Bookshelf
Some literary recommendations, in no particular order
Dec '25
When We Cease to Understand the World
Benjamín Labatut
Exhalation
Ted Chiang
When Breath Becomes Air
Paul Kalanithi
The Overstory
Richard Powers
The Pillars of the Earth
Ken Follett
East of Eden
John Steinbeck
Lincoln
David Herbert Donald
The Count of Monte Cristo
Alexandre Dumas
Station Eleven
Emily St. John Mandel
Steve Jobs
Walter Isaacson
Boom: Bubbles and the End of Stagnation
Byrne Hobart, Tobias Huber
Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World
David Epstein
Anna Karenina
Leo Tolstoy
Stubborn Attachments
Tyler Cowen
The Anthropocene Reviewed
John Green
The Illustrated Man
Ray Bradbury
Project Hail Mary
Andy Weir
The World for Sale
Javier Blas & Jack Farchy
The Nix
Nathan Hill
All the Light We Cannot See
Anthony Doerr
The Poppy War
R.F. Kuang
Dune
Frank Herbert
The Republic
Plato
Leonardo da Vinci
Walter Isaacson
The Way of Kings
Brandon Sanderson
Tomorrow, Tomorrow, and Tomorrow
Gabrielle Zevin
The Paper Menagerie
Ken Liu
The Chip War
Chris Miller
This Side of Paradise
F. Scott Fitzgerald
On Grand Strategy
John Lewis Gaddis
Democracy in America
Alexis de Tocqueville
Life on Mars
Tracy K. Smith