Yoni’s Reading List 2019
“A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies . . . The man who never reads lives only one.” — George R.R. Martin
Children of Time by Adrian Tchaikovsky
Turing’s Cathedral: The Origins of the Digital Universe by George Dyson
The Mirror Thief by Martin Seay
Tom Clancy Oath of Office by Marc Cameron
Fire & Blood: 300 Years Before A Game of Thrones by George R. R. Martin
Travels with Charley in Search of America by John Steinbeck
The Silk Roads: A New History of the World by Peter Frankopan
Army of None: Autonomous Weapons and the Future of War by Paul Scharre
CIRCE by Madeline Miller
Assassin’s Creed Odyssey (The Official Novelization) by Gordon Doherty
Last Shot (Star Wars): A Han and Lando Novel by Daniel José Older
When: The Scientific Secrets of Perfect Timing by Daniel H. Pink
Creative Confidence: Unleashing the Creative Potential Within Us All by Tom Kelley and David Kelley
Company of One: Why Staying Small Is the Next Big Thing for Business by Paul Jarvis
Thrawn: Treason (Star Wars) by Timothy Zahn
Sons and Soldiers: The Untold Story of the Jews Who Escaped the Nazis and Returned with the U.S. Army to Fight Hitler by Bruce Henderson
Master & Apprentice (Star Wars) by Claudia Gray
Autonomous: A Novel by Annalee Newitz
The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck: A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life by Mark Manson
Catching the Big Fish: Meditation, Consciousness, and Creativity by David Lynch
The Swerve: How the World Became Modern by Stephen Greenblatt
AI Superpowers: China, Silicon Valley, and the New World Order by Kai-Fu Lee
The History of the Future: Oculus, Facebook, and the Revolution That Swept Virtual Reality by Blake J. Harris
Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones by James Clear
Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less by Greg McKeown
Factfulness: Ten Reasons We’re Wrong About the World — and Why Things Are Better Than You Think by Hans Rosling, Anna Rosling Rönnlund, and Ola Rosling
Parable of the Sower by Octavia E. Butler
Based on a True Story: Not a Memoir by Norm Macdonald
Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed by Jared Diamond
The Wizard and the Prophet: Two Remarkable Scientists and Their Dueling Visions to Shape Tomorrow’s World by Charles C. Mann
The New Silk Roads: The Present and Future of the World by Peter Frankopan
The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature by Steven Pinker
Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking by Malcolm Gladwell
The Laws of Human Nature by Robert Greene
Skin in the Game: Hidden Asymmetries in Daily Life by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Conspiracy: Peter Thiel, Hulk Hogan, Gawker, and the Anatomy of Intrigue by Ryan Holiday
These Truths: A History of the United States by Jill Lepore
When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi
Upheaval: Turning Points for Nations in Crisis by Jared Diamond
Tom Clancy Enemy Contact by Mike Maden
Alphabet Squadron by Alexander Freed
Fall; or, Dodge in Hell: A Novel by Neal Stephenson
Long Walk to Freedom: The Autobiography of Nelson Mandela by Nelson Mandela
A History of the Bible: The Story of the World’s Most Influential Book by John Barton
Steppenwolf by Hermann Hesse
The Invention of Nature: Alexander von Humboldt’s New World by Andrea Wulf
The Adventures of Lando Calrissian by L. Neil Smith
The Bitcoin Standard: The Decentralized Alternative to Central Banking by Saifedean Ammous
The Last Pirate of New York: A Ghost Ship, a Killer, and the Birth of a Gangster Nation by Rich Cohen
Money: The Unauthorized Biography by Felix Martin
Creating Augmented and Virtual Realities: Theory and Practice for Next-Generation Spatial Computing by Erin Pangilinan, Steve Lukas, and Vasanth Mohan
Hyperbole and a Half: Unfortunate Situations, Flawed Coping Mechanisms, Mayhem, and Other Things That Happened by Allie Brosh
Flashpoints: The Emerging Crisis in Europe by George Friedman
London: The Novel by Edward Rutherfurd
Look to Windward by Iain M. Banks
How To: Absurd Scientific Advice for Common Real-World Problems by Randall Munroe
My Bondage and My Freedom by Frederick Douglass
Galaxy’s Edge: Black Spire (Star Wars) by Delilah S. Dawson
Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge A Crash of Fate by Zoraida Cordova
Payoff: The Hidden Logic That Shapes Our Motivations by Dan Ariely
Stillness Is the Key by Ryan Holiday
Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Explain Everything About the World by Tim Marshall
The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming by David Wallace-Wells
Cities: The First 6,000 Years by Monica L. Smith
The Story of the Jews Volume One: Finding the Words 1000 BC-1492 AD by Simon Schama
Resistance Reborn: Journey to Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker by Rebecca Roanhorse
Ancillary Justice (Imperial Radch) by Ann Leckie
Ten Years a Nomad: A Traveler’s Journey Home by Matthew Kepnes
Dooku: Jedi Lost (Star Wars) by Cavan Scott
The Quantum Thief by Hannu Rajaniemi
Lonely Planet Best of London 2020 by Lonely Planet
Handbook of Ornament by Franz Sales Meyer
The Book of Everything: A Visual Guide to Travel and the World by Lonely Planet
The Sovereign Individual: Mastering the Transition to the Information Age by James Dale Davidson and William Rees-Mogg
Tom Clancy Code of Honor by Marc Cameron
Letters from an Astrophysicist by Neil deGrasse Tyson
The Invention of Yesterday: A 50,000-Year History of Human Culture, Conflict, and Connection by Tamim Ansary
Handbook of Ornament by Franz Sales Meyer
The Book of Everything: A Visual Guide to Travel and the World by Nigel Holmes
The Spatial Web: How Web 3.0 Will Connect Humans, Machines, and AI to Transform the World by Gabriel René, Dan Mapes, and Jay Samit
Net Force: Dark Web by Tom Clancy and Steve Pieczenik
Rick Steves London 2020 by Rick Steves
The Persian Expedition by Xenophon
The Geeks’ Guide to World Domination by Garth Sundem
