Bookshelf
A selection from my reading, loosely grouped by subject.
Ratings shown are mine. Books without a rating here are recommendations I added separately.
History
- Energy and Civilization
1177 B.C.
proto-globalization coming to an abrupt end. how much technological compounding did we lose because of this btw?
About the book ↗- The Invention of Yesterday: A 50,000-Year History of Human Culture, Conflict, and Connection
- Prisoners of Geography
Society and ideas
Science fiction
- Foundation
Use of Weapons
the chair will stay with you for a long time
About the book ↗- The Player of Games
- Hyperion
- The Three-Body Problem
- The Dark Forest
- Flowers for Algernon
- A Canticle for Leibowitz
- This Is How You Lose the Time War
- Dune
- Rendezvous with Rama
Excession
when your enemy is like 3 ontological levels above your comprehension
About the book ↗- Snow Crash
- Last and First Men
Horror
- Between Two Fires
Carrion Comfort
inside the mind(s?) of telepathically controlling vampire-pupetteers
About the book ↗- The Terror
- The Fisherman
- The Library at Mount Char
- The Hole
- Dark Matter
- A Head Full of Ghosts
Literature and historical fiction
- Ficciones
- East of Eden
- I, Claudius
- Night
- La casa de los espíritus
- Seven Japanese Tales
The Years of Rice and Salt
the Black Plague kills almost everyone in Europe, then what? with your host Kali
About the book ↗