Readings

A raw list of my readings (without reviews). Take this as a pool of resources and links that could help you find your next book. If a book ends up on this list, this means that it contributed to expand my mind and discover new interesting ideas and topics.

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Favorite books are marked with a [*]

Genre

• Fiction
• Non-Fiction
• Essays
• Memoirs
• Economy
• Politics
• Science
• Philosophy
• Sociology
• Psychology
• Biology
• Technology/Startups/Business
• Design/Branding/Marketing
• Poetry
• Self-Development
• Writing

Fiction

• Stoner - John Williams [*]
• Tinkers - Paul Harding [*]
• The Sense of an Ending - Julian Barnes
• The Noise of Time - Julian Barnes
• All the Light We Cannot See - Anthony Doerr
• The Snow Child - Eowyn Ivey

Non-Fiction

• The Undoing Project: A Friendship That Changed Our Minds - Michael Lewis [*]
• The Utopia of Rules: On Technology, Stupidity, and the Secret Joys of Bureaucracy - David Graeber [*]
• A Mind at Play: How Claude Shannon Invented the Information Age - Jimmy Soni, Rob Goodman
• The Idealist: Aaron Swartz and the Rise of Free Culture on the Internet - Justin Peters
• Outliers: The Story of Success - Malcolm Gladwell
• The Beginning of Infinity: Explanations That Transform the World - David Deutsch
• The Improbability Principle: Why Coincidences, Miracles, and Rare Events Happen Every Day - David J. Hand
• Simplicity - Edward de Bono
• Elastic: Flexible Thinking in a Time of Change - Leonard Mlodinow
• Moral Mazes: The World of Corporate Managers - Robert Jackall
• Natural Causes: An Epidemic of Wellness, the Certainty of Dying, and Killing Ourselves to Live Longer - Barbara Ehrenreich

Essays

• Learning to Die in the Anthropocene - Roy Scranton
• The Divided Brain and the Search for Meaning - Iain McGilchrist

Economy

• Debt: The First 5,000 Years - David Graeber [*]
• The Growth Delusion: Wealth, Poverty, and the Well-being of Nations - David Pilling
• The Great Escape, health, wealth, and the origins of inequality - Angus Deaton
• Naked Money: A Revealing Look at Our Financial System - Charles Wheelan
• Le mythe de la "théorie du ruissellement" - The Myth of the "Trickle-down effect" (French) - Arnaud Parienty
• Traité d'économie hérétique (French) - Thomas Porcher

Politics

• The Fat Tail: The Power of Political Knowledge in an Uncertain World - Ian Bremmer, Preston Keat

Memoirs

• When Breath Becomes Air - Paul Kalanithi
• Julian Assange - The Unauthorised Autobiography - Julian Assange, Andrew O'Hagan

Science

• Reality is Not What it Seems: The Journey to Quantum Gravity - Carlo Rovelli [*]
• The Order of Time - Carlo Rovelli
• Future Science - Essays From the Cutting Edge - Max Brockman
• This Will Make You Smarter - John Brockman
• Time Reborn: From the Crisis in Physics to the Future of the Universe - Lee Smolin
• Galaxy: Mapping the Cosmos - James Geach
• Cosmos - Carl Sagan
• How To Lie With Statistics - Darrell Huff
• Seven Brief Lessons on Physics - Carlo Rovelli

Philosophy

• Being and Time - Martin Heidegger
• Being And Nothingness - Jean-Paul Sartre [*]
• The Conspiracy against the Human Race - A Contrivance of Horror - Thomas Ligotti [*]
• Seeing Things As They Are: A Theory of Perception - John Searle
• Causation: A Very Short Introduction - Stephen Mumford, Rani Lill Anjum
• Square One: The Foundations of Knowledge - Steve Patterson
• On Escape - Emmanuel Levinas
• Philosophy and Simulation - Manuel DeLanda
• Aphorisms - Franz Kafka
• On the Shortness of Life - Seneca
• Human, All Too Human - Friedrich Nietzsche [*]
• The Daily Stoic: 366 Meditations for Clarity, Effectiveness, and Serenity - Ryan Holiday, Stephen Hanselman

Sociology

• The Social Construction of Reality: A Treatise in the Sociology of Knowledge - Peter L. Berger, Thomas Luckmann

Psychology

• Lost Connections: Uncovering the Real Causes of Depression – and the Unexpected Solutions - Johann Hari [*]
• The Psychopath Code: Cracking The Predators That Stalk Us - Pieter Hintjens
• Psychopath Free: Recovering from Emotionally Abusive Relationships With Narcissists, Sociopaths, & Other Toxic People - Jackson MacKenzie

Biology

• The Feeling of What Happens: Body and Emotion in the Making of Consciousness - Antonio Damasio [*]
• Anxious: Using the Brain to Understand and Treat Fear and Anxiety - Joseph LeDoux

Technology-Startups-Business

• The New New Thing: A Silicon Valley Story - Michael Lewis [*]
• The Hard Thing About Hard Things - Ben Horowitz
• It Doesn't Have to Be Crazy at Work - Jason Fried, David Heinemeier Hansson

Design-Branding-Marketing

• Positioning The Brand: an inside-out approach - Jaap Van Der Grinten, Rik Riezebos

Poetry

• Failure - Philip Schultz [*]
• Faithful and Virtuous Night - Louise Gluck
• Delights & Shadows - Ted Kooser

Self-Development

• Thinking Fast and Slow - Daniel Kahneman
• Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World - Cal Newport
• The Opposable Mind: Winning Through Integrative Thinking - Roger Martin
• The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment - Eckhart Tolle
• Turning Pro - Steven Pressfield

Writing

• Several Short Sentences About Writing - Verlyn Klinkenborg [*]