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Anathem by Neal Stephenson

Anathem

Neal Stephenson

937 pages • first pub 2008 (editions)

5.0edriessen's review
fiction fantasy science fiction adventurous challenging mysterious slow-paced
Computer Power and Human Reason: From Judgment to Calculation by Joseph Weizenbaum

Computer Power and Human Reason: From Judgment to Calculation

Joseph Weizenbaum

300 pages • first pub 1976 (editions)

5.0edriessen's review
nonfiction computer science reference technology challenging informative reflective slow-paced
Switch: How to Change Things When Change Is Hard by Chip Heath, Dan Heath

Switch: How to Change Things When Change Is Hard

Chip Heath, Dan Heath

305 pages • first pub 2010 (editions)

5.0edriessen's review
nonfiction business psychology self help informative inspiring medium-paced
Meditations by Marcus Aurelius

Meditations

Marcus Aurelius

254 pages • first pub 180 (editions)

5.0edriessen's review
nonfiction classics history philosophy informative inspiring reflective slow-paced
Total Recall: My Unbelievably True Life Story by Arnold Schwarzenegger

Total Recall: My Unbelievably True Life Story

Arnold Schwarzenegger

656 pages • first pub 2012 (editions)

5.0edriessen's review
nonfiction autobiography biography reflective slow-paced
Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman

Thinking, Fast and Slow

Daniel Kahneman

499 pages • first pub 2011 (editions)

5.0edriessen's review
nonfiction psychology challenging informative reflective slow-paced
Technics and Civilization by Lewis Mumford

Technics and Civilization

Lewis Mumford

544 pages • first pub 1934 (editions)

5.0edriessen's review
nonfiction history philosophy technology informative slow-paced
The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable by Nassim Nicholas Taleb

The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable

Incerto #2

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

366 pages • first pub 2007 (editions)

5.0edriessen's review
nonfiction business economics philosophy psychology challenging informative reflective slow-paced
Greenlights by Matthew McConaughey

Greenlights

Matthew McConaughey

304 pages • first pub 2020 (editions)

5.0edriessen's review
nonfiction memoir funny inspiring reflective medium-paced
Mijn ontelbare identiteiten by Sinan Çankaya

Mijn ontelbare identiteiten

Sinan Çankaya

239 pages • first pub 2020 (editions)

5.0edriessen's review
nonfiction biography memoir politics informative inspiring tense medium-paced