Factfulness – Hans Rosling
Good news everyone! The world isn’t nearly as screwed as we would like to think.
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All Quiet on the Western Front – Erich Maria Remarque
What is a war story? What is an anti-war story?
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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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Pavane – Keith Roberts
This might be the most well-written book I disliked reading.
Atomic Habits – James Clear
Huh. Imagine that – a self help book that I actually enjoyed.
The Atheist in the Attic – Samuel R Delany
What does it mean when you are struggling with a book that, by all descriptions, you should easily love?
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.
The Hellbound Heart – Clive Barker
For a person who doesn’t care much for horror, I rather enjoyed this.
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.
The Expert System’s Brother – Adrian Tchaikovsky
There is a lot buried in Adrian Tchaikovsky’s ‘The Expert System’s Brother’
Failures in Polymathy 