Andreea B. Alexandru

A few recent favorites

• Power, Sex, Suicide: Mitochondria and the Meaning of Life by Nick Lane
• The Premonition: A Pandemic Story by Michael Lewis
• The Ethical Algorithm: The Science of Socially Aware Algorithm Design by Michael Kearns and Aaron Roth
• Why We're Polarized by Ezra Klein
• Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic by David Quammen
• The Human Cosmos: Civilization and the Stars by Jo Marchant
• Future Crimes: Inside the Digital Underground and the Battle for Our Connected World by Marc Goodman
• When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi
• Girl, Woman, Other by Bernardine Evaristo
• The Fifth Risk by Michael Lewis
• The Buried Giant by Kazuo Ishiguro
• The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz
• Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell
• Machines Like Me by Ian McEwan
• The Ministry of Utmost Happiness by Arundhati Roy
• Lost in Math: How Beauty Leads Physics Astray by Sabine Hossenfelder
• Slapstick, or Lonesome No More! by Kurt Vonnegut
• Signs Preceding the End of the World by Yuri Herrera

Places I have wandered

Acknowledgements

I have recently discovered I have been mentioned in the acknowledgement section of several PhD theses, which genuinely moved me. Kudos to (inverse chronologically) Erica, Tjerand, Tasos, Brent, Achin, Matei, Diego and Nick. (Thanks Google Scholar for indexing these too!)