Notes on some of the books I’ve read. Since 2025 I’ve included every book I read. The list below sorted by reverse chronological order.
Sometimes I re-read books. I update the original post instead of adding a new one.
Books with (Language) means the review itself is in that language, not just that I read the book in that language.
| Title | Author | Rating | Category | Year Read | Cover |
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| Grandes Sertões Veredas (Portuguese) | Guimarães Rosa | ⭐⭐⭐ | Fiction | 2026 |
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| Metaphysics | Stephen Mumford | ⭐⭐⭐⭐ | Philosophy | 2026 |
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| Building a Second Brain | Tiago Forte | ⭐⭐⭐⭐ | Business | 2026 |
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| An Immense World | Ed Yong | ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ | Biology | 2026 |
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| Monkeys are Made of Chocolate | Jack Ewing | ⭐⭐⭐⭐ | Travel | 2026 |
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| Elbow Room | Daniel C. Dennett | ⭐⭐⭐⭐ | Philosophy | 2026 |
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| Project Hail Mary | Andy Weir | ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ | Sci-fi | 2026 |
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| O Homem que Calculava | Malba Tahan | ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ | Fiction / Math | 2026 |
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| The Naked Sun | Isaac Asimov | ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ | Sci-fi | 2026 |
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| The Golden Trade of the Moors | Edward William Bovill | ⭐⭐⭐⭐ | History | 2026 |
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| The Caves of Steel | Isaac Asimov | ⭐⭐⭐⭐ | Sci-fi | 2026 |
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| The Mindbody Prescription | John E. Sarno | ⭐ | Psychology | 2026 |
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| Notes From The Underground | Fyodor Dostoevsky | ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ | Fiction | 2026 |
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| The Music of the Primes | Marcus du Sautoy | ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ | Math | 2025 |
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| Ficciones | Jorge Luis Borges | ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ | Fiction | 2025 |
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| For Bread Alone | Mohamed Choukri | ⭐⭐⭐⭐ | Memoir | 2025 |
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| Pachinko | Min Jin Lee | ⭐⭐⭐⭐ | Fiction | 2025 |
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| The Man from the Future | Ananyo Bhattacharya | ⭐⭐⭐⭐ | Biography / Math | 2025 |
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| A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains | Isabella L. Bird | ⭐⭐⭐⭐ | Memoir | 2025 |
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| Atomic Habits | James Clear | ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ | Psychology | 2025 |
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| Nonviolent Communication | Marshall B. Rosenberg | ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ | Psychology | 2025 |
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| The Tempest | William Shakespare | ⭐⭐⭐⭐ | Drama | 2025 |
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| I, Robot | Isaac Asimov | ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ | Sci-fi | 2025 |
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| The Almanack by Naval Ravikant | Eric Jorgenson | ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ | Business, Philosophy | 2025 |
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| The Body | Bill Bryson | ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ | Science | 2025 |
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| The Scramble For Africa | Thomas Pakenham | ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ | History | 2025 |
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| Fire in the Lake | Frances FitzGerald | ⭐⭐⭐⭐ | History | 2025 |
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| Manna | Marshall Brain | ⭐⭐⭐⭐ | Sci-fi | 2025 |
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| Romancero Gitano | Federico Lorca | ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ | Poetry | 2025 |
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| Portlandness | David Banis, Hunter Shobe | ⭐⭐⭐⭐ | Travel | 2025 |
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| The Code Breaker | Walter Isaacson | ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ | Science | 2025 |
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| Perfume Dreams | Andrew Lam | ⭐⭐⭐⭐ | History | 2025 |
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| Singapore: A Very Short History | Alvin Tan | ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ | History | 2025 |
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| Formosa Betrayed | George H. Kerr | ⭐⭐⭐⭐ | History | 2025 |
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| O Brasil Antes the Cabral | Reinaldo José Lopes | ⭐⭐⭐⭐ | History | 2025 |
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| The Highly Sensitive Person | Elaine N. Aron | ⭐⭐⭐ | Psychology | 2025 |
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| Peoples and Cultures of Africa - Southern Africa | Peter Mitchell | ⭐⭐⭐⭐ | History | 2025 |
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| Long Walk to Freedom | Nelson Mandela | ⭐⭐⭐⭐ | Biography | 2025 |
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| The Innovator's Dilemma | Clayton M. Christensen | ⭐⭐⭐⭐ | Business | 2024 |
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| The Art of Thinking Clearly | Rolf Dobelli | ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ | Psychology | 2024 |
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| An Arid Eden | Garth Owen-Smith | ⭐⭐⭐⭐ | History | 2024 |
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| The Anglo-Saxons | Marc Morris | ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ | History | 2024 |
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| Moorish Spain | Richard Fletcher | ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ | History | 2024 |
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| Imperial China: 900 - 1800 | F. W. Mote | ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ | History | 2024 |
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| The Penguin History of Aotearoa | Michael King | ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ | History | 2024 |
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| India in the Persianate Age | Richard M. Eaton | ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ | History | 2023 |
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| A New Illustrated History of Taiwan | Wan-yao Chou | ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ | History | 2023 |
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| Letters from a Stoic | Seneca | ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ | Philosophy | 2023 |
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| Notes from New Zealand | Edward Kanze | ⭐⭐⭐⭐ | History | 2023 |
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| Designing the Mind | Ryan A. Bush | ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ | Philosophy | 2023 |
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| The Good Rain | Timothy Egan | ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ | History | 2023 |
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| Le Petit Prince | Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Richard Howard | ⭐⭐⭐⭐ | Fiction | 2023 |
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| Brief Answers to the Big Questions | Stephen W. Hawking | ⭐⭐⭐⭐ | Science | 2023 |
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| Lifespan | David A. Sinclair | ⭐⭐⭐⭐ | Science | 2023 |
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| Thinking In Systems | Donella H. Meadows, Diana Wright | ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ | Psychology | 2023 |
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| The Kite Runner | Khaled Hosseini | ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ | Fiction | 2023 |
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| The Death and Life of Great American Cities | Jane Jacobs | ⭐⭐⭐ | Political Science | 2022 |
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| O Súdito | Jorge J. Okubaro | ⭐⭐⭐⭐ | History | 2022 |
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| Men For The Mountains | Sid Marty | ⭐⭐⭐⭐ | Memoir | 2022 |
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| Introduction to Topology | Bert Mendelson | ⭐⭐⭐⭐ | Math | 2022 |
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| A History of Canada in 10 maps | Adam Shoalts | ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ | History | 2022 |
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| The Effective Engineer | Edmond Lau | ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ | Psychology | 2022 |
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| How Not To Be Wrong | Jordan Ellenberg | ⭐⭐⭐⭐ | Math | 2022 |
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| Superintelligence | Nick Bostrom | ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ | Philosophy, Technology | 2022 |
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| Saladin | John Man | ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ | History | 2022 |
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| The Silverado Squatters | Robert Louis Stevenson | ⭐⭐⭐⭐ | History | 2022 |
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| Shoal of Time | Gavan Daws | ⭐⭐⭐⭐ | History | 2022 |
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| Crying in H Mart | Michelle Zauner | ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ | Biography | 2022 |
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| History of the Peloponnesian Wars | Thucydides, Moses I. Finley, Rex Warner | ⭐⭐⭐ | History | 2022 |
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| The Ohlone Way | Malcolm Margolin, Michael Harney | ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ | History | 2022 |
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| Spillover | David Quammen | Science | 2022 |
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| Deceit, Desire and the Novel | René Girard | ⭐⭐⭐ | Literature | 2022 |
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| American Nations | Colin Woodard | ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ | History | 2021 |
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| London: a novel | Edward Rutherfurd | ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ | History | 2021 |
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| The Making of Asian America | Erika Lee | ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ | History | 2021 |
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| The Pleasure of Finding Things Out | Richard P. Feynman, Jeffrey Robbins, Freeman Dyson | ⭐⭐⭐⭐ | Science | 2021 |
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| Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China | Jung Chang | ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ | History | 2021 |
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| The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck | Mark Manson | ⭐⭐⭐⭐ | Psychology | 2021 |
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| Permutation City | Greg Egan | ⭐⭐⭐⭐ | Sci-fi | 2021 |
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| The Silk Roads | Peter Frankopan | ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ | History | 2021 |
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| The Machinery of Life | David S. Goodsell | ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ | Biology | 2021 |
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| Our Mathematical Universe | Max Tegmark | ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ | Science | 2021 |
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| General Relativity from A to B | Robert Geroch | ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ | Science | 2021 |
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| Factfulness | Hans Rosling, Ola Rosling, Anna Rosling Rönnlund | ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ | Science | 2021 |
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| A Computer Scientist's Guide to Cell Biology | William W. Cohen | ⭐⭐⭐ | Biology | 2021 |
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| Peopleware | Tom DeMarco, Timothy Lister | ⭐⭐⭐⭐ | Business | 2020 |
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| The Quartet | Joseph J. Ellis | ⭐⭐⭐⭐ | History | 2020 |
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| Infinite Powers | Steven H. Strogatz | ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ | Math | 2020 |
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| The Overstory | Richard Powers | ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ | Fiction | 2020 |
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| Beyond Weird | Philip Ball | ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ | Technology | 2020 |
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| The Great Influenza | John M. Barry | ⭐⭐⭐⭐ | Science | 2020 |
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| Why we sleep | Matthew Walker | ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ | Biology | 2020 |
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| I contain multitudes | Ed Yong | ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ | Biology | 2020 |
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| Everybody Lies | Seth Stephens-Davidowitz, Steven Pinker | ⭐⭐⭐⭐ | Psychology | 2020 |
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| Don't make me think | Steve Krug | ⭐⭐⭐ | Technology | 2020 |
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| An Introduction to Information Theory | John R. Pierce | ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ | Math | 2020 |
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| The Last Mughal | William Dalrymple | ⭐⭐⭐⭐ | History | 2020 |
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| I'm a Strange Loop | Douglas R. Hofstadter | ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ | Philosophy | 2020 |
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| Bury my Heart at Wounded Knee | Dee Brown | ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ | History | 2020 |
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| The Everything Store | Brad Stone | ⭐⭐⭐⭐ | Business | 2020 |
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| Invisible Cities | Italo Calvino, William Weaver | ⭐⭐⭐ | Fiction | 2020 |
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| Born a Crime | Trevor Noah | ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ | Biography | 2018 |
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| Blind Watchmaker | Richard Dawkins | ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ | Biology | 2018 |
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| A River Runs Through It | Norman Maclean, Annie Proulx | ⭐⭐⭐ | Fiction | 2018 |
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| Why Nations Fail | Daron Acemoğlu, James A. Robinson | ⭐⭐⭐⭐ | History | 2018 |
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| A Modern History of Japan | Andrew Gordon | ⭐⭐⭐⭐ | History | 2018 |
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| I Am Malala | Malala Yousafzai, Christina Lamb | ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ | Biography | 2018 |
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| Genome | Matt Ridley | ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ | Biology | 2018 |
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| The King Must Die | Mary Renault | ⭐⭐⭐ | Fiction | 2018 |
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| Enlightenment Now | Steven Pinker | ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ | Science | 2018 |
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| The Ghost Map | Steven Johnson | ⭐⭐⭐⭐ | History | 2018 |
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| The Selfish Gene | Richard Dawkins | ⭐⭐⭐⭐ | Biology | 2016 |
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| Sapiens | Yuval Noah Harari | ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ | History | 2016 |
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