Books tagged 'nonfiction'

Finished

• Scott Adams, How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big (2013)
• Sönke Ahrens, How to Take Smart Notes (2017)
• Robert C. Allen, The Industrial Revolution: A Very Short Introduction (2017)
• Dan Ariely, Predictably Irrational (2008)
• Marcus Aurelius, Meditations (180)
• Paul Bloom, The Sweet Spot: The Pleasures of Suffering and the Search for Meaning (2021)
• Harold Bloom, Macbeth: A Dagger of the Mind (2019)
• Luke Burgis, Wanting: The Power of Mimetic Desire in Everyday Life (2021)
• Dale Carnegie, How to Win Friends and Influence People (1936)
• Robert A. Caro, The Path to Power (1982)
• David Chilton, The Wealthy Barber Returns (2011)
• Brian Christian & Tom Griffiths, Algorithms to Live By (2016)
• Brian Christian, The Alignment Problem (2020)
• Robert B. Cialdini, Influence (1984)
• James Clear, Atomic Habits (2018)
• Tyler Cowen, Discover Your Inner Economist (2007)
• Tyler Cowen, Stubborn Attachments (2018)
• Matthew B. Crawford, Shop Class as Soulcraft (2009)
• Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, Finding Flow: The Psychology Of Engagement With Everyday Life (1997)
• Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience (1990)
• James Dale Davidson & William Rees-Mogg, The Sovereign Individual: Mastering the Transition to the Information Age (1997)
• Richard Dawkins, The God Delusion (2006)
• Richard Dawkins, Unweaving the Rainbow (1998)
• Barbara Demick, Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea (2009)
• Will Durant, The Lessons of History (1968)
• Nadia Eghbal, Working In Public (2020)
• Richard P. Feynman, Surely You’re Joking, Mr. Feynman! (1985)
• Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl (1947)
• Benjamin Franklin, The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin (1791)
• Julia Galef, The Scout Mindset (2021)
• Bill Gates, How to Avoid a Climate Disaster (2021)
• Daniel Todd Gilbert, Stumbling on Happiness (2006)
• Malcolm Gladwell, Outliers (2008)
• James Gleick, Isaac Newton (2003)
• James Gleick, The Information (2011)
• Daniel Goleman & Richard Davidson, Altered Traits (2017)
• Lori Gottlieb, Maybe You Should Talk to Someone (2019)
• David Graeber, Bullshit Jobs (2018)
• David Graeber, Debt (2011)
• David Graeber, The Democracy Project (2013)
• Miguel Grinberg, Flask Web Development (2014)
• Jonathan Haidt, The Happiness Hypothesis (2005)
• Jonathan Haidt, The Righteous Mind (2012)
• Yuval Noah Harari, Homo Deus (2017)
• Todd Hargrove, Playing With Movement (2014)
• Judith Rich Harris, The Nurture Assumption (1998)
• Sam Harris, Free Will (2012)
• Sam Harris, Waking Up (2014)
• Douglas Hofstadter, Gödel, Escher, Bach (1979)
• Jim Holt, Why Does the World Exist? (2011)
• Alan Jacobs, The Pleasures of Reading in an Age of Distraction (2011)
• Hope Jahren, Lab Girl (2016)
• Gareth James et al., An Introduction to Statistical Learning (2017)
• Daniel Kahneman, Thinking, Fast and Slow (2011)
• Paul Kalanithi, When Breath Becomes Air (2016)
• Josh Kaufman, The Personal MBA (2010)
• Stephen King, On Writing (2000)
• Ichiro Kishimi & Fumitake Koga, The Courage to Be Disliked (2019)
• Maria Konnikova, The Biggest Bluff (2020)
• Jon Krakauer, Into Thin Air (1997)
• Jaron Lanier, Ten Arguments for Deleting Your Social Media Accounts Right Now (2018)
• Alfred Lansing, Endurance: Shackleton’s Incredible Voyage (1959)
• Primo Levi, Survival in Auschwitz (1947)
• Howard Marks, The Most Important Thing (2011)
• Kelly McGonigal, The Upside of Stress: Why Stress is Good for You, and how to Get Good at it (2015)
• Sharon Bertsch McGrayne, The Theory That Would Not Die (2011)
• John Medina, Brain Rules (2008)
• Katy Milkman, How to Change (2021)
• John Stuart Mill, The Autobiography of John Stuart Mill (1872)
• Chanel Miller, Know My Name (2019)
• Haruki Murakami, What I Talk about When I Talk about Running: A Memoir (2006)
• Cal Newport, Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World (2016)
• C. Thi Nguyen, Games: Agency as Art (2020)
• Michael Nielsen, Reinventing Discovery (2011)
• Patrick O’Shaughnessy, Millennial Money (2014)
• Barbara Oakley, A Mind for Numbers (2014)
• Christopher Payne & Rob Barnett, The Economists’ Diet (2018)
• Daniel H. Pink, Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us (2009)
• Steven Pinker, How the Mind Works (1997)
• Steven Pinker, The Language Instinct (1994)
• Steven Pinker, The Sense of Style (2014)
• Stuart Ritchie, Intelligence: All That Matters (2015)
• Anthony Robbins, MONEY Master the Game (2014)
• Bruce Schneier, Data and Goliath (2015)
• Nate Silver, The Signal and the Noise (2012)
• John Shelby Spong, A New Christianity for a New World (2001)
• Seth Stephens-Davidowitz, Everybody Lies (2017)
• Nassim Nicholas Taleb, The Black Swan (2007)
• Richard H. Thaler, Nudge (2008)
• Peter Thiel, Zero to One (2014)
• Henry David Thoreau, Walden (1854)
• Ashlee Vance, Elon Musk (2015)
• Chris Voss, Never Split the Difference (2016)
• Greg Wells, The Ripple Effect (2017)
• Tara Westover, Educated (2018)
• Hadley Wickham, Advanced R (2014)
• Anna Wiener, Uncanny Valley (2020)
• Susan R. Wolf, Meaning in Life and Why it Matters (2010)
• Ronald Wright, A Short History of Progress (2004)
• Eliezer Yudkowsky, Inadequate Equilibria (2017)
• Eliezer Yudkowsky, Intelligent Characters (2014)

Skimmed, sampled from, or abandoned

• Mortimer J. Adler & Charles Van Doren, How to Read a Book (1972)
• Albert-László Barabási, The Formula: The Universal Laws of Success (2018)
• Paul Bloom, How Pleasure Works (2010)
• Nick Bostrom, Superintelligence (2014)
• Kate Briggs, This Little Art (2017)
• Bill Browder, Red Notice (2014)
• Oliver Burkeman, Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals (2021)
• Joseph Campbell, A Joseph Campbell Companion (1991)
• Truman Capote, In Cold Blood (1966)
• Ben Carlson, A Wealth of Common Sense (2015)
• James P. Carse, Finite and Infinite Games (1986)
• Ed Catmull, Creativity, Inc. (2009)
• Ron Chernow, Titan: The Life of John D. Rockefeller, Sr. (1998)
• Confucius, The Analects (429 BC)
• Tyler Cowen, The Complacent Class (2017)
• Ray Dalio, Principles: Life & Work (2017)
• Annie Dillard, Pilgrim at Tinker Creek (1974)
• Angela Duckworth, Grit (2016)
• Jordan Ellenberg, How Not to Be Wrong (2014)
• Charles Ellis, Winning the Loser’s Game (8th edition) (2021)
• Ralph Waldo Emerson, Self-Reliance and Other Essays (1844)
• William Finnegan, Barbarian Days (2015)
• Joshua B. Freeman, Behemoth: A History of the Factory and the Making of the Modern World (2018)
• Yuval Noah Harari, Sapiens (2011)
• Douglas Hofstadter, Le Ton beau de Marot (1997)
• Morgan Housel, The Psychology of Money (2020)
• Douglas Hubbard, How to Measure Anything: Finding the Value of Intangibles in Business (3rd edition) (2014)
• Therese Huston, Teaching What You Don’t Know (2009)
• Walter Isaacson, Einstein: His Life and Universe (2007)
• Jane Jacobs, The Death and Life of Great American Cities (1961)
• Keith Johnstone, Impro (1979)
• Jon Kabat-Zinn, Full Catastrophe Living (1990)
• Shelly Kagan, Death (2012)
• James M. Lang, Small Teaching (2016)
• J. Kenji López-Alt, The Food Lab: Better Home Cooking Through Science (2015)
• Burton G. Malkiel, A Random Walk Down Wall Street (12th edition) (2019)
• Donella Meadows, Thinking In Systems (2008)
• Stephen Moss, The Rookie (2016)
• Samin Nosrat, Salt Fat Acid Heat (2017)
• Jenny Odell, How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy (2019)
• Randy Olson, Houston, We Have a Narrative (2015)
• Susan Pinker, The Village Effect: Why Face-to-Face Contact Is Good for Our Health, Happiness, Learning, and Longevity (2013)
• Amanda H. Podany, Ancient Mesopotamia (2018)
• Richard Prum, The Evolution of Beauty: How Darwin’s Forgotten Theory of Mate Choice Shapes the Animal World—And Us (2017)
• Richard Rhodes, The Making of the Atomic Bomb (1986)
• Bruce Schneier, Secrets and Lies (2004)
• Keith Stanovich et al., The Rationality Quotient (2016)
• William Strunk Jr. & E.B. White, The Elements of Style (1918)
• Francis-Noël Thomas & Mark Turner, Clear and Simple as the Truth (1994)
• Pavel Tsatsouline, Kettlebell Simple & Sinister (2019)
• Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching (~600 BC)
• Sun Tzu, The Art of War (~500 BC)
• David Foster Wallace, Both Flesh and Not: Essays (2012)
• Greg Wilson, Teaching Tech Together (2018)