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This is a list of books that I'm planning on reading. They're sorted by the date I've added them.

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26.05.02

On Revolution

Hannah Arendt
368 pages

25.09.28

The Brothers: John Foster Dulles, Allen Dulles & Their Secret World War

Stephen Kinzer
416 pages

25.09.28

The Sirens' Call: How Attention Became the World's Most Endangered Resource

Christopher L. Hayes
336 pages

25.09.21

How to Keep House While Drowning

K.C. Davis
151 pages

25.08.02

fiction
Creation Lake

Rachel Kushner
416 pages

25.07.07

Regarding the Pain of Others

Susan Sontag
117 pages

25.07.07

Shaking Hands with Death

Terry Pratchett
64 pages

25.07.07

The Myths of Sisphus and Other Essays

Albert Camus

25.06.04

fiction
The Membranes

Chi Ta-wei
168 pages

25.06.04

The Crumbling of a Nation and other stories

Ryan David Ginsberg
203 pages

25.06.02

fiction
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The Devotion of Suspect X (Detective Galileo, #1)

Keigo Higashino
298 pages

25.05.23

Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism

Yanis Varoufakis
224 pages

25.05.12

Humble Pi: A Comedy of Maths Errors

Matt Parker
314 pages

25.05.07

fiction
You Should Have Left

Daniel Kehlmann
113 pages

25.04.29

The Theory That Would Not Die: How Bayes' Rule Cracked the Enigma Code, Hunted Down Russian Submarines, and Emerged Triumphant from Two Centuries of Controversy

Sharon Bertsch McGrayne
336 pages

25.04.13

The Mismeasure of Man

Stephen Jay Gould
446 pages

25.04.11

fiction
Several People Are Typing

Calvin Kasulke
256 pages

25.03.15

fiction
Hollow Kingdom (Hollow Kingdom, #1)

Kira Jane Buxton
308 pages

25.01.16

Blood in the Machine: The Origins of the Rebellion Against Big Tech

Brian Merchant
416 pages

25.01.03

fiction
Parable of the Sower (Earthseed, #1)

Octavia E. Butler
345 pages

25.01.02

Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty

Daron Acemoğlu
529 pages

25.01.01

A Civic Technologist's Practice Guide

Cyd Harrell
170 pages

24.12.27

fiction
Exhalation

Ted Chiang
368 pages

24.12.14

lacey
Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs: A Low Culture Manifesto

Chuck Klosterman
272 pages

24.12.07

fiction
The House of the Spirits

Isabel Allende
448 pages

24.11.29

Inside the Kremlin's Cold War: From Stalin to Krushchev

Vladislav M. Zubok
382 pages

24.11.29

A Preponderance of Power: National Security, the Truman Administration, and the Cold War

Melvyn P. Leffler
726 pages

24.11.25

The Poverty of Our Freedom: Essays 2012 - 2019

Axel Honneth
260 pages

24.11.06

Endgame: Economic Nationalism and Global Decline

Jamie Merchant
224 pages

24.11.02

Computing Taste: Algorithms and the Makers of Music Recommendation

Nick Seaver
216 pages

24.10.22

The Science of Structures and Materials

J.E. Gordon
217 pages

24.10.17

All-American Nativism: How the Bipartisan War on Immigrants Explains Politics as We Know It

Daniel Denvir
352 pages

24.09.08

cody
A City on Mars: Can We Settle Space, Should We Settle Space, and Have We Really Thought This Through?

Kelly Weinersmith
448 pages

24.08.13

fiction
L.A. Confidential (L.A. Quartet, #3)

James Ellroy
496 pages

24.08.07

fiction
The Sound and the Fury

William Faulkner
366 pages

24.08.04

The Quiet Damage: QAnon and the Destruction of the American Family

Jesselyn Cook
250 pages

24.07.01

Staring at the Sun: Overcoming the Terror of Death

Irvin D. Yalom
306 pages

24.06.24

Destiny Disrupted: A History of the World Through Islamic Eyes

Tamim Ansary
416 pages

24.06.18

fiction
Cat's Cradle

Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
306 pages

24.06.16

The Scientific Method: An Evolution of Thinking from Darwin to Dewey

Henry M. Cowles
384 pages

24.06.08

fiction
The Decagon House Murders (House Murders, #1)

Yukito Ayatsuji
228 pages

24.06.05

fiction
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The City We Became (Great Cities, #1)

N.K. Jemisin
437 pages

24.05.17

Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End

Atul Gawande
282 pages

24.05.15

The Utopia of Rules: On Technology, Stupidity, and the Secret Joys of Bureaucracy

David Graeber
261 pages

24.05.05

The Flavor Matrix: The Art and Science of Pairing Common Ingredients to Create Extraordinary Dishes

James Briscione
320 pages

24.03.19

The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind

Julian Jaynes
491 pages

24.03.15

fiction
The End of Days

Jenny Erpenbeck
239 pages

24.02.19

I Am a Strange Loop

Douglas R. Hofstadter
436 pages

24.02.19

Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid

Douglas R. Hofstadter
777 pages

24.02.17

fiction
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Babel

R.F. Kuang
544 pages

24.02.13

Invitation to Sociology: A Humanistic Perspective

Peter L. Berger
208 pages

24.02.10

A Treatise On Human Nature

David Hume
736 pages

24.01.17

Bernoulli's Fallacy: Statistical Illogic and the Crisis of Modern Science

Aubrey Clayton
368 pages

24.01.10

Never Let Me Go

Kazuo Ishiguro
288 pages

23.12.25

cody
The Skeptics' Guide to the Future: What Yesterday's Science and Science Fiction Tell Us About the World of Tomorrow

Steven Novella
432 pages

23.12.25

jenny
Salt: A World History

Mark Kurlansky
484 pages

23.12.18

fiction
The Water Knife

Paolo Bacigalupi
371 pages

23.12.14

fiction
nick
How High We Go in the Dark

Sequoia Nagamatsu
293 pages

23.12.14

fiction
nick
Pines (Wayward Pines, #1)

Blake Crouch
307 pages

23.12.08

Not Quite What I Was Planning: Six-Word Memoirs by Writers Famous and Obscure

Larry Smith
225 pages

23.12.08

fiction
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Recursion

Blake Crouch
329 pages

23.12.03

On the Fringe: Where Science Meets Pseudoscience

Michael D. Gordin
136 pages

23.11.26

The End of the Myth: From the Frontier to the Border Wall in the Mind of America

Greg Grandin
369 pages

23.11.26

Architecture: Form, Space, & Order

Francis D. K. Ching
416 pages

23.11.26

Metric Handbook: Planning and Design Data

David A. Adler
512 pages

23.11.15

The Politics of Heroin: CIA Complicity in the Global Drug Trade

Alfred W. McCoy
710 pages

23.10.16

Foucalt's Pendulum

Umberto; Weaver Eco

23.08.28

fiction
A Happy Death

Albert Camus
144 pages

23.08.20

The American Revolution: Pages from a Negro Worker's Notebook

James Boggs
148 pages

23.08.19

Pure America: Eugenics and the Making of Modern Virginia

Elizabeth Catte
199 pages

23.07.26

jenny
The Sun Is a Compass: A 4,000-Mile Journey into the Alaskan Wilds

Caroline Van Hemert
320 pages

23.07.19

How Bad Are Bananas?: The Carbon Footprint of Everything

Mike Berners-Lee
256 pages

23.07.17

fiction
The Road

Cormac McCarthy
241 pages

23.07.04

Deadly Choices: How the Anti-Vaccine Movement Threatens Us All

Paul A. Offit
288 pages

23.06.15

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Piranesi

Susanna Clarke
272 pages

23.05.27

steve
The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder

David Grann
352 pages

23.05.02

The Future of Nostalgia

Svetlana Boym
432 pages

23.05.01

Triumph of the City: How Our Greatest Invention Makes Us Richer, Smarter, Greener, Healthier and Happier

Edward L. Glaeser
352 pages

23.03.16

The Tyranny of Merit: What's Become of the Common Good?

Michael J. Sandel
272 pages

23.03.08

Cuisine and Empire: Cooking in World History

Rachel Laudan
482 pages

23.02.10

Making It Count: Statistics and Statecraft in the Early People's Republic of China

Arunabh Ghosh
336 pages

23.01.31

Voices from Chernobyl: The Oral History of a Nuclear Disaster

Svetlana Alexievich
236 pages

23.01.23

Die Welt geht unter, und ich muss trotzdem arbeiten?

Sara Weber
240 pages

23.01.07

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Smoke Gets in Your Eyes & Other Lessons from the Crematory

Caitlin Doughty
254 pages

22.12.13

Homelessness Is a Housing Problem: How Structural Factors Explain U.S. Patterns

Gregg Colburn
284 pages

22.11.28

Public Citizens: The Attack on Big Government and the Remaking of American Liberalism

Paul Sabin
272 pages

22.11.23

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Nixon Agonistes: The Crisis of the Self-Made Man

Garry Wills
640 pages

22.11.22

The Book Proposal Book: A Guide for Scholarly Authors

Laura Portwood-Stacer
204 pages

22.10.27

In the Dust of This Planet (Horror of Philosophy, #1)

Eugene Thacker
179 pages

22.10.27

Preparation for the Next Life

Atticus Lish
417 pages

22.10.17

Kinship by Design: A History of Adoption in the Modern United States

Ellen Herman
381 pages

22.10.17

The Girls Who Went Away: The Hidden History of Women Who Surrendered Children for Adoption in the Decades Before Roe v. Wade

Ann Fessler
354 pages

22.09.11

A History of the Modern Fact: Problems of Knowledge in the Sciences of Wealth and Society

Mary Poovey
436 pages

22.08.01

No Bad Parts: Healing Trauma and Restoring Wholeness with the Internal Family Systems Model

Richard C. Schwartz
216 pages

22.07.10

jenny
Arbitrary Lines: How Zoning Broke the American City and How to Fix It

M. Nolan Gray
240 pages

22.06.02

The Paradox of Democracy: Free Speech, Open Media, and Perilous Persuasion

Zac Gershberg
329 pages

22.05.31

Torn Apart: How the Child Welfare System Destroys Black Families—and How Abolition Can Build a Safer World

Dorothy Roberts
384 pages

22.04.26

Red Star Over China: The Classic Account of the Birth of Chinese Communism

Edgar Snow
544 pages

22.04.05

Thinking like an Economist: How Efficiency Replaced Equality in U.S. Public Policy

Elizabeth Popp Berman
344 pages

22.03.13

What We Owe Each Other: A New Social Contract for a Better Society

Minouche Shafik
256 pages

22.03.13

A History of Western Philosophy

Bertrand Russell
906 pages

22.03.13

Video Games Have Always Been Queer (Postmillennial Pop, 16)

Bo Ruberg
278 pages

22.03.13

An American Sickness: How Healthcare Became Big Business and How You Can Take It Back

Elisabeth Rosenthal
656 pages

22.03.13

fiction
The New Atlantis

Ursula K. Le Guin
19 pages

22.03.13

fiction
A Bright Room Called Day

Tony Kushner
183 pages

22.03.13

Handmade Pixels: Independent Video Games and the Quest for Authenticity

Jesper Juul
328 pages

22.03.13

Social Justice and the City

David Harvey
355 pages

22.03.13

The Wretched of the Earth

Frantz Fanon
251 pages

22.03.13

The Blazing World and Other Writings

Margaret Cavendish
272 pages

22.03.12

fiction
Dead Astronauts (Borne, #2)

Jeff VanderMeer
352 pages

22.03.12

The Ministry for the Future

Kim Stanley Robinson
563 pages

22.03.08

The Man from the Future: The Visionary Life of John von Neumann

Ananyo Bhattacharya
354 pages

22.03.05

Idaho Falls: The Untold Story of America's First Nuclear Accident

William McKeown
269 pages

22.01.31

Non-Places: Introduction to an Anthropology of Supermodernity

Marc Augé
122 pages

22.01.31

On Being Included: Racism and Diversity in Institutional Life

Sara Ahmed
256 pages

22.01.15

The Soundscape of Modernity: Architectural Acoustics and the Culture of Listening in America, 1900-1933

Emily Thompson
510 pages

22.01.15

How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America

Clint Smith
336 pages

22.01.15

Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed

James C. Scott
461 pages

22.01.15

A Theory of Justice

John Rawls
824 pages

22.01.15

fiction
The Spy Who Came In from the Cold (George Smiley, #3)

John le Carré
212 pages

22.01.15

fiction
The Berlin Stories

Christopher Isherwood
401 pages

22.01.15

Mismatch: How Inclusion Shapes Design

Kat Holmes
176 pages

22.01.15

Logic of Statistical Inference

Ian Hacking

22.01.15

Reconstruction: America's Unfinished Revolution 1863-1877

Eric Foner
690 pages

22.01.15

Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City

Matthew Desmond
418 pages

22.01.15

fiction
White Noise

Don DeLillo
320 pages