By Philip Roth
The story of a PE instructor and playground director, in a Newark, NJ neighborhood in the summer of 1944, and the way his world is affected by a polio outbreak.
This book made me realize how much I didn't know about polio. [fiction, 280pp.]
By Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson
This book explores some of the reasons we live in scarcity (housing, public transit, innovation, etc.) and imagines a world of abundance. It doesn't describe how exactly we get there, just gives general directions to try. For example, reduce regulation (while somehow maintaining the standards these regulations were intended to ensure). [nonfiction, 304pp.]
