Factfulness – Hans Rosling
Good news everyone! The world isn’t nearly as screwed as we would like to think.
Non-Fiction
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind – Yuval Noah Harari
Humanity’s prehistory was once very overlooked by people who claimed to be lovers of history. Hopefully this book changes that.
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Atomic Habits – James Clear
Huh. Imagine that – a self help book that I actually enjoyed.
Fatal System Error – Joseph Menn
The internet has broken a lot of boundaries and made the world a lot more interconnected. This is a good thing, until you think about it in the context of crime.
Why People Believe Weird Things – Michael Shermer
This book is more a typology of weird things believed than an explanation as to why they believe them.
How to Be a Stoic: Using Ancient Philosophy to Live a Modern Life – Massimo Pigliucci
A review written so long ago it is currently comically irrelevant.
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Talk on the Wild Side – Lane Greene
I seem not to be tiring of books on linguistics. It may be because books like this are just so interesting that I don’t mind going over the same information over again.
This idea must die – John Brockman (ed.)
Try as I might, I just can’t think of who this book could possibly serve.
The Penis Book – Aaron Spitz
I told some friends I would read anything, pretty indiscriminately. For some reason they though this would be a challenge of some sort.
