What I'm Reading
Last Updated: 2026-02-28
This is a list of the books I've read or am currently reading. My favorites and recommended are marked with a "⭐". I don't include textbooks or books I started but never finished. Audiobooks I've listened to are at the bottom. If the book is in the public domain or freely available, there's a link to download the ebook.
Books I'm Currently Reading
- I, Robot by Isaac Asimov
- Mindfulness: A Practical Guide to Awakening by Joseph Goldstein
- Meditations by Marcus Aurelius
Books I've Read
2026
- Peak Mind: Find Your Focus, Own Your Attention by Amishi P. Jha
- The Story of Your Life by Ted Chiang 姜峯楠 (short story)
2025
- Echo Praxia by Peter Watts
- Enough by Patrick Rhone
- I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream by Harlan Ellison (short story)
- Starry Messenger: Cosmic Perspectives on Civilization by Neil deGrasse Tyson
- The Machine Stops by E.M. Forster (short story)
2024
- Being You: A New Science of Consciousness by Anil Seth
- House of Suns by Alastair Reynolds ⭐
- Know Thyself: The Science of Self Awareness by Stephen M. Fleming
- Psych: The Story of the Human Mind by Paul Bloom ⭐
- The Experience of Insight: A Simple & Direct Guide to Buddhist Meditation by Joseph Goldstein ⭐
- The Gods Themselves by Isaac Asimov
- The Ministry For The Future by Kim Stanley Robinson
- The Status Game: On Social Position and How We Use It by Will Storr ⭐
2023
2022
- A Universe From Nothing: Why there is Something Rather than Nothing by Lawrence Krauss
- Digital Vegan by Andy Farnell ⭐
- Four Arguments for the Elimination of Television by Jerry Mander
- Foward the Foundation by Isaac Asimov
- In the Beginning... was the Command Line by Neal Stephenson
- Letter to a Christian Nation by Sam Harris
- Prelude to Foundation by Isaac Asimov
- Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson
- The Currents of Space by Isaac Asimov
- The Last Question (short story) by Isaac Asimov ⭐
- The Three-Body Problem by Liu Cixin 刘慈欣 (tranlsated by Ken Liu) ⭐
- The Way Home - Tales From a Life Without Technology by Mark Boyle
2021
- Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less by Greg Mckowen
- Foundation by Isaac Asimov ⭐
- Foundation and Earth by Isaac Asimov ⭐
- Foundation and Empire by Isaac Asimov ⭐
- Foundations Edge by Isaac Asimov
- Opt Out by Rory Price
- Pale Blue Dot by Carl Sagan ⭐
- Rainbows End by Vernor Vinge
- Second Foundation by Isaac Asimov ⭐
- Ten Arguments for Deleting Your Social Media Accounts Right Now by Jaron Lanier
- The End of Eternity by Isaac Asimov ⭐
- The Guide to the Good Life: The Ancient Art of Stoic Job by William Irvine ⭐
2020
- 21 Lessons for the 21st Century by Yuval Noah Harari
- Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
- Early Retirement Extreme by Jacob Lund ⭐
- Free Will by Sam Harris ⭐
- Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow by Yuval Noah Harari
- Industrial Society and It's Future (essay) by Theodore Kaczynski (PDF)
- Liberal Eugenics: In Defense of Human Enhancement by Nicholas Agar
- Lying by Sam Harris
- Neuromancer by William Gibson
- Permanent Record by Edward Snowden
- Waking Up: A Guide to Spirituality Without Religion by Sam Harris ⭐
- Vagabonding by Rolf Potts
2019
- Buddha's Brain by Rick Hanson
- Goodbye Things: On Minimalist Living by Fumio Sasaki
- Minimalism: Essential Essays by Nicodemus & Millburn
- Rich Dad Poor Dad by Robert Kiyosaki
- Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harari ⭐
- Superforecasting by Philip Tetlock
- Transcend: Nine Steps to Living Well Forever by Grossman & Kurzweil
Pre-2019
- 1984 by George Orwell
- Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep by Philip K Dick
- Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk
- Models by Mark Manson
- The Book on the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are by Alan Watts
- The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins ⭐
- The Stranger by Albert Camus
- The Transhumanist Wager by Zoltan Istvan
- The Way of Men by Jack Donovan
- What Is Transhumanism by Humanity+
Audiobooks I've Listened To
This is a list of audiobooks I've listened but haven't read the actual book. Sometimes after I read a book, I like to revisit it years later in audiobook format.
2026
- Cutting the Cord: The Cell Phone has Transformed Humanity by Martin Cooper
- Making Sense: Conversations on Consciousness, Morality, and the Future of Humanity by Sam Harris
2025
- Life 3.0: Being Human in the Age of Artificial Intelligence by Max Tegmark
- Lights On: How Understanding Consciousness Helps Us Understand the Universe by Annaka Harris
- The Attention Revolution: Unlocking the Power of the Focused Mind by B. Alan Wallace
- The Order of Time by Carlo Rovelli
2024
- A Stitch In Time by Andrew J. Robinson
- Chip Wars: The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology by Chris Miller
- How to Change Your Mind: What the New Science of Psychedelics Teaches Us About Consciousness... by Michael Pollen
- Losing the Signal: The Untold Story Behind the Extraordinary Rise and Spectacular Fall of Blackberry by Jacquie Mcnish & Sean Silcoff
- The Idea Factory: Bell Labs and the Great Age of American Innovation by Jon Gertner
- The Puppet Masters by Robert Heinlein
2023
- The Expanse: Drive (short story)
- The Expanse: The Churn (novella)
- The Expanse: The Butcher of Anderson Station (short story)
- The Expanse: Leviathan Wakes
- The Expanse: The Last Flight of the Cassandra
- The Expanse: Caliban's War
- The Expanse: Gods of Risk (novella)
- The Expanse: Abaddon's Gate
- The Expanse: The Vital Abyss (novella)
- The Expanse: Cibola Burn
- The Expanse: Nemesis Games
- The Expanse: Babylon's Ashes
- The Expanse: Strange Dogs (novella)
- The Expanse: Persepolis Rising
- The Expanse: Auberon (novella)
- The Expanse: Tiamat's Wrath
- The Expanse: Leviathan Falls
- The Expanse: The Sins of Our Fathers (novella)
2022
- Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir ⭐
- The Martian by Andy Weir ⭐
2020
- 4 Hour Work Week by Tim Ferriss
- Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World by Cal Newport ⭐
- Digital Minimalism: Choosing a Focused Life in a Noisy World by Cal Newport ⭐
2019
- 10% Happier by Dan Harris
- The Total Money Makeover by Dave Ramsey