Books
Recommended Non-Fiction Books
- Gödel, Escher, Bach by Douglas R. Hofstadter
- Ending Aging by Aubrey de Grey & Michael Rae (see Aubrey speak at TED)
- The Billionaire Who Wasn’t by Conor O’Clery
- The Moral Animal by Robert Wright
- The Blank Slate by Steven Pinker
- The Sigularity is Near by Ray Kurzweil (see the author speak at MIT)
- Engines of Creation by K. Eric Drexler
- The Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins
- The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins
- Perfectly Reasonable Deviations from the Beaten Track: The Letters of Richard P. Feynman by Richard P. Feynman
- Surely You’re Joking Mr. Feynman by Richard P. Feynman
- What Do You Care What Other People Think by Richard P. Feynman
- Economics in One Lesson by Henry Hazlitt
- With the Old Breed by E.B. Sledge
- Ghost Soldiers by Hampton Sides
- The Weather Makers by Tim Flannery
- Mémoires by Hector Berlioz
- Benjamin Franklin: An American Life by Walter Isaacson
- The Undercover Economist by Tim Harford
- American Ceasar: Douglas MacArthur by William Manchester
- Guns, Germs and Steel by Jared Diamond
- American Prometheus: J. Robert Oppenheimer by Bird and Sherwin (See also: PBS Oppenheimer documentary)
- Fooled by randomness : the hidden role of chance in life and in the markets by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
- The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
- Good Calories, Bad Calories: Fats, Carbs, and the Controversial Science of Diet and Health by Gary Taubes
- Whole Earth Discipline by Stewart Brand
- Predictably Irrational by Dan Ariely
- Sustainable Energy – Without the Hot Air by David JC MacKay
- The Strangest Man: The Hidden Life of Paul Dirac by Graham Farmelo
- The Art of Learning by Josh Waitzkin
- The Mindbody Prescription by John E. Sarno
- When Heaven and Earth Changed Places by Le Ly Hayslip
- The Billionaire Who Wasn’t by Conor O’Clery
Recommended Fiction Books
- The Glamour by Christopher Priest
- Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
- Lanark by Alasdair Gray
- Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw
- Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf by Edward Albee
- The Magus by John Fowles
- The French Lieutenant’s Woman by John Fowles
- The Collector by John Fowles
- Consider Phlebas by Iain M. Banks
- Use of Weapons by Iain M. Banks
- The Player of Games by Iain M. Banks
- The Great and Secret Show by Clive Barker
- Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
- ADA by Vladimir Nabokov
- The World According to Garp by John Irving
- A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving
- The Cider House Rules by John Irving
- The Forever War by Joe Haldeman
- Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson
- Gates of Fire by Steven Pressfield
[This page was last updated on: June 19th, 2012. Books are listed in no specific order. If you have questions about some of the books above, or suggestions that you think I might like, drop me a note via my contact page.]
