Reading List
A list of books that continue to resonate long after completion. Perhaps they will resonate with you as well?
The Battle of the Big Bang — Niayesh Afshordi and Phil Halper, 2025
A Brief History of Black Holes — Becky Smethurst, 2022
This Is How They Tell Me the World Ends: The Cyberweapons Arms Race — Nicole Perlroth, 2021
Seven and a Half Lessons about the Brain — Lisa Feldman Barrett, 2020
The Math(s) Fix: An Education Blueprint for the AI Age — Conrad Wolfram, 2020
The End of Everything: (Astrophysically Speaking) — Katie Mack, 2020
Something Deeply Hidden: Quantum Worlds and the Emergence of Spacetime — Sean Carroll, 2019
The Nocturnal Brain: Nightmares, Neuroscience, and the Secret World of Sleep — Guy Leschziner, 2019
The Butchering Art: Joseph Lister's Quest to Transform the Grisly World of Victorian Medicine — Lindsey Fitzharris, 2019
Gods and Robots: Myths, Machines, and Ancient Dreams of Technology — Adrienne Mayor, 2019
The Road to Unfreedom: Russia, Europe, America — Timothy Snyder, 2018
Brief Answers to the Big Questions — Stephen Hawking, 2018
The Fourth Age: Smart Robots, Conscious Computers, and the Future of Humanity — Byron Reese, 2018
The Order of Time — Carlo Rovelli, 2018
Life 3.0: Being Human in the Age of Artificial Intelligence — Max Tegmark, 2017
DNA: The Story of the Genetic Revolution — James D. Watson, 2017
Other Minds: The Octopus, the Sea, and the Deep Origins of Consciousness — Peter Godfrey-Smith, 2016
I Contain Multitudes: The Microbes Within Us and a Grander View of Life — Ed Yong, 2016
Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are? — Frans de Waal, 2016
Where the Dead Pause, and the Japanese Say Goodbye: A Journey — Marie Mutsuki Mockett, 2016
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind — Yuval Noah Harari, 2015
The Interstellar Age: Inside the Forty-Year Voyager Mission — Jim Bell, 2015
At Day's Close: Night in Times Past — A. Roger Ekirch, 2005
The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark — Carl Sagan and Ann Druyan, 1995
A Brief History of Time: From the Big Bang to Black Holes — Stephen Hawking, 1988
The Day the Universe Changed: How Galileo's Telescope Changed the Truth — James Burke, 1986
Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business — Neil Postman, 1985
Cosmos — Carl Sagan, 1980