Books
Here is a collection of books I liked. (Excluding technical books)
2026
- "Careless People" by Sarah Wynn-Williams
- "The Dream Machine" by M. Mitchell Waldrop
- "Down and Out in Paris and London" by George Orwell
2025
- "Broken Money" by Lyn Alden
- "In Cold Blood" by Truman Capote
- "Into Thin Air" by Jon Krakauer
- "The Book of Why: the new science of cause and effect" by Judea Pearl, Dana McKenzie
- "The Foundation Trilogy" by Isaac Asimov
- "Your Brain On Porn" by Gary Wilson
- "The Man who Mistook his Wife for a Hat" by Gary Wilson
- "The Information - A History, a Theory, a Flood" by James Gleick
- "Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid" by Douglas R. Hofstadter
- "A Mathematician's Apology " by G.H. Hardy
- "The Changing World Order" by Ray Dalio
- "Understanding Keynes' General Theory" by Brendan Sheehan
- "The Code Book" by Simon Singh
- "Genius - The life and science of Richard Feynman" by James Gleick
2024
- "Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time" by Dava Sobel
- "The Man from the Future: The Visionary Life of John Von Neumann" by Ananyo Bhattacharya
- "Thinking, Fast and Slow" by Daniel Kahneman
- "Preaxeology, the invisible hand that feeds you" by Knut Svanholm
- "The joy of game theory, an introduction to strategic thinking" by Presh Talwalkar
- "Che Guevara: a revolutionary life" by Jon Lee Anderson
- "The mathematical theory of communication" by Claude Shannon
- "A history of mathematics" by Carl Boyer
- "The computer and the brain" by John Von Neumann
- "Cypherpunks-Freedom and the future of the internet" by Julian Assange
- "Debt-The first 5000 years" by David Graeber
- "Il vecchio e il mare" by Ernest Hemingway
- "Central banking 101" by Joseph Wang
- "Endurance-Shackleton's incredible voyage" by Alfred Lansing
2023 and before (only my favourites)
- "Energy Transitions: Global and National Perspectives" by Vaclav Smil
- "Feynman Lectures On Computation" by Richard P. Feynman
- "Oil: A Beginner's Guide" by Vaclav Smil
- "Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic" by David Quammen
- "1984" by George Orwell
- "Technical Innovations and Their Consequences" by Vaclav Smil
- "Power Density: A Key to Understanding Energy Sources and Uses" by Vaclav Smil
- "The Art of Statistics: Learning from Data" by David Spiegelhalter
- "Feynman's Lost Lecture: The Motions of Planets Around the Sun" by David and Judith Goodstein
- "Why we sleep?" by Matthew Walker
- "Animal Farm" by George Orwell
- "Il sistema periodico" by Primo Levi
- "Personaggi e scoperte della fisica. Da Galileo ai quark" by Emilio Segrè
- "What Is the Name of This Book?: The Riddle of Dracula and Other Logical Puzzles" by Raymond M. Smullyan
- "Oppenheimer. Trionfo e caduta dell'inventore della bomba atomica" by Kai Bird, Martin J. Sherwin
- "The Road to Conscious Machines: The Story of AI" by Michael Wooldridge
- "Code: the hidden language of computer hardware and software" by Charles Petzold
- "Lettere al fratello Theo" by Vincent Van Gogh
- "Lezioni Americane" by Italo Calvino
- "La bustina di Minerva" by Umberto Eco
- "Cuore di tenebra" by Joseph Conrad
- "The scientist as a rebel" by Freeman Dyson
- "Helgoland" by Carlo Rovelli
- "Ci sono luoghi al mondo dove più delle regole è importante la gentilezza" by Carlo Rovelli
- "Moby Dick" by Herman Melville
- "Sette brevi lezioni di fisica" by Carlo Rovelli
- "Tutte le avventure di Arsenio Lupin" by Maurice Leblanc
- "Sherlock Holmes (all books)" by Arthur Conan Doyle
- "The lord of the rings" by J.R.R. Tolkien
- "The hobbit" by J.R.R. Tolkien
- "Hitchhicker's guide to the galaxy" by Douglas Adams