Bookshelf

Favourites

Non-fiction

• The Invention of Nature - Andrea Wulf

• An Immense World - Ed Yong

• The Master and His Emissary - Ian McGilchrist

• The Lessons of History - Will Durant

• Age of Ambition - Evan Osnos

• The Fabric of Reality - David Deutsch

• The Begging of Infinity - David Deutsch

• The Last Kings of Shanghai - Jonathan Kaufman

• Antifragile - Nassim Taleb

• How Innovation Works - Matt Ridley

• Red Notice - Bill Browder

Fiction & Novels

• Stories of Your Life and Others - Ted Chiang

• The Tartar Steppe - Dino Buzzati

• The Leopard - Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampeduse

• Wind, Sand and Stars - Antoine de Saint-Exupery

• Endurance: Shackleton’s Incredible Voyage - Alfred Lansing

• The Romantic - William Boyd

• Any Human Heart - William Boyd

• The Lincoln Highway - Amor Towles

• The Gentleman in Moscow - Amor Towles

Goodreads

Creativity & Art

• Why A.I. Isn’t Going to Make Art - Ted Chiang

• Art as a Technique - Victor Shkolvsky

• The Cultural significance of Pop - Roger Scrunton

• Imitate, then Innovate - David Perell

Life

• Melancholy of Subculture Society - Gwern

• The Story that Changes The World - Tom Morgan

• Stop Being Who You Aren’t - Michael Ashcroft

• The Mundanity of Excellence - Daniel F. Chambliss

• The Age of Average - Alex Murell

• Social Status - Kevin Simler

• A World Split Apart - Aleksandr Solzhenitsym

• How to do Great Work - Paul Graham

• The State of Culture 2024 - Ted Gioia

• C.S. Lewis on Chronological Snobbery - Arthur W. Lindsley

• Tradition is Smarter Than You Are - The Scholar’s Stage

• I’m sorry to announce that my cancer situation has developed not necessarily to my advantage - Simon Boas

• The Most Intolerant Wins - Nassim Taleb

• You Might Be a Late Bloomer - David Brooks