Book Recommendations
The books below are the best I have read in a given year since I started this website. Note that the books are in no particular order, and I do not agree with everything in these books. Moreover, it is difficult to recommend specific books—you need the right book for the right person at the right time.
If you want to know what blogs, essays, papers, podcasts, etc. I consume, you can find them in my resources.
2020
- Thus Spoke Zarathustra - Friedrich Nietzsche
- Our Mathematical Universe - Max Tegmark
- The Fountainhead - Ayn Rand
- Atlas Shrugged - Ayn Rand
- Good and Real - Gary L. Drescher
- Quantum Computing Since Democritus - Scott Aaronson
- Letters to a Young Poet - Rainer Maria Rilke
- Parerga and Paralipomena - Arthur Shopenhauer
- Stories of Your Life and Others - Ted Chiang
- The Last Days of Socrates - Plato
- Essential Bukowski: Poetry - Charles Bukowski
- Summerhill School - A. S. Neill
- The Open Society and Its Enemies - Karl Popper
- The Constitution of Liberty - Friedrich A. Hayek
2019
- Antifragile - Nassim Nicholas Taleb
- Awareness - Anthony De Mello
- The Black Swan - Nassim Nicholas Taleb
- Discourses and Selected Writings - Epictetus
- Gödel, Escher, Bach - Douglas R. Hofstadter
- Letters from a Stoic - Seneca
- Man’s Search for Meaning - Viktor E. Frankl
- Siddartha - Hermann Hesse
- Skin in the Game - Nassim Nicholas Taleb
- The Bed of Procrustes - Nassim Nicholas Taleb
- The Beginning of Infinity - David Deutsch
- The Bitcoin Standard - Saifedean Ammous
- The Fabric of Reality - David Deutsch
- Sapiens - Yuval Noah Harari