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2026
Lenin's Tomb
David Remnick
Quarantine
Greg Egan
Rendezvous with Rama
Arthur C. Clarke
A World Appears
Michael Pollan
Blindsight
Peter Watts
1929
Andrew Ross Sorkin
There Is No Antimemetics Division
qntm
Schild's Ladder
Greg Egan
Capitalism
Sven Beckert
Luminous
Greg Egan
2025
Artemis
Andy Weir
7 Powers
Hamilton Helmer
History of Western Philosophy
Bertrand Russell
Return from the Stars
Stanisław Lem
Axiomatic
Greg Egan
How to Hide an Empire
Daniel Immerwahr
Where Wizards Stay Up Late
Katie Hafner & Matthew Lyon
The Day of the Jackal
Frederick Forsyth
Diaspora
Greg Egan
The Box
Marc Levinson
Failure Is Not an Option
Gene Kranz
The Passage
Justin Cronin
Say Nothing
Patrick Radden Keefe
2024
The Proud Tower
Barbara W. Tuchman
Boom
Byrne Hobart & Tobias Huber
Daemon
Daniel Suarez
Nexus
Yuval Noah Harari
Shadow Network
Anne Nelson
The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat
Oliver Sacks
Slouching Towards Utopia
Bradford DeLong
The Demon of Unrest
Erik Larson
Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind
Shunryu Suzuki
Bernoulli's Fallacy
Aubrey Clayton
The Visual Display of Quantitative Information, 2nd Ed.
Edward R. Tufte
The MANIAC
Benjamín Labatut
Age of Revolutions
Fareed Zakaria
The Peace War
Vernor Vinge
Nuclear War
Annie Jacobsen
The Diamond Age
Neal Stephenson
When We Cease to Understand the World
Benjamín Labatut
Chip War
Chris Miller
A Fire Upon the Deep
Vernor Vinge
Fall; or, Dodge in Hell
Neal Stephenson
2023
How Buildings Learn
Stewart Brand
On the Origin of Time
Thomas Hertog
Going Infinite
Michael Lewis
Ametora
W. David Marx
Democracy Awakening
Heather Cox Richardson
Termination Shock
Neal Stephenson
Is Math Real?
Eugenia Cheng
Deception Point
Dan Brown
Napoleon
Andrew Roberts
Good Strategy, Bad Strategy
Richard Rumelt
The Soul of a New Machine
Tracy Kidder
Dreams of a Final Theory
Steven Weinberg
The Perfectionists
Simon Winchester
Patriot Games
Tom Clancy
The Wager
David Grann
Seeing Like a State
James C. Scott
The Hunt for Red October
Tom Clancy
Kill Chain
Andrew Cockburn
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
John le Carré
The Maltese Falcon
Dashiell Hammett
Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow
Gabrielle Zevin
The Idea Factory
Jon Gertner
2022
And Then There Were None
Agatha Christie
Thinking in Systems
Donella H. Meadows
Blue Mars
Kim Stanley Robinson
The Making of a Manager
Julie Zhuo
Noise
Daniel Kahneman, Olivier Sibony, and Cass R. Sunstein
The Hard Thing About Hard Things
Ben Horowitz
Green Mars
Kim Stanley Robinson
Red Mars
Kim Stanley Robinson
The Mirror & the Light
Hilary Mantel
Bringing Up the Bodies
Hilary Mantel
Wolf Hall
Hilary Mantel
The Price of Peace
Zachary D. Carter
The Machine That Changed the World
James P. Womack, Daniel T. Jones, and Daniel Roos
Murder on the Orient Express
Agatha Christie
How the World Really Works
Vaclav Smil
Red Notice
Bill Browder
Helgoland
Carlo Rovelli
The Code Breaker
Walter Isaacson
The Selfish Gene
Richard Dawkins
The Grid
Gretchen Bakke
2021
The Phoenix Project
George Spafford, Gene Kim, Kevin Behr
To Start a War
Robert Draper
Energy
Richard Rhodes
Permutation City
Greg Egan
The Freeze-Frame Revolution
Peter Watts
The Bomber Mafia
Malcolm Gladwell
11/22/63
Stephen King
The Evolution of Cooperation
Robert Axelrod
A Memory Called Empire
Arkady Martine
Journey to the Edge of Reason
Stephen Budiansky
Project Hail Mary
Andy Weir
Guns, Germs, and Steel
Jared Diamond
Creative Selection
Ken Kocienda
Stories of Your Life and Others
Ted Chiang
The Ten Most Beautiful Experiments
George Johnson
The Ministry for the Future
Kim Stanley Robinson
Leaders Eat Last
Simon Sinek
1776
David McCullough
On Writing
Stephen King
A Wizard of Earthsea
Ursula K. Le Guin
The Beginning of Infinity
David Deutsch
2020
Piranesi
Susanna Clarke
Going to Pieces Without Falling Apart
Mark Epstein
The Quiet Americans
Scott Anderson
Masters of Doom
David Kushner
Altered Carbon
Richard K. Morgan
Slaughterhouse-Five
Kurt Vonnegut
Benjamin Franklin
Walter Isaacson
The Guns of August
Barbara W. Tuchman
American Colossus
H.W. Brands
Bird by Bird
Anne Lamott
The Design of Everyday Things
Don Norman
Design Unbound
Ann M. Pendleton-Jullian and John Seely Brown
Twenty Bits I Learned About Design, Business & Community
Dan Cederholm
The Innovator's Dilemma
Clayton M. Christensen
Rescuing Prometheus
Thomas P. Hughes
Thinking in Services
Majid Iqbal
The Clockwork Universe
Edward Dolnick
The Splendid and the Vile
Erik Larson
The Way of Zen
Alan Watts
Good Services
Lou Downe
Instantiation
Greg Egan
Borne
Jeff VanderMeer
Dark Matter
Blake Crouch
Recursion
Blake Crouch
Hooked
Nir Eyal
Atomic Habits
James Clear
Do I Make Myself Clear?
Harold Evans
Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World
Jack Weatherford
The Obstacle is the Way
Ryan Holiday
The Mythical Man-Month
Frederick P. Brooks Jr.
The Mastermind
Evan Ratliff
2019
Dare to Lead
Brené Brown
The Square and the Tower
Niall Ferguson
Several Short Sentences About Writing
Verlyn Klinkenborg
High Output Management
Andrew S. Grove
Radical Candor
Kim Malone Scott
The Art of Taking Action
Gregg Krech
The Goal
Eliyahu M. Goldratt and Jeff Cox
Shanzhai
Byung-Chul Han and Philippa Hurd
Rocket Men
Robert Kurson
Competing Against Luck
Clayton M. Christensen, Karen Dillon, Taddy Hall and David S. Duncan
Children of Time
Adrian Tchaikovsky
Articulating Design Decisions
Tom Greever
Org Design for Design Orgs
Peter Merholz and Kristin Skinner
Pandemic
A. G. Riddle
How to Do Nothing
Jenny Odell
Thinking, Fast and Slow
Daniel Kahneman
The Black Swan
Nassim Taleb
Einstein
Walter Isaacson
Midnight in Chernobyl
Adam Higginbotham
Trillion Dollar Coach
Eric Schmidt, Jonathan Rosenberg, and Alan Eagle
Exhalation
Ted Chiang
Brave New Work
Aaron Dignan
Endurance
Alfred Lansing
Leviathan Wakes
James S. A. Corey
21 Lessons for the 21st Century
Yuval Noah Harari
Discussing Design
Adam Connor and Aaron Irizarry
The Fifth Season
N.K. Jemisin
2018
Predictably Irrational
Dan Ariely
Ball Lightning
Cixin Liu
A People's History of the United States
Howard Zinn
How To Cook Your Life
Dōgen Zenji and Kōshō Uchiyama
Thinking in Bets
Annie Duke
The Wizard and the Prophet
Charles C. Mann
The 2020 Commission Report
Jeffrey Lewis
Why We Sleep
Matthew Walker
SPQR
Mary Beard
Good to Great
James C. Collins
The Culture Code
Daniel Coyle
On Grand Strategy
John Lewis Gaddis
Bad Blood
John Carreyrou
1491
Charles Mann
Enlightenment Now
Steven Pinker
The Foundation Trilogy
Isaac Asimov
Why Buddhism is True
Robert Wright
I Am A Strange Loop
Douglas R. Hofstadter
Dreaming the Beatles
Rob Sheffield