books I should read

This note last modified November 14, 2024

Sci-Fi

  • This is how you lose the time war (Sydney recommends)
  • Artemis by Andy Weir
  • What moves the dead (Tori recommends, horror)
  • Broken Earth Trilogy (Nathan)
  • Gideon The Ninth (Space Lesbian Necromancers)

Games

  • Significant zero
  • Achievement Relocked - loss aversion

History

  • Lies my teacher told me

Philosophy

  • Quaker faith and practice, probably free online
  • Living the Quaker way Philip Gulley
  • Graphic introduction to Foucalt
  • Erica Chenowith Nonviolence

Race

  • Race After Technology, Ruha Benjamin 
  • Sarah Ahmed, Queer Phenomenology 

Science

  • Whatever SMBC has come out with
  • A short history of my last 6 years - wait but why

Fiction

  • Whatever books WTNV has come out with

Uncategorized

How to blow up a pipeline / Blessed Unrest Southern poverty law center Malcolm gladwell New republic 13thh amendment Swords and somethibg What the health Book theif Ask bayou.com The eye of minds The jaein list HPMOR Terry Pratchett Jonathan Haidt The book thief Lang list Atlas shrugged Scarcity by Shafir Greg Egan - Incandescent Charles stross - Accelerando The Republic Nicomachean Ethics 5 Platonic Dialogues Catcher in the rye Namesake Wheel of time Golden compass Personal reflections Richard Feynman challenger explosion Skulduggery pleasant Avatar comics I-robot Asimov Michio kaku Lisa the joyful Lolita Nehal’s book The bottom billion Mistborn, Bryan sanderson John dies at the end The revenant The house on mango street So you have been publicly shamed Unbroken Haskell curry Pinter abstract algebra Gunther anders Religion and conquest After the ice The thing with feathers And then there were none Things to make and do In the 4th dimension (Matt parker) Rich Asians Surreal numbers - knuth Ishmael by Daniel quinn In the shadow of war Red sorghum clan Fault lines by raghuram The secret Clive Cussler - fiction The moon is a harsh mistress Rice library: minds brains and programs John surle Hope for Animals and Their World The conscious mind by Chalmers. Daniel Dennett cog sci People, parasites, plowshares Mary roach Epidemic of absence Abraham Heschel - man is not alone When breath becomes air Fluke, the myth and math behind coincidence Count of MonteCristo - is Garner Dresden files 741.597 Flatland The documentary “Vietnam” by PBS Bradford says: Bertrand Russel’s History of Western Philosophy & The school of life books Unmentionable: the victorian ladies guide Atlas obscura Visions of vocation - Steve Garber The case of the marble monster Saga (webcomic or comic) The longevity project - Dean Gorman The ego and its own/ the unique and its property Devil in the White city Surely you’re joking Mr. Feyneman Feed by md Anderson Martin Gardner Arithmitist Reasoning about knowledge by Vardi GEB by Hofstadter (rec by Hunter) The girl with all the gifts (Rae) Antonio Damasio (constructing the conscious brain, Michele recommended) Hillary Putnam - Consciousness Man finds meaning Victor Frankel Rendezvous with Rama (also Rae) The lies of Locke lamora (wow Rae) Alcatraz Smedry vs the evil library- Soo and Rae Little life Thaler and Sunstein - nudges IEEE ethically aligned design Midnight at Chernobyl Rain on fire - mebbe? If on a winter night a traveler - Steve Racing in the Rain - Movie and Book The authoritarians - ebook Snowcrash - Tori recommend Cyberpunk Love & Sex with robots Class: a guide through the American status system Games: Agency as Art by Tin Nguyen The signal and the noise - Nate Silver of 538 Survey of Metaphysics Lies my teacher told me Tyler Cowen or Ross Douthat as conservatives who are reasonable

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Privacy -

Science communication NLP how effective is science communication How we know that online communities are designed by white males

The importance of being earnest

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