2024
Determined by Robert Sapolsky
Musicophilia by Oliver Sacks
Humanly Possible by Sarah Bakewell
The Pathless Path by Paul Millerd
The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Reality Plus by David Chalmers
Stolen Focus by Johann Hari
Human Compatible by Stuart Russell
Prophet Song by Paul Lynch
Being you by Anil Seth
On Intelligence by Jeff Hawkins
The Creative Act by Rick Rubin
Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson
The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand
Will by Will Smith and Mark Manson
Love in the time of cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Superintelligence by Nick Bostrom
Guns, Germs, and Steel by Jared Diamond
How to change your mind by Michael Pollan
Lost Connections by Johann Hari
The City and the Stars by Arthur C. Clarke
Cultivate Thyself by Lucian Harris-Gallahue
Godel, Escher, Bach by Douglas Hofstadter
Why the Dutch are Different by Ben Coates
On Writing by Stephen King
Sense of Style by Steven Pinker
The Science of Storytelling by Will Storr
The Writing Life by Annie Dillard
How To See by Thich Nhat Hanh
Zen Mind, Beginner’s Mind by Shunryu Suzuki
Different by Frans de Waal
The Story of Russia by Orlando Figes
Eat, Poop, Die by Joe Roman
The Memoirs of a Survivor by Doris Lessing
The Hero With a Thousand Faces by Joseph Campbell
Red Rising by Pierce Brown
Waking Up by Sam Harris
An Unfinished Life by Robert Dallek
Memories, Dreams, Reflections by Carl Jung
Nobody Knows My Name by James Baldwin
The Interpretation of Dreams by Sigmund Freud
1984 by George Orwell
The Laws of Human Nature by Robert Greene
Transcend by Scott Barry Kaufman
The Status Game by Will Storr
12 Rules for Life by Jordan Peterson
Nexus by Yuval Harari
The Singularity in Nearer by Ray Kurzweil
Unweaving the Rainbow by Richard Dawkins
The World and all that it Holds by Aleksandar Hemon
We Who Wrestle With God by Jordan Peterson
Roald Dahl: the Complete Short Stories Volume Two
2021
Blueprint by Nicholas A. Christakis
Educated by Tara Westover
Beyond Order by Jordan Peterson
Seeing Voices by Oliver Sacks
The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat by Oliver Sacks
The Moral Animal by Robert Wright
Blank Slate by Steven Pinker
The Brain that Changes Itself by Norman Doidge
Brief Answers to Big Questions by Stephen Hawking
Terra Incognita by Ian Goldin and Robert Muggah
Children of Time by Adrian Tchaikovsky
Night Train to Lisbon by Peter Bieri
Born a Crime by Trevor Noah
Livewired by David Eagleman
Chaos: making a new science by James Gleick
The Rise of Superman by Steven Kotler
The Origins of Creativity by E. O. Wilson
Smoke and Mirrors by Neil Gaiman
The Brain’s Way of Healing by Norman Doidge
Humans by Brandon Stanton
Tribe of Mentors by Tim Ferriss
Genius by James Gleick
Darwin’s Dangerous Idea by Daniel Dennett
Doors of Perception by Aldous Huxley
Heroes by Stephen Fry
The Beginning of Infinity by David Deutsch
The Hero with a Thousand faces by Joseph Campbell
The Demon-Haunted World by Carl Sagan
Maps of Meaning by Jordan Peterson
NeuroTribes by Steve Silberman
Rationality by Steven Pinker
Lifespan by David Sinclair
The Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins
The Diary of Anne Frank
LOTR: Fellowship of the Ring by J. R. R. Tolkien
The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov
The Precipice by Toby Ord
Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir
LOTR: The Two Towers by J. R. R. Tolkien
LOTR: Return of the King by J. R. R. Tolkien
Pet Sematary by Stephen King
Capital in the 21st Century by Thomas Piketty
Liftoff by Eric Berger
Niccolo’s Smile by Maurizio Viroli
The Jazz of Physics by Stephon Alexander
Tools of Titans Tim Ferriss
Richer, Wiser, Happier by William Green
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2023
East of Eden by John Steinbeck
The Hidden Spring by Mark Solms
The Silmarillion by J R. R. Tolkien
Rules of Civility by Amor Towles
Breath by James Nestor
Positive Intelligence by Shirzad Chamine
At Home by Bill Bryson
The Pleasure of finding things out by Richard Feynman
The Invention of Tomorrow by Adam Bulley
Dragons of Eden by Carl Sagan
David Hume: Selected essays
The Nature of Things by Lucretius
The Varieties of Religious Experience by William James
What’s our Problem? by Tim Urban
Music, Math, Mind by Dave Soldier
The Beautiful and Damned by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Ethics in the Real World by Peter Singer
Good Economics for Hard Times by Abhijit Banerjee and Esther Duflo
The End of the World is just the Beginning by Peter Zeihan
Happiness by Matthieu Ricard
A Thousand Brains by Jeff Hawkins
Reasons and Persons by Derek Parfit
The Changing World Order by Ray Dalio
The Art of Thinking Clearly by Rolf Dobelli
Island by Aldous Huxley
The Creative Act by Rick Rubin
Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut
The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci
The Origin of Species by Charles Darwin
Thus Spoke Zarathustra by Friedrich Nietzsche
All Art is Propaganda by George Orwell
The Square and the Tower by Niall Ferguson
Mastering ‘Metrics by Joshua Angrist and Jörn-Steffen Pischke
The Sixth Extinction by Elizabeth Kolbert
Love, Poverty, and War by Christopher Hitchens
The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
The Madness of Crowds by Douglas Murray
Contact by Carl Sagan
Thinking Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman
Einstein: his life and universe by Walter Isaacson
The Locals by Jonathan Dee
The Weirdest People in the World by Joseph Henrich
Amsterdam by Russell Shorto
Roald Dahl Short Stories Volume I
The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho
Elon Musk by Walter Isaacson
Behave by Robert Sapolsky
The Idea of the Brain by Matthew Cobb
The Rigor of Angels by William Egginton
The Myth of Sisyphus by Albert Camus
Gravity’s Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon
Putting Ourselves Back in the Equation by George Musser
A Shining by Jon Fosse
2022
The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky
The Denial of Death by Ernest Becker
The Infidel and the Professor by Dennis C. Rasmussen
The Blind Watchmaker by Richard Dawkins
The Gulag Archipelago by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Money: Master the Game by Tony Robbins
A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles
The Martian by Andy Weir
Phantoms in the Brain by Sandra Blakeslee and V. S. Ramachandran
The Green Mile by Stephen King
The Upside of Irrationality by Dan Ariely
Connectome by Sebastian Seung
Apollo’s Arrow by Nicholas Christakis
The Man from the Future by Ananyo Bhattacharya
How Emotions Are Made by Lisa Feldman Barrett
Emperor of all Maladies by Siddhartha Mukherjee
War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
Modern Romance by Aziz Ansari and Eric Klinenberg
The Levin Family
Hitch-22 by Christopher Hitchens
Troy by Stephen Fry
Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors by Carl Sagan
The World of Yesterday by Stefan Zweig
The Price of the Ticket by James Baldwin
Benjamin Franklin by Walter Isaacson
Coddling of the American Mind by Greg Lukianoff and Jonathan Haidt
Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace
The Wander Society by Keri Smith
Energy and Civilization by Vaclav Smil
Mastery by Robert Greene
Ulysses by James Joyce
Is the Internet Changing the Way We Think?
Stumbling on Happiness by Daniel Gilbert
How We Got to Now by Steven Johnson
The Book by Alan Watts
An Anthropologist on Mars by Oliver Sacks
Black Rednecks and White Liberals by Thomas Sowell
Sinatra: the chairman by James Kaplan
The Matter With Things Volume I by Iain McGilchrist
The Matter With Things Volume II by Iain McGilchrist
How the Mind Works by Steven Pinker
Principles by Ray Dalio
Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe
Hunter Gather’s Guide to the 21st Century by Bret Weinstein and Heather Heying
The Lion’s Eye by Joanna Greenfield
Leonardo Da Vinci by Walter Isaacson
What We Owe the Future by William MacAskill
The Big Picture by Sean Carroll
The Deep Learning Revolution by Terry Sejnowski
Go Set a Watchman by Harper Lee
Billons and Billions by Carl Sagan
Dreams from my Father by Barack Obama
Physics of the Future by Michio Kaku
The Third Chimpanzee by Jared Diamond
The Dawn of Everything by David Graeber and David Wengrow
Death by Blackhole by Neil deGrasse Tyson
What if? by Randall Munroe
Team Human by Douglas Rushkoff
In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
The Plague by Albert Camus