Books
This is an incomplete list of books that I’ve read in rough reverse chronological order. I’ve ripped off my old colleague Sam who in turned ripped off Patrick Collinson by colouring books I thought exceptional in green and those I considered good in blue.
- Spy Line - Len Deighton
- London Match - Len Deighton
- Mexico Set - Len Deighton
- Berlin Game - Len Deighton
- Enigma - Robert Harris
- Tomorrow, And Tomorrow, And Tomorrow - Gabrielle Zevin
- V2 - Robert Harris
- Funeral in Berlin - Len Deighton
- Chip War: The Fight for the World’s Most Critical Technology - Chris Miller
- Replacing Guilt - Nate Soares
- A Philosophy of Software Design - John Ousterhout
- So Good They Can’t Ignore You - Cal Newport
- Deep Work - Cal Newport
- Friendship is Optimal - Iceman
- Three Worlds Collide - Eliezer Yudkowsky
- Act of Oblivion - Robert Harris
- This Is How They Tell Me the World Ends - Nicole Pelroth
- Atomic Habits - James Clear
- Ultralearning - Scott H. Young
- The Book of Why - Judea Pearl & Dana Mackenzie
- Ghost in the Wires - Kevin Mitnick with William L. Simon
- The Scout Mindset - Julia Galef
- Doing Good Better - Will MacAskill
- 21 Lessons for the 21st Century - Yuval Noah Harari
- Superintelligence - Nick Bostrom
- Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality - Eliezer Yudkowksy
- Inadequate Equilibria - Eliezer Yudkowsky
- Chaos Monkeys - Antonio García Martínez
- The Rationalists Guide to the Galaxy - Tom Chivers
- The Everything Store - Brad Stone
- The Engines of Cognition (Best of LessWrong 2019) - Various
- Never Split the Difference - Chris Voss
- Liftoff - Eric Berger
- The Double Helix - James D. Watson
- Tales of the Jazz Age - F. Scott Fitzgerald
- Second Sleep - Robert Harris
- Brief Answers to the Big Questions - Stephen Hawking
- How to Actually Change Your Mind - Eliezer Yudkowsky
- Map and Territory - Eliezer Yudkowsky
- Conclave - Robert Harris
- Foundation - Isaac Asimov
- Freakonomics - A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything - Steven D. Levitt, Stephen J. Dubner
- Life 3.0 - Max Tegmark
- Stumbling on Happiness - David Gilbert
- Brief Answers to the Big Questions - Stephen Hawking
- Range - David Epstein
- Munich - Robert Harris
- How Many Friends Does One Person Need - Robin Dunbar
- The Undoing Project - Michael Lewis
- Red Notice - Bill Browder
- Misbehaving - Richard Thaler
- Homo Deus - Yuval Noah Harari
- Rogue Male - Geoffrey Household
- Pompeii - Robert Harris
- Isaac Newton - James Gleick
- An Officer and a Spy - Robert Harris
- Fahrenheit 451 - Ray Bradbury
- Dictator - Robert Harris
- Lustrum - Robert Harris
- Imperium - Robert Harris
- The Grand Design - Stephen Hawking
- Archangel - Robert Harris
- Fatherland - Robert Harris
- The Ghost - Robert Harris
- The Fear Index - Robert Harris
- A Farewell to Arms - Ernest Hemingway
- 17 Equations that Changed the world - Ian Stewart
- The Sense of an Ending - Julian Barnes
- 1984 - George Orwell
- A Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
- Day of the Jackal - Frederick Forsyth
- Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
- Decline and Fall - Evelyn Waugh
- Carry on Jeeves - P. G. Wodehouse
- Free Will - Sam Harris
- The Art of Learning: An Inner Journey to Optimal Performance - Josh Waitzkin
- The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
- Live and Let Die - Ian Fleming
- Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance - Robert M. Pirsig
- Perfume: The Story of a Murderer - Patrick Susskind
- Moonwalking with Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything - Joshua Foer
- A Briefer History of Time - Stephen Hawking
- Fermat’s Last Theorem - Simon Singh
- How to Teach Quantum Physics to Your Dog - Chad Orzel
- The Old Man and the Sea - Ernest Hemingway
- Death of a Salesman - Arthur Miller
- The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald
- The Picture of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde
- Animal Farm - George Orwell
- The Hobbit - J.R. Tolkein