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Eden Ostefa

Eden Ostefa

  • New Yorker. Time well spent in San Francisco, Seattle, and Singapore.
  • I graduated fom Stanford with a M.S. in Statistics, B.S. in CS, and a Minor in Math.
  • Currently MTS at Fleet. Previously at Fern, Hippocratic, Resultid, and Amazon.
  • Travelphile, art admirer, and avid reader.
  • I write a Substack, by the same name as this site.

Great Works & Literature

  • East of Eden, by John Steinbeck.
  • War and Peace, by Leo Tolstoy.
  • Life and Fate, by Vasily Grossman.
  • The Brothers Karamazov, by Fyodor Dostoevsky.
  • Anna Karenina, by Leo Tolstoy.
  • The Grapes of Wrath, by John Steinbeck.
  • One Hundred Years of Solitude, by Gabriel García Márquez.

Biography

  • Napoleon, A Life, by Andrew Roberts.
  • Bismarck, A Life, by Jonathan Steinberg.
  • FDR, by Jean Edwards Smith.
  • Mao, The Real Story, by Pantsov & Levine.

History

  • Battlecry of Freedom, by James McPherson.
  • From Third World to First, by Lee Kuan Yew.
  • The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, by William L. Shirer.
  • The Rape of Nanjing, by Iris Chang.

Delights

  • A Gentleman in Moscow, by Amor Towles. Charming and unforgettable.
  • Cannery Row, by John Steinbeck. A love letter to Monterey.
  • The Order of Time, by Carlos Rovelli. It fills you with wonder.
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