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Welcome to my bookshelf. I am keeping track of the books I read, mostly for myself. Feel free to peruse!
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Keeping track of some of the best books I have read recently.
All (memorable) Books Below!
The Boys in the Boat
By:
Daniel James Brown
American Prometheus
By:
Kai Bird and Martin Sherwin
Open
By:
Andre Agassi
Once there was Wolves
By:
Charlotte McConaghy
The Signal and the Noise
By:
Nate Silver
All the Dangerous Things
By:
Stacy Willingham
The Creative Act: A Way of Being
By:
Rick Rubin
Two Wheels Good: The History and Mystery of the Bicycle
By:
Jody Rosen
A Flicker in the Dark
By:
Stacy Willingham
Dune Messiah
By:
Frank Herbert
Travels with Charley: In Search of America
By:
John Steinbeck
The Dragons of Eden
By:
Carl Sagan
Fire & Blood
By:
George R. R. Martin
The Wise Heart: A Guide to the Universal Teachings of Buddhist Psychology
By:
Jack Kornfield
The Nightingdale
By:
Kristin Hannah
The Great Alone
By:
Kristin Hannah
The Lincoln Highway
By:
Amor Towles
Consolations
By:
David Whyte
Four Winds
By:
Kristin Hannah
Slaughterhouse Five
By:
Kurt Vonnegut
The Invention of Nature: Alexander Von Humboldt's New World
By:
Andrea Wulf
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
By:
Philip. K. Dick
Finding the Mother Tree: Discovering the Wisdom of the Forest
By:
Suzanne Simard
The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck
By:
Mark Manson
The Alignment Problem: Machine Learning and Human Values
By:
Brian Christian
Snow Crash
By:
Neal Stephenson
Revolutionary Power: An Activist's Guide to the Energy Transition
By:
Shalanda Baker
Ready Player One
By:
Ernest Cline
Project Hail Marry
By:
Andy Weir
The Overstory
By:
Richard Powers
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
By:
J. K. Rowling
Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage
By:
Alfred Lansing
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
By:
J. K. Rowling
Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince
By:
J. K. Rowling
Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones
By:
James Clear
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
By:
J. K. Rowling
Lewis Hamilton: Five-Time World Champion: The Biography
By:
Frank Worrall
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
By:
J. K. Rowling
Termination Shock
By:
Neal Stephenson
The Source
By:
James A. Michener
Bewilderment
By:
Richard Powers
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
By:
J. K. Rowling
What Happened to You?: Conversations on Trauma, Resilience, and Healing
By:
Oprah Winfrey and Bruce D Perry
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
By:
J. K. Rowling
The Anthropocene Reviewed: Essays on a Human-Centered Planet
By:
John Green
Endure: Mind, Body, and the Curiously Elastic Limits of Human Performance
By:
Alex Hutchinson
Before the Coffee Gets Cold
By:
Toshikazu Kawaguchi
Atlas of AI: Power, Politics, and the Planetary Costs of Artificial Intelligence
By:
Kate Crawford
The Friend
By:
Sigrid Nunez
Stealth War
By:
Robert Spalding
Scientific Models in Philosophy of Science
By:
Daniela M. Bailer-Jones
The Wild Robot
By:
Peter Brown
Under a White Sky: The Nature of the Future
By:
Elizabeth Kolbert
The Bomber Mafia
By:
Malcolm Gladwell
Infinite Powers: How Calculus Reveals the Secrets of the Universe
By:
Steven Strogatz
The Splendid and the Vile
By:
Erik Larson
This Is Your Mind on Plants
By:
Michael Pollan
The Song of Achilles
By:
Madeline Miller
Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life
By:
William Finnegan
Braiding Sweetgrass
By:
Robin Wall Kimmerer
Genius Makers: The Mavericks Who Brought AI to Google, Facebook, and the World
By:
Cade Metz
"Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!": Adventures of a Curious Character
By:
Richard P. Feynman
The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany
By:
William L. Shirer
Rossumovi Univerzální Roboti (R.U.R.)
By:
Karel Čapek
Alone on the Wall
By:
Alex Honnold
How to Avoid a Climate Disaster
By:
Bill Gates
Untamed
By:
Glennon Doyle
Artemis
By:
Andy Weir
Through the Language Glass: Why the World Looks Different in Other Languages
By:
Guy Deutscher
Mythos
By:
Stephen Fry
The Three-Body Problem
By:
Cixin Liu
Greenlights
By:
Matthew McConaughey
New Laws of Robotics: Defending Human Expertise in the Age of AI
By:
Frank Pasquale
Breath: The New Science of a Lost Art
By:
James Nestor
A Promised Land
By:
Barack Obama
The Thrilling Adventures of Lovelace and Babbage: The (Mostly) True Story of the First Computer
By:
Sydney Padua
Race After Technology
By:
Ruha Benjamin
The Pillars of the Earth
By:
Ken Follett
Human Compatible: Artificial Intelligence and the Problem of Control
By:
Stuart Russell
The Gatekeepers: How the White House Chiefs of Staff Define Every Presidency
By:
Chris Whipple
The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion
By:
Jonathan Haidt
The Most Dangerous Branch: Inside the Supreme Court in the Age of Trump
By:
David A. Kaplan
Conscious: A Brief Guide to the Fundamental Mystery of the Mind
By:
Annaka Harris
Free Will
By:
Sam Harris
Draft Animals: Living the Pro Cycling Dream (Once in a While)
By:
Phil Gaimon
What I Talk about When I Talk about Running: A Memoir
By:
Haruki Murakami
Rising out of Hatred: The Awakening of a Former White Nationalist
By:
Eli Saslow
The Lord of the Rings
By:
J. R. R. Tolkien
Bruce Lee: A Life
By:
Matthew Polly
The Botany of Desire
By:
Michael Pollan
How to Change Your Mind: What the New Science of Psychedelics Teaches Us about Consciousness, Dying, Addiction, Depression, and Transcendence
By:
Michael Pollan
Becoming
By:
Michelle Obama
Elon Musk: Tesla, Spacex, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future
By:
Ashlee Vance
10% Happier: How I Tamed the Voice in My Head, Reduced Stress Without Losing My Edge, and Found Self-Help That Actually Works - A T
By:
Dan Harris
The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon
By:
David Grann
How to Be an Antiracist
By:
Ibram X. Kendi
Caffeine: How Caffeine Created the Modern World
By:
Michael Pollan
The Omnivore's Dilemma
By:
Michael Pollen
White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism
By:
Robin DiAngelo
Superintelligence
By:
Nick Bostrom
