books

this is my bookshelf. it is an incomplete list of books that i've read in recent memory - or at least of books that were memorable enough to include on this list. many of these have impacted my world view. some have not.

• The Beginning of Infinity by David Deutsch
• The Vital Question by Nick Lane
• Scale by Geoffrey West
• For Blood and Money by Nathan Vardi
• Breakneck by Dan Wang
• The Lessons of History by Will and Ariel Durant
• Six Easy Pieces and Feynman Lectures on Physics by Richard Feynman
• Sovereign Individual by Davidson and Rees-Mogg
• The Invention of Nature by Andrea Wulf
• Permutation City by Greg Egan
• 1929 by Andrew Ross Sorkin
• A Singapore Story: From Third World to First by Lee Kuan Yew
• Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir
• The Player of Games and Use of Weapons by Iain M. Banks
• American Prometheus by Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin
• Stories of Your Life and Others by Ted Chiang
• Principles by Ray Dalio
• A Student's Guide to Maxwell's Equations by Daniel Fleisch
• The Princeton Companion to Mathematics by Timothy Gowers
• The Way of Kings by Brandon Sanderson
• Hyperion by Dan Simmons
• Courage to Be Disliked by Fumitake Koga and Ichiro Kishimi
• The Making of the Atomic Bomb by Richard Rhodes
• The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss
• Cryptonomicon, Diamond Age, Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson
• A Deepness in the Sky, A Fire Upon the Deep, Rainbows End by Vernor Vinge
• The Book by Alan Watts
• Daemon and Freedom by Daniel Suarez
• A Pattern Language by Christopher Alexander
• Pure Invention: How Japan's Pop Culture Conquered the World by Matt Alt
• All the Birds in the Sky by Charlie Jane Anders
• Foundation by Isaac Asimov
• Meditations by Marcus Aurelius
• The Peregrine by J. A. Baker
• Not Fade Away by Peter Barton
• Red Rising by Pierce Brown
• Vorkosigan Saga by Lois McMaster Bujold
• The Stranger by Albert Camus
• Titan and Grant by Ron Chernow
• Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
• The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky
• A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again and Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace
• Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life by William Finnegan
• Neuromancer by William Gibson
• Pandora's Star by Peter Hamilton
• The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
• Dune, Dune Messiah, Children of Dune by Frank Herbert
• Gödel, Escher, Bach by Douglas Hofstadter
• The Hard Thing About Hard Things by Ben Horowitz
• Elon Musk and Benjamin Franklin: An American Life by Walter Isaacson
• Leadership: Six Studies in World Strategy by Henry A. Kissinger
• The Will of the Many by James Islington
• The Pugilist at Rest by Thom Jones
• My Struggle by Karl Ove Knausgaard
• Endurance by Alfred Lansing
• Three Body Problem and Dark Forest by Cixin Liu
• When Genius Failed by Roger Lowenstein
• Utilitarianism by John Stuart Mill
• Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power by Jon Meacham
• Chip War by Chris Miller
• Anarchy, State, and Utopia by Robert Nozick
• The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand
• A Theory of Justice by John Rawls
• Gratitude and The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat by Oliver Sacks
• The Creative Act by Rick Rubin
• The Network State by Balaji Srinivasan
• The Black Swan by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
• Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
• The Man Who Solved the Market by Gregory Zuckerman
• The Circle Series by Ted Dekker