2025 Reading List/ Book Club

  •  Currently reading: Noise and Conspiracy 
    • " The big short" - Micheal Lewis 4/5
    • "Open Borders" Bryan Caplan 4.5/5 
    • "Build baby build" - Bryan Caplan 4.5/5 
    • "The 4 hour workweek" - Tim ferris 3.5/5
    • "How to interpret the constitution" Cass Sunstein 3.5/5 
    • "How to know a person" -David Brooks 4/5  
    • "Think Again" - Adam Grant 4/5  
    • "The Undercover Economist Strikes Back" - Tim Harford 4.5/5 
    • "Nudge" - Richard Thaler and Cass sunstein 4/5 
    • "The Algebra of Wealth" - Scott Galloway 4/5
    •  "Basic Economics" -Thomas Sowell 4.5/5
    • "Everything is Fucked" -Mark Manson 4/5 
    •  "What the Dog Saw" Malcom Gladwell 3.5/5
    • "Same as Ever" Morgan Housel 4/5  
    • "She Comes First" Ian Kerner 4/5 
    • "Effortless" Greg McKeown 3/5  
    • "Thinking Fast and Slow" Daniel Kahneman 5/5  
    • "The Comfort Crisis" Micheal Easter 5/5 
    • "When to Rob a Bank" Steve Levitt + Stephen Dubner 4/5 
    •  "Think Like a Freak" -Stephen Dubner + Steven Levitt 4/5 
    • "Superfreakonomics" -Stephen Dubner + Steven Levitt 4/5 
    • "The Undoing Project" -Micheal Lewis 5/5 
    • "How to Win Friends and Influence People" - Dale Carnegie 4/5 
    • "The Proof is in the Plants" -Simon Hill 4/5
    • "The Brain Fog Fix" -Dr Mike Dow 3/5 
    • "The Telomere Effect" Elizabeth Blackburn and Dr. Elissa Epel 3/5
    • "Come as you are" - Emily Nagoski 3/5
    • "The Power of Regret" - Daniel Pink 4/5
    • "The End of Parkinsons Disease" 3/5
    • "The Statin Free Life" - Dr. Aseem Malhorta 3/5
    • "Remember" -Lisa Genova 3.5/5
    • "The Genetic Lottery" -Kathryn Paige Harden 4/5
    • " Shrinks: the Untold Story of Psychiatry"  - Jeffrey Lieberman 4/5
    • "Blueprint" - Robert Plomin 4.5/5
    • "Shantaram" - Gregory David Roberts 3/5
    • "Revenge of the Tipping Point" Malcom Gladwell 5/5
    • "Attatched" - Amir Levine and Rachel S. F. Heller 3/5
    • "Blue Dreams" - Lauren Slater 5/5
    • "Listening to Prozac" - Peter D Kramer 4/5 
    • "The Happiness Hypothesis" - Jonathan Haidt 4/5
    • "The Intermittent Fasting Revolution"- Mark Mattson 4/5
    • "Hidden Potential" -Adam Grant 5/5
    • "Ordinarily Well" -Peter Kramer 4/5
    • "Enlightenment Now"- Steven Pinker 4/5
    • "This Is Your Brain On Food" -Uma Naidoo 3/5 
    • "Rationality" Steven Pinker 4/5
    • "Digital Minimalism" - Cal Newport 5/5
    • "In Defense of Food" - Micheal Pollen 4/5
    • "Mating in Captivity" - Ester Pearl 5/5
    • "Thinking in Bets" -Annie Dukie 3/5
    • "Personality Isn't Permanent" -Benjamin Hardy 3/5
    • "Drive" Daniel Pink 4/5
    • "Essentialism" Greg Mckeown 5/5
    • "Freakonomics" -Stephen Dubner + Steven Levitt 5/5
    • "12 Rules For Life" - Jordan Peterson 4/5
    • "The Man who Mistook his Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales" -Oliver Sacks 3/5
    • "Economic Facts and Fallacies" - Thomas Sowell 4/5
    • "Being You" by Anil Seth 3/5
    • "The Emperor's New Drugs" by Irving Kirsch 4/5
    • "Mans Search for Meaning" -Victor Frankl 5/5
    • "Personality" by Daniel Nettle 5/5
    • "Behave" by Robert Sapolsky, 5/5
    • "Saving Normal" by Allan Frances,  4/5
    • "When" - Daniel Pink 5/5
    • "Outliers" -Malcom Gladwell 4/5
    • "The Song of the Cell" by Siddhartha Mukherjee  4/5
    • "An Elegant Defense" by Matt Richtel 5/5






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