein, mehran sahami, rob reich

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

educated | tara westover

pedagogy of the oppressed | paulo freire

2022 - 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

the song of achilles | madeline miller

the sun is also a star | nicola yoon

this book is gay | juno dawson

a hunger artist | franz kafka

the catcher in the rye | j.d. salinger

meditations on moloch | scott alexander

on caring | nate soares

the sound of stars | alechia dow

1984 | george orwell

fahrenheit 451 | ray bradbury

a modest proposal | jonathan swift

2020 - 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

metamorphosis | franz kafka

warriors don't cry | melba pattillo beals

great expectations | charles dickens

night | elie wiesel

the killer angels | michael shaara

heartstopper | alice oseman

the handmaid's tale | margaret atwood

becoming | michelle obama

so much i want to tell you: letters to my little sister | anna akana

2019

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

love and gelato | jenna evans welch

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

a young persons history of the united states | howard zinn; adapted by rebecca stefoff

red white and royal blue | casey mcquiston

battle hymn of the tiger mother | amy chua

scythe | neal shusterman

mark of the thief | jennifer a. nielsen

old yeller | fred gipson

the pearl | john steinbeck

the thief lord | cornelia funke

thunderhead | neal shusterman

fish in a tree | lynda mullaly hunt

zombies vs unicorns | holly black, justine larbalestier

dry | neal shusterman, jarrod shusterman

the book thief | markus zusak

i know why the caged bird sings | maya angelou

2018

the grapes of wrath | john steinbeck

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

the red badge of courage | stephen crane

the adventures of tom sawyer | mark twain

adventures of huckleberry finn | mark twain

i am malala | malala yousafzai

the outsiders | s.e. hinton

13 reasons why | jay asher

twilight | stephenie meyer

the old man and the sea | ernest hemingway

the one safe place | tania unsworth

seedfolks | paul fleischman

a christmas carol | charles dickens

the boy in the striped pajamas | john boyne

the necklace | guy de maupassant

after 20 years | o. henry

the last leaf | o. henry

a rose for emily | william faulkner

mrs. flowers | maya angelou

dirk the protector | gary paulsen

a day's wait | ernest hemingway

the giver | lois lowry

candide | voltaire

middle school: the worst years of my life | chris tebbetts, james patterson

pre 2018 faves

the call of the wild | jack london

where the red fern grows | wilson rawls

the gift of the magi | o. henry

o captain my captain | walt whitman

paul revere's ride | henry wadsworth longfellow

i, too, sing america | langston hughes

inside out and back again | thanhha lai

among the hidden | margaret peterson haddix

regarding the fountain | kate klise

swindled | gordon korman

johnny tremain | esther forbes

alex rider series | anthony horowitz