Library
Books I've read and found worth recommending · Updated May 2026
Non-fiction
- Doing Good Better— Will MacAskill
The case for effective altruism — rigorous, readable, and quietly life-changing.
- Ethics in the Real World— Peter Singer
Short essays on applied ethics. Singer makes hard arguments with unusual clarity.
- Air-Conditioned Nation, Revisited— Cherian George
A sharp, affectionate critique of Singapore — its contradictions and its potential.
- Civilized to Death— Christopher Ryan
A provocative challenge to the idea that modernity is straightforwardly progress.
- Discipline and Punish— Michel Foucault
Dense but rewarding. Foucault on how modern institutions — prisons, schools — produce obedient subjects.
Fiction
- Killing Floor— Lee Child
The first Jack Reacher novel. Pure momentum — impossible to put down.
This list is a work in progress — I'll keep adding as I read more.