Books:
God Delusion – Richard Dawkins,
Lying – Sam Harris,
Flowers of Algernon – Daniel Keyes,
Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup – John Carreyrou,
The Martian – Andy Weir,
Congo – Michael Crichton,
When Breath Becomes Air – Paul Kalanithi
Audiobooks:
Project Hail Mary – Andy Weir,
World War Z – Max Brooks,
Born a Crime – Trevor Noah,
Moral Landscape – Sam Harris,
A Promised Land – Barack Obama,
Sapiens – Yuval Noah Harari,
Homo Deus – Yuval Noah Harari,
The Emperor of All Maladies – Siddharth Mukherjee
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Say Nothing by Patrick Raddon Keef about the history of the IRA. Fascinating and haunting.
Dark Matter by Blake Crouch
I just finished Shogun – James Clavell – highly recommend!
1491 by Charles Mann
You and I have fairly similar tastes. I’m going to give you my standard, mostly random, list of recent 5-stars books. But feel free to ask if you want something specific, like theoretical physics or clinical psychiatry for example. Have anything you want to suggest back? (I read all of the ones you listed except for Silicon Valley and Emperor).
The Sun Is a Compass: A 4,000-Mile Journey into the Alaskan Wilds –Caroline Van Hemert
The Big Picture –Sean Carrol
Thinking, Fast and Slow –Danny Kahneman
I Contain Multitudes –Ed Yong
How the World Really Works: The Science Behind How We Got Here and Where We’re Going –Vaclav Smil
Enlightenment Now –Steve Pinker
The Hacking of the American Mind –Robert Lustig
The End of the World is Just the Beginning –Peter Zeihan
Pale Blue Dot –Carl Sagan
Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time –Dava Sobel
The Uninhabitable Earth –David Wallace-Wells
Justice For Animals –Martha Nussbaum
This is Vegan Propaganda –Ed Winters
Psych: The Story of the Human Mind –Paul Bloom
Never Split the Difference –Chris Voss
Master and Commander by Patrick O’Brian
How to Listen to and Understand Great Music by Prof. Robert Greenberg