I cannot remember the books I've read any more than the meals I have eaten; even so, they have made me
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Douglas Adams
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
Life, the Universe and Everything
So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish
Mostly Harmless
Daron Acemoglu
Why Nations Fail — with James A. Robinson
Poul Anderson
Tau Zero
Isaac Asimov
Foundation
Foundation and Empire
Second Foundation
Foundation's Edge
Foundation and Earth
Prelude to Foundation
Forward the Foundation
The Caves of Steel
The Naked Sun
The Robots of Dawn
Robots and Empire
Iain M. Banks
The State of the Art
Jonathan Basile
Tar for Mortar
Ray Bradbury
Fahrenheit 451
Jorge Luis Borges
A Universal History of Infamy
Ficciones
Anthony Bourdain
Kitchen Confidential
Anthony Burgess
A Clockwork Orange
Orson Scott Card
Ender's Game
Robert W. Chambers
The Repairer of Reputations
Ray Dalio
The Changing World Order
Charles Dickens
Great Expectations
Philip K. Dick
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
Jared Diamond
Guns, Germs, and Steel
K. Eric Drexler
Engines of Creation
Bret Easton Ellis
American Psycho
Victor Frankl
Man's Search for Meaning
Ursula Franklin
The Real World of Technology
Richard Feynman
Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!
William Golding
Lord of the Flies
Brian Greene
Until the End of Time
Adam Grant
Think Again
Yuval Noah Harari
Homo Deus
Nexus
Sapiens
Richard Hamming
The Art of Doing Science and Engineering
Stephen Hawking
Black Holes and Baby Universes and Other Essays
Erik Hoel
The World Behind the World
Bryne Hobart
BOOM: Bubbles and the End of Stagnation — with Tobias Huber
Franz Kafka
Metamorphosis
The Trial
Daniel Keyes
Flowers for Algernon
Stephen King
The Running Man
Gabriel García Márquez
One Hundred Years of Solitude
Julien Offray de La Mettrie
Man a Machine
Donella H. Meadows
Thinking in Systems
Cormac McCarthy
The Road
Vladimir Nabokov
Lolita
Friedrich Nietzsche
Human, all too Human
Toby Ord
The Precipice
George Orwell
1984
Chuck Palahniuk
Fight Club
Andrew Rader
Beyond the Known
Alistair Reynolds
Beyond the Aquila Rift
Carl Sagan
Cosmos
Dan Simmons
Hyperion
Derek Thompson
On Work
Carlo Rovelli
The Order of Time
Rick Rubin
The Creative Act
John Steinbeck
East of Eden
H.G. Wells
The Time Machine
Tara Westover
Educated
Roger Williams
The Metamorphosis of Prime Intellect
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There is No Antimemetics Division