An eclectic collection of books I’ve enjoyed. Needless to say, I don’t agree with everything in each book, but they’ve all been influential on my thinking in some way. For a full list of likes and dislikes, check goodreads.
People & History
A Primate's Memoir
The Alchemy of Air
Armed Struggle
Baghdad Diaries
Bury the Chains
Caesar
Code Girls
Command and Control
Down and Out in Paris and London
Eichmann in Jerusalem
Eyes on the Street
Ghenghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World
Gulag
Hero of Two Worlds
Hitch 22
Infidel
The Infidel and the Professor
Keynes Hayek
Letters to a Young Scientist
Man's Search for Meaning
Mao: The Unknown Story
The Marginal Revolutionaries
Mortality
Night
Reading Lolita in Tehran
Strangers Drowning
Surely You're Joking Mr. Feynman!
The Anatomy of Fascism
The Ascent of Money
The Fall of Berlin 1945
The Fire Next Time
The Gulag Archipelago
The Power Broker
Turing's Cathedral
Wittgenstein's Poker
Non-Fiction
A Conflict of Visions
Against Empathy
All Life is Problem Solving
Animal Liberation
Chaos
Complexity
Conjectures and Refutations
Expert Political Judgement
Fabric of Reality
Gödel, Escher, Bach
How to Change Your Mind
Knowledge and the Body-Mind Problem
Lying
Moral Tribes
Oil
On Inequality
Philosophy and the Real World
Political Philosophy
Poor Economics
Reasons and Persons
Relative Justice
Seeing like a State
Stubborn Attachments
The Beginning of Infinity
The Better Angels of Our Nature
The Blank Slate
The Case Against Education
The Death and Life of Great American Cities
The Dictator's Handbook
The Drunkard's Walk
The Elephant in the Brain
The Expanding Circle
The Five Invitations
The Logic of Scientific Discovery
The Moral Animal
The Moral Foundations of Politics
The Myth of Artificial Intelligence
The Myth of the Framework
The Myth of the Rational Voter
The Open Society and its Enemies, Vol 1+2
The Poverty of Historicism
The Righteous Mind
The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
Tribe
Why Information Grows
Words on the Move
Fiction & Other
1984
A Hero of our Time
Animal Farm
Brave New World
Captains Courageous
Consider the Lobster and Other Essays
Crime and Punishment
Exhalation: Stories
Fictions
Hunger
Invitation to a Beheading
Lolita
Purple Hibiscus
Stories of your Life and Others
The Name of the Rose
The Royal Game
The Thing Around Your Neck
The Trial
Things Fall Apart
To Kill a Mockingbird
