Books I’ve read, complete since 2016 (and whatever I could remember of 2015). If I read it more than once, it appears more than once. I’m not sure why I decided to post this publicly.
2015
- A Clockwork Orange – Anthony Burgress
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The Art of Thinking Clearly
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Armidillo
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A Rough Guide to the Future – Christopher Lovelock
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Fundamentals of Ethics
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The Four Hour Work Week – Tim Ferriss
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The Four Hour Body – Tim Ferriss
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Fluent Forever – Gabriel Wyner
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The Most Good You Can Do – Peter Singer
2016
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The Selfish Gene – Richard Dawkins
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Thinking Fast and Slow – Daniel Kahneman
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Predictably Irrational – Dan Ariely
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The Obstacle is the Way – Ryan Holiday
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Ego is the Enemy – Ryan Holiday
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Sapiens – Yuval Noah Harari
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The black Swan – Nicholas Taleb
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The Art of Learning – Joshua Waitzkin
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The Four Hour Chef – Tim Ferriss
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Vagabonding – Rolf Potts
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Tribes – Seth Godin
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The Purple Cow – Seth Godin
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#AskGaryVee – Gary Vaynerchuck
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The Graveyard Book – Neil Gaiman
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Of Mice and Men – John Steinbeck
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The Twits – Roald Darhl
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The dispatcher – John Scalzi
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The Effective Altruism Handbook – Various
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Zero to one – Peter Thiel
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Gratitude -Oliver Sacks
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Deep Work – Cal Newport
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Outliers – Malcolm Gladwell
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Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality (1) – Eleizer Yudkowsky
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HJPEV and the Professor’s Games (2) – Eleizer Yudkowsky
2017
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HJPEV and the Shadows of Death (3) – Eliezer Yudkowsky
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HJPEV and the Phoenix’s Call (4) – Eliezer Yudkowsky
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HJPEV and the Last Enemy (5) – Eliezer Yudkowsky
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HJPEV and the Philosopher’s Stone (6) – Eliezer Yudkowsky
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David and Goliath – Malcolm Gladwell
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Surely You’re Joking, Mr. Feynman! – Richard Feynman
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So Good They Can’t Ignore You – Cal Newport
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Rationality from AI to Zombies Book I: Map and Territory – Eliezer Yudkowsky
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Do Human Kinds Best Days Lie Ahead – Matt Ridley, Malcolm Gladwell, Steven Pinker & Alain de Botton
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Extreme Ownership: How U.S. Navy SEALs Lead and Win – Leif Babin & Jocko Willink
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The Art of Learning – Josh Watzkin
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The First 20 Hours – Josh Kaufman
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The Lean Startup – Eric Ries
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Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind – Yuval Noah Harari
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Rework – David Heinemeier Hansson & Jason Fried
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Drive – Daniel Pink
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Anything You Want – Derek Sivers
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The Course of Love – Alain DeBotton
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Vagabonding – Rolf Potts
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A Mind For Numbers: How to Excel at Math and Science (Even If You Flunked Algebra) by Barbara Oakley
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The Personal MBA by Josh Kaufman
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Mastery by Robert Green
2018
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On Writing Well – William Zinsser
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The Art of Learning – Josh Waitzkin
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Becoming a Straight A Student – Cal Newport
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How to Win at College – Cal Newport
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7 Must Know Strategies to Learn Anything Faster – Scott Young
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Tools of Titans – Tim Ferriss
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Other Minds: The Octopus and the Evolution of Intelligent Life – Peter Godfrey-Smith
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A Slim Guide to Semantics – Paul Elborne
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Consciousness: The Science of Subjectivity – Antti Revonsuo
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Artemis Fowl – Eoin Colfer
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Artemis Fowl: The Arctic Insident – Eoin Colfer
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Mind: a Brief Introduction – John R Searle
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The Making of a Philosopher – Colin McGuinn
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The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy – Douglas Adams (Movie edition)
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Conspiracy – Ryan Holiday
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Strategy: an Introduction to Game Theory – Joel Watson
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A very short introduction to Global Economic History – Robert C. Allen
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Herland – Charlotte Perkins Gilman
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Poetry of the Universe: a Mathematical Exploration of the Cosmos – Robert Osserman
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The Art of Learning – Josh Waitzkin
2019
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The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy – Douglas Adams
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The Restaurant at the End of the Universe – Douglas Adams
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Life, the Universe and Everything – Douglas Adams
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So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish – Douglas Adams
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Surely You’re Joking, Mr. Feynman! – Richard Feynman
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An Introduction to Decision Theory – Martin Peterson
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The Art of Learning – Joshua Waitzkin
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Radical Markets – Eric Posner and Glen Weyl
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Normative Uncertainty – William MacAskill
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Wittgenstein – A.C. Grayling (Past Masters Series)
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The Time Machine – H. G. Wells
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Where should we begin – Esther Perel
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Stubborn Attachments – Tyler Cowen
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Siddhartha – Herman Hessie
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Norse Mythology – Neil Gaiman
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Normal People – Sally Rooney
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Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch – Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett
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On What Matters (Part 1 of Volume 1) – Derek Parfit
2020
- Homo Deus: Breve historia del mañana – Yuval Noah Harari
- Stardust – Neil Gaiman
- Neverwhere – Neil Gaiman
Last updated 05/03/2019
2 responses to “What I’ve Been Reading”
Great list Riley!
What are you top recommendations?
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I should really update my old list soon https://rileyharris.blog/2017/01/18/first-blog-post/
But it’s so hard, there are so many good ones!
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