A list of books I read. I strongly recommend all books with a star.
My goal is not primarily to read X books per year, but rather to read well. Although,
reading more would be appreciated.
3 books read in 2024.
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Babylon's Ashes (The Expanse 6)
| James S.A. Correy · Sci-Fi
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Nemesis Games (The Expanse 5)
| James S.A. Correy · Sci-Fi
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Eat the Buddha
| Barbara Demick · History
10 books read in 2023.
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Cibola Burn (The Expanse 4)
| James S.A. Correy · Sci-Fi
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Abaddon's Gate (The Expanse 3)
| James S.A. Correy · Sci-Fi
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Caliban's War (The Expanse 2)
| James S.A. Correy · Sci-Fi
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Leviathan Wakes (The Expanse 1)
| James S.A. Correy · Sci-Fi
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Chip War: The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology
| Chris Miller · Science/Geopolitics/Business
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Lifespan: Why We Age
| David Sinclair · Science
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Other Minds: The Octopus & the Evolution of Intelligent Life
| Peter Godfrey-Smith · Science
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The Story of your Life and Others
| Ted Chiang · Scifi/Fantasy
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Cat's Craddle
| Kurt Vonnegut · Comedy
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Animal Farm
| George Orwell · Fable
13 books read in 2022.
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A Memory Called Empire
| Arkady Martine · Sci-Fi
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Man Search for Meaning
| Viktor Frankle · Bio/Philo
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What We Owe to the Future
| William McAskill · EA
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Harry Potter and the methods of rationality
| Eliezer Yudkowsky · Fantasy
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The death of Ivan Ilyich
| Leo Tolstoy · Fiction
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Money Honnie
| Bertrand Badre · Economy
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Secondhand Time: The Last of the Soviets
| Svetlana Alexievich · Histoy
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klara and the sun
| Kazuo Ishiguro · Sci-Fi
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Good Economics for Hard Times: Better Answers to Our Biggest Problems
| Abhijit Banerjee and Esther Duflo · Economy
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La Plus Secrète Mémoire des Hommes
| Mohamed Mbougar Sarr · fiction
Review
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Moonwalking with Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything
| Joshua Foer · Non-fiction
Review
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L'Amour sous algorithme
| Judith Duportail · Reporting
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This Is How You Lose the Time War
| Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone · Sci-Fi
Review
18 books read in 2021.
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Les vertus de l'échec
| Charles Pépin · Self-improvement
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Agent Running in the Field
| John le Carré · Spy
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Le voyant d'Etampes
| Abel Quentin · Fiction
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Dopamine: The Molecule of More
| Daniel Lieberman and Michael E. Long · Pop-Science
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The man who solved the market
| Gregory Zuckerman · Biography
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How to avoid a climate disaster
| Bill Gates · Ecology
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Le Comte de Monte-Cristo
| Alexandre Dumas · Adventure
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The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom
| Don Miguel Ruiz · Self-improvement
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Morales Provisoires
| Raphaël Enthoven · Philosophy?
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Debt: The First 5000 Years
| David Graeber · Anthropology / Economy
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Flowers for Algernon
| Daniel Keyes · Sci-Fi
Review
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The Royal Game
| Stefan Zweig · Fiction
Review
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The Kiter Runner
| Khaled Hosseini · Historical Fiction
Review
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Chaos Monkeys
| Antonio García Martínez · Biography
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Freakonomics
| Stephen J. Dubner and Steven Levitt · Business
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L'anomalie
| Hervé le Tellier · Sci-Fi
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How to Win Friends and Influence People
| Dale Carnegie · Self-improvement
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Enlightenment Now
| Steven Pinker · Non-Fiction
14 books read in 2020.
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Too Like the Lightning
| Ada Palmer · Sci-Fi
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Leonardo da Vinci
| Walter Isaacson · Biography
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Une forme de guerre
| Iain M. Banks · Sci-Fi
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Homo Deus
| Yuval Noah Harari · History
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The Ride of a Lifetime
| Robert Iger · Business
Review
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Assassin's Apprentice
| Robin Hobb · Fantasy
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Simple & Direct
| Jacques Barzun · Writing
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Mr Man and Son
| Lao She · Satirical Novel
Review
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PhD Grind
| Philip J. Guo · Biography
Review
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The Player of Games
| Iain M. Banks · Sci-Fi
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Where Good Ideas Come From
| Steven Johnson · Self-Improvement
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Death's End
| Cixin Liu · Sci-Fi
Review
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A very short introduction: Food
| John Krebs · Technical
Review
Anki
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Ball Lightning
| Cixin Liu · Sci-Fi
Review
19 books read in 2019.
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Le périple de Baldassare
| Amin Maalouf · Historical Fiction
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The Dark Forest
| Liu Cixin · Sci-Fi
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The Book Of Why
| Judeas Pearl · Non-Fiction
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Embassytown
| China Miéville · Sci-Fi
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Superbosses: How Exceptional Leaders Master the Flow of Talent
| Sydney Finkelstein · Business
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History of Iran
| Several · History
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Bejing Coma
| Ma Jian · Fiction
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Zadig ou la destinée
| Voltaire · Fiction
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A very short introduction: Nutrition
| David A. Bender · Technical
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Congo Inc.: Bismarck's Testament
| Koli Jean Bofane · Fiction
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China Dream
| Ma Jian · Historical Fiction
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Factfulness
| Hans Rosling · Non-Fiction
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A Brief History of Time
| Stephen Hawking · Non-Fiction
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Never Split the Difference
| Christopher Voss & Tahl Raz · Business
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Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
| Robert M. Pirsig · Philosophy
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The Gene: an intimate history
| Siddhartha Mukherjee · Non-Fiction
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Why We Sleep
| Matthew Walker · Non-Fiction
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Step by Step (Å gå. Ett skritt av gangen)
| Erling Kagge · Lifestyle
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Gagner la guerre
| Jean-Philippe Jaworski · Adventure
15 books read in 2018.
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Aucun souvenir assez solide
| Alain Damasio · Sci-Fi
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Sapiens: a brief history of mankind
| Yuval Noah Harari · History
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The Three-Body Problem
| Liu Cixin · Sci-Fi
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Tous les hommes sont mortels
| Simone de Beauvoir · Fiction
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Dune: The Butlerian Jihad
| Brian Herbert · Sci-Fi
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Zero to One
| Blake Masters & Peter Thiel · Business
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Reunion
| Fred Uhlman · Fiction
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A very short introduction: Linguistic
| Peter Matthews · Technical
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A very short introduction: Neuroscience
| Richard Passingham · Technical
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The signal and the noise
| Nate Silver · Self-Improvement
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Thinking, Fast and Slow
| Daniel Kahneman · Self-Improvement
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The Dharma Bums
| Jack Kerouac · Beat Generation
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The Principle
| Jérôme Ferrari · Biography / Philosophy
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Siddartha
| Hermann Hesse · Philosophy
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Surely Mr Feyman you’re joking!
| Richard Feynman · Biography