# Currently reading
- Consider Phlebas — Ian Banks
- A New Earth — Eckhart Tolle
# Recommendations
My top book recommendations, with my favorites bolded. Technical stuff is linked here: [[learning]].
## Nonfiction
- Jared Diamond
- ***Guns Germs and Steel***
- Julia Galef
- The Scout Mindset
- Timothy Gallwey
- The Inner Game of Tennis
- William Zinsser
- On Writing Well
- Peter Thiel
- ***Zero to One***
## Realistic Fiction
- John Steinbeck
- Of Mice and Men
- ***The Grapes of Wrath***
- Sylvia Plath
- ***The Bell Jar***
- Daniel Keyes
- Flowers for Algernon
## Science Fiction
- Orson Scott Card
- Ender's Game series
- Ender's Shadow series
- Timothy Zahn
- Thrawn Trilogy
- Star Wars: Thrawn
- Kurt Vonnegut
- Slaughterhouse-Five
- Jay Kristoff, Amie Kaufman
- The Illuminae Files Trilogy
- Douglas Adams
- ***The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy***
- Andy Weir
- ***Project Hail Mary***
- The Martian
- Max Barry
- Lexicon
## Fantasy
- J. R. R. Tolkien
- Lord of the Rings trilogy
- The Hobbit
- George R. R. Martin
- A Song of Ice and Fire Series
# Considering
Very incomplete list of books on my list to read
- From Third World to First - Lee Kuan Yew
- Schild's Ladder - Greg Egan
- fever pitch
- the name of the wind
- ego is the enemy
- pachinko
- Energy and civilization - vaclav smil
- reasons and persons - Derek parfit
- society of the mind - marvin minsky
- leigh bardugo
- [Casey Handmer book list](https://caseyhandmer.wordpress.com/2020/07/26/book-reviews/)
- [Alex Honnold book list](https://static1.squarespace.com/static/546142c8e4b054a6f8697e49/t/5b2b31e42b6a28718c427466/1529557477218/Alex%27s+Unabridged+Book+List.pdf)
- electrify - saul griffith
- 101 essays that will change the way you think
- snowcrash