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Favorite Fiction

  1. Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon
  2. Master and Margarita by Bulgakov
  3. Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera
  4. 100 Years of Solitude by Marquez
  5. Baudolino by Umberto Eco
  6. Magister Ludi by Hesse
  7. Narcisssus and Goldmund by Hesse
  8. Steppenwolf by Hesse
  9. The Agony and the Ecstasy by Irving Stone
  10. House of Spirits by Isabel Allende
  11. The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy
  12. Jitterbug Perfume by Tom Robbins
  13. Balthasar and Blimunda by Saramago
  14. The Hummingbird's Daughter by Urrea
  15. Poisonwood Bible by Kingsolver
  16. Time Traveller's Wife by Niffenegger
  17. American Gods by Neil Gaimon

Favorite Theory

  • Wretched of the Earth by Frantz Fanon
  • Black Skin, White Masks by Frantz Fanon
  • On Evil by Eagleton
  • After Theory by Eagleton
  • After Capitalism by Schweickart
  • The Coming Insurrection by the Invisible Committee
  • The Rebel by Albert Camus
  • Beyond Good and Evil by Nietzsche

Favorite Psychology

  • A Psychology of Being by Abraham Maslow
  • On Becoming a Person by Carl Rogers
  • Give and Take by Adam Grant
  • Flow by Mihalyi Csikszentmihalyi
  • Flourish by Martin Seligman
  • How Children Succeed by Paul Tough

Favorite Anthropology

  • Social Conquest of Earth by EO Wilson
  • First Angelinos by McCawley
  • 1491 by Charles Mann
  • 1493 by Charles Mann
  • Story of the Human Body by Lieberman
  • Age of Empathy by Frans de Waal
  • Sapiens by Yuval Harari
  • Meaning of Life by EO WIlson

Favorite Science Fiction

  • Dune by Herbert
  • Cat's Cradle by Vonnegut
  • Sirens of Titan by Vonnegut
  • Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Adams

Favorite Beginning of Infinity 

  • Beginning of Infinity by David Deutsch
  • Fabric of Reality by David Deutsch
  • Better Angels of our Nature by Steven Pinker
  • Non-Zero by Robert Wright
  • Rational Optimist by Matt Ridley
  • The Inevitable by Kevin Kelly

Favorite Endangered Species/Biodiversity

  • Last Chance to See by Douglas Adams​
  • Listed by Joe Roman
  • 100 Heartbeats by Jeff Corwin
  • Half Earth by EO Wilson
  • Future of Life by EO Wilson
  • Where the Wild Things Were by William Stolzenberg
  • Wolfs Tooth by Eisenberg
  • The Carnivore Way by Eisenberg
  • Song of the Dodo by Quammen
  • Monsters of God by Quammen
  • Death of our Planet's Species by Martin Gorke
  • Life in the Valley of Death by Rabinowitz
  • Jaguar by Rabinowitz

Favorite Big Books

  • 1Q84 by Murakami
  • Windup Bird Chronicle by Murakami
  • A Suitable Boy by Vikram Seth
  • Sacred Games by Vikram Chandra
  • 2666 by Roberto Bolano
  • War and Peace by Tolstoy
  • Anna Karenina by Tolstoy
  • Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson
  • Reamde by Neal Stephenson
  • Kafka on the Shore by Marukami

Favorite Non-Fiction

  • ​Short History of Nearly Everything Bill Bryson
  • Reading Lolita in Tehran by Nafisi
  • Surely You're Joking Mr. Feynman by Feynman
  • What Technology Wants by Kevin Kelly
  • The Tao of Physics by Fritjof Capra
  • The Tao of Pooh by Benjamin Hoff

Favorite General Science

  • Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins
  • Future of Life by EO Wilson
  • Blank Slate by Steven Pinker
  • Time, Love, Memory by Weiner
  • Chaos by Gleick
  • The Information by Gleick

Favorite Poetry

  • Cadastre by Aime Cesaire
  • Collected Robinson Jeffers
  • Wild God of the World by Robinson Jeffers
  • Sunstone by Octavio Paz
  • Collected Pablo Neruda
  • Turtle Island by Gary Snyder
  • Collected Borges

Favorite Bookstores

  • City Lights Bookstore
  • The non-existent-anymore Acres of Books
  • The non-existent-anymore Open
  • The Last Bookstore
  • ​Powells

Favorite Book Websites

Favorite Environmental 

  • Sacred Balance by David Suzuki
  • Blessed Unrest by Philip Hawken
  • Breakthrough by Shellenberger and Nordhaus
  • Desert Solitaire by Edward Abbey
  • The Ecological Thought by Tim Merton
  • Hyperobjects by Tim Merton
  • Wild Ones by Mooallem
  • Whole Earth Discipline by Stewart Brand​
  • Ecology of Commerce by Paul Hawken​

Favorite Art Books

  • Heinrich Kley

Favorite Physics

  • Entanglement by Amir Aczel
  • Brief History of Time by Hawking
  • Theory of Everything by Hawking
  • Arrow of Time by Carrol
  • The Elegant Universe by Brian Greene
  • Higgs Boson and Beyond by Sean Carroll
  • Just Six Numbers by Martin Rees

Favorite Philosophy

  • Sartre
  • Nietzsche
  • Camus
  • Dennett
  • Marcus Aurelius

Book Places

  • Tor House
  • Neruda's House
  • City Lights
  • The Bourgeois Pig

Books I've read:

My life is books. Here is a list of books that I have read since 2007.
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Notes I've made on Certain Amazing Books

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