A Wizard of Earthsea — Ursula K. Le Guin
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Good Economics for Hard Times — Abhijit V. Banerjee & Esther Duflo
For the MITx Data, Economics, and Development Policy course.
Non-Things — Byung-Chul Han
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The Complete Essays of Montaigne — Michel de Montaigne 2021–2026
The Complete Works of Chuang Tzu — Zhuangzi 2021–2025
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By the year I finished them, or last highlighted them.
2026
- The Life of Greece — Will Durant 16 highlights
- The Logic of Failure — Dietrich Dörner 147 highlights
- The Inferno — Dante Alighieri 29 highlights
- Designing Multi-Agent Systems — Victor Dibia 4 highlights
- Artificial Intelligence — Margaret A. Boden 3 highlights
- The Count of Monte Cristo — Alexandre Dumas 63 highlights
2025
- The Histories — Herodotus 124 highlights
- Finite and Infinite Games — James Carse 203 highlights
2024
- The Black Swan — Nassim Nicholas Taleb 237 highlights
2023
- The Mind Illuminated — John Yates et al. 320 highlights
- Walden — Henry David Thoreau 144 highlights
- The Science of Wealth — Thomas Cleary 242 highlights
- Chase, Chance, and Creativity — James H. Austin 171 highlights
- Thinking in Systems — Donella H. Meadows 289 highlights
2022
- Essentialism — Greg McKeown 147 highlights
- Why Greatness Cannot Be Planned — Kenneth O. Stanley & Joel Lehman 126 highlights
- Flow — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi 400 highlights
- Turning Pro — Steven Pressfield 123 highlights
- How to Read a Book — Mortimer J. Adler & Charles Van Doren 173 highlights
- The Scout Mindset — Julia Galef 80 highlights
2021
- Antifragile — Nassim Nicholas Taleb 278 highlights
- How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big — Scott Adams 238 highlights
- Principles — Ray Dalio 133 highlights
- The Psychology of Money — Morgan Housel 230 highlights
- Seeking Wisdom — Peter Bevelin 568 highlights
2020
- Pebbles of Perception — Laurence Endersen 235 highlights
- How to Get Rich — Felix Dennis 141 highlights
- The Algebra of Happiness — Scott Galloway
- The Art of Worldly Wisdom — Baltasar Gracián 499 highlights