Favorite and Recent Books

Favorite Books

1. Deschooling Society – Ivan Illich
2. David's Sling – Marc Stiegler
3. A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court – Mark Twain
4. Pastwatch – Orson Scott Card
5. Getting to Yes – William Ury
6. Rationality – Steven Pinker
7. Factfulness – Hans Rosling, Ola Rosling, Anna Rosling Rönnlund
8. Enlightenment Now – Steven Pinker
9. Think Again – Adam Grant
10. Circe – Madeline Miller
11. Thinking, Fast and Slow – Daniel Kahneman
12. Island in the Sea of Time – S. M. Stirling

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Books I Read

2024

1. Hillbilly Elegy – J.D. Vance
2. The Three-Body Problem – Cixin Liu
3. What This Comedian Said Will Shock You – Bill Maher
4. Why Nationalism – Yael Tamir
5. Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman! – Richard P. Feynman
6. Ours Was the Shining Future – David Leonhardt
7. Romney – McKay Coppins
8. Democracy Awakening – Heather Cox Richardson
9. Red Rising, Golden Son, Sons of Ares, Dark Age – Pierce Brown
10. Elantris – Brandon Sanderson
11. Renegade – Adam Kinzinger, Michael D’Antonio
12. Enough – Cassidy Hutchison
13. Oath and Honor – Liz Cheney
14. The Graveyard Book – Neil Gaiman
15. Neverwhere – Neil Gaiman
16. Norse Mythology II – Neil Gaiman, P. Craig Russell
17. Social Justice Fallacies – Thomas Sowell
18. Black Rednecks and White Liberals – Thomas Sowell
19. Barbarians Inside the Gates and Other Controversial Essays – Thomas Sowell
20. American Prometheus – Kai Bird, Martin J. Sherwin

2023

1. 12 Rules for Life – Jordan B. Peterson
2. The Bomber Mafia – Malcolm Gladwell
3. Apocalypse Never – Michael Shellenberger
4. One Billion Americans – Matthew Yglesias
5. Magic Bites – Ilona Andrews
6. Cultish – Amanda Montell
7. Good Omens – Neil Gaiman, Terry Pratchett
8. Ukraine – Serhy Yekelchyk
9. San Fransicko – Michael Shellenberger
10. Against Empathy – Paul Bloom
11. Iron Curtain – Anne Applebaum
12. Twilight of Democracy – Anne Applebaum
13. Under the Banner of Heaven – Jon Krakauer
14. Noise – Daniel Kahneman, Oliver Sibony, Cass R. Sunstein
15. Nudge – Richard H. Thaler, Cass R. Sunstein
16. Dune – Frank Herbert
17. Their Eyes Were Watching God – Zora Neale Hurston
18. How to Change Your Mind – Michael Pollan
19. Extreme Ownership – Jocko Willink, Leif Babin