Tony Tam

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Tony’s favorite books

Influence by Robert B. Cialdini

1984 by George Orwell

No Longer Human by Osamu Dazai

Imagined Communities by Benedict Anderson

The Feast of the Goat by Mario Vargas Llosa

台北人 by Pai Hsien-yung

A Room of One’s Own by Virginia Woolf

The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde

Kokoro by Natsume Sōseki

The Razor’s Edge by W. Somerset Maugham

How To Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie

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read‎ (52)
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politic‎ (106)
history‎ (87)

psychology‎ (43)
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french‎ (26)
asia‎ (22)
economics‎ (19)
german‎ (14)
latin-america‎ (13)
poetry‎ (10)

american‎ (9)
short-stories‎ (9)
china‎ (5)
africa‎ (4)
art‎ (4)
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eastern-europe‎ (4)
racism‎ (4)

italian‎ (3)
self-help‎ (3)
korean-literature‎ (2)
british-irish‎ (1)
japan-history‎ (1)

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Institutional Gen...

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Institutional Genes: Origins of China's Institutions and Totalitarianism

by Chenggang Xu

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— Jan 18, 2026 12:08PM

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Prisoners of Geog...

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Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Tell You Everything You Need to Know About Global Politics (Politics of Place, #1)

by Tim Marshall

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How to Hide an Em...

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How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States

by Daniel Immerwahr

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Classics, Fiction, Historical fiction, History, Music, Non-fiction, Philosophy, Psychology, Self help, literature, english-literature, russian-literature, european-literature, anthropology, and sociology

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