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2024
Energy and History
- Vaclav Smil
Collapse
- Jared Diamond
Thinking in Systems
- Donella H. Meadows
2023
The Salmon of Doubt
- Douglas Adams
The Age of Em
- Robin Hanson
Why We Sleep
- Matthew Walker
The Glass Bead Game
- Herman Hesse ✨
Byzantium
- Stephen R. Lawhead ✨
Shop Class as Soulcraft
- Matthew Craford
The Religious Sense
- Luigi Giussani
The Shining
- Stephen King
Guns, Germs and Steel
- Jared Diamond
The Rise and Fall of the Third Reiche
- William Shirer ✨
The Name of the Wind
- Patrick Rothfuss
The Dawn of Everything
- David Graeber
Foundation
- Isaac Asimov
Cradle to Grave
- Michael Braungart
The Forever Transaction
- Robbie Kellman Baxter
Subscribed
- Tien Tzuo
Cradle to Cradle
- William McDonough
Donut Economics
- Kate Raworth
The Zero Marginal Cost Society
- Jeremy Rifkin
Debt: The First 5,000 Years
- David Graeber
The Circular Economy - A User Guide
- Walter R. Stahel
2022
Apolcolypse Never
- Michael Shellenberger
I, Robot
- Isaac Asimov
The Founders
- Jimmy Soni
The New Economics
- Stephen Ken
The Brothers Karamazov
- Fyodor Dostoyevsky ✨
Power Play
- Tim Higgins
The Return of the King
- J. R. R. Tolkien ✨
The Two Towers
- J. R. R. Tolkien
The Fellowship of the Ring
- J. R. R. Tolkien ✨
Bleak House
- Charles Dickens ✨
On Writing - A Memoir of the Craft
- Stephen King
Roadside Picnic
- Arkady Strugatsgy
Drawdown
- Paul Hawken
San Fransicko
- Michael Shellenberger
2021
How to Avoid a Climate Disaster
- Bill Gates
Liftoff
- Eric Berger
The Witcher
- Andrzej Sapkowski
Sword of Destiny
- Andrzej Sapkowski
The Last Wish
- Andrzej Sapkowski
Blood of Elves
- Andrzej Sapkowski
Time of Contempt
- Andrzej Sapkowski
Baptism of Fire
- Andrzej Sapkowski
The Tower of the Swallow
- Andrzej Sapkowski
The Lady of the Lake
- Andrzej Sapkowski
On Writing Well
- William Zinsser
Eaarth
- Bill Mckibben
2020
Our Final Warning
- Mark Lynas
The Inevitable
- Kevin Kelley
The Sentient Machine
- Amir Husain
Snow Crash
- Neal Stephenson
The Signal and the Noise
- Nate Silver ✨
The Magic Mountain
- Thomas Mann
Thinking Fast and Slow
- Daniel Kahneman
Confusion, A Chess Story
- Stefan Zweig
How to Day Trade For a Living
- Andrew Aziz
The Power Broker
- Robert Caro ✨
The Case for Mars
- Robert Zubrin
The Art of Travel
- Alain de Botto
Replay
- Ken Grimwood
Better
- Atul Gawande
Ideas and Opinions
- Albert Einstein
Steppenwolf
- Hermann Hesse
Letters to a Young Poet
- Rainer Maria Rilke
2019
Player Piano
- Kurt Vonnegut ✨
Universal Principles of Design
- William Lidwell
Antifragile
- Nassim Talib ✨
Story Telling with Data
- Cole Knaflic
20 questions for the 21st century century
- Yuval Noah Harari
Homo Deus
- Yuval Noah Harari
Measure what Matters
- John Doerr
Incomplete Nature
- Terrance Deacon
Leonardo Davinci
- Walter Issacson
Principles
- Ray Dalio
The Subtle Art of Not Giving a Fuck
- Mark Manson
Steve Jobs
- Walter Issacson
Small is beautiful
- E.F. Schumacher
2018
The Most Human Human
- Brian Christian
Structures: Why Things Don't Fall Down
- J. E. Gordon ✨
Scale
- Jeffery West
The Book of Why
- Judea Pearl
Scrum: Doing Twice the Work in Half the Time
- Jeff Sutherland
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
- Yuval Noah Harari
Einstein's Unfinished Revolution
- Lee Smolin
Deep Learning
- Josh Patterson
Mastering Bitcoin
- Andreas Antonopoulos
Death's End
- Cixin Liu
The Dark Forest
- Cixin Liu
The Three Body Problem
- Cixin Liu ✨
The Electric Life of Michael Farday
- Cixin Liu