Books
Reading
Tatoos on the Heart
2025
Hamlet (William Shakespeare and commentaries)
MacBeth (William Shakespeare and commentaries)
Talent (Tyler Cowen and Daniel Gross)
2024
Nexus (Yuval Noah Harari)
Statistical Consequences of FatTails (Nassim Nicholas Taleb)
Outlive: The science and art of longevity (Peter Attia)
2023
GOAT: Who is the Greatest Economist of all Time and Why Does it Matter? (Tyler Cowen)
2022
Viral (Alina Chan and Matt Ridley)
QED: The strange theory of light and matter (Richard Feynman)
The AWK Programming Language (Aho, Kernighan, Weinberger)
2021
Nudge (Thaler and Sunstein)
2020
How To Read and Why (Harold Bloom)
Breath: the new science of a lost art (James Nestor)
FumbleRules :guide to grammar and usage (William Safire)
Discipline equals freedom (Jocko Wilnick)
The great influenza
Stillness is the Key
The Daily Stoic
Laws of Human Nature
The science of drinking (Dasgupta, Amitava)
Why we sleep
2019
The 48 Laws of Power (Greene, Robert)
A Guide to the Good Life: The Ancient Art of Stoic Joy (Irvine, William B.)
Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity (Allen, David)
Chaos: Making a New Science (Gleick, James)
Concepts of Modern Mathematics (Stewart)
Mathematics : The New Golden Age (Stewart)
Say Nothing (Patrick Keefe)
The Lessons of History (Will Durant)
The Great Quake: How the Biggest Earthquake in North America Changed Our Understanding of the Planet (Fountain, Henry)
Chasing New Horizons: Inside the Epic First Mission to Pluto (Stern, Alan)
Thinking, Fast and Slow (Kahneman, Daniel)
Thinking Physics: Practical Lessons in Critical Thinking (Lewis Carroll Epstein)
The Way of Effortless Mindfulness: A Revolutionary Guide for Living an Awakened Life (Loch Kelly)
The 33 Strategies of War (Robert Greene)
Franz Kafka: The Complete Stories (Franz Kafka)
Although Of Course You End Up Becoming Yourself: A Road Trip with David Foster Wallace (Lipsky, David)
Statistics Done Wrong: The Woefully Complete Guide (Reinhart, Alex)
Meditations: A New Translation (Aurelius, Marcus)
2018
Energy: A Human History (Rhodes, Richard)
Churchill and Orwell: The Fight for Freedom (Ricks, Thomas E.)
Special Relativity and Classical Field Theory: The Theoretical Minimum (Susskind, Leonard)
The Case Against Sugar (Gary Taubes)
Visual Explanations: Images and Quantities, Evidence and Narrative (Edward R. Tufte)
Envisioning Information (Edward R. Tufte)
The Sense of Style: The Thinking Person's Guide to Writing in the 21st Century] SenseOfStyle (Steven Pinker)
Perfectly Reasonable Deviations from the Beaten Track (Feynman)
The Black Hole War: My Battle with Stephen Hawking to Make the World Safe for Quantum Mechanics BlackHoleWar (Susskind, Leonard)
Mindfulness: A Practical Guide to Awakening (Goldstein, Joseph)
Idea Makers: Personal Perspectives on the Lives & Ideas of Some Notable People IdeaMakers (Steven Wolfram)
Theory and Reality: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Science (Godfrey-Smith, Peter)
Buddhism Without Beliefs: A Contemporary Guide to Awakening (Batchelor, Stephen)
Letters to a Young Contrarian (Art of Mentoring) (Hitchens, Christopher)
The Big Picture: On the Origins of Life, Meaning, and the Universe Itself BigPicture (Sean Carroll)
The Death and Life of Great American Cities (Jacobs, Jane)
Meditations on Violence: A Comparison of Martial Arts Training & Real World Violence (Rory Miller)
2017
Free Will (Sam Harris)
Why Buddhism is True: The Science and Philosophy of Meditation and Enlightenment (Wright, Robert)
The Once and Future Liberal: After Identity Politics (Mark Lilla)
The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined (Steven Pinker)
Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies (Bostrom)
Why We Get Fat: And What to Do About It (Gary Taubes)
Ethics for the Real World: Creating a Personal Code to Guide Decisions in Work and Life (Ron Howard)
The Strange Death of Europe: Immigration, Identity, Islam (Douglass Murray)
Scale: The Universal Laws of Growth, Innovation, Sustainability, and the Pace of Life in Organisms, Cities, Economies, and Companies (West)
Good Calories, Bad Calories: Fats, Carbs, and the Controversial Science of Diet and Health (Taubes)
The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature BlankSlate (Pinker)
Elbow Room: The Varieties of Free Will Worth Wanting (Dennet)
The Mind Illuminated: A Complete Meditation Guide Integrating Buddhist Wisdom and Brain Science for Greater Mindfulness (John Yates)
10% Happier: How I Tamed the Voice in My Head, Reduced Stress Without Losing My Edge, and Found Self-Help That Actually Works–A True Story (Dan Harris)
Lying (Sam Harris)
Does Santa Exist? (Eric Kaplan)
Waking up (Sam Harris)
Classical Mechanics: The Theoretical Minimum (Susskind)
Crucibles: The Story of Chemistry from Ancient Alchemy to Nuclear Fission (Jaffe, Bernard)
The Gamble: General Petraeus and the American Military Adventure in Iraq (Ricks)
What's Going on in There? : How the Brain and Mind Develop in the First Five Years of Life (Eliot, Lise)
Fiasco: The American Military Adventure in Iraq, 2003 to 2005 (Ricks)
The Youngest Minds: Parenting and Genetic Inheritance in the Development of Intellect and Emotion (Barnet, Richard J.)
Consciousness Explained (Daniel C. Dennett)
From Bacteria to Bach and Back: The Evolution of Minds (Dennett)
Introduction to Concepts and Theories in Physical Science. (HOLTON, GERALD)
Healthy Sleep Habits, Happy Child (Weissbluth M.D., Marc)
In Praise of Simple Physics: The Science and Mathematics behind Everyday Questions (Nahin, Paul J.)
Scaling: Why is Animal Size so Important? (Schmidt-Nielsen, Knut)
2016
On Food and Cooking: The Science and Lore of the Kitchen (McGee, Harold)
Inflight Science: A Guide to the World from Your Airplane Window (Clegg, Brian)
Mathematics and Plausible Reasoning, Volume 1: Induction and Analogy in Mathematics (Polya, G.)
On Size and Life (McMahon, Thomas)
Both Flesh and Not: Essays (DFW)
Girl With Curious Hair (DFW)
Brief Interviews with Hideous Men (DFW)
Clouds in a Glass of Beer: Simple Experiments in Atmospheric Physics (Bohren, Craig F.)
Oxygen: A Four Billion Year History (Donald E. Canfield)
The Anthropic Cosmological Principle (John D. Barrow Frank J. Tipler)
100 Essential Things You Didn't Know You Didn't Know: Math Explains Your World (Barrow)
Consider the Lobster and Other Essays (DFW)
Kitchen Confidential Updated Edition: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly (Bourdain, Anthony)
This Is Water: Some Thoughts, Delivered on a Significant Occasion, about Living a Compassionate Life
Fashion, Faith, and Fantasy in the New Physics of the Universe (Penrose)
Oblivion: Stories (DFW)
Not Even Wrong: The Failure of String Theory and the Search for Unity in Physical Law (Woit)
A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments (DFW)
Big Science: Ernest Lawrence and the Invention that Launched the Military-Industrial Complex (Hiltzik, Michael)
Lord of Light (Zelazny, Roger)
Half-Life: The Divided Life of Bruno Pontecorvo, Physicist or Spy (Frank Close)
The Man Who Knew Infinity: A Life of the Genius Ramanujan (Kanigel, Robert)
2015
Facing Up: Science and Its Cultural Adversaries (Weinberg)
The Extended Phenotype: The Long Reach of the Gene (Dawkins)
Intuition Pumps And Other Tools for Thinking (Dennett)
Infinite Jest (DFW)
Magnetic Mountain: Stalinism as a Civilization (Kotkin, Stephen)
To Explain the World: The Discovery of Modern Science (Weinberg)
Gratitude (Oliver Sacks)
Pi in the Sky: Counting, Thinking, and Being (Barrow)
The Age of the Earth (G. Brent Dalrymple)
The Measure of All Things: The Seven-Year Odyssey and Hidden Error That Transformed the World (Alder, Ken)
The Eerie Silence: Renewing Our Search for Alien Intelligence (Paul Davies)
The Selfish Gene (Dawkins)
Lawrence in Arabia: War, Deceit, Imperial Folly and the Making of the Modern Middle East (Scott Anderson)
The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair that Changed America (Erik Larson)
Mathematics without Apologies: Portrait of a Problematic Vocation (Harris, Michael)
S/Z: An Essay (Barthes, Roland)
2014
What If ? (Randall Munroe)
The Idea Factory: Bell Labs and the Great Age of American Innovation (Gertner, Jon)
QED: The Strange Theory of Light and Matter (Feynman, Richard P.)
Subtle is the Lord: The Science and the Life of Albert Einstein (Pais, Abraham)
The Discovery of Subatomic Particles Revised Edition (Weinberg, Steven)
Lake Views: This World and the Universe (Weinberg, Steven)
Men of Mathematics (Bell, E.T.)
Thirty Years that Shook Physics: The Story of Quantum Theory (Gamow, George)
2013
Love And Math (Edward Frenkel)
Equilateral (Ken Kalfus)
2012
The Signal and The Noise (Nate Silver)
Phi: A Voyage from the Brain to the Soul (Tononi, Giulio)
1493: Uncovering the New World Columbus Created (Mann, Charles C.)
The Visual Display of Quantitative Information (Tufte, Edward R.)
2011
The Disappearing Spoon: And Other True Tales of Madness, Love, and the History of the World from the Periodic Table of the Elements (Sam Kean)
2010
Freedom (Jonathan Franzen)
2009
Cat's Cradle (Kurt Vonnegut)
Olive Kitteridge: Fiction (Elizabeth Strout)
2008
Rebel Code: Linux and the Open Source Revolution (Moody, Glyn)
2007
Darwin's Dangerous Idea: Evolution and the Meanings of Life (Daniel C. Dennett)
Converging Realities: Toward a Common Philosophy of Physics and Mathematics (Omnes, Roland)
Introduction to Mathematical Philosophy (Russell, Bertrand Arthur)
A History of Western Philosophy (russell, bertrand)
The Autobiography of Bertrand Russell 1914-1944 (russell, bertrand)
The First Three Minutes: A Modern View Of The Origin Of The Universe (Weinberg, Steven)