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▸Currently reading
Rationalism in Politics and other essays
Michael Oakeshott
Ludwig Wittgenstein: The Duty of Genius
Ray Monk
What We Owe to Each Other
T.M. Scanlon
The Kingdom
Emmanuel Carrère
Otherness and Control in the Age of AGI
Joe Carlsmith
On Liberty
John Stuart Mill
Stories of Your Life and Others
Ted Chiang
The Complete Essays
Michel de Montaigne
Paul: A Biography
N.T. Wright
Koren Talmud Bavli - Berakhot
Adin Even-Israel Steinsaltz
Foundations for Moral Relativism
J. David Velleman
The Beginning of Desire: Reflections on Genesis
Avivah Gottlieb Zornberg
To The Lighthouse
Virginia Woolf
God in Search of Man: A Philosophy of Judaism
Abraham Joshua Heschel
Shaar HaBitachon With Commentary From Classical and Chassidic Sources
Rabbeinu Bachya Ibn Pakudah
On the Origin of Species (Large Print Edition)
Charles Darwin
The Cambridge Companion to German Idealism (Cambridge Companions to Philosophy)
Karl P. Ameriks
How Big Things Get Done: The Surprising Factors That Determine the Fate of Every Project, from Home Renovations to Space Exploration and Everything In Between
Bent Flyvbjerg
Unsong
Scott Alexander
Save the Cat: The Last Book on Screenwriting You'll Ever Need
Blake Snyder
The Foundations of Arithmetic: A Logico-Mathematical Enquiry into the Concept of Number
Gottlob Frege
A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century
Barbara W. Tuchman
Startup Boards: A Field Guide to Building and Leading an Effective Board of Directors
Brad Feld
Skunk Works: A Personal Memoir of My Years at Lockheed
Ben R. Rich
Moby-Dick or, The Whale
Herman Melville
What Computers Still Can't Do: A Critique of Artificial Reason
Hubert L. Dreyfus
Lenin's Tomb: The Last Days of the Soviet Empire
David Remnick
Courage to Act: A Memoir of a Crisis and Its Aftermath
Ben S. Bernanke
Chip War: The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology
Chris Miller
Phenomenology of Spirit
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Hegel's Idea of a Phenomenology of Spirit
Michael N. Forster
Empires of Ideas: Creating the Modern University from Germany to America to China
William C. Kirby
Accessing Kant: A Relaxed Introduction to the Critique of Pure Reason
Jay F. Rosenberg
Something to Do with Paying Attention (McNally Editions)
David Foster Wallace
Nixon Agonistes: The Crisis of the Self-Made Man
Garry Wills
Articulating Reasons: An Introduction to Inferentialism
Robert B. Brandom
The Bhagavad Gita
Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa
The Deep Places: A Memoir of Illness and Discovery
Ross Douthat
Walt Disney
Neal Gabler
From Third World to First: A Statesman’s Powerful Story of Transformation from Poverty to National Leadership
Lee Kuan Yew
Consciousness Explained
Daniel C. Dennett
Genome: The Autobiography of a Species in 23 Chapters
Matt Ridley
The Patient Will See You Now: The Future of Medicine is in Your Hands
Eric J. Topol
From Dawn to Decadence: 500 Years of Western Cultural Life, 1500 to the Present
Jacques Barzun
The Closing of the American Mind
Allan Bloom
Debt: The First 5,000 Years
David Graeber
The Autobiography of Calvin Coolidge
Calvin Coolidge
Ages of Discord: A Structural-Demographic Analysis of American History
Peter Turchin
The Nature of Rationality
Robert Nozick
The Vintage Guide to Classical Music
Jan Swafford
My Struggle: Book 1
Karl Ove Knausgård
Theodore Rex (Theodore Roosevelt, #2)
Edmund Morris
The Blue and Brown Books
Ludwig Wittgenstein
The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York
Robert A. Caro
The Dream Machine: J.C.R. Licklider and the Revolution That Made Computing Personal
M. Mitchell Waldrop
Essential Cell Biology
Bruce Alberts
Word and Object
Willard Van Orman Quine
The Plague
Albert Camus
Karl Marx's Theory of History
G.A. Cohen
The Federal Reserve and the Financial Crisis: College Lectures by Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke - Roaring 20s, Great Depression, 1929 Stock Market Crash, 2008 Panic
Progressive Management
QED: The Strange Theory of Light and Matter
Richard P. Feynman
The Brothers Karamozov
Fyodor Dostoevsky
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King of Kings: The Iranian Revolution: A Story of Hubris, Delusion and Catastrophic Miscalculation
Scott Anderson
Contingency, Irony, and Solidarity
Richard Rorty
An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals
David Hume
1948: The First Arab-Israeli War
Benny Morris
Utilitarianism
John Stuart Mill
The Sources of Normativity
Christine M. Korsgaard
★★★★★
The Possibility of Altruism
Thomas Nagel
Faith Shattered and Restored: Judaism in the Postmodern Age (Maggid Modern Classics)
Rabbi Shagar
Agency and the Foundations of Ethics: Nietzschean Constitutivism
Paul Katsafanas
The Wide Wide Sea: Imperial Ambition, First Contact and the Fateful Final Voyage of Captain James Cook
Hampton Sides
The Waste Land and Other Poems
T.S. Eliot
There Is No Antimemetics Division
qntm
Genentech: The Beginnings of Biotech (Synthesis)
Sally Smith Hughes
Blood and Thunder: An Epic of the American West
Hampton Sides
★★★★☆
Jabotinsky: A Life (Jewish Lives)
Hillel Halkin
Stoner
John Williams
Xunzi: The Complete Text
Xun Kuang
★★★★☆
The Technological Republic: Hard Power, Soft Belief, and the Future of the West
Alexander C. Karp
Quantum Computing for Everyone
Chris Bernhardt
The Money Kings: The Epic Story of the Jewish Immigrants Who Transformed Wall Street and Shaped Modern America
Daniel Schulman
Frankenstein
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
★★★★☆
Anna Karenina
Leo Tolstoy
★★★★★
Days of Deliverance: Essays on Purim and Hanukkah
Joseph B. Soloveitchik
The World for Sale: Money, Power and the Traders Who Barter the Earth’s Resources
Javier Blas
★★★★☆
Pattern Breakers: Why Some Start-Ups Change the Future
Mike Maples Jr.
Seven Surrenders (Terra Ignota, #2)
Ada Palmer
★★★★☆
Too Like the Lightning (Terra Ignota, #1)
Ada Palmer
★★★★☆
Boom: Bubbles and the End of Stagnation
Byrne Hobart
The Mormon Experience: A History of the Latter-day Saints
Leonard J. Arrington
★★★★☆
Kissinger: Vol 1: The Idealist, 1923-1968
Niall Ferguson
★★★★★
Kingdom of the Wicked Book Two: Order
Helen Dale
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
The Snakehead: An Epic Tale of the Chinatown Underworld and the American Dream
Patrick Radden Keefe
Deep Utopia: Life and Meaning in a Solved World
Nick Bostrom
The Buried Giant
Kazuo Ishiguro
★★★★☆
Kingdom of the Wicked Book One: Rules
Helen Dale
The War of Art
Steven Pressfield
The Grid: The Fraying Wires Between Americans and Our Energy Future
Gretchen Bakke
Modernizing America's Electricity Infrastructure (Mit Press)
Mason Willrich
Creative Capital
Spencer E. Ante
Romney: A Reckoning
McKay Coppins
The Power Law: Venture Capital and the Making of the New Future
Sebastian Mallaby
Le Mage du Kremlin
Giuliano da Empoli
★★★★☆
The Making of the Atomic Bomb
Richard Rhodes
★★★★★
The World After Capital
Albert Wenger
★★★★★
The Winter of Our Discontent
John Steinbeck
★★★★☆
What's Our Problem?: A Self-Help Book for Societies
Tim Urban
A Gentleman in Moscow
Amor Towles
★★★★☆
The Gospels: A New Translation
Sarah Ruden
Napoleon: A Life
Andrew Roberts
★★★★★
Rap Capital: An Atlanta Story
Joe Coscarelli
The Matchmaker's Gift
Lynda Cohen Loigman
★★★★★
The Orestia
Aeschylus
★★★★★
The Money Illusion: Market Monetarism, the Great Recession, and the Future of Monetary Policy
Scott Sumner
★★★★☆
Logicomix: An Epic Search for Truth
Apostolos Doxiadis
★★★★☆
Leadership : Six Studies in World Strategy
Henry Kissinger
The Things They Carried
Tim O'Brien
★★★★☆
Anéantir
Michel Houellebecq
★★★★★
Dominion: How the Christian Revolution Remade the World
Tom Holland
★★★★★
People Love Dead Jews: Reports from a Haunted Present
Dara Horn
★★★★☆
Hell is the Absence of God
Ted Chiang
★★★★☆
Survival of the City: Living and Thriving in an Age of Isolation
Edward L. Glaeser
★★★☆☆
The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
★★★☆☆
An Education for Our Time
Josiah Bunting
★★★★☆
The Rage of Achilles
Terence Hawkins
★★★☆☆
Liftoff: Elon Musk and the Desperate Early Days That Launched SpaceX
Eric Berger
★★★★☆
On China
Henry Kissinger
★★★★☆
Klara and the Sun
Kazuo Ishiguro
★★★★☆
The Dawn of Eurasia: On the Trail of the New World Order
Bruno Maçães
★★★★☆
Cry, the Beloved Country
Alan Paton
★★★★☆
The Remains of the Day
Kazuo Ishiguro
★★★★★
A Prayer for Owen Meany
John Irving
★★★★★
Portnoy’s Complaint
Philip Roth
★★★★☆
Les Misérables
Victor Hugo
★★★★★
Wittgenstein on Rules and Private Language: An Elementary Exposition
Saul A. Kripke
★★★★★
China: A History
John Keay
★★★★★
Lost in Thought: The Hidden Pleasures of an Intellectual Life
Zena Hitz
★★★★☆
Play It As It Lays
Joan Didion
★★★★☆
Against the Grain: A Deep History of the Earliest States
James C. Scott
★★★★☆
Toward a Meaningful Life: The Wisdom of the Rebbe Menachem Mendel Schneerson
Simon Jacobson
★★★★☆
The Russian Debutante's Handbook
Gary Shteyngart
★★★★☆
A Wizard of Earthsea (Earthsea Cycle, #1)
Ursula K. Le Guin
★★★★☆
Uncanny Valley
Anna Wiener
★★★☆☆
Education and Equality
Danielle S. Allen
The Ethics of Authenticity
Charles Margrave Taylor
★★★★☆
The Path: What Chinese Philosophers Can Teach Us About the Good Life
Michael Puett
★★★★☆
The Price of Peace: Money, Democracy, and the Life of John Maynard Keynes
Zachary D. Carter
★★★★☆
My Brilliant Friend (Neapolitan Novels, #1)
Elena Ferrante
★★★★☆
The Biggest Bluff: How I Learned to Pay Attention, Master Myself, and Win
Maria Konnikova
★★★★☆
The Burden of Responsibility: Blum, Camus, Aron, and the French Twentieth Century
Tony Judt
★★★★☆
A Promised Land
Barack Obama
★★★★☆
Self-Reliance: An Excerpt from Collected Essays, First Series
Ralph Waldo Emerson
★★★★☆
Man's Search for Meaning
Viktor E. Frankl
★★★★★
The Beginning of Infinity: Explanations That Transform the World
David Deutsch
★★★★☆
The Fall
Albert Camus
★★★★★
How to Read Wittgenstein
Ray Monk
★★★★☆
The Machinery of Life
David S. Goodsell
★★★★★
Ecclesiastes, or The Preacher (Bible, #21)
Anonymous
★★★★★
Pragmatism: A New Name for Some Old Ways of Thinking; A Pluralistic Universe: Hibbert Lectures at Manchester College on the Present Situation in Philosophy
William James
★★★☆☆
A Confession
Leo Tolstoy
★★★★☆
VC: An American History
Tom Nicholas
★★★★☆
Future Presence: How Virtual Reality Is Changing Human Connection, Intimacy, and the Limits of Ordinary Life
Peter Rubin
★★★★☆
The Abolition of Man
C.S. Lewis
★★★★★
The Sabbath (FSG Classics)
Abraham Joshua Heschel
★★★★★
Problems of Knowledge and Freedom: The Russell Lectures
Noam Chomsky
★★★☆☆
History Has Begun: The Birth of a New America
Bruno Maçães
Three Worlds Collide
Eliezer Yudkowsky
★★★★☆
The Cost-Benefit Revolution
Cass R. Sunstein
★★★★☆
Achieving Our Country: Leftist Thought in Twentieth-Century America
Richard Rorty
★★★★☆
One Billion Americans: The Case for Thinking Bigger
Matthew Yglesias
★★★★☆
The Glass Bead Game
Hermann Hesse
★★★★☆
The Glass Hotel
Emily St. John Mandel
★★★★☆
Never Let Me Go
Kazuo Ishiguro
★★★★☆
John Adams
David McCullough
★★★★☆
The Three-Body Problem (Remembrance of Earth’s Past, #1)
Liu Cixin
★★★☆☆
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (Maya Angelou's Autobiography, #1)
Maya Angelou
★★★★☆
Foundation (Foundation, #1)
Isaac Asimov
★★★★☆
The End of History and the Last Man
Francis Fukuyama
★★★★☆
Liar's Poker
Michael Lewis
★★★★☆
Grant
Ron Chernow
★★★★★
Age of Ambition: Chasing Fortune, Truth, and Faith in the New China
Evan Osnos
★★★★☆
Educated
Tara Westover
★★★★☆
The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Milan Kundera
★★★★★
Legitimacy: The Right to Rule in a Wanton World
Arthur Isak Applbaum
★★★★★
The Decadent Society: How We Became the Victims of Our Own Success
Ross Douthat
★★★★☆
The Untethered Soul: The Journey Beyond Yourself
Michael A. Singer
★★☆☆☆
Lincoln
David Herbert Donald
★★★★☆
A Mathematician's Apology
G.H. Hardy
★★★☆☆
Halakhic Man
Joseph B. Soloveitchik
★★★★☆
Heart of Darkness
Joseph Conrad
★★★★☆
The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt (Theodore Roosevelt, #1)
Edmund Morris
★★★★☆
The Fate of Food: What We'll Eat in a Bigger, Hotter, Smarter World
Amanda Little
★★★☆☆
Siddartha
Hermann Hesse
★★★★☆
The Collected Poems of Emily Dickinson
Emily Dickinson
★★★★☆
Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business
Neil Postman
★★★★☆
The Wise Man's Fear (The Kingkiller Chronicle, #2)
Patrick Rothfuss
★★★★★
Cat’s Cradle
Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
★★★☆☆
Philosophical Explanations
Robert Nozick
★★★★★
The Defining Decade: Why Your Twenties Matter—And How to Make the Most of Them Now
Meg Jay
★★★☆☆
The Fifth Risk
Michael Lewis
★★★☆☆
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