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Books

This is a list of books I particularly like.
👍 = favorites.

History of science & technology

• Empires of Light
• The Wright Brothers 👍
• Einstein: His Life and Universe 👍
• Steve Jobs
• Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future

Biographies & memoirs

• Just Kids 👍
• Benjamin Franklin: An American Life 👍
• Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 👍
• Shortest Way Home: One Mayor's Challenge and a Model for America's Future
• Educated: A Memoir

Business

• Zero to One
• High Output Management
• The Hard Thing About Hard Things
• The Innovator's Prescription

Cities

• The Death and Life of Great American Cities 👍
• Streetfight: Handbook for an Urban Revolution

Fiction

• Little Fires Everywhere
• The Kite Runner
• A Thousand Splendid Suns

Philosophy

• The Beginning of Infinity 👍
• Letters from a stoic
• The Prophet
• Siddhartha
• Sophie's World

Politics & Social Science

• Winners Take All 👍
• Are Prisons Obsolete?
• 21 Lessons for the 21st Century
• Age of Ambition: Chasing Fortune, Truth, and Faith in the New China 👍
• The Girl with Seven Names: A North Korean Defector’s Story
• The World: A Brief Introduction
• Americana

Science

• Deadliest Enemy: Our War Against Killer Germs 👍
• How to Avoid a Climate Disaster

Scifi

• Dune Series 👍
• The Black Cloud