Reading notes for 2022

• Klara and the Sun (Kazuo Ishiguro). Ishiguro uses his characteristic unreliable narrator, but the novelty here is that the narrator is a sophisticated (but childlike) AI
• Understanding the Australian Health Care System (Ellen Willis).
• The Distance Cure: A History of Teletherapy (Hannah Zeavin)
• There is Nothing For You Here (Fiona Hill). An engaging memoir from Russia-specialist Fiona Hill.
  
• A Promised Land (Barack Obama)
• Learning to Teach in Higher Education (Paul Ramsden)
• The Wounded Storyteller (Arthur Frank). Informative exploration of “narrative medicine”
• The Structure of Scientific Revolutions (Thomas Kuhn)
• A Carnival of Snackery (David Sedaris)
• Oliver Twist (Charles Dickens).
  
• Digital Health (Eric Perakslis)
• Humanities Data Analysis: Case Studies in Python (Folgart Karsdorp)
• Puff Piece (John Saffron). Engaging journalistic discussion of the electronic cigarette industry in Australia
• 21 Lessons for the 21st Century (Yuval Noah Harari)
• Two Besides (Alan Bennett)
• Illness as Metaphor (Susan Sontag)
• Dark Academia (Peter Fleming). Sobering analysis of the modern research university and its dysfunctions
• Death (Shelly Kagan). Philsophical exploration of the nature of death
• The Stigma of Addiction (Jonathan Avery)
• Happy Go Lucky (Sedaris)
• The Productive Researcher (Mark Reed)
• Philosophy of Psychiatry (Tsou). Short introduction to some of the core issues in the Philosophy of Psychiatry (e.g. psychiatric classification, issues around the validity and utility of RDoC)
• Hands-on Healthcare Data (Andrew Nguyen). Describes some of the core tasks, challenges, and resources in health analytics
• Craft of Scientific Presentation (Michael Alley)
• Artificial Paranoia (Kenneth Colby). A seminal book describing PARRY, a paranoid conversational agent.
  
• Empire of Pain (Patrick Radden Keefe). An extensive history of regulatory capture and the role of the Sackler family in the pharmaceutical industry
• Text as Data (Grimmer). An introduction to NLP from a social science perspective.
  
• This is Going to Hurt (Adam Kay). A funny (and disturbing) memoir of a junior doctor’s career in the NHS
• Burning Questions (Margaret Atwood)
• How the World Really Works (Vaclav Smil)
• The Craft of College Teaching (Robert DiYanni)
• Rewired: Protecting Your Brain in the Digital Age (Carl Marci)
• 1984 (George Orwell). Revisiting a book I last read when I was a teen. It’s much more disturbing this time around.
• Straight Man (Richard Russo). Campus novel set in a US English Literature department