Books

Updated: January 13, 2025

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• Planecrash
• The Character of Physical Law

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Nonfiction

• Fluent Python
• Hell Yeah Or No
• Not Fade Away: A Short Life Well Lived
• The Precipice: Existential Risk and the Future of Humanity
• Making It Stick: The Science of Successful Learning
• The Decadent Society: How We Became the Victims of Our Own Success
• Stubborn Attachments: A Vision for a Society of Free, Prosperous, and Responsible Individuals
• The Body: A Guide for Occupants
• The Visual Display of Quantitative Information
• More from Less: The Surprising Story of How We Learned to Prosper Using Fewer Resources-and What Happens Next
• Human Compatible: Artificial Intelligence and the Problem of Control
• Stillness Is the Key
• The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion
• Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup
• Measure What Matters: How Google, Bono, and the Gates Foundation Rock the World with OKRs
• Basic Economics
• The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature
• Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress
• When: The Scientific Secrets of Perfect Timing
• Irresistible: The Rise of Addictive Technology and the Business of Keeping Us Hooked
• Doing Good Better: How Effective Altruism Can Help You Help Others, Do Work that Matters, and Make Smarter Choices about Giving Back
• The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business
• Free Will
• Man's Search for Meaning
• Meditations
• 80,000 Hours: Find a fulfilling career that does good
• Modern Romance
• Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis
• Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead
• Gang Leader for a Day: A Rogue Sociologist Takes to the Streets
• A Guide to the Good Life: The Ancient Art of Stoic Joy
• Principles: Life and Work
• The Moral Landscape: How Science Can Determine Human Values
• The Life You Can Save: Acting Now to End World Poverty
• Astrophysics for People in a Hurry
• Life 3.0: Being Human in the Age of Artificial Intelligence
• Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen
• Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking
• Originals: How Non-Conformists Move the World
• Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams
• Starting Strength: Basic Barbell Training
• Site Reliability Engineering: How Google Runs Production Systems
• The Effective Engineer: How to Leverage Your Efforts In Software Engineering to Make a Disproportionate and Meaningful Impact
• The Go Programming Language
• iOS Programming: The Big Nerd Ranch Guide
• The C Programming Language
• The Rust Programming Language
• Cracking the Coding Interview: 189 Programming Questions and Solutions
• The C++ Programming Language, 4th Edition
• Intel Xeon Phi Coprocessor High Performance Programming (reference)
• Objective-C Programming: The Big Nerd Ranch Guide
• Linux Kernel Development (reference)
• Operating Systems: Principles and Practice
• Unix Network Programming, Volume 1: The Sockets Networking API (reference)
• Designing Data-Intensive Applications (reference)
• Educated: A Memoir
• The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
• Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future
• The Case Against Education: Why the Education System Is a Waste of Time and Money
• Selfish Reasons to Have More Kids: Why Being a Great Parent is Less Work and More Fun Than You Think
• The Quest: Energy, Security, and the Remaking of the Modern World
• Homo Deus: A History of Tomorrow
• Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
• Political Tribes: Group Instinct and the Fate of Nations
• The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment
• Waking Up: A Guide to Spirituality Without Religion
• The Simple Faith of Mister Rogers: Spiritual Insights from the World's Most Beloved Neighbor
• Mindfulness, Bliss, and Beyond: A Meditator's Handbook
• Option B: Facing Adversity, Building Resilience, and Finding Joy
• Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products
• Cosmos
• How Not to Die: Discover the Foods Scientifically Proven to Prevent and Reverse Disease
• Rationality: From AI to Zombies
• The Way of Zen
• The Message: The Bible in Contemporary Language
• The Book on the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are
• The Art of Disappearing: Buddha's Path to Lasting Joy
• The Wisdom of Insecurity: A Message for an Age of Anxiety
• Digital Minimalism: Choosing a Focused Life in a Noisy World
• The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up: The Japanese Art of Decluttering and Organizing
• 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos
• Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones
• Perennial Seller: The Art of Making and Marketing Work That Lasts
• The Daily Stoic: 366 Meditations for Clarity, Effectiveness, and Serenity
• The Obstacle Is the Way: The Timeless Art of Turning Trials into Triumph
• Ego Is the Enemy
• Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World
• Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity
• The Motivation Hacker
• Everything Is F*cked: A Book About Hope
• How to Become a Straight-A Student
• So Good They Can't Ignore You: Why Skills Trump Passion in the Quest for Work You Love
• Win Bigly: Persuasion in a World Where Facts Don't Matter
• How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big: Kind of the Story of My Life
• Loserthink: How Untrained Brains Are Ruining America
• Discipline Equals Freedom: Field Manual
• Indistractable: How to Control Your Attention and Choose Your Life
• Welcome to Management: How to Grow From Top Performer to Excellent Leader
• Industrial Society and Its Future
• Masters of Doom: How Two Guys Created an Empire and Transformed Pop Culture
• What we Owe the Future
• Crafting Interpreters
• Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals
• The Burnout Society
• Sun and Steel

Fiction

• Philip K. Dick
  • The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch
  • Beyond Lies the Wub
• Liu Cixin
  • The Three-Body Problem
  • The Dark Forest
  • Death's End
• Foundation, Foundation and Empire, Second Foundation
• Cloud Atlas
• Neal Stephenson
  • Cryptonomicon
  • Anathem
  • Snow Crash
  • Seveneves
  • The Diamond Age
  • Termination Shock
  • REAMDE
• Crazy Rich Asians
• George Orwell
  • Animal Farm
  • 1984
• Brave New World
• Ready Player One
• Ishmael
• Dennis E. Taylor
  • Feedback
  • Quantum Earth series
  • The Singularity Trap
  • Roadkill
  • We Are Legion series
• Eliezer Yudkowsky
  • Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality
  • Dark Lord's Answer
• Exurb1a
  • The Prince of Milk
  • Geometry for Ocelots
  • The Fifth Science
  • Poems for the Lost Because I'm Lost Too
• qntm
  • Valuable Humans in Transit and Other Stories
  • Ra
  • There Is No Antimemetics Division (out of print)
• Andy Weir
  • The Martian
  • Artemis
  • Project Hail Mary
• Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow
• John Scalzi's Old Man's War series
• The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas
• Stories of Your Life and Others
• American Gods
• Essential Bukowski: Poetry
• Frank Herbert's Dune saga (5.5 books, gave up on #6 halfway through)
• Klara and the Sun