Sophie's List

Hello!

Devika has graciously invited me to join your book club. Thank you for having me!

My tentative booklist for this summer:

Fiction

Open Secrets, Alice Munro (finished)

The God of Small Things, Arundhati Roy (finished)

Too Much Happiness, Alice Munro

Transparent Things, Vladimir Nabokov

The Great Divorce, C.S. Lewis

The Book of Laughter and Forgetting, Milan Kundera

Nonfiction, essays, and literature
Game Change, John Heilemann and Mark Halperin (finished)

Better, Atul Gawande

What the Dog Saw, Malcolm Gladwell

Letters to a Young Poet, Rainer Maria Rilke (rereading)

Debt: The First 5,000 Years, David Graeber

Is Paris Burning?, Larry Collins and Dominique Lapierre

The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York, Robert Caro

The Welfare State Reader, ed. Christopher Pierson and Francis Castles

(Admittedly, this is a requirement for grad school. But it’s a great compilation, and I think I will be compelled to share thoughts on many of the essays, so I’m including it on this list.)

I'm still in the market for a great biography and an interesting read in urban, development, or behavioral economics, if anyone has suggestions.

Cheers,

Sophie