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John Steinbeck

• The Grapes of Wrath
• East of Eden

Hanya Yanagihara

• A Little Life

Sally Rooney

• Normal People

Robert Caro

• The Power Broker

John Maxwell Coetzee

• Waiting for the Barbarians
• Disgrace

Jeannette Walls

• The Glass Castle

Ayn Rand

Note: I find it both amusing and annoying how polarized people are by this book

• The FountainHead

William Faulkner

• Light in August

Daron Acemoglu and James A. Robinson

• Why Nations Fail

Burton Malkiel

• A Random Walk Down WallStreet

David Foster Wallace

• Brief Interviews with Hideous Men
• Consider the Lobster
• Infinite Jest

Hunter S. Thompson

• Generation of Swine
• Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail '72

Tao Lin

• Taipei

Charles Bukowski

• Ham on Rye

Thomas Pynchon

• Inherent Vince

Jack Kerouac

• On the Road

Colum McCann

• Let the Great World Spin

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

• The Brothers Karamazov

Jared Diamond

• Guns, Germs, and Steel

Howard Zinn

• A People's History of the United States

Brett Easton Ellis

• Less Than Zero
• American Psycho

Mohsin Hamid

• Exit West

Andrew Blum

• Tubes: A Journey to the Center of the Internet

Andrew McInerney

• Story of My Life: A Novel

Steve Coll

• Private Empire: ExxonMobil and American Power

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

• The Black Swan

Eshkol Nevo

• Three Floors Up