I’ve fallen pretty hard for the audiobooks experience. A tragedy of my limited human brain, is that while I retain the overall flavors of the book, I cannot keep the details. This list is my attempt to keep these experiences alive and accessible via extending my memory to the keystrokes here. As well, these are all excellent books, and if you find the book’s topics interesting, I highly recommended them (I did not note any books that I did not enjoy).
So without further ramblings, here is a list of books and audiobooks that I have read (or listened to) or am currently reading (listening), along with a short description of each.
| Book | Title | Author | Interesting tidbit | Review |
|---|---|---|---|---|
 | Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are? (currently reading) | Frans de Waal | 1) This book looks to be the tipping point that makes me a 90% vegetarian. 2) Interesting links with artificial intelligence here. | |
 | The Big Picture: On the Origins of Life, Meaning, and the Universe Itself (currently reading) | Sean Carroll | ||
 | Redshirts | John Scalzi | A story from the terrifying point of view of the expendable crewmen. | |
 | The Fountainhead | Ayn Rand | Portrayal of Rand’s ideal humans, and their morality. | |
 | Napoleon: A Life | Andrew Roberts | Napoleon thrived in an environment of confrontation | review |
 | The Signal and the Noise | Nate Silver | Prediction is really hard. And most people and machines are really bad at it. | review |
 | Leonardo and the Last Supper | Ross King | Leonardo, while a proficient canvas painter, did not use the right materials to preserve his famous giant wall painting of the Last Supper. | review |
 | An Anthropologist on Mars | Oliver Sacks | Fascinating clinical tales about the neurological disorders of Dr. Sacks’ patients. | review |
 | The Snowball: Warren Buffett and the Business of Life | Alice Schroeder | A company has a true value. And this may or may not be reflected in the stock price. Buffet could find undervalued companies. | review |
 | The Willpower Instinct: How self-control works, why it matters, and what you can do to get more of it | Kelly McGonigal | Willpower correlates with blood sugar | review |
 | The Three-Body Problem | Cixin Liu | An army of millions is used to form a computer. The first of the three-part series. | |
 | The Dark Forest | Cixin Liu | The introduction of "cosmic sociology" (which may one day become an actual and important field of study). The second of the three-part series. | |
 | Death's End | Cixin Liu | The final of the three-part series. And what a final! The story spans across eons of time. And will make you rethink time. | |
 | The Lean Startup | Eric Ries | Applying the scientific method to businesses. | |
 | The Selfish Gene | Richard Dawkins | The beginnings of our species reads stranger than any science fiction. | |
 | This Changes Everything | Naomi Klein | A sad, discomforting, yet worthwhile book. | |
 | The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy | Douglas Adams | So bizarre... so humorous... and narrated by Stephen Fry! | |
 | Free Will | Sam Harris | A short essay on if we have free will. tldr; Probably not. | |
 | The Moral Landscape | Sam Harris | Human values can be compared and ranked, thus science can help determine our values. | |
 | The Now Habit | Neil Fiore | ||
 | Nexus: Nexus, Book 1 | Ramez Naam | ||
 | Revolution | Russel Brand | ||
 | Overdiagnosed: Making People Sick in Pursuit of Health | H. Gilbert Welch | ||
 | Ready Player One | Ernest Cline | This was a fun read about a sad dystopian future. I'm just a bit too young to get many of the references, but if you consider yourself an 80's child, you'll probably love it. | |
 | A Monster Calls | Patrick Ness | This book is so different from all the other ones listed here. It's a kids book, sorta? It's a well written, emotional story, from a kids perspective. A nice change of pace and really well performed. |