Books!

Welcome to my bookshelf. I am keeping track of the books I read, mostly for myself. Feel free to peruse!

Curated shelves:

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Top Picks

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

finished

2023.09

4

American Prometheus

By:

Kai Bird and Martin Sherwin

finished

2023.09

4

Open

By:

Andre Agassi

finished

2023.08

5

Once there was Wolves

By:

Charlotte McConaghy

finished

2023.07

4

The Signal and the Noise

By:

Nate Silver

finished

2023.06

4

All the Dangerous Things

By:

Stacy Willingham

finished

2023.06

3

The Creative Act: A Way of Being

By:

Rick Rubin

finished

2023.04

3

Two Wheels Good: The History and Mystery of the Bicycle

By:

Jody Rosen

finished

2023.03

4

A Flicker in the Dark

By:

Stacy Willingham

finished

2023.03

4

Dune Messiah

By:

Frank Herbert

finished

2023.03

3

Travels with Charley: In Search of America

By:

John Steinbeck

finished

2023.02

4

The Dragons of Eden

By:

Carl Sagan

finished

2023.01

5

Fire & Blood

By:

George R. R. Martin

finished

2023.01

4

The Wise Heart: A Guide to the Universal Teachings of Buddhist Psychology

By:

Jack Kornfield

finished

2023.01

4

The Nightingdale

By:

Kristin Hannah

finished

2023.01

4

The Great Alone

By:

Kristin Hannah

finished

2022.12

5

The Lincoln Highway

By:

Amor Towles

finished

2022.11

4

Consolations

By:

David Whyte

finished

2022.10

5

Four Winds

By:

Kristin Hannah

finished

2022.09

4

Slaughterhouse Five

By:

Kurt Vonnegut

finished

2022.09

4

The Invention of Nature: Alexander Von Humboldt's New World

By:

Andrea Wulf

finished

2022.07

5

Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

By:

Philip. K. Dick

finished

2022.07

4

Finding the Mother Tree: Discovering the Wisdom of the Forest

By:

Suzanne Simard

finished

2022.07

4

The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck

By:

Mark Manson

finished

2022.07

3

The Alignment Problem: Machine Learning and Human Values

By:

Brian Christian

finished

2022.05

4

Snow Crash

By:

Neal Stephenson

finished

2022.05

4

Revolutionary Power: An Activist's Guide to the Energy Transition

By:

Shalanda Baker

finished

2022.05

3

Ready Player One

By:

Ernest Cline

finished

2022.05

2

Project Hail Marry

By:

Andy Weir

finished

2022.04

5

The Overstory

By:

Richard Powers

finished

2022.04

5

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

By:

J. K. Rowling

finished

2022.04

4

Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage

By:

Alfred Lansing

finished

2022.03

5

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

By:

J. K. Rowling

finished

2022.03

5

Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince

By:

J. K. Rowling

finished

2022.03

4

Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones

By:

James Clear

finished

2022.03

4

Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

By:

J. K. Rowling

finished

2022.02

4

Lewis Hamilton: Five-Time World Champion: The Biography

By:

Frank Worrall

finished

2022.02

3

Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

By:

J. K. Rowling

finished

2022.01

5

Termination Shock

By:

Neal Stephenson

finished

2022.01

2

The Source

By:

James A. Michener

finished

2021.12

5

Bewilderment

By:

Richard Powers

finished

2021.12

5

Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

By:

J. K. Rowling

finished

2021.12

3

What Happened to You?: Conversations on Trauma, Resilience, and Healing

By:

Oprah Winfrey and Bruce D Perry

finished

2021.11

5

Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

By:

J. K. Rowling

finished

2021.11

4

The Anthropocene Reviewed: Essays on a Human-Centered Planet

By:

John Green

finished

2021.10

5

Endure: Mind, Body, and the Curiously Elastic Limits of Human Performance

By:

Alex Hutchinson

finished

2021.10

4

Before the Coffee Gets Cold

By:

Toshikazu Kawaguchi

finished

2021.10

3

Atlas of AI: Power, Politics, and the Planetary Costs of Artificial Intelligence

By:

Kate Crawford

finished

2021.09

5

The Friend

By:

Sigrid Nunez

finished

2021.09

4

Stealth War

By:

Robert Spalding

finished

2021.09

3

Scientific Models in Philosophy of Science

By:

Daniela M. Bailer-Jones

finished

2021.08

5

The Wild Robot

By:

Peter Brown

finished

2021.08

4

Under a White Sky: The Nature of the Future

By:

Elizabeth Kolbert

finished

2021.07

5

The Bomber Mafia

By:

Malcolm Gladwell

finished

2021.07

5

Infinite Powers: How Calculus Reveals the Secrets of the Universe

By:

Steven Strogatz

finished

2021.07

5

The Splendid and the Vile

By:

Erik Larson

finished

2021.07

4

This Is Your Mind on Plants

By:

Michael Pollan

finished

2021.07

4

The Song of Achilles

By:

Madeline Miller

finished

2021.06

3

Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life

By:

William Finnegan

finished

2021.05

5

Braiding Sweetgrass

By:

Robin Wall Kimmerer

finished

2021.05

3

Genius Makers: The Mavericks Who Brought AI to Google, Facebook, and the World

By:

Cade Metz

finished

2021.04

5

"Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!": Adventures of a Curious Character

By:

Richard P. Feynman

finished

2021.04

5

The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany

By:

William L. Shirer

finished

2021.04

5

Rossumovi Univerzální Roboti (R.U.R.)

By:

Karel Čapek

finished

2021.03

5

Alone on the Wall

By:

Alex Honnold

finished

2021.03

3

How to Avoid a Climate Disaster

By:

Bill Gates

finished

2021.03

3

Untamed

By:

Glennon Doyle

finished

2021.02

5

Artemis

By:

Andy Weir

finished

2021.02

4

Through the Language Glass: Why the World Looks Different in Other Languages

By:

Guy Deutscher

finished

2021.01

4

Mythos

By:

Stephen Fry

finished

2021.01

4

The Three-Body Problem

By:

Cixin Liu

finished

2021.00

4

Greenlights

By:

Matthew McConaughey

finished

2020.12

5

New Laws of Robotics: Defending Human Expertise in the Age of AI

By:

Frank Pasquale

finished

2020.12

3

Breath: The New Science of a Lost Art

By:

James Nestor

finished

2020.12

2

A Promised Land

By:

Barack Obama

finished

2020.11

4

The Thrilling Adventures of Lovelace and Babbage: The (Mostly) True Story of the First Computer

By:

Sydney Padua

finished

2020.08

4

Race After Technology

By:

Ruha Benjamin

finished

2020.07

3

The Pillars of the Earth

By:

Ken Follett

finished

2020.06

5

Human Compatible: Artificial Intelligence and the Problem of Control

By:

Stuart Russell

finished

2020.06

4

The Gatekeepers: How the White House Chiefs of Staff Define Every Presidency

By:

Chris Whipple

finished

2020.05

5

The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion

By:

Jonathan Haidt

finished

2020.05

5

The Most Dangerous Branch: Inside the Supreme Court in the Age of Trump

By:

David A. Kaplan

finished

2020.05

3

Conscious: A Brief Guide to the Fundamental Mystery of the Mind

By:

Annaka Harris

finished

2020.03

4

Free Will

By:

Sam Harris

finished

2020.03

3

Draft Animals: Living the Pro Cycling Dream (Once in a While)

By:

Phil Gaimon

finished

2020.02

5

What I Talk about When I Talk about Running: A Memoir

By:

Haruki Murakami

finished

2020.01

4

Rising out of Hatred: The Awakening of a Former White Nationalist

By:

Eli Saslow

finished

2020.00

5

The Lord of the Rings

By:

J. R. R. Tolkien

finished

2020.00

5

Bruce Lee: A Life

By:

Matthew Polly

finished

2020.00

5

The Botany of Desire

By:

Michael Pollan

finished

2020.00

5

How to Change Your Mind: What the New Science of Psychedelics Teaches Us about Consciousness, Dying, Addiction, Depression, and Transcendence

By:

Michael Pollan

finished

2020.00

5

Becoming

By:

Michelle Obama

finished

2020.00

5

Elon Musk: Tesla, Spacex, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future

By:

Ashlee Vance

finished

2020.00

4

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

finished

2020.00

4

The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon

By:

David Grann

finished

2020.00

4

How to Be an Antiracist

By:

Ibram X. Kendi

finished

2020.00

4

Caffeine: How Caffeine Created the Modern World

By:

Michael Pollan

finished

2020.00

4

The Omnivore's Dilemma

By:

Michael Pollen

finished

2020.00

4

White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism

By:

Robin DiAngelo

finished

2020.00

4

Superintelligence

By:

Nick Bostrom

finished

2020.00

3