Non-Fiction

Books

★★★★★ Understanding Comics Scott McCloud
★★★★★ Godel, Escher, Bach Douglas R. Hofstadter
★★★★★ Guns, Germs, and Steel Jared Diamond
★★★★★ The Tipping Point Malcolm Gladwell
★★★★★ The Paradox of Choice Barry Schwartz
★★★★ Naked David Sedaris
★★★★ Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim David Sedaris
★★★★ Kitchen Confidential Anthony Bourdain
★★★★ Me Talk Pretty One Day David Sedaris
★★★★ Into Thin Air Jon Krakauer
★★★★ A Primate's Memoir Robert M. Sapolsky
★★★★ Beastie Boys Book Michael Diamond, Adam Horovitz
★★★★ The Racket Conor Niland
★★★★ Steve Jobs Walter Isaacson
★★★★ Bowling Alone Robert D. Putnam
★★★★ The Swamp Michael Grunwald
★★★★ Another Day of Life Ryszard Kapuscinski
★★★★ Catch and Kill Ronan Farrow
★★★★ Empire of Pain Patrick Radden Keefe
★★★★ Style Joseph M. Williams, Gregory G. Colomb
★★★★ The Third Chimpanzee Jared Diamond
★★★★ The Red Queen Matt Ridley
★★★★ The Language Instinct Steven Pinker
★★★★ How the Mind Works Steven Pinker
★★★★ Bringing Down the House Ben Mezrich
★★★★ The Progress Paradox Gregg Easterbrook
★★★★ Getting Things Done David Allen
★★★★ A Random Walk Down Wall Street Burton G. Malkiel
★★★★ The Wisdom of Crowds James Surowiecki
★★★★ Collapse Jared Diamond
★★★★ Blink Malcolm Gladwell
★★★★ Influence Robert B. Cialdini
★★★★ The Omnivore's Dilemma Michael Pollan
★★★★ The Innovator's Dilemma Clayton Christensen
★★★★ Moneyball Michael Lewis
★★★★ Fooled by Randomness Nassim Nicholas Taleb
★★★★ The Black Swan Nassim Nicholas Taleb
★★★★ Zero to One Peter Thiel, Blake Masters
★★★★ The Sixth Extinction Elizabeth Kolbert
★★★★ Bad Blood John Carreyrou
★★★★ Conquerors Roger Crowley
★★★★ Super Pumped Mike Isaac
★★★★ Endurance Alfred Lansing
★★★★ AI Engineering Chip Huyen
★★★★ Zonal Marking Michael Cox
★★★★ Parasite Rex Carl Zimmer
★★★★ The Engineering Executive's Primer Will Larson
★★★★ The Staff Engineer's Path Tanya Reilly
★★★★ If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies Eliezer Yudkowsky, Nate Soares
★★★★ Breakneck Dan Wang
★★★★ You Can Just Do Things Cate Hall, Sasha Chapin
★★★ I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings Maya Angelou
★★★ "Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!" Richard Feynman, Ralph Leighton
★★★ Catch Me If You Can Frank W. Abagnale, Stan Redding
★★★ The Motorcycle Diaries Ernesto "Che" Guevara
★★★ Jungle Yossi Ghinsberg
★★★ The Man Who Ate Everything Jeffrey Steingarten
★★★ Bossypants Tina Fey
★★★ Yes Please Amy Poehler
★★★ Born a Crime Trevor Noah
★★★ Shoe Dog Phil Knight
★★★ Careless People Sarah Wynn-Williams
★★★ The Mapmaker's Wife Robert Whitaker
★★★ Into the Wild Jon Krakauer
★★★ The End of Poverty Jeffrey D. Sachs
★★★ Persepolis Marjane Satrapi
★★★ Upheaval Jared Diamond
★★★ The Origins of Political Order Francis Fukuyama
★★★ Seeing Like a State James C. Scott
★★★ The Secret Life of Lobsters Trevor Corson
★★★ The Fort Bragg Cartel Seth Harp
★★★ Visual Explanations Edward R. Tufte
★★★ The Visual Display of Quantitative Information Edward R. Tufte
★★★ Envisioning Information Edward R. Tufte
★★★ Don't Make Me Think Steve Krug
★★★ A Brief History of Time Stephen Hawking
★★★ The Design of Everyday Things Donald A. Norman
★★★ Reinventing Comics Scott McCloud
★★★ Breaking Windows David Bank
★★★ Wonderful Life Stephen Jay Gould
★★★ The Selfish Gene Richard Dawkins
★★★ The Lives of a Cell Lewis Thomas
★★★ Darwin's Dangerous Idea Daniel C. Dennett
★★★ Your Money Or Your Life Joseph R. Dominguez, Vicki Robin
★★★ The Elements of Typographic Style Robert Bringhurst
★★★ The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People Stephen R. Covey
★★★ Fast Food Nation Eric Schlosser
★★★ The Man Who Mistook His Wife For A Hat Oliver Sacks
★★★ The Blank Slate Steven Pinker
★★★ The Ancestor's Tale Richard Dawkins, Yan Wong
★★★ Freakonomics Steven D. Levitt, Stephen J. Dubner
★★★ The Code Book Simon Singh
★★★ The Shangri-La Diet Seth Roberts
★★★ The Science of Happiness Stephen Braun
★★★ Stop Stealing Sheep & Find Out how Type Works Erik Spiekermann, E. M. Ginger
★★★ MAUS Art Spiegelman
★★★ Long Tail Chris Anderson
★★★ How to Lie with Statistics Darrell Huff
★★★ Good to Great Jim Collins
★★★ Core Performance Mark Verstegen, Pete Williams
★★★ Code Complete Steve McConnell
★★★ About Face 3 Alan Cooper, Robert Reimann, David Cronin
★★★ When Genius Failed Roger Lowenstein
★★★ The Definitive Book of Body Language Barbara Pease, Allan Pease
★★★ Liar's Poker Michael Lewis
★★★ Complications Atul Gawande
★★★ Boomerang Michael Lewis
★★★ Better Atul Gawande
★★★ Predictably Irrational Dan Ariely
★★★ Why We Get Fat and what to Do about it Gary Taubes
★★★ Good Calories, Bad Calories Gary Taubes
★★★ Inside Apple Adam Lashinsky
★★★ How Will You Measure Your Life? Clayton Christensen, James Allworth, Karen Dillon
★★★ Antifragile Nassim Nicholas Taleb
★★★ The Big Short Michael Lewis
★★★ The World Until Yesterday Jared Diamond
★★★ Being Geek Michael Lopp
★★★ Thinking, Fast and Slow Daniel Kahneman
★★★ Superintelligence Nick Bostrom
★★★ Business Adventures John Brooks
★★★ The Pragmatic Programmer Andrew Hunt, David Thomas
★★★ Creativity, Inc. Ed Catmull, Amy Wallace
★★★ Ratio Michael Ruhlman
★★★ What If? Randall Munroe
★★★ How We Decide Jonah Lehrer
★★★ Rise of the Robots Martin R. Ford
★★★ The Vital Question Nick Lane
★★★ Deep Work Cal Newport
★★★ The Effective Engineer Edmond Lau
★★★ Finite and Infinite Games James P. Carse
★★★ Futebol Alex Bellos
★★★ Cribsheet Emily Oster
★★★ Snowing in Bali Kathryn Bonella
★★★ Smarter Faster Better Charles Duhigg
★★★ Crossing the Chasm Geoffrey A. Moore
★★★ I Contain Multitudes Ed Yong
★★★ The Obesity Code Dr. Jason Fung
★★★ No Filter Sarah Frier
★★★ The Warmth of Other Suns Isabel Wilkerson
★★★ Like, Comment, Subscribe Mark Bergen
★★★ The Song Machine John Seabrook
★★★ Going Infinite Michael Lewis
★★★ Adventures on the Wine Route Kermit Lynch
★★★ Chip War Chris Miller
★★★ How Big Things Get Done Bent Flyvbjerg, Dan Gardner
★★★ Never Split the Difference Chris Voss, Tahl Raz
★★★ A City on Mars Kelly Weinersmith, Zach Weinersmith
★★★ Brazil's Dance with the Devil Dave Zirin
★★★ Our Inner Ape Frans de Waal
★★★ Blank Space W. David Marx
★★★ Sea People Christina Thompson
★★★ Lying for Money Dan Davies
★★★ 97 Things Every Engineering Manager Should Know Camille Fournier
★★★ Soccernomics Simon Kuper, Stefan Szymanski
★★ A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius Dave Eggers
★★ Travels with Lizbeth Lars Eighner
★★ The Year of Yes Maria Dahvana Headley
★★ Running with Scissors Augusten Burroughs
★★ Rebel Girl Kathleen Hanna
★★ Three Cups of Tea Greg Mortenson, David Oliver Relin
★★ Winners Take All Anand Giridharadas
★★ Red Notice Bill Browder
★★ The Blind Watchmaker Richard Dawkins
★★ From Chocolate to Morphine Andrew Weil, Winifred Rosen
★★ Nature Via Nurture Matt Ridley
★★ Information Anxiety Richard Saul Wurman
★★ A Pattern Language Christopher Alexander
★★ The Pleasure of Finding Things Out Richard Feynman
★★ Blind Side Michael Lewis
★★ In the Heart of the Sea Nathaniel Philbrick
★★ SuperFreakonomics Steven D. Levitt, Stephen J. Dubner
★★ The China Study T. Colin Campbell, Thomas M. Campbell (II.)
★★ David and Goliath Malcolm Gladwell
★★ The Hard Thing About Hard Things Ben Horowitz
★★ Theory of Fun for Game Design Raph Koster
★★ Sex on Six Legs Marlene Zuk
★★ The Sleepeasy Solution Jennifer Waldburger, Jill Spivack
★★ Sleeping Through the Night Jodi A. Mindell
★★ The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up Marie Kondo
★★ How Babies Talk Roberta Michnick Golinkoff, Kathy Hirsh-Pasek
★★ Sapiens Yuval Noah Harari
★★ Ruhlman's Twenty Michael Ruhlman
★★ Ego Is the Enemy Ryan Holiday
★★ Atomic Habits James Clear
★★ Competing Against Luck Clayton Christensen, Taddy Hall, Karen Dillon, David S. Duncan
★★ The Creative Act Rick Rubin
★★ Deep Utopia Nick Bostrom
★★ Smart Brevity Jim VandeHei, Mike Allen, Roy Schwartz
★ A Million Little Pieces James Frey
★ Can't Hurt Me David Goggins
★ The Game Neil Strauss

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