Book Recommendations
Here are some books and movies I recommend, with an eye towards “economic” themes.
Non-Fiction
- How Asia Works, by Joe Studwell
- The Gunpowder Age, by Tonio Andrade
- Foreign Devils on the Silk Road, by Peter Hopkirk
- Forgotten Ally, by Rana Mitter
- Asia’s Next Giant, by Alice Amsden
- Coercion, Capital, and European States, by Charles Tilly
Fiction/Literary Non-Fiction
- CivilWarLand in Bad Decline, by George Saunders
- War and Peace, by Leo Tolstoy
- Down and Out in Paris and London, by George Orwell
- The Road to Wigan Pier, by George Orwell
- Homage to Catalonia, by George Orwell
- Red Plenty: Inside the Fifties’ Soviet Dream, by Francis Spufford
- Red Sorghum, by Mo Yan
- A Room of One’s Own, by Virginia Woolf
- A Grain of Wheat, by Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o
- The Quiet American, by Graham Greene
- The Epic of Gilgamesh, by Unknown
Movies
- The Fog of War: Eleven Lessons from the Life of Robert McNamara, by Errol Morris
- The Only Son, by Yasujiro Ozu
- Good Morning, by Yasujiro Ozu
- High and Low, by Akira Kurosawa
- To Live, by Zhang Yimou
- Memories of Murder, by Bong Joon-ho
- Take Out, by Sean Baker and Shih-Ching Tsou
- Sorry to Bother You, by Boots Riley
- Faces Places, by Agnes Varda
- Chungking Express, by Wong Kar-Wai