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.
Fiction & Other
1984
A Hero of our Time
Animal Farm
Brave New World
Captains Courageous
Catch 22
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
Non-Fiction
A Conflict of Visions
Against Empathy
All Life is Problem Solving
Animal Liberation
Chaos
Complexity
Conjectures and Refutations
Enlightenment Now!
Expert Political Judgement
Fabric of Reality
Gödel, Escher, Bach
God is not Great
How to Change Your Mind
Knowledge and the Body-Mind Problem
Lying
Moral Tribes
Oil
On Inequality
On Tyranny
Philosophy and the Real World
Political Philosophy
Poor Economics
Radical Markets
Reasons and Persons
Relative Justice
Seeing like a State
Stubborn Attachments
The Anatomy of Fascism
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
People
A House in the Sky
A Primate's Memoir
Baghdad Diaries
Caesar
Code Girls
Down and Out in Paris and London
Eichmann in Jerusalem
Eyes on the Street
Hitch 22
Infidel
Letters to a Young Scientist
Man's Search for Meaning
Mao: The Unknown Story
Mortality
Night
Reading Lolita in Tehran
Strangers Drowning
Surely You're Joking Mr. Feynman!
The Fire Next Time
The Power Broker
Unfollow
Wittgenstein's Poker
History
A Short History of Nearly Everything
Against the Grain
Bury the Chains
Command and Control
Ghenghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World
Gulag
Hero of Two Worlds
SPQR
The Ascent of Money
The Fall of Berlin 1945
The Gulag Archipelago
Turing's Cathedral
