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Books

A subset of my bookshelf. I particularly enjoyed the sparkling books. Their order is random.

• Proofs and Refutations
• My Family and Other Animals
• Why We Sleep
• The Three Body Problem
• Information Theory, Inference, and Learning Algorithms
• Ishmael
• Leviathan
• Superintelligence
• Meditations
• Everybody Lies: Big Data, New Data, and what the Internet can tell us about Who We Really Are
• Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time
• Between the World and Me
• A Walk in the Woods
• What is Life?
• On Liberty and The Subjection of Women
• How Fiction Works
• A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction
• How Buildings Learn: What Happens After They're Built
• Feynman Lectures on Computation
• The Paris Review Interviews, Vol I
• The Inner Game of Tennis: the Classic Guide to the Mental Side of Peak Performance
• Principia Ethica
• The House of Wisdom: How Arabic Science Saved Ancient Knowledge and Gave Us the Renaissance
• The Dark Forest
• Thinking, Fast and Slow
• Death’s End
• Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future
• A Crack in Creation: the New Power to Control Evolution
• Underground: the Tokyo Gas Attack and the Japanese Psyche
• The Count of Monte Cristo
• The Elements of Statistical Learning: Data Mining, Inference, and Prediction
• Gathering Moss, a Natural and Cultural History of Mosses
• The Magical World of Moss Gardening
• The Annotated Turing: a Guided Tour through Alan Turing's Historic Paper on Computability and the Turing Machine
• A Death in the Family
• The Selfish Gene
• The Order of Time
• Spying on Whales
• Scientific Freedom: The Elixir of Civilization
• Six Easy Pieces
• 21 Lessons for the 21st Century
• Cracking the Coding Interview
• The Invisible Killer
• The Map Of Knowledge
• Algorithms To Live By
• The Book of Why
• The Character of Physical Law
• How to Fall in Love with Anyone
• Thinking in Numbers
• Music: A Subversive History
• Working in Public: The Making and Maintenance of Open Source Software
• Listening to Whales: What the Orcas Have Taught Us
• In Defence of Dogs
• Machines Will Make Better Choices Than Humans
• The Art of Doing Science and Engineering
• Why Zebras Don't Get Ulcers
• Bayesian Reasoning and Machine Learning
• Mother Tongue
• One Hundred Years of Solitude
• What If: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions
• E=mc2: A Biography of the World's Most Famous Equation
• Amusing Ourselves To Death
• Dancing In The Glory Of Monsters: The Collapse Of The Congo And The Great War Of Africa
• Anna Karenina
• The Turk: The Life and Times of the Famous Eighteenth-Century Chess-Playing Machine
• Islands in the Stream
• On Violence
• L'éducation sentimentale
• If This Isn't Nice, What Is?
• Snow Crash
• A Confederacy of Dunces
• Being Mortal
• Normal People
• The Unbearable Lightness of Being
• Skunk Works: A Personal Memoir of My Years at Lockheed
• The Living Mountain: A Celebration of the Cairngorm Mountains of Scotland
• The Dialogues of Plato
• Chip War: The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology
• The World Of Yesterday
• Faber & Faber: The Untold Story
• The Days of Abandonment
• The Structure of Scientific Revolution
• The House of Wisdom: How Arabic Science Saved Ancient Knowledge and Gave Us the Renaissance
• Prisoners of Geography
• Blacke Edge: Inside Information, Dirty Money, and the Quest to Bring Down the Most Wanted Man on Wall Street
• Being and Time
• Getting High - The Annapurna Circuit in Nepal
• When Breath Becomes Air
• Pachinko
• Another Country
• Go Tell It On The Mountain
• Kitchen Confidential
• Stories of Your Life and Others
• Just Kids
• Exhalation
• Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow
• If We Were Villains
• Crying in H Mart
• The Attention Merchants
• War Doctor
• Aesop's Fables
• The Earth Moved: On The Remarkable Achievements of Earthworms
• 111 Places in Toronto that you Must Not Miss
• Smellosophy: What the Nose Tells the Mind
• Vagina Obscura: An Anatomical Voyage
• Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men
• A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
• The Language of Food: A Linguist Reads the Menu
• The Yosemite
• Clinical Casebook of Couple Therapy
• Micromgégas, Zadig, Candide
• Best in Travel 2022
• Buddha (manga)
• Toronto Short Stories