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

2025 (16 books)

If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies (Eliezer Yudkowsky, Nate Soares)
Everything Is Tuberculosis (John Green)
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) [Review]
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 (13 books)

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 (26 books)

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) ⭐ [Review]
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 [Review] (49 books)

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) ⭐ [Review]
Dreamsnake (Vonda N. McIntyre)
The Phenomenological Mind (Shaun Gallagher) [Review]
The Man from the Future (Ananyo Bhattacharya) [Review]
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) [Review]
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) [Review]
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) [Review]
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 [Review] (53 books)

Going Postal (Terry Pratchett)
The Future of Another Timeline (Annalee Newitz)
Truth of the Divine (Lindsay Ellis)
Four Thousand Weeks (Oliver Burkeman) [Review]
Seeing Like a State (James C. Scott)
The Beginning of Infinity (David Deutsch) ⭐ [Review]
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) ⭐ [Review]
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) [Review]
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) ⭐ [Review]
The Hungry Brain (Stephan Guyenet)
The Doors of Perception (Aldous Huxley)
The Fifth Season (N.K. Jemisin) [Review]
The Overstory (Richard Powers) ⭐ [Review]
The Soul of a New Machine (Tracy Kidder)
The Ministry for the Future (Kim Stanley Robinson)

2020 [Review] (54 books)

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) [Review]
Foundation and Empire (Isaac Asimov)
Watchmen (Alan Moore)
Abaddon's Gate (James S.A. Corey) [Review]
Ficciones (Jorge Luis Borges)
The Way of Zen (Alan W. Watts)
In the Garden of Beasts (Erik Larson) [Review]
Crazy Rich Asians (Kevin Kwan)
Kafka on the Shore (Haruki Murakami) [Review]
A Short History of Nearly Everything (Bill Bryson) [Review]
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) [Review]
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) ⭐ [Review]
Wild Seed (Octavia E. Butler)
Permanent Record (Edward Snowden) [Review]
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 [Review] (52 books)

A Gentleman in Moscow (Amor Towles) [Review]
What I Talk About When I Talk About Running (Haruki Murakami)
Factfulness (Hans Rosling)
Debt: The First 5,000 Years (David Graeber) [Review]
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) [Review]
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) [Review]
The Bullet Journal Method (Ryder Carroll)
Why We Sleep (Matthew Walker)
Radicalized (Cory Doctorow) [Review]
American Gods (Neil Gaiman)
A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again (David Foster Wallace)
Exhalation (Ted Chiang)
Red Mars (Kim Stanley Robinson) [Review]
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) [Review]
"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) [Review]
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) [Review]
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 [Review] (21 books)

Cat’s Cradle (Kurt Vonnegut Jr.)
Annihilation (Jeff VanderMeer)
Practical Ethics (Peter Singer) [Review]
Breakfast of Champions (Kurt Vonnegut Jr.) [Review]
Modern Romance (Aziz Ansari)
Astrophysics for People in a Hurry (Neil deGrasse Tyson)
Death's End (Liu Cixin) [Review]
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) [Review]
Stories of Your Life and Others (Ted Chiang)
The Righteous Mind (Jonathan Haidt) ⭐ [Review]
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 (12 books)

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 (5 books)

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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