Books I read in 2016

Finished

• Michael Chabon, The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay (2000)
• David Chilton, The Wealthy Barber Returns (2011)
• Robert B. Cialdini, Influence (1984)
• Richard P. Feynman, Surely You’re Joking, Mr. Feynman! (1985)
• James Gleick, Isaac Newton (2003)
• James Gleick, The Information (2011)
• Rebecca Goldstein, The Mind-Body Problem (1983)
• Jonathan Haidt, The Righteous Mind (2012)
• Sam Harris, Free Will (2012)
• Sam Harris, Waking Up (2014)
• Douglas Hofstadter, Gödel, Escher, Bach (1979)
• John Irving, A Prayer for Owen Meany (1989)
• Paul Kalanithi, When Breath Becomes Air (2016)
• Sharon Bertsch McGrayne, The Theory That Would Not Die (2011)
• Steven Pinker, How the Mind Works (1997)
• Bruce Schneier, Data and Goliath (2015)
• Nate Silver, The Signal and the Noise (2012)
• Ashlee Vance, Elon Musk (2015)

Skimmed, sampled from, or abandoned

• Nick Bostrom, Superintelligence (2014)
• Ted Chiang, Stories of Your Life and Others (2010)
• Jordan Ellenberg, How Not to Be Wrong (2014)
• Yuval Noah Harari, Sapiens (2011)
• Bruce Schneier, Secrets and Lies (2004)