Favorite books by subject.
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| Brain / Networks / Collaboration |
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| Wisdom of Crowds, The |
James Surowiecki |
| Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst |
Robert M. Sapolsky |
| Brain that Changes Itself, The |
Norman Doidge |
| Man Who Mistook His Wife For A Hat, The |
Oliver Sacks |
| Nature Fix |
Florence Williams |
| Global Brain |
Howard Bloom |
| Musicophilia |
Oliver Sacks |
| Psychology of the Digital Age |
John Suler |
| Imp of the Mind |
Lee Baer |
| Ketamine for Depression |
Dr. Stephen J. Hyde |
| This Naked Mind |
Annie Grace |
| How to Take Smart Notes |
Sönke Ahrens |
| Elephant in the Brain, The |
Kevin Simler and Robin Hanson |
| Phantoms in the Brain |
Sandra Blakeslee, V. S. Ramachandran |
| Victorian Internet |
Tom Standage |
| Because Internet |
Gretchen McCulloch |
| Medium is the Massage |
Marshall McLuhan |
| Life / Philosophy / Religion / Spirituality |
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| When Breath Becomes Air |
Paul Kalanithi |
| Religion for Atheists: A Non-believer’s Guide to the Uses of Religion |
Alain De Botton |
| Wisdom of Insecurity, The |
Alan Watts |
| Course of Love: A Novel |
Alain de Botton |
| Modern Romance |
Ariz Ansari |
| Blue Like Jazz: Nonreligious Thoughts on Christian Spirituality |
Donald Miller |
| How to Win Friends & Influence People |
Dale Carnegie |
| Doors of Perception and Heaven and Hell |
Aldous Huxley |
| How to Change Your Mind |
Michael Pollan |
| God’s Debris |
Scott Adams |
| Courage to be Disliked |
Ichiro Kishimi |
| Finite and Infinite Games |
James Carse |
| Psychedelic Explorer’s Guide: Safe, Therapeutic, and Sacred Journeys |
James Fadiman |
| Attached |
Amir Levine |
| LSD: My Problem Child |
Albert Hofmann |
| Walden |
Henry David Thoreau |
| War of Art, The |
Steven Pressfield |
| God and Sex: Now We Get Both |
Mark Whitwell |
| People and Living Together |
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| Utopia for Realists: How We Can Build the Ideal World |
Rutger Bregman |
| Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power |
Shoshana Zuboff |
| Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other |
Sherry Turkle |
| Amusing Ourselves to Death |
Neil Postman |
| Nothing Is True and Everything Is Possible |
Peter Pomerantsev |
| Master Switch, The |
Tim Wu |
| On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century |
Timothy Snyder |
| Letters to a Young Contrarian |
Christopher Hitchens |
| Hell’s Angels |
Hunter S. Thompson |
| Nonviolent Communication |
Marshall B. Rosenberg PhD |
| Very Important People |
Ashley Mears |
| Behavioral Economics |
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| Thinking, Fast and Slow |
Daniel Kahneman |
| Influence |
Robert B. Cialdini |
| Predictably Irrational |
Dan Ariely |
| Fiction |
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| Diamond Age: Or, a Young Lady’s Illustrated Primer |
Neal Stephenson |
| Stories of Your Life and Others |
Ted Chiang |
| Three Body Problem, The |
Cixin Liu |
| Dune |
Frank Herbert |
| A Gentleman in Moscow |
Amor Towles |
| Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? |
Philip K. Dick |
| Cryptonomicon |
Neal Stephenson |
| Brave New World |
Aldous Huxley |
| Devil in the White City |
Erik Larson |
| Nineteen Eighty Four |
George Orwell |
| I, Robot |
Isaac Asimov |
| Manifold: Time |
Stephen Baxter |
| Martian, The |
Andy Weir |
| Catch-22 |
Joseph Heller |
| Fahrenheit 451 |
Ray Bradbury |
| Hobbit, The |
J.R.R. Tolkien |
| Dark Tower, The |
Stephen King |
| Stand, The |
Stephen King |
| Annihilation |
Jeff VanderMeer |
| Godfather |
Mario Puzo (recommended by Eli) |
| Red Rising (trilogy) |
Pierce Brown (recommended by Andrew) |
| Project Hail Mary |
Andy Weir (recommended by Dmitri) |
| Artificial Intelligence |
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| Singularity Is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology |
Ray Kurzweil |
| Master Algorithm: How the Quest for the Ultimate Learning Machine Will Remake Our World, The |
Pedro Domingos |
| Novacene |
James Lovelock, Bryan Appleyard |
| Startups, Business, Institutions |
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| Zero to One |
Peter Thiel |
| Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World |
David Epstein |
| How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big |
Scott Adams |
| Phoenix Project: A Novel about IT, DevOps, and Helping Your Business Win |
Gene Kim |
| Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World |
Cal Newport |
| Idea Factory: Bell Labs and the Great Age of American Innovation, The |
Jon Gertner |
| Skunk Works: A Personal Memoir of My Years at Lockheed |
Ben R. Rich |
| Masters of Doom |
David Kushner |
| One Click: Jeff Bezos and the Rise of Amazon.com |
Richard L. Brandt |
| Hatching Twitter |
Nick Bilton |
| Smartest Guys in the Room, The |
Bethany McLean |
| Innovators |
Walter Issacson |
| Space Barons, The |
Christian Davenport |
| Skygods: The Fall of Pan Am |
Robert Gandt |
| American Kingpin |
Nick Bilton |
| Finance & Economics |
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| Richest Man in Babylon |
George Clason |
| Rich Dad Poor Dad |
Robert T. Kiyosaki |
| Skin in the Game: Hidden Asymmetries in Daily Life |
Nassim Nicholas Taleb |
| Economics in One Lesson |
Henry Hazlitt |
| Memoris, Bibliographies, History |
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| Educated: A Memoir |
Tara Westover |
| Remains of the Day |
Kazuo Ishiguro |
| Ghost in the Wires |
Kevin Mitnick |
| Andrew Carnegie |
David Nasaw |
| Countdown to Zero Day |
Kim Zetter |
| Surely You’re Joking, Mr Feynman |
Richard Feynman |
| Hot Zone: The Terrifying True Story of the Origins of the Ebola Virus, The |
Richard Preston |
| Blind Man’s Bluff: The Untold Story of American Submarine Espionage |
Sherry Sontag, Christopher Drew, Annette Lawrence Drew |
| Total Recall |
Arnold Schwarzenegger |
| Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future |
Ashlee Vance |
| Hillbilly Elegy |
J. D. Vance |
| On the Move: A Life |
Oliver Sacks |
| Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas |
Hunter S. Thompson |
| Big Dead Place |
Nicholas Johnson |
| Permanent Record |
Edward Snowden |
| Everything in its Place |
Oliver Sacks |
| Last Lecture, The |
Jeffrey Zaslow |
| Kitchen Confidential |
Anthony Bourdain |
| Confessions of an Advertising Man |
David Ogilvy |
| Shadow Divers |
Robert Kurson (recommended by David Heimann) |
| Into Thin Air |
Jon Krakauer (recommended by Tim) |
| Every Man Against Himself and God Against All |
Werner Herzog |
| Never Enough |
Andrew Wilkinson (recommended by Eli) |
| City of Thieves |
David Benioff (recommended by Robert Atlee) |
| Astoria: John Jacob Astor and Thomas Jefferson’s Lost Pacific Empire |
Peter Stark |
| Short Stories & Novellas |
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| Understand |
Ted Chiang |
| Exhalation: Stories |
Ted Chiang |
| Last Question, The |
Issac Asimov |
| Egg, The |
Andy Weir |
And some books which really shaped me as a kid:
| Title |
Author |
| Pendragon (series) |
D. J. MacHale |
| Artemis Fowl (series) |
Eoin Colfer |
| Supernaturalist, The |
Eoin Colfer |
| Airman |
Eoin Colfer |
| Starclimber (series) |
Kenneth Oppel |
| Alex Rider (series) |
Anthony Horowitz |
| C.H.E.R.U.B. (series) |
Robert Muchamore |
| Hunger Games |
Suzane Collins |
| Lone Survivor |
Marcus Luttrell |
| Boy in Striped Pajamas |
John Boyne |
| Roar, The (series) |
Emma Clayton |
| Tuesdays with Morrie |
Mitch Albom |
| Book Thief, The |
Markus Zusak |
| Where the Red Fern Grows |
Wilson Rawls |
| Tunnels (series) |
Roderick Gordon |
| Wool (series) |
Hugh Howey |
| Sigma Force (series) |
James Rollins |
| A Wrinkle in Time |
Madeleine L’Engle |
| A Series of Unfortunate Events |
Lemony Snicket |
| Tomorrow Code, The |
Brian Falkner |
| Holes |
Louis Sachar |
| Giver, The |
Lois Lowry |
| Ender’s Game |
Orson Scott Card |
| Island of the Blue Dolphins |
Scott O’Dell |