This is the bare minimum of non-medical books I should read this year. The last two years were abysmal in that regard, and I look forward to making excuses for why 2022 was no different.
- The Scout Mindset (Julia Galef)
- How to Live (Derek Sivers)
- Understanding Nonlinear Dynamics (Daniel Kaplan and Leon Glass)
- Light (M. John Harrison)
- Safe Haven (Mark Spitznagel)
- Pieces of the Action (Vannevar Bush)
- The Demon-Haunted World (Carl Sagan)
- Where Good Ideas Come From (Steven Johnson)
- Calculated Risks (Gerd Gigerenzer)
- Making Things Work (Yaneer Bar-Yam)
- The Morning Star (Karl Ove Knausgaard)
- Alexander Hamilton (Ron Chernow)
- Where Law Ends (Andrew Weissmann)
- The Fifth Risk (Michael Lewis)
- Checkpoint Charlie (Ian MacGregor)
- Checkmate in Berlin (Giles Milton)
- The Complacent Class (Tyler Cowen)
- Craft Coffee: A Manual (Jessica Easto)
- The Complete Father Brown Stories (G. K. Chesterton)
- Foucault’s Pendulum (Umberto Ecco)
- Scientific Freedom: The Elixir of Civilization (Donald W. Braben)
- Adventures of a Computational Explorer (Stephen Wolfram)