Books
Noteworthy Books
Non-fiction
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Kevin Simler, Robin Hanson | The Elephant in the Brain | Economics | |
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John Keay | India | History | |
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Adam Phillips | On Kissing, Tickling, and Being Bored | Other | |
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Tyler Cowen | The Complacent Class | Other | |
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Mark Miodownik | Stuff Matters | Tech | |
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Mark Miodownik | Liquid Rules | Tech |
Fiction
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N. K. Jemisin | The Broken Earth Trilogy | Science fiction |
Wish List
My wish list of books I’d like to read, organized by my subjective categorization, is below.
There are more books here than I could possibly read in my lifetime. So I have attempted to roughly prioritize these books in the order I’d likely approach them at the moment (knowing full well that I’ll probably never get to the latter half in most of these categories).
I would very much welcome any feedback on re-prioritizing any of these books or ones that I have missed entirely.
This does not include books I’ve read in years past. Unfortunately, I’ve never kept reliable track of books I’ve read. This is also my attempt at remedying this. These categories (and the relative number of books in each cateogory) mostly reflect my current interests more than anything else.
Book Reviews
Books I’ve read, sorted by category and rating, are noted below.
Fiction
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Mikhail Bulgakov | The Master and Margarita | Classic | |
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Sally Rooney | Normal People | Modern | |
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Paulo Coelho | The Alchemist | Modern | |
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Julian Barnes | The Sense of an Ending | Modern | |
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Sally Rooney | Conversations with Friends | Modern | |
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Hiromi Kawakami | Strange Weather in Tokyo | Modern | |
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Avni Doshi | Burnt Sugar | Modern | |
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Megha Majumdar | A Burning | Modern | |
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N. K. Jemisin | The Broken Earth Trilogy | Science fiction | |
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Andy Weir | Project Hail Mary | Science fiction | |
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Ted Chiang | Stories of Your Life and Others | Science fiction | |
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Ted Chiang | Exhalation: Stories | Science fiction | |
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Becky Chambers | Wayfarers Series | Science fiction | |
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Ted Chiang | The Lifecycle of Software Objects | Science fiction |
Non-fiction
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Kevin Simler, Robin Hanson | The Elephant in the Brain | Economics | |
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John Keay | India | History | |
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Romila Thapar | Early India | History | |
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Linda Colley | The Gun, the Ship, and the Pen | History | |
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Marie Favereau | The Horde | History | |
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Catherine B. Asher and Cynthia Talbot | India Before Europe | History | |
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Yiyun Li | Dear Friend, from My Life I Write to You in Your Life | Memoirs | |
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Adam Phillips | On Kissing, Tickling, and Being Bored | Other | |
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Tyler Cowen | The Complacent Class | Other | |
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Joe Studwell | How Asia Works | Other | |
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K.S. Komireddi | Malevolent Republic | Other | |
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Tyler Cowen | Stubborn Attachments | Other | |
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Jonathan Wilson | Inverting the Pyramid | Other | |
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Lauren A. Rivera | Pedigree | Other | |
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Adam Phillips and Barbara Taylor | On Kindness | Other | |
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Adam Phillips | On Flirtation | Other | |
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Adam Phillips | Missing Out | Other | |
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Adam Phillips | Equals | Other | |
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Ivan Illich | Deschooling Society | Other | |
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Jia Tolentino | Trick Mirror | Other | |
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Adam Phillips and Leo Bersani | Intimacies | Other | |
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Nicole Perlroth | This Is How They Tell Me the World Ends | Other | |
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Pico Iyer | A Beginner's Guide to Japan | Other | |
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Miguel Ruiz | The Four Agreements | Self | |
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Austin Kleon | Show Your Work! | Self | |
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Austin Kleon | Keep Going | Self | |
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Austin Kleon | Steal Like an Artist | Self | |
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Mark Miodownik | Stuff Matters | Tech | |
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Mark Miodownik | Liquid Rules | Tech | |
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Sid Meier | Sid Meier's Memoir! | Tech | |
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Cade Metz | Genius Makers | Tech | |
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Gretchen Bakke | The Grid | Tech | |
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Patricia Highsmith | Plotting and Writing Suspense Fiction | Writing | |
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Larry Brooks | Story Engineering | Writing | |
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George Saunders | A Swim in a Pond in the Rain | Writing | |
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Anne Lamott | Bird by Bird | Writing |
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