March 29, 2019
Note: this is horrendously out of date.
This is a list of all the books I can remember reading. Since I remember them, most are pretty good. Again, they are in roughly descending order of subjective quality. If you want to see books I hope to read in the future, see my anti-library.
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley. Genre: Speculative Fiction.
The Outsider by Albert Camus. Genre: Modern Classic.
Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahnemann. Genre: Psychology.
1984 by George Orwell. Genre: Speculative Fiction.
A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier by Ishmael Beah. Genre: Memoir.
Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh. Genre: Classic.
Conjectures and Refutations by Karl Popper. Genre: Philosophy.
The Art of Doing Science and Engineering by Richard Hamming. Genre: Engineering
How to Solve It by Georg Polya. Genre: Mathematics.
Lord of the Flies by William Golding. Genre: Modern Classic.
Night by Elie Wiesel. Genre: Memoir.
Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami. Genre: Coming of age classic.
Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood. Genre: Speculative Fiction.
The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath. Genre: Novel.
The Blank Slate by Steven Pinker. Genre: Psychology.
The Feynman Lectures on Physics by Richard Feynman. Genre: Physics.
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald. Genre: Classic.
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams. Genre: Sci-fi.
The Lord of the Rings by J. R. Tolkein. Genre: High Fantasy.
The Periodic Table by Primo Levi. Genre: Short Stories.
The Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins. Genre: Biology.
Zero to One by Peter Thiel. Genre: Business.
The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood. Genre: Speculative Fiction.
A Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger. Genre: Coming of age classic.
Animal Farm by George Orwell. Genre: Satire.
Babylon Revisited by F. Scott Fitzgerald. Genre: Short Stories.
Dune Series by Frank Herbert. Genre: Sci-fi.
For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway. Genre: Classic.
Guns, Germs, and Steel by Jared Diamond. Genre: History
His Dark Materials by Phillip Pullman. Genre: Fantasy.
Love in a Time of Cholera by Gabriel-Garcia Marquez. Genre: Magical Realism.
Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut. Genre: Modern Classic.
Surely You’re Joking Mr. Feynman? by Richard Feynman. Genre: Memoir.
The New Science of Strong Materials by JE Gordon. Genre: Engineering
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime by Mark Haddon. Genre: Psychological Novel.
The Elements of Style by Strunk and White. Genre: Writing.
The Fabric of Reality by David Deutsch. Genre: Physics.
The Heart of a Dog by Mikhail Bulgakov. Genre: Satire.
The Lessons of History by Will and Ariel Durant. Genre: Classic.
The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula Leguin. Genre: Sci-fi.
The Righteous Mind by Jonathan Haidt. Genre: Psychology.
The Road by Cormac McCarthy. Genre: Post-apocalyptic.
The Trial by Franz Kafka. Genre: Classic.
Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe. Genre: Modern Classic.
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee. Genre: Modern Classic.
Why I Write by George Orwell. Genre: Politics.
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert Pirsig. Genre: Philosophy.
Money: A Suicide Note by Martin Amis. Genre: Modern Classic.
The Cement Garden by Ian McEwan. Genre: Modern Gothic.
The Chronicles of Narnia by C. S. Lewis. Genre: Fantasy.
A Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawking. Genre: Physics.
A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess. Genre: Modern Classic.
A Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula Leguin. Genre: High Fantasy.
A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L’Engle. Genre: Sci-fi.
Abhorsen Trilogy by Garth Nix. Genre: High Fantasy.
Adaptive Markets by Andrew Lo. Genre: Economics & Finance.
After the Flood by Margaret Atwood. Genre: Speculative Fiction.
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll. Genre: Allegory.
Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy. Genre: Modern Epic.
Economics: The User’s Guide by Ha-Joon Chang. Genre: Economics.
Finite and Infinite Games by James Carse. Genre: Philosophy
Faranheit 451 by Ray Bradbury. Genre: Speculative Fiction.
Greek and Roman Political Ideas by Melissa Lane. Genre: Politics & Philosophy.
Hitch-22: A Memoir by Christopher Hitchens. Genre: Memoir.
How to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie. Genre: Self-help.
Lolita by Vladamir Nabokov. Genre: Modern Classic.
Madaddam by Margaret Atwood. Genre: Speculative Fiction.
Man’s Search for Meaning by Victor Frankl. Genre: Psychology.
Mistborn Trilogy by Brandon Sanderson. Genre: High Fantasy.
On the Shortness of Life by Seneca. Genre: Philosophy.
Staring at the Sun by Julian Barnes. Genre: Modern Classic.
The Art of War by Sun Tzu. Genre: Politics & Philosophy.
The Blind Watchmaker by Richard Dawkins. Genre: Biology.
The Improbability Principle by David Hand. Genre: Mathematics.
The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini. Genre: Historical Fiction.
The Man Who Mistook his Wife for a Hat by Oliver Sacks. Genre: Neuroscience.
The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde. Genre: Classic.
The Plague by Albert Camus. Genre: Modern Classic.
The Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes. Genre: Modern Classic.
The Silmarillion by J. R. Tolkein. Genre: High Fantasy.
The Sirens of Titan by Kurt Vonnegut. Genre: Postmodern Sci fi.
The Strange Death of Europe by Douglas Murray. Genre: Culture.
The Thirty Nine Steps by John Buchan. Genre: Thriller.
The Undoing Project by Michael Lewis. Genre: Biography.
The Wasp Factory by Ian Banks. Genre: Modern Gothic.
The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga. Genre: Modern Classic.
The Worldly Philosophers by Robert Heilbroner. Genre: Economics.
We Need to Talk About Kevin by Lionel Shriver. Genre: Psychological Novel.
Why Chemical Reactions Happen by James Keeler. Genre: Chemistry.
World’s Hidden in Plain Sight by David Krakauer. Genre: Essays.
7 Habits of Highly Effective People by Steven Covey. Genre: Self-help.
A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway. Genre: Memoir.
And the Weak Suffer What they Must by Yannis Varoufakis. Genre: Economics & Politics.
Blind Faith by Ben Elton. Genre: Speculative Fiction.
Candide by Voltaire. Genre: Satire.
Cantata-140 by Phillip K. Dick. Genre: Sci-fi.
Death by Black Hole by Neill DeGrasse Tyson. Genre: Physics.
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Phillip K. Dick. Genre: Sci-fi.
Freakonomics by Steven Levitt, Stephen Dubner. Genre: Economics.
I’m OK, You’re OK by Thomas Anthony Harris. Genre: Self-help.
La Belle Sauvage by Phillip Pullman. Genre: Fantasy.
Levels of Life by Julian Barnes. Genre: Memoir.
Liar’s Poker by Michael Lewis. Genre: Memoir.
Life of Pi by Yann Martel. Genre: Magical Realism.
Metroland by Julian Barnes. Genre: Novel.
Neuromancer by William Gibson. Genre: Sci-fi.
The Misbehaviour of Markets by Benoit Mandelbrot. Genre: Finance
Simple Rules by Kathleen Eisenhardt. Genre: Business
Lavoisier in the Year One by Madison Smartt Bell. Genre: Biography
Portnoy’s Complaint by Phillip Roth. Genre: Modern Classic.
Saturday by Ian McEwan. Genre: Thriller.
Temeraire Series by Naomi Novik. Genre: Fantasy
The Bloody Chamber by Angela Carter. Genre: Short Stories.
The Feeling of What Happens by Antonio Damasio. Genre: Neuroscience.
The First Casualty by Ben Elton. Genre: Historical Fiction.
The Gervais Principle by Venkatesh Rao. Genre: Sociology
The Man in the High Castle by Phillip K. Dick. Genre: Speculative Fiction.
The Trouble with Physics by Lee Smolin. Genre: Physics.
The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides. Genre: Modern Gothic.
Very Short Introduction to Game Theory by Ken Binmore. Genre: Game Theory.
A short history of nearly everything by Bill Bryson. Genre: History.
Alias Grace by Margaret Atwood. Genre: Historical Fiction.
Blink by Malcolm Gladwell. Genre: Psychology.
Breakfast at Tiffany’s by Truman Capote. Genre: Novel.
Catch-22 by Joseph Heller. Genre: Satire.
David & Goliath by Malcolm Gladwell. Genre: Psychology.
Eichmann in Jerusalem by Hannah Arendt. Genre: History.
Elon Musk by Ashlee Vance. Genre: Biography
Foundation Series by Isaac Asimov. Genre: Sci-fi
I, Robot by Isaac Asimov. Genre: Sci-fi
Inferno by Dante. Genre: Epic.
Mistress of the Art of Death by Ariana Franklin. Genre: Historical Fiction.
No One Writes to the Colonel by Gabriel-Garcia Marquez. Genre: Short Stories.
Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck. Genre: Classic.
Of Molecules and Men by Francis Crick. Genre: Biology.
Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell. Genre: Psychology.
Reinventing Organisations by Frederic Laloux. Genre: Management.
Stark by Ben Elton. Genre: Satire.
Supercontinent by Ted Nield. Genre: Geology.
The Bell by Iris Murdoch. Genre: Modern Classic.
The Call of the Wild by Jack London. Genre: Adventure Fiction.
The Cuckoo’s Calling by Robert Galbraith. Genre: Crime Thriller.
The Establishment by Owen Jones. Genre: Politics.
The Magus by John Fowles. Genre: Postmodern.
The Noise of Time by Julian Barnes. Genre: Historical Fiction.
The Pearl by John Steinbeck. Genre: Classic.
The Prince by Niccolo Machiavelli. Genre: Politics & Philosophy.
The Satanic Verses by Salman Rushdie. Genre: Magical Realism.
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson. Genre: Victorian Gothic.
The Sword of Shannara series by Terry Brooks. Genre: Fantasy
Tipping Point by Malcolm Gladwell. Genre: Psychology.
Titus Groan by Mervyn Peake. Genre: Modern Gothic.
Unweaving the Rainbow by Richard Dawkins. Genre: Popular Science.
What is Life? by Erwin Schrodinger. Genre: Biophysics.
Who Governs Britain? by Anthony King. Genre: Politics.
Why Orwell Matters by Christopher Hitchens. Genre: Biography
Brighton Rock by Graham Greene. Genre: Thriller.
Economic Principles for Prosperity by The Fraser Institute. Genre: Economics.
Everyday Practice of Science by Frederick Grinnell. Genre: Philosophy of Science.
Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad. Genre: Classic.
The Children Act by Ian McEwan. Genre: Thriller.
Go Set a Watchman by Harper Lee. Genre: Modern Classic.
On the Road by Jack Kerouac. Genre: Modern Classic.
The Investment Answer by -. Genre: Finance.
White Fang by Jack London. Genre: Adventure Fiction.
Why Does E=Mc^2? by Brian Cox. Genre: Physics.
Capitalist Realism by Robert Fisher. Genre: Economics.
The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank. Genre: Memoir.