Books
Books to Buy
- The Flat Mind
- Science : A History
- The Rise and Reign of the Mammals
- On the Calculation of Volume - Solvej Balle
- Open Socrates - Agnes Callard
- Why Machines Learn: The Elegant Maths Behind Modern AI (out in paperback Jan 30 2025)
- A History of the Muslim World: From Its Origins to the Dawn of Modernity (awaiting paperback)
- How Life Works: A User’s Guide to the New Biology
- Stranger Than Fiction: Lives of the Twentieth-Century Novel
- Grey Matters: A Biography of Brain Surgery - not yet in paperback
- The New Roman Empire: A History of Byzantium
- Magnetic Mountain: Stalinism as Civilization
- Consolations - David Whyte
Books to Read
- Reading to Learn - William Zinger
- Breakfast of Champions - Kurt Vonnegut
- A Little History of Philosophy - Nigel Warburton
Books Read
2025
- I've Been Thinking - Daniel Dennett
- Serendipities: Language and Lunacy - Umberto Eco
- I Am Dynamite: A Life of Friedrich Nietzsche - Sue Prideaux
- A Brief History of Intelligence - Max S. Bennett
- Foucault’s Pendulum - Umberto Eco (re-read)
- Kant and the Platypus - Umberto Eco
- Le cerveau m’a beaucoup déçu. L’esprit, non - Antoine Sénanque
2024
- The Plot - Will Eisner
- The Prague Cemetery - Umberto Eco
- The Nonjin Murders
- When We Cease to Understand the World - Labatut
- Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance - Robert Pirsig (reread)
- The Way We Think: Conceptual Blending and the Mind’s Hidden Complexities - Fauconnier and Turner
- The Singularity is Nearer - Ray Kurzweil
- Physics and Philosophy - Werner Heisenberg
- Le Ton Beau de…
- The Origins of Creativity - Edward O Wilson
- Psychonauts -
- The MANIAC - Benjamin Labatut
- In Search of Memory - Eric R. Kandel
- Dreaming: A Very Short Introduction - Hobson
- Les Effinger - Gabriele Target
- Triad - Tom Keve
- Nietzsche - Stefan Zweig
- The Weirdest People in the World - Joseph Henrich
- How Language Works - David Crystal
- The Invention of Nature - Andrea Wolf
- The Song of the Cell - Siddhartha Mukherjee
- Gödel, Escher, Bach - Douglas Hofstadter
- From Bacteria to Bach and Back - Daniel Dennett