2018 Book List
Here is the list of books I’ve read during the year 2018.
- Hitler’s Hangman: The Life of Heydrich by Robert Gerwarth
- The Well-Dressed Ape: A Natural History of Myself by Hannah Holmes
- The Invisible Gorilla: How Our Intuitions Deceive Us by Christopher Chabris, Daniel Simons
- The Syro-Aramaic Reading of the Koran: A Contribution to the Decoding of the Language of the Koran by Christoph Luxenberg
- The Most Human Human: What Artificial Intelligence Teaches Us About Being Alive by Brian Christian
- Notes from Underground by Fyodor Dostoevsky
- Why Gender Matters, Second Edition: What Parents and Teachers Need to Know About the Emerging Scienc by Leonard Sax
- The Accidental Mind: How Brain Evolution Has Given Us Love, Memory, Dreams, and God by David J. Linden
- The Hidden Brain: How Our Unconscious Minds Elect Presidents, Control Markets, Wage Wars, and Save O by Shankar Vedantam
- What Happened by Hillary Rodham Clinton
- Epistemology: A Beginner’s Guide by Robert M. Martin
- Mythos by Stephen Fry
- Artificial Intelligence: What Everyone Needs to Know by Jerry Kaplan
- Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis by J. D. Vance
- Horsemen of the Apocalypse: The Men Who Are Destroying Life on Earth―And What It Means for Our Child by Dick Russell
- An Era of Darkness: The British Empire in India by Shashi Tharoor
- The Millionaire Next Door: The Surprising Secrets of America’s Wealthy by Thomas J. Stanley, William D. Danko
- Everybody Lies: Big Data, New Data, and What the Internet Can Tell Us About Who We Really Are by Seth Stephens-Davidowitz
- Here Be Dragons: The Scientific Quest for Extraterrestrial Life by David W. Koerner, Simon LeVay
- Lenin: A New Biography by Dmitri Volkogonov
- SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome by Mary Beard
- Gulliver’s Travels by Jonathan Swift
- The Bonobo and the Atheist: In Search of Humanism Among the Primates by Frans de Waal
- From Bacteria to Bach and Back: The Evolution of Minds by Daniel C. Dennett
- Mind Wide Open: Your Brain and the Neuroscience of Everyday Life by Steven Johnson
- The Panda’s Thumb: More Reflections in Natural History by Stephen Jay Gould
- Imagine: How Creativity Works by Jonah Lehrer
- The Great Divorce by C. S. Lewis
- Canada by Mike Myers
- Moscow, December 25, 1991: The Last Day of the Soviet Union by Conor O’Clery
- Losing My Religion: How I Lost My Faith Reporting on Religion in America and Found Unexpected Peace by William Lobdell
- Origins: Cosmos, Earth, and Mankind by Yves Coppens, Hubert Reeves, Dominique Simonnet, Joel de Rosney
- Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick
- A People’s History of the Russian Revolution by Neil Faulkner
- Mere Christianity by C. S. Lewis
- Double Cross: The True Story of the D-Day Spies by Ben Macintyre
- State and Revolution by Vladimir Ilich Lenin
- We Have A Deal – How to negotiate with intelligence, flexibility by Natalie Reynolds
- Autopilot: The Art by Andrew smart
- A Revolution Undone: Egypt’s Road Beyond Revolt by H.A. Hellyer
- Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal by Ayn Rand, Nathaniel Branden, Alan Greenspan, Robert Hessen
- The Abolition of Man by C. S. Lewis
- Basic Economics by Thomas Sowell
- Theory and Reality: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Science by Peter Godfrey-Smith
- On Liberty by John Stuart Mill
- Nausea by Jean-Paul Sartre
- Slavery in the Arab World by Murray Gordon
- Marx: A Beginner’s Guide by Andrew Collier
- The Goal: A Process of Ongoing Improvement by Eliyahu M. Goldratt
- The Art of Deception: Controlling the Human Element of Security by Kevin D. Mitnick
- Your Conscious Mind: Unravelling the greatest mystery of the human brain by New Scientist
- Mindsight: The New Science of Personal Transformation by Daniel J. Siegel
- The Drunkard’s Walk: How Randomness Rules Our Lives by Leonard Mlodinow
- Common Sense on Mutual Funds: New Imperatives for the Intelligent Investor by John C. Bogle
- Don’t Sleep, There Are Snakes: Life and Language in the Amazonian Jungle by Daniel L. Everett
- The Middle Sea: A History of the Mediterranean by John Julius Norwich
- The Idea Factory: Bell Labs and the Great Age of American Innovation by Jon Gertner
- How Google Works by Eric Schmidt, Jonathan Rosenberg
- Crude World: The Violent Twilight of Oil by Peter Maass
- Dirt: The Erosion of Civilizations by David R. Montgomery
- 13 Things that Don’t Make Sense: The Most Baffling Scientific Mysteries of Our Time by Michael Brooks