The White Tiger

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Non-fiction: Coders at Work by Peter Siebel and Founders at Work by Jessica Livingston - I loved reading about the founder's stories and first-hand perspectives of notable programmers. The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work by Alain de Botton - really interesting perspective on "work" and various types of careers and people that find happiness in them/work itself. Superfreakonomics by Steven Levitt and Stephen Dubner - even if you don't agree with their arguments or think that the authors are all fluff, I think that their writing style is exceptionally clear and easy to understand. The Black Swan by Nassim Nicholas Taleb - some really interesting ideas and analysis, although the book could have been 1/2 as short Fiction: Anathem by Neal Stephenson - starts out slow but after the first 200 pages it became a really great story that I couldn't pu…

…ist by extension) Emerging markets (or ex-commonwealth) literature is now trending upwards and the recent Man Booker prize was awarded for an Indian expat's debut novel (The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga http://www.amazon.com/White-Tiger-Novel-Aravind-Adiga/dp/141... ) So it isn't really a brain circulation as much as one individual's canny career movie for someone whose profession is writing. And it did work, he got published in the NY Times! If I were more uncharitable, I'd call this "artistic slumming" for a new experience fix.