The Boundless Deep: Young Tennyson, Science and the Crisis of Belief

Richard Holmes

added 2026-05-31

Quicksilver

Neal Stephenson

added 2026-02-01

Civilization and Capitalism, 15th-18th Century, Vol. I: The Structures of Everyday Life

Fernand Braudel

added 2026-02-01

The Rag and Bone Shop of the Heart: A Poetry Anthology

Robert Bly

added 2025-12-03

Shadows at Noon: The South Asian Twentieth Century

Joya Chatterji

added 2025-11-16

The Complete Essays of Montaigne

Michel de Montaigne

added 2025-11-16

What I Talk About When I Talk About Running

Haruki Murakami

added 2026-01-03

Autocracy Inc: The Dictators Who Want to Run the World

Anne Applebaum

added 2025-12-31

Process and Reality

Alfred North Whitehead

added 2025-12-23

India: A History

John Keay

added 2025-12-23

Secondhand Time

Svetlana Alexiévich

added 2025-12-23

The Best Poems of the English Language: From Chaucer Through Frost

Harold Bloom

added 2025-12-23

How to Read and Why

Harold Bloom

added 2025-12-23

The Origins of Political Order: From Prehuman Times to the French Revolution

Francis Fukuyama

added 2025-12-23

Political Order and Political Decay: From the Industrial Revolution to the Globalization of Democracy

Francis Fukuyama

added 2025-12-23

Causality: Models, Reasoning, and Inference

Judea Pearl

added 2025-11-16

Open Socrates: The Case for a Philosophical Life

Agnes Callard

read 2026-06-11; added 2025-11-16

All Systems Red

Martha Wells

read 2026-06

How to Read a Book: The Classic Guide to Intelligent Reading

Mortimer J. Adler, Charles Van Doren

read 2026-06

Revolt of the Masses

José Ortega y Gasset

read 2026-06

Revolution in Time

David Landes

read 2026-05-31

The Invention of Nature

Andrea Wulf

read 2026-04

The Infidel and the Professor: David Hume, Adam Smith, and the Friendship That Shaped Modern Thought

Dennis C. Rasmussen

read 2026-03

Consider Phlebas

Iain M. Banks

read 2025-11-15 to 2026-02-17; 3.5/5

The Art of Reading Poetry

Harold Bloom

read 2026-01 to 2026-01-28

Magnificent Rebels

Andrea Wulf

read 2026-01 to 2026-01-27

The Courtier and the Heretic: Leibniz, Spinoza, and the Fate of God in the Modern World

Matthew Stewart

read 2026-01 to 2026-01-25; 5.0/5; Part twin biography part overview of the origin of Modernity’s philosophical origins. Well written and organized.

Songs of Mihyar the Damascene

Adonis

read 2026-01 to 2026-01-20; 4.0/5

Underground Empire: How America Weaponized the World Economy

Henry Farrell, Abraham L. Newman

read 2025-12-28 to 2025-12-30

Candide: Or Optimism

Voltaire

read 2025-12-25

Invisible Cities

Italo Calvino

read 2025-12-02 to 2025-12-15

Utopia

Thomas More

read 2025-11-17 to 2025-11-20

1493: Uncovering the New World Columbus Created

Charles C. Mann

read 2025-11-15 to 2025-11-17; 4.0/5

Zheng He: China and the Oceans in the Early Ming Dynasty, 1405-1433

Edward L. Dreyer

read 2025

The Golden Road: How Ancient India Transformed the World

William Dalrymple

read 2025

Raiders, Rulers, and Traders: The Horse and the Rise of Empires

David Chaffetz

read 2025

Writing to Learn: How to Write - and Think - Clearly About Any Subject at All

William Zinsser

read 2025

Ways of Seeing

John Berger

read 2025

Monkey King: Journey to the West (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

Julia Lovell, Wu Ch'eng-En, Gene Luen Yang

read 2025; 3.0/5

City of Fortune: How Venice Won and Lost a Naval Empire

Roger Crowley

read 2025; 3.0/5

How to Live: Or a Life of Montaigne in One Question and Twenty Attempts at an Answer

Sarah Bakewell

read 2025

On Writing Well: The Classic Guide to Writing Nonfiction

William Zinsser

read 2025

Don Quixote

Miguel de Cervantes

read 2025

The Ocean of Churn: How the Indian Ocean Shaped Human History

Sanjeev Sanyal

read 2025

Ibn Khaldun: An Intellectual Biography

Robert Irwin

read 2025

The Book of Why: The New Science of Cause and Effect

Judea Pearl, Dana Mackenzie

read 2025

Giordano Bruno and the Hermetic Tradition

Frances Yates

read 2025

Majapahit: Intrigue, Betrayal and War in Indonesia's Greatest Empire

Herald van der Linde

read 2025

Islamic Gunpowder Empires: Ottomans, Safavids, and Mughals

Douglas E. Streusand

read 2025; 2.0/5

A Poetry Handbook

Mary Oliver

read 2025

Kingdoms of Faith: A New History of Islamic Spain

Brian A. Catlos

read 2025; 4.0/5

The Printing Revolution in Early Modern Europe

Elizabeth L. Eisenstein

read 2025; 5.0/5

The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood

James Gleick

read 2024

Artemis

Andy Weir

read 2019

The Martian

Andy Weir

read 2018

Against Method

Paul Feyerabend

read 2014

The Carpet People

Terry Pratchett

Pyre

Perumal Murugan

Piranesi

Susanna Clarke

Project Hail Mary

Andy Weir

5.0/5

The Road

Cormac McCarthy

The God of Small Things

Arundhati Roy

Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity

David Allen

The Visual Display of Quantitative Information

Edward Tufte