Anti-library
Books I want to read but am too lazy to haven't had the chance to yet. In no particular order.
I hope this list grows forever and ever.
- Irrationality by Stuart Sutherland
- Rational Choice in an Uncertain World: The Psychology of Judgement and Decision Making by Reid Hastie
- The Great Divide: History and Human Nature in the Old World and the New by Peter Watson
- Who We Are and How We Got Here: Ancient DNA and the New Science of the Human Past by David Reich
- Super Thinking: The Big Book of Mental Models by Gabriel Weinberg
- Fallen Leaves: Last Words on Life, Love, War, and God by Will Durant
- On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft by Stephen King
- Peak: Secrets from the New Science of Expertise by K. Anders Ericsson
- Ultralearning: Master Hard Skills, Outsmart the Competition, and Accelerate Your Career by Scott H. Young
- There There by Tommy Orange
- Wandering Stars by Tommy Orange
- Leviathan Wakes (The Expanse, #1) by James S.A. Corey
- Everything and More: A Compact History of Infinity by David Foster Wallace
- Consider the Lobster and Other Essays by David Foster Wallace
- Through the Grapevine: Socially Transmitted Information and Distorted Democracy (Chicago Studies in American Politics) by Taylor N. Carlson
- Climate Capitalism: Winning the Global Race to Zero Emissions by Akshat Rathi
- Release It!: Design and Deploy Production-Ready Software (Pragmatic Programmers) by Michael T. Nygard
- The Will to Change: Men, Masculinity, and Love by bell hooks
- The School for Good Mothers by Jessamine Chan
- Feel Free: Essays by Zadie Smith
- The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting Up a Generation for Failure by Jonathan Haidt
- Falling Off the Map: Some Lonely Places of the World by Pico Iyer
- The Half Known Life: In Search of Paradise by Pico Iyer
- Trust by Hernan Diaz
- The Swimmers by Julie Otsuka
- Saving Time: Discovering a Life Beyond the Clock by Jenny Odell
- Exit West by Mohsin Hamid
- A Day in the Life of Abed Salama: Anatomy of a Jerusalem Tragedy by Nathan Thrall
- I Contain Multitudes: The Microbes Within Us and a Grander View of Life by Ed Yong
- An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us by Ed Yong
- The Round House by Louise Erdrich
- Ring Shout by P. Djèlí Clark
- Ancillary Justice (Imperial Radch, #1) by Ann Leckie
- The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead
- Austerlitz by W.G. Sebald
- Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City by Matthew Desmond
- Greenwood by Michael Christie
- Tenth of December by George Saunders
- Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst by Robert M. Sapolsky
- The Laws of Connection: The Scientific Secrets of Building a Strong Social Network by David Robson
- 4000 Weeks by Robert Bosman
- The Wayfinders: Why Ancient Wisdom Matters in the Modern World (CBC Massey Lecture) by Wade Davis
- The Knot Book: An Elementary Introduction to the Mathematical Theory of Knots by Colin Conrad Adams
- Principles: Life and Work by Ray Dalio
- Impro: Improvisation and the Theatre by Keith Johnstone
- Bigger Leaner Stronger: The Simple Science of Building the Ultimate Male Body by Michael Matthews
- The Pragmatic Programmer: From Journeyman to Master by Andy Hunt
- The 2-Hour Cocktail Party: How to Build Big Relationships with Small Gatherings by Nick Gray
- The Art of Doing Science and Engineering: Learning to Learn by Richard Hamming
- Table for Two by Amor Towles
- The Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi (Amina al-Sirafi, #1) by Shannon Chakraborty
- The Cartographers by Peng Shepherd
- Pathogenesis: A History of the World in Eight Plagues by Jonathan Kennedy
- Poverty, by America by Matthew Desmond
- Indigenous Continent: The Epic Contest for North America by Pekka Hämäläinen
- Magisteria: The Entangled Histories of Science & Religion by Nicholas Spencer
- These Are the Plunderers: How Private Equity Runs—and Wrecks—America by Gretchen Morgenson
- Rebel Island: The Incredible Story of Taiwan by Jonathan Clements
- The Occasional Human Sacrifice: Medical Experimentation and the Price of Saying No by Carl Elliott
- Age of Revolutions: Progress and Backlash from 1600 to the Present by Fareed Zakaria
- Brave New Words: How AI Will Revolutionize Education (and Why That's a Good Thing) by Salman Khan
- Silk: A World History by Aarathi Prasad
- An Economist Goes to the Game: How to Throw Away $580 Million and Other Surprising Insights from the Economics of Sports by Paul Oyer
- The Shortest History of Greece by James Heneage
- The Shortest History of China by Linda Jaivin
- Some People Need Killing: A Memoir of Murder in My Country by Patricia Evangelista
- The Arm: Inside the Billion-Dollar Mystery of the Most Valuable Commodity in Sports by Jeff Passan
- Material World: The Six Raw Materials That Shape Modern Civilization by Edmund Conway
- The Rare Metals War: the dark side of clean energy and digital technologies by Guillaume Pitron
- Proof: The Science of Booze by Adam Rogers
- The Song of the Cell: An Exploration of Medicine and the New Human by Siddhartha Mukherjee
- Ways of Being: Animals, Plants, Machines: The Search for a Planetary Intelligence by James Bridle
- How to Change Your Mind: The New Science of Psychedelics by Michael Pollan
- Supercommunicators: How to Unlock the Secret Language of Connection by Charles Duhigg
- Our Moon: How Earth's Celestial Companion Transformed the Planet, Guided Evolution, and Made Us Who We Are by Rebecca Boyle
- Alien Earths: The New Science of Planet Hunting in the Cosmos by Lisa Kaltenegger
- Filterworld: How Algorithms Flattened Culture by Kyle Chayka
- The Cancer Factory: Industrial Chemicals, Corporate Deception, and the Hidden Deaths of American Workers by Jim Morris
- Mama's Last Hug: Animal Emotions and What They Tell Us about Ourselves by Frans de Waal
- Becoming Animal: An Earthly Cosmology by David Abram
- Biography of X by Catherine Lacey
- What We Knew: Terror, Mass Murder, and Everyday Life in Nazi Germany by Eric A. Johnson
- Permutation City by Greg Egan
- Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari
- Real Love: The Art of Mindful Connection by Sharon Salzberg
- Infidel by Ayaan Hirsi Ali
- Our Dumb Century: The Onion Presents 100 Years of Headlines from America's Finest News Source by Scott Dikkers
- The Manager's Path: A Guide for Tech Leaders Navigating Growth and Change by Camille Fournier
- Man’s Search for Meaning by Viktor E. Frankl
- The Good Virus: The Amazing Story and Forgotten Promise of the Phage by Tom Ireland
- My Struggle: Book 1 by Karl Ove Knausgård
- The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals by Michael Pollan
- The Blue Nowhere by Jeffery Deaver
- Long Island Compromise by Taffy Brodesser-Akner
- Kissa by Kissa: How to Walk Japan (Book One) by Craig Mod
- Things Become Other Things (Fine Art Edition) by Craig Mod
- Urban Jungle: The History and Future of Nature in the City by Ben Wilson
- Wasteland: The Secret World of Waste and the Urgent Search for a Cleaner Future by Oliver Franklin-Wallis
- Eve: How the Female Body Drove 200 Million Years of Human Evolution by Cat Bohannon
- Tigana by Guy Gavriel Kay
- The Wise Man’s Fear (The Kingkiller Chronicle, #2) by Patrick Rothfuss
- The Second Mountain by David Brooks
- The Strangest Secret by Earl Nightingale
- The Practice: Shipping Creative Work by Seth Godin
- The Extended Mind: The Power of Thinking Outside the Brain by Annie Murphy Paul
- The Spy and the Traitor: The Greatest Espionage Story of the Cold War by Ben Macintyre
- The Lincoln Highway by Amor Towles
- Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI by David Grann
- Dust: The Modern World in a Trillion Particles by Jay Owens
- Portal: San Francisco's Ferry Building and the Reinvention of American Cities by John King
- Soldiers Don't Go Mad: A True Story of Friendship, Poetry, and Mental Illness During the First World War by Charles Glass
- Blood in the Machine: The Origins of the Rebellion Against Big Tech by Brian Merchant
- The Great Alone by Kristin Hannah
- Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin
- Yellowface by R.F. Kuang
- Legend (The Drenai Saga, #1) by David Gemmell
- Ship of Magic (Liveship Traders, #1) by Robin Hobb
- Assassin's Apprentice (Farseer Trilogy, #1) by Robin Hobb
- Excellent Advice for Living: Wisdom I Wish I'd Known Earlier by Kevin Kelly
- The Jim Corbett Omnibus: Man-eaters of Kumaon, Man-eating Leopard of Rudraprayag and Temple Tiger and More Man-eaters of Kumaon by Jim Corbett
- The Hate U Give (The Hate U Give, #1) by Angie Thomas
- Stress Free for Good: 10 Scientifically Proven Life Skills for Health and Happiness by Fred Luskin
- The Last King of Scotland by Giles Foden
- Solito by Javier Zamora
- The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History by Elizabeth Kolbert
- Subliminal: How Your Unconscious Mind Rules Your Behavior by Leonard Mlodinow
- Truck de India!: A Hitchhiker's Guide to Hindustan by Rajat Ubhaykar
- An Elegant Puzzle: Systems of Engineering Management by Will Larson
- Einstein: His Life and Universe by Walter Isaacson
- The Code Breaker: Jennifer Doudna, Gene Editing, and the Future of the Human Race by Walter Isaacson
- Elon Musk by Walter Isaacson
- The Rational Optimist: How Prosperity Evolves by Matt Ridley
- Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus
- National Dish: Around the World in Search of Food, History, and the Meaning of Home by Anya von Bremzen
- The High Cost of Free Parking by Donald C. Shoup
- Confessions of a Recovering Engineer: Transportation for a Strong Town by Charles L. Marohn Jr.
- The Tattooist of Auschwitz (The Tattooist of Auschwitz, #1) by Heather Morris
- The Sympathizer (The Sympathizer, #1) by Viet Thanh Nguyen
- Succes by Lion Feuchtwanger
- My Name Is Red by Orhan Pamuk
- Good Economics for Hard Times: Better Answers to Our Biggest Problems by Abhijit V. Banerjee
- The Storyteller: Tales of Life and Music by Dave Grohl
- American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer by Kai Bird
- The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle by Stuart Turton
- Mirrored Heavens (Between Earth and Sky, #3) by Rebecca Roanhorse
- Inferno: The World at War, 1939-1945 by Max Hastings
- Stalking the Atomic City: Life Among the Decadent and the Depraved of Chornobyl by Markiyan Kamysh
- The Death of the Artist: How Creators Are Struggling to Survive in the Age of Billionaires and Big Tech by William Deresiewicz
- October: The Story of the Russian Revolution by China Miéville
- The Swerve: How the World Became Modern by Stephen Greenblatt
- Silent Spring by Rachel Carson
- Mathematics for Human Flourishing by Francis Su
- Empireland: How Imperialism has Shaped Modern Britain by Sathnam Sanghera
- Carmageddon: How Cars Make Life Worse and What to Do About It by Daniel Knowles
- Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents by Isabel Wilkerson
- If Nietzsche Were a Narwhal: What Animal Intelligence Reveals About Human Stupidity by Justin Gregg
- The Japanese Mind: Understanding Contemporary Japanese Culture by Roger J. Davies
- Bending Adversity: Japan and the Art of Survival by David Pilling
- Pure Invention: How Japan Made the Modern World by Matt Alt
- Index, A History of the: A Bookish Adventure from Medieval Manuscripts to the Digital Age by Dennis Duncan
- American Midnight: The Great War, a Violent Peace, and Democracy's Forgotten Crisis by Adam Hochschild
- My Body by Emily Ratajkowski
- Stolen Focus: Why You Can't Pay Attention— and How to Think Deeply Again by Johann Hari
- Memoirs of Hadrian by Marguerite Yourcenar
- Breath: The New Science of a Lost Art / Just Breathe / The Oxygen Advantage / What Doesn't Kill Us by James Nestor
- The Sense of Wonder by Matthew Salesses
- Conversationally Speaking: Tested New Ways to Increase Your Personal and Social Effectiveness by Amanda Goodwin Caporaletti
- The Way of Zen by Alan W. Watts
- How to Talk to Anyone: 92 Little Tricks for Big Success in Relationships by Leil Lowndes
- Div, Grad, Curl, and All That: An Informal Text on Vector Calculus by Harry M. Schey
- Basic Economics: A Citizen's Guide to the Economy by Thomas Sowell
- The Ministry for the Future by Kim Stanley Robinson
- The Control of Nature by John McPhee
- The Dreamt Land: Chasing Water and Dust Across California by Mark Arax
- Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore (Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore, #1) by Robin Sloan
- Just Keep Buying: Proven Ways to Save Money and Build Your Wealth by Nick Maggiulli
- Stories of Your Life and Others by Ted Chiang
- The Power of Geography: Ten Maps That Reveal the Future of Our World by Tim Marshall
- Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Tell You Everything You Need to Know About Global Politics by Tim Marshall
- The World Turned Upside Down: Radical Ideas During the English Revolution by Christopher Hill
- A History of Dangerous Assumptions: From the Wooden Horse of Troy to the Dawn of the Twenty-First Century by John Molesworth
- Less (Arthur Less, #1) by Andrew Sean Greer
- Our Violent Ends (These Violent Delights, #2) by Chloe Gong
- These Violent Delights (These Violent Delights, #1) by Chloe Gong
- The Chain Between Worlds (The Lost Artefacts #1) by Johnathon Nicolaou
- Ninth House (Alex Stern, #1) by Leigh Bardugo
- The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid
- The Pillars of the Earth (Kingsbridge, #1) by Ken Follett
- The Charisma Myth: How Anyone Can Master the Art and Science of Personal Magnetism by Olivia Fox Cabane
- The Name of the Wind (The Kingkiller Chronicle, #1) by Patrick Rothfuss
- I'm Glad My Mom Died by Jennette McCurdy
- Kaikeyi by Vaishnavi Patel
- Hell of a Book by Jason Mott
- When We Cease to Understand the World by Benjamín Labatut
- Cloud Cuckoo Land by Anthony Doerr
- Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion by Jia Tolentino
- The Priory of the Orange Tree (The Roots of Chaos, #1) by Samantha Shannon
- The One Thing: The Surprisingly Simple Truth Behind Extraordinary Results by Gary Keller
- Six of Crows (Six of Crows, #1) by Leigh Bardugo
- Pachinko by Min Jin Lee
- The Midnight Library by Matt Haig
- The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms (Inheritance, #1) by N.K. Jemisin
- The Mask of Mirrors (Rook & Rose, #1) by M.A. Carrick
- To Sleep in a Sea of Stars (Fractalverse, #1) by Christopher Paolini
- The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue by Victoria Schwab
- The City of Brass (The Daevabad Trilogy, #1) by S.A. Chakraborty
- The Poppy War (The Poppy War, #1) by R.F. Kuang
- The Mysterious Benedict Society (The Mysterious Benedict Society, #1) by Trenton Lee Stewart
- A Promised Land by Barack Obama
- The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri
- Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity by Katherine Boo
- The Diamond Age: Or, a Young Lady's Illustrated Primer by Neal Stephenson
- A Death in the Rainforest: How a Language and a Way of Life Came to an End in Papua New Guinea by Don Kulick
- Dissolution (Matthew Shardlake, #1) by C.J. Sansom
- Spin (Spin, #1) by Robert Charles Wilson
- Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men by Caroline Criado Pérez
- Never Eat Alone: And Other Secrets to Success, One Relationship at a Time by Keith Ferrazzi
- The Mythical Man-Month: Essays on Software Engineering by Frederick P. Brooks Jr.
- The Design of Everyday Things by Donald A. Norman
- Influence: Science and Practice by Robert B. Cialdini
- The 4-Hour Workweek by Timothy Ferriss
- Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future by Peter Thiel
- Digital Minimalism: Choosing a Focused Life in a Noisy World by Cal Newport
- The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion by Jonathan Haidt
- The Ethical Algorithm: The Science of Socially Aware Algorithm Design by Michael Kearns
- The Institute by Stephen King
- How to Take Smart Notes: One Simple Technique to Boost Writing, Learning and Thinking – for Students, Academics and Nonfiction Book Writers by Sönke Ahrens
- Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami
- The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs: A New History of a Lost World by Steve Brusatte
- Vengeful (Villains, #2) by Victoria Schwab
- Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs? Big Questions from Tiny Mortals About Death by Caitlin Doughty
- Red Rising (Red Rising Saga, #1) by Pierce Brown
- Anxious People by Fredrik Backman
- American War by Omar El Akkad
- Gideon the Ninth (The Locked Tomb, #1) by Tamsyn Muir
- Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis by J.D. Vance
- The Color of Money: Black Banks and the Racial Wealth Gap by Mehrsa Baradaran
- Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism by Safiya Umoja Noble
- Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy by Cathy O'Neil
- The Secret History by Donna Tartt
- The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov
- The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
- Billion Dollar Whale: The Man Who Fooled Wall Street, Hollywood, and the World by Tom Wright
- Superforecasting: The Art and Science of Prediction by Philip E. Tetlock
- A History of the Modern Middle East by William L. Cleveland
- The Shortest History of Germany by James Hawes
- The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
- Meditations by Marcus Aurelius
- How Fiction Works by James Wood
- The Tides of Mind: Uncovering the Spectrum of Consciousness by David Gelernter
- Unfair: The New Science of Criminal Injustice by Adam Benforado
- The Square and the Tower: Networks and Power, from the Freemasons to Facebook by Niall Ferguson
- Iran Rising: The Survival and Future of the Islamic Republic by Amin Saikal
- The Sense of Reality: Studies in Ideas and Their History by Isaiah Berlin
- Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything by Steven D. Levitt
- Planet Funny: How Comedy Took Over Our Culture by Ken Jennings
- The Difficulty of Being Good: On the Subtle Art of Dharma by Gurcharan Das
- The Big Nine: How the Tech Titans and Their Thinking Machines Could Warp Humanity by Amy Webb
- How We Win: How Cutting-Edge Entrepreneurs, Political Visionaries, Enlightened Business Leaders, and Social Media Mavens Can Defeat the Extremist Threat by Farah Pandith
- Think Again: How to Reason and Argue by Walter Sinnott-Armstrong
- The Future of Capitalism: Facing the New Anxieties by Paul Collier
- Upheaval: Turning Points for Nations in Crisis by Jared Diamond
- The Gene: An Intimate History by Siddhartha Mukherjee
- Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty by Daron Acemoğlu
- The Great Successor: The Divinely Perfect Destiny of Brilliant Comrade Kim Jong Un by Anna Fifield
- The Goodness Paradox: The Strange Relationship Between Virtue and Violence in Human Evolution by Richard W. Wrangham
- Doing Good Better: How Effective Altruism Can Help You Make a Difference by William MacAskill
- Countdown to Zero Day: Stuxnet and the Launch of the World's First Digital Weapon by Kim Zetter
- The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order by Samuel P. Huntington
- Vodka Politics: Alcohol, Autocracy, and the Secret History of the Russian State by Mark Lawrence Schrad
- Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets (Incerto) by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
- Secondhand Time: The Last of the Soviets by Svetlana Alexievich
- The Charisma of Adolf Hitler by Laurence Rees
- After Tamerlane: The Global History of Empire Since 1405 by John Darwin
- Educated by Tara Westover
- Columbine by Dave Cullen
- Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams by Matthew Walker
- Surrounded by Idiots by Thomas Erikson
- Silk Roads by Peter Frankopan
- A Warning by Anonymous
- Worth Dying For: The Power and Politics of Flags by Tim Marshall
- A Game of Birds and Wolves: The Ingenious Young Women Whose Secret Board Game Helped Win World War II by Simon Parkin
- Eight Days at Yalta: How Churchill, Roosevelt and Stalin Shaped the Post-War World by Diana Preston
- The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power by Shoshana Zuboff
- 1939: A People's History of the Coming of the Second World War by Frederick Taylor
- Commander in Cheat: How Golf Explains Trump by Rick Reilly
- Empire: A New History of the World by Paul Strathern
- India's War: World War II and the Making of Modern South Asia by Srinath Raghavan
- Russians Among Us: Sleeper Cells, Ghost Stories, and the Hunt For Putin’s Spies by Gordon Corera
- A State at Any Cost: The Life of David Ben-Gurion by Tom Segev
- Origins: How The Earth Made Us by Lewis Dartnell
- What We Owe to Each Other by T.M. Scanlon
- How Not to Be Wrong: The Power of Mathematical Thinking by Jordan Ellenberg
- No Turning Back: Life, Loss, and Hope in Wartime Syria by Rania Abouzeid
- Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman
- The Long Fix: Solving America's Health Care Crisis with Strategies that Work for Everyone by Vivian Lee
- Deep Medicine: How Artificial Intelligence Can Make Healthcare Human Again by Eric J. Topol
- Your Money or Your Life by Joe Dominguez
- Steal the Show: From Speeches to Job Interviews to Deal-Closing Pitches, How to Guarantee a Standing Ovation for All the Performances in Your Life by Michael Port
- The Elephant Vanishes by Haruki Murakami
- A Fire Upon the Deep (Zones of Thought, #1) by Vernor Vinge
- Hyperion (Hyperion Cantos, #1) by Dan Simmons
- A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
- The House of the Mosque by Kader Abdolah
- White Oleander by Janet Fitch
- White Noise by Don DeLillo
- HHhH by Laurent Binet
- Rendezvous with Rama (Rama, #1) by Arthur C. Clarke
- Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson
- Neuromancer (Sprawl, #1) by William Gibson
- A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara
- This Is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar
- The Final Empire (Mistborn, #1) by Brandon Sanderson
- Circe by Madeline Miller