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Reading list since mid-2025 (last update February 2026)

currently reading

• A crack in creation: the new power to control evolution by Jennifer Doudna & Samuel Sternberg
• Mao Zedong: a life by Jonathan D. Spence

past reads

• The unbearable lightness of being by Milan Kundera
• The shadow of the sun by Ryszard Kapuściński — read during my trip to Guinea-Bissau, it offered valuable context for understanding everyday life in Africa
• El loco de Dios en el fin del mundo de Javier Cercas
• The trading game: A Confession by Gary Stevenson — very interesting, from the guy that owns the Garys Economics youtube channel
• Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir
• A genocide foretold by Chris Hedges — a confrontation of the stark realities of living under Israel's genocide in Gaza
• Why greatness cannot be planned: the myth of the objective by Kenneth O. Stanley & Joel Lehman
• The elegant universe: superstrings, hidden dimensions, and the quest for the ultimate theory (25th aniversary edition) by Brian Greene
• Our lady of the Nile by Scholastique Mukasonga
• Trust by Hernan Diaz