To-read list

• The Eighth Day of Creation: The Makers of the Revolution in Biology, Horace Freeland Judson
• The Medusa and the Snail, Lewis Thomas
• Honeybee Democracy, Thomas D. Seeley
• The Art of Gathering, Priya Parker
• The Man from the Future, Ananyo Bhattacharya
• How to Focus, John Cassian, Jamie Kreiner Translation
• The Real World of Technology, Ursula Franklin
• Watership Down, Richard Adams
• Re-Engineering Philosophy for Limited Beings, William C. Wimsatt
• The Blue Machine, Helen Czerski
• The Variations, Patrick Langley
• What the Dormouse Said, John Markoff
• Mathematics Made Difficult, Carl E. Linderholm
• Babel-17, Samuel R. Delany
• On Growth and Form, D’Arcy Wentworth Thompson
• Dancing at the Edge of the World, Ursula K. Le Guin
• How Infrastructure Works, Deb Chachra
• The City & the City, China Miéville
• The Machine Stops, E.M. Forster
• How Forests Think, Eduardo Kohn
• A People’s History of the United States, Howard Zinn
• Team of Rivals, Doris Kearns Goodwin
• Endurance: Shackleton’s Incredible Voyage, Alfred Lansing
• Mischief Acts, Zoe Gilbert
• Operation Mincemeat, Ben Macintyre
• The Art Thief, Michael Finkel
• Strandloper, Alan Garner
• The Soul of an Octopus, Sy Montgomery
• Color: A Natural History of the Palette, Victoria Finlay
• The World Beyond Your Head, Matthew B. Crawford
• Shop Class as Soulcraft, Matthew B. Crawford
• A Fisherman of the Inland Sea, Ursula K. Le Guin
• Anathem, Neal Stephenson
• Tigana, Guy Gavriel Kay
• The Telling, Ursula K. Le Guin
• Geometry Revisited, H.S.M. Coxeter
• The Evolution Man: Or, How I Ate My Father, Roy Lewis
• Scattered All Over the Earth, Yōko Tawada
• Lovers of Philosophy, Warren Ward
• Wittgenstein’s Antiphilosophy, Alain Badiou
• Topology, James R. Munkres
• The Hamlet, William Faulkner
• The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue, V.E. Schwab
• Origametry: Mathematical Methods in Paper Folding, Thomas Hull
• The Influencing Machine: James Tilly Matthews and the Air Loom, Mike Jay
• In the Eye of the Wild, Nastassja Martin
• She Who Became the Sun, Shelley Parker-Chan
• Introduction to Topology: Second Edition, Theodore W. Gamelin
• Interaction of Color, Josef Albers
• Fate Is the Hunter, Ernest K. Gann
• Model Theory, Wilfrid Hodges
• Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions, Edwin A. Abbott
• Calculated Values, William Deringer
• Peach Blossom Spring, Melissa Fu
• Small Things Like These, Claire Keegan
• The Social Instinct: How Cooperation Shaped the World, Nichola Raihani
• Endless Forms: The Secret World of Wasps, Seirian Sumner
• Transformer: The Deep Chemistry of Life and Death, Nick Lane
• The Art Spirit, Robert Henri
• A Life on Our Planet, David Attenborough
• The Book Thief, Markus Zusak
• Several Short Sentences About Writing, Verlyn Klinkenborg
• Man and His Symbols, C.G. Jung
• Gödel, Escher, Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid, Douglas R. Hofstadter
• Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst, Robert M. Sapolsky
• Metamorphoses, Ovid
• Marlowe’s Faustus/Goethe’s Faust, Christopher Marlowe
• White Fang, Jack London
• The Night Watchman, Louise Erdrich
• The Brothers Karamazov, Fyodor Dostoevsky
• Beyond the Hallowed Sky, Ken MacLeod
• On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft, Stephen King
• Once There Were Wolves, Charlotte McConaghy
• No Time To Spare: Thinking About What Matters, Ursula K. Le Guin
• Anatomy: A Love Story, Dana Schwartz
• An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness, Kay Redfield Jamison
• Baron Wenckheim’s Homecoming, László Krasznahorkai
• Så den store fuglen ikke tar deg, Hiromi Kawakami
• Q, Luther Blissett
• Baudolino, Umberto Eco
• Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell, Susanna Clarke
• Manalive, G.K. Chesterton
• The Napoleon of Notting Hill, G.K. Chesterton
• The Omnivore’s Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals, Michael Pollan
• We Who Are About To…, Joanna Russ
• Manufacturing Consent, Edward S. Herman
• Longitude, Dava Sobel
• A Gentleman in Moscow, Amor Towles
• The Famished Road, Ben Okri
• The Art of Rest, Claudia Hammond
• Time of the Magicians, Wolfram Eilenberger
• It Keeps Me Seeking: The Invitation from Science, Philosophy and Religion, Andrew Briggs
• The Gene: An Intimate History, Siddhartha Mukherjee
• Free Play: Improvisation in Life and Art, Stephen Nachmanovitch
• The Merchant of Prato: Daily Life in a Medieval Italian City, Iris Origo
• Problem-Solving Through Problems, Loren C. Larson
• Germ Theory: Medical Pioneers in Infectious Diseases, Robert Gaynes
• Missing Microbes: How the Overuse of Antibiotics Is Fueling Our Modern Plagues, Martin J. Blaser
• Microcosm: E. coli and the New Science of Life, Carl Zimmer
• The Soul of a New Machine, Tracy Kidder
• Concepts of Modern Mathematics, Ian Stewart
• The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea, Yukio Mishima
• Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe, Fannie Flagg
• The Alienist, Caleb Carr
• The Shadow of the Wind, Carlos Ruiz Zafón
• The Color Purple, Alice Walker
• Klara and the Sun, Kazuo Ishiguro
• Rosalind Franklin: The Dark Lady of DNA, Brenda Maddox
• Elements of Point-Set Topology, John D. Baum
• Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming, Naomi Oreskes
• Gratitude, Oliver Sacks
• Everything in Its Place: First Loves and Last Tales, Oliver Sacks
• Asylums: Essays on the Social Situation of Mental Patients and Other Inmates, Erving Goffman
• Vesper Flights, Helen Macdonald
• Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds…, Merlin Sheldrake
• Code Name Hélène, Ariel Lawhon
• Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness, Susannah Cahalan
• The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, Rebecca Skloot
• House of Leaves, Mark Z. Danielewski
• The Turn of the Screw, Henry James
• Collective Gravities, Chloe N. Clark
• The Bell in the Lake, Lars Mytting
• Phantoms in the Brain, V.S. Ramachandran
• Trees, maps, and theorems, Jean-luc Doumont
• Illness as Metaphor, Susan Sontag

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