My library

Note that these are the books that are currently part of my collection, not all the books I have read. I read many books from the public library when I was a teenager and later while at university that I have never purchased. I also recently got rid of loads of academic and technical books such as monographs and Springer yellow books, as well as textbooks.

"Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!": Adventures of a Curious Character, Richard Feynman, 1985
10% Less Democracy: Why You Should Trust Elites a Little More and the Masses a Little Less, Garett Jones, 2020
1984, George Orwell, 1949
A Billion Wicked Thoughts: What the Internet Tells Us About Sexual Relationships, Ogi Ogas and Sai Gaddam, 2012
A Confederacy of Dunces, John Kennedy Toole, 1980
A Conflict of Visions: Ideological Origins of Political Struggles, Thomas Sowell, 1987
A Farewell to Alms: A Brief Economic History of the World, Gregory Clark, 2007
A Farewell to Arms, Ernest Hemingway, 1929
A Fire Upon the Deep, Vernor Vinge, 1992
A Good Man Is Hard to Find, Flannery O'Connor, 1953
A History of English Literature, Michael Alexander, 2000
À la recherche du temps perdu, Marcel Proust, 1913–1927
A Man on the Moon: The Voyages of the Apollo Astronauts, Andrew Chaikin, 1994
A Modest Proposal, Jonathan Swift, 1729
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, James Joyce, 1916
A Random Walk Down Wall Street, Burton Malkiel, 1973
À rebours, Joris-Karl Huysmans, 1884
A Room of One's Own, Virginia Woolf, 1929
A Room with a View, E. M. Forster, 1908
A Scanner Darkly, Philip K. Dick, 1977
A Secular Age, Charles Taylor, 2007
A Tale of Two Cities, Charles Dickens, 1859
A Theory of Justice, John Rawls, 1971
A Treatise on Human Nature, David Hume, 1739
A Troublesome Inheritance: Genes, Race and Human History, Nicholas Wade, 2014
A Wizard of Earthsea, Ursula K. Le Guin, 1968
Absalom, Absalom!, William Faulkner, 1936
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Mark Twain, 1884
Against Interpretation, Susan Sontag, 1966
Against Method: Outline of an Anarchistic Theory of Knowledge, Paul Feyerabend, 1975
Against the Grain: A Deep History of the Earliest States, James C. Scott, 2017
Albion's Seed: Four British Folkways in America, David Hackett Fischer, 1989
Algorithms to Live By: The Computer Science of Human Decisions, Brian Christian and Tom Griffiths, 2016
Also sprach Zarathustra: Ein Buch für Alle und Keinen, Friedrich Nietzsche, 1892
American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer, Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin, 2005
Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business, Neil Postman, 1985
An American Tragedy, Theodore Dreiser, 1925
An Elegant Puzzle: Systems of Engineering Management, Will Larson, 2019
An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, David Hume, 1748
An Essay on the Principle of Population, Thomas Malthus, 1798
An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations, Adam Smith, 1776
Analects, Confucius, before 200 BC
Anarchy, State, and Utopia, Robert Nozick, 1974
Anathem, Neal Stephenson, 2008
Animal Farm, George Orwell, 1945
Anna Karenina, Leo Tolstoy, 1878
Apology, Plato, before 347 BC
Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are?, Frans de Waal, 2016
At the Mountains of Madness, H. P. Lovecraft, 1936
Ataturk: The Biography of the Founder of Modern Turkey, Andrew Mango, 2002
Atlas Shrugged, Ayn Rand, 1957
Autobiography by John Stuart Mill, John Stuart Mill, 1873
Axiomatic, Greg Egan, 1997
Basic Economics, Thomas Sowell, 2000
Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst, Robert Sapolsky, 2017
Being No One: The Self-Model Theory of Subjectivity, Thomas Metzinger, 2003
Belle du Seigneur, Albert Cohen, 1968
Betrachtungen eines Unpolitischen, Thomas Mann, 1918
Better Never to Have Been: The Harm of Coming into Existence, David Benatar, 2006
Bismarck A Life, Jonathan Steinberg, 2011
Bleak House, Charles Dickens, 1853
Blindsight, Peter Watts, 2006
Blood Meridian or the Evening Redness in the West, Cormac McCarthy, 1985
Boom: Bubbles and the End of Stagnation, Byrne Hobart and Tobias Huber, 2024
Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community, Robert D. Putnam, 2000
Brave New World, Aldous Huxley, 1932
Bullshit Jobs: A Theory, David Graeber, 2018
Capitalism and Freedom, Milton Friedman, 1962
Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy, Joseph Schumpeter, 1942
Capitalisme et schizophrénie. L'anti-Œdipe, Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari, 1972
Cat's Cradle, Kurt Vonnegut, 1963
Catch-22, Joseph Heller, 1961
Cato, a Tragedy, Joseph Addison, 1713
Chaos Monkeys: Obscene Fortune and Random Failure in Silicon Valley, Antonio García Martínez, 2016
Chaos: Making a New Science, James Gleick, 1987
Chimpanzee Politics: Power and Sex among Apes, Frans de Waal, 1982
Civilization and Its Discontents, Sigmund Freud, 1930
Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software, Charles Petzold, 1999
Coming Apart: The State of White America, 1960–2010, Charles Murray, 2012
Command and Control: Nuclear Weapons, the Damascus Accident, and the Illusion of Safety, Eric Schlosser, 2013
Commentaries on the Laws of England, William Blackstone, 1765
Common Sense, Thomas Paine, 1776
Complete Guide to Heraldry, Arthur Charles Fox-Davies, 1909
Complete Works of William Shakespeare, William Shakespeare, 1623
Complexity: A Guided Tour, Melanie Mitchell, 2009
Confessions of a Mask, Yukio Mishima, 1949
Confessions, Augustine of Hippo, 400 AD
Conjectures and Refutations: The Growth of Scientific Knowledge, Karl Popper, 1963
Consciousness Explained, Daniel Dennett, 1991
Considérations sur la France, Joseph de Maistre, 1796
Cows, Pigs, Wars, and Witches: The Riddles of Culture, Marvin Harris, 1974
Crime and Punishment, Fyodor Dostoevsky, 1866
Cryptonomicon, Neal Stephenson, 1999
Crystal Nights and Other Stories, Greg Egan, 2009
Crystal Society, Max Harms, 2016
Cybernetics: Or Control and Communication in the Animal and the Machine, Norbert Wiener, 1948
Das Glasperlenspiel, Hermann Hesse, 1943
Das Kapital. Kritik der politischen Ökonomie, Karl Marx, 1867
Das Kommunistische Manifest, Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, 1848
David Copperfield, Charles Dickens, 1850
De l'esprit des lois, Montesquieu, 1748
De l'inconvénient d'être né, Emil Cioran, 1973
De la Démocratie en Amérique, Alexis de Tocqueville, 1835
Dead Souls, Nikolai Gogol, 1842
Debt: The First 5,000 Years, David Graeber, 2011
Democracy: The God That Failed, Hans-Hermann Hoppe, 2001
Demons, Fyodor Dostoevsky, 1871
Deng Xiaoping and the Transformation of China, Ezra F. Vogel, 2011
Der Antichrist, Friedrich Nietzsche, 1895
Der Begriff des Politischen, Carl Schmitt, 1932
Der Einzige und sein Eigentum, Max Stirner, 1844
Der Mann ohne Eigenschaften, Robert Musil, 1943
Der Steppenwolf, Hermann Hesse, 1927
Der Untergang des Abendlandes, Oswald Spengler, 1922
Der Zauberberg, Thomas Mann, 1924
Des choses cachées depuis la fondation du monde, René Girard, 1978
Descartes' Error: Emotion, Reason, and the Human Brain, António Damásio, 1994
Deschooling Society, Ivan Illich, 1972
Diaspora, Greg Egan, 1997
Die Geburt der Tragödie aus dem Geiste der Musik, Friedrich Nietzsche, 1872
Die protestantische Ethik und der Geist des Kapitalismus, Max Weber, 1905
Die Ringe des Saturn: Eine englische Wallfahrt, W. G. Sebald, 1995
Die Welt als Wille und Vorstellung, Arthur Schopenhauer, 1818
Diplomacy, Henry Kissinger, 1994
Discours de la Méthode pour bien conduire sa raison, et chercher la vérité dans les sciences, René Descartes, 1637
Discours sur l'origine et les fondements de l'inégalité parmi les hommes, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, 1755
Discourses of Epictetus, Epictetus, 2nd century
Divina Commedia, Dante Alighieri, 1321
DMT: The Spirit Molecule: A Doctor's Revolutionary Research into the Biology of Near-Death and Mystical Experiences, Rick Strassman, 2001
Doktor Faustus: Das Leben des deutschen Tonsetzers Adrian Leverkühn, erzählt von einem Freunde, Thomas Mann, 1947
Dominion: The Making of the Western Mind, Tom Holland, 2019
Don Quixote, Miguel de Cervantes, 1605
Dracula, Bram Stoker, 1897
Dream of the Red Chamber, Cao Xueqin, 1791
Drei Dichter ihres Lebens. Casanova – Stendhal – Tolstoi, Stefan Zweig, 1928
Dune, Frank Herbert, 1965
Ecce homo: Wie man wird, was man ist, Friedrich Nietzsche, 1908
Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil, Hannah Arendt, 1963
Ein Psychologe erlebt das Konzentrationslager, Viktor E. Frankl, 1946
Elbow Room: The Varieties of Free Will Worth Wanting, Daniel Dennett, 1984
Emma, Jane Austen, 1815
En attendant Godot, Samuel Beckett, 1953
Energy and Civilization: A History, Vaclav Smil, 2017
Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress, Steven Pinker, 2018
Essais, Michel de Montaigne, 1580
Essays, Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1987
Ethics, Baruch Spinoza, 1677
Eumeswil, Ernst Jünger, 1977
Everybody Lies: Big Data, New Data, and What the Internet Can Tell Us About Who We Really Are, Seth Stephens-Davidowitz, 2017
Everything Is Predictable: How Bayesian Statistics Explain Our World, Tom Chivers, 2024
Exhalation: Stories, Ted Chiang, 2019
Exit, Voice, and Loyalty: Responses to Decline in Firms, Organizations, and States, Albert O. Hirschman, 1970
Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury, 1953
Fathers and Sons, Ivan Turgenev, 1862
FDR, Jean Edward Smith, 2007
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream, Hunter S. Thompson, 1972
Ficciones, Jorge Luis Borges, 1944
Finite and Infinite Games, James P. Carse, 1986
Flowers for Algernon, Daniel Keyes, 1966
Folie et Déraison: Histoire de la folie à l'âge classique, Michel Foucault, 1961
Foundation, Isaac Asimov, 1951
Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus, Mary Shelley, 1818
Frederick the Great: King of Prussia, T.C.W. Blanning, 2015
From Counterculture to Cyberculture: Stewart Brand, the Whole Earth Network, and the Rise of Digital Utopianism, Fred Turner, 2008
From Dawn to Decadence: 500 Years of Western Cultural Life, Jacques Barzun, 2000
From Third World to First: The Singapore Story: 1965-2000, Lee Kuan Yew, 2000
Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity, Judith Butler, 1990
General Systemantics, John Gall, 1975
Germinal, Émile Zola, 1885
Get Together: How to Build a Community With Your People, Bailey Richardson and Kevin Huynh and Kai Elmer Sotto, 2019
Gnomon, Nick Harkaway, 2017
Gödel, Escher, Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid, Douglas Hofstadter, 1979
Going Infinite: The Rise and Fall of a New Tycoon, Michael Lewis, 2023
Good And Real: Demystifying Paradoxes from Physics to Ethics, Gary L. Drescher, 2006
Götzen-Dämmerung, oder, Wie man mit dem Hammer philosophiert, Friedrich Nietzsche, 1889
Governing the Commons: The Evolution of Institutions for Collective Action, Elinor Ostrom, 1990
Gravity's Rainbow, Thomas Pynchon, 1973
Great Expectations, Charles Dickens, 1861
Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution, Steven Levy, 1984
Heart of Darkness, Joseph Conrad, 1899
High Growth Handbook: Scaling Startups from 10 to 10,000 People, Elad Gil, 2018
High Output Management, Andrew S. Grove, 1983
History of the Peloponnesian War, Thucydides, 5th century BC
Hive Mind: How Your Nation’s IQ Matters So Much More Than Your Own, Garett Jones, 2015
Homo ludens, Johan Huizinga, 1938
How the World Really Works: The Science Behind How We Got Here and Where We're Going, Vaclav Smil, 2022
How to Change Your Mind: What the New Science of Psychedelics Teaches Us About Consciousness, Dying, Addiction, Depression, and Transcendence, Michael Pollan, 2018
How to Lie with Statistics, Darrell Huff, 1954
How to Measure Anything: Finding the Value of Intangibles in Business, Douglas W. Hubbard, 2007
How to Think like Shakespeare: Lessons from a Renaissance Education, Scott Newstok, 2020
Human Accomplishment: The Pursuit of Excellence in the Arts and Sciences, 800 B.C. to 1950, Charles Murray, 2003
Human Action: A Treatise on Economics, Ludwig von Mises, 1949
Human Compatible: Artificial Intelligence and the Problem of Control, Stuart Russell, 2019
Human Diversity: The Biology of Gender, Race, and Class, Charles Murray, 2020
Hyperion, Dan Simmons, 1989
I Am a Strange Loop, Douglas Hofstadter, 2007
I, Claudius, Robert Graves, 1934
Il deserto dei Tartari, Dino Buzzati, 1940
Il Gattopardo, Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa, 1958
Il pendolo di Foucault, Umberto Eco, 1988
Il Principe, Niccolò Machiavelli, 1532
Iliad, Homer, 8th century BC
Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism, Benedict Anderson, 1983
Impro: Improvisation and the Theatre, Keith Johnstone, 1979
In Praise of Shadows, Jun'ichirō Tanizaki, 1933
In Stahlgewittern, Ernst Jünger, 1920
Inadequate Equilibria: Where and How Civilizations Get Stuck, Eliezer Yudkowsky, 2017
Incerto, Nassim Nicholas Taleb, 2019
Infinite Jest, David Foster Wallace, 1996
Intellectuals and Society, Thomas Sowell, 2010
Intelligence: All That Matters, Stuart Ritchie, 2016
Intuition Pumps And Other Tools for Thinking, Daniel Dennett, 2013
Inventing the Individual: The Origins of Western Liberalism, Larry Siedentop, 2014
Invisible Man, Ralph Ellison, 1952
Ivanhoe: A Romance, Walter Scott, 1819
J R, William Gaddis, 1975
Jane Eyre: An Autobiography, Charlotte Brontë, 1847
Jenseits von Gut und Böse: Vorspiel einer Philosophie der Zukunft, Friedrich Nietzsche, 1886
Joseph Fouché: Bildnis eines politischen Menschen, Stefan Zweig, 1929
Journey to the West, Wu Cheng'en, 1592
Judgment Under Uncertainty: Heuristics and Biases, Amos Tversky and Daniel Kahneman, 1974
Kafka on the Shore, Haruki Murakami, 2002
Karl Marx: His Life and Environment, Isaiah Berlin, 1939
King and Emperor: A New Life of Charlemagne, Janet Nelson, 2019
Klara and the Sun, Kazuo Ishiguro, 2021
Kritik der reinen Vernunft, Immanuel Kant, 1781
L'Ancien régime et la Révolution, Alexis de Tocqueville, 1856
L'Écume des jours, Boris Vian, 1947
L'Enracinement, prélude à une déclaration des devoirs envers l'être humain, Simone Weil, 1949
L'Étrange Défaite, Marc Bloch, 1946
L'Étranger, Albert Camus, 1942
L'Être et le néant : Essai d'ontologie phénoménologique, Jean-Paul Sartre, 1943
L'insoutenable légèreté de l'être, Milan Kundera, 1984
La Chartreuse de Parme, Stendhal, 1839
La Cité Antique, Fustel de Coulanges, 1864
La Condition humaine, André Malraux, 1933
La Conquête du Pain, Peter Kropotkin, 1907
La Distinction Critique sociale du jugement, Pierre Bourdieu, 1979
La Loi, Frédéric Bastiat, 1850
La Peste, Albert Camus, 1947
La Société du spectacle, Guy Debord, 1967
La Technique ou l'Enjeu du siècle, Jacques Ellul, 1954
La Vie mode d'emploi, Georges Perec, 1978
La violence et le sacré, René Girard, 1972
Labyrinths, Jorge Luis Borges, 1962
Le Capital au XXIe siècle, Thomas Piketty, 2013
Le città invisibili, Italo Calvino, 1972
Le Degré zéro de l'écriture, Roland Barthes, 1953
Le mythe de Sisyphe, Albert Camus, 1942
Le Père Goriot, Honoré de Balzac, 1835
Le phénomène humain, Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, 1955
Le Règne de la Quantité et les Signes des Temps, René Guénon, 1945
Le Rouge et le Noir, Stendhal, 1830
Le Suicide, Émile Durkheim, 1897
Legal Systems Very Different from Ours, David Skarbek and David D. Friedman and Peter Leeson, 2019
Les Chants de Maldoror, Comte de Lautréamont, 1869
Les Faux-monnayeurs, André Gide, 1925
Les Fleurs du mal, Charles Baudelaire, 1857
Les Misérables, Victor Hugo, 1862
Les Mots et les Choses, Michel Foucault, 1966
Letters from a Stoic, Seneca, 65 AD
Leviathan or The Matter, Forme and Power of a Commonwealth Ecclesiasticall and Civil, Thomas Hobbes, 1651
Liar's Poker, Michael Lewis, 1989
Life 3.0: Being Human in the Age of Artificial Intelligence, Max Tegmark, 2017
Life and Fate, Vasily Grossman, 1980
Logisch-Philosophische Abhandlung, Ludwig Wittgenstein, 1921
Lolita, Vladimir Nabokov, 1955
Lord of Light, Roger Zelazny, 1967
Lord of the Rings, J. R. R. Tolkien, 1955
Madame Bovary : Mœurs de province, Gustave Flaubert, 1857
Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media, Edward S. Herman and Noam Chomsky, 1988
Masse und Macht, Elias Canetti, 1960
Master of the Senate, Robert Caro, 2002
Matter, Iain M. Banks, 2008
Medical Nihilism, Jacob Stegenga, 2018
Meditations, Marcus Aurelius, 161–180 AD
Mémoires d'Hadrien, Marguerite Yourcenar, 1951
Mémoires de Saint-Simon, Saint-Simon, 1829
Mere Christianity, C. S. Lewis, 1952
Metaphors We Live By, George Lakoff and Mark Johnson, 1980
Metaphysics, Aristotle, 4th century BC
Micromotives and Macrobehavior, Thomas Schelling, 1978
Middlemarch, A Study of Provincial Life, George Eliot, 1871
Midnight's Children, Salman Rushdie, 1981
Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, Herman Melville, 1851
Molière - Œuvres complètes, Molière, 1673
Moral Mazes: The World of Corporate Managers, Robert Jackall, 1988
Mortal Questions, Thomas Nagel, 1979
Mrs Dalloway, Virginia Woolf, 1925
Muqaddimah, Ibn Khaldun, 1377
Mythologies, Roland Barthes, 1957
Napoleon: A Life, Andrew Roberts, 2014
Neuromancer, William Gibson, 1984
Night and Day, Virginia Woolf, 1919
No Country for Old Men, Cormac McCarthy, 2005
Nonzero: The Logic of Human Destiny, Robert Wright, 1999
Normal Accidents: Living with High-Risk Technologies, Charles Perrow, 1984
Notes from Underground, Fyodor Dostoevsky, 1864
Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness, Richard Thaler and Cass Sunstein, 2008
Odyssey, Homer, 8th century BC
On Liberty, John Stuart Mill, 1859
On the Consolation of Philosophy, Boethius, 524
On the Origin of Species, Charles Darwin, 1859
On the Road, Jack Kerouac, 1957
On the Shortness of Life, Seneca, 49 AD
On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft, Stephen King, 2000
One Hundred Years of Solitude, Gabriel García Márquez, 1970
Order without Design: How Markets Shape Cities, Alain Bertaud, 2018
Orientalism, Edward W. Saïd, 1978
Orthodoxy, G. K. Chesterton, 1908
Our Mathematical Universe: My Quest for the Ultimate Nature of Reality, Max Tegmark, 2014
Pale Fire, Vladimir Nabokov, 1962
Parallel Lives, Plutarch, 2nd century AD
Parmenides, Plato, before 347 BC
Parting the Waters: America in the King Years, 1954–63, Taylor Branch, 1988
Pensées, Blaise Pascal, 1670
People's History of the United States, Howard Zinn, 1980
Permutation City, Greg Egan, 1994
Personal Knowledge: Towards a Post-Critical Philosophy, Michael Polanyi, 1958
Phaedo, Plato, before 347 BC
Philosophical Investigations, Ludwig Wittgenstein, 1953
Pieces of the Action, Vannevar Bush and Ben Reinhardt, 2022
Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, Annie Dillard, 1974
Plagues and Peoples, William H. McNeill, 1976
Poems, Emily Dickinson, 1890
Politics, Aristotle, 4th century BC
Poor Charlie's Almanack, Peter D. Kaufman, 2005
Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen, 1813
Principles of Political Economy, John Stuart Mill, 1848
Progress and Poverty: An Inquiry into the Cause of Industrial Depressions and of Increase of Want with Increase of Wealth: The Remedy, Henry George, 1879
Public Opinion, Walter Lippmann, 1922
Quantum Computing since Democritus, Scott Aaronson, 2013
Rainbows End, Vernor Vinge, 2006
Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World, David Epstein, 2019
Reasons and Persons, Derek Parfit, 1984
Reflections on the Revolution in France, Edmund Burke, 1790
Réflexions ou sentences et maximes morales, François de La Rochefoucauld, 1669
Rules for Radicals: A Pragmatic Primer for Realistic Radicals, Saul Alinsky, 1971
Scale: The Universal Laws of Growth, Innovation, Sustainability, and the Pace of Life in Organisms, Cities, Economies, and Companies, Geoffrey West, 2017
Scaling People: Tactics for Management and Company Building, Claire Hughes Johnson, 2023
Science Fictions: How Fraud, Bias, Negligence, and Hype Undermine the Search for Truth, Stuart Ritchie, 2020
Scientific Freedom: The Elixir of Civilization, Donald W. Braben, 2020
Second Treatise of Government, John Locke, 1689
Seeing Like a Rover: How Robots, Teams, and Images Craft Knowledge of Mars, Janet Vertesi, 2015
Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed, James C. Scott, 1998
Sein und Zeit, Martin Heidegger, 1927
Selfish Reasons to Have More Kids: Why Being a Great Parent is Less Work and More Fun Than You Think, Bryan Caplan, 2012
Seven Pillars of Wisdom, T. E. Lawrence, 1926
Seveneves, Neal Stephenson, 2015
Sex at Dawn: The Prehistoric Origins of Modern Sexuality, Christopher Ryan and Cacilda Jethá, 2010
Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson, Camille Paglia, 1990
Silence, Shūsaku Endō, 1966
Simulacres et Simulation, Jean Baudrillard, 1981
Slaughterhouse-Five, or, The Children's Crusade: A Duty-Dance with Death, Kurt Vonnegut, 1969
Snow Crash, Neal Stephenson, 1992
Solaris, Stanisław Lem, 1961
Sonnenfinsternis, Arthur Koestler, 1940
Sous le soleil de Satan, Georges Bernanos, 1926
Speak, Memory, Vladimir Nabokov, 1966
Starship Troopers, Robert A. Heinlein, 1959
Steve Jobs, Walter Isaacson, 2011
Stoner, John Williams, 1965
Stranger in a Strange Land, Robert A. Heinlein, 1961
Straw Dogs: Thoughts on Humans and Other Animals, John Gray, 2002
Stubborn Attachments: A Vision for a Society of Free, Prosperous, and Responsible Individuals, Tyler Cowen, 2018
Summa Technologiae, Stanisław Lem, 1964
Sun and Steel, Yukio Mishima, 1968
Superforecasting: The Art and Science of Prediction, Philip E. Tetlock and Dan Gardner, 2015
Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies, Nick Bostrom, 2014
Surfing Uncertainty: Prediction, Action, and the Embodied Mind, Andy Clark, 2015
Surveiller et punir : Naissance de la prison, Michel Foucault, 1975
Symposium, Plato, before 347 BC
Talleyrand, Duff Cooper, 1932
Tao Te Ching, Laozi, 4th century BC
The (Mis)behavior of Markets, Benoit B. Mandelbrot, 2004
The 10,000 Year Explosion: How Civilization Accelerated Human Evolution, Gregory Cochran and Henry Harpending, 2009
The 48 Laws of Power, Robert Greene, 1998
The Abolition of Man, C. S. Lewis, 1943
The Age of Em: Work, Love and Life when Robots Rule the Earth, Robin Hanson, 2016
The Aleph and Other Stories, Jorge Luis Borges, 1949
The Ambassadors, Henry James, 1903
The Art of Doing Science and Engineering: Learning to Learn, Richard Hamming, 1997
The Art of Not Being Governed: An Anarchist History of Upland Southeast Asia, James C. Scott, 2009
The Art of War, Sun Tzu, 5th century BC
The Beginning of Infinity: Explanations That Transform the World, David Deutsch, 2011
The Bell Curve: Intelligence and Class Structure in American Life, Richard J. Herrnstein and Charles Murray, 1994
The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined, Steven Pinker, 2011
The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature, Steven Pinker, 2002
The Blind Watchmaker, Richard Dawkins, 1986
The Brothers Karamazov, Fyodor Dostoevsky, 1880
The Call of Cthulhu, H. P. Lovecraft, 1928
The Campaigns of Napoleon, David G. Chandler, 1966
The Case Against Education: Why the Education System Is a Waste of Time and Money, Bryan Caplan, 2018
The Case Against Reality: Why Evolution Hid the Truth from Our Eyes, Donald Hoffman, 2019
The Cathedral and the Bazaar: Musings on Linux and Open Source by an Accidental Revolutionary, Eric S. Raymond, 1999
The Collapse of Complex Societies, Joseph Tainter, 1988
The Company: A Short History of a Revolutionary Idea, John Micklethwait and Adrian Wooldridge, 2003
The Concept of Law, H. L. A. Hart, 1961
The Conscious Mind: In Search of a Fundamental Theory, David Chalmers, 1996
The Conspiracy Against the Human Race: A Contrivance of Horror, Thomas Ligotti, 2010
The Constitution of Liberty, Friedrich Hayek, 1960
The Crying of Lot 49, Thomas Pynchon, 1966
The Culture Map: Breaking Through the Invisible Boundaries of Global Business, Erin Meyer, 2014
The Culture of Narcissism: American Life in an Age of Diminishing Expectations, Christopher Lasch, 1979
The Cyberiad, Stanisław Lem, 1965
The Dark Forest, Cixin Liu, 2008
The Darkening Age: The Christian Destruction of the Classical World, Catherine Nixey, 2017
The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity, David Graeber and David Wengrow, 2021
The Death and Life of Great American Cities, Jane Jacobs, 1961
The Denial of Death, Ernest Becker, 1973
The Design of Everyday Things, Don Norman, 1988
The Devil's Dictionary, Ambrose Bierce, 1906
The Diamond Age: Or, A Young Lady's Illustrated Primer, Neal Stephenson, 1995
The Dictator's Handbook: Why Bad Behavior is Almost Always Good Politics, Bruce Bueno de Mesquita and Alastair Smith, 2011
The Discovery of France: A Historical Geography, Graham Robb, 2007
The Dispossessed, Ursula K. Le Guin, 1974
The Doors of Perception, Aldous Huxley, 1954
The Double Helix: A Personal Account of the Discovery of the Structure of DNA, James Watson, 1968
The Dream Machine, M. Mitchell Waldrop, 2001
The Education of Henry Adams, Henry Adams, 1918
The Elements of Style, William Strunk Jr., 1918
The Elephant in the Brain: Hidden Motives in Everyday Life, Kevin Simler and Robin Hanson, 2018
The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer, Siddhartha Mukherjee, 2010
The End of History and the Last Man, Francis Fukuyama, 1992
The enigma of reason, Hugo Mercier and Dan Sperber, 2017
The Evolution of Cooperation, Robert Axelrod, 1984
The Extended Phenotype, Richard Dawkins, 1982
The Fabric of Reality: The Science of Parallel Universes—and Its Implications, David Deutsch, 1997
The Face of Battle, John Keegan, 1976
The Federalist Papers, Alexander Hamilton and James Madison and John Jay, 1788
The Fountainhead, Ayn Rand, 1943
The Gene: An Intimate History, Siddhartha Mukherjee, 2016
The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money, John Maynard Keynes, 1936
The Ghost in the Machine, Arthur Koestler, 1967
The Golden Bough: A Study in Comparative Religion, James George Frazer, 1890
The Grand Strategy of the Byzantine Empire, Edward N. Luttwak, 1987
The Grapes of Wrath, John Steinbeck, 1939
The Grasshopper: Games, Life, and Utopia, Bernard Herbert Suits, 1978
The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald, 1925
The Great Leveler: Violence and the History of Inequality from the Stone Age to the Twenty-First Century, Walter Scheidel, 2017
The Great Stagnation: How America Ate All the Low-Hanging Fruit of Modern History, Got Sick, and Will (Eventually) Feel Better, Tyler Cowen, 2011
The Great Transformation, Karl Polanyi, 1944
The Greeks and the irrational, E. R. Dodds, 1951
The Guide for the Perplexed, Moses Maimonides, 1190
The Guns of August, Barbara W. Tuchman, 1962
The Hedgehog and the Fox, Isaiah Berlin, 1953
The Hero with a Thousand Faces, Joseph Campbell, 1949
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Edward Gibbon, 1789
The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, Henry Fielding, 1749
The Horse, the Wheel, and Language: How Bronze-Age Riders from the Eurasian Steppes Shaped the Modern World, David W. Anthony, 2007
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