Reading List 2018
A list of books I read in 2018. Chronological order.
1. Principles: Life and Work (Nonfiction)
Ray Dalio
2. Void Star (Fiction)
Zachary Mason
3. Self Comes to Mind: Constructing the Conscious Brain (Nonfiction)
Antonio Damasio
4. When: The Scientific Secrets of Perfect Timing (Nonfiction)
Daniel H. Pink
5. The Fourth Turning: An American Prophecy (Nonfiction)
William Strauss, Neil Howe
6. Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams (Fiction)
Matthew Walker
7. The Years of Rice and Salt (Fiction)
Kim Stanley Robinson
8. Shaman (Fiction)
Kim Stanley Robinson
9. Semiosis (Fiction)
Sue Burke
10. The Ego Tunnel: The Science of the Mind and the Myth of the Self (Nonfiction)
Thomas Metzinger
11. Icehenge (Fiction)
Kim Stanley Robinson
12. Incognito: The Secret Lives of the Brain (Nonfiction)
David Eagleman
13. Distrust That Particular Flavor (Nonfiction)
William Gibson
14. The Order of Time (Nonfiction)
Carlo Rovelli
15. The Book of Why: The New Science of Cause and Effect (Nonfiction)
Judea Pearl, Dana Mackenzie
16. Autonomous (Fiction)
Annalee Newitz
17. Idoru (Fiction)
William Gibson
18. The Calculating Stars: A Lady Astronaut Novel (Fiction)
Mary Robinette Kowal
19. Dancing with the Gods (Nonfiction)
Kent Nerburn
20. 21 Lessons for the 21st Century (Nonfiction)
Yuval Noah Harari
21. Children of Time (Fiction)
Adrian Tchaikovsky
Highly recommended. One of the best sci-fi stories I've ever read.
22. How to Change Your Mind: What the New Science of Psychedelics Teaches Us About Consciousness, Dying, Addiction, Depression, and Transcendence (Nonfiction)
Michael Pollan
23. The Fated Sky: Lady Astronaut, Book 2 (Fiction)
Mary Robinette Kowal
24. Seeing Like a State (Nonfiction)
James C. Scott
A must-read.
25. Two Cheers for Anarchism: Six Easy Pieces on Autonomy, Dignity, and Meaningful Work and Play (Nonfiction)
James C. Scott
26. Altered Traits: Science Reveals How Meditation Changes Your Mind, Brain, and Body (Nonfiction)
Daniel Goleman, Richard Davidson
27. Red Moon (Fiction)
Kim Stanley Robinson
28. Superminds: The Surprising Power of People and Computers Thinking Together (Nonfiction)
Thomas W. Malone
29. The Mind Is Flat: The Remarkable Shallowness of the Improvising Brain (Nonfiction)
Nick Chater
30. Debt: The First 5,000 Years (Nonfiction)
David Graeber
31. We Learn Nothing: Essays (Nonfiction)
Tim Kreider
32. Thinking in Systems: A Primer (Nonfiction)
Donella H. Meadows
33. The Utopia of Rules: On Technology, Stupidity, and the Secret Joys of Bureaucracy (Nonfiction)
David Graeber
34. Against the Grain: A Deep History of the Earliest States (Nonfiction)
James C. Scott
35. Usurper of the Sun (Fiction)
Housuke Nojiri