bookshelf
a selection of books i've read and enjoyed or found interesting
non fiction
ai & tech
- The Infinity Machine: Demis Hassabis, DeepMind, and the Quest for Superintelligence,
- Empire of AI: Dreams and Nightmares in Sam Altman's OpenAI,
- Chip War: The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology,
- The Coming Wave: Technology, Power, and the Twenty-first Century's Greatest Dilemma,
- Elon Musk,
- A Thousand Brains: A New Theory of Intelligence,
- The Innovators: How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution,
- Genius Makers: The Mavericks Who Brought AI to Google, Facebook, and the World,
- The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power,
- Human Compatible: Artificial Intelligence and the Problem of Control,
- Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies,
- Life 3.0: Being Human in the Age of Artificial Intelligence,
- Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid,
science & maths
- Infinite Powers: How Calculus Reveals the Secrets of the Universe,
- Vaxxers,
- Other Minds,
- When Breath Becomes Air,
- The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate: Discoveries from a Secret World,
- Inferior: How Science Got Women Wrong—and the New Research That's Rewriting the Story,
- Our Mathematical Universe: My Quest for the Ultimate Nature of Reality,
- Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea,
- The Structure of Scientific Revolutions,
- A Primate's Memoir: A Neuroscientist's Unconventional Life Among the Baboons,
- Logicomix: An Epic Search for Truth,
- Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!: Adventures of a Curious Character,
philosophy
- The Doors of Perception & Heaven and Hell,
- Homo Deus: A History of Tomorrow,
- On Liberty,
- The Symposium,
- The Sickness Unto Death: A Christian Psychological Exposition for Upbuilding and Awakening,
- Of Human Freedom (Penguin Great Ideas),
- On the Shortness of Life: Life Is Long if You Know How to Use It (Penguin Great Ideas),
- The Republic,
- The Sea Close By,
- The Myth of Sisyphus,
- The Beginning of Infinity: Explanations That Transform the World,
- Man's Search for Meaning,
- A Room of One’s Own,
how to think
- Thinking, Fast and Slow,
- Why Greatness Cannot Be Planned: The Myth of the Objective,
- The Scout Mindset: Why Some People See Things Clearly and Others Don't,
- Superforecasting: The Art and Science of Prediction,
- Untamed,
- How to Stay Sane in an Age of Division,
- The Rational Optimist: How Prosperity Evolves,
history and society
- Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies,
- The Lessons of History,
- Brit(ish): On Race, Identity and Belonging,
- Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Tell You Everything You Need to Know About Global Politics (Politics of Place, #1),
- The Divide: A Brief Guide to Global Inequality and its Solutions,
- 21 Lessons for the 21st Century,
- Women & Power: A Manifesto,
- Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind,
business & economics
- The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers―Straight Talk on the Challenges of Entrepreneurship,
- Shoe Dog: A Memoir by the Creator of Nike,
- I Will Teach You to Be Rich: No Guilt. No Excuses. No BS. Just a 6-Week Program That Works,
fiction
sci-fi
- Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World,
- Manna,
- Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, #3),
- Catching Fire (The Hunger Games, #2),
- The Hunger Games (The Hunger Games, #1),
- Project Hail Mary,
- The Diamond Age: Or, a Young Lady's Illustrated Primer,
- Snow Crash,
- The Left Hand of Darkness,
- The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia,
- Ender’s Game (Ender's Saga, #1),
- Dune (Dune, #1),
- Neuromancer (Sprawl, #1),
- Noughts & Crosses (Noughts & Crosses, #1),
- Slaughterhouse-Five,
- The End of Eternity,
- Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde with The Merry Men & Other Tales and Fables,
- Cat’s Cradle,
- The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, #1),
- Foundation (Foundation, #1),
- Flowers for Algernon,
- 1984,
- Brave New World,
- The Last Question,
literary fiction
- There Are Rivers in the Sky,
- Orbital,
- The Vegetarian,
- Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow,
- Play It As It Lays,
- Elena Knows,
- My Dark Vanessa,
- Conversations with Friends,
- Bluets,
- The Power of the Dog,
- When We Cease to Understand the World,
- On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous,
- Normal People,
- Little Women (Little Women, #1),
- Girl, Woman, Other,
- Everything I Never Told You,
- A Little Life,
- The Dead,
- Of Mice and Men,
- Mrs. Dalloway,
- Snow Country,
- Swann’s Way (In Search of Lost Time, #1),
- Call Me by Your Name,
- On the Road,
- Meditations in an Emergency,
- Iona,
- Crush,
- The Bluest Eye,
- Beloved,
- Half of a Yellow Sun,
- The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao,
- The Grapes of Wrath,
- To the Lighthouse,
- The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle,
- Norwegian Wood,
- The Bell Jar,
- The Kite Runner,
- Romeo and Juliet,
- The Waves,
- A Thousand Splendid Suns,
- The Garden of Forking Paths,
- Sense and Sensibility,
- Pride and Prejudice,
- Robin Hood,
- Dubliners,
- A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man,
- Siddhartha,
- The Library of Babel,
- Gone with the Wind,
- And Then There Were None,
- Lolita,
- The Trial,
- East of Eden,
- The Brothers Karamazov,
- The Unbearable Lightness of Being,
- No Exit,
- The Stranger,
- The Sound and the Fury,
- Ulysses,
- The Name of the Rose,
- One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest,
- To Kill a Mockingbird,
fantasy
- The Fellowship of the Ring (The Lord of the Rings, #1),
- Circe,
- The Epic of Gilgamesh,
- Piranesi,
- Six of Crows (Six of Crows, #1),
- The Chronicles of Narnia (The Chronicles of Narnia, #1-7),
- The Giving Tree,
- Where the Wild Things Are,
- The Picture of Dorian Gray,
- Harry Potter Series Box Set (Harry Potter, #1-7),
- The Alchemist,
- The Little Prince,
- The Hobbit, or There and Back Again,
- The Master and Margarita,