Library
Books I've read and films I've watched.
2025
Loving Vincent
The Welchmens
Wicked: For Good
Jon M. Chu
Abundance
Ezra Klein
Albion's Seed: Four British Folkways in America (America: A Cultural History #1)
David Hackett Fischer
American Revolutions: A Continental History, 1750-1804
Alan Taylor
Children of Ash and Elm: A History of the Vikings
Neil Price
Collapse: The Fall of the Soviet Union
Vladislav M. Zubok
On Grand Strategy
John Lewis Gaddis
Original Sin: President Biden's Decline, Its Cover-Up, and His Disastrous Choice to Run Again
Chris Whipple
River Kings: A New History of the Vikings from Scandinavia to the Silk Road
Cat Jarman
The Almost Nearly Perfect People: Behind the Myth of the Scandinavian Utopia
Michael Booth
The Fate of Africa: A History of the Continent Since Independence
Martin Meredith
The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt (Theodore Roosevelt, #1)
Edmund Morris
Theodore Rex
Edmund Morris
A House of Dynamite
Kathryn Bigelow
Before Sunrise
Richard Linklater
Mickey 17
Bong Joon Ho
Apollo 13
Ron Howard
Superman
James Gunn
Tracks: One Woman's Journey Across 1,700 Miles of Australian Outback
Robyn Davidson
Her
Spike Jonze
Apocalypto
Mel Gibson
2024
Grave of the Fireflies
Isao Takahata
Interstellar
Christopher Nolan
A Primate's Memoir: A Neuroscientist's Unconventional Life Among the Baboons
Robert M. Sapolsky
California: A History (Modern Library Chronicles)
Kevin Starr
Scotland: A History from Earliest Times
Alistair Moffat
Small Unit Leadership: A Commonsense Approach
Dandridge M. Malone
The Discovery of France: A Historical Geography from the Revolution to the First World War
Graham Robb
The Engines of Cognition: Essays by the LessWrong Community
LessWrong Community
The World for Sale: Money, Power and the Traders Who Barter the Earth's Resources
Javier Blas and Jack Farchy
Wicked
Jon M. Chu
★ The Social Network
David Fincher
Howl's Moving Castle
Hayao Miyazaki
Deadpool & Wolverine
Shawn Levy
High Output Management
Andrew S. Grove
Nuclear War: A Scenario
Annie Jacobsen
★ Seeing Like a State
James C. Scott
American Factory
Steven Bognar
The Killer
David Fincher
Wild Wild Space
Ross Kauffman
Godzilla Minus One
Takashi Yamazaki
A Map That Reflects the Territory: Essays by the Lesswrong Community
LessWrong Community
The Pursuit of Italy: A History of a Land, Its Regions, and Their Peoples
David Gilmour
Civil War
Alex Garland
Dune: Part Two
Denis Villeneuve
★ Thinking in Systems
Donella H. Meadows
Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality
Eliezer Yudkowsky
The Incredibles
Brad Bird
Parfit: A Philosopher and His Mission to Save Morality
David Edmonds
The World Behind the World: Consciousness, Free Will, and the Limits of Science
Erik Hoel
Django Unchained
Quentin Tarantino
Indigenous Continent: The Epic Contest for North America
Pekka Hämäläinen
Tenet
Christopher Nolan
2023
Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World
Jack Weatherford
Elon Musk
Walter Isaacson
Fifth Sun: A New History of the Aztecs
Camilla Townsend
Lakota America: A New History of Indigenous Power (The Lamar Series in Western History)
Pekka Hämäläinen
The Bhagavad Gita
Eknath Easwaran
The Habsburgs: To Rule the World
Martyn Rady
The Will to Power: The Philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche (The Great Courses) Complete Set: Part I and Part II. Audio Cassettes
Robert C. Solomon
Kindred: Neanderthal Life, Love, Death and Art
Rebecca Wragg Sykes
Before the Dawn: Recovering the Lost History of Our Ancestors
Nicholas Wade
The Horse, the Wheel, and Language: How Bronze-Age Riders from the Eurasian Steppes Shaped the Modern World
David W. Anthony
Empire of Guns: The Violent Making of the Industrial Revolution
Priya Satia
Legacy of Violence: A History of the British Empire
Caroline Elkins
The Napoleonic Wars: A Global History
Alexander Mikaberidze
The Gold Rush
Charlie Chaplin
The Grand Budapest Hotel
Wes Anderson
The Thing
John Carpenter
Hotel Rwanda
Terry George
Batman Begins
Christopher Nolan
1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus
Charles C. Mann
Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty
Patrick Radden Keefe
The Age of Em: Work, Love and Life When Robots Rule the Earth
Robin Hanson
The Anarchy: The East India Company, Corporate Violence, and the Pillage of an Empire
William Dalrymple
Wild Problems: A Guide to the Decisions That Define Us
Russ Roberts
2022
From Rebel to Ruler: One Hundred Years of the Chinese Communist Party
Tony Saich
The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right
Atul Gawande
Luck
Peggy Holmes
Arjun: The Warrior Prince
Arnab Chaudhuri
The Mahabharata
Peter Brook
Being John Malkovich
Spike Jonze
Everything Everywhere All at Once
Daniel Scheinert
Gandhi
Richard Attenborough
I'm Thinking of Ending Things
Charlie Kaufman
Mountain
Jennifer Peedom
A Colder War
Charles Stross
The Egg
Andy Weir
Project Hail Mary
Andy Weir
2021
The Fall of Rome and the End of Civilization
Bryan Ward-Perkins
Ancient Civilizations of North America
Edwin Barnhart
Inheritance of Rome
Chris Wickham
There Is No Antimemetics Division
qntm
You're Invited: The Art and Science of Connection, Trust, and Belonging
Jon Levy
The Big Picture: On the Origins of Life, Meaning, and the Universe Itself
Sean Carroll
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
Robert M. Pirsig
CFAR: Participant Handbook
CFAR
Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures
Merlin Sheldrake
A Short History of Nearly Everything
Bill Bryson
Emergence: The Connected Lives of Ants, Brains, Cities, and Software
Steven Johnson
2020
A Promised Land
Barack Obama
How to Invent Everything: A Survival Guide for the Stranded Time Traveler
Ryan North
One Billion Americans: The Case for Thinking Bigger
Matthew Yglesias
The Bottom Billion: Why the Poorest Countries Are Failing and What Can Be Done About It
Paul Collier
The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion
Jonathan Haidt
Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men
Caroline Criado Perez
The Great Warming: Climate Change and the Rise and Fall of Civilizations
Brian Fagan
Poor Economics: A Radical Rethinking of the Way to Fight Global Poverty
Abhijit V. Banerjee
Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty
Daron Acemoglu
The Death and Life of Great American Cities
Jane Jacobs
2019
An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness
Kay Redfield Jamison
Willpower Doesn't Work: Discover the Hidden Keys to Success
Benjamin Hardy
The Happiness Hypothesis: Finding Modern Truth in Ancient Wisdom
Jonathan Haidt
Circe
Madeline Miller
Conversations with Friends
Sally Rooney
No Matter the Wreckage
Sarah Kay
The Perfectionists: How Precision Engineers Created the Modern World
Simon Winchester
Unsong
Scott Alexander
American War
Omar El Akkad
The Ends of the World: Supervolcanoes, Lethal Oceans, and the Search for Past Apocalypses
Peter Brannen
The Uninhabitable Earth
David Wallace-Wells
The Introvert's Edge: How the Quiet and Shy Can Outsell Anyone
Matthew Pollard
The Gene
Siddhartha Mukherjee
Darkness Visible: Memoirs of Madness
William Styron
American Nations: A History of the Eleven Rival Regional Cultures of North America
Colin Woodard
The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression
Andrew Solomon
Uncommon Grounds: The History of Coffee and How It Transformed Our World
Mark Pendergrast
Polarized: Making Sense of a Divided America
James E. Campbell
2018
The Origin and Evolution of Earth: From the Big Bang to the Future of Human Existence
Robert M. Hazen
Origins: Fourteen Billion Years of Cosmic Evolution
Neil deGrasse Tyson
A Universe from Nothing: Why There Is Something Rather Than Nothing
Lawrence M. Krauss
Origin Story: A Big History of Everything
David Christian
Maps of Meaning: The Architecture of Belief
Jordan B. Peterson
Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress
Steven Pinker
12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos
Jordan B. Peterson
The Water Will Come: Rising Seas, Sinking Cities, and the Remaking of the Civilized World
Jeff Goodell
2017
A Colony in a Nation
Chris Hayes
Red Plenty: Inside the Fifties' Soviet Dream
Francis Spufford
Death's End
Liu Cixin
Sex at Dawn
Christopher Ryan
What Happened
Hillary Rodham Clinton
Energy and Civilization: A History
Vaclav Smil
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
Michelle Alexander
Drawdown: The Most Comprehensive Plan Ever Proposed to Reverse Global Warming
Paul Hawken
Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II
Douglas A. Blackmon
Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era
James M. McPherson
Climate Change: What Everyone Needs to Know
Joseph Romm
The Handmaid's Tail
Margaret Atwood
A People's History of the United States
Howard Zinn
Neighbors 2: Sorority Rising
Nicholas Stoller
X-Men: Apocalypse
Bryan Singer
Debt: The First 5,000 Years
David Graeber
The Complacent Class: The Self-Defeating Quest for the American Dream
Tyler Cowen
The Discovery
Charlie McDowell
Tools of Titans: The Tactics, Routines, and Habits of Billionaires, Icons, and World-Class Performers
Tim Ferriss
The Origins of Political Order: From Prehuman Times to the French Revolution
Francis Fukuyama
Get Out
Jordan Peele
Logan
James Mangold
Narconomics: How to Run a Drug Cartel
Tom Wainwright
Silence
Martin Scorsese
Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less
Greg McKeown
The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany
WILLIAM L. SHIRER
The Virgin Way: Everything I Know About Leadership
Richard Branson
10 Cloverfield Lane
Dan Trachtenberg
Arrival
Denis Villeneuve
Rogue One: A Star Wars Story
Gareth Edwards
Spotlight
Tom McCarthy
So Good They Can't Ignore You: Why Skills Trump Passion in the Quest for Work You Love
Cal Newport
2016
The Politics of Resentment: Rural Consciousness in Wisconsin and the Rise of Scott Walker
Katherine J. Cramer
Strangers in Their Own Land: Anger and Mourning on the American Right
Arlie Russell Hochschild
Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis
J.D. Vance
Misbehaving: The Making of Behavioral Economics
Richard H. Thaler
Algorithms to Live By: The Computer Science of Human Decisions
Brian Christian
The Drunkard's Walk: How Randomness Rules Our Lives
Leonard Mlodinow
Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy
Cathy O'Neil
This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate
Naomi Klein
The 4 Percent Universe: Dark Matter, Dark Energy, and the Race to Discover the Rest of Reality
Richard Panek
The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism
Naomi Klein
The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon
Brad Stone
Superforecasting: The Art and Science of Prediction
Philip E. Tetlock
2015
Star Wars: The Force Awakens (novelization)
Alan Dean Foster
Structures: Or Why Things Don't Fall Down
James Edward Gordon
Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies
Nick Bostrom
The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail - But Some Don't
Nate Silver
Catch-22
Joseph Heller
A Lover's Discourse: Fragments
Roland Barthes
The Peripheral
William Gibson
What Technology Wants
Kevin Kelly
The Zero Marginal Cost Society: The Internet of Things, the Collaborative Commons, and the Eclipse of Capitalism
Jeremy Rifkin
The Martian
Andy Weir
2014
The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business
Charles Duhigg
The Fault in Our Stars
John Green
Why Him? Why Her?: Understanding Your Personality Type and Finding the Perfect Match
Helen Fisher
Everything Bad is Good for You
Steven Johnson
The Selfish Gene
Richard Dawkins
The Revenge of Geography: What the Map Tells Us About Coming Conflicts and the Battle Against Fate
Robert D. Kaplan
The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature
Steven Pinker
