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What I'm working through and what I just finished.

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

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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