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Reading List

1991

  • Jose Silva & Philip Miele - The Silva Mind Control Methodnotes

1999

  • Bruce Bagemihl - Biological Exuberance: Animal Homosexuality and Natural Diversitynotes
  • Daniel J. Siegel - The Developing Mindnotes
  • Neal Stephenson - Cryptonomiconnotes

2000

  • Charles Petzold - Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Softwarenotes
  • Ray Kurzweil - The Age of Spiritual Machines: When Computers Exceed Human Intelligencenotes
  • Tracy Kidder - The Soul of a New Machinenotes

2001

  • Nassim Nicholas Taleb - Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in the Markets and in Lifenotes

2003

  • Joseph Menn - All the Rave: The Rise and Fall of Shawn Fanning's Napsternotes
  • Paulo Coelho - Eleven Minutes: A Novelnotes

2006

  • Michio Kaku - Parallel Worlds: A Journey Through Creation, Higher Dimensions, and the Future of the Cosmosnotes
  • Steven D. Levitt, Stephen J. Dubner - Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everythingnotes

2008

  • Michio Kaku - Physics of the Impossible: A Scientific Exploration into the World of Phasers, Force Fields, Teleportation, and Time Travelnotes

2009

  • Kensuke Watanabe - Problem Solving 101: A Simple Book for Smart Peoplenotes

2010

  • Eric S. Raymond - The Cathedral And The Bazaarnotes
  • Joseph Menn - Fatal System Errornotes
  • Michael Lewis - The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machinenotes
  • Nancy Lublin - Zilch: The Power of Zero in Businessnotes
  • Steven Levy - Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolutionnotes

2011

  • Daniel Kahneman - Thinking, Fast And Slownotes
  • David Eagleman - Incognito: The Secret Lives of the Brainnotes
  • Eric Ries - The Lean Startup: How Today's Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businessesnotes
  • Michio Kaku - Physics of the Future: How Science Will Shape Human Destiny and Our Daily Lives by the Year 2100notes
  • Noam Chomsky - How the World Worksnotes

2012

  • Brian Clegg - The Universe Inside You: The Extreme Science of the Human Body From Quantum Theory to the Mysteries of the Brainnotes
  • David R. Hawkins - Letting Go: The Pathway of Surrendernotes
  • Mark Forsyth - The Etymologicon: A Circular Stroll Through the Hidden Connections of the English Languagenotes
  • Thich Nhat Hanh - Fear: Essential Wisdom for Getting Through the Stormnotes

2013

  • Alex F. Osborn - Applied Imagination: Principles and Procedures of Creative Writingnotes
  • Don Norman - The Design of Everyday Thingsnotes
  • Eric Maisel - Why Smart People Hurt: A Guide for the Bright, the Sensitive, and the Creative (Creative Thinking & Positive Thinking Book, Mastering Creative Anxiety)notes

2014

  • Erik Brynjolfsson, Andrew Mcafee, Jeff Cummings - The Second Machine Age: Work, Progress, and Prosperity in a Time of Brilliant Technologiesnotes
  • Gary Antonacci - Dual Momentum Investing: An Innovative Strategy for Higher Returns With Lower Risknotes
  • Steve Krug - Don't Make Me Think, Revisited: A Common Sense Approach to Web Usabilitynotes

2015

  • Ashlee Vance - Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Futurenotes
  • Christophe Galfard - The Universe in Your Hand: A Journey Through Space, Time, and Beyondnotes
  • Edmond Lau - The Effective Engineer: How to Leverage Your Efforts in Software Engineering to Make a Disproportionate and Meaningful Impactnotes
  • Heidi Grant Halvorson - No One Understands You and What to Do About Itnotes
  • Philip Kotler - Confronting Capitalism: Real Solutions for a Troubled Economic Systemnotes
  • Steven D. Levitt, Stephen J. Dubner - When to Rob a Bank: ..And 131 More Warped Suggestions and Well-Intended Rantsnotes

2016

  • Angela Duckworth - Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverancenotes
  • Antonio Garcia-Martinez - Chaos Monkeys: Obscene Fortune and Random Failure in Silicon Valleynotes
  • Brian Christian, Tom Griffiths - Algorithms to Live By: The Computer Science of Human Decisionsnotes
  • Charles Duhigg - Smarter Faster Better: The Secrets of Being Productive in Life and Businessnotes
  • Richard A. Muller - Now: The Physics of Timenotes

2017

  • Dean Buonomano - Your Brain Is a Time Machine: The Neuroscience and Physics of Timenotes
  • Helen Czerski - Storm in a Teacup: The Physics of Everyday Lifenotes
  • Max Tegmark - Life 3.0: Being Human in the Age of Artificial Intelligencenotes
  • Peter Shankman - Faster Than Normal: Turbocharge Your Focus, Productivity, and Success With the Secrets of the ADHD Brainnotes

2018

  • Emily Prokop - The Story Behind: The Extraordinary History Behind Ordinary Objectsnotes
  • Heidi Grant - Reinforcements: How to Get People to Help Younotes
  • Peter Stanyer, Stephen Satchell - Guide to Investment Strategynotes
  • Reid Hoffman, Chris Yeh, Bill Gates - Blitzscaling: The Lightning-Fast Path to Building Massively Valuable Companiesnotes
  • Stephen Hawking - Brief Answers to the Big Questionsnotes
  • Tom Goodwin - Digital Darwinism: Survival of the Fittest in the Age of Business Disruptionnotes
  • Yuval Noah Harari - 21 Lessons for the 21st Centurynotes

2019

  • Emily Nagoski, Amelia Nagoski - Burnout: The Secret to Unlocking the Stress Cyclenotes
  • Gregory Zuckerman - The Man Who Solved the Market: How Jim Simons Launched the Quant Revolutionnotes
  • Joseph Menn - Cult of the Dead Cow: How the Original Hacking Supergroup Might Just Save the Worldnotes
  • Julie Zhuo - The Making of a Manager: What to Do When Everyone Looks to Younotes
  • Stuart Russell - Human Compatible: Artificial Intelligence and the Problem of Controlnotes

2020

  • Daniel Susskind - A World Without Work: Technology, Automation and How We Should Respondnotes
  • Darrell Rigby, Sarah Elk, Steve Berez - Doing Agile Right: Transformation Without Chaosnotes
  • Melanie Mitchell - Artificial Intelligence: A Guide for Thinking Humansnotes
  • Zena Hitz - Lost in Thought: The Hidden Pleasures of an Intellectual Lifenotes

2021

  • Adam Grant - Think Again: The Power of Knowing What You Don't Knownotes
  • Andrew H. Knoll - A Brief History of Earth: Four Billion Years in Eight Chaptersnotes
  • Brené Brown - Atlas of the Heart: Mapping Meaningful Connection and the Language of Human Experiencenotes
  • Caroline Garnet McGraw - You Don't Owe Anyone: Free Yourself from the Weight of Expectationsnotes
  • David Graeber, David Wengrow - The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanitynotes
  • Ethan Kross - Chatter: The Voice in Our Head, Why It Matters, and How to Harness Itnotes
  • Henry A. Kissinger, Eric Schmidt, Daniel Huttenlocher - The Age of AI: And Our Human Futurenotes
  • John Green - The Anthropocene Reviewednotes
  • Kai-Fu Lee, Chen Qiufan - AI 2041: Ten Visions for Our Futurenotes
  • Mary Roach - Fuzz: When Nature Breaks the Lawnotes
  • Michael Lewis - The Premonition: A Pandemic Storynotes
  • Michio Kaku - The God Equation: The Quest for a Theory of Everythingnotes
  • Oliver Burkeman - Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortalsnotes
  • Oprah Winfrey, Bruce D. Perry - What Happened to You?: Conversations on Trauma, Resilience, and Healingnotes
  • Patrick Radden Keefe - Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynastynotes
  • Ryan Holiday - Courage Is Calling: Fortune Favors the Bravenotes
  • Sheera Frenkel, Cecilia Kang - An Ugly Truth: Inside Facebook's Battle for Dominationnotes
  • Steven E. Koonin - Unsettled: What Climate Science Tells Us, What It Doesn't, and Why It Mattersnotes
  • Suzanne Simard - Finding the Mother Tree: Discovering the Wisdom of the Forestnotes
  • Walter Isaacson - The Code Breaker: Jennifer Doudna, Gene Editing, and the Future of the Human Racenotes

2022

  • Ajay Agrawal, Joshua Gans. Avi Goldfarb - Power and Prediction: The Disruptive Economics of Artificial Intelligencenotes
  • Amy B. Zegart - Spies, Lies, and Algorithms: The History and Future of American Intelligencenotes
  • Andy Greenberg - Tracers in the Dark: The Global Hunt for the Crime Lords of Cryptocurrencynotes
  • Antonio Padilla - Fantastic Numbers and Where to Find Themnotes
  • Becky Kennedy - Good Inside: A Guide to Becoming the Parent You Want to Benotes
  • Candice Millard - River of the Gods: Genius, Courage, and Betrayal in the Search for the Source of the Nilenotes
  • David Sax - The Future Is Analog: How to Create a More Human Worldnotes
  • Edward Chancellor - The Price of Time: The Real Story of Interestnotes
  • Gabor Maté - The Myth of Normal: Trauma, Illness & Healing in a Toxic Culturenotes
  • Johann Hari - Stolen Focus: Why You Can't Pay Attention--and How to Think Deeply Againnotes
  • Jon Meacham - And There Was Light: Abraham Lincoln and the American Strugglenotes
  • Maggie Haberman - Confidence Man: The Making of Donald Trump and the Breaking of Americanotes
  • Marc J. Seifer - Tesla: Wizard at Warnotes
  • Max Fisher - The Chaos Machine: The Inside Story of How Social Media Rewired Our Minds and Our Worldnotes
  • Michael Cecchi-Azzolina - Your Table Is Ready: Tales of a New York City Maître D'notes
  • Michelle Obama - The Light We Carry: Overcoming in Uncertain Timesnotes
  • Nathan Vardi - For Blood and Money: Billionaires, Biotech, and the Quest for a Blockbuster Drugnotes
  • Neil deGrasse Tyson - Starry Messenger: Cosmic Perspectives on Civilisationnotes
  • Randall Munroe - What If? 2: Additional Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questionsnotes
  • Renee Dudley, Daniel Golden - The Ransomware Hunting Team: A Band of Misfits' Improbable Crusade to Save the World from Cybercrimenotes
  • Siddhartha Mukherjee - The Song of the Cell: An Exploration of Medicine and the New Humannotes
  • Susan Cain - Bittersweet: How Sorrow and Longing Make Us Wholenotes
  • Torie Bosch, Kelly Chudler - "You Are Not Expected to Understand This": How 26 Lines of Code Changed the Worldnotes
  • Yung Pueblo - Lighter: Let Go of the Past, Connect with the Present, and Expand the Futurenotes

2023

  • Alex Prud'homme - Dinner with the President: Food, Politics, and a History of Breaking Bread at the White Housenotes
  • Ashlee Vance - When the Heavens Went on Sale: The Misfits and Geniuses Racing to Put Space Within Reachnotes
  • Bruce Schneier - A Hacker's Mind: How the Powerful Bend Society's Rules, and How to Bend them Backnotes
  • Claire Dederer - Monsters: A Fan's Dilemmanotes
  • Dacher Keltner - Awe: The New Science of Everyday Wonder and How It Can Transform Your Lifenotes
  • David Grann - The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murdernotes
  • Elise Loehnen - On Our Best Behavior: The Seven Deadly Sins and the Price Women Pay to Be Goodnotes
  • Greta Thunberg - The Climate Book: The Facts and the Solutionsnotes
  • Gretchen Rubin - Life in Five Senses: How Exploring the Senses Got Me Out of My Head and Into the Worldnotes
  • Hadley Vlahos - The In-Between: Unforgettable Encounters During Life's Final Momentsnotes
  • James B. Stewart, Rachel Abrams - Unscripted: The Epic Battle for a Media Empire and the Redstone Family Legacynotes
  • Jay Shetty - 8 Rules of Love: How to Find It, Keep It, and Let It Gonotes
  • Jean M. Twenge - Generations: The Real Differences Between Gen Z, Millennials, Gen X, Boomers, and Silents―and What They Mean for America's Futurenotes
  • Jennifer Granneman, Andre Sólo - Sensitive: The Hidden Power of the Highly Sensitive Person in a Loud, Fast, Too-Much Worldnotes
  • Jenny Odell - Saving Time: Discovering a Life Beyond the Clocknotes
  • Jim Popkin - Code Name Blue Wren: The True Story of America's Most Dangerous Female Spy―and the Sister She Betrayednotes
  • Jonathan Rosen - The Best Minds: A Story of Friendship, Madness, and the Tragedy of Good Intentionsnotes
  • Katherine Clarke - Billionaires' Row: Tycoons, High Rollers, and the Epic Race to Build the World's Most Exclusive Skyscrapersnotes
  • Mary Louise Kelly - It. Goes. So. Fast.: The Year of No Do-Oversnotes
  • Matthew Desmond - Poverty, by Americanotes
  • Monica Potts - The Forgotten Girlsnotes
  • Nedra Glover Tawwab - Drama Free: A Guide to Managing Unhealthy Family Relationshipsnotes
  • Peter Attia - Outlive: The Science and Art of Longevitynotes
  • Ricardo Nuila - The People's Hospital: Hope and Peril in American Medicinenotes
  • Rick Rubin - The Creative Act: A Way of Beingnotes
  • Robert Waldinger, Marc Schulz - The Good Life: Lessons from the World's Longest Scientific Study of Happinessnotes
  • Rory Carroll - There Will Be Fire: Margaret Thatcher, the IRA, and Two Minutes That Changed Historynotes
  • Samantha Irby - Quietly Hostile: Essaysnotes
  • Thomas Hertog - On the Origin of Time: Stephen Hawking's Final Theorynotes
  • Timothy Egan - A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan's Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Themnotes
  • Tracy Kidder - Rough Sleepers: Dr. Jim O'Connell's urgent mission to bring healing to homeless peoplenotes
  • Valentine Low - Courtiers: Intrigue, Ambition, and the Power Players Behind the House of Windsornotes
  • Vienna Pharaon - The Origins of You: How Breaking Family Patterns Can Liberate the Way We Live and Lovenotes