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2025

essay Hello World 2.0
Dec 2025
review Loving Vincent
Dec 2025
essay Hello World
Dec 2025
review Wicked: For Good
Dec 2025
review Abundance
Dec 2025
review Albion's Seed: Four British Folkways in America (America: A Cultural History #1)
Dec 2025
review American Revolutions: A Continental History, 1750-1804
Dec 2025
review Children of Ash and Elm: A History of the Vikings
Dec 2025
review Collapse: The Fall of the Soviet Union
Dec 2025
review On Grand Strategy
Dec 2025
review Original Sin: President Biden's Decline, Its Cover-Up, and His Disastrous Choice to Run Again
Dec 2025
review River Kings: A New History of the Vikings from Scandinavia to the Silk Road
Dec 2025
review The Almost Nearly Perfect People: Behind the Myth of the Scandinavian Utopia
Dec 2025
review The Fate of Africa: A History of the Continent Since Independence
Dec 2025
review The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt (Theodore Roosevelt, #1)
Dec 2025
review Theodore Rex
Dec 2025
review A House of Dynamite
Nov 2025
essay The American Birthday Syllabus
Oct 2025
review Before Sunrise
Oct 2025
review Mickey 17
Oct 2025
review Apollo 13
Sep 2025
review Superman
Sep 2025
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Sep 2025
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Aug 2025
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Jul 2025
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Jun 2025
review Tracks: One Woman's Journey Across 1,700 Miles of Australian Outback
May 2025
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May 2025
review Her
Apr 2025
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Apr 2025
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Mar 2025
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Feb 2025
review Apocalypto
Jan 2025
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Jan 2025

2024

review Grave of the Fireflies
Dec 2024
review Interstellar
Dec 2024
review A Primate's Memoir: A Neuroscientist's Unconventional Life Among the Baboons
Dec 2024
review California: A History (Modern Library Chronicles)
Dec 2024
review Scotland: A History from Earliest Times
Dec 2024
review Small Unit Leadership: A Commonsense Approach
Dec 2024
review The Discovery of France: A Historical Geography from the Revolution to the First World War
Dec 2024
review The Engines of Cognition: Essays by the LessWrong Community
Dec 2024
review The World for Sale: Money, Power and the Traders Who Barter the Earth's Resources
Dec 2024
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Dec 2024
review Wicked
Dec 2024
review The Social Network
Nov 2024
review Howl's Moving Castle
Nov 2024
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Nov 2024
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Oct 2024
review Deadpool & Wolverine
Sep 2024
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Sep 2024
review High Output Management
Aug 2024
review Nuclear War: A Scenario
Aug 2024
review Seeing Like a State
Aug 2024
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Aug 2024
review American Factory
Jul 2024
review The Killer
Jul 2024
review Wild Wild Space
Jul 2024
review Godzilla Minus One
Jul 2024
review A Map That Reflects the Territory: Essays by the Lesswrong Community
Jul 2024
review The Pursuit of Italy: A History of a Land, Its Regions, and Their Peoples
Jul 2024
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Jul 2024
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Jun 2024
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May 2024
review Civil War
May 2024
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Apr 2024
review Dune: Part Two
Mar 2024
review Thinking in Systems
Mar 2024
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Mar 2024
review Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality
Mar 2024
review The Incredibles
Feb 2024
review Parfit: A Philosopher and His Mission to Save Morality
Feb 2024
review The World Behind the World: Consciousness, Free Will, and the Limits of Science
Feb 2024
review Django Unchained
Feb 2024
essay Building Robust Data Pipelines
Feb 2024
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Feb 2024
review Indigenous Continent: The Epic Contest for North America
Jan 2024
review Tenet
Jan 2024
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Jan 2024

2023

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Dec 2023
review Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World
Nov 2023
review Elon Musk
Nov 2023
review Fifth Sun: A New History of the Aztecs
Nov 2023
review Lakota America: A New History of Indigenous Power (The Lamar Series in Western History)
Nov 2023
review The Bhagavad Gita
Nov 2023
review The Habsburgs: To Rule the World
Nov 2023
review The Will to Power: The Philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche (The Great Courses) Complete Set: Part I and Part II. Audio Cassettes
Nov 2023
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Nov 2023
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Oct 2023
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Sep 2023
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Aug 2023
review Kindred: Neanderthal Life, Love, Death and Art
Jul 2023
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Jul 2023
review Before the Dawn: Recovering the Lost History of Our Ancestors
Jun 2023
review The Horse, the Wheel, and Language: How Bronze-Age Riders from the Eurasian Steppes Shaped the Modern World
Jun 2023
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Jun 2023
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May 2023
review Empire of Guns: The Violent Making of the Industrial Revolution
Apr 2023
review Legacy of Violence: A History of the British Empire
Apr 2023
review The Napoleonic Wars: A Global History
Apr 2023
review The Gold Rush
Apr 2023
review The Grand Budapest Hotel
Apr 2023
review The Thing
Apr 2023
review Hotel Rwanda
Apr 2023
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Apr 2023
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Mar 2023
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Feb 2023
review Batman Begins
Jan 2023
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Jan 2023
review 1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus
Jan 2023
review Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty
Jan 2023
review The Age of Em: Work, Love and Life When Robots Rule the Earth
Jan 2023
review The Anarchy: The East India Company, Corporate Violence, and the Pillage of an Empire
Jan 2023
review Wild Problems: A Guide to the Decisions That Define Us
Jan 2023

2022

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Dec 2022
review From Rebel to Ruler: One Hundred Years of the Chinese Communist Party
Nov 2022
review The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right
Nov 2022
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Nov 2022
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Oct 2022
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Sep 2022
review Luck
Aug 2022
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Aug 2022
review Arjun: The Warrior Prince
Jul 2022
review The Mahabharata
Jul 2022
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Jul 2022
review Being John Malkovich
Jun 2022
review Everything Everywhere All at Once
Jun 2022
review Gandhi
Jun 2022
review I'm Thinking of Ending Things
Jun 2022
review Mountain
Jun 2022
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Jun 2022
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May 2022
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Apr 2022
review A Colder War
Apr 2022
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Mar 2022
review The Egg
Feb 2022
review Project Hail Mary
Feb 2022
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Feb 2022
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Jan 2022

2021

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Dec 2021
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Nov 2021
review The Fall of Rome and the End of Civilization
Oct 2021
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Oct 2021
review Ancient Civilizations of North America
Sep 2021
review Inheritance of Rome
Sep 2021
review There Is No Antimemetics Division
Sep 2021
review You're Invited: The Art and Science of Connection, Trust, and Belonging
Sep 2021
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Sep 2021
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Aug 2021
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Jul 2021
review The Big Picture: On the Origins of Life, Meaning, and the Universe Itself
Jun 2021
review Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
Jun 2021
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Jun 2021
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May 2021
review CFAR: Participant Handbook
Apr 2021
review Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures
Apr 2021
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Apr 2021
review A Short History of Nearly Everything
Mar 2021
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Mar 2021
review Emergence: The Connected Lives of Ants, Brains, Cities, and Software
Feb 2021
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Feb 2021
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Jan 2021

2020

review A Promised Land
Nov 2020
review How to Invent Everything: A Survival Guide for the Stranded Time Traveler
Nov 2020
review One Billion Americans: The Case for Thinking Bigger
Nov 2020
review The Bottom Billion: Why the Poorest Countries Are Failing and What Can Be Done About It
Oct 2020
review The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion
Sep 2020
review Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men
Aug 2020
review The Great Warming: Climate Change and the Rise and Fall of Civilizations
Aug 2020
review Poor Economics: A Radical Rethinking of the Way to Fight Global Poverty
May 2020
review Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty
Apr 2020
review The Death and Life of Great American Cities
Feb 2020

2019

review An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness
Dec 2019
review Willpower Doesn't Work: Discover the Hidden Keys to Success
Dec 2019
review The Happiness Hypothesis: Finding Modern Truth in Ancient Wisdom
Dec 2019
review Circe
Nov 2019
review Conversations with Friends
Oct 2019
review No Matter the Wreckage
Oct 2019
review The Perfectionists: How Precision Engineers Created the Modern World
Oct 2019
review Unsong
Oct 2019
review American War
May 2019
review The Ends of the World: Supervolcanoes, Lethal Oceans, and the Search for Past Apocalypses
Apr 2019
review The Uninhabitable Earth
Mar 2019
review The Introvert's Edge: How the Quiet and Shy Can Outsell Anyone
Mar 2019
review The Gene
Mar 2019
review Darkness Visible: Memoirs of Madness
Mar 2019
review American Nations: A History of the Eleven Rival Regional Cultures of North America
Mar 2019
review The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression
Mar 2019
review Uncommon Grounds: The History of Coffee and How It Transformed Our World
Feb 2019
review Polarized: Making Sense of a Divided America
Jan 2019

2018

review The Origin and Evolution of Earth: From the Big Bang to the Future of Human Existence
Oct 2018
review Origins: Fourteen Billion Years of Cosmic Evolution
Aug 2018
review A Universe from Nothing: Why There Is Something Rather Than Nothing
Aug 2018
review Origin Story: A Big History of Everything
Jul 2018
review Maps of Meaning: The Architecture of Belief
Jul 2018
review Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress
Mar 2018
review 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos
Feb 2018
review The Water Will Come: Rising Seas, Sinking Cities, and the Remaking of the Civilized World
Jan 2018

2017

review A Colony in a Nation
Dec 2017
review Red Plenty: Inside the Fifties' Soviet Dream
Nov 2017
review Death's End
Nov 2017
review Sex at Dawn
Oct 2017
review What Happened
Oct 2017
review Energy and Civilization: A History
Sep 2017
review The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
Sep 2017
review Drawdown: The Most Comprehensive Plan Ever Proposed to Reverse Global Warming
Aug 2017
review Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II
Aug 2017
review Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era
Jul 2017
review Climate Change: What Everyone Needs to Know
Jul 2017
review The Handmaid's Tail
May 2017
review A People's History of the United States
May 2017
review Neighbors 2: Sorority Rising
May 2017
review X-Men: Apocalypse
May 2017
review Debt: The First 5,000 Years
Apr 2017
review The Complacent Class: The Self-Defeating Quest for the American Dream
Apr 2017
review The Discovery
Apr 2017
review Tools of Titans: The Tactics, Routines, and Habits of Billionaires, Icons, and World-Class Performers
Mar 2017
review The Origins of Political Order: From Prehuman Times to the French Revolution
Mar 2017
review Get Out
Mar 2017
review Logan
Mar 2017
review Narconomics: How to Run a Drug Cartel
Mar 2017
review Silence
Feb 2017
review Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less
Feb 2017
review The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany
Feb 2017
review The Virgin Way: Everything I Know About Leadership
Jan 2017
review 10 Cloverfield Lane
Jan 2017
review Arrival
Jan 2017
review Rogue One: A Star Wars Story
Jan 2017
review Spotlight
Jan 2017
review So Good They Can't Ignore You: Why Skills Trump Passion in the Quest for Work You Love
Jan 2017

2016

review The Politics of Resentment: Rural Consciousness in Wisconsin and the Rise of Scott Walker
Dec 2016
review Strangers in Their Own Land: Anger and Mourning on the American Right
Nov 2016
review Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis
Nov 2016
review Misbehaving: The Making of Behavioral Economics
Oct 2016
review Algorithms to Live By: The Computer Science of Human Decisions
Oct 2016
review The Drunkard's Walk: How Randomness Rules Our Lives
Oct 2016
review Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy
Sep 2016
review This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate
Sep 2016
review The 4 Percent Universe: Dark Matter, Dark Energy, and the Race to Discover the Rest of Reality
Aug 2016
review The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism
Aug 2016
review The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon
Jul 2016
review Superforecasting: The Art and Science of Prediction
Jan 2016

2015

review Star Wars: The Force Awakens (novelization)
Dec 2015
review Structures: Or Why Things Don't Fall Down
Sep 2015
review Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies
Aug 2015
review The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail - But Some Don't
Jul 2015
review Catch-22
Jul 2015
review A Lover's Discourse: Fragments
Jun 2015
review The Peripheral
May 2015
review What Technology Wants
Apr 2015
review The Zero Marginal Cost Society: The Internet of Things, the Collaborative Commons, and the Eclipse of Capitalism
Feb 2015
review The Martian
Jan 2015

2014

review The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business
Oct 2014
review The Fault in Our Stars
Jul 2014
review Why Him? Why Her?: Understanding Your Personality Type and Finding the Perfect Match
Jun 2014
review Everything Bad is Good for You
Jun 2014
review The Selfish Gene
Apr 2014
review The Revenge of Geography: What the Map Tells Us About Coming Conflicts and the Battle Against Fate
Mar 2014
review The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature
Feb 2014

2013

review Why We Love: The Nature and Chemistry of Romantic Love
Dec 2013
review The Denial of Death
Sep 2013
review The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined
Sep 2013

2012

review Destiny Disrupted: A History of the World Through Islamic Eyes
Aug 2012
review A History of Western Philosophy
Jul 2012

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