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Stefan Zweig: The World of Yesterday (2014, Pushkin Press, Limited)

Yang Jisheng, Stacy Mosher, Guo Jian: The World Turned Upside Down (2022, Picador)

Jonathan Cohn: Ten Year War (2021, St. Martin's Press)

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Karl Polanyi: The Great Transformation (Paperback, 2024, Penguin Books UK)

Scott Zesch: The Chinatown war (2012, Oxford University Press)

Kirsten Menger-Anderson: The Expert of Subtle Revisions (Hardcover, 2025, Crown Publishing Group, The)

2025 Reading Goal

92% complete! hunterowens has read 74 of 80 books.

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hunterowens finished reading The Great Transformation by Karl Polanyi

The Great Transformation by Karl Polanyi

Karl Polanyi's landmark 1944 work is one of the earliest and most powerful critiques of unregulated markets. Tracing the history …

hunterowens finished reading The Chinatown war by Scott Zesch

The Chinatown war by Scott Zesch

hunterowens finished reading The Expert of Subtle Revisions by Kirsten Menger-Anderson

The Expert of Subtle Revisions by Kirsten Menger-Anderson

Menger-Anderson debuts with an eloquent story of time travel and family secrets. It begins with a 21-year-old woman named Hase, …

hunterowens finished reading Torqued Man by Peter Mann

Peter Mann: Torqued Man (2022, HarperCollins Publishers)

Torqued Man by Peter Mann

hunterowens finished reading Charles Sumner by Zaakir Tameez

Charles Sumner by Zaakir Tameez

hunterowens reviewed I Deliver Parcels in Beijing by Jack Hargreaves

Jack Hargreaves, Hu AnYan: I Deliver Parcels in Beijing (2025, Astra Publishing House)

gig economy

5 stars

honestly, an incredible story of live in the gig economy in china, well written and translated. one of the best things I read this year.

hunterowens finished reading I Deliver Parcels in Beijing by Jack Hargreaves

I Deliver Parcels in Beijing by Jack Hargreaves, Hu AnYan

hunterowens finished reading Strangers in the Land by Michael Luo

No cover — Michael Luo: Strangers in the Land (2025, Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group)

Strangers in the Land by Michael Luo

hunterowens finished reading Breakneck by Dan Wang

Dan Wang: Breakneck (2025, Norton & Company, Incorporated, W. W.)

Breakneck by Dan Wang

For close to a decade, technology analyst Dan Wang―“a gifted observer of contemporary China” (Ross Douthat)―has been living through the …

hunterowens finished reading The Highest Exam by Ruixue Jia, Hongbin Li, Claire Cousineau

Ruixue Jia, Hongbin Li, Claire Cousineau: The Highest Exam

The Highest Exam by Ruixue Jia, Hongbin Li, Claire Cousineau

hunterowens finished reading The World For Sale by Javier Blas

Javier Blas, Jack Farchy: The World For Sale (2021)

The World For Sale by Javier Blas, Jack Farchy

hunterowens finished reading Carthage must be destroyed by Richard Miles

Richard Miles: Carthage must be destroyed (2011, Viking)

Carthage must be destroyed by Richard Miles

hunterowens finished reading The Right of the People by Osita Nwanevu

Osita Nwanevu: The Right of the People (2025, Random House)

The Right of the People by Osita Nwanevu

hunterowens finished reading Revolutionary Temper by Robert Darnton

Robert Darnton: Revolutionary Temper (2023, Norton & Company, Incorporated, W. W.)

Revolutionary Temper by Robert Darnton

'Events do not come naked into the world. They come clothed - in attitudes, assumptions, values, memories of the past, …