This Is My Virtual Bookshelf, Just The Spines
You should be here to look at something related to a book. Do you like B00kz? Go away if you don’t and don’t ever talk to me I won’t listen. There should be a list of books below these hostile words. See below. Scroll down. Have fun. Or don’t. I’m not your life coach.
SCREAMING DISCLAIMER: This is not a list of books that I think everyone should read. I don’t know your life. Maybe you should read stuff I don’t know anything about. That’s not my problem. If a book is on this list, it means I think it’s good for something. If it’s not on the list, I either forgot, haven’t read it, or it didn’t MOVE me. Nothing personal. (Or, maybe everything personal…)
How to Think Clearly
- The Art of Reasoning: An Introduction to Logic and Critical Thinking by David Kelley
- The Problems of Philosophy by Bertrand Russell
- Thinking Things Through: An Introduction to Philosophical Issues and Achievements by Clark Glymour
- Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman
- Epistemology and the Psychology of Human Judgment by Michael Bishop and J.D. Trout
- Causality: Models, Reasoning, and Inference by Judea Pearl
- Stumbling on Happiness by Daniel Gilbert
- Burn Math Class and Reinvent Mathematics for Yourself by Jason Wilkes
- Understanding Scientific Reasoning by Giere, Bickle, and Mauldin
How to Live and What to Live For
- The Power of Meaning: Finding Fulfillment in a World Obsessed with Happiness by Emily Esfahani Smith
- Stealing Fire: How Silicon Valley, the Navy SEALs, and Maverick Scientists Are Revolutionizing the Way We Live and Work by Steven Kotler and Jamie Wheal
- How to Live: Or a Life of Montaigne in One Question and Twenty Attempts at an Answer by Sarah Bakewell
- How to Be a Stoic by Massimo Pigluicci
- Extreme Ownership by Jocko Willink and Leif Babin
- A Theory of Justice by John Rawls
- Anarchy, State, and Utopia by Robert Nozick
- Stillness is the Key by Ryan Holiday
Behavioral Self-Modification
- Tiny Habits by BJ Fogg
- Ultralearning by Scott Young
On Climate
- The Uninhabitable Earth by David Wallace-Wells
- Falter: Has the Human Game Begun to Play Itself Out? by Bill McKibben
- The Upside of Down: Catastrophe, Creativity, and the Renewal of Civilization by Thomas Homer-Dixon
- The Planet Remade: How Geoengineering Could Change the World by Oliver Morton
On Fitness and Nutrition
- The Longevity Diet by Valter Longo
- The Practice of Natural Movement: Reclaim Power, Health, and Freedom by Erwan Le Corre
- Boundless: Upgrade Your Brain, Optimize Your Body & Defy Aging by Ben Greenfield
- The World’s Fittest Book by Ross Edgley
- System of Physical Training by Eugen Sandow
- Off the Floor: A Manual For Deadlift Domination by David Dellanave
- The Anti-Estrogenic Diet by Ori Hofmekler
Be a Better Writer
- The Best Seller Code: Anatomy of the Blockbuster Novel by Archer and Jockers
- Daily Rituals: How Artists Work by Mason Currey
- Deep Work: Rules For Focused Success in a Distracted World by Cal Newport
- How to Think Like Leonardo Da Vinci by Michael J. Gelb
Biography & Autobiography
- The Courtier and the Heretic: Leibniz, Spinoza, and the Fate of the Modern World by Matthew Stewart
- Cogito, Ergo, Sum: The Life of René Descartes by Richard Watson
- Pythagoras: His Lives and the Legacy of a Rational Universe by Kitty Ferguson
- The Newton Papers: The Strange and True Odyssey of Isaac Newton’s Manuscripts by Sarah Dry
- Descartes’s Secret Notebook: A True Tale of Mathematics, Mysticism, and the Quest to Understand the Universe by Amir Aczel
- The Man Who Loved Only Numbers: The Story of Paul Erdos and the Search for Mathematical Truth by Paul Hoffman
- American Kingpin: The Epic Hunt for the Criminal Mastermind Behind the Silk Road by Nick Bilton
- Breaking and Entering: The Extraordinary Story of a Hacker Called “Alien” by Jeremy N. Smith
- Kingpin: The True Story of Max Butler, the Master Hacker Who Ran a Billion Dollar Cyber Crime Network by Kevin Poulsen
- The Autobiography of Malcolm X by Alex Haley and Malcolm X
- My Brain Is Open: The Mathematical Journeys of Paul Erdos by Bruce Schechte
- Descartes’s Bones: A Skeletal History of the Conflict Between Faith and Reason by Russell Shorto
- Exact Thinking In Demented Times: The Vienna Circle and the Epic Quest for the Foundations of Science by Karl Sigmund
- Leonardo Da Vinci by Walter Isaacson
- A Mind at Play by Jimmy Soni
- The Essays by Michel de Montaigne
- Kepler by Max Caspar
- Descartes: An Intellectual Biography by Stephen Gaukroger
- Parallel Lives by Plutarch
- Ludwig Wittgenstein: The Duty of Genius by Ray Monk
- Leibniz: A Biography by EJ Aiton
- Isaac Newton: The Last Sorcerer by Michael White
- Confessions of an Economic Hit Man by John Perkins
Novels
- Little, Big by John Crowley
- Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
- One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
- The General in His Labyrinth by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
- The Razor’s Edge by William Somerset Maugham
- In the Skin of a Lion by Michael Ondaatje
- The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje
- The Irrationalist: The Tragic Murder of René Descartes by Andrew Pessin
- The Overstory by Richard Powers
- The Words In My Hand by Guinevere Glasfurd
- Gnomon by Nick Harkaway
- Ask the Dust by John Fante
- Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
- Moses, Man of the Mountain by Zora Neale Hurston
- The Baroque Cycle by Neal Stephenson
- Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson
- The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler
- Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes
- Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S. Thompson
- House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski
- Purity by Jonathan Franzen
- All the Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthy
- 1Q84 by Haruki Murakami
- The World As I Found It by Bruce Duffy
- Sputnik Sweetheart by Haruki Murakami
- Radio Free Albemuth by Philip K. Dick
- The Golden Mean by Annabel Lyon
- Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
- The Bestiary by Nicholas Christopher
History and Philosophy of Science
- Gods and Robots: Myths, Machines, and Ancient Dreams of Technology by Adrienne Mayor
- Revolution in Science by I. Bernard Cohen
- The Advancement of Science by Philip Kitcher
- Discovering Complexity: Decomposition and Localization as Strategies in Scientific Research by Bechtel and Richardson
- Origins of Neuroscience: A History of Explorations into Brain Function by Stanley Finger
- Minds Behind the Brain: A History of the Pioneers and Their Discoveries by Stanley Finger
- Turing’s Cathedral by George Dyson
- Gödel, Escher, Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid by Douglas Hofstadter
- The Lady Tasting Tea: How Statistics Revolutionized Science in the Twentieth Century by David Salsburg
- The Structure of Scientific Revolutions by Thomas Kuhn
- Artificial Intelligence: A Philosophical Introduction by Copeland
- Connectionism and the Mind: Parallel Processing, Dynamics, and Evolution in Networks by Bechtel and Abrahamsen
- Physics, the Human Adventure: From Copernicus to Einstein and Beyond by Brush and Holton
- The Sleepwalkers by Arthur Koestler
History of Cities
- Prague in Black and Gold by Peter Demetz
- Amsterdam by Russell Shorto
History and War
- The Thirty Years War by Veronica Wedgwood
- Humanity: A Moral History of the 20th Century by Jonathan Glover
History of the Occult
- The Art of Memory by Frances Yates
- The Rosicrucian Enlightenment by Frances Yates
- Rose Cross Over the Baltic: The Spread of Rosicrucianism in Northern Europe by Susanna Åkerman
- John Dee: The World of the Elizabethan Magus by Peter J. French