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2024

Best Reads

Man's Search for Meaning

Good Inside - Becky Kennedy

Recursion

The Socrates Express - Eric Weiner

Dungeon Crawler Carl - Matt Dinniman

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Noteworthy

Awe

Carl's Doomsday Scenario

Blindness

The Art of Loving

Come as you Are - Emily Nagoski

Watership Down

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2023

Best Reads

The Egg and Other Stories - Andy Weir

How to Win Friends & Influence People - Dale Carnegie

Attached - Amir Levine, Rachel Heller

The Annotated Arabian Nights

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Noteworthy

The Hidden Reality - Brian Greene

Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow - Gabrielle Zevin

Green Lights - Matthew McConaughey

Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of Nimh copy

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2022

Best Reads

The Starless Sea - Erin Morgenstern

Spy the Lie - Houston, Floyd, and Carnicero

Shoe Dog - Phil Knight

Salt Sugar Fat - Michael Moss

Being Mortal - Atul Gawnde

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Noteworthy

From Blood and Ash - Jennifer Armentrout

Meditation for Fidgety Skeptics

Racism Without Racists

The Ministry for the Futre - Kim Stanley Robinson

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2021

Best Reads

Endurance - Alfred Lansing

Project Hail Mary - Andy Weir

The Innovation Stack - Jim McKelvey

The Stoic Challenge - William B Irvine

No Rules Rules - Reed Hastings & Erin Meyer

The Wild Robot - Peter Brown

The Price of Tomorrow - Jeff Booth

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Noteworthy

The Wild Robot Escapes - Peter Brown

Mindset - Carol Dweck

The Ride of a Lifetime - Robert Iger

Lifespan - David Sinclair

Infinite 2 - Jeremy Robinson

1-2-3 Matic - Thomas Phelan

Talking to Strangers - Malcolm Gladwell

The Spy and the Traitor - Ben Macintyre

So Good They Can't Ignore You - Cal Newport

Children of Time - Adrian Tchaikovsky

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2020 and Earlier

★★★★★

Books that I absolutely love. Highly recommended.

Dark Money - Jane Mayer

Bobiverse I - We are Legion - Dennis E Taylor

Bobiverse II - We are Many - Dennis E Taylor

Bobiverse III - All These Worlds - Dennis E Taylor

Book - Contact - Edited by Noel Keyes

How Not to Die - Michael Greger MD

Moneyland - Oliver Bullough

Book - Quiet - Susan Cain

Book - Infinite - Jeremy Robinson

Never Split the Difference

Sapiens

Masters of Doom

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Thinking,_Fast_and_Slow

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predictably irrational

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A Walk in the Woods

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★★★★☆

Books that I liked a lot. Recommended.

The Others - Jeremy Robinson

NPC - Jeremy Robinson

Split Second - Douglas Richards

Deep Work - Cal Newport

The Uninhabitable Earth - David Wallace-Wells

Exhalation - Ted Chiang

Fight Club - Chuck Plahniuk

The Black Prism

Peak Performance - By Brad Stulberg & St

Power Moves

Homo Deus

Artemis

Prepare to Meet Thy Doom

Plato at the Googleplex

Childhood's End

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Childhood's End

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Blight of Muirwood

Scourge of Muirwood

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★★★☆☆

Interesting concepts and solid writing. Often some novel insights and gripping sections. Not constant page-turners, but good any time I picked them up.

Flash Crash - Liam Vaughan

Wired - Douglas E Richards

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HowNotToBeWrong

How Not to Die Alone

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★★☆☆☆ & ★☆☆☆☆

I did not enjoy these overall, though I may have enjoyed or even greatly enjoyed confined sections of them. I ended up putting most of them down. Note that generally these books still get good reviews. They don't fit my tastes, but may fit yours.

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HocusPocus(Vonnegut)

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Neuromancer_(Book)

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Timeline

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