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I though it might be nice to recap the year with a list of the books I’ve read. Before I sat down to start writing I was expecting this list to be a lot shorter, and I was plesently supprised! But I still hope to make it longer next year!

So without further ado, here are all of the books I remember reading in 2016, with comments added whereever I feel like it.

Non-Fiction

• Unseen City: The Majesty of Pigeons, the Discreet Charm of Snails & Other Wonders of the Urban Wilderness
  • A fun little book that takes a naturalists approach to the animals all around us. The auther is based in Berkeley, and so naturally investigates the animals he finds there, but since he’s focusing on synanthropes most of them can also be found in London (and probably most other cities).
• Grokking Algorithms
• Thinking Statistically
  • Really short and really cheap. It gaves some clear expliantions of a few statistical concepts that attempt to make it easy to apply them to real situations.
• Doing Good Better
• Strangers Drowning
• How to Read a Book
• The Fall of Rome: And the end of Civilisation
  • Literally the only book I managed to finish while I was in the states. It was the first economic history book I’ve read but it made me really intrested in reading further.
• Sapiens
• Why the West Rules for Now
• Zero to One
• The Lean Startup
• Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World
• Essays (George Orwell)
• Reguarding the Pain of Others
• Between the World and Me
• No God but God
• Social Network Analysis for Startups: Finding connections on the social web
  • Sometimes when I learn a new idea (like Automata or Memetics) it makes me impossible to talk to for months, since I insist on using it to explain absolutly everything. Soical network analysis is apparently on of those idea, and I’m really excited to get deeper into this field.
• How to write a Thesis
• Think Complexity
• The Design of Everyday Things

Fiction

• Lost at Sea
• Count Zero
• Basically all of Borges fiction.
  • The Aleph
  • Fictions
  • A Universal History of Iniquity
  • The Book of Sand and Shakespears Memory
  • Borges rapidly went from someone I’d never heard of to one of my favorite authers. I still have The Book of Imagenary Beings and his complete non-fiction and I’m looking forward to them imencly.
• The Three Body Problem
• On the Road
• Crime and Punishment
• Things Fall Apart
• The Complete Calvin and Hobbes