Books tagged 'nonfiction'
Finished
- Adams, How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big (2013)
- Ahrens, How to Take Smart Notes (2017)
- Allen, The Industrial Revolution: A Very Short Introduction (2017)
- Ariely, Predictably Irrational (2008)
- Aurelius, Meditations (180)
- Bloom, The Sweet Spot: The Pleasures of Suffering and the Search for Meaning (2021)
- Bloom, Macbeth: A Dagger of the Mind (2019)
- Bryson, Shakespeare: The World As Stage (2007)
- Bryson, The Body: A Guide for Occupants (2019)
- Bryson, Notes from a Small Island (1995)
- Burgis, Wanting: The Power of Mimetic Desire in Everyday Life (2021)
- Carnegie, How to Win Friends and Influence People (1936)
- Caro, The Path to Power (1982)
- Chilton, The Wealthy Barber Returns (2011)
- Christian & Griffiths, Algorithms to Live By (2016)
- Christian, The Alignment Problem (2020)
- Cialdini, Influence (1984)
- Clear, Atomic Habits (2018)
- Cowen, Discover Your Inner Economist (2007)
- Cowen, Stubborn Attachments (2018)
- Crawford, Shop Class as Soulcraft (2009)
- Csikszentmihalyi, Finding Flow: The Psychology Of Engagement With Everyday Life (1997)
- Csikszentmihalyi, Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience (1990)
- Davidson & Rees-Mogg, The Sovereign Individual: Mastering the Transition to the Information Age (1997)
- Dawkins, The God Delusion (2006)
- Dawkins, Unweaving the Rainbow (1998)
- Demick, Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea (2009)
- Durant & Durant, The Lessons of History (1968)
- Eghbal, Working In Public (2020)
- Feynman, Surely You’re Joking, Mr. Feynman! (1985)
- Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl (1947)
- Franklin, The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin (1791)
- Galef, The Scout Mindset (2021)
- Gates, How to Avoid a Climate Disaster (2021)
- Gilbert, Stumbling on Happiness (2006)
- Gladwell, Outliers (2008)
- Gleick, Isaac Newton (2003)
- Gleick, The Information (2011)
- Goleman & Davidson, Altered Traits (2017)
- Gottlieb, Maybe You Should Talk to Someone (2019)
- Graeber, Bullshit Jobs (2018)
- Graeber, Debt (2011)
- Graeber, The Democracy Project (2013)
- Grinberg, Flask Web Development (2014)
- Haidt, The Happiness Hypothesis (2005)
- Haidt, The Righteous Mind (2012)
- Harari, Homo Deus (2017)
- Hargrove, Playing With Movement (2014)
- Harris, The Nurture Assumption (1998)
- Harris, Free Will (2012)
- Harris, Waking Up (2014)
- Hofstadter, Gödel, Escher, Bach (1979)
- Holt, Why Does the World Exist? (2011)
- Jacobs, The Pleasures of Reading in an Age of Distraction (2011)
- Jahren, Lab Girl (2016)
- James et al., An Introduction to Statistical Learning (2017)
- Kahneman, Thinking, Fast and Slow (2011)
- Kalanithi, When Breath Becomes Air (2016)
- Kaufman, The Personal MBA (2010)
- King, On Writing (2000)
- Kishimi & Koga, The Courage to Be Disliked (2019)
- Kondo, The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up: The Japanese Art of Decluttering and Organizing (2010)
- Konnikova, The Biggest Bluff (2020)
- Krakauer, Into Thin Air (1997)
- Lanier, Ten Arguments for Deleting Your Social Media Accounts Right Now (2018)
- Lansing, Endurance: Shackleton’s Incredible Voyage (1959)
- Levi, Survival in Auschwitz (1947)
- Marks, The Most Important Thing (2011)
- McGonigal, The Upside of Stress: Why Stress is Good for You, and how to Get Good at it (2015)
- McGrayne, The Theory That Would Not Die (2011)
- Medina, Brain Rules (2008)
- Milkman, How to Change (2021)
- Mill, The Autobiography of John Stuart Mill (1872)
- Miller, Know My Name (2019)
- Murakami, What I Talk about When I Talk about Running: A Memoir (2006)
- Newport, Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World (2016)
- Nguyen, Games: Agency as Art (2020)
- Nielsen, Reinventing Discovery (2011)
- O’Shaughnessy, Millennial Money (2014)
- Oakley, A Mind for Numbers (2014)
- Orwell, Homage to Catalonia (1938)
- Payne & Barnett, The Economists’ Diet (2018)
- Pink, Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us (2009)
- Pinker, How the Mind Works (1997)
- Pinker, The Language Instinct (1994)
- Pinker, The Sense of Style (2014)
- Ritchie, Intelligence: All That Matters (2015)
- Robbins, MONEY Master the Game (2014)
- Schneier, Data and Goliath (2015)
- Schulman, Conflict Is Not Abuse: Overstating Harm, Community Responsibility, and the Duty of Repair (2016)
- Silver, The Signal and the Noise (2012)
- Spong, A New Christianity for a New World (2001)
- Stephens-Davidowitz, Everybody Lies (2017)
- Taleb, The Black Swan (2007)
- Thaler, Nudge (2008)
- Thiel, Zero to One (2014)
- Thoreau, Walden (1854)
- Vaillant, The Tiger: A True Story of Vengeance and Survival (2010)
- Vaillant, The Golden Spruce: A True Story of Myth, Madness, and Greed (2005)
- Vance, Elon Musk (2015)
- Voss, Never Split the Difference (2016)
- Wells, The Ripple Effect (2017)
- Westover, Educated (2018)
- Wickham, Advanced R (2014)
- Wiener, Uncanny Valley (2020)
- Wolf, Meaning in Life and Why it Matters (2010)
- Wright, A Short History of Progress (2004)
- Yudkowsky, Inadequate Equilibria (2017)
- Yudkowsky, Intelligent Characters (2014)
Skimmed, sampled from, or abandoned
- Adler & Van Doren, How to Read a Book (1972)
- Applebaum, Twilight of Democracy: The Seductive Lure of Authoritarianism (2020)
- Barabási, The Formula: The Universal Laws of Success (2018)
- Bloom, How Pleasure Works (2010)
- Bostrom, Superintelligence (2014)
- Briggs, This Little Art (2017)
- Browder, Red Notice (2014)
- Burkeman, Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals (2021)
- Callard, Aspiration: The Agency of Becoming (2018)
- Campbell, A Joseph Campbell Companion (1991)
- Capote, In Cold Blood (1966)
- Carlson, A Wealth of Common Sense (2015)
- Carse, Finite and Infinite Games (1986)
- Carson, Silent Spring (1962)
- Catmull, Creativity, Inc. (2009)
- Chernow, Titan: The Life of John D. Rockefeller, Sr. (1998)
- Confucius, The Analects (429 BC)
- Cowen, The Complacent Class (2017)
- Cowen & Gross, Talent: How to Identify Energizers, Creatives, and Winners Around the World (2022)
- Dalio, Principles: Life & Work (2017)
- Dillard, Pilgrim at Tinker Creek (1974)
- Duckworth, Grit (2016)
- Ellenberg, How Not to Be Wrong (2014)
- Ellis, Winning the Loser’s Game (8th edition) (2021)
- Emerson, Self-Reliance and Other Essays (1844)
- Finnegan, Barbarian Days (2015)
- Freeman, Behemoth: A History of the Factory and the Making of the Modern World (2018)
- Graeber & Wengrow, The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity (2021)
- Harari, Sapiens (2011)
- Hofstadter, Le Ton beau de Marot (1997)
- Housel, The Psychology of Money (2020)
- Hubbard, How to Measure Anything: Finding the Value of Intangibles in Business (3rd edition) (2014)
- Huston, Teaching What You Don’t Know (2009)
- Isaacson, Einstein: His Life and Universe (2007)
- Jacobs, The Death and Life of Great American Cities (1961)
- Johnstone, Impro (1979)
- Kabat-Zinn, Full Catastrophe Living (1990)
- Kagan, Death (2012)
- Lang, Small Teaching (2016)
- López-Alt, The Food Lab: Better Home Cooking Through Science (2015)
- Malkiel, A Random Walk Down Wall Street (12th edition) (2019)
- Meadows, Thinking In Systems (2008)
- Moss, The Rookie (2016)
- Nosrat, Salt Fat Acid Heat (2017)
- Odell, How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy (2019)
- Olson, Houston, We Have a Narrative (2015)
- Pinker, The Village Effect: Why Face-to-Face Contact Is Good for Our Health, Happiness, Learning, and Longevity (2013)
- Podany, Ancient Mesopotamia (2018)
- Prum, The Evolution of Beauty: How Darwin’s Forgotten Theory of Mate Choice Shapes the Animal World—And Us (2017)
- Rhodes, The Making of the Atomic Bomb (1986)
- Schneier, Secrets and Lies (2004)
- Stanovich et al., The Rationality Quotient (2016)
- Strunk & White, The Elements of Style (1918)
- Suits, The Grasshopper: Games, Life and Utopia (1978)
- Thomas & Turner, Clear and Simple as the Truth (1994)
- Tsatsouline, Kettlebell Simple & Sinister (2019)
- Tzu, Tao Te Ching (~600 BC)
- Tzu, The Art of War (~500 BC)
- Wallace, Both Flesh and Not: Essays (2012)
- Wilson, Teaching Tech Together (2018)
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