Books
Welcome to my digital bookshelf
Here you'll find every book I've read, more or less, along with a rating of 1-10 how strongly I recommend each book. Some books might be missing from this list, since I only started it a few years back and had to rely on memory for past books I read. For the same reason, some books might be missing dates or ratings or other info. If you want, try sorting by: rating, latest, or alphabetical. Or try looking at these categories: any, biography, business, fiction, foreign, literature, non-fiction, and theory.
Raison d'être
Do you wonder why this page exists? A great treasure in my reading life has been thumbing through other digital bookshelves such as sivers/books, gatesnotes, as well as a few others, but primarily those. And ever since I was introduced to the concept I knew I'd someday want to build one myself. So consider this a way to pay it forward.
28 Results - Nonfiction - sorted by latest
The Gulag Archipelago: An Experiment in Literary Investigation
Alexandr Solzhenitsyn
Nonfiction
9/10 - Dec 2021
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The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer
Siddhartha Mukherjee
Nonfiction
7/10 - Oct 2021
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Revolutionary Russia: 1891-1991
Orlando Figes
Nonfiction
9/10 - May 2020
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The Gene: An Intimate History
Siddhartha Mukherjee
Nonfiction
9/10 - Apr 2020
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Life 3.0: Being Human in the Age of Artificial Intelligence
Max Tegmark
Nonfiction
9/10 - Feb 2020
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The Inflamed Mind
Edward Bullmore
Nonfiction
5/10 - Jul 2019
Aroused: The History of Hormones and How They Control Just About Everything
Randi Hutter Epstein
Nonfiction
7/10 - Jun 2019
Conscious: A Brief Guide to the Fundamental Mystery of the Mind
Annaka Harris
Nonfiction
7/10 - Jun 2019
Guns, Germs, Steel
Jared Diamond
Nonfiction
9/10 - Dec 2017
Sapiens
Yuval Noah Harari
Nonfiction
10/10 - Jul 2017
Clean Code: A Handbook of Agile Software Craftsmanship
Robert C. Martin
Nonfiction
8/10 - Jan 2016
Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die
Chip & Dan Heath
Nonfiction
9/10 - Sep 2015
Mastery
Robert Greene
Nonfiction
8/10 - May 2015
Happier
Tal Ben-Shahar
Nonfiction
7/10 - Apr 2015
Emotional Intelligence: Why It Can Matter More Than IQ
Daniel Goleman
Nonfiction
8/10 - Jan 2015
The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference
Malcolm Gladwell
Nonfiction
6/10 - Oct 2014
The Power of Habit
Charles Duhigg
Nonfiction
7/10 - Sep 2014
Daily Rituals: How Artists Work
Mason Currey
Nonfiction
7/10 - Aug 2014
The Paradox of Choice
Barry Schwartz
Nonfiction
9/10 - Aug 2014
Willpower: Rediscovering the Greatest Human Strength
Roy Baumeister
Nonfiction
8/10 - Aug 2014
Mindset
Carol Dweck
Nonfiction
7/10 - May 2014
Your Memory: How It Works and How to Improve It
Kenneth Higbee
Nonfiction
9/10 - Aug 2013
Silk Parachute
John McPhee
Nonfiction
Aug 2012
The Big Short: inside the doomsday machine
Michael Lewis
Nonfiction
Aug 2010
Bottled & Sold: The Story Behind Our Obsession with Bottled Water
Peter H. Gleik
Nonfiction
Aug 2010
Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea
Charles Seife
Nonfiction
8/10 - Dec 2009
Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal
Eric Schlosser
Nonfiction
7/10 - Aug 2008
Quotes
"Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen" - Samuel Johnson
"I cannot remember the books I've read any more than the meals I've eaten; even so, they have made me" - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Tat Tvam Asi" - Chandogya Upanishad