📚 Reading List

Currently Reading

• Dancing With Life (Phillip Moffitt)
• Already Free (Bruce Tift)
• The Republic (Plato)
• Staff Engineer (Will Larson, Tanya Reilly)

2025

• Bodhisattva Mind (Pema Chödrön)
• A Tale for the Time Being (Ruth Ozeki)
• Getting Unstuck (Pema Chödrön)
• The Demon in the Machine (Paul Davies)
• Antimemetics (Nadia Asparouhova)
• Trail of the Lost (Andrea Lankford)
• A Grief Observed (C. S. Lewis)
• Nemesis Games (James S. A. Corey)
• Everything is F*cked (Mark Manson)
• Killers of the Flower Moon (David Grann)
• The Wall (John Lanchester)
• Walking to Aldebaran (Adrian Tchaikovsky)
• Every Life is on Fire (Jeremy England)
• How High We Go in the Dark (Sequoia Nagamatsu)

2024

• Causal Inference (Paul R. Rosenbaum)
• Quantum Supremacy (Michio Kaku)
• The Science of Can and Can't (Chiara Marletto)
• White Holes (Carlo Rovelli)
• The Order of Time (Carlo Rovelli)
• When Einstein Walked with Gödel (Jim Holt)
• ⭐ The Making of the Atomic Bomb (Richard Rhodes)
• An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States (Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz)
• Night Vision (Mariana Alessandri)
• An Infinity of Worlds (Will Kinney)
• Grokking Simplicity (Eric Normand)
• At the Edge of Time (Dan Hooper)
• The Bomber Mafia (Malcolm Gladwell)

2023

• What We Owe the Future (William MacAskill)
• Leonardo da Vinci (Walter Isaacson)
• Living Beautifully with Uncertainty and Change (Pema Chödrön)
• Self (Barry Dainton)
• Spare (Prince Harry, J.R. Moehringer)
• Kinds of Minds (Daniel C. Dennett)
• The Midnight Library (Matt Haig)
• Norwegian Wood (Haruki Murakami)
• Hummingbird Salamander (Jeff VanderMeer)
• Godel's Proof (Ernest Nagel)
• Every Word Is a Bird We Teach to Sing (Daniel Tammet)
• Essays in Love (Alain de Botton)
• Rite of Passage (Alexei Panshin)
• Pride and Prejudice (Jane Austen)
• ⭐ Accelerando (Charles Stross)
• Flying Blind (Peter Robison)
• The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle (Haruki Murakami)
• ⭐ I Am a Strange Loop (Douglas R. Hofstadter)
• Night Sky with Exit Wounds (Ocean Vuong)
• Comfort Me with Apples (Catherynne M. Valente)
• The Love Prescription (John M. Gottman)
• How to Not Die Alone (Logan Ury)
• Designing Machine Learning Systems (Chip Huyen)
• Peace Is Every Step (Thich Nhat Hanh)
• Upgrade (Blake Crouch)
• The Guest Cat (Takashi Hiraide)

2022

• All Systems Red (Martha Wells)
• Creativity: A Short and Cheerful Guide (John Cleese)
• The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays (Albert Camus)
• Ubik (Philip K. Dick)
• The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress (Robert A. Heinlein)
• The Evolving Self (Robert Kegan)
• ⭐ Chaos: Making a New Science (James Gleick)
• Dreamsnake (Vonda N. McIntyre)
• The Phenomenological Mind (Shaun Gallagher)
• The Man from the Future (Ananyo Bhattacharya)
• A Scanner Darkly (Philip K. Dick)
• Her Body and Other Parties: Stories (Carmen Maria Machado)
• A Deepness in the Sky (Vernor Vinge)
• If This Isn't Nice, What Is? (Kurt Vonnegut Jr.)
• An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding (David Hume)
• Hyperion (Dan Simmons)
• The Precipice (Toby Ord)
• Consider Phlebas (Iain M. Banks)
• Twilight of the Idols (Friedrich Nietzsche)
• The Drunkard's Walk (Leonard Mlodinow)
• Klara and the Sun (Kazuo Ishiguro)
• Stuff Matters (Mark Miodownik)
• The Body Keeps the Score (Bessel van der Kolk)
• Just Keep Buying (Nick Maggiulli)
• The Alchemist (Paulo Coelho)
• The Psychology of Money (Morgan Housel)
• Things Might Go Terribly, Horribly Wrong (Kelly G. Wilson)
• Sea of Tranquility (Emily St. John Mandel)
• Cibola Burn (James S.A. Corey)
• The Wisdom of Insecurity (Alan W. Watts)
• Wanting (Luke Burgis)
• Entangled Life (Merlin Sheldrake)
• Player Piano (Kurt Vonnegut Jr.)
• The Case for God (Karen Armstrong)
• The Power of Ritual (Casper ter Kuile)
• Feeling Great (David D. Burns)
• A Fire Upon the Deep (Vernor Vinge)
• Stolen Focus (Johann Hari)
• Designing Your Life (Bill Burnett)
• Seek You (Kristen Radtke)
• This is How You Lose the Time War (Amal El-Mohtar)
• How to Do Nothing (Jenny Odell)
• ⭐ Embassytown (China Miéville)
• Thinking in Bets (Annie Duke)
• The Future of Nutrition (T. Colin Campbell)
• Dark Matter (Blake Crouch)
• Termination Shock (Neal Stephenson)
• Maybe You Should Talk to Someone (Lori Gottlieb)
• Dune Messiah (Frank Herbert)

2021

• Going Postal (Terry Pratchett)
• The Future of Another Timeline (Annalee Newitz)
• Truth of the Divine (Lindsay Ellis)
• Four Thousand Weeks (Oliver Burkeman)
• Seeing Like a State (James C. Scott)
• ⭐ The Beginning of Infinity (David Deutsch)
• Longitude (Dava Sobel)
• Die with Zero (Bill Perkins)
• Recursion (Blake Crouch)
• Nomadland: Surviving America in the Twenty-First Century (Jessica Bruder)
• The Fall of Koli (M.R. Carey)
• Under a White Sky: The Nature of the Future (Elizabeth Kolbert)
• ⭐ The Devil in the White City (Erik Larson)
• The Trials of Koli (M.R. Carey)
• The Left Hand of Darkness (Ursula K. Le Guin)
• The Relentless Moon (Mary Robinette Kowal)
• An Economist Gets Lunch (Tyler Cowen)
• Database Internals (Alex Petrov)
• The City & the City (China Miéville)
• The Book of Koli (M.R. Carey)
• Project Hail Mary (Andy Weir)
• The Book: On the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are (Alan W. Watts)
• This Is Your Mind on Plants (Michael Pollan)
• The Stone Sky (N.K. Jemisin)
• Meditations (Marcus Aurelius)
• The Color of Magic (Terry Pratchett)
• A Million Miles in a Thousand Years (Donald Miller)
• Skin in the Game (Nassim Nicholas Taleb)
• The Obelisk Gate (N.K. Jemisin)
• A Liberated Mind: How to Pivot Toward What Matters (Steven C. Hayes)
• ⭐ The Information (James Gleick)
• Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom (Cory Doctorow)
• The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia (Ursula K. Le Guin)
• More Programming Pearls: Confessions of a Coder (Jon L. Bentley)
• The Works: Anatomy of a City (Kate Ascher)
• Battle Royale (Koushun Takami)
• A Philosophy of Software Design (John Ousterhout)
• ⭐ Tao Te Ching (*Ursula Le Guin's Translation) (Lao Tzu)
• Axiom's End (Lindsay Ellis)
• Alien Oceans (Kevin Peter Hand)
• Dataclysm: Who We Are (Christian Rudder)
• Breath: The New Science of a Lost Art (James Nestor)
• Nickel and Dimed (Barbara Ehrenreich)
• The Glass Hotel (Emily St. John Mandel)
• 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 Fifth Season (N.K. Jemisin)
• ⭐ The Overstory (Richard Powers)
• 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)
• A Canticle for Leibowitz (Walter M. Miller Jr.)
• Programming Pearls (Jon L. Bentley)
• 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)
• Anathem (Neal Stephenson)
• Foundation and Empire (Isaac Asimov)
• 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 (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? (Mike Berners-Lee)
• The Fifth Risk (Michael Lewis)
• Rocket Men (Robert Kurson)
• Dreyer's English: An Utterly Correct Guide to Clarity and Style (Benjamin Dreyer)
• The Bullet Journal Method (Ryder Carroll)
• Why We Sleep (Matthew Walker)
• Radicalized (Cory Doctorow)
• American Gods (Neil Gaiman)
• A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again (David Foster Wallace)
• Exhalation (Ted Chiang)
• Red Mars (Kim Stanley Robinson)
• 21 Lessons for the 21st Century (Yuval Noah Harari)
• Thinking In Systems (Donella H. Meadows)
• 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)
• Acceptance (Jeff VanderMeer)
• Algorithms to Live By (Brian Christian)
• Grounding for the Metaphysics of Morals (Immanuel Kant)
• Designing Data-Intensive Applications (Martin Kleppmann)
• Flash Boys: A Wall Street Revolt (Michael Lewis)
• 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 (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 (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 (Peter Singer)
• Deep Work (Cal Newport)
• Ready Player One (Ernest Cline)
• Marx: A Very Short Introduction (Peter Singer)
• Eating Animals (Jonathan Safran Foer)
• How to Win Friends and Influence People (Dale Carnegie)
• Search Inside Yourself (Chade-Meng Tan)

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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