Reading List
Last Updated: 2023-11-23
This is a list of the books I've read over the last few years, including audiobooks I've listened to. This list does not include books that I started but never finished because I lost interest. If the book is in the public domain or freely available, there's a link for the ebook or website. I've compiled a condensed Recommended Reading list of books that have been highly influential on my thinking and lifestyle.
Currently Reading
- Blindsight by Peter Watts
- The Ministry For The Future by Kim Stanley Robinson
- The Status Game - On Social Position and How We Use It by Will Storr
Reading Next ↴
- Born to Run by Christopher Douglas
- Content and Consciousness by Daniel Dennett
- Data Cartels by Sarah Lamdan
- Flatland by Edwin Abbott
- House of Suns by Alastair Reynolds
- Reasons and Persons by Derek Parfit
- The Blank Slate by Steven Pinker
- The Demon-Haunted World by Carl Sagan
- The End of Ownership - Personal Property in the Digital Economy by Aaron Perzanowski & Jason Schultz
- The Gods Themselves by Isaac Asimov
- The Moral Landscape by Sam Harris
- The Precipice - Existential Risk and the Future of Humanity by Toby Ord
- Ubik by Philip K Dick
- Whole Earth Discipline by Stewart Brand
Finished Books
2023
- Amusing Ourselves to Death by Neil Postman
- Animal Farm by George Orwell
- Conscious: A Brief Guide to the Fundamental Mystery of the Mind by Annika Harris
- Death's End by Liu Cixin 刘慈欣 (tranlsated by Ken Liu)
- Eating Animals by Jonathan Safran Foer
- How To Sit by Thích Nhất Hạnh
- Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro
- Map and Territory (Rationality: From AI to Zombies) by Eliezer Yudkowsky
- Meditations on Violence by Rory Miller
- Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka
- On Having No Head by Douglas Harding
- Stolen Focus: Why You Can't Pay Attention by Johann Hari
- The Time Machine by H.G. Wells
- The Dark Forest by Liu Cixin 刘慈欣 (tranlsated by Joel Martinsen)
- You Are Not A Gadget by Jaron Lanier
The Expanse Series by James S.A. Corey (Audiobooks)
- The Expanse: Drive (short story) (Audiobook)
- The Expanse: The Churn (novella) (Audiobook)
- The Expanse: The Butcher of Anderson Station (short story) (Audiobook)
- The Expanse: Leviathan Wakes (Audiobook)
- The Expanse: The Last Flight of the Cassandra (short story)
- The Expanse: Caliban's War (Audiobook)
- The Expanse: Gods of Risk (novella) (Audiobook)
- The Expanse: Abaddon's Gate (Audiobook)
- The Expanse: The Vital Abyss (novella) (Audiobook)
- The Expanse: Cibola Burn (Audiobook)
- The Expanse: Nemesis Games (Audiobook)
- The Expanse: Babylon's Ashes (Audiobook)
- The Expanse: Strange Dogs (novella) (Audiobook)
- The Expanse: Persepolis Rising (Audiobook)
- The Expanse: Auberon (novella) (Audiobook)
- The Expanse: Tiamat's Wrath (Audiobook)
- The Expanse: Leviathan Falls (Audiobook)
- The Expanse: The Sins of Our Fathers (novella) (Audiobook)
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
- Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir (Audiobook)
- Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson
- The Currents of Space by Isaac Asimov
- The Last Question (short story) by Isaac Asimov
- The Martian by Andy Weir (Audiobook)
- 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 Sagon
- 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
- 4 Hour Work Week by Tim Ferriss (Audiobook)
- Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
- Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World by Cal Newport (Audiobook)
- Digital Minimalism: Choosing a Focused Life in a Noisy World by Cal Newport (Audiobook)
- 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 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
- 10% Happier by Dan Harris (Audiobook)
- 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
- The Total Money Makeover by Dave Ramsey (Audiobook)
- 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+