I think that books are just extensions of our personalities. I drink what I like in the same way that I read what I like…. an all encompassing variety of whimsy, or depth and ultimately, intrigue. I just like to be fascinated and completely engrossed.

I try to finish two to three books a month, which means, I can become pretty OCD about it… but once I’m into a book, I can’t put it down, which makes it pretty easy to do. Here is what I’d like to start the year off reading:

1. The Price of Inequality: How Today’s Divided Society Endangers Our Future by Joseph Stiglitz.
2. Stoner, by John Williams. I know… I should have read this long ago.
3. The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Mulan Kundera
4. The Blood Telegram: Nixon, Kissinger, and a Forgotten Genocide by Gary J. Bass. I heard this was an excellent read about US-Bangladesh-Pakistan-India relations.
5. Jesus and the Eyewitnesses: The Gospels as Eyewitness Testimony by Richard Bauckham
6. Moon Tiger by Penelope Lively
7. Cuisine and Empire: Cooking in World History by Rachel Laudan
8. Days of Abandonment by Elena Ferrante
9. The Idealist: Jeffrey Sachs and the Quest to End Poverty by Nina Munk
10. The One World Schoolhouse: Education Reimagined by Salman Khan. I think that education has gone way too far in the wrong direction and we need an entirely new system. I hope this book has some good ideas.
11. Naoki Higashida, The Reason I Jump: The Inner Voice of a Thirteen-Year-Old Boy with Autism. by Naoki Higashida
12. Variety of Men by CP Snow
13. Misunderstanding Financial Crises: Why We Don’t See Them Coming by Gary B. Gorto
14. Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn
15. The Basic Laws of Human Stupidity by Carlo M. Cipolla