# Reading List ## Currently Reading - [Duino Elegies](https://hardcover.app/books/duino-elegies-a-bilingual-edition) by Rainer Maria Rilke - [A Path With Heart](https://hardcover.app/books/a-path-with-heart) by Jack Kornfield ## 2026 - [Letters to a Young Poet](https://hardcover.app/books/letters-to-a-young-poet-1929) by Rainer Maria Rilke - [A Psalm for the Wild-Built](https://hardcover.app/books/a-psalm-for-the-wild-built) by Becky Chambers - [Babylon's Ashes](https://hardcover.app/books/babylons-ashes) by James S. A. Corey - [Piranesi](https://hardcover.app/books/piranesi) by Susanna Clarke - [Real Life](https://hardcover.app/books/real-life-the-journey-from-isolation-to-openness-and-freedom) by Sharon Salzberg - [Crime and Punishment](https://hardcover.app/books/crime-and-punishment) by Fyodor Dostoevsky ## 2025 - [Supercommunicators](https://hardcover.app/books/supercommunicators) by Charles Duhigg - [Already Free](https://hardcover.app/books/already-free) by Bruce Tift ⭐ - [No Mud, No Lotus](https://hardcover.app/books/no-mud-no-lotus) by Thich Nhat Hanh - [If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies](https://hardcover.app/books/if-anyone-builds-it-everyone-dies) by Eliezer Yudkowsky, Nate Soares - [Everything Is Tuberculosis](https://hardcover.app/books/everything-is-tuberculosis) by John Green - [Bodhisattva Mind](https://hardcover.app/books/bodhisattva-mind) by Pema Chödrön - [A Tale for the Time Being](https://hardcover.app/books/a-tale-for-the-time-being) by Ruth Ozeki - [Getting Unstuck](https://hardcover.app/books/getting-unstuck-breaking-your-habitual-patterns-encountering-naked-reality) by Pema Chödrön - [The Demon in the Machine](https://hardcover.app/books/the-demon-in-the-machine) by Paul Davies - [Antimemetics](https://hardcover.app/books/antimemetics) by Nadia Asparouhova - [Trail of the Lost](https://hardcover.app/books/trail-of-the-lost) by Andrea Lankford - [A Grief Observed](https://hardcover.app/books/a-grief-observed) by C. S. Lewis - [Nemesis Games](https://hardcover.app/books/nemesis-games) by James S. A. Corey - [Everything is F*cked](https://hardcover.app/books/everything-is-f-cked-a-book-about-hope) by Mark Manson - [Killers of the Flower Moon](https://hardcover.app/books/killers-of-the-flower-moon) by David Grann - [The Wall](https://hardcover.app/books/the-wall) by John Lanchester - [Walking to Aldebaran](https://hardcover.app/books/walking-to-aldebaran) by Adrian Tchaikovsky - [Every Life is on Fire](https://hardcover.app/books/every-life-is-on-fire) by Jeremy England - [How High We Go in the Dark](https://hardcover.app/books/how-high-we-go-in-the-dark) by Sequoia Nagamatsu ## 2024 - [Causal Inference](https://hardcover.app/books/causal-inference-2023) by Paul R. Rosenbaum - [Quantum Supremacy](https://hardcover.app/books/quantum-supremacy) by Michio Kaku - [The Science of Can and Can't](https://hardcover.app/books/the-science-of-can-and-cant) by Chiara Marletto - [White Holes](https://hardcover.app/books/white-holes-2023) by Carlo Rovelli - [The Order of Time](https://hardcover.app/books/the-order-of-time) by Carlo Rovelli - [When Einstein Walked with Gödel](https://hardcover.app/books/when-einstein-walked-with-godel) by Jim Holt - [The Making of the Atomic Bomb](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16884.The_Making_of_the_Atomic_Bomb) by Richard Rhodes ⭐ - [An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States](https://hardcover.app/books/an-indigenous-peoples-history-of-the-united-states) by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz - [Night Vision](https://hardcover.app/books/night-vision-seeing-ourselves-through-dark-moods) by Mariana Alessandri - [An Infinity of Worlds](https://hardcover.app/books/an-infinity-of-worlds) by Will Kinney - [Grokking Simplicity](https://hardcover.app/books/grokking-simplicity) by Eric Normand - [At the Edge of Time](https://hardcover.app/books/at-the-edge-of-time) by Dan Hooper - [The Bomber Mafia](https://hardcover.app/books/the-bomber-mafia) by Malcolm Gladwell ## 2023 - [What We Owe the Future](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/59802037-what-we-owe-the-future) by William MacAskill - [Leonardo da Vinci](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/34684622-leonardo-da-vinci) by Walter Isaacson - [Living Beautifully with Uncertainty and Change](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13414918-living-beautifully-with-uncertainty-and-change) by Pema Chödrön - [Self](https://hardcover.app/books/self-philosophy-in-transit) by Barry Dainton - [Spare](https://hardcover.app/books/spare) by Prince Harry, J.R. Moehringer - [Kinds of Minds](https://hardcover.app/books/kinds-of-minds) by Daniel C. Dennett - [The Midnight Library](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/52578297-the-midnight-library) by Matt Haig - [Norwegian Wood](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11297.Norwegian_Wood) by Haruki Murakami - [Hummingbird Salamander](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/53359447-hummingbird-salamander) by Jeff VanderMeer - [Godel's Proof](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12247620-godel-s-proof) by Ernest Nagel - [Every Word Is a Bird We Teach to Sing](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6417951-every-word-is-a-bird-we-teach-to-sing) by Daniel Tammet - [Essays in Love](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23427.Essays_in_Love) by Alain de Botton - [Rite of Passage](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/229021.Rite_of_Passage) by Alexei Panshin - [Pride and Prejudice](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1885.Pride_and_Prejudice) by Jane Austen - [Accelerando](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17863.Accelerando) by Charles Stross ⭐ - [Flying Blind](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/55994102-flying-blind) by Peter Robison - [The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/284066.The_Wind_Up_Bird_Chronicle) by Haruki Murakami - [I Am a Strange Loop](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/123471.I_Am_a_Strange_Loop) by Douglas R. Hofstadter ⭐ - [Night Sky with Exit Wounds](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23841432-night-sky-with-exit-wounds) by Ocean Vuong - [Comfort Me with Apples](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/56179382-comfort-me-with-apples) by Catherynne M. Valente - [The Love Prescription](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/60301229-the-love-prescription) by John M. Gottman - [How to Not Die Alone](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/54304221-how-to-not-die-alone) by Logan Ury - [Designing Machine Learning Systems](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/60715378-designing-machine-learning-systems) by Chip Huyen - [Peace Is Every Step](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/14572.Peace_Is_Every_Step) by Thich Nhat Hanh - [Upgrade](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/59838811-upgrade) by Blake Crouch - [The Guest Cat](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17574849-the-guest-cat) by Takashi Hiraide ## 2022 - [All Systems Red](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/32758901-all-systems-red) by Martha Wells - [Creativity: A Short and Cheerful Guide](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/50719532-creativity) by John Cleese - [The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11987.The_Myth_of_Sisyphus_and_Other_Essays) by Albert Camus - [Ubik](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22590.Ubik) by Philip K. Dick - [The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16690.The_Moon_Is_a_Harsh_Mistress) by Robert A. Heinlein - [The Evolving Self](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/345095.The_Evolving_Self) by Robert Kegan - [Chaos: Making a New Science](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/64582.Chaos) by James Gleick ⭐ - [Dreamsnake](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/263021.Dreamsnake) by Vonda N. McIntyre - [The Phenomenological Mind](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2237142.The_Phenomenological_Mind) by Shaun Gallagher - [The Man from the Future](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/61089520-the-man-from-the-future) by Ananyo Bhattacharya - [A Scanner Darkly](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/14817.A_Scanner_Darkly) by Philip K. Dick - [Her Body and Other Parties: Stories](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/33375622-her-body-and-other-parties) by Carmen Maria Machado - [A Deepness in the Sky](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/226004.A_Deepness_in_the_Sky) by Vernor Vinge - [If This Isn't Nice, What Is?](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17894477-if-this-isn-t-nice-what-is) by Kurt Vonnegut Jr. - [An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/130119.An_Enquiry_Concerning_Human_Understanding) by David Hume - [Hyperion](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/77566.Hyperion) by Dan Simmons - [The Precipice](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/50485582-the-precipice) by Toby Ord - [Consider Phlebas](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8935689-consider-phlebas) by Iain M. Banks - [Twilight of the Idols](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/851994.Twilight_of_the_Idols) by Friedrich Nietzsche - [The Drunkard's Walk](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2272880.The_Drunkard_s_Walk) by Leonard Mlodinow - [Klara and the Sun](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/54120408-klara-and-the-sun) by Kazuo Ishiguro - [Stuff Matters](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18222843-stuff-matters) by Mark Miodownik - [The Body Keeps the Score](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18693771-the-body-keeps-the-score) by Bessel van der Kolk - [Just Keep Buying](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/59046778-just-keep-buying) by Nick Maggiulli - [The Alchemist](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18144590-the-alchemist) by Paulo Coelho - [The Psychology of Money](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/41881472-the-psychology-of-money) by Morgan Housel - [Things Might Go Terribly, Horribly Wrong](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8043604-things-might-go-terribly-horribly-wrong) by Kelly G. Wilson - [Sea of Tranquility](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/58446227-sea-of-tranquility) by Emily St. John Mandel - [Cibola Burn](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18656030-cibola-burn) by James S.A. Corey - [The Wisdom of Insecurity](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/551520.The_Wisdom_of_Insecurity) by Alan W. Watts - [Wanting](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/54860444-wanting) by Luke Burgis - [Entangled Life](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/52668915-entangled-life) by Merlin Sheldrake - [Player Piano](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9597.Player_Piano) by Kurt Vonnegut Jr. - [The Case for God](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6359293-the-case-for-god) by Karen Armstrong - [The Power of Ritual](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/46258506-the-power-of-ritual) by Casper ter Kuile - [Feeling Great](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/54930681-feeling-great) by David D. Burns - [A Fire Upon the Deep](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/77711.A_Fire_Upon_the_Deep) by Vernor Vinge - [Stolen Focus](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/57933306-stolen-focus) by Johann Hari - [Designing Your Life](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/26046333-designing-your-life) by Bill Burnett - [Seek You](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/55648627-seek-you) by Kristen Radtke - [This is How You Lose the Time War](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/43352954-this-is-how-you-lose-the-time-war) by Amal El-Mohtar - [How to Do Nothing](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/42771901-how-to-do-nothing) by Jenny Odell - [Embassytown](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9265453-embassytown) by China Miéville ⭐ - [Thinking in Bets](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/35957157-thinking-in-bets) by Annie Duke - [The Future of Nutrition](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/54380387-the-future-of-nutrition) by T. Colin Campbell - [Dark Matter](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/27833670-dark-matter) by Blake Crouch - [Termination Shock](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/57094295-termination-shock) by Neal Stephenson - [Maybe You Should Talk to Someone](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/37570546-maybe-you-should-talk-to-someone) by Lori Gottlieb - [Dune Messiah](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/44492285-dune-messiah) by Frank Herbert ## 2021 - [Going Postal](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/64222.Going_Postal) by Terry Pratchett - [The Future of Another Timeline](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/43263237-the-future-of-another-timeline) by Annalee Newitz - [Truth of the Divine](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/56269171-truth-of-the-divine) by Lindsay Ellis - [Four Thousand Weeks](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/54785515-four-thousand-weeks) by Oliver Burkeman - [Seeing Like a State](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/20186.Seeing_Like_a_State) by James C. Scott - [The Beginning of Infinity](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10483171-the-beginning-of-infinity) by David Deutsch ⭐ - [Longitude](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4806.Longitude) by Dava Sobel - [Die with Zero](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/52950915-die-with-zero) by Bill Perkins - [Recursion](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/42046112-recursion) by Blake Crouch - [Nomadland: Surviving America in the Twenty-First Century](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/38212124-nomadland) by Jessica Bruder - [The Fall of Koli](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/53321887-the-fall-of-koli) by M.R. Carey - [Under a White Sky: The Nature of the Future](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/54814834-under-a-white-sky) by Elizabeth Kolbert - [The Devil in the White City](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/397483.The_Devil_in_the_White_City) by Erik Larson ⭐ - [The Trials of Koli](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/51829857-the-trials-of-koli) by M.R. Carey - [The Left Hand of Darkness](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18423.The_Left_Hand_of_Darkness) by Ursula K. Le Guin - [The Relentless Moon](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/52381417-the-relentless-moon) by Mary Robinette Kowal - [An Economist Gets Lunch](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13139126-an-economist-gets-lunch) by Tyler Cowen - [Database Internals](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/44647144-database-internals) by Alex Petrov - [The City & the City](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4703581-the-city-the-city) by China Miéville - [The Book of Koli](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/51285749-the-book-of-koli) by M.R. Carey - [Project Hail Mary](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/54493401-project-hail-mary) by Andy Weir - [The Book: On the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/60551.The_Book) by Alan W. Watts - [This Is Your Mind on Plants](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/56015023-this-is-your-mind-on-plants) by Michael Pollan - [The Stone Sky](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/31817749-the-stone-sky) by N.K. Jemisin - [Meditations](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/30659.Meditations) by Marcus Aurelius - [The Color of Magic](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/34497.The_Color_of_Magic) by Terry Pratchett - [A Million Miles in a Thousand Years](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1999475.A_Million_Miles_in_a_Thousand_Years) by Donald Miller - [Skin in the Game](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/36064445-skin-in-the-game) by Nassim Nicholas Taleb - [The Obelisk Gate](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/26228034-the-obelisk-gate) by N.K. Jemisin - [A Liberated Mind: How to Pivot Toward What Matters](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/43330899-a-liberated-mind) by Steven C. Hayes - [The Information](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8701960-the-information) by James Gleick ⭐ - [Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/29587.Down_and_Out_in_the_Magic_Kingdom) by Cory Doctorow - [The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13651.The_Dispossessed) by Ursula K. Le Guin - [More Programming Pearls: Confessions of a Coder](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/128600.More_Programming_Pearls) by Jon L. Bentley - [The Works: Anatomy of a City](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/116170.The_Works) by Kate Ascher - [Battle Royale](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/57891.Battle_Royale) by Koushun Takami - [A Philosophy of Software Design](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/39996759-a-philosophy-of-software-design) by John Ousterhout - [Tao Te Ching (*Ursula Le Guin's Translation)](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18814253-tao-te-ching) by Lao Tzu ⭐ - [Axiom's End](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/51171377-axiom-s-end) by Lindsay Ellis - [Alien Oceans](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/51801208-alien-oceans) by Kevin Peter Hand - [Dataclysm: Who We Are](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/21480734-dataclysm) by Christian Rudder - [Breath: The New Science of a Lost Art](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/48890486-breath) by James Nestor - [Nickel and Dimed](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1869.Nickel_and_Dimed) by Barbara Ehrenreich - [The Glass Hotel](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/45754981-the-glass-hotel) by Emily St. John Mandel - [Inadequate Equilibria: Where and How Civilizations Get Stuck](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/36606376-inadequate-equilibria) by Eliezer Yudkowsky - [The Hidden Girl and Other Stories](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/52163147-the-hidden-girl-and-other-stories) by Ken Liu - [Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/24113.G_del_Escher_Bach) by Douglas R. Hofstadter ⭐ - [The Hungry Brain](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/29243729-the-hungry-brain) by Stephan Guyenet - [The Doors of Perception](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3188964-the-doors-of-perception) by Aldous Huxley - [The Fifth Season](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/19161852-the-fifth-season) by N.K. Jemisin - [The Overstory](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40180098-the-overstory) by Richard Powers ⭐ - [The Soul of a New Machine](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7090.The_Soul_of_a_New_Machine) by Tracy Kidder - [The Ministry for the Future](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/50998056-the-ministry-for-the-future) by Kim Stanley Robinson ## 2020 - [To Shape a New World](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/36738619-to-shape-a-new-world) by Tommie Shelby - [Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/51152447-caste) by Isabel Wilkerson - [A Canticle for Leibowitz](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/164154.A_Canticle_for_Leibowitz) by Walter M. Miller Jr. - [Programming Pearls](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/52084.Programming_Pearls) by Jon L. Bentley - [The Utopia of Rules](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/24858406-the-utopia-of-rules) by David Graeber - [The Boy on the Bridge](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/31554413-the-boy-on-the-bridge) by M.R. Carey - [Why Fish Don’t Exist](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/50887097-why-fish-don-t-exist) by Lulu Miller - [Homeland](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12917338-homeland) by Cory Doctorow - [Rainbows End](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/102439.Rainbows_End) by Vernor Vinge - [The Memory Police](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/37004370-the-memory-police) by Yōko Ogawa - [Anathem](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2845024-anathem) by Neal Stephenson - [Foundation and Empire](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/29581.Foundation_and_Empire) by Isaac Asimov - [Watchmen](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/472331.Watchmen) by Alan Moore - [Abaddon's Gate](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16131032-abaddon-s-gate) by James S.A. Corey - [Ficciones](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/426504.Ficciones) by Jorge Luis Borges - [The Way of Zen](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/514210.The_Way_of_Zen) by Alan W. Watts - [In the Garden of Beasts](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10445007-in-the-garden-of-beasts) by Erik Larson - [Crazy Rich Asians](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16085481-crazy-rich-asians) by Kevin Kwan - [Kafka on the Shore](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6564051-kafka-on-the-shore) by Haruki Murakami - [A Short History of Nearly Everything](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/21.A_Short_History_of_Nearly_Everything) by Bill Bryson - [How to Be an Antiracist](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40265832-how-to-be-an-antiracist) by Ibram X. Kendi - [Ancillary Justice](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17333324-ancillary-justice) by Ann Leckie - [The Age of Surveillance Capitalism](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/26195941-the-age-of-surveillance-capitalism) by Shoshana Zuboff - [Heart of Darkness](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4900.Heart_of_Darkness) by Joseph Conrad - [The Peripheral](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/20821159-the-peripheral) by William Gibson - [The Box: How the Shipping Container Made the World Smaller](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/316767.The_Box) by Marc Levinson - [Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/30753841-salt-fat-acid-heat) by Samin Nosrat - [Caliban's War](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12591698-caliban-s-war) by James S.A. Corey - [Why We're Polarized](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/49930783-why-we-re-polarized) by Ezra Klein - [Severance](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/36348525-severance) by Ling Ma - [The Plague](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11989.The_Plague) by Albert Camus - [On Writing Well: The Classic Guide to Writing Nonfiction](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16149296-on-writing-well) by William Zinsser - [The War of the Worlds](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8909.The_War_of_the_Worlds) by H.G. Wells - [Clojure for the Brave and True](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/20873338-clojure-for-the-brave-and-true) by Daniel Higginbotham - [Midnight in Chernobyl](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40538681-midnight-in-chernobyl) by Adam Higginbotham ⭐ - [Wild Seed](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/52318.Wild_Seed) by Octavia E. Butler - [Permanent Record](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/46223297-permanent-record) by Edward Snowden - [The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/28257707-the-subtle-art-of-not-giving-a-f-ck) by Mark Manson - [Atomic Habits](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40121378-atomic-habits) by James Clear - [Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13538873-mr-penumbra-s-24-hour-bookstore) by Robin Sloan - [Animal Farm](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/170448.Animal_Farm) by George Orwell - [The Picture of Dorian Gray](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5297.The_Picture_of_Dorian_Gray) by Oscar Wilde - [The Little Book of Common Sense Investing](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/36336614-the-little-book-of-common-sense-investing) by John C. Bogle - [Thirteen Days: A Memoir of the Cuban Missile Crisis](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/342103.Thirteen_Days) by Robert F. Kennedy - [Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative?](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6763725-capitalist-realism) by Mark Fisher - [How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9902193-how-to-live-safely-in-a-science-fictional-universe) by Charles Yu - [Blindsight](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/48484.Blindsight) by Peter Watts - [But What If We're Wrong? Thinking About the Present As If It Were the Past](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/27068734-but-what-if-we-re-wrong-thinking-about-the-present-as-if-it-were-the-pa) by Chuck Klosterman - [Educated](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/35133922-educated) by Tara Westover - [In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/315425.In_Defense_of_Food) by Michael Pollan - [On Fire](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/43821569-on-fire) by Naomi Klein - [How To: Absurd Scientific Advice for Common Real-World Problems](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/42086897-how-to) by Randall Munroe - [Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/43126457-trick-mirror) by Jia Tolentino - [Super Pumped: The Battle for Uber](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/44573628-super-pumped) by Mike Isaac ## 2019 - [A Gentleman in Moscow](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/45695810-a-gentleman-in-moscow) by Amor Towles - [What I Talk About When I Talk About Running](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2195464.What_I_Talk_About_When_I_Talk_About_Running) by Haruki Murakami - [Factfulness](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/34890015-factfulness) by Hans Rosling - [Debt: The First 5,000 Years](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6617037-debt) by David Graeber - [We Are the Weather: Saving the Planet Begins at Breakfast](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/43565381-we-are-the-weather) by Jonathan Safran Foer - [Neuromancer](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/888628.Neuromancer) by William Gibson - [Being Geek](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8473471-being-geek) by Michael Lopp - [The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3109.The_Omnivore_s_Dilemma) by Michael Pollan - [Sum: Forty Tales from the Afterlives](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4948826-sum) by David Eagleman - [God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/33290408-god-bless-you-mr-rosewater) by Kurt Vonnegut Jr. - [On the Clock](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/42779084-on-the-clock) by Emily Guendelsberger - [Medium Raw](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40409969-medium-raw) by Anthony Bourdain - [Kitchen Confidential](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/33313.Kitchen_Confidential) by Anthony Bourdain - [Leviathan Wakes](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8855321-leviathan-wakes) by James S.A. Corey ⭐ - [Walkaway](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/30139664-walkaway) by Cory Doctorow - [How Bad Are Bananas?](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7230015-how-bad-are-bananas) by Mike Berners-Lee - [The Fifth Risk](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40109421-the-fifth-risk) by Michael Lewis - [Rocket Men](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/35414997-rocket-men) by Robert Kurson - [Dreyer's English: An Utterly Correct Guide to Clarity and Style](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40063024-dreyer-s-english) by Benjamin Dreyer - [The Bullet Journal Method](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/39071691-the-bullet-journal-method) by Ryder Carroll - [Why We Sleep](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/34466963-why-we-sleep) by Matthew Walker - [Radicalized](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/41447687-radicalized) by Cory Doctorow - [American Gods](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/30165203-american-gods) by Neil Gaiman - [A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6748.A_Supposedly_Fun_Thing_I_ll_Never_Do_Again) by David Foster Wallace - [Exhalation](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/41160292-exhalation) by Ted Chiang - [Red Mars](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/77507.Red_Mars) by Kim Stanley Robinson - [21 Lessons for the 21st Century](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/38820046-21-lessons-for-the-21st-century) by Yuval Noah Harari - [Thinking In Systems](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3828902-thinking-in-systems) by Donella H. Meadows - [Between the World and Me](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25489625-between-the-world-and-me) by Ta-Nehisi Coates - [Ball Lightning](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/32076670-ball-lightning) by Liu Cixin - [The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/41552709-the-uninhabitable-earth) by David Wallace-Wells - ["Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!": Adventures of a Curious Character](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/35167685-surely-you-re-joking-mr-feynman) by Richard P. Feynman - [The Girl with All the Gifts](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17235026-the-girl-with-all-the-gifts) by M.R. Carey - [Acceptance](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18077752-acceptance) by Jeff VanderMeer - [Algorithms to Live By](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25666050-algorithms-to-live-by) by Brian Christian - [Grounding for the Metaphysics of Morals](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/159583.Grounding_for_the_Metaphysics_of_Morals_Metaphysical_Principles_of_Virtue) by Immanuel Kant - [Designing Data-Intensive Applications](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23463279-designing-data-intensive-applications) by Martin Kleppmann - [Flash Boys: A Wall Street Revolt](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/24724602-flash-boys) by Michael Lewis - [Consider the Lobster and Other Essays](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6751.Consider_the_Lobster_and_Other_Essays) by David Foster Wallace - [I, Robot](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/41804.I_Robot) by Isaac Asimov - [The Coddling of the American Mind](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/36556202-the-coddling-of-the-american-mind) by Jonathan Haidt - [How to Change Your Mind](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/36613747-how-to-change-your-mind) by Michael Pollan ⭐ - [Bad Blood](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/37976541-bad-blood) by John Carreyrou - [The Courage to be Disliked](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/35239798-the-courage-to-be-disliked) by Ichiro Kishimi - [The Fated Sky](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/33081262-the-fated-sky) by Mary Robinette Kowal - [Utilitarianism](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/584637.Utilitarianism) by John Stuart Mill - [Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6178648-nothing-to-envy) by Barbara Demick - [Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/43713.Structure_and_Interpretation_of_Computer_Programs) by Harold Abelson - [The Calculating Stars](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/33080122-the-calculating-stars) by Mary Robinette Kowal - [Triggers: Creating Behavior That Lasts](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22544758-triggers) by Marshall Goldsmith - [Authority](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18077769-authority) by Jeff VanderMeer - [Solaris](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/95558.Solaris) by Stanisław Lem ## 2018 - [Cat’s Cradle](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/135479.Cat_s_Cradle) by Kurt Vonnegut Jr. - [Annihilation](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17934530-annihilation) by Jeff VanderMeer - [Practical Ethics](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/29378.Practical_Ethics) by Peter Singer - [Breakfast of Champions](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4980.Breakfast_of_Champions) by Kurt Vonnegut Jr. - [Modern Romance](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23453112-modern-romance) by Aziz Ansari - [Astrophysics for People in a Hurry](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/32191710-astrophysics-for-people-in-a-hurry) by Neil deGrasse Tyson - [Death's End](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25451264-death-s-end) by Liu Cixin - [The Dark Forest](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23168817-the-dark-forest) by Liu Cixin - [Dune](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/234225.Dune) by Frank Herbert - [Flowers for Algernon](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18373.Flowers_for_Algernon) by Daniel Keyes - [Man’s Search for Meaning](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4069.Man_s_Search_for_Meaning) by Viktor E. Frankl - [Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13530973-antifragile) by Nassim Nicholas Taleb - [Lying](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18869177-lying) by Sam Harris - [Rick Steves' Europe Through the Back Door](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/21266.Rick_Steves_Europe_Through_the_Back_Door) by Rick Steves - [Station Eleven](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/20170404-station-eleven) by Emily St. John Mandel - [Stories of Your Life and Others](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/223380.Stories_of_Your_Life_and_Others) by Ted Chiang - [The Righteous Mind](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11324722-the-righteous-mind) by Jonathan Haidt ⭐ - [Free Will](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13259270-free-will) by Sam Harris - [Snow Crash](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/830.Snow_Crash) by Neal Stephenson - [The Four: The Hidden DNA of Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Google](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/34427200-the-four) by Scott Galloway - [Finite and Infinite Games](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/189989.Finite_and_Infinite_Games) by James P. Carse ## 2017 - [Foundation](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/29579.Foundation) by Isaac Asimov - [Artemis](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/34928122-artemis) by Andy Weir - [The Handmaid’s Tale](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/38447.The_Handmaid_s_Tale) by Margaret Atwood - [Fahrenheit 451](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17470674-fahrenheit-451) by Ray Bradbury - [Childhood’s End](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/414999.Childhood_s_End) by Arthur C. Clarke - [Ethics in the Real World](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/30272030-ethics-in-the-real-world) by Peter Singer - [Deep Work](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25744928-deep-work) by Cal Newport - [Ready Player One](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9969571-ready-player-one) by Ernest Cline - [Marx: A Very Short Introduction](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/74642.Marx) by Peter Singer - [Eating Animals](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6604712-eating-animals) by Jonathan Safran Foer - [How to Win Friends and Influence People](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4865.How_to_Win_Friends_and_Influence_People) by Dale Carnegie - [Search Inside Yourself](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12921211-search-inside-yourself) by Chade-Meng Tan ## 2016 - [Slaughterhouse-Five](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4981.Slaughterhouse_Five) by Kurt Vonnegut Jr. - [A Clockwork Orange](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/227463.A_Clockwork_Orange) by Anthony Burgess - [Make Room! Make Room!](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/473850.Make_Room_Make_Room_) by Harry Harrison - [Brave New World](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5129.Brave_New_World) by Aldous Huxley - [Aurora](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23197269-aurora) by Kim Stanley Robinson --- Last Updated: Aug 22, 2026 This page is autogenerated from my [Hardcover](https://hardcover.app/) profile.