Recommended Reading
Last Updated: 2023-09-10
These are some books I've read that really stuck with me over the years and changed the way I think. It's by no means an exhaustive list, nor is it a list of every book I've read. Here's a list of all the books I've read of the last few years. To see what I'm reading now, check out my Now page.
Technology & Media
- 10 Arguments For Deleting Your Social Media Accounts Right Now by Jaron Lanier
- Amusing Ourselves to Death by Neal Postman
- 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
- Digital Vegan by Andy Farnell
- Permanent Record by Edward Snowden
- The Way Home: Tales from a Life Without Technology by Mark Boyle
Science & Philosophy
- A Universe from Nothing: Why There Is Something Rather than Nothing by Lawrence M. Krauss
- Conscious: A Brief Guide To the Fundamental Mystery of the Mind by Annaka Harris
- Free Will by Sam Harris
- Letter to a Christian Nation by Sam Harris
- Liberal Eugenics: In Defense of Human Enhancement by Nicholas Agar
- Pale Blue Dot by Carl Sagan
- Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari (and his two books Homo Deus and 21 Lessons for the 21st Century)
- The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins
- The Guide to the Good Life: The Ancient Art of Stoic Job by William Irvine
- Waking Up: A Guide to Spirituality Without Religion by Sam Harris
Lifestyle
- Early Retirement Extreme by Jacob Lund
- Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less by Greg Mckowen
- Vagabonding by Rolf Potts
Science Fiction
- 1984 by George Orwell
- Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
- Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep by Philip K Dick
- Remembrance of Earth's Past (地球往事) by Liu Cixin 刘慈欣 (tranlsated by Ken Liu, Joel Martinsen)
- The Foundation series by Isaac Asimov
- The Last Question (short story) by Isaac Asimov
- Opt Out by Rory Price
