My Book Reviews

2026

• Cribsheet by Emily Oster — 5.0/5
• The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder by David Grann — 5.0/5
• The Cheating Cell: How Evolution Helps Us Understand and Treat Cancer by Athena Aktipis — 4.0/5
• A History Lover's Guide to Albuquerque by Roger M. Zimmerman — 4.0/5
• Childhood's End by Arthur C. Clarke, Adam Roberts — 2.0/5
• Enshittification: Why Everything Suddenly Got Worse and What to Do About It by Cory Doctorow — 4.0/5
• Eruption by Michael Crichton, James Patterson — 4.0/5
• Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth and Happiness by Richard H. Thaler, Cass R. Sunstein — 4.0/5
• Escaping the Housing Trap: The Strong Towns Response to the Housing Crisis by Charles L. Marohn Jr. — 4.0/5
• Dopamine Nation: Finding Balance in the Age of Indulgence by Anna Lembke — 5.0/5
• Operation Paperclip: The Secret Intelligence Program that Brought Nazi Scientists to America by Annie Jacobsen — 2.0/5
• A Monk's Guide to a Clean House and Mind: Housekeeping Secrets from the World's Tidiest Monks by Shoukei Matsumoto — 4.0/5
• The Japanese Way of Parenting: And What It Taught Me About Raising (Mostly) Calm, Caring, Capable Kids by Lisa Katayama — 3.0/5
• The Caves of Steel by Isaac Asimov — 2.0/5
• I, Robot by Isaac Asimov — 5.0/5
• If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies by Eliezer Yudkowsky, Nate Soares — 4.0/5
• Biblical Games: Game Theory and the Hebrew Bible by Steven J. Brams — 3.0/5
• Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of his Time by Dava Sobel — 3.0/5
• The Clock Of The Long Now by Stewart Brand — 3.0/5
• Airframe by Michael Crichton — 3.0/5
• No One Is Talking About This by Patricia Lockwood — 2.0/5
• So Good They Can't Ignore You: Why Skills Trump Passion in the Quest for Work You Love by Cal Newport — 4.0/5
• The 5 Elements of Effective Thinking by Edward B. Burger, Michael Starbird — 5.0/5

2025

• GDP: A Brief But Affectionate History by Diane Coyle — 3.0/5
• The Andromeda Strain by Michael Crichton — 5.0/5
• The Moral Landscape: How Science Can Determine Human Values by Sam Harris — 2.0/5
• Incognito: The Secret Lives Of The Brain by David Eagleman — 3.0/5
• How to Live on 24 Hours a Day by Arnold Bennett — 3.0/5
• Bad Therapy: Why the Kids Aren't Growing Up by Abigail Shrier — 5.0/5
• Ten Arguments for Deleting Your Social Media Accounts Right Now by Jaron Lanier — 4.0/5
• Your Future Family: The Essential Guide to Assisted Reproduction by Kim Bergman, Mark Leondires — 5.0/5
• How Not to Be Wrong: The Power of Mathematical Thinking by Jordan Ellenberg — 3.0/5
• The Midnight Library by Matt Haig — 3.0/5
• A World Without Email: Reimagining Work in an Age of Communication Overload by Cal Newport — 4.0/5
• Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout by Cal Newport — 4.0/5
• Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World by Cal Newport — 5.0/5
• Shop Class as Soulcraft: An Inquiry into the Value of Work by Matthew B. Crawford — 2.0/5
• The Glass Cage by Nicholas Carr, Nicholas G. Carr — 3.0/5
• The Hot Zone by Richard Preston — 3.0/5
• The Great Oil Conspiracy: How the U.S. Government Hid the Nazi Discovery of Abiotic Oil from the American People by Jerome R. Corsi — 1.0/5
• Area 51: An Uncensored History of America's Top Secret Military Base by Annie Jacobsen — 5.0/5

2024

• The Nazi Conspiracy by Brad Meltzer, Josh Mensch — 4.0/5
• Meditations for Mortals: Four Weeks to Embrace Your Limitations and Make Time for What Counts by Oliver Burkeman — 5.0/5
• A Brief History of Intelligence: Evolution, AI, and the Five Breakthroughs That Made Our Brains by Max Solomon Bennett — 4.0/5
• The Brightness Between Us by Eliot Schrefer — 4.0/5
• Hyperbole and a Half: Unfortunate Situations, Flawed Coping Mechanisms, Mayhem, and Other Things That Happened by Allie Brosh — 4.0/5
• The Grid by Gretchen Bakke — 3.0/5
• Nuclear War: A Scenario by Annie Jacobsen — 5.0/5
• The Utopia of Rules: On Technology, Stupidity, and the Secret Joys of Bureaucracy by David Graeber — 2.0/5
• The Happiness Hypothesis: Finding Modern Truth in Ancient Wisdom by Jonathan Haidt — 5.0/5
• Strong Towns: A Bottom-Up Revolution to Rebuild American Prosperity by Charles L. Marohn Jr. — 4.0/5
• The Alignment Problem: Machine Learning and Human Values by Brian Christian — 4.0/5

2023

• Puzzle Ninja: Pit Your Wits Against The Japanese Puzzle Masters by Alex Bellos — 5.0/5
• Meltdown: Why Our Systems Fail and What We Can Do about It by Chris Clearfield, András Tilcsik — 5.0/5
• The Darkness Outside Us by Eliot Schrefer — 4.0/5
• How to Avoid a Climate Disaster: The Solutions We Have and the Breakthroughs We Need by Bill Gates — 4.0/5
• One Billion Americans by Matthew Yglesias — 5.0/5
• The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers by Ben Horowitz — 3.0/5
• Science Fictions by Stuart Ritchie — 4.0/5
• The End of the World Is Just the Beginning: Mapping the Collapse of Globalization by Peter Zeihan — 4.0/5
• First, Break All The Rules by M. Buckingham, Curt Coffman — 3.0/5
• The Language Lover’s Puzzle Book: Lexical perplexities and cracking conundrums from across the globe by Alex Bellos — 5.0/5
• The Manager's Path: A Guide for Tech Leaders Navigating Growth and Change by Camille Fournier — 4.0/5
• Continuous Discovery Habits: Discover Products That Create Customer Value and Business Value by Teresa Torres — 5.0/5
• Decisive: How to Make Better Choices in Life and Work by Chip Heath, Dan Heath — 4.0/5
• The Life You Can Save: How to Do Your Part to End World Poverty by Peter Singer — 4.0/5
• Shōgun by James Clavell — 5.0/5
• Escaping the Build Trap: How Effective Product Management Creates Real Value by Melissa Perri — 4.0/5
• The Unfolding of Language: An Evolutionary Tour of Mankind's Greatest Invention by Guy Deutscher — 5.0/5
• Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin — 3.0/5

2022

• Money: The True Story of a Made-Up Thing by Jacob Goldstein — 3.0/5
• American Nations: A History of the Eleven Rival Regional Cultures of North America by Colin Woodard — 3.0/5
• Four Thousand Weeks: Time and How to Use It by Oliver Burkeman — 5.0/5
• The Phoenix Project: A Novel About IT, DevOps, and Helping Your Business Win by Gene Kim, Chris Ruen, Kevin Behr, George Spafford — 5.0/5
• There Is No Antimemetics Division by qntm — 2.0/5
• The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming by David Wallace-Wells — 5.0/5
• All Systems Red by Martha Wells — 2.0/5
• Termination Shock by Neal Stephenson — 4.0/5
• An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us by Ed Yong — 3.0/5
• Say What You Mean: A Mindful Approach to Nonviolent Communication by Oren Jay Sofer — 5.0/5
• The Way Out: A Revolutionary, Scientifically Proven Approach to Healing Chronic Pain by Alan Gordon, Alon Ziv — 4.0/5
• Caffeine: How Caffeine Created the Modern World by Michael Pollan, Michael Pollan — 4.0/5
• The 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle by Stuart Turton — 4.0/5
• The Anthropocene Reviewed: Essays on a human-centered planet by John Green — 4.0/5
• Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion by Robert B. Cialdini — 4.0/5
• BTS: Rise of Bangtan by Cara J. Stevens — 3.0/5
• Pure Invention: How Japan Made the Modern World by Matt Alt — 3.0/5
• How To Be The Greatest Improviser On Earth by Malin von Euler-Hogan, Will Hines — 5.0/5
• Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir — 5.0/5
• The Fifth Season by N. K. Jemisin — 4.0/5
• Fall or, Dodge in Hell by Neal Stephenson — 4.0/5

2021

• Nature's Best Hope: A New Approach to Conservation That Starts in Your Yard by Douglas W. Tallamy — 4.0/5
• Preventable: The Inside Story of How Leadership Failures, Politics, and Selfishness Doomed the U.S. Coronavirus Response by Andy Slavitt — 3.0/5
• Call Me by Your Name by Andre Aciman — 3.0/5
• The Gift of Therapy by Irvin D. Yalom — 4.0/5
• Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the World's Most Dangerous Man by Mary L. Trump — 3.0/5
• The End Is Always Near: Apocalyptic Moments, from the Bronze Age Collapse to Nuclear Near Misses by Dan Carlin — 3.0/5
• The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion by Jonathan Haidt — 5.0/5

2020

• Kindred by Octavia E. Butler — 2.0/5
• The Peace War by Vernor Vinge — 5.0/5
• The Churn by James S. A. Corey — 4.0/5
• Atomic habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones by James Clear — 4.0/5
• Thinking in Systems: A Primer by Donella H. Meadows — 5.0/5
• Exhalation by Ted Chiang — 5.0/5
• Bullshit Jobs: A Theory by David Graeber — 5.0/5
• The Player of Games by Iain M. Banks — 5.0/5
• The Third Plate: Field Notes on the Future of Food by Dan Barber — 4.0/5
• Educated: A Memoir by Tara Westover — 4.0/5
• A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail by Bill Bryson — 2.0/5
• How to Read a Book: the classic guide to intelligent reading by Mortimer J. Adler, Charles Van Doren — 5.0/5
• Utopia for Realists: How We Can Build the Ideal World by Rutger Bregman — 3.0/5

2019

• The Divide by Jason Hickel — 5.0/5
• The Sun, the Genome and the Internet: Tools of Scientific Revolutions by Freeman Dyson — 2.0/5
• The Hunt for Red October by Tom Clancy — 3.0/5
• Prey by Michael Crichton — 3.0/5
• The War on Normal People: The Truth about America's Disappearing Jobs and Why Universal Basic Income Is Our Future by Andrew Yang — 4.0/5
• Happy City by Charles Montgomery — 4.0/5
• Consider Phlebas by Iain M. Banks — 2.0/5
• I Think You're Wrong (But I'm Listening): A Guide to Grace-Filled Political Conversations by Sarah Stewart Holland, Beth Silvers — 3.0/5
• Sei pezzi meno facili. Relatività einsteiniana, simmetria, spazio-tempo by Richard P. Feynman, Gianni Rigamonti — 2.0/5
• The Magician King by Lev Grossman — 2.0/5
• Six Easy Pieces: Essentials of Physics By Its Most Brilliant Teacher by Richard P. Feynman — 4.0/5
• Digital Minimalism: Choosing a Focused Life in a Noisy World by Cal Newport — 4.0/5
• Order Without Design: How Markets Shape Cities by Alain Bertaud — 3.0/5
• The Magicians by Lev Grossman — 4.0/5
• The Chronoliths by Robert Charles Wilson — 3.0/5
• Five Easy Theses: Commonsense Solutions to America's Greatest Economic Challenges by James M. Stone — 5.0/5
• Marooned in Realtime by Vernor Vinge — 5.0/5
• The Back of the Napkin by Dan Roam — 2.0/5
• Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis by J. D. Vance — 4.0/5
• Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson — 5.0/5
• One Second After by William R. Forstchen — 4.0/5
• The Browns of California: The Family Dynasty that Transformed a State and Shaped a Nation by Miriam Pawel — 2.0/5
• Norse Mythology by Neil Gaiman — 5.0/5
• The Thinking Person's Guide to Climate Change by Robert Henson — 5.0/5
• Astrophysics for People in a Hurry by Neil deGrasse Tyson — 3.0/5
• Life in Code by Ellen Ullman — 4.0/5
• 1984 by George Orwell, Peter Hobley Davison, Shepard Fairey — 2.0/5
• The Simple Path to Wealth by Mr. Money Mustache, J.L. Collins — 5.0/5
• The Best American Science Writing 2006 by Atul Gawande — 4.0/5

2018

• Brave New World Revisited by Aldous Huxley, David Bradshaw — 5.0/5
• Your Money or Your Life by Joe Dominguez, Joe Dominguez, Vicki Robin — 3.0/5
• Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency by Douglas Adams — 4.0/5
• An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power: Your Action Handbook to Learn the Science, Find Your Voice, and Help Solve the Climate Crisis by Al Gore — 3.0/5
• How to Be a Stoic: Using Ancient Philosophy to Live a Modern Life by Massimo Pigliucci — 4.0/5
• Abundance by Steven Kotler — 3.0/5
• Blue Mars by Kim Stanley Robinson — 2.0/5
• The Sandman, Vol. 1: Preludes & Nocturnes by Neil Gaiman — 4.0/5
• Our Revolution A Future to Believe In by Bernie Sanders, Bernie Sanders — 4.0/5
• Pattern Recognition by William Gibson — 3.0/5
• Replay by Ken Grimwood — 4.0/5
• The Bleeding Edge: Why Technology Turns Toxic in an Unequal World by Bob Hughes — 2.0/5
• Economics in One Lesson: The Shortest & Surest Way to Understand Basic Economics by Henry Hazlitt — 4.0/5
• Death's End by Ken Liu, Cixin Liu — 4.0/5
• The Millionaire Next Door: The Surprising Secrets of America's Wealthy by Thomas J. Stanley, William D. Danko — 3.0/5
• We the Corporations: How American Businesses Won Their Civil Rights by Adam Winkler — 2.0/5
• The Dark Forest by Joel Martinsen, Cixin Liu — 5.0/5
• The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer by Siddhartha Mukherjee — 2.0/5
• The healing of America by T. R. Reid — 5.0/5
• This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. the Climate by Naomi Klein — 3.0/5
• The Algebraist by Iain M. Banks, Geoff Annis — 4.0/5
• The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism by Naomi Klein — 4.0/5
• The Stand by Stephen King — 2.0/5
• Seveneves by Neal Stephenson — 5.0/5
• Ender's Shadow by Orson Scott Card — 4.0/5
• Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City by Matthew Desmond — 5.0/5
• Howtoons: Tools of Mass Construction by Saul Griffith, Ingrid Dragotta, Nick Dragotta — 5.0/5
• The Arabs: A History by Eugene Rogan — 4.0/5

2017

• Fossil Capital: The Rise of Steam Power and the Roots of Global Warming by Andreas Malm — 3.0/5
• I Am Malala by Christina Lamb, Malala Yousafzai — 5.0/5
• The Lathe of Heaven by Ursula K. Le Guin — 5.0/5
• The Invention of Nature: Alexander von Humboldt's New World by Andrea Wulf — 3.0/5
• Jumper by MacLeod Andrews, Steven Gould — 4.0/5
• Finite and Infinite Games by James P. Carse — 1.0/5
• The Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett — 5.0/5
• Green Mars by Kim Stanley Robinson — 4.0/5
• Drawdown by Paul Hawken — 5.0/5
• Toward a steady-state economy by Herman E. Daly — 2.0/5
• Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future by Ashlee Vance — 3.0/5
• Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder by Nassim Nicholas Taleb — 4.0/5
• Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow by Yuval Noah Harari — 3.0/5
• If on a Winter's Night a Traveler by Italo Calvino — 3.0/5
• Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!: Adventures of a Curious Character by Raymond Todd, Richard P. Feynman — 4.0/5
• Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software by Charles Petzold — 5.0/5
• From Certainty to Uncertainty: The Story of Science and Ideas in the Twentieth Century by F. David Peat — 2.0/5
• Stories of Your Life and Others by Ted Chiang — 5.0/5
• The Ruins of Gorlan by John Flanagan — 3.0/5
• The Three-Body Problem by Cixin Liu, Ken Liu — 5.0/5
• East of Eden by John Steinbeck — 1.0/5
• Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino, Anthony Doerr, Karina Maria Puente Frantzen — 4.0/5
• Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari — 5.0/5
• Fall of the White Ship Avatar by Brian Daley — 2.0/5
• The Book Thief by Markus Zusak — 4.0/5
• The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood — 4.0/5
• The Gene: An Intimate History by Siddhartha Mukherjee — 5.0/5
• Metaphors We Live By by George Lakoff, Mark Johnson — 2.0/5
• Red Mars by Kim Stanley Robinson — 5.0/5

2016

• Heir to the Empire by Timothy Zahn — 4.0/5
• Fooled by Randomness by Nassim Nicholas Taleb — 4.0/5
• Cannery Row by John Steinbeck — 4.0/5
• Hyperion by Dan Simmons — 4.0/5
• The Martian by Andy Weir — 5.0/5
• The Myth of Human Supremacy by Derrick Jensen — 2.0/5
• The Minority Report by Philip K. Dick — 5.0/5
• Murder is Easy by Agatha Christie — 3.0/5
• A Scanner Darkly by Philip K. Dick — 5.0/5
• American Gods by Neil Gaiman — 2.0/5
• How Computers Work: The Evolution of Technology, 10th Edition by Ron White — 1.0/5
• Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut — 5.0/5
• Guards! Guards! by Terry Pratchett — 3.0/5
• The Two Towers by J.R.R. Tolkien — 5.0/5
• The Victorian Internet by Tom Standage — 5.0/5
• The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho — 3.0/5
• The Fellowship of the Ring by J.R.R. Tolkien — 5.0/5
• TAI-PAN. by James Clavell — 4.0/5
• Understanding the Linux Kernel by Daniel Pierre Bovet, Marco Cesati — 4.0/5
• Masterworks of Science Volume 1 by John Warren Knedler, Jr. — 4.0/5
• Ubik by Philip K. Dick — 5.0/5
• Effective C++: 55 Specific Ways to Improve Your Programs and Designs by Scott Meyers — 3.0/5
• Meditations by Martin Hammond, Marcus Aurelius — 4.0/5
• The Long Earth by Terry Pratchett, Stephen Baxter — 3.0/5
• Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman — 4.0/5
• Jinx on a Terran Inheritance by Brian Daley — 4.0/5

2015

• The Pleasure of Finding Things Out: The Best Short Works of Richard P. Feynman by Jeffery Robbins, Richard P. Feynman — 4.0/5
• Hawk: Occupation: Skateboarder by Tony Hawk, Sean Mortimer — 3.0/5
• World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War by Max Brooks — 3.0/5
• Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell — 4.0/5
• Death by Black Hole: And Other Cosmic Quandaries by Neil deGrasse Tyson — 3.0/5
• Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie — 2.0/5
• And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie — 5.0/5
• Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami, Philip Gabriel — 4.0/5
• The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable by David Chandler, Микола Климчук, Nassim Nicholas Taleb — 5.0/5
• Olympos by Dan Simmons — 2.0/5
• Outcast of Redwall by Brian Jacques, Allan Curless — 2.0/5
• Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions by Edwin A. Abbott — 3.0/5
• Ilium by Dan Simmons — 4.0/5
• Requiem for a Ruler of Worlds by Brian Daley — 5.0/5
• Beautiful Code: Leading Programmers Explain How They Think by Andy Oram, Greg Wilson, Jon L. Bentley, Brian W. Kernighan, Charles Petzold, Douglas Crockford, Henry S. Warren Jr., Ashish Gulhati, Lincoln Stein, Jim Kent, Jack Dongarra, Poitr Luszczek, Adam Kolawa, Greg Kroah-Hartman, Diomidis Spinellis, Andrew Kuchling, Travis E. Oliphant, Ronald Mak, Rogério Atem de Carvalho, Rafael Monnerat, Bryan Cantrill, Jeffrey Dean, Sanjay Ghemawat, Simon Peyton Jones, R. Kent Dybuig, William R. Otte, Douglas C. Schmidt, Andrew Patzer, Karl Fogel, Tim Bray, Elliotte Rusty Harold, Michael C. Feathers, Alberto Savoia — 3.0/5
• Understanding Comics: The Invisible Art by Scott McCloud — 5.0/5
• Schrödinger's Cat Trilogy by Robert Anton Wilson — 3.0/5
• Nemesis by Isaac Asimov — 3.0/5
• Watership Down by Richard Adams — 5.0/5

2014

• Xenocide by Orson Scott Card — 3.0/5
• The Winter of Our Discontent by John Steinbeck, Brian Sanders — 2.0/5
• The Wise Man's Fear by Patrick Rothfuss — 4.0/5
• The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson — 2.0/5
• Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman by Haruki Murakami — 4.0/5
• A Piece of Cake by Cupcake Brown — 4.0/5
• The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right by Atul Gawande — 2.0/5
• NOiSE by Tsutomu Nihei — 2.0/5
• The Red Pony by John Steinbeck — 3.0/5
• Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim by David Sedaris — 4.0/5
• Speaker for the Dead by Orson Scott Card — 5.0/5
• The Hollow Man by Dan Simmons — 3.0/5
• The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss — 4.0/5
• Stranger in a Strange Land by James Warhola, Robert A. Heinlein — 5.0/5

Undated

• A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson — 2.0/5
• Bossypants by Tina Fey — 3.0/5
• Corporations Are Not People: Why They Have More Rights Than You Do and What You Can Do About It by Jeffrey D. Clements, Bill Moyers — 4.0/5
• Frankenstein: The 1818 Text by Mary Shelley — 4.0/5
• I Contain Multitudes: The Microbes Within Us and a Grander View of Life by Ed Yong — 3.0/5
• Leviathan Wakes by James S. A. Corey — 5.0/5
• The Ascent of Humanity by Charles Eisenstein — 3.0/5
• The Connected Child by Karyn Purvis — 5.0/5
• The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand — 4.0/5
• The Moon is Down by John Steinbeck — 4.0/5
• Walkaway by Cory Doctorow — 4.0/5
• Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams by Matthew Walker — 4.0/5