Safi’s 2020 Summer Reading List

May 22, 2020

safi-interview-bookshelf“I like to read about history (critical), and have an inclination to read books on philosophy,” says Hazim Safi, MD, professor and founding chair of the department of Cardiothoracic & Vascular Surgery at McGovern Medical School.  “Every day I read through the New York Times and Financial Times” Safi continues, “…and the Houston Chronicle, for the obituaries.”

Favorites

  • Unpopular Essays and Why I’m Not a Christian, Bertrand Russell
  • The World Lit Only by Fire, William Manchester
  • A Peace to End All Peace: The Fall of the Ottoman Empire and the Creation of the Modern Middle East, David Fromkin
  • Capital in the Twenty-First Century, Thomas Picketty
  • Holy Blood, Holy Grail, by Simon Prebble, Michael Baigent, et al.
  • Lincoln: Biography of a Writer, Fred Kaplan

Summer Reading List:

  • The Savage Mind, Claude Levi-Strauss
  • The Rumi Prescription, Melody Moezzi
  • The Political Writings, Karl Marx
  • Hillbilly Elegy, J.D. Vance
  • The Lost Art of Scripture, Karen Armstrong
  • Who Rules the World, Noam Chomsky
  • A Very Stable Genius, Philip Rucker & Carol Leonnig
  • The English and Their History, Robert Tombs
  • Confessions of a Born-Again Pagan, Anthony T. Kronman