Books tagged 'nonfiction'

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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)