Finding good books today isn't all that easy. I created this page to record what I've thought of the books I've read. Reading it should help you get an idea of how similar our tastes are. If we like the same things and I've missed one of your favorites, then what are you doing still sitting there on your hands? E-mail me already! Even better, create a page like this and bring civilization closer to a state of perfect literary harmony.
Current total number of books in the log:
687A chronological log of what I've read is on a separate page.2666[Wikipedia] |
The Savage Detectives[Wikipedia] |
The Skating Rink[Wikipedia] |
Microserfs[Wikipedia] |
Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture[Wikipedia] |
Generation A[Wikipedia] |
JPod[Wikipedia] |
Hey Nostradamus![Wikipedia] |
Miss Wyoming[Wikipedia] |
End Zone[Wikipedia] |
Libra[Wikipedia] |
The Names[Wikipedia] |
Underworld[Wikipedia] |
White Noise[Wikipedia] |
Amazons: An Intimate Memoir By the First Woman to Play in the National Hockey League[Wikipedia] |
Zero K[Wikipedia] |
The Angel Esmeralda: Nine Stories[Wikipedia] |
Great Jones Street[Wikipedia] |
Point Omega[Wikipedia] |
Falling Man[Wikipedia] |
Americana[Wikipedia] |
Players[Wikipedia] |
Mao II[Wikipedia] |
Cosmopolis[Wikipedia] |
The Body Artist[Wikipedia] |
The Silence[Wikipedia] |
Ratner's Star[Wikipedia] |
Running Dog[Wikipedia] was much less intellectual than the above and much more "plot-centered"/"pulpy". It was still "good," but not really my style. I think this book and Ratner's Star show DeLillo going too far to opposite extremes. |
The Last Samurai[Wikipedia] |
Some Trick: Thirteen Stories |
David Copperfield[Wikipedia] |
Great Expectations[Wikipedia] |
The Idiot[Wikipedia] |
Demons/The Possessed[Wikipedia] |
The Brothers Karamazov[Wikipedia] |
Crime and Punishment[Wikipedia] |
The Adolescent/A Raw Youth[Wikipedia] |
The Gambler[Wikipedia] |
Netochka Nezvanovna[Wikipedia] |
The Village of Stepanchikovo[Wikipedia] |
The House of the Dead[Wikipedia] |
Notes From the Underground[Wikipedia] |
Short stories |
The Double[Wikipedia] is horrible. Anything else is worth reading. |
Foucault's Pendulum[Wikipedia] |
The Prague Cemetery[Wikipedia] |
Baudolino[Wikipedia] |
The Name of the Rose[Wikipedia] |
The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana[Wikipedia] |
Numero Zero[Wikipedia] |
The Island of the Day Before[Wikipedia] |
Invisible Man[Wikipedia] |
American Gods[Wikipedia] |
The Annotated Sandman, Vol. 1[Wikipedia] |
The Annotated Sandman, Vol. 2[Wikipedia] |
The Annotated Sandman, Vol. 3[Wikipedia] |
Anansi Boys[Wikipedia] |
The Sorrows of Young Werther[Wikipedia] |
Faust[Wikipedia] |
Faust: Part Two[Wikipedia] |
Elective Affinities[Wikipedia] |
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time[Wikipedia] |
A Spot of Bother[Wikipedia] |
Catch-22[Wikipedia] |
Something Happened[Wikipedia] |
Closing Time[Wikipedia] |
Picture This[Wikipedia] |
Now and Then[Wikipedia] |
Portrait of an Artist, as an Old Man[Wikipedia] |
God Knows[Wikipedia] |
Steppenwolf[Wikipedia] |
Demian[Wikipedia] |
Narcissus and Goldmund[Wikipedia] |
Gertrude[Wikipedia] |
Beneath the Wheel[Wikipedia] |
Peter Camenzind[Wikipedia] |
Rosshalde |
The Glass Bead Game[Wikipedia] |
Siddartha[Wikipedia] |
Journey to the East[Wikipedia] |
Strange News from Another Star[Wikipedia] |
The Hotel New Hampshire[Wikipedia] |
A Prayer for Owen Meany[Wikipedia] |
The Cider House Rules[Wikipedia] |
A Son of the Circus[Wikipedia] |
A Widow for One Year[Wikipedia] |
The Water Method Man[Wikipedia] |
The World According to Garp[Wikipedia] |
Until I Find You[Wikipedia] |
The 158-Pound Marriage[Wikipedia] |
Setting Free the Bears[Wikipedia] |
The Fourth Hand |
Last Night in Twisted River[Wikipedia] |
Trying to Save Piggy Sneed[Wikipedia] |
The Imaginary Girlfriend |
Avenue of Mysteries[Wikipedia] |
It[Wikipedia] |
The Bachman Books[Wikipedia] |
'Salem's Lot[Wikipedia] |
The Dead Zone[Wikipedia] |
Cujo[Wikipedia] |
Different Seasons[Wikipedia] |
Christine[Wikipedia] |
Pet Sematary[Wikipedia] |
Skeleton Crew[Wikipedia] |
The Dark Tower II: The Drawing of the Three[Wikipedia] |
Misery[Wikipedia] |
The Tommyknockers[Wikipedia] |
Nightmares & Dreamscapes[Wikipedia] |
The Shining[Wikipedia] |
The Dark Half[Wikipedia] |
Carrie[Wikipedia] |
Night Shift[Wikipedia] |
The Stand[Wikipedia] |
Firestarter[Wikipedia] |
Danse Macabre[Wikipedia] |
The Dark Tower I: The Gunslinger[Wikipedia] |
Cycle of the Werewolf[Wikipedia] |
The Eyes of the Dragon[Wikipedia] |
Thinner[Wikipedia] |
Four Past Midnight[Wikipedia] |
The Dark Tower III: The Waste Lands[Wikipedia] |
Needful Things[Wikipedia] |
Gerald's Game[Wikipedia] |
Dolores Claiborne[Wikipedia] |
The Three-Body Problem[Wikipedia] |
The Dark Forest[Wikipedia] |
Death's End[Wikipedia] |
Supernova Era[Wikipedia] |
The New Annotated H. P. Lovecraft |
The New Annotated H.P. Lovecraft: Beyond Arkham |
Sexus[Wikipedia] |
Plexus[Wikipedia] |
Nexus[Wikipedia] |
Moloch |
Tropic of Capricorn[Wikipedia] |
Tropic of Cancer[Wikipedia] |
The Colossus of Maroussi |
The Air-Conditioned Nightmare |
Black Spring[Wikipedia] |
Watchmen: The Annotated Edition[Wikipedia] |
1Q84[Wikipedia] |
Norwegian Wood[Wikipedia] |
Kafka on the Shore[Wikipedia] |
Wind/Pinball |
A Wild Sheep Chase[Wikipedia] |
Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World[Wikipedia] |
South of the Border, West of the Sun[Wikipedia] |
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle[Wikipedia] |
Sputnik Sweetheart[Wikipedia] |
Mason and Dixon[Wikipedia] |
Gravity's Rainbow[Wikipedia] |
Vineland[Wikipedia] |
V.[Wikipedia] |
Bleeding Edge[Wikipedia] |
The Crying of Lot 49[Wikipedia] |
Slow Learner[Wikipedia] |
Against the Day[Wikipedia] |
Inherent Vice[Wikipedia] |
The Human Stain[Wikipedia] |
I Married a Communist[Wikipedia] |
Portnoy's Complaint[Wikipedia] |
Operation Shylock[Wikipedia] |
Zuckerman Bound[Wikipedia] |
The Ghost Writer[Wikipedia] |
American Pastoral[Wikipedia] |
The Counterlife[Wikipedia] |
Sabbath's Theater[Wikipedia] |
The Plot Against America[Wikipedia] |
Exit Ghost[Wikipedia] |
The Great American Novel[Wikipedia] |
Everyman[Wikipedia] |
The Facts: A Novelist's Autobiography[Wikipedia] |
Goodbye, Columbus[Wikipedia] |
Letting Go[Wikipedia] |
Deception[Wikipedia] |
When She Was Good[Wikipedia] |
The Satanic Verses[Wikipedia] |
Midnight's Children[Wikipedia] |
The Catcher in the Rye[Wikipedia] |
The Reprieve[Wikipedia] |
The Age of Reason[Wikipedia] |
The Wall[Wikipedia] (American collection of short stories) |
Nausea[Wikipedia] |
Troubled Sleep[Wikipedia] |
Robert Shea and Robert Anton Wilson
Illuminatus![Wikipedia] |
Schrödinger's Cat[Wikipedia] |
Cryptonomicon[Wikipedia] |
Snow Crash[Wikipedia] |
War and Peace[Wikipedia] |
Anna Karenina[Wikipedia] was rather disappointing. It was full of absurd Christian conversions and pointless and detailed descriptions of social activities, without the redeeming qualities of War and Peace. |
Rabbit is Rich[Wikipedia] |
Rabbit Redux[Wikipedia] |
Rabbit, Run[Wikipedia] |
Rabbit at Rest[Wikipedia] |
Licks of Love |
Bech: A Book[Wikipedia] |
The Witches of Eastwick[Wikipedia] |
A Fire Upon the Deep[Wikipedia] |
A Deepness in the Sky[Wikipedia] |
The Peace War[Wikipedia] |
The Children of the Sky[Wikipedia] |
Rainbows End[Wikipedia] |
Infinite Jest[Wikipedia] |
The Pale King[Wikipedia] |
Brief Interviews with Hideous Men[Wikipedia] |
Oblivion[Wikipedia] |
Girl with Curious Hair[Wikipedia] |
A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again[Wikipedia] |
Consider the Lobster[Wikipedia] |
Everything and More: A Compact History of Infinity[Wikipedia] |
The Broom of the System[Wikipedia] |
The Bonfire of the Vanities[Wikipedia] |
A Man In Full[Wikipedia] |
I am Charlotte Simmons[Wikipedia] |
Back to Blood[Wikipedia] |
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy[Wikipedia] |
The Restaurant at the End of the Universe[Wikipedia] |
Life, the Universe and Everything[Wikipedia] |
So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish[Wikipedia] |
Mostly Harmless[Wikipedia] |
Young Zaphod Plays it Safe[Wikipedia] |
The Handmaid's Tale[Wikipedia] |
Consider Phlebas[Wikipedia] |
The Player of Games[Wikipedia] |
Use of Weapons[Wikipedia] |
World's End[Wikipedia] |
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay[Wikipedia] |
The King in Yellow[Wikipedia] |
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell[Wikipedia] |
Ubik[Wikipedia] |
Radio Free Albemuth[Wikipedia] |
Confessions of a Crap Artist[Wikipedia] |
The Man in the High Castle[Wikipedia] |
Billy Bathgate[Wikipedia] |
The Waterworks |
My Brilliant Friend[Wikipedia] |
The Story of a New Name[Wikipedia] |
Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay[Wikipedia] |
The Story of the Lost Child[Wikipedia] |
Tender is the Night[Wikipedia] |
The Great Gatsby[Wikipedia] |
The Mind-Body Problem |
The Late-Summer Passion of a Woman of Mind |
Mazel |
The Power and the Glory[Wikipedia] |
The Magicians[Wikipedia] |
The Scarlet Letter[Wikipedia] |
The Blithedale Romance[Wikipedia] |
The House of the Seven Gables[Wikipedia] |
The Marble Faun[Wikipedia] |
Dune[Wikipedia] |
Dune Messiah[Wikipedia] |
Children of Dune[Wikipedia] |
Submission[Wikipedia] |
The Castle[Wikipedia] |
The Trial[Wikipedia] |
Short stories |
On the Road[Wikipedia] |
The Talisman[Wikipedia] |
Solaris[Wikipedia] |
The Invincible[Wikipedia] |
Lisa Morton and Leslie S. Klinger
Weird Women: Classic Supernatural Fiction by Groundbreaking Female Writers: 1852-1923 |
It Can't Happen Here[Wikipedia] |
Invisible Planets: Contemporary Chinese Science Fiction in Translation |
Broken Stars: Contemporary Chinese Science Fiction in Translation |
John Barleycorn[Wikipedia] |
The Sea Wolf[Wikipedia] |
Life of Pi[Wikipedia] |
All the Pretty Horses[Wikipedia] |
The City & The City[Wikipedia] |
Perdido Street Station[Wikipedia] |
The Scar[Wikipedia] |
King Rat[Wikipedia] |
Iron Council[Wikipedia] |
number9dream[Wikipedia] |
The Defense[Wikipedia] |
Pnin[Wikipedia] |
Pale Fire[Wikipedia] |
Invitation to a Beheading[Wikipedia] |
Lolita[Wikipedia] |
Nabokov's Dozen[Wikipedia] |
The Real Life of Sebastian Knight[Wikipedia] |
At Swim-Two-Birds[Wikipedia] |
The Third Policeman[Wikipedia] |
Down and Out in Paris and London[Wikipedia] |
1984[Wikipedia] |
Burmese Days[Wikipedia] |
Keep the Aspidistra Flying[Wikipedia] |
Homage to Catalonia[Wikipedia] is really journalism and not an attempt at fiction, so don't expect otherwise! |
Animal Farm[Wikipedia] |
Fight Club[Wikipedia] |
Survivor[Wikipedia] |
Invisible Monsters[Wikipedia] |
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance[Wikipedia] |
Lila[Wikipedia] |
Frederik Pohl and C. M. Kornbluth
The Space Merchants[Wikipedia] |
Ishmael[Wikipedia] |
The Story of B[Wikipedia] |
My Ishmael[Wikipedia] |
The New Annotated Frankenstein |
Dying Inside[Wikipedia] |
To Open the Sky |
Last And First Men[Wikipedia] |
The New Annotated Dracula |
Ghost Story[Wikipedia] |
God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater[Wikipedia] |
Mother Night[Wikipedia] |
The Sirens of Titan[Wikipedia] |
Slaughterhouse-Five[Wikipedia] |
Breakfast of Champions[Wikipedia] |
Hocus Pocus[Wikipedia] |
Cat's Cradle[Wikipedia] |
Timequake[Wikipedia] |
Stoner[Wikipedia] |
Ritual in the Dark |
Man Without a Shadow |
Adrift in Soho[Wikipedia] |
Winesburg, Ohio[Wikipedia] |
Foundation[Wikipedia] |
Sundiver[Wikipedia] |
Wuthering Heights[Wikipedia] |
The Big Sleep[Wikipedia] |
Carpenter's Gothic[Wikipedia] |
The Unbearable Lightness of Being[Wikipedia] |
Big Machine |
The Ecstatic |
Pachinko |
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes[Wikipedia] |
Fort Wayne is Seventh on Hitler's List |
Ringworld[Wikipedia] |
The Ringworld Engineers[Wikipedia] |
The Ringworld Throne[Wikipedia] |
Doctor Zhivago[Wikipedia] |
The Diary of Malta Laurid Brigge[Wikipedia] |
Villa Incognito[Wikipedia] |
Fathers and Sons[Wikipedia] |
Short stories |
Rudin/On the Eve |
The Virginian[Wikipedia] |
I'm not going to bother comparing these books to each other. I'll just say that I found each worth reading.
Daron Acemoğlu and James A. Robinson
The Narrow Corridor: States, Societies, and the Fate of Liberty |
Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty[Wikipedia] |
Alberto Alesina and Francesco Giavazzi
The Future of Europe: Reform or Decline |
Elizabeth A. Armstrong and Laura T. Hamilton
Paying for the Party: How College Maintains Inequality |
Neurodiversity: Discovering the Extraordinary Gifts of Autism, ADHD, Dyslexia, and Other Brain Differences |
Disciplined Entrepreneurship |
The Evolution of Cooperation |
Loonshots: How to Nurture the Crazy Ideas That Win Wars, Cure Diseases, and Transform Industries |
Puritan Boston and Quaker Philadelphia |
Abhijit Banerjee and Esther Duflo
Poor Economics: A Radical Rethinking of the Way to Fight Global Poverty[Wikipedia] |
Richard J. Barber Associates, Inc.
The Advanced Research Projects Agency, 1958-1974 |
Irrational Man: A Study in Existential Philosophy[Wikipedia] |
David T. Beito, Peter Gordon, and Alexander Tabarrok
The Voluntary City: Choice, Community, and Civil Society[Wikipedia] |
The Big Sort: Why the Clustering of Like-Minded America is Tearing Us Apart |
Hierarchy in the Forest: The Evolution of Egalitarian Behavior |
Samuel Bowles and Herbert Gintis
Schooling in Capitalist America: Educational Reform and the Contradictions of Economic Life[Wikipedia] |
Against Democracy[Wikipedia] |
Libertarianism: What Everyone Needs to Know |
On Paradise Drive: How We Live Now (And Always Have) in the Future Tense[Wikipedia] |
Bobos in Paradise: The New Upper Class and How They Got There[Wikipedia] |
The Social Animal: The Hidden Sources of Love, Character, and Achievement[Wikipedia] |
The Road to Character[Wikipedia] |
The Mythical Man-Month: Essays on Software Engineering[Wikipedia] |
The Design of Design: Essays from a Computer Scientist |
Working Backwards: Insights, Stories, and Secrets from Inside Amazon |
Erik Brynjolfsson and Andrew McAfee
The Second Machine Age: Work, Progress, and Prosperity in a Time of Brilliant Technologies |
Inspired: How to Create Tech Products Customers Love |
Pierre Cahuc and André Zylberberg
The Natural Survival of Work: Job Creation and Job Destruction in a Growing Economy |
Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking[Wikipedia] |
The China Study: Revised and Expanded Edition: The Most Comprehensive Study of Nutrition Ever Conducted and the Startling Implications for Diet, Weight Loss, and Long-Term Health[Wikipedia] |
The Low-Carb Fraud |
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[Wikipedia] |
Open Borders: The Science and Ethics of Immigration |
Don't Be a Feminist: Essays on Genuine Justice |
The Tao of Physics[Wikipedia] |
The Turning Point: Science, Society, and the Rising Culture[Wikipedia] |
How to Win Friends and Influence People[Wikipedia] |
Keeping the Rabble in Line |
Necessary Illusions[Wikipedia] |
Profit over People: Neoliberalism and Global Order[Wikipedia] |
Gregory Cochran and Henry Harpending
The 10,000 Year Explosion: How Civilization Accelerated Human Evolution[Wikipedia] |
The Simple Path to Wealth: Your road map to financial independence and a rich, free life |
Humans Are Underrated: What High Achievers Know That Brilliant Machines Never Will |
Americans Against the City: Anti-Urbanism in the Twentieth Century |
Average is Over: Powering America Beyond the Age of the Great Stagnation[Wikipedia] |
The Great Stagnation: How America Ate All The Low-Hanging Fruit of Modern History, Got Sick, and Will (Eventually) Feel Better[Wikipedia] |
An Economist Gets Lunch: New Rules for Everyday Foodies |
What Price Fame? |
The Complacent Class: The Self-Defeating Quest for the American Dream |
Stubborn Attachments: A Vision for a Society of Free, Prosperous, and Responsible Individuals |
Big Business: A Love Letter to an American Anti-Hero |
Talent: How to Identify Energizers, Creatives, and Winners Around the World |
The Compatibility Gene: How Our Bodies Fight Disease, Attract Others, and Define Our Selves |
The Selfish Gene[Wikipedia] |
The Ancestor's Tale[Wikipedia] |
The God Delusion[Wikipedia] |
A Devil's Chaplain[Wikipedia] |
You're Never Weird on the Internet (Almost) |
Breaking the Spell: Religion as a Natural Phenomenon[Wikipedia] |
Darwin's Dangerous Idea: Evolution and the Meaning of Life[Wikipedia] |
Consciousness Explained[Wikipedia] |
Operation Enough!: How to Retire Remarkably Early |
Guns, Germs, and Steel[Wikipedia] |
Land is a Big Deal: Why rent is too high, wages too low, and what we can do about it |
The Secret Lives of Customers: A Detective Story About Solving the Mystery of Customer Behavior |
The Wisdom of Psychopaths: What Saints, Spies, and Serial Killers Can Teach Us About Success |
Incognito: The Secret Lives of the Brain[Wikipedia] |
How to Write a Thesis |
Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America[Wikipedia] |
Every Life Is on Fire: How Thermodynamics Explains the Origins of Living Things |
The Computer Boys Take Over: Computers, Programmers, and the Politics of Technical Expertise |
Good Without God: What a Billion Nonreligious People Do Believe |
Simple Rules for a Complex World |
The Engine 2 Diet: The Texas Firefighter's 28-Day Save-Your-Life Plan that Lowers Cholesterol and Burns Away the Pounds |
Number Go Up: Inside Crypto's Wild Rise and Staggering Fall[Wikipedia] |
A Ph.D. Is Not Enough! |
Brad Feld and Jason Mendelson
Venture Deals: Be Smarter Than Your Lawyer and Venture Capitalist |
The Mom Test: How to talk to customers & learn if your business is a good idea when everyone is lying to you |
Who's Your City?: How the Creative Economy Is Making Where to Live the Most Important Decision of Your Life[Wikipedia] |
The Rise of the Creative Class--Revisited: Revised and Expanded[Wikipedia] |
The New Urban Crisis: How Our Cities Are Increasing Inequality, Deepening Segregation, and Failing the Middle Class-and What We Can Do About It |
Rise of the Robots: Technology and the Threat of a Jobless Future |
Richistan: A Journey Through the American Wealth Boom and the Lives of the New Rich |
The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin[Wikipedia] |
Milton Friedman and Rose D. Friedman
Free to Choose[Wikipedia] |
The Lexus and the Olive Tree[Wikipedia] |
The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-First Century[Wikipedia] |
From Beirut to Jerusalem[Wikipedia] |
Hot, Flat, and Crowded 2.0: Why We Need a Green Revolution--and How It Can Renew America[Wikipedia] |
Carol Frieze and Jeria Quesenberry
Kicking Butt in Computer Science: Women in Computing at Carnegie Mellon University |
William H. Gates Sr. and Chuck Collins
Wealth and Our Commonwealth: Why America Should Tax Accumulated Fortunes |
The Underground History of American Education[Wikipedia] |
Weapons of Mass Instruction: A Schoolteacher's Journey through the Dark World of Compulsory Schooling |
The Idea Factory: Bell Labs and the Great Age of American Innovation |
A Generation of Sociopaths: How the Baby Boomers Betrayed America |
The Nonsense Factory: The Making and Breaking of the American Legal System |
High Growth Handbook |
Outliers: The Story of Success[Wikipedia] |
Triumph of the City: How Our Greatest Invention Makes Us Richer, Smarter, Greener, Healthier, and Happier |
City on the Edge: Buffalo, New York, 1900 - present |
Eliyahu M. Goldratt and Jeff Cox
The Goal: A Process of Ongoing Improvement[Wikipedia] |
Slapped by the Invisible Hand: The Panic of 2007 |
The Mismeasure of Man[Wikipedia] |
Paved Paradise: How Parking Explains the World |
100 Million Unnecessary Returns: A Simple, Fair, and Competitive Tax Plan for the United States |
The Age of Turbulence: Adventures in a New World[Wikipedia] |
How Not to Die: Discover the Foods Scientifically Proven to Prevent and Reverse Disease |
How Not to Age: The Scientific Approach to Getting Healthier as You Get Older |
The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion[Wikipedia] |
The Happiness Hypothesis: Finding Modern Truth in Ancient Wisdom[Wikipedia] |
The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness[Wikipedia] |
Where Is My Flying Car? |
Will Our Love Last?: A Couple's Road Map |
The Age of Em: Work, Love and Life when Robots Rule the Earth[Wikipedia] |
Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow[Wikipedia] |
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind[Wikipedia] |
21 Lessons for the 21st Century[Wikipedia] |
Fifty Inventions That Shaped the Modern Economy |
The Logic of Life: The Rational Economics of an Irrational World[Wikipedia] |
Drawdown: The Most Comprehensive Plan Ever Proposed to Reverse Global Warming |
Kids These Days: Human Capital and the Making of Millennials |
7 Powers: The Foundations of Business Strategy |
The Secret of Our Success: How Culture Is Driving Human Evolution, Domesticating Our Species, and Making Us Smarter |
Richard J. Herrnstein and Charles Murray
The Bell Curve: Intelligence and Class Structure in American Life[Wikipedia] |
Liquidated: An Ethnography of Wall Street |
Reid Hoffman, Ben Casnocha, and Chris Yeh
The Alliance: Managing Talent in the Networked Age |
Reid Hoffman and Chris Yeh
Blitzscaling: The Lightning-Fast Path to Building Massively Valuable Companies |
The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers |
What You Do Is Who You Are: How to Create Your Business Culture |
Not Accountable: Rethinking the Constitutionality of Public Employee Unions |
How to Win in a Winner-Take-All World: The Definitive Guide to Adapting and Succeeding in High-Performance Careers |
Moral Mazes: The World of Corporate Managers[Wikipedia] |
The Essence of Software: Why Concepts Matter for Great Design |
The Death and Life of Great American Cities[Wikipedia] |
Hive Mind: How Your Nation's IQ Matters So Much More Than Your Own[Wikipedia] |
10% Less Democracy: Why You Should Trust Elites a Little More and the Masses a Little Less |
Thinking, Fast and Slow[Wikipedia] |
The Chosen: The Hidden History of Admission and Exclusion at Harvard, Yale, and Princeton[Wikipedia] |
Whiteshift: Populism, Immigration and the Future of White Majorities |
Other People's Money: The Real Business of Finance |
The Two-Parent Privilege: How Americans Stopped Getting Married and Started Falling Behind |
The Deficit Myth: Modern Monetary Theory and the Birth of the People's Economy |
A Class Apart: Prodigies, Pressure, and Passion Inside One of America's Best High Schools |
Why We're Polarized[Wikipedia] |
Arnold Kling and Nick Schulz
From Poverty to Prosperity: Intangible Assets, Hidden Liabilities and the Lasting Triumph over Scarcity |
The Overflowing Brain: Information Overload and the Limits of Working Memory |
Don't Make Me Think, Revisited: A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability[Wikipedia] |
The Age of Spiritual Machines: When Computers Exceed Human Intelligence[Wikipedia] |
Masters of Doom: How Two Guys Created an Empire and Transformed Pop Culture[Wikipedia] |
Beyond the Robot: The Life and Work of Colin Wilson |
George Lakoff and Rafael E. Nunez
Where Mathematics Comes From[Wikipedia] |
Programmers at Work: Interviews With 19 Programmers Who Shaped the Computer Industry |
The Big Questions: Tackling the Problems of Philosophy with Ideas from Mathematics, Economics and Physics |
More Sex Is Safer Sex: The Unconventional Wisdom of Economics |
Power, Sex, Suicide: Mitochondria and the Meaning of Life[Wikipedia] |
The Vital Question: Energy, Evolution, and the Origins of Complex Life[Wikipedia] |
Ten Arguments for Deleting Your Social Media Accounts Right Now |
The Laws of Trading: A Trader's Guide to Better Decision-Making for Everyone |
Steven Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner
Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything[Wikipedia] |
Excellence Without a Soul: How a Great University Forgot Education |
Human Capitalism: How Economic Growth Has Made Us Smarter--and More Unequal |
Although Of Course You End Up Becoming Yourself: A Road Trip with David Foster Wallace[Wikipedia] |
Founders at Work: Stories of Startups' Early Days |
Give People Money: How a Universal Basic Income Would End Poverty, Revolutionize Work, and Remake the World |
Greg Lukianoff and Jonathan Haidt
The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting Up a Generation for Failure[Wikipedia] |
Sustainable Energy - Without the Hot Air |
John Mackey, Alona Pulde, and Matthew Lederman
The Whole Foods Diet: The Lifesaving Plan for Health and Longevity |
The Power Law: Venture Capital and the Making of the New Future |
More Money Than God: Hedge Funds and the Making of a New Elite[Wikipedia] |
Four Arguments for the Elimination of Television[Wikipedia] |
Uncontrolled: The Surprising Payoff of Trial-and-Error for Business, Politics, and Society |
What the Dormouse Said: How the Sixties Counterculture Shaped the Personal Computer Industry[Wikipedia] |
Status and Culture: How Our Desire for Social Rank Creates Taste, Identity, Art, Fashion, and Constant Change |
Primates of Park Avenue: A Memoir |
Tucker Max and Geoffrey Miller
Mate: Become the Man Women Want |
The Up Side of Down: Why Failing Well Is the Key to Success |
Ben McKenzie and Jacob Silverman
Easy Money: Cryptocurrency, Casino Capitalism, and the Golden Age of Fraud |
Just Food: How Locavores are Endangering the Future of Food and How We Can Truly Eat Responsibly |
Donella Meadows, Jorgen Randers, and Dennis Meadows
Limits to Growth: The 30-Year Update[Wikipedia] |
Very Important People: Status and Beauty in the Global Party Circuit |
Pricing Beauty: The Making of a Fashion Model |
Chip War: The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology[Wikipedia] |
The Mating Mind: How Sexual Choice Shaped the Evolution of Human Nature |
Virtue Signaling: Essays on Darwinian Politics & Free Speech |
Our Robots, Ourselves: Robotics and the Myths of Autonomy |
Governing Least: A New England Libertarianism |
Happy City: Transforming Our Lives Through Urban Design[Wikipedia] |
Crossing the Chasm: Marketing and Selling Disruptive Products to Mainstream Customers[Wikipedia] |
Foragers, Farmers, and Fossil Fuels: How Human Values Evolve |
Barbecue: The History of an American Institution |
Coming Apart: The State of White America[Wikipedia] |
The Curmudgeon's Guide to Getting Ahead: Dos and Don'ts of Right Behavior, Tough Thinking, Clear Writing, and Living a Good Life |
In Our Hands: A Plan To Replace The Welfare State |
By the People: Rebuilding Liberty Without Permission |
Human Diversity: The Biology of Gender, Race, and Class |
Fixing College Education: A New Curriculum for the Twenty-First Century |
Nonbeliever Nation: The Rise of Secular Americans |
Intelligence and How to Get It: Why Schools and Cultures Count |
Big Gods: How Religion Transformed Cooperation and Conflict |
Drink?: The New Science of Alcohol and Health |
Second Act: What Late Bloomers Can Tell You About Success and Reinventing Your Life |
Comfortably Unaware |
Recoding America: Why Government Is Failing in the Digital Age and How We Can Do Better |
The Diversity Bonus: How Great Teams Pay Off in the Knowledge Economy |
Realizing Freedom: Libertarian Theory, History, and Practice |
The Revolution: A Manifesto[Wikipedia] |
Judea Pearl and Dana Mackenzie
The Book of Why: The New Science of Cause and Effect[Wikipedia] |
The Case Against the Sexual Revolution[Wikipedia] |
The Conservative Futurist: How to Create the Sci-Fi World We Were Promised |
The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature[Wikipedia] |
The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined[Wikipedia] |
Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress[Wikipedia] |
The Sense of Style |
The Stuff of Thought: Language As a Window Into Human Nature[Wikipedia] |
The Language Instinct[Wikipedia] |
Rationality: What It Is, Why It Seems Scarce, Why It Matters[Wikipedia] |
The Sexual Paradox: Men, Women and the Real Gender Gap[Wikipedia] |
Sex and Reason |
Fortune's Formula |
The Evolution of Beauty: How Darwin's Forgotten Theory of Mate Choice Shapes the Animal World - and Us |
Bowling Alone[Wikipedia] |
Our Kids: The American Dream in Crisis |
Robert D. Putnam and Shaylyn Romney Garrett
The Upswing: How America Came Together a Century Ago and How We Can Do It Again |
My Body |
Political Realism: How Hacks, Machines, Big Money, and Back-Room Deals Can Strengthen American Democracy |
Of Boys and Men: Why the Modern Male Is Struggling, Why It Matters, and What to Do about It |
The Complete Guide to Memory: The Science of Strengthening Your Mind |
Al Ries and Jack Trout
Positioning: The Battle for Your Mind |
The Lean Startup: How Today's Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses[Wikipedia] |
The Lonely Crowd[Wikipedia] |
Intelligence: All That Matters |
The Smartest Kids in the World: And How They Got That Way |
Pedigree: How Elite Students Get Elite Jobs |
The Food Revolution: How Your Diet Can Help Save Your Life and Our World |
Finding Ultra: Rejecting Middle Age, Becoming One of the World's Fittest Men, and Discovering Myself |
Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World--and Why Things Are Better Than You Think[Wikipedia] |
The Depths: The Evolutionary Origins of the Depression Epidemic |
The Genial Gene: Deconstructing Darwinian Selfishness |
Dataclysm: Who We Are (When We Think No One's Looking) |
Christopher Ryan and Cacilda Jethá
Sex at Dawn: The Prehistoric Origins of Modern Sexuality[Wikipedia] |
The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark[Wikipedia] |
The Center Cannot Hold: My Journey Through Madness |
Richard Sander and Stuart Taylor Jr.
Mismatch: How Affirmative Action Hurts Students It's Intended to Help, and Why Universities Won't Admit It |
The Perfect Weapon: War, Sabotage, and Fear in the Cyber Age |
Them: Why We Hate Each Other--and How to Heal |
Sex at Dusk: Lifting the Shiny Wrapping from Sex at Dawn |
Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal[Wikipedia] |
Coders at Work: Reflections on the Craft of Programming[Wikipedia] |
There Is Life After College: What Parents and Students Should Know About Navigating School to Prepare for the Jobs of Tomorrow |
Who Gets In and Why: A Year Inside College Admissions |
Irrational Exuberance[Wikipedia] |
Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations[Wikipedia] |
The High Cost of Free Parking[Wikipedia] |
Parking and the City |
Kevin Simler and Robin Hanson
The Elephant in the Brain: Hidden Motives in Everyday Life |
The Curse of the Good Girl: Raising Authentic Girls with Courage and Confidence |
How the World Really Works: The Science Behind How We Got Here and Where We're Going |
Toward Rational Exuberance: The Evolution of the Modern Stock Market |
The Founders: The Story of Paypal and the Entrepreneurs Who Shaped Silicon Valley |
Thomas J. Stanley and William D. Danko
The Millionaire Next Door[Wikipedia] |
Ageless: The New Science of Getting Older Without Getting Old |
The Status Game: On Human Life and How to Play It |
How Change Happens |
Sludge: What Stops Us from Getting Things Done and What to Do about It |
Infinite Powers: How Calculus Reveals the Secrets of the Universe |
Launching The Innovation Renaissance: A New Path to Bring Smart Ideas to Market Fast |
Richard H. Thaler and Cass R. Sunstein
Nudge: Improving Decisions about Health, Wealth, and Happiness[Wikipedia] |
Coders: The Making of a New Tribe and the Remaking of the World |
Walden[Wikipedia] |
Survival to Thrival: Building the Enterprise Startup - Book 1: The Company Journey |
Survival to Thrival: Building the Enterprise Startup - Book 2: Change or Be Changed |
Democracy in America, Volume I[Wikipedia] |
Michael Tougias and John S. Burk
AMC's Best Day Hikes Near Boston |
Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other |
Our Political Nature: The Evolutionary Origins of What Divides Us |
Life on the Mississippi[Wikipedia] |
iGen: Why Today's Super-Connected Kids Are Growing Up Less Rebellious, More Tolerant, Less Happy--and Completely Unprepared for Adulthood--and What That Means for the Rest of Us |
Generations: The Real Differences Between Gen Z, Millennials, Gen X, Boomers, and Silents--and What They Mean for America's Future |
Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis[Wikipedia] |
Imperial |
A Troublesome Inheritance: Genes, Race and Human History[Wikipedia] |
The Little Book of Hygge: Danish Secrets to Happy Living |
The Outsider[Wikipedia] |
Religion and the Rebel |
The Occult: A History[Wikipedia] |
The Encyclopedia of Unsolved Mysteries with Damon Wilson |
Alien Dawn |
The Age of Defeat |
Letters to a Young Scientist[Wikipedia] |
The Radicalism of the American Revolution[Wikipedia] |
American Nations: A History of the Eleven Rival Regional Cultures of North America |
American Character: A History of the Epic Struggle Between Individual Liberty and the Common Good |
Union: The Struggle to Forge the Story of United States Nationhood |
Nonzero: The Logic of Human Destiny[Wikipedia] |
The Moral Animal[Wikipedia] |
The Evolution of God[Wikipedia] |
Why Buddhism is True: The Science and Philosophy of Meditation and Enlightenment |
Forward: Notes on the Future of Our Democracy |
The War on Normal People: The Truth About America's Disappearing Jobs and Why Universal Basic Income Is Our Future |
Rationality: From AI to Zombies |
The Rent is Too Damn High |
Age of Revolutions: Progress and Backlash from 1600 to the Present |
Spies, Lies, and Algorithms: The History and Future of American Intelligence |
Disunited Nations: The Scramble for Power in an Ungoverned World |
A People's History of the United States[Wikipedia] |
You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train |
Declarations of Independence |