bookshelf

caught in the act

“I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.” - Jorge Luis Borges

My favorite books are the ones that change my world, pulling me into a new portal of the world that I did not expect going in. They surprise me, they shake me into a new being, I come out a different person on the other end. So know that if we have the same book taste we would be good friends :)

Fiction

  • Classics: Middlemarch, Anna Karenina

  • Modern: Siddhartha, The dispossessed

  • Contemporary: Americana, Gilead, On Earth we’re briefly gorgeous, The god of small things, Pachinko

Non-fiction

  • World view: The nature of order, Timeless way of building, The beginning of infinity, Antifragile, Sapiens

  • Climate: Braiding Sweetgrass, The price is wrong, Drawdown, This changes everything, The grid

  • Science/ innovation: Chip war, How the world really works, The world for sale

  • Psychology/ Human interactions: The status game, The science of storytelling, Non-violent communication, How to know a person, The WEIRDest people in the world

  • Buddhism-esque: Radical acceptance, The surrender experiment, The science of enlightenment

  • Memoirs: Wild Swans, Something incredibly wonderful happens, Fierce attachments, Totto-chan, Elon Musk, Unbowed

  • AI: Otherness and control in the age of AGI, Situational Awareness

Last updated May 27th 2025. To see what i’m reading now befriend me on Goodreads.