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Books

I love books and would spend all of my time reading if I could.

I am currently reading Putin's People by Catherine Belton.

The following books have had an outsized impact on shaping my worldview (in no particular order).

• The End of Tsarist Russia by Dominic Lieven
• Bloodlands by Timothy Snyder
• The Man Without a Face by Masha Gessen
• The Lexus and the Olive Tree by Thomas L. Friedman
• World Order by Henry Kissinger
• Leadership by Henry Kissinger
• The Great Escape by Angus Deaton
• Bobby Kennedy by Chris Matthews
• War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
• 1984 by George Orwell
• Black Earth by Timothy Snyder
• City of Thieves by David Benioff
• Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
• A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles
• Chip War by Chris Miller
• Financial Cold War by James A. Fok
• Barbarians at the Gate by Bryan Burrough and John Helyar
• The Chukchi Bible by Yuri Rytkheu
• Mindhunter by John E. Douglas and Mark Olshaker
• Against the World by Tara Zahra
• The End of Poverty by Jeffrey Sachs
• The Ascent of Money by Niall Ferguson
• Columbine by Dave Cullen
• How Democracies Die by Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt
• The Slynx by Tatyana Tolstaya
• Generation P by Victor Pelevin
• What It Takes by Stephen A. Schwarzman
• The Future Is History by Masha Gessen
• Opening NATO's Door by Ronald D. Asmus
• Hadji Murad by Leo Tolstoy
• From Cold War to Hot Peace by Michael McFaul
• The Cold War: A New History by John Lewis Gaddis
• The Ideas That Conquered the World by Michael Mandelbaum
• The Road to Unfreedom by Timothy Snyder
• Discipline and Punish by Michel Foucault
• Realism and Democracy by Elliott Abrams
• In the Graveyard of Empires by Seth G. Jones
• The Death of Ivan Ilyich by Leo Tolstoy
• Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
• The Impossible Presidency by Jeremi Suri
• Playing with Fire by Lawrence O'Donnell
• Colossus: The Rise and Fall of the American Empire by Niall Ferguson
• The Age of Surveillance Capitalism by Shoshana Zuboff
• Against Democracy by Jason Brennan
• Political Tribes by Amy Chua
• Taras Bulba by Nikolai Gogol
• The Power of the Powerless by Václav Havel