Books read

Non-fiction

AI & Machine Learning

• How to Create a Mind: The Secret of Human Thought Revealed — Ray Kurzweil (read: 2022-05-29)
• Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies — Nick Bostrom
• The StatQuest Illustrated Guide To Machine Learning — Josh Starmer (read: 2025-06-27)
• The StatQuest Illustrated Guide to Neural Networks and AI: With hands-on examples in PyTorch!!! — Josh Starmer (read: 2025-12-20)
• What Is ChatGPT Doing... and Why Does It Work? — Stephen Wolfram (read: 2024-03-27)

Art, Music & Culture

• Graded Go Problems for Beginners Volume One Introductory Problems 30 Kyu to 25 Kyu (Graded Go Problems for Beginners, #1) — Yoshinori Kano (read: 2023-03-20)
• The Culture Map: Breaking Through the Invisible Boundaries of Global Business — Erin Meyer

Biology & Evolution

• From Bacteria to Bach and Back: The Evolution of Minds — Daniel C. Dennett
• Metazoa: Animal Life and the Birth of the Mind — Peter Godfrey-Smith
• Other Minds — Peter Godfrey-Smith (read: 2019-12-26)
• The Freeze-Frame Revolution — Peter Watts
• The Selfish Gene — Richard Dawkins

Food, Nature & Environment

• Caffeine: How Caffeine Created the Modern World — Michael Pollan (read: 2024-05-26)
• How to Change Your Mind: The New Science of Psychedelics — Michael Pollan (read: 2022-03-08)

Geography & Geopolitics

• Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Tell You Everything You Need to Know About Global Politics (Politics of Place, #1) — Tim Marshall (read: 2022-01-31)

Health & Wellbeing

• Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones — James Clear
• Crucial Conversations: Tools for Talking When Stakes are High — Kerry Patterson
• Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals — Oliver Burkeman (read: 2024-06-27)
• Radical Candor: Be a Kickass Boss Without Losing Your Humanity — Kim Malone Scott (read: 2024-01-09)
• The Coaching Habit: Say Less, Ask More & Change the Way You Lead Forever — Michael Bungay Stanier (read: 2024-04-23)

History

• A Short History of Nearly Everything — Bill Bryson
• A Time Traveller's Guide to Our Next Ten Years — Frans Cronje
• Homo Deus: A History of Tomorrow — Yuval Noah Harari (read: 2018-08-13)
• Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI — Yuval Noah Harari (read: 2025-06-17)
• Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind — Yuval Noah Harari
• Where Good Ideas Come From: The Natural History of Innovation — Steven Johnson (read: 2011-01-01)
• Why the Dutch are Different: A Journey into the Hidden Heart of the Netherlands — Ben Coates

Mathematics

• A Mind for Numbers: How to Excel at Math and Science (Even If You Flunked Algebra) — Barbara Oakley (read: 2024-01-01)
• Chaos: Making a New Science — James Gleick (read: 2008-11-09)

Neuroscience & Psychology

• 59 Seconds: Think a Little, Change a Lot — Richard Wiseman (read: 2015-05-06)
• Being You: A New Science of Consciousness — Anil Seth (read: 2023-10-23)
• The Courage to Be Disliked: How to Free Yourself, Change Your Life and Achieve Real Happiness — Ichiro Kishimi
• The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales — Oliver Sacks (read: 2022-08-05)
• Thinking, Fast and Slow — Daniel Kahneman

Philosophy & Science

• Death: A Philosophy Course — Shelly Kagan
• Thank You for Arguing: What Aristotle, Lincoln, and Homer Simpson Can Teach Us About the Art of Persuasion — Jay Heinrichs
• Thinking In Systems: A Primer — Donella H. Meadows
• What Is This Thing Called Science? — Alan F. Chalmers

Physics & Cosmology

• Prince of Networks: Bruno Latour and Metaphysics — Graham Harman (read: 2015-05-06)
• The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark — Carl Sagan (read: 2024-08-13)
• The Universe in a Box: Simulations and the Quest to Code the Cosmos — Andrew Pontzen (read: 2024-12-01)

Politics & Society

• 21 Lessons for the 21st Century — Yuval Noah Harari
• Blue Like Jazz: Nonreligious Thoughts on Christian Spirituality — Donald Miller (read: 2010-10-01)
• Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World – and Why Things Are Better Than You Think — Hans Rosling
• The Wisdom of Crowds — James Surowiecki

Software Engineering & Technology

• Accelerate: Building and Scaling High Performing Technology Organizations — Nicole Forsgren
• Bitcoin and Cryptocurrency Technologies: A Comprehensive Introduction — Arvind Narayanan
• Continuous Discovery Habits: Discover Products that Create Customer Value and Business Value — Teresa Torres (read: 2024-01-01)
• Escaping the Build Trap: How Effective Product Management Creates Real Value — Melissa Perri (read: 2024-01-01)
• Finite and Infinite Games: A Vision of Life as Play and Possibility — James P. Carse
• Good Strategy Bad Strategy: The Difference and Why It Matters — Richard P. Rumelt (read: 2022-12-31)
• How to Measure Anything: Finding the Value of "Intangibles" in Business — Douglas W. Hubbard
• Liberating the Corporate Soul : Building a Visionary Organization — Richard Barrett (read: 2011-12-12)
• Measure What Matters — John Doerr
• Moving the Needle with Lean OKRs — Bart den Haak
• No Rules Rules: Netflix and the Culture of Reinvention — Reed Hastings (read: 2022-01-19)
• Sooner Safer Happier: Antipatterns and Patterns for Business Agility — Jonathan Smart (read: 2024-05-26)
• Strategize: Product Strategy and Product Roadmap Practices for the Digital Age — Roman Pichler (read: 2022-01-19)
• Team Topologies: Organizing Business and Technology Teams for Fast Flow — Matthew Skelton
• The Lean Startup — Eric Ries
• The Phoenix Project: A Novel About IT, DevOps, and Helping Your Business Win — Gene Kim

Fiction

• 1984 — George Orwell
• A Brief History of Time — Stephen W. Hawking (read: 2025-07-05)
• A Clash of Kings (A Song of Ice and Fire, #2) — George R.R. Martin (read: 2005-12-01)
• A Dance with Dragons (A Song of Ice and Fire, #5) — George R.R. Martin
• A Feast for Crows (A Song of Ice and Fire, #4) — George R.R. Martin
• A Game of Thrones (A Song of Ice and Fire, #1) — George R.R. Martin (read: 2005-12-19)
• A Storm of Swords (A Song of Ice and Fire, #3) — George R.R. Martin (read: 2008-11-09)
• A Tale of Two Cities — Charles Dickens (read: 2006-01-01)
• A Wizard of Earthsea (Earthsea Cycle, #1) — Ursula K. Le Guin (read: 2025-08-28)
• Accelerando — Charles Stross (read: 2008-12-10)
• American Gods (American Gods, #1) — Neil Gaiman (read: 2000-01-01)
• Anathem — Neal Stephenson
• Animal Farm — George Orwell
• Blindness — José Saramago (read: 2006-01-01)
• Chasm City — Alastair Reynolds (read: 2011-01-01)
• Children of Time (Children of Time, #1) — Adrian Tchaikovsky (read: 2024-03-17)
• Death's End (The Three-Body Problem, #3) — Cixin Liu (read: 2023-12-10)
• Diary — Chuck Palahniuk (read: 2004-01-01)
• Diaspora — Greg Egan
• Distress — Greg Egan (read: 2019-11-14)
• Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? — Philip K. Dick (read: 2005-01-01)
• Dragon's Egg (Cheela, #1) — Robert L. Forward (read: 2024-11-26)
• Embassytown — China Miéville (read: 2011-09-13)
• Exhalation — Ted Chiang (read: 2022-12-26)
• Fahrenheit 451 — Ray Bradbury
• Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions — Edwin A. Abbott (read: 2024-12-07)
• Glasshouse — Charles Stross (read: 2008-12-26)
• GO: A Complete Introduction to the Game — Chikun Chō
• House of Suns — Alastair Reynolds
• Incandescence — Greg Egan
• Instantiation — Greg Egan (read: 2020-07-27)
• Klara and the Sun — Kazuo Ishiguro
• Life of Pi — Yann Martel (read: 2001-09-01)
• Maya — Jostein Gaarder (read: 2008-11-09)
• Perdido Street Station (New Crobuzon, #1) — China Miéville (read: 2011-08-31)
• Permutation City — Greg Egan (read: 2018-08-23)
• Project Hail Mary — Andy Weir (read: 2021-12-28)
• Quarantine — Greg Egan (read: 2018-08-04)
• Reamde — Neal Stephenson (read: 2015-05-06)
• Redemption Ark (Revelation Space, #2) — Alastair Reynolds (read: 2011-12-12)
• Rendezvous with Rama (Rama, #1) — Arthur C. Clarke (read: 2024-03-22)
• Revelation Space (Revelation Space, #1) — Alastair Reynolds (read: 2011-01-01)
• Scale — Greg Egan (read: 2024-05-26)
• Schild's Ladder — Greg Egan
• Singularity Sky (Eschaton, #1) — Charles Stross (read: 2010-02-25)
• Snow Crash — Neal Stephenson
• Solar Lottery — Philip K. Dick (read: 2024-09-06)
• Sophie's World — Jostein Gaarder (read: 2000-01-01)
• Stories of Your Life and Others — Ted Chiang (read: 2022-08-05)
• Teranesia — Greg Egan
• Terminal World — Alastair Reynolds (read: 2010-09-01)
• The Atrocity Archives (Laundry Files, #1) — Charles Stross
• The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time — Mark Haddon
• The Dark Forest (The Three-Body Problem, #2) — Liu Cixin
• The Demolished Man — Alfred Bester (read: 2005-01-01)
• The Drawing of the Three (The Dark Tower, #2) — Stephen King (read: 2022-05-01)
• The Fifth Season (The Broken Earth, #1) — N.K. Jemisin
• The Girl Who Played with Fire (Millennium #2) — Stieg Larsson
• The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo (Millennium #1) — Stieg Larsson
• The Great Gatsby — F. Scott Fitzgerald (read: 2007-01-01)
• The Gunslinger (The Dark Tower, #1) separate — Stephen King
• The Hobbit, or There and Back Again — J.R.R. Tolkien (read: 2001-01-01)
• The Left Hand of Darkness — Ursula K. Le Guin (read: 2025-02-02)
• The Lord of the Rings — J.R.R. Tolkien (read: 2000-01-01)
• The Ringmaster's Daughter — Jostein Gaarder (read: 2004-01-01)
• The Shadow of the Torturer — Gene Wolfe
• The Three-Body Problem (Remembrance of Earth's Past, #1) — Liu Cixin
• The Waste Lands (The Dark Tower, #3) — Stephen King (read: 2022-12-31)
• The White Tiger — Aravind Adiga (read: 2008-11-09)
• The Windup Girl — Paolo Bacigalupi (read: 2010-12-07)
• Through a Glass, Darkly — Jostein Gaarder (read: 2000-01-01)
• To Kill a Mockingbird — Harper Lee (read: 2004-01-01)
• We — Yevgeny Zamyatin (read: 2008-07-10)
• Where the Crawdads Sing — Delia Owens (read: 2021-12-28)
• Wonder Boys — Michael Chabon (read: 2001-01-01)
• Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values — Robert M. Pirsig (read: 2007-12-19)