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My Bookshelf

Some books I loved and some I liked. Books with a icon have a review available.

Currently Reading

  • There Is No Antimemetics Division by qntm
  • Thinking in Systems by Donella Meadows
  • The Wandering Earth by Cixin Liu

Read in 2024

  • The Winners by Fredrik Backman
  • The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
  • Zero to One by Peter Thiel
  • Drunk by Edward Slingerland
  • Guns, Germs, and Steel by Jared Diamond
  • Dune Messiah by Frank Herbert
  • 1984 by George Orwell
  • Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
  • The Metamorphosis of Prime Intellect by Roger Williams
  • Friendly Ambitious Nerd by Visa
  • Animal Farm by George Orwell

Read in 2023

  • The Silent Patient by Alex Michaelides
  • This Is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar
  • Stories of Your Life and Others by Ted Chiang
  • The Scout Mindset by Julia Galef
  • A Little History of the World by E.H. Gombrich
  • Essays in Love by Alain de Botton
  • Predictably Irrational by Dan Ariely
  • Men Without Women by Haruki Murakami
  • The Beginning of Infinity by David Deutsch
  • Letters to a Young Poet by Rainer Maria Rilke
  • Maus by Art Spiegelman
  • Plato and a Platypus Walk into a Bar by Thomas Cathcart
  • Superintelligence by Nick Bostrom
  • The Elephant in the Brain by Kevin Simler
  • The Comfort Crisis by Michael Easter
  • 4000 Weeks: Time Management for Mortals by Oliver Burkeman
  • Born a Crime by Trevor Noah

Read in 2022

  • The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
  • The School of Life by Alain de Botton
  • Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir
  • Fire & Blood by George R.R. Martin
  • Hear the Wind Sing by Haruki Murakami
  • Chess Story by Stefan Zweig
  • Attached by Amir Levine
  • Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom
  • When the Body Says No by Gabor Mate
  • When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi
  • Why We Get Sick by Benjamin Bikman
  • Death's End by Cixin Liu
  • Your Head Is a Houseboat by Campbell Walker
  • Breath by James Nestor
  • The Dark Forest by Cixin Liu
  • The Art of War by Sun Tzu
  • The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas by Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Bombay Balchao by Jane Borges

Read in 2021

  • Immune by Philipp Dettmer
  • Caffeine by Michael Pollan
  • The Last Question by Isaac Asimov
  • The Anthropocene Reviewed by John Green
  • Piranesi by Susanna Clarke
  • On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong
  • Dopamine Nation by Anna Lembke
  • Everyone You Hate Is Going to Die by Daniel Sloss
  • Strange Planet by Nathan W. Pyle
  • The Three-Body Problem by Cixin Liu
  • The Almanack of Naval Ravikant by Eric Jorgenson
  • Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor E. Frankl
  • A Wild Sheep Chase by Haruki Murakami
  • Educated by Tara Westover
  • Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman! by Richard P. Feynman
  • Pale Blue Dot by Carl Sagan
  • The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka
  • Exhalation by Ted Chiang
  • Dune by Frank Herbert
  • The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
  • Hyperbole and a Half by Allie Brosh
  • The Emperor's Soul by Brandon Sanderson
  • The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • Think Again by Adam Grant
  • The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared by Jonas Jonasson
  • So Good They Can't Ignore You by Cal Newport
  • Deep Nutrition by Catherine Shanahan
  • What I Talk About When I Talk About Running by Haruki Murakami
  • Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami
  • My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She's Sorry by Fredrik Backman
  • The Psychology of Money by Morgan Housel
  • And Every Morning the Way Home Gets Longer and Longer by Fredrik Backman
  • The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
  • Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami
  • Us Against You by Fredrik Backman
  • Beartown by Fredrik Backman
  • Anxious People by Fredrik Backman

Read in 2020 & Before

  • The Midnight Library by Matt Haig
  • Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell
  • The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck by Mark Manson
  • Atomic Habits by James Clear
  • A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backman
  • Deep Work by Cal Newport
  • The Amber Spyglass by Philip Pullman
  • The Subtle Knife by Philip Pullman
  • The Golden Compass by Philip Pullman
  • Ikigai by Héctor García
  • Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harari
  • Looking for Alaska by John Green
  • A Game of Thrones by George R.R. Martin
  • The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
  • To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee