My bookshelf

Daron Acemoğlu, Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty
George Orwell, Animal Farm
Hannah Ritchie, Not the End of the World: How We Can Be the First Generation to Build a Sustainable Planet
Jane Austen, Persuasion
Paul Collier, The Bottom Billion: Why the Poorest Countries Are Failing and What Can Be Done About It
Robert C. Allen, Global Economic History: A Very Short Introduction
Thomas Piketty, A Brief History of Equality

Alison Green, Managing to Change the World: The Nonprofit Manager’s Guide to Getting Results
Anthony B. Atkinson, Measuring Poverty Around the World
Anthony B. Atkinson, Inequality: What Can Be Done?
Charles C. Mann, The Wizard and the Prophet
Johan Fourie, Our Long Walk to Economic Freedom: Lessons from 100 000 years of human history
John Stuart Mill, On Liberty
Liu Cixin, The Three-Body Problem
Liu Cixin, The Dark Forest
Liu Cixin, Death’s End
Steven Levitsky, How Democracies Die: What History Reveals About Our Future
Steven Pinker, The Sense of Style: The Thinking Person’s Guide to Writing in the 21st Century
Tyler Cowen, Talent: How to Identify Energizers, Creatives, and Winners Around the World

Andrew S. Grove, High Output Management
Annie Duke, Thinking in Bets: Making Smarter Decisions When You Don’t Have All the Facts
Brian Christian, The Alignment Problem: Machine Learning and Human Values
Hannah Fry, Hello World: Being Human in the Age of Algorithms
James Vincent, Beyond Measure: The Hidden History of Measurement from Cubits to Quantum Constants
Julia Galef, The Scout Mindset: Why Some People See Things Clearly and Others Don’t
Julie Zhuo, The Making of a Manager: What to Do When Everyone Looks to You
Patrick Lencioni, The Five Dysfunctions of a Team: A Leadership Fable
Peter Singer, Famine, Affluence, and Morality

Abhijit V. Banerjee, Poor Economics: A Radical Rethinking of the Way to Fight Global Poverty
Adeline Dieudonné, La Vraie Vie
Amartya Sen, Development as Freedom
Antonio Zadra, When Brains Dream: Exploring the Science and Mystery of Sleep
Carl Sagan, Cosmos
Carlo Rovelli, Seven Brief Lessons on Physics
Elizabeth Kolbert, The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History
F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
George Orwell, 1984
Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird
Henry James, The Portrait of a Lady
Hervé Le Tellier, L’Anomalie
Homer, The Odyssey
James Gleick, Chaos: Making a New Science
Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
John Kaag, Sick Souls, Healthy Minds: How William James Can Save Your Life
John Kaag, American Philosophy: A Love Story
John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath
Lori Gottlieb, Maybe You Should Talk to Someone: A Therapist, Her Therapist, and Our Lives Revealed
Mary Beard, SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome
Peter Singer, The Life You Can Save: How to Do Your Part to End World Poverty
Richard Dawkins, The Selfish Gene
Ross King, Michelangelo and the Pope’s Ceiling
Sonja Lyubomirsky, The How of Happiness: A Scientific Approach to Getting the Life You Want
Victor Hugo, Les Misérables
Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita

Aldous Huxley, Brave New World
Gabriel García Márquez, One Hundred Years of Solitude
Hans Rosling, Factfulness: Ten Reasons We’re Wrong About the World – and Why Things Are Better Than You Think
Joe Sacco, Palestine
Joe Sacco, Footnotes in Gaza
John Steinbeck, Of Mice and Men
José Saramago, Blindness
Malcolm Gladwell, The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference
Marguerite Duras, The Lover
Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Peter Singer, The Most Good You Can Do: How Effective Altruism Is Changing Ideas About Living Ethically
Rebecca Skloot, The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
Thomas Piketty, Capital and Ideology
Toby Ord, The Precipice: Existential Risk and the Future of Humanity
William Golding, Lord of the Flies
William MacAskill, Doing Good Better: How Effective Altruism Can Help You Make a Difference
Yuval Noah Harari, Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind

Written on March 30, 2023