Books
Books I've read, rated, and reviewed. It should be noted I am a generous and enthusiastic reviewer, and some books may be downgraded if I read them again now.
Orbital
Samantha Harvey
A Brief History of Intelligence: Evolution, AI, and the Five Breakthroughs That Made Our Brains
Max Solomon Bennett
AI 2041: Ten Visions for Our Future
Kai-Fu Lee
Outlive: The Science & Art of Longevity
Peter Attia
Super Agers: An Evidence-Based Approach to Longevity
Eric Topol
The Daily Stoic: 366 Meditations on Wisdom, Perseverance, and the Art of Living
Ryan Holiday
The Daily Stoic Journal: 366 Days of Writing and Reflection on the Art of Living
Ryan Holiday
The Knowledge: How to Rebuild Our World from Scratch
Lewis Dartnell
There Is No Antimemetics Division
qntm
The Heroes
Joe Abercrombie
A Life on Our Planet: My Witness Statement and a Vision for the Future
David Attenborough
How Big Things Get Done: The Surprising Factors That Determine the Fate of Every Project, from Home Renovations to Space Exploration and Everything In Between
Bent Flyvbjerg
The Gates of Rome (Emperor, #1)
Conn Iggulden
The Satsuma Complex (Gary Thorn, #1)
Bob Mortimer
Slaughterhouse-Five
Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
The Book Thief
Markus Zusak
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, #1)
Douglas Adams
Best Served Cold
Joe Abercrombie
Children of Memory (Children of Time, #3)
Adrian Tchaikovsky
The Kindly Ones
Jonathan Littell
Anaximander: And the Birth of Science
Carlo Rovelli
City on Fire (Danny Ryan, #1)
Don Winslow
Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI
Yuval Noah Harari
Gardens of the Moon (Malazan Book of the Fallen, #1)
Steven Erikson
The Man from the Future: The Visionary Ideas of John von Neumann
Ananyo Bhattacharya
Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets (Incerto)
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Co-Intelligence: Living and Working with AI
Ethan Mollick
Leviathan Falls (The Expanse, #9)
James S.A. Corey
Tiamat's Wrath (The Expanse, #8)
James S.A. Corey
Last Argument of Kings (The First Law, #3)
Joe Abercrombie
The Hidden Spring: A Journey to the Source of Consciousness
Mark Solms
Smart Phone Dumb Phone: Free Yourself from Digital Addiction (Allen Carr's Easyway, 5)
Allen Carr
Fatherland
Robert Harris
All Systems Red (The Murderbot Diaries, #1)
Martha Wells
Child of God
Cormac McCarthy
Dune Messiah (Dune #2)
Frank Herbert
The Secret History of Christmas
Bill Bryson
The Coming Wave: Technology, Power, and the Twenty-first Century's Greatest Dilemma
Mustafa Suleyman
White Holes
Carlo Rovelli
Twilight of the Æsir (Hardcore History, #69-70)
Dan Carlin
Noise: A Flaw in Human Judgment
Daniel Kahneman
The PARA Method: Simplify, Organize, and Master Your Digital Life
Tiago Forte
The Power of the Dog (Power of the Dog, #1)
Don Winslow
Before They Are Hanged (The First Law, #2)
Joe Abercrombie
The Face of Battle: A Study of Agincourt, Waterloo and the Somme
John Keegan
The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity
David Graeber
Cloud Cuckoo Land
Anthony Doerr
Walking to Aldebaran
Adrian Tchaikovsky
Shuggie Bain
Douglas Stuart
The Status Game: On Human Life and How to Play It
Will Storr
The Force
Don Winslow
Winter of the World (The Century Trilogy #2)
Ken Follett
Fall of Giants (The Century Trilogy, #1)
Ken Follett
Persepolis Rising (The Expanse, #7)
James S.A. Corey
Dune (Dune, #1)
Frank Herbert
Sea of Tranquility
Emily St. John Mandel
Stella Maris (The Passenger, #2)
Cormac McCarthy
The Blade Itself (The First Law, #1)
Joe Abercrombie
The Kreutzer Sonata
Leo Tolstoy
Inspired: How to Create Tech Products Customers Love
Marty Cagan
The Passenger (The Passenger #1)
Cormac McCarthy
Bewilderment
Richard Powers
Kindred: Neanderthal Life, Love, Death and Art
Rebecca Wragg Sykes
Illuminating the Path to Enlightenment: A Commentary on Atisha Dipamkara Shrijnana's A Lamp for the Path to Enlightenment and Lama Je Tsong Khapa's Lines of Experience
Dalai Lama XIV
Manias, Panics, and Crashes: A History of Financial Crises (Wiley Investment Classics)
Charles P. Kindleberger
The Wages of Destruction: The Making and Breaking of the Nazi Economy
Adam Tooze
The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History
Elizabeth Kolbert
Notes from Underground
Fyodor Dostoevsky
The Death of Ivan Ilych
Leo Tolstoy
Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones
James Clear
Fifth Sun: A New History of the Aztecs
Camilla Townsend
Creek Mary's Blood
Dee Brown
The Overstory
Richard Powers
Babylon’s Ashes (The Expanse, #6)
James S.A. Corey
The Journey of Humanity: The Origins of Wealth and Inequality
Oded Galor
Storm of Steel
Ernst Jünger
Station Eleven
Emily St. John Mandel
A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms (The Tales of Dunk and Egg, #1-3)
George R.R. Martin
The Order of Time
Carlo Rovelli
My Life in Red and White
Arsène Wenger
Words of Radiance (The Stormlight Archive, #2)
Brandon Sanderson
A Dance with Dragons 1: Dreams and Dust (A Song of Ice and Fire, #5, Part 1 of 2)
George R.R. Martin
A Dance with Dragons 2: After the Feast (A Song of Ice and Fire, #5, Part 2 of 2)
George R.R. Martin
Shutdown: How Covid Shook the World's Economy
Adam Tooze
The Beekeeper of Aleppo
Christy Lefteri
Death's End (Remembrance of Earth’s Past, #3)
Liu Cixin
Cities of the Plain (The Border Trilogy, #3)
Cormac McCarthy
Brave New World
Aldous Huxley
King Lear
William Shakespeare
All Our Broken Idols
Paul M.M. Cooper
Penguin Random House Python Crash Course
Eric Matthes
Carrying the Fire: An Astronaut's Journey
Michael Collins
The Origins of You: How Childhood Shapes Later Life
Jay Belsky
Empire of Things: How We Became a World of Consumers, from the Fifteenth Century to the Twenty-First
Frank Trentmann
A Feast for Crows (A Song of Ice and Fire, #4)
George R.R. Martin
Nemesis Games (The Expanse, #5)
James S.A. Corey
Man's Search for Meaning
Viktor E. Frankl
The Lean Startup
Eric Ries
Use of Weapons (Culture, #3)
Iain M. Banks
Believe Us: How Jürgen Klopp transformed Liverpool into title winners
Melissa Reddy
Conqueror (Conqueror, #5)
Conn Iggulden
The Best Moment Of Your Life (Lonely Planet)
Lonely Planet
Hamnet
Maggie O'Farrell
Working Backwards: Insights, Stories, and Secrets from Inside Amazon
Colin Bryar
American Dirt
Jeanine Cummins
Better: A Surgeon's Notes on Performance
Atul Gawande
A Storm of Swords 2: Blood and Gold (A Song of Ice and Fire, #3, Part 2 of 2)
George R.R. Martin
Helgoland: Making Sense of the Quantum Revolution
Carlo Rovelli
Endimion (Hyperion, #3)
Dan Simmons
A Place of Greater Safety
Hilary Mantel
A Storm of Swords: Steel and Snow (A Song of Ice and Fire, #3.1)
George R.R. Martin
Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup
John Carreyrou
The Body: A Guide for Occupants
Bill Bryson
Children of Ruin (Children of Time, #2)
Adrian Tchaikovsky
Energy and Civilization: A History
Vaclav Smil
The Crossing (The Border Trilogy, #2)
Cormac McCarthy
Foundation (Foundation, #1)
Isaac Asimov
The Gardener and the Carpenter: What the New Science of Child Development Tells Us About the Relationship Between Parents and Children
Alison Gopnik
The Way of Kings (The Stormlight Archive, #1)
Brandon Sanderson
The Nuremberg Trial
Ann Tusa
All Joy and No Fun: The Paradox of Modern Parenthood
Jennifer Senior
Khan: Empire of Silver (Conqueror, #4)
Conn Iggulden
Commando Dad: Basic Training: How to Be an Elite Dad or Carer from Birth to Three Years
Neil Sinclair
Rise of the Robots: Technology and the Threat of a Jobless Future
Martin Ford
Exhalation
Ted Chiang
The Brothers Karamazov
Fyodor Dostoevsky
The Great Leveler: Violence and the History of Inequality from the Stone Age to the Twenty-First Century (The Princeton Economic History of the Western World)
Walter Scheidel
The Vanquished: Why the First World War Failed to End
Robert Gerwarth
The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail—But Some Don't
Nate Silver
Britain Begins
Barry Cunliffe
A Clash of Kings (A Song of Ice and Fire, #2)
George R.R. Martin
A Memory Called Empire (Teixcalaan, #1)
Arkady Martine
Mindware: Tools for Smart Thinking
Richard E. Nisbett
Empire of the Sun
J.G. Ballard
Persian Fire: The First World Empire and the Battle for the West
Tom Holland
The Raven
Edgar Allan Poe
The Dark Forest (Remembrance of Earth’s Past, #2)
Liu Cixin
All the Pretty Horses (The Border Trilogy, #1)
Cormac McCarthy
Prediction Machines: The Simple Economics of Artificial Intelligence
Ajay Agrawal
All Quiet on the Western Front
Erich Maria Remarque
The Life and Times of Frederick Douglass (African American)
Frederick Douglass
Superforecasting: The Art and Science of Prediction
Philip E. Tetlock
Wean in 15: Up-to-date Advice and 100 Quick Recipes
Joe Wicks
Moby-Dick or, The Whale
Herman Melville
This Is How You Lose the Time War
Amal El-Mohtar
The Mirror & the Light (Thomas Cromwell, #3)
Hilary Mantel
The Scientist in the Crib: What Early Learning Tells Us About the Mind
Alison Gopnik
The Player of Games (Culture, #2)
Iain M. Banks
A Game of Thrones (A Song of Ice and Fire, #1)
George R.R. Martin
The Terror
Dan Simmons
A Tale of Two Cities
Charles Dickens
Musashi
Eiji Yoshikawa
The Danish Way of Parenting: What the Happiest People in the World Know About Raising Confident, Capable Kids
Jessica Joelle Alexander
The Forever War (The Forever War, #1)
Joe Haldeman
Cibola Burn (The Expanse, #4)
James S.A. Corey
I Contain Multitudes: The Microbes Within Us and a Grander View of Life
Ed Yong
Blueprint for Armageddon (Hardcore History, #50-55)
Dan Carlin
Kings of Kings (Hardcore History, #56-58)
Dan Carlin
Punic Nightmares (Hardcore History, #21-23)
Dan Carlin
The Celtic Holocaust (Hardcore History, #60)
Dan Carlin
The End is Always Near: Apocalyptic Moments, from the Bronze Age Collapse to Nuclear Near Misses
Dan Carlin
The Shadow of the Torturer
Gene Wolfe
Wrath of the Khans (Hardcore History, #43-47)
Dan Carlin
The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World
Niall Ferguson
The Awakened Ape: A Biohacker's Guide to Evolutionary Fitness, Natural Ecstasy, and Stress-Free Living
Jevan Pradas
Days Without End (Days Without End, #1)
Sebastian Barry
The New Silk Roads: The Present and Future of the World
Peter Frankopan
How Emotions Are Made: The Secret Life of the Brain
Lisa Feldman Barrett
Oryx and Crake (MaddAddam, #1)
Margaret Atwood
No Country for Old Men
Cormac McCarthy
Consider Phlebas (Culture, #1)
Iain M. Banks
Seven Brief Lessons on Physics
Carlo Rovelli
The Origins of Political Order: From Prehuman Times to the French Revolution
Francis Fukuyama
New York 2140
Kim Stanley Robinson
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
Susanna Clarke
Do or Die
Leon Bing
Brain Rules for Baby: How to Raise a Smart and Happy Child from Zero to Five
John Medina
The Tangled Tree: A Radical New History of Life
David Quammen
Circe
Madeline Miller
Jonathan Livingston Seagull
Richard Bach
Expecting Better: Why the Conventional Pregnancy Wisdom is Wrong - and What You Really Need to Know
Emily Oster
The Three-Body Problem (Remembrance of Earth’s Past, #1)
Liu Cixin
The Ego Trick: In Search Of The Self
baggini-julian
Hitler
Ian Kershaw
The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat
Oliver Sacks
The Fall of Hyperion (Hyperion Cantos, #2)
Dan Simmons
The Dream of Rome
Boris Johnson
Red Rising (Red Rising Saga, #1)
Pierce Brown
Start with Why: How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone to Take Action
Simon Sinek
The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs: A New History of a Lost World
Steve Brusatte
PRINCE2 7 Made Simple: Updated for 7th Edition
Ian Lawton
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Ashi Dorji Wangmo Wangchuck
Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space
Carl Sagan
Never Let Me Go
Kazuo Ishiguro
21 Lessons for the 21st Century
Yuval Noah Harari
The Lonely Planet Guide to the Middle of Nowhere
Lonely Planet
World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War
Max Brooks
Tarmac Warrior: The Violent World of Extreme Fighting
Billy Cribb
Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness
Richard H. Thaler
Bring Up the Bodies (Thomas Cromwell, #2)
Hilary Mantel
Brighton Rock
Graham Greene
Hyperion (Hyperion Cantos, #1)
Dan Simmons
The Underground Railroad
Colson Whitehead
The Cold War: A World History
Odd Arne Westad
Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress
Steven Pinker
The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo (Millennium, #1)
Stieg Larsson
The Alchemist
Paulo Coelho
The Inevitable: Understanding the 12 Technological Forces That Will Shape Our Future
Kevin Kelly
Macbeth
William Shakespeare
The Tattooist of Auschwitz
Heather Morris
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West
Dee Brown
The City & the City
China Miéville
Viking Britain
Thomas Williams
The Tattooist of Auschwitz (The Tattooist of Auschwitz, #1)
Heather Morris
Alice in Wonderland
Jane Carruth
Tell Me Lies: Poems 2005-2008
Adrian Mitchell
The Sympathizer (The Sympathizer, #1)
Viet Thanh Nguyen
Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World – and Why Things Are Better Than You Think
Hans Rosling
Other Minds
Peter Godfrey-Smith
Wolf Hall (Thomas Cromwell, #1)
Hilary Mantel
Leonardo da Vinci
Walter Isaacson
Treasures of the Thunder Dragon: A Portrait of Bhutan
Ashi Dori Wangmo Wangchuck
Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World
Jack Weatherford
Blink
Malcolm Gladwell
The Master and Margarita
Mikhail Bulgakov
The Silk Roads: A New History of the World
Peter Frankopan
Frankenstein
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
The Road
Cormac McCarthy
Disclosure
Michael Crichton
Prey
Michael Crichton
The Fabric of Reality: The Science of Parallel Universes--and Its Implications
David Deutsch
The Gene: An Intimate History
Siddhartha Mukherjee
The Name of the Wind (The Kingkiller Chronicle, #1)
Patrick Rothfuss
The Second World War
Antony Beevor
Lincoln in the Bardo
George Saunders
A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century
Barbara W. Tuchman
Life 3.0: Being Human in the Age of Artificial Intelligence
Max Tegmark
1Q84 (1Q84, #1-3)
Haruki Murakami
The Storm Before the Storm: The Beginning of the End of the Roman Republic
Mike Duncan
Baudolino
Umberto Eco
The Teachings of Don Juan: A Yaqui Way of Knowledge
Carlos Castaneda
Children of Time (Children of Time, #1)
Adrian Tchaikovsky
Norse Mythology
Neil Gaiman
American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer
Kai Bird
Cocky: The Rise & Fall of Curtis Warren, Britain's Biggest Drug Baron
Tony Barnes
Soul Crew: The Inside Story of Britain's Most Notorious Hooligan Gang
David Jones
Ten Billion
Stephen Emmott
The Hunger Games (The Hunger Games, #1)
Suzanne Collins
The Words: The Autobiography of Jean-Paul Sartre
Jean-Paul Sartre
A Rumor of War: The Classic Vietnam Memoir
Philip Caputo
Civilization and Its Discontents
Sigmund Freud
Consciousness Explained
Daniel C. Dennett
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
Philip K. Dick
Humble Pie
Gordon Ramsay
Marching Powder: A True Story of Friendship, Cocaine, and South America's Strangest Jail
Rusty Young
Mr. Nice
Howard Marks
Nausea
Jean-Paul Sartre
On the Genealogy of Morals / Ecce Homo
Friedrich Nietzsche
Scar Tissue
Anthony Kiedis
The Damage Done: Twelve Years of Hell in a Bangkok Prison
Warren Fellows
The Idiot
Fyodor Dostoevsky
The Little Prince
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
"A Problem from Hell": America and the Age of Genocide
Samantha Power
Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity
Katherine Boo
Globalization: A Critical Introduction
Jan Aart Scholte
Inside Terrorism (Columbia Studies in Terrorism and Irregular Warfare)
Bruce Hoffman
Phaedo
Plato
The Globalization of World Politics: An Introduction to International Relations
John Baylis
World History
Rodney Castleden
Worlds Together, Worlds Apart: A History of the Modern World From the Mongol Empire to the Present
w. w. norton
A Short History of Nearly Everything
Bill Bryson
A Year in the Merde
Stephen Clarke
Fahrenheit 451
Ray Bradbury
Genghis: Lords of the Bow (Conqueror, #2)
Conn Iggulden
Guerrillas
V.S. Naipaul
Principles: Summary
Ray Dalio
Scale: The Universal Laws of Growth, Innovation, Sustainability, and the Pace of Life in Organisms, Cities, Economies, and Companies
Geoffrey B. West
Science: A Four Thousand Year History
Patricia Fara
The Crying of Lot 49
Thomas Pynchon
Waking Up: A Guide to Spirituality Without Religion
Sam Harris
A Brief History of Seven Killings
Marlon James
Abaddon’s Gate (The Expanse, #3)
James S.A. Corey
Algorithms to Live By: The Computer Science of Human Decisions
Brian Christian
All the Light We Cannot See
Anthony Doerr
Amexica: War Along the Borderline
Ed Vulliamy
An Uncertain Glory: India and its Contradictions
Jean Drèze
Anna Karenina
Leo Tolstoy
At the Existentialist Café
Sarah Bakewell
Blitzed: Drugs in Nazi Germany
Norman Ohler
Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West
Cormac McCarthy
Bring the Noise: The Jürgen Klopp Story
Raphael Honigstein
Caliban’s War (The Expanse, #2)
James S.A. Corey
Catch-22
Joseph Heller
Crime and Punishment
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Critique of Judgement
Immanuel Kant
Food of the Gods: The Search for the Original Tree of Knowledge
Terence McKenna
Foucault’s Pendulum
Umberto Eco
God Species: How the Planet Can Survive the Age of Humans
Mark Lynas
Gravity's Rainbow
Thomas Pynchon
Hadji Murád
Leo Tolstoy
Heart of Darkness
Joseph Conrad
Homo Deus: A History of Tomorrow
Yuval Noah Harari
In the Light of What We Know
Zia Haider Rahman
Intelligence and How to Get It: Why Schools and Cultures Count
Richard E. Nisbett
Kafka on the Shore
Haruki Murakami
Les Misérables
Victor Hugo
Leviathan Wakes (The Expanse, #1)
James S.A. Corey
Life and Fate
Vasily Grossman
Lolita
Vladimir Nabokov
Midnight’s Children
Salman Rushdie
Naked Lunch: The Restored Text
William S. Burroughs
On the Road
Jack Kerouac
Pleasure: How Our Brains Make Junk Food, Exercise, Marijuana, Generosity, and Gambling Feel So Good
David J. Linden
Poor Economics
Abhijit V. Banerjee
Running with the Mind of Meditation: Lessons for Training Body and Mind
Sakyong Mipham
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
Yuval Noah Harari
The Beginning of Infinity: Explanations That Transform the World
David Deutsch
The Better Angels of Our Nature: A History of Violence and Humanity
Steven Pinker
The Catcher in the Rye
J.D. Salinger
The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer
Siddhartha Mukherjee
The Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956 (Abridged)
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
The Last Narco: Inside the Hunt for El Chapo, the World's Most Wanted Drug Lord
Malcolm Beith
The Metamorphosis
Franz Kafka
The Old Man and the Sea
Ernest Hemingway
The Outsider
Albert Camus
The Undoing Project: A Friendship that Changed the World (181 POCHE)
Michael Lewis
The Way of Zen
AlanW.Watts
Thinking, Fast and Slow
Daniel Kahneman
Ulysses
James Joyce
War and Peace
Leo Tolstoy
When Breath Becomes Air
Paul Kalanithi
Where Good Ideas Come from: The Seven Patterns of Innovation
Steven Johnson
Wolf of the Plains
Conn Iggulden