exploring & escapades

Fiction

1. The Three Body Problem – Liu Cixin
2. The Course of Love – Alain de Botton
3. My Brilliant Friend – Elena Ferrante
4. Exit West – Mohasin Homid
5. All Our Wrong Todays – Elon Mestai
6. The Story of a New Name – Elena Ferrante
7. Crazy Rich Asians-  Kevin Kwan
8. The Right of Way – LB Lewis
9. Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay – Elena Ferrante
10. The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo – Taylor Jenkins Reid
11. Hello Sunshine – Laura Davis
12. Fierce Kingdom, A Novel -Gin Phillips
13. A Darker Shade of Magic – V.E. Schwab
14. The Book of Dust – Philip Pullman
15. Affections, A Novel – Rodrigo Hasbún
16. Zorba the Greek – Nikos Kazantzakis

Nonfiction

1. Profiles of Courage – JFK
2. Thank You for Being Late – Thomas Friedman
3. Dark Age Ahead – Jane Jacobs
4. The Smartest Places on Earth: Why Rustbelts are the Emerging Hotspots of Global Innovation – Antoine van Agtmael & Fred Bakker
5. The Fight for Beauty: Our Path to a Better Future – Fiona Reynolds
6. If Mayors Ruled the World: Dysfunctional Nations, Rising Cities – Benjamin R. Barber
7. Wild – Cheryl Strayed
8. Blockchain Revolution: How the Technology Behind Bitcoin is Changing Money, Business, and the World – Don Tapscott & Alex Tapscott
9. Wild Europe: The Balkans in the Gaze of Western Travelers – Božidar Jezernik
10. Utopia for Realists-Rutger Bregman
11. On Photography – Susan Sontay
12. The Misfit Economy: Lessons in Creativity from Pirates, Hackers, Gangsters, and Other Informal Entrepreneurs
13. The Box: How the Shipping Container Made the World Smaller and the World Economy Bigger – Marc Levinson
14. Daring Greatly – Brené Brown
15. The Culture Map – Erin Meyer
16. The Architecture of Happiness – Alain de Botton
17. Welcome to Your World: How the Built Environment Shapes Our Lives – Sarah Williams Goldhagen
18. The Soul of an Octopus: A Surprising Exploration into the Wonder of Consciousness -Sy Montgomery
19. The Silk Roads: A New History of the World – Peter Frankopan