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Bring Back Our Girls: The Untold Story of the Global Search for Nigeria's Missing Schoolgirls  by Joe Parkinson, Drew Hinshaw, Harper Perennial, 2022.

Born a Crime: Stories From a South African Childhood  by Trevor Noah, Doubleday Canada, 2016.

City of Devils: The Two Men Who Ruled the Underworld of Old Shanghai by Paul French, Picador, 2018.

The Age of Entitlement: America Since the Sixties by Christopher Caldwell, Simon and Schuster, 2021

Silenced: How Apostasy and Blasphemy Codes are Choking Freedom Worldwide  by Paul Marshall and Nina Shea, Oxford University Press, 2011.  Islamists see freedom of religion as meaning protecting religion by making it free from criticism. Islamists do not believe in individual rights; they believe that only Islam and Allah have rights. The book examines how in various Muslim countries, apostasy and blasphemy are punished. In the early history of Islam, when Islam was spreading

The Hare with Amber Eyes: A Family's Century of Art and Loss by Edmund de Waal, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2010.

Love and Math: The Heart of Hidden Reality by Edward Frenkel, Basic Books, 2014.

Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage by Alfred Lansing, Basic Books, 2015.

A Mathematician's Apology by G. H. Hardy, Martino Fine Books, 2018.

The Man Who Loved Only Numbers: The Story of Paul Erdos and the Search for Mathematical Truth by Paul Hoffman Grand Central Publishing, 1998.

Desert Flower: The Extraordinary Journey Of A Desert Nomad by Waris Dirie, William Morrow, 1998.

Educated: A Memoir by Tara Westover, Random House, 2021.

Stuff: Compulsive Hoarding and the Meaning of Things by Gail Steketee and Randy Frost, Mariner Books, 2011.

Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future by Peter Thiel and Blake Masters, Crown Currency, 2014.  For mature industries capitalism is about competition. But for new industries, capitalism is about going from zero companies in the industry to one company in the industry, My favorite quote: “What important truth do very few people agree with you on?”

The Orientalist: Solving the Mystery of a Strange and Dangerous Life  by Tom Reiss, Random House Publishing Group; Reprint edition, 2006.

The Fatal Shore: The Epic of Australia’s Founding  by Robert Hughes, Vintage, 1988.  Transportation The increase in the urban population due to the Industrial Revolution, and the presence of many unemployed poor people caused the crime rate to rise. In the 18th century, Britain dealt with its criminal element not by imprisoning them, but by transporting them to its colonies. The authorities wanted to remove the criminal element, so that they would not pollute the morals of th

The Story of the Human Body: Evolution, Health, and Disease  by Daniel E. Lieberman (Author), Vintage; Reprint edition, 2014.  Physical Evolution The author describes how the bodies of our ancestors changed over time. He describes how many bones have changed their shapes, due to walking upright. The intestines have evolved to be smaller, because we have prepared our food to make it easier to digest. Mismatch Diseases Cultural evolution proceeds much faster than physical evolu

Do Not Disturb: The Story of a Political Murder and an African Regime Gone Bad by Michela Wrong, PublicAffairs, 2023. The Assassination of Paul Karegeya Paul Karegeya was assassinated in Room 905 of the Michelangelo Towers Hotel in Johannesburg, South Africa on December 31 of 2013. He had been raised in a Roman Catholic, Banyarwanda cattle-herding family. Karegeya had belonged to the Rwandan Patriotic Front, and managed taking gold, coltan and diamonds from the Democratic Re

When a Crocodile Eats the Sun: A Memoir of Africa by Peter Godwin, Picador, 2007.

The Last Resort: A Memoir of Mischief and Mayhem on a Family Farm in Africa by Douglas Rogers, Crown, 2010.