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