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
  • Project Hail Mary
  • Cloud Cuckoo Land
  • The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories
  • Andrew Carnegie
  • The Old Man and the Sea
  • The House of Morgan
  • Titan
  • On the Edge
  • A Game of Thrones
  • A Storm of Swords
  • What I Talk about When I Talk about Running
  • Seveneves
  • Welcome to the Monkey House
  • A Clash of Kings
  • Benjamin Franklin: An American Life
  • Shoe Dog
  • The Return of the King
  • The Two Towers
  • Where Is My Flying Car?
  • Lads Before the Wind: Diary of a Dolphin Trainer
  • Marathoner: What to Expect When Training for and Running a Marathon
  • Into Thin Air
  • Himalaya
  • The Games of Anatoly Karpov
  • Trekking Annapurna
  • The Complete Grimm’s Fairy Tales
  • A Gentleman in Moscow
  • The Empiricists: Locke, Berkeley, Hume
  • Death on the Nile
  • A Tale of Two Cities
  • Born a Crime
  • The Grasshopper: Games, Life and Utopia
  • On Food and Cooking: The Science and Lore of the Kitchen
  • A Cloud a Day
  • Container Gardening Through the Year
  • Scotland: The Global History -- 1603 to the Present
  • Homage to Catalonia
  • Lonely Planet Best in Travel 2022
  • Dune
  • Mindhunter: Inside the FBI’s Elite Serial Crime Unit
  • House of Huawei: The Secret History of China’s Most Powerful Company
  • Remarkably Bright Creatures
  • The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers
  • Dishoom: From Bombay with Love
  • The Maid
  • HBR’s 10 Must Reads for New Managers
  • Rage the Night
  • Mondrian Notes (pocket notepad)
  • Counterfeit
  • Utilitarianism and Other Essays
  • The Body in the Library
  • Gulp: Adventures on the Alimentary Canal
  • From Third World to First: The Singapore Story 1965-2000
  • Matrescence: On Pregnancy, Childbirth, and Motherhood
  • The Art of War & Other Classics of Eastern Philosophy
  • Invitation to a Banquet: The Story of Chinese Food
  • The Almagest
  • The Butcher
  • Six Feet Over: Science Tackles the Afterlife
  • The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle
  • Genius: The Life and Science of Richard Feynman
  • Value(s): Building a Better World for All
  • In the Footsteps of Mr. Kurtz
  • Outlive
  • A Moveable Feast
  • Life Unfolding
  • Mozart: The Reign of Love
  • Piet Mondrian: A Life
  • The Dream Machine: J. C. R. Licklider and the Revolution That Made Computing Personal
  • The Machinery of Life
  • Operating Systems: Three Easy Pieces
  • A Book of Noises: Notes on the Auraculous
  • Designing Data-Intensive Applications
  • Entangled Life
  • The New Map
  • The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money & Power
  • The Wright Brothers
  • The Great Bridge
  • The Path Between the Seas: The Creation of the Panama Canal, 1870-1914
  • The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood