Books
What I read shapes how I think.
Some I agree with. All of them earned their place.
The Physics Shelf
What the universe is made of and how we know
01The Order of TimeCarlo Rovelli
02Reality Is Not What It SeemsCarlo Rovelli
03Einstein's Unfinished RevolutionLee Smolin
04The Trouble with PhysicsLee Smolin
05The Tao of PhysicsFritjof Capra
06The Biggest Ideas in the Universe: Quanta and FieldsSean Carroll
07Until the End of TimeBrian Greene
08Quantum: A Guide for the PerplexedJim Al-Khalili
09The Edge of LifeJim Al-Khalili
The Mind Shelf
Consciousness, intelligence, and why we are the way we are
10Being YouAnil Seth
11A Thousand BrainsJeff Hawkins
12A Brief History of IntelligenceMax Bennett
13BehaveRobert Sapolsky
14DeterminedRobert Sapolsky
15The Moral AnimalRobert Wright
16IrreducibleFederico Faggin
The Living World
Biology as network, not hierarchy
17I Contain MultitudesEd Yong
18Entangled LifeMerlin Sheldrake
19The Light EatersZoe Schlanger
How to Think About Living
Frameworks for navigating a world that doesn't stand still
20MeditationsMarcus Aurelius
21Tao Te ChingLaozi
22The Patterning InstinctJeremy Lent
23The History of PhilosophyA.C. Grayling
24Frontier KnowledgeA.C. Grayling
25AntifragileNassim Nicholas Taleb
The Big Picture
Science, society, and what we owe each other
26FactfulnessHans Rosling
27Too Big for a Single MindTobias Hürter
28The Demon-Haunted WorldCarl Sagan
29The Immortality KeyBrian Muraresku
30The Universe in VerseMaria Popova
Fiction That Thinks
Stories that do the same work as philosophy
31The Three-Body TrilogyLiu Cixin
32Dune (all six books)Frank Herbert