My Reading List

I have decided to keep track of the books I am reading here.

Year 2023

  1. Why Nations Fail – The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty – Daron Acemoglu, James A. Robinson
  2. Brain Bugs: How the Brain’s Flaws Shape Our Lives – Dean Buonomano
  3. The Brain from Inside Out – Gyorgy Buzsaki
  4. Neanderthal Man: In Search of Lost Genomes – Svante Pääbo
  5. How an Economy Grows and Why It Crashes – Peter D Schiff, Andrew J Schiff
  6. Greenlights – Matthew McConaughey
  7. The Design of Everyday Things: Revised and Expanded Edition – Don Norman
  8. Pandora’s Lab: Seven Stories of Science Gone Wrong – Paul A. Offit MD
  9. The Forgetting Machine: Memory, Perception, and the “Jennifer Aniston Neuron” – Rodrigo Quian Quiroga
  10. Pleased to Meet Me: Genes, Germs, and the Curious Forces That Make Us Who We Are – Bill Sullivan
  11. The Memory Illusion: Why You May Not Be Who You Think You Are – Julia Shaw
  12. You and Me: The Neuroscience of Identity – Susan Greenfield
  13. The Memory Thief: And the Secrets Behind How We Remember; A Medical Mystery – Lauren Aguirre
  14. The Wisdom of Psychopaths – Kevin Dutton
  15. Big History: The Big Bang, Life on Earth, and the Rise of Humanity – David Christian
  16. The Gene: An Intimate History – Siddhartha Mukherjee
  17. Innate: How the Wiring of Our Brains Shapes Who We Are – Kevin J. Mitchell
  18. Ten Drugs: How Plants, Powders, and Pills Have Shaped the History of Medicine – Thomas Hager
  19. The Story of the Human Body: Evolution, Health, and Disease – Daniel Lieberman
  20. Almost Human: The Astonishing Tale of Homo Naledi and the Discovery That Changed Our Human Story – Lee Berger, John Hawks
  21. Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are? – Frans de Waal
  22. Human Errors: A Panorama of Our Glitches, From Pointless Bones to Broken Genes – Nathan Lents
  23. The Selfish Gene – Richard Dawkins
  24. Human Universe – Professor Brian Cox, Andrew Cohen

Year 2022

  1. A Brief History of Everyone Who Ever Lived – Adam Rutherford
  2. Neuroscience of Everyday Life – Professor Sam Wang
  3. A Short History of Nearly Everything – Bill Bryson
  4. The Brain: The Story of You – David Eagleman
  5. Incognito: The Secret Lives of The Brain – David Eagleman
  6. The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language – Steven Pinker
  7. Spacefarers: How Humans Will Settle the Moon, Mars, and Beyond – Christopher Wanjek
  8. Who We Are and How We Got Here – David Reich
  9. Third Thoughts – Steven Weinberg
  10. Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies – Nick Bostrom
  11. The Art of War – Sun Tzu
  12. Origins: Fourteen Billion Years of Cosmic Evolution – Donald Goldsmith , Neil deGrasse Tyson
  13. Death by Black Hole: And Other Cosmic Quandaries – Neil deGrasse Tyson
  14. The Big Picture: On the Origins of Life, Meaning, and the Universe Itself – Sean Carroll
  15. Being You: A New Science of Consciousness – Professor Anil Seth
  16. Livewired: The Inside Story of the Ever-Changing Brain – David Eagleman