📚 Reading List

Currently Reading

• Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting by in America (Barbara Ehrenreich)
• The Glass Hotel (Emily St. John Mandel)
• Alien Oceans (Kevin Peter Hand)

2021

• Inadequate Equilibria: Where and How Civilizations Get Stuck (Eliezer Yudkowsky)
• The Hidden Girl and Other Stories (Ken Liu)
• Gödel, Escher, Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid (Douglas R. Hofstadter)
• The Hungry Brain (Stephan Guyenet)
• The Doors of Perception (Aldous Huxley)
• The Overstory (Richard Powers)
• The Fifth Season (N.K. Jemisin)
• The Soul of a New Machine (Tracy Kidder)
• The Ministry for the Future (Kim Stanley Robinson)

2020

• To Shape a New World (Tommie Shelby)
• Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents (Isabel Wilkerson)
• Programming Pearls (Jon L. Bentley)
• A Canticle for Leibowitz (Walter M. Miller Jr.)
• The Utopia of Rules (David Graeber)
• The Boy on the Bridge (M.R. Carey)
• Why Fish Don't Exist (Lulu Miller)
• Homeland (Cory Doctorow)
• Rainbows End (Vernor Vinge)
• The Memory Police (Yōko Ogawa)
• Foundation and Empire (Isaac Asimov)
• Anathem (Neal Stephenson)
• Watchmen (Alan Moore)
• Abaddon's Gate (James S.A. Corey)
• Ficciones (Jorge Luis Borges)
• The Way of Zen (Alan W. Watts)
• In the Garden of Beasts (Erik Larson)
• Crazy Rich Asians (Kevin Kwan)
• Kafka on the Shore (Haruki Murakami)
• A Short History of Nearly Everything (Bill Bryson)
• How to Be an Antiracist (Ibram X. Kendi)
• Ancillary Justice (Ann Leckie)
• The Age of Surveillance Capitalism (Shoshana Zuboff)
• Heart of Darkness (Joseph Conrad)
• The Peripheral (William Gibson)
• The Box: How the Shipping Container Made the World Smaller (Marc Levinson)
• Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat (Samin Nosrat)
• Caliban's War (James S.A. Corey)
• Why We're Polarized (Ezra Klein)
• Severance (Ling Ma)
• The Plague (Albert Camus)
• On Writing Well: The Classic Guide to Writing Nonfiction (William Zinsser)
• The War of the Worlds (H.G. Wells)
• Clojure for the Brave and True (Daniel Higginbotham)
• Midnight in Chernobyl (Adam Higginbotham)
• Wild Seed (Octavia E. Butler)
• Permanent Record (Edward Snowden)
• The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck (Mark Manson)
• Atomic Habits (James Clear)
• Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore (Robin Sloan)
• Animal Farm (George Orwell)
• The Picture of Dorian Gray (Oscar Wilde)
• The Little Book of Common Sense Investing (John C. Bogle)
• Thirteen Days: A Memoir of the Cuban Missile Crisis (Robert F. Kennedy)
• Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative? (Mark Fisher)
• How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe (Charles Yu)
• Blindsight (Peter Watts)
• But What If We're Wrong? Thinking About the Present As If It Were the Past (Chuck Klosterman)
• Educated (Tara Westover)
• In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto (Michael Pollan)
• On Fire: The Case for the Green New Deal (Naomi Klein)
• How To: Absurd Scientific Advice for Common Real-World Problems (Randall Munroe)
• Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion (Jia Tolentino)
• Super Pumped: The Battle for Uber (Mike Isaac)

2019

• A Gentleman in Moscow (Amor Towles)
• What I Talk About When I Talk About Running (Haruki Murakami)
• Factfulness (Hans Rosling)
• Debt: The First 5,000 Years (David Graeber)
• We Are the Weather: Saving the Planet Begins at Breakfast (Jonathan Safran Foer)
• Neuromancer (William Gibson)
• Being Geek (Michael Lopp)
• The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals (Michael Pollan)
• Sum: Forty Tales from the Afterlives (David Eagleman)
• God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater (Kurt Vonnegut Jr.)
• On the Clock (Emily Guendelsberger)
• Medium Raw (Anthony Bourdain)
• Kitchen Confidential (Anthony Bourdain)
• Leviathan Wakes (James S.A. Corey)
• Walkaway (Cory Doctorow)
• How Bad Are Bananas?: The Carbon Footprint of Everything (Mike Berners-Lee)
• The Fifth Risk (Michael Lewis)
• Rocket Men: The Daring Odyssey of Apollo 8 (Robert Kurson)
• Dreyer's English: An Utterly Correct Guide to Clarity and Style (Benjamin Dreyer)
• The Bullet Journal Method (Ryder Carroll)
• Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams (Matthew Walker)
• Radicalized (Cory Doctorow)
• American Gods (Neil Gaiman)
• A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again (David Foster Wallace)
• Exhalation: Stories (Ted Chiang)
• Red Mars (Kim Stanley Robinson)
• Thinking in Systems: A Primer (Donella H. Meadows)
• 21 Lessons for the 21st Century (Yuval Noah Harari)
• Between the World and Me (Ta-Nehisi Coates)
• Ball Lightning (Liu Cixin)
• The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming (David Wallace-Wells)
• "Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!": Adventures of a Curious Character (Richard P. Feynman)
• The Girl With All the Gifts (M.R. Carey)
• Algorithms to Live By (Brian Christian)
• Grounding for the Metaphysics of Morals (Immanuel Kant)
• Acceptance (Jeff VanderMeer)
• Flash Boys: A Wall Street Revolt (Michael Lewis)
• Designing Data-Intensive Applications (Martin Kleppmann)
• Consider the Lobster and Other Essays (David Foster Wallace)
• I, Robot (Isaac Asimov)
• The Coddling of the American Mind (Jonathan Haidt)
• How to Change Your Mind (Michael Pollan)
• Bad Blood (John Carreyrou)
• The Courage to be Disliked (Ichiro Kishimi)
• The Fated Sky (Mary Robinette Kowal)
• Utilitarianism (John Stuart Mill)
• Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea (Barbara Demick)
• Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs (Harold Abelson)
• The Calculating Stars (Mary Robinette Kowal)
• Triggers: Creating Behavior That Lasts (Marshall Goldsmith)
• Authority (Jeff VanderMeer)
• Solaris (Stanisław Lem)

2018

• Cat's Cradle (Kurt Vonnegut Jr.)
• Annihilation (Jeff VanderMeer)
• Practical Ethics (Peter Singer)
• Breakfast of Champions (Kurt Vonnegut Jr.)
• Modern Romance (Aziz Ansari)
• Astrophysics for People in a Hurry (Neil deGrasse Tyson)
• Death's End (Liu Cixin)
• The Dark Forest (Liu Cixin)
• Dune (Frank Herbert)
• Flowers for Algernon (Daniel Keyes)
• Man's Search for Meaning (Viktor E. Frankl)
• Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder (Nassim Nicholas Taleb)
• Lying (Sam Harris)
• Rick Steves' Europe Through the Back Door (Rick Steves)
• Station Eleven (Emily St. John Mandel)
• Stories of Your Life and Others (Ted Chiang)
• The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion (Jonathan Haidt)
• Free Will (Sam Harris)
• Snow Crash (Neal Stephenson)
• The Four: The Hidden DNA of Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Google (Scott Galloway)
• Finite and Infinite Games: A Vision of Life as Play and Possibility (James P. Carse)

2017

• Foundation (Isaac Asimov)
• Artemis (Andy Weir)
• The Handmaid's Tale (Margaret Atwood)
• Fahrenheit 451 (Ray Bradbury)
• Childhood's End (Arthur C. Clarke)
• Ethics in the Real World: 86 Brief Essays on Things that Matter (Peter Singer)
• Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World (Cal Newport)
• Ready Player One (Ernest Cline)
• Marx: A Very Short Introduction (Peter Singer)
• Eating Animals (Jonathan Safran Foer)
• Search Inside Yourself: The Unexpected Path to Achieving Success, Happiness (Chade-Meng Tan)
• How to Win Friends and Influence People (Dale Carnegie)
• The Wisdom of Insecurity: A Message for an Age of Anxiety (Alan W. Watts)

2016

• Slaughterhouse-Five (Kurt Vonnegut Jr.)
• A Clockwork Orange (Anthony Burgess)
• Make Room! Make Room! (Harry Harrison)
• Brave New World (Aldous Huxley)
• Aurora (Kim Stanley Robinson)

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