Bookshelf

I sometimes post book recommendations on Twitter and people often respond asking if I have an overall list of books I think are worth reading. I don’t, and end up feeling a bit guilty about being so haphazard. So, maybe this will be interesting to some people: below is a fairly complete catalog of the physical books I own. I always enjoy reading others’ lists and browsing their bookshelves, so this intended to be a digital version of that. I’ve only read about half of the books here. (I guess I fall somewhere in the middle in the Umberto Eco theory of the library.)

I flagged a few books that I thought were particularly great in dark blue. These designations are non-exhaustive, though—it’s kinda hard to recommend books in the abstract. And I’ve no doubt missed some.

Since the stacks and shelves lack any particular order, so too does this list.

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• How Judges Think
• The Rise and Fall of American Growth
• Pacific: Silicon Chips and Surfboards, Coral Reefs and Atom Bombs, Brutal Dictators, Fading Empires, and the Coming Collision of the World’s Superpowers
• Popper Selections
• American Colossus: The Triumph of Capitalism, 1865-1900
• Quantum Electrodynamics
• Men, Machines, and Modern Times
• The Power of Productivity: Wealth, Poverty, and the Threat to Global Stability
• The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York