To-read list
- Trærnes evangelium, Thomas Arentzen
- Slouching Towards Bethlehem, Joan Didion
- The Eighth Day of Creation: The Makers of the Revolution in
Biology, Horace Freeland Judson
- The Medusa and the Snail, Lewis Thomas
- Honeybee Democracy, Thomas D. Seeley
- The Art of Gathering, Priya Parker
- The Man from the Future, Ananyo Bhattacharya
- How to Focus, John Cassian, Jamie Kreiner
Translation
- The Real World of Technology, Ursula Franklin
- Re-Engineering Philosophy for Limited Beings,
William C. Wimsatt
- The Blue Machine, Helen Czerski
- The Variations, Patrick Langley
- What the Dormouse Said, John Markoff
- Mathematics Made Difficult, Carl E. Linderholm
- Babel-17, Samuel R. Delany
- On Growth and Form, D’Arcy Wentworth Thompson
- Dancing at the Edge of the World, Ursula K. Le
Guin
- How Infrastructure Works, Deb Chachra
- The City & the City, China Miéville
- The Machine Stops, E.M. Forster
- How Forests Think, Eduardo Kohn
- A People’s History of the United States, Howard
Zinn
- Team of Rivals, Doris Kearns Goodwin
- Endurance: Shackleton’s Incredible Voyage, Alfred
Lansing
- Mischief Acts, Zoe Gilbert
- Operation Mincemeat, Ben Macintyre
- The Art Thief, Michael Finkel
- Strandloper, Alan Garner
- The Soul of an Octopus, Sy Montgomery
- Color: A Natural History of the Palette, Victoria
Finlay
- The World Beyond Your Head, Matthew B.
Crawford
- Shop Class as Soulcraft, Matthew B. Crawford
- Anathem, Neal Stephenson
- Tigana, Guy Gavriel Kay
- The Telling, Ursula K. Le Guin
- Geometry Revisited, H.S.M. Coxeter
- The Evolution Man: Or, How I Ate My Father, Roy
Lewis
- Scattered All Over the Earth, Yōko Tawada
- Lovers of Philosophy, Warren Ward
- Wittgenstein’s Antiphilosophy, Alain Badiou
- Topology, James R. Munkres
- The Hamlet, William Faulkner
- The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue, V.E. Schwab
- Origametry: Mathematical Methods in Paper Folding,
Thomas Hull
- The Influencing Machine: James Tilly Matthews and the Air
Loom, Mike Jay
- In the Eye of the Wild, Nastassja Martin
- She Who Became the Sun, Shelley Parker-Chan
- Introduction to Topology: Second Edition, Theodore
W. Gamelin
- Interaction of Color, Josef Albers
- Fate Is the Hunter, Ernest K. Gann
- Model Theory, Wilfrid Hodges
- Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions, Edwin A.
Abbott
- Calculated Values, William Deringer
- Peach Blossom Spring, Melissa Fu
- Small Things Like These, Claire Keegan
- The Social Instinct: How Cooperation Shaped the
World, Nichola Raihani
- Endless Forms: The Secret World of Wasps, Seirian
Sumner
- Transformer: The Deep Chemistry of Life and Death,
Nick Lane
- The Art Spirit, Robert Henri
- A Life on Our Planet, David Attenborough
- The Book Thief, Markus Zusak
- Several Short Sentences About Writing, Verlyn
Klinkenborg
- Man and His Symbols, C.G. Jung
- Gödel, Escher, Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid,
Douglas R. Hofstadter
- Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and
Worst, Robert M. Sapolsky
- Metamorphoses, Ovid
- Marlowe’s Faustus/Goethe’s Faust, Christopher
Marlowe
- White Fang, Jack London
- The Night Watchman, Louise Erdrich
- Beyond the Hallowed Sky, Ken MacLeod
- On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft, Stephen
King
- Once There Were Wolves, Charlotte McConaghy
- No Time To Spare: Thinking About What Matters,
Ursula K. Le Guin
- Anatomy: A Love Story, Dana Schwartz
- An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness, Kay
Redfield Jamison
- Baron Wenckheim’s Homecoming, László
Krasznahorkai
- Så den store fuglen ikke tar deg, Hiromi
Kawakami
- Q, Luther Blissett
- Baudolino, Umberto Eco
- Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell, Susanna
Clarke
- Manalive, G.K. Chesterton
- The Napoleon of Notting Hill, G.K. Chesterton
- The Omnivore’s Dilemma: A Natural History of Four
Meals, Michael Pollan
- We Who Are About To…, Joanna Russ
- Manufacturing Consent, Edward S. Herman
- Longitude, Dava Sobel
- A Gentleman in Moscow, Amor Towles
- The Famished Road, Ben Okri
- The Art of Rest, Claudia Hammond
- Time of the Magicians, Wolfram Eilenberger
- It Keeps Me Seeking: The Invitation from Science, Philosophy
and Religion, Andrew Briggs
- The Gene: An Intimate History, Siddhartha
Mukherjee
- Free Play: Improvisation in Life and Art, Stephen
Nachmanovitch
- The Merchant of Prato: Daily Life in a Medieval Italian
City, Iris Origo
- Problem-Solving Through Problems, Loren C.
Larson
- Germ Theory: Medical Pioneers in Infectious
Diseases, Robert Gaynes
- Missing Microbes: How the Overuse of Antibiotics Is Fueling
Our Modern Plagues, Martin J. Blaser
- Microcosm: E. coli and the New Science of Life,
Carl Zimmer
- The Soul of a New Machine, Tracy Kidder
- Concepts of Modern Mathematics, Ian Stewart
- The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea, Yukio
Mishima
- Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe,
Fannie Flagg
- The Alienist, Caleb Carr
- The Shadow of the Wind, Carlos Ruiz Zafón
- The Color Purple, Alice Walker
- Klara and the Sun, Kazuo Ishiguro
- Rosalind Franklin: The Dark Lady of DNA, Brenda
Maddox
- Elements of Point-Set Topology, John D. Baum
- Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the
Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming, Naomi
Oreskes
- Gratitude, Oliver Sacks
- Everything in Its Place: First Loves and Last
Tales, Oliver Sacks
- Asylums: Essays on the Social Situation of Mental Patients
and Other Inmates, Erving Goffman
- Vesper Flights, Helen Macdonald
- Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds…, Merlin
Sheldrake
- Code Name Hélène, Ariel Lawhon
- Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness, Susannah
Cahalan
- The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, Rebecca
Skloot
- House of Leaves, Mark Z. Danielewski
- The Turn of the Screw, Henry James
- Collective Gravities, Chloe N. Clark
- The Bell in the Lake, Lars Mytting
- Phantoms in the Brain, V.S. Ramachandran
- Trees, maps, and theorems, Jean-luc Doumont
- Illness as Metaphor, Susan Sontag
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