Booklist

I read a lot of books and finally started keeping track in 2015. Browse through my reviews, notes, markup, and more.

Future Shock – Alvin Toffler

Rating: 4 out of 5.
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Aug 11, 2023

Thanks for the Feedback – Douglas Stone

Rating: 4 out of 5.
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Aug 4, 2023

The Coaching Habbit – Michael Bungay Stanier

Rating: 4 out of 5.
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Mar 14, 2023

The Quantum Thief – Hannu Rajaniemi

Rating: 5 out of 5.
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Feb 23, 2023

The Bogleheads’ Guide to Investing – Mel Lindauer

Rating: 4 out of 5.
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Aug 1, 2022

Perhaps The Stars (Terra Ignota, #4) – Ada Palmer

Rating: 5 out of 5.
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Jul 14, 2022

Stories of Your Life and Others

Rating: 4 out of 5.
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Dec 19, 2021

Children of Time – Adrian Tchaikovsky

Rating: 5 out of 5.
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Aug 13, 2021

The Obelisk Gate (The Broken Earth, #2) – N.K. Jemisin

Rating: 4 out of 5.
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Dec 11, 2020

The Fifth Season (The Broken Earth, #1) – N.K. Jemisin

Rating: 4 out of 5.
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Nov 5, 2020

How Not to Be Wrong: The Power of Mathematical Thinking – Jordan Ellenberg

Rating: 4 out of 5.
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Sep 19, 2020

Blindsight (Firefall, #1) – Peter Watts

Rating: 5 out of 5.
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Aug 15, 2020

The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer – Siddhartha Mukherjee

Rating: 5 out of 5.
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Aug 04, 2020

1984 – George Orwell

Rating: 5 out of 5.
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Jun 17, 2020

Inherent Vice – Thomas Pynchon

Rating: 3 out of 5.
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May 30, 2020

Competing Against Luck: The Story of Innovation and Customer Choice – Clayton M. Christensen

Rating: 5 out of 5.
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Apr 28, 2020

Quicksilver (The Baroque Cycle, #1) – Neal Stephenson

Rating: 5 out of 5.
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Apr 14, 2020

Indistractable: How to Control Your Attention and Choose Your Life – Nir Eyal

Rating: 4 out of 5.
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Nov 05, 2019

The Redemption of Time: A Three-Body Problem Novel – Li Jun

Rating: 3 out of 5.
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Oct 29, 2019

The Will to Battle (Terra Ignota, #3) – Ada Palmer

Rating: 5 out of 5.
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Oct 08, 2019

Seven Surrenders (Terra Ignota, #2) – Ada Palmer

Rating: 5 out of 5.
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Sep 05, 2019

Too Like the Lightning (Terra Ignota, #1) – Ada Palmer

Rating: 5 out of 5.
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Aug 12, 2019

Cryptonomicon – Neal Stephenson

Rating: 5 out of 5.
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Jun 28, 2019

Effective Java – Joshua Bloch

Rating: 5 out of 5.

Apr 03, 2019

21 Lessons for the 21st Century – Yuval Noah Harari

Rating: 3 out of 5.
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Feb 25, 2019

Anathem – Neal Stephenson

Rating: 5 out of 5.
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Dec 19, 2018

The Disordered Mind: What Unusual Brains Tell Us About Ourselves – Eric R. Kandel

Rating: 4 out of 5.
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Nov 11, 2018

Ancillary Justice (Imperial Radch, #1) [Re-read] – Ann Leckie

Rating: 4 out of 5.

Oct 27, 2018

The Food Lab: Better Home Cooking Through Science – J. Kenji López-Alt

Rating: 4 out of 5.
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Sep 29, 2018

Of Mice and Men – John Steinbeck

Rating: 3 out of 5.
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Sep 17, 2018

The Divine Comedy – Dante Alighieri

Rating: 4 out of 5.

Sep 09, 2018

Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams – Matthew Walker

Rating: 4 out of 5.
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Sep 08, 2018

Forward the Foundation (Foundation, #7) – Isaac Asimov

Rating: 4 out of 5.
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Aug 20, 2018

The Diamond Age – Neal Stephenson

Rating: 5 out of 5.
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Jun 12, 2018

Apollo 8: The Thrilling Story of the First Mission to the Moon – Jeffrey Kluger

Rating: 3 out of 5.
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May 11, 2018

Prelude to Foundation (Foundation: Prequel, #1) – Isaac Asimov

Rating: 4 out of 5.
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Apr 27, 2018

Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress – Steven Pinker

Rating: 5 out of 5.
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Mar 25, 2018

The Grapes of Wrath – John Steinbeck

Rating: 5 out of 5.
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Feb 28, 2018

Cat Sense: How the New Feline Science Can Make You a Better Friend to Your Pet – John Bradshaw

Rating: 4 out of 5.
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Feb 13, 2018

The Name of the Wind (The Kingkiller Chronicle, #1) – Patrick Rothfuss

Rating: 2 out of 5.

Feb 02, 2018

Energy and Civilization: A History – Vaclav Smil

Rating: 3 out of 5.

Jan 19, 2018

Ancillary Mercy (Imperial Radch #3) – Ann Leckie

Rating: 4 out of 5.
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Jan 06, 2018

Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption – Laura Hillenbrand

Rating: 4 out of 5.
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Jan 2018

Ancillary Sword (Imperial Radch, #2) – Ann Leckie

Rating: 4 out of 5.
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Dec 21, 2017

Deep Nutrition: Why Your Genes Need Traditional Food – Catherine Shanahan

Rating: 4 out of 5.
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Dec 10, 2017

East of Eden – John Steinbeck

Rating: 5 out of 5.
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Nov 22, 2017

Designing Data-Intensive Applications: The Big Ideas Behind Reliable, Scalable, and Maintainable Systems – Martin Kleppmann

Rating: 4 out of 5.
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Nov 07, 2017

Death’s End (Remembrance of Earth’s Past, #3) – Cixin Liu

Rating: 5 out of 5.
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Oct 26, 2017

Reading with Patrick: A Teacher, a Student, and a Life-Changing Friendship – Michelle Kuo

Rating: 4 out of 5.
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Oct 12, 2017

The Dark Forest (Remembrance of Earth’s Past, #2) – Cixin Liu

Rating: 5 out of 5.
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Oct 08, 2017

Don’t Sleep, There Are Snakes: Life and Language in the Amazonian Jungle – Daniel L. Everett

Rating: 3 out of 5.
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Sep 27, 2017

The Three-Body Problem (Remembrance of Earth’s Past, #1) – Cixin Liu

Rating: 5 out of 5.
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Sep 18, 2017

The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail-but Some Don’t – Nate Silver

Rating: 3 out of 5.
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Sep 11, 2017

The Godfather – Mario Puzo

Rating: 4 out of 5.
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Aug 31, 2017

The Gods Themselves – Isaac Asimov

Rating: 4 out of 5.
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Aug 23, 2017

The Gene: An Intimate History – Siddhartha Mukherjee

Rating: 5 out of 5.
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Aug 17, 2017

Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen

Rating: 4 out of 5.

Jul 24, 2017

Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis – J.D. Vance

Rating: 3 out of 5.
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Jul 14, 2017

The Collapsing Empire (The Interdependency, #1) – John Scalzi

Rating: 3 out of 5.

Jul 09, 2017

Forensics: What Bugs, Burns, Prints, DNA and More Tell Us About Crime – Val McDermid

Rating: 2 out of 5.

Jul 09, 2017

Slaughterhouse-Five – Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

Rating: 3 out of 5.
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Jul 04, 2017

Cat’s Cradle – Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

Rating: 4 out of 5.
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Jun 26, 2017

Homo Deus: A History of Tomorrow – Yuval Noah Harari

Rating: 5 out of 5.
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Jun 22, 2017

The Robots of Dawn (Robot, #3) – Isaac Asimov

Rating: 4 out of 5.
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Jun 13, 2017

Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania – Erik Larson

Rating: 3 out of 5.

Jun 09, 2017

The Naked Sun (Robot, #2) – Isaac Asimov

Rating: 4 out of 5.
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Jun 04, 2017

Open – Andre Agassi

Rating: 4 out of 5.
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Jun 2017

Worlds Enough & Time – Dan Simmons

Rating: 4 out of 5.
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May 28, 2017

Shoe Dog – Phil Knight

Rating: 5 out of 5.
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May 19, 2017

The Caves of Steel (Robot, #1) – Isaac Asimov

Rating: 4 out of 5.
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May 12, 2017

Norse Mythology – Neil Gaiman

Rating: 4 out of 5.
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May 10, 2017

Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind – Yuval Noah Harari

Rating: 5 out of 5.
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Apr 30, 2017

Ancillary Justice (Imperial Radch #1) – Ann Leckie

Rating: 3 out of 5.
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Apr 20, 2017

Last Night a DJ Saved My Life: The History of the Disc Jockey – Bill Brewster

Rating: 2 out of 5.
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Mar 13, 2017

The Rise of Endymion (Hyperion Cantos, #4) – Dan Simmons

Rating: 3 out of 5.
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Feb 19, 2017

Salt Sugar Fat: How the Food Giants Hooked Us – Michael Moss

Rating: 4 out of 5.
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Feb 08, 2017

Batman, Volume 1: The Court of Owls – Scott Snyder

Rating: 4 out of 5.
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Feb 08, 2017

Endymion (Hyperion Cantos, #3) – Dan Simmons

Rating: 3 out of 5.
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Jan 31, 2017

The Copernicus Complex: Our Cosmic Significance in a Universe of Planets and Probabilities – Caleb Scharf

Rating: 4 out of 5.
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Jan 25, 2017

Bigger Leaner Stronger: The Simple Science of Building the Ultimate Male Body – Michael Matthews

Rating: 4 out of 5.
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Jan 21, 2017

The Fall of Hyperion (Hyperion Cantos, #2) – Dan Simmons

Rating: 5 out of 5.
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Jan 10, 2017

The Untethered Soul: The Journey Beyond Yourself – Michael A. Singer

Rating: 2 out of 5.
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Jan 05, 2017

Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future – Ashlee Vance

Rating: 3 out of 5.
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Jan 02, 2017

Hyperion (Hyperion Cantos, #1) – Dan Simmons

Rating: 5 out of 5.
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Dec 15, 2016

The Rum Diary – Hunter S. Thompson

Rating: 2 out of 5.
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Dec 07, 2016

Hell’s Angels – Hunter S. Thompson

Rating: 4 out of 5.
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Oct 20, 2016

Foundation and Earth (Foundation, #5) – Isaac Asimov

Rating: 4 out of 5.
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Oct 08, 2016

Foundation’s Edge (Foundation, #4) – Isaac Asimov

Rating: 5 out of 5.
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Sep 26, 2016

Second Foundation (Foundation, #3) – Isaac Asimov

Rating: 4 out of 5.
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Aug 22, 2016

Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen – Christopher McDougall

Rating: 5 out of 5.
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Jun 27, 2016

Snow Crash – Neal Stephenson

Rating: 4 out of 5.
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Jun 08, 2016

The Secret Race: Inside the Hidden World of the Tour de France – Tyler Hamilton

Rating: 4 out of 5.
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May 14, 2016

Foundation and Empire (Foundation, #2) – Isaac Asimov

Rating: 4 out of 5.
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May 11, 2016

Exponential Organizations: Why new organizations are ten times better, faster, and cheaper than yours (and what to do about it) – Salim Ismail

Rating: 2 out of 5.
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May 05, 2016

Seveneves – Neal Stephenson

Rating: 4 out of 5.
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Mar 26, 2016

1776 – David McCullough

Rating: 3 out of 5.
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Feb 02, 2016

Dune Messiah (Dune Chronicles, #2) – Frank Herbert

Rating: 3 out of 5.
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Jan 09, 2016

Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products – Nir Eyal

Rating: 3 out of 5.
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Jan 02, 2016

Foundation (Foundation, #1) – Isaac Asimov

Rating: 5 out of 5.
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Dec 28, 2015

Discover Your True North – Bill George

Rating: 5 out of 5.
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Dec 18, 2015

Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail ’72 – Hunter S. Thompson

Rating: 5 out of 5.
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Dec 05, 2015

American Gods (American Gods, #1) – Neil Gaiman

Rating: 4 out of 5.
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Nov 04, 2015

Willpower: Rediscovering the Greatest Human Strength – Roy F. Baumeister

Rating: 3 out of 5.
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Oct 14, 2015

Dune (Dune Chronicles, #1) – Frank Herbert

Rating: 5 out of 5.
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Sep 25, 2015

Practical Programming for Strength Training – Mark Rippetoe

Rating: 4 out of 5.
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Sep 16, 2015

The Design of Everyday Things – Donald A. Norman

Rating: 2 out of 5.
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Sep 09, 2015

The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics – Daniel James Brown

Rating: 2 out of 5.
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Sep 07, 2015

The Cuckoo’s Egg: Tracking a Spy Through the Maze of Computer Espionage – Clifford Stoll

Rating: 4 out of 5.
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Aug 31, 2015

The Billion Dollar Spy: A True Story of Cold War Espionage and Betrayal – David E. Hoffman

Rating: 4 out of 5.
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Aug 06, 2015

The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business – Charles Duhigg

Rating: 4 out of 5.
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Aug 04, 2015

The Almost Nearly Perfect People: Behind the Myth of the Scandinavian Utopia – Michael Booth

Rating: 5 out of 5.
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Aug 03, 2015

Stuff Matters: Exploring the Marvelous Materials That Shape Our Man-Made World – Mark Miodownik

Rating: 4 out of 5.
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Aug 02, 2015

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas – Hunter S. Thompson

Rating: 5 out of 5.
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Jun 29, 2015

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