Books

Fiction

• Red Rising — Pierce Brown
• The Way of Kings — Brandon Sanderson
• All The Light We Cannot See — Anthony Doerr
• Boy Swallows Universe — Trent Dalton
• Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? — Philip K. Dick
• Dune — Frank Herbert
• Exhalation — Ted Chiang
• Foundation — Isaac Asimov
• Golden Son — Pierce Brown
• Morning Star — Pierce Brown
• Diaspora — Greg Egan
• The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy — Douglas Adams
• The Hobbit — J.R.R. Tolkien
• The Kite Runner — Khaled Hosseini
• The Left Hand of Darkness — Ursula K. Le Guin
• Musashi — Eiji Yoshikawa
• The Old Man and the Sea — Ernest Hemingway
• Project Hail Mary — Andy Weir
• Siddhartha — Hermann Hesse
• The Three-Body Problem — Liu Cixin
• Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance — Robert M. Pirsig
• Love Stories — Trent Dalton
• The Restaurant at the End of the Universe — Douglas Adams
• Australian Gospel
• The Catcher in the Rye — J.D. Salinger
• A Farewell to Arms — Ernest Hemingway
• The Time Machine — H.G. Wells
• First Person Singular — Haruki Murakami
• Candide — Voltaire
• Flowers for Algernon — Daniel Keyes
• Danny the Champion of the World — Roald Dahl
• The Tournament
• Animal Farm — George Orwell
• 1984 — George Orwell
• The Complete Sherlock Holmes — Arthur Conan Doyle

Philosophy & Rationality

• Map & Territory — Eliezer Yudkowsky
• The Tao is Silent — Raymond Smullyan
• Language in Thought & Action — S.I. Hayakawa
• LessWrong: Agency
• Inadequate Equilibria — Eliezer Yudkowsky
• Rational Choice in an Uncertain World — Hastie & Dawes
• The Status Game — Will Storr
• Virtue Signalling — Geoffrey Miller
• LessWrong: Epistemology
• LessWrong: Coordination
• LessWrong: Curiosity
• LessWrong: Alignment
• Rationality & the Reflective Mind — Keith Stanovich
• Rationality — Eliezer Yudkowsky
• General Thinking Concepts
• Meditations — Marcus Aurelius
• The Intellectual Life — A.G. Sertillanges
• How to Actually Change Your Mind — Eliezer Yudkowsky
• The Last Word — Thomas Nagel
• Letters to a Young Contrarian — Christopher Hitchens
• The Sciences of the Artificial — Herbert Simon
• Thinking, Fast and Slow — Daniel Kahneman
• Predictably Irrational — Dan Ariely

Science, Mathematics & Technology

• The Art of Doing Science & Engineering — Richard Hamming
• Algorithms to Live By — Brian Christian & Tom Griffiths
• Mindstorms — Seymour Papert
• How Not to Be Wrong — Jordan Ellenberg
• The Self-Taught Programmer — Cory Althoff
• The Alignment Problem — Brian Christian
• Made by Humans
• Consciousness
• Coders — Clive Thompson
• Algorithms
• The Book of Why — Judea Pearl
• The Joy of X — Steven Strogatz
• Chaos — James Gleick
• Fundamentals
• Life 3.0 — Max Tegmark
• Code — Charles Petzold
• Statistics Without the Tears
• Computer Science: A Very Short Introduction
• Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman — Richard Feynman
• Letters to a Young Scientist — E.O. Wilson

Self-Development & Psychology

• The Value of Others
• The Almanac of Naval Ravikant — Eric Jorgenson
• Make It Stick — Brown, Roediger & McDaniel
• Ultralearning — Scott Young
• Peak — Anders Ericsson
• Phosphorescence — Julia Baird
• The Intelligence Trap — David Robson
• You Learn by Living — Eleanor Roosevelt
• Influence — Robert Cialdini
• Hustle Harder, Hustle Smarter — Curtis Jackson
• The Lessons of History — Will & Ariel Durant
• Ego is the Enemy — Ryan Holiday
• Digital Minimalism — Cal Newport
• The Organised Mind — Daniel Levitin
• Why We Sleep — Matthew Walker
• Scarcity — Mullainathan & Shafir
• The Courage to be Disliked — Kishimi & Koga
• So Good They Can't Ignore You — Cal Newport
• Deep Work — Cal Newport
• Greenlights — Matthew McConaughey
• Behave — Robert Sapolsky
• The Blank Slate — Steven Pinker
• The Righteous Mind — Jonathan Haidt

Masculinity & Relationships

• The Value of Others
• The Evolution of Desire — David Buss
• The Setup
• No More Mr Nice Guy — Robert Glover
• The Comfort Crisis — Michael Easter
• A Fighter's Heart — Sam Sheridan
• Frame
• Musashi — Eiji Yoshikawa
• King Warrior Magician Lover — Moore & Gillette
• The Rational Male — Rollo Tomassi
• Testosterone
• The Art of Seduction — Robert Greene
• Estrogeneration
• The Appearance of Power

Spirituality & Contemplative Practice

• The Tao is Silent — Raymond Smullyan
• Siddhartha — Hermann Hesse
• Waking Up — Sam Harris
• Phosphorescence — Julia Baird

Economics, Finance & Business

• Zero to One — Peter Thiel
• Anything You Want — Derek Sivers
• The Barefoot Investor — Scott Pape
• The Millionaire Fastlane — MJ DeMarco
• The Almanac of Naval Ravikant — Eric Jorgenson
• You Don't Have to Have a Dream
• The Most Important Thing — Howard Marks
• The Psychology of Money — Morgan Housel
• Rich Dad, Poor Dad — Robert Kiyosaki
• Personal MBA — Josh Kaufman
• The 4-Hour Work Week — Timothy Ferriss
• How to Win Friends and Influence People — Dale Carnegie
• Take Your Shot
• The Little Book of Common Sense Investing — John Bogle
• Getting Started in Shares
• Start Small, Stay Small
• Basic Economics — Thomas Sowell
• Applied Economics — Thomas Sowell
• Economic Facts and Fallacies — Thomas Sowell
• The Vision of the Anointed — Thomas Sowell
• The Quest for Cosmic Justice — Thomas Sowell
• The Madness of Crowds — Douglas Murray

Ethics & Society

• Doing Good Better — Will MacAskill
• Virtue Signalling — Geoffrey Miller
• The Life You Can Save — Peter Singer
• We Should All Be Feminists — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
• Poor Economics — Banerjee & Duflo
• The Moral Landscape — Sam Harris
• The Road to Wigan Pier — George Orwell

Blogs & Online Writing

• LessWrong — Humans Are Not Automatically Strategic, Babble, The Sequences
• Slate Star Codex / Astral Codex Ten — I Can Tolerate Anything Except the Outgroup
• Nabeel Qureshi — How to Understand Things, Notes on Karl Popper
• Melting Asphalt — Money Metaphor, Ecological Thinking
• The Logic of Science — Why Logic Always Works, What is Evolution?
• Gwern — On Having Enough Socks, Modafinil