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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algonquin_Round_Table

Richard Wright James Hollis Kobo Abe Yoko Ogawa Victor Pelevin Paul Aster Sally Rooney John McPhee Edna Ferber

Categories

Technology

Bio/Chem

  • Endless Forms: The Secret World of Wasps by Seirian Sumner
  • Dirt: The Erosion of Civilizations by David Montgomery
  • **Behave** by Robert M. Sapolsky
  • Fresh Banana Leaves by Jessica Hernandez
  • Song of the Cell by Dr. Siddhartha Mukherjee
  • Altered Traits: Science Reveals How Meditation Changes Your Mind, Brain, and Body by Daniel Goleman
  • Finding the Mother Tree: Discovering the Wisdom of the Forest by Suzanne Simaurd
  • The Sleep Solution by Chris Winter
  • Burn: The Misunderstood Science of Metabolism by Herman Pontzer
  • Plight of the Dead by Matt Simon
  • A Poison like no Other by Matt Simon
  • The Wasp that Brainwashed the Caterpillar by Matt Simon
  • Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures by Merlin Sheldrake
  • Regenesis: Feeding the World Without Devouring the Planet by George Monbiot
  • **Rabid: A Cultural History of the World’s Most Diabolical Virus** by Monica Murphy/Bill Wasik
  • A City on Mars: Can We Settle Space, Should We Settle Space, and Have We Really Thought This Through? by Kelly Weinersmith, Zach Weinersmith

Space

  • Black Holes and Time Warps by Kip Thorme
  • The God Equation: The Quest for a Theory of Everything by Michio Kaku

Psychology

  • Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business by Neil Postman
  • Under Saturns Shadow by James Hollis
  • The Personality Puzzle by David C. Funder
  • Cultish by Amanda Montell
  • The Intelligence Trap by David Robson
  • How to be Perfect: The Correct Answer to Every Moral Question by Michael Schur
  • Friends by Robin Dunbar
  • Psych by Paul Bloom
  • Conformity: The Power of Social Influences by Cass R. Sunstein
  • Stolen Focus: Why You Can’t Pay Attention by Johann Hari
  • Mental Models by Tyler Grant
  • The Psychology of Thinking by John Paul Minda
  • Designing with the Mind in Mind by Jeff Johnson
  • Dark Cognition by David Vernon
  • The Hype Machine by Sinan Aral
  • Socratic Questioning for Therapist and Counselors by Scott H Waltman
  • Perspectives on Cognitive Neuropsychology by G. Denes, C. Semenza, P. Bisiacchi
  • The Kindness of Strangers by Michael E. McCullough
  • The Forgetting Machine: Memory, Perception, and the “Jennifer Aniston Neuron” by Rodrigo Quian Quiroga
  • Mindreader: The New Science of Deciphering What People Really Think, What They Really Want, and Who They Really Are ****by David Lieberman\
  • The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness by Jonathan Haidth

History

Japanese History, History 2

  • Everything but the Coffee: Learning about America from Starbucks by Bryant Simon
  • https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13602426-the-round-house
  • https://www.amazon.com/Pine-Barrens-John-McPhee/dp/0374514429
  • https://www.amazon.com/Plunkitt-Tammany-Hall-Practical-Politics/dp/0451474139
  • https://www.amazon.com/What-Takes-Way-White-House/dp/0679746498
  • Say Nothing by Patrick Radden Keefe
  • When the Emperor Was Divine by Julie Otsuka
  • The Buddah in the Attic by Julie Otsuka
  • The Age of Wood by Roland Ennos
  • Sugar by James Walvin
  • The Lost Subways of North America by Jake Berman
  • Salt: A World History by Mark Kurlansky
  • Stoned: Jewelry, Obsession, and How Desire Shapes the World by Aja Raden
  • Coffeeland by Augustine Sedgewick
  • Planet Palm by Jocelyn C Zuckerman
  • Oscar Wars: A History of Hollywood in Gold, Sweat, and Tears by Michael Schulman
  • Ice: From Mixed Drinks to Skating Rinks—a Cool History of a Hot Commodity by Amy Brady
  • Palo Alto by Malcolm Harris
  • Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus
  • The Nineties by Chuck Klosterman
  • Midwest Future by Phil Christman
  • The Presidents Club by Michael Duffy, Nancy Gibbs
  • How to Hide an Empire by Daniel Immerwahr
  • Base Nation by David Vine
  • Blackwater by Jeremy Scahill
  • Three Ring Circus by Jeff Pearlman
  • Washington Bullets by Vijay Prashad
  • The End of Policing by Alex S. Vitale
  • Bring the War Home by Kathleen Belew
  • The Shock Doctrine by Naomi Klein
  • The Jakarta Method by Vincent Bevens
  • The Despots Accomplice by Brian Klaas
  • The Despots Apprentice by Brian Klaas
  • How to Rig an Election by Brian Klaas
  • Corruptible: Who Gets Power and How it Changes Us by Brian Klaas
  • The Jakarta Method by Vincent Bevins
  • Sounds from the Other Side: Afro-South Asian Collaborations in Black Popular Music by Elliot H Powell
  • Swinging in Place by Jocelyn Donlon
  • *Pockets: An Intimate History of How We Keep Things Close* by Hannah Carlson
  • Blitzed: Drugs in the Third Reich by Shaun Whiteside
  • Hpop by Kunal Purohit
  • The Challenger Launch Decision by Diane Vaughn
  • Into the Bright Sunshine by Samuel Freedman
  • Wide Awake by Jon Grinspan
  • Illerbal America: A History by Steven Hahn
  • Fangirls: Scenes from Modern Music Culture: Hannah Ewens
  • Love & Whiskey: The Remarkable True Story of Jack Daniel, His Master Distiller Nearest Green, and the Improbable Rise of Uncle Nearest by Fawn Weaver
  • The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War by Erik Larson
  • Command and Control: Nuclear Weapons, the Damascus Accident and the Illusion of Safety by Eric Schlosser
  • https://www.amazon.com/Cinema-Speculation-Quentin-Tarantino/dp/0063112582

Design

ASIHARA YOSHINOBU BOOKS ON ARCHITECTURE

  • Seeing is Forgetting the Name of the Thing One Sees by Lawrence Weschler
  • In Praise of Shadows by Junichiro Tanizaki
  • Man and His Symbols by Carl Yung
  • The Mushroom at the End of the World by Anna Tsing
  • **Patterns of India** by Christine Chitnis
  • Mismatch: How Inclusion Shapes Design by Kat Holmes
  • Design: The Invention of Desire by Jessica Helfand
  • A Dictionary of Color Combinations by Various
  • The Great Good Place by Ray Oldenberg
  • How to Be a Graphic Designer without Losing Your Soul by Adrian Shaunghnessy
  • The Brand Gap by Marty Neumeier
  • Creative Strategy and the Business of Design by Douglas Davis
  • The Win Without Pitching by Blair Enns
  • This is Marketing by Seth Godin
  • The Practice: Shipping Creative Work by Seth Gobin
  • How to Be an Explorer of the World: Portable Life Museum by Keri Smith
  • Chromaphobia by David Batchelor
  • Orbiting the Giant Hairball by Gordon Mackenzie
  • https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/454481/natural-connection-by-longdon-joycelyn/9781529902662

Poetry

Choice Awards - Poetry

  • Scattered Snows, to the North: Poems by Carl Phillips
  • Then The War by Carl Phillips
  • How to Cure a Ghost by Fariha Roisin
  • The Awakening and Selected Stories of Kate Chopin by Kate Chopin
  • The Houseguest **by Amparo Davila
  • Sea of Strangers **by Lang Leav
  • Dearly by Margaret Atwood
  • Tonight I’m Someone Else: Essays **by Chelsea Hodson
  • No One Belongs Here More Than You by Miranda July

Code

Quant

  • Everything is Predictable by Tom Chivers

  • Designing Data-Interactive Applications

  • Head First Design Patterns

  • Clean Code

  • Refactoring

  • The Pragmatic Programmer

Humanities

Self Improvement

  • Range: Why Generalist Triumph in a Specialized World by David Epstein
  • **How to do Nothing** by Jenny Odell
  • Mindset by Carol S. Dweck
  • Designing Your New Work Life by Bill Burnett and Dave Evans
  • Wanting by Luke Burgis
  • Why Has Nobody Told Me This Before? by Dr. Julie Smith
  • You’re Not Listening by Kate Murphy
  • The Art of Thinking Clearly by Rolf Dobelli
  • Difficult Conversations by Douglas Stone, Bruce Patton, and Sheila Heen
  • Outlive: The Science and Art of Longevity **by Peter Attia
  • The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma by Bessel van der Kolk
  • Breathe by James Nestor
  • *The Sleep Book: How to Sleep Well Every Night* by Dr. Guy Meadows
  • The Power of Fun by Catherine Price
  • Attention Span by Gloria Mark
  • The Undoing Project: A Friendship That Changed Our Minds by Michael Lewis
  • 10 to 25: The Science of Motivating Young People by David Yeagar

Finance

History

  • The Richest Man in Babylon by George Samuel Clason
  • The Ascent of Money by Niall Ferguson
  • The Robber Barons by Matthew Josephson
  • Summary of Capital in the Twenty First Century by Thomas Picketty
  • Where the Money Is: Value Investing in the Digital Age by Adam Seessel
  • The Future of Money by Eswar Prasad

Practice

  • Die with Zero by Bill Perkins
  • Your Money or Your Life: 9 Steps to Transforming Your Relationship with Money and Achieving Financial Independence by Vicki Robin, Joe Dominguez
  • Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance by Angela Duckworth

Philosophy

Sci Fi

  • Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson
  • **In Ascension** by Martin MacInnes
  • I Am Legend by Richard Matheson
  • Children of Time by Adrian Tchaikovsky
  • The Memory Police by Yoko Ogawa
  • No Longer Human by Osamu Dazai
  • Notes of a Crocodile by Qiu Miaojin
  • Night Sky With Exit Wounds by Ocean Vuong
  • On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong
  • The Seep by Chana Porter
  • Chain Gang All Stars by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah
  • No Longer Human by Osamu Dazai

Historical Fiction

  • Blackouts by Justin Torres
  • Orbital by Samantha Harvey
  • Shuggie Bain by Douglas Stuart
  • Maalgudi Ki Kahaniyan by RK Narayan
  • The Razors Edge by William Somerset Maugham
  • The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
  • The Sympathizer by Viet Thanh Nguyen
  • Geek Love by Katherine Dunnn
  • Day of the Locust by Nathanael West
  • Reef by Romesh Gunesekera
  • First Person Singular by Haruki Murakami
  • A Congregation of Jackals
  • The Slanted Gutter
  • Hug Chickenpenny: The Panegyric of an Anomalous Child
  • Wraiths of the Broken Land
  • Mean Business on North Ganson Street
  • Corpus Chrome, Inc.
  • Mona: A Novel by Pola Oloixarac
  • Dracula by Bram Stroker

Biography

  • Code Breaker by Walter Isaacson
  • We Could Be by Tom Hagler
  • Eyes on the Street by Robert Kanigel

Business

  • Crucial Conversations by Kerry Patterson, Joseph Grenny, Ron McMillan, and Al Switzler
  • The Personal MBA by Josh Kaufman
  • Good Strategy, Bad Strategy by Richard Rumelt

Adventure/Mystery

  • Mr. Penumbra’s 24 Hour Bookstore by Robin Sloan
  • Hard Rain Falling by Don Carpenter
  • The Most Secret Memory of Men by Mohamed Mbougar Sarr

Shorts

The Hole by Hiroko Oyamada The Call of Cthulu by HP Lovecraft *What Moves the Dead* by T Kingfisher The Ocean at the End of the Lane by Neil Gaiman ***A Psalm for the Well Built*** by Becky Chambers

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