Reading List 2017
A list of books I read in 2017. Chronological order.
Burning Chrome
William Gibson
Babylon's Ashes (The Expanse, Book 6)
James S.A. Corey
Persepolis Rising (The Expanse, Book 7)
James S.A. Corey
Sync: How Order Emerges from Chaos in the Universe, Nature, and Daily Life
Steven Strogatz
Why Information Grows: The Evolution of Order, from Atoms to Economies
Cesar Hidalgo
The Daily Stoic: 366 Meditations on Wisdom, Perseverance, and the Art of Living
Ryan Holiday
Time Travel: A History
James Gleick
The Like Switch: An Ex-FBI Agent's Guide to Influencing, Attracting, and Winning People Over
The Most Human Human: What Talking with Computers Teaches Us About What It Means to Be Alive
From Bacteria to Bach and Back: The Evolution of Minds
Daniel Dennett
Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow
Yuval Noah Harari
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
Yuval Noah Harari
Attached: The New Science of Adult Attachment
Amir Levine, Rachel S. F. Heller
The Company: A Short History of a Revolutionary Idea
John Micklethwait, Adrian Wooldridge
How Emotions Are Made
Lisa Feldman Barrett
The Master Algorithm: How the Quest for the Ultimate Learning Machine Will Remake Our World
Pedro Domingos
New York 2140
Kim Stanley Robinson
Rich Dad Poor Dad: What the Rich Teach Their Kids About Money That the Poor and Middle Class Do Not!
Robert T. Kiyosaki
Hello, My Name Is Awesome: How to Create Brand Names That Stick
Alexandra Watkins
The Secrets of Story: Innovative Tools for Perfecting Your Fiction and Captivating Readers
Matt Bird
Scale: The Universal Laws of Growth, Innovation, Sustainability, and the Pace of Life, in Organisms, Cities, Economies, and Companies
Geoffrey West
The Path: What Chinese Philosophers Can Teach Us About the Good Life
Michael Puett, Christine Gross-Loh
1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus
Charles C. Mann
Mating in Captivity: Reconciling the Erotic & the Domestic
Esther Perel
Other Minds: The Octopus, the Sea, and the Deep Origins of Consciousness
Peter Godfrey-Smith
The Triumph of Seeds: How Grains, Nuts, Kernels, Pulses & Pips Conquered the Plant Kingdom and Shaped Human History
Thor Hanson
Intuition Pumps and Other Tools for Thinking
Daniel Dennett
A Mind at Play: How Claude Shannon Invented the Information Age
Rob Goodman, Jimmy Soni
The Vital Question: Energy, Evolution, and the Origins of Complex Life
Nick Lane
Creativity: Flow and the Psychology of Discovery and Invention
Mikhaly Cziksentmikhaly
How to Read a Book: The Classic Guide to Intelligent Reading
Mortimer J. Adler, Charles Van Doren