Strangers Drowning
Grappling with Impossible Idealism, Drastic Choices, and the Overpowering Urge to Help
Larissa MacFarquhar
Thursday 14 October
How Algorithms Create and Prevent Fake News
Exploring the Impacts of Social Media, Deepfakes, GPT-3, and More
Noah Giansiracusa
Wednesday 6 October
Deep Learning
Ian Goodfellow, Yoshua Bengio and Aaron Courville
Wednesday 15 September
Power Play
Breaking through bias, barriers & boys' clubs
Julia Banks
Monday 13 September
Ready Player Two
Ernest Cline
Sunday 29 August
Ready Player One
Ernest Cline
Wednesday 25 August
Weapons of Math Destruction
How big data increases inequality and threatons democracy
Cathy O'Neil
Thursday 19 August
Technics and Civilisation
Lewis Mumford
Friday 13 August
Square Haunting
Five Women, Freedom and London between the Wars
Francesca Wade
Wednesday 28 July
A Human's Guide to the Future
Jordan Nguyen
Monday 19 July
The Precipice
Existential Risk and the Future of Humanity
Toby Ord
Monday 5 July
Crowds and Power
Elias Canetti
Sunday 27 June
Why We're Polarized
Ezra Klein
Sunday 20 June
Human Compatible
AI and the Problem of Control
Stuart Russell
Tuesday 15 June
The Alignment Problem
How Can Machines Learn Human Values?
Brian Christian
Friday 4 June
The Image
A Guide to Pseudo-Events in America
Daniel Boorstin
Tuesday 25 May
The Tyranny of Merit
What's Become of the Common Good?
Michael J. Sandel
Monday 17 May
The Mathematics of the Gods and the Algorithms of Men
A Cultural History
Paolo Zellini
Monday 26 April
Bees and Their Keepers
Lotte Möller
Sunday 18 April
Dune
Frank Herbert
Sunday 4 April
How to Read a Book
Mortimer J. Adler, Charles van Doren
Thursday 4 March
Call of the Reed Warbler
A new agriculture, a new earth
Charles Massy
Wednesday 17 February
Teg's 1994
Robert Theobald, J. M. Scott
Sunday 17 January
Einstein
His Life and Universe
Walter Isaacson
Sunday 10 January
2020
How to Have Impossible Conversations
A Very Practical Guide
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Thursday 31 December
Going Dark
The Secret Social Lives of Extremists
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Friday 30 October
The NeuroGeneration
The New Era in Brain Enhancement That Is Revolutionizing the Way We Think, Work, and Heal
Tan Le
Sunday 11 October
The Sciences of the Artificial
Herbert Simon
Friday 18 September
Stop Being Reasonable
Eleanor Gordon-Smith
Tuesday 25 August
Monash
The Outsider Who Won a War
Roland Perry
Tuesday 11 August
On Mathematics and Mathematicians
(Memorabilia Mathematica)
Robert Edouard Moritz
Saturday 25 July
Losing Eden
Why Our Minds Need the Wild
Lucy Jones
Saturday 25 July
Are Filter Bubbles Real?
Axel Bruns
Saturday 4 July
Plato at the Googleplex
Philosophy Won't Go Away
Rebecca Newberger Goldstein
Wednesday 1 July
Rusted Off
Why country Australia is fed up
Gabrielle Chan
Tuesday 19 May
The Ph.D. Grind
A Ph.D. Student Memoir
Philip Guo
Friday 24 April
Breaking News
The Remaking of Journalism and Why It Matters Now
Alan Rusbridger
Saturday 18 April
The Beginning of Infinity
Explanations that Transform the World
David Deutsch
Saturday 28 March
How to Do Nothing
Resisting the Attention Economy
Jenny Odell
Thursday 5 March
The Myth of the Rational Voter
Why Democracies Choose Bad Policies
Bryan Caplan
Wednesday 12 February
Love Your Enemies
How decent people can save America from the culture of contempt
Arthur Brooks
Monday 3 February
Crystallography
Christian Bök
Wednesday 29 January
The Autobiography of Bertrand Russell
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Bertrand Russell
Friday 24 January
Democracy in a Divided Australia
Matthew Lesh
Monday 20 January
Stray Arts
(and Other Inventions)
Anthony Etherin
Friday 17 January
Post Truth
The new war on truth and how to fight back
Matthew d'Ancona
Friday 17 January
Urban and Regional Planning
Peter Hall, Mark Tewdwr-Jones
Tuesday 14 January
Lincoln in the Bardo
George Saunders
Tuesday 14 January
Weaponized Lies
How to think critically in the post-truth era
Daniel Levitin
Friday 10 January
Detection Theory
A user's guide
Neil A. Macmillan, C. Douglas Creelman
Friday 10 January
City Life
The new urban Australia
Seamus O'Hanlon
Thursday 9 January
The Hate Race
Maxine Beneba Clarke
Saturday 4 January
2019
The Reputation Society
How online opinions are reshaping the offline world
Hassan Masum, Mark Tover (editors)
Tuesday 31 December
Cellar
Anthony Etherin
Tuesday 31 December
The Lifespan of a Fact
John D'Agata, Jim Fingal
Monday 30 December
Building Web Reputation Systems
Ratings, reviews & karma to keep your community healthy
Randy Farmer, Bryce Glass
Saturday 28 December
The Human Condition
Hannah Arendt
Saturday 28 December
The Death and Life of Great American Cities
Jane Jacobs
Thursday 26 December
Alex through the Looking-Glass
How life reflects numbers and numbers reflect life
Alex Bellos
Saturday 14 December
Brief Answers to the Big Questions
Stephen Hawking
Monday 2 December
Information disorder
Toward an interdisciplinary framework for research and policy making
Claire Wardle, Hossein Derakhshan
Wednesday 27 November
Crime and Punishment
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Sunday 24 November
Metaphors We Live By
George Lakoff, Mark Johnson
Monday 11 November
Clickbait, Bias, and Propaganda in Information Networks
Barbara Fister, Rachel Flynn, et al.
Tuesday 5 November
Nothing is True and Everything is Possible
Adventures in modern Russia
Peter Pomerantsev
Wednesday 23 October
Troll Hunting
Inside the world of online hate and its human fallout
Ginger Gorman
Friday 4 October
This is Not Propaganda
Adventures in the War Against Reality
Peter Pomerantsev
Thursday 26 September
Radicalized
Cory Doctorow
Wednesday 18 September
Infinite Detail
Tim Maughan
Friday 13 September
The Last Whole Earth Catalog
Access to tools
Stewart Brand
Tuesday 3 September
Figuring
Maria Popova
Sunday 25 August
Eichmann in Jerusalem
A Report on the Banality of Evil
Hannah Arendt
Tuesday 30 July
The Secret Life
Three True Stories
Andrew O'Hagan
Tuesday 23 July
Radical Markets
Uprooting Capitalism and Democracy for a Just Society
Eric Posner, Glen Weyl
Friday 19 July
Snow Crash
Neal Stephenson
Sunday 30 June
Dark Emu
Aboriginal Australia and the birth of agriculture
Bruce Pascoe
Sunday 30 June
How to Measure Anything
Finding the value of intangibles in business
Douglas Hubbard
Sunday 26 May
Why Shrink-Wrap a Cucumber?
The Complete Guide to Environmental Packaging
Stephen Aldridge, Laurel Miller
Saturday 20 April
In Praise of Intransigence
The Perils of Flexibility
Richard H. Weisberg
Friday 5 April
An Absolutely Remarkable Thing
Hank Green
Monday 1 April
Why Nations Fail
The Origins of Power, Prosperity and Poverty
Daron Acemoglu, James A. Robinson
Thursday 28 March
How We Got to Now
Six Innovations That Made the Modern World
Steven Johnson
Thursday 14 March
Second Foundation
Isaac Asimov
Sunday 10 February
Alsos
Samuel Goudsmit
Sunday 3 February
Victims of Groupthink
A Psychological Study of Foreign-Policy Decisions and Fiascoes
Irving L. Janis
Thursday 24 January
Beaumaris Modern
Modernist Homes in Beaumaris
Fiona Austin
Sunday 20 January
The Worldly Philosophers
The Lives, Times and Ideas of the Great Economic Thinkers
Robert Heilbroner
Thursday 17 January
2018
Life of Galileo
Bertolt Brecht
Sunday 23 December
What is populism?
Jan-Werner Müller
Friday 7 December
The Shock Doctrine
The Rise of Disaster Capitalism
Naomi Klein
Wednesday 5 December
Radioactive
Marie and Pierre Curie, A Tale of Love and Fallout
Lauren Redniss
Saturday 10 November
The First Casualty
A Memoir from the Front Lines of the Global War on Journalism
Peter Greste
Friday 26 October
No Logo
Naomi Klein
Thursday 18 October
Tales from the Inner City
Shaun Tan
Friday 5 October
Cybernetics
Or, Control and Communication in the Animal and the Machine
Norbert Wiener
Tuesday 25 September
An Elementary Introduction to the Wolfram Language
Stephen Wolfram
Sunday 2 September
Ginkgo
The Tree That Time Forgot
Peter Crane
Tuesday 28 August
Reinventing Discovery
The New Era of Networked Science
Michael Nielsen
Thursday 9 August
Cicada
Shaun Tan
Thursday 2 August
What is Life?
The Physical Aspect of the Living Cell
Erwin Schrödinger
Tuesday 31 July
The News
A User's Manual
Alain de Botton
Saturday 28 July
Global Catastrophic Risks
Nick Bostrom, Milan Ćirković
Tuesday 24 July
Hillbilly Elegy
A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis
J. D. Vance
Thursday 5 July
A Little History of the World
Ernst Gombrich
Thursday 28 June
The Fractal Geometry of Nature
Benoit Mandelbrot
Thursday 7 June
Factfulness
Ten Reasons We're Wrong about the World - and Why Things are Better than You Think
Hans Rosling
Wednesday 30 May
I am a Mathematician
The Later Life of a Prodigy
Norbert Wiener
Wednesday 23 May
Ex-Prodigy
My Childhood and Youth
Norbert Wiener
Tuesday 15 May
The Fractalist
Memoir of a Scientific Maverick
Benoit Mandelbrot
Friday 4 May
A Radical Approach to Lebesgue's Theory of Integration
David Bressoud
Friday 20 April
Paradoxes in Probability Theory and Mathematical Statistics
Gábor Székely
Tuesday 10 April
The Ethical Brain
The Science of Our Moral Dilemmas
Michael Gazzaniga
Saturday 31 March
The Merchant and the Alchemist's Gate
Ted Chiang
Saturday 31 March
Foundation and Empire
Isaac Asimov
Tuesday 27 March
Randomnicity
Rules and Randomness in the Realm of the Infinite
Anastasios Tsonis
Friday 23 March
Maverick Genius
The Pioneering Odyssey of Freeman Dyson
Phillip Schewe
Wednesday 21 March
Enigmas of Chance
An Autobiography
Mark Kac
Monday 12 March
The Righteous Mind
Why Good People are Divided by Politics and Religion
Jonathon Heidt
Wednesday 7 March
Superforecasting
The art and science of prediction
Philip Tetlock, Dan Gardner
Wednesday 28 February
The Master Algorithm
How the quest for the ultimate learning machine will remake our world
Pedro Domingos
Thursday 22 February
Thunder & Lightning
Weather past, present, future
Lauren Redniss
Sunday 18 February
Three Score Years and Twenty
Walter C. Balmford
Thursday 15 February
Inadequate Equilibria
Where and how civilizations get stuck
Eliezer Yudkowsky
Tuesday 6 February
Who owns the future?
Jaron Lanier
Monday 5 February
Surfing Uncertainty
Prediction, action and the embodied mind
Andy Clark
Tuesday 23 January
Arcadia
Tom Stoppard
Friday 19 January
Finite and Infinite Games
A vision of life as play and possibility
James P. Carse
Wednesday 10 January
2017
The Island of Knowledge
The limits of science and the search for meaning
Marcelo Gleiser
Sunday 31 December
The Age of Em
Work, love and life when robots rule the earth
Robin Hanson
Wednesday 27 December
Stubborn Attachments
A vision for a society of free, prosperous and responsible individuals
Tyler Cowen
Tuesday 26 December
Foundation
Isaac Asimov
Sunday 17 December
The Tipping Point
How little things can make a big difference
Malcolm Gladwell
Thursday 14 December
A Mathematical Theory of Communication
Claude Shannon & Warren Weaver
Tuesday 12 December
How to Solve It
A new aspect of mathematical method
George Pólya
Friday 8 December
Slade House
David Mitchell
Sunday 3 December
Foucault's Pendulum
Umberto Eco
Saturday 25 November
Stoner
John Williams
Wednesday 18 October
Chronicles
On our troubled times
Thomas Piketty
Thursday 5 October
The Shallows
How the internet is changing the way we think, read and remember
Nicholas Carr
Monday 2 October
In Search of the Miraculous
Fragments of an unknown teaching
P.D. Ouspensky
Saturday 23 September
Frank Lloyd Wright
America's master architect
Kathryn Smith
Wednesday 20 September
Mr Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore
Robin Sloan
Thursday 14 September
Code Breakers
Inside the shadow world of signals intelligence in Australia's two Bletchley Parks
Craig Collie
Tuesday 15 August
Anki Essentials
The complete guide to remembering anything with Anki
Alex Vermeer
Friday 4 August
Sapiens
A brief history of humankind
Yuval Noah Harari
Saturday 29 July
A History of Western Philosophy
Bertrand Russell
Saturday 22 July
Unforbidden Pleasures
Adam Phillips
Wednesday 12 July
Mr. Wilson's Cabinet of Wonder
Pronged ants, horned humans, mice on toast, and other marvels of Jurassic technology
Lawrence Weschler
Wednesday 5 July
Graphic Discovery
A trout in the milk and other visual adventures
Howard Wainer
Wednesday 24 May
Leibniz
Ruth Lydia Saw
Thursday 18 May
Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid
A metaphorical fugue on minds and machines in the spirit of Lewis Carroll
Douglas R. Hofstadter
Thursday 27 April
Breaking Smart
Seeking serendipity through technology
Venkatesh Rao
Sunday 9 April
The Kybalion
Three Initiates
Friday 31 March
Brave New World
Aldous Huxley
Tuesday 28 March
The Better Angels of Our Nature
Why violence has declined
Steven Pinker
Sunday 26 March
Interactive Data Visualization for the Web
An introduction to designing with d3
Scott Murray
Saturday 25 March
Silent Spring
Rachel Carson
Thursday 23 March
The Dot & the Line
A romance in lower mathematics
Norton Juster
Wednesday 22 March
The Last Messiah
Peter Wessel Zapffe
Wednesday 22 March
The New Case for Gold
James Rickards
Wednesday 15 March
The Prince
Niccolò Machiavelli
Sunday 12 March
Faster
The acceleration of just about everything
James Gleick
Wednesday 8 March
The Economics of Inequality
Thomas Piketty
Saturday 4 March
The Omnivore's Dilemma
A natural history of four meals
Michael Pollan
Wednesday 1 March
80,000 Hours
Find a fulfilling career that does good
Benjamin Todd
Saturday 25 February
H is for Hawk
Helen Macdonald
Tuesday 14 February
Decline and Fall
Evelyn Waugh
Wednesday 8 February
On Bullshit
Harry Frankfurt
Thursday 2 February
On the Shortness of Life
Life is long if you know how to use it
Seneca
Thursday 2 February
This Is Water
Some thoughts, delivered on a significant occasion, about living a compassionate life
David Foster Wallace
Thursday 5 January
2016
Death of the Liberal Class
Chris Hedges
Thursday 15 December
The Golden Ticket
P, NP, and the search for the impossible
Lance Fortnow
Monday 5 December
The Four Legendary Kingdoms
Matthew Reilly
Monday 21 November
The Boy Who Played with Fusion
Extreme science, extreme parenting, and how to make a star
Tom Clynes
Friday 28 October
Making the Modern World
Materials and dematerialization
Vaclav Smil
Saturday 22 October
The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
Thomas Kuhn
Thursday 29 September
1001 Ideas
That changed the way we think
Robert Arp (editor)
Saturday 3 September
Superintelligence
Paths, dangers, strategies
Nick Bostrom
Friday 19 August
The Shape of Space
Jeffrey Weeks
Wednesday 10 August
The Ascent of Man
Jacob Bronowski
Friday 5 August
The Decline of the West, Vol. I
Form and actuality
Oswald Spengler
Saturday 30 July
The Art of Asking
or, How I learned to stop worrying and let people help
Amanda Palmer
Friday 8 July
The Singing Bones
Shaun Tan
Tuesday 5 July
Big World, Small Planet
Abundance within planetary boundaries
Johan Rockström, Mattias Klum
Friday 1 July
You Are Not A Gadget
A manifesto
Jaron Lanier
Tuesday 28 June
Neural Networks and Deep Learning
Michael A. Nielsen
Monday 27 June
The Principles of Uncertainty
Maira Kalman
Saturday 25 June
Chaos
Making a new science
James Gleick
Tuesday 31 May
The Mind's Eye
Oliver Sacks
Sunday 22 May
Facts from Figures
A layman's introduction to statistics
M. J. Moroney
Wednesday 18 May
Science and the Common Understanding
Julius Robert Oppenheimer
Friday 13 May
ggplot2
Elegant graphics for data analysis
Hadley Wickham
Thursday 12 May
In Cold Blood
Truman Capote
Thursday 5 May
The Island of Knowledge
The limits of science and the search for meaning
Marcelo Gleiser
Wednesday 27 April
The Grammar of Graphics
Leland Wilkinson
Wednesday 20 April
How to Prove It
A structured approach
Daniel Velleman
Thursday 7 April
The Container Principle
How a box changes the way we think
Alexander Klose
Friday 26 February
The Sense of Style
The thinking person's guide to writing in the 21st century
Steven Pinker
Monday 22 February
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
An inquiry into values
Robert Maynard Pirsig
Wednesday 17 February
An ABZ of Love
Inge & Sten Hegeler
Sunday 14 February
The Life You Can Save
Acting now to end world poverty
Peter Singer
Saturday 13 February
The Bed of Procrustes
Philosophical and practical aphorisms
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Wednesday 10 February
The Black Swan
The impact of the highly improbable
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Monday 8 February
Fooled by Randomness
The hidden role of chance in life and in the markets
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Tuesday 2 February
Why Information Grows
The evolution of order, from atoms to economies
César Hidalgo
Wednesday 27 January
Storms of My Grandchildren
The truth about the coming climate catastrophe and our last chance to save humanity
James Hansen
Monday 25 January
Making Sense of Japanese
What the textbooks don't tell you
Jay Rubin
Saturday 23 January
Shogun
James Clavell
Thursday 21 January
The Elements of Style
William Strunk, Elwyn Brooks White
Thursday 7 January
Paula
Isabel Allende
Sunday 3 January
2015
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
Mary Ann Shaffer, Annie Barrows
Tuesday 22 December
Antifragile
Things that gain from disorder
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Friday 18 December
Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!
Adventures of a curious character
Richard Feynman, Ralph Leighton
Sunday 6 December
Thinking, Fast and Slow
Daniel Kahneman
Friday 4 December
Being Mortal
Medicine and what matters in the end
Atul Gawande
Saturday 28 November
The Reason I Jump
The inner voice of a thirteen-year-old boy with autism
Naoki Higashida
Wednesday 18 November
Our Choice
A plan to solve the climate crisis
Al Gore
Wednesday 18 November
An Inconvenient Truth
The planetary emergency of global warming and what we can do about it
Al Gore
Thursday 12 November
僕らの時代の本
Craig Mod
Friday 30 October
Cycles of Life
Civilization and the biosphere
Vaclav Smil
Saturday 24 October
The Opposite of Loneliness
Essays and stories
Marina Keegan
Friday 2 October
The Art of Data Science
A guide for anyone who works with data
Roger Peng, Elizabeth Matsui
Tuesday 29 September
The Sixth Extinction
An unnatural history
Elizabeth Kolbert
Tuesday 29 September
Catch-22
Joseph Heller
Friday 25 September
The Signal and the Noise
Why so many predictions fail—but some don't
Nate Silver
Tuesday 8 September
Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality
Eliezer Yudkowsky
Friday 4 September
The Ocean at the End of the Lane
Neil Gaiman
Friday 7 August
Don't Go Back to School
A handbook for learning anything
Kio Stark
Monday 3 August
Nudge
Improving decisions about health, wealth, and happiness
Richard Thaler, Cass Sunstein
Friday 31 July
The Quantum Universe
Everything that can happen does happen
Brian Cox, Jeff Forshaw
Saturday 25 July
Paleoclimate
Michael Bender
Saturday 18 July
How to Lie with Statistics
Darrell Huff
Wednesday 15 July
M is for Magic
Neil Gaiman
Friday 10 July
Envisioning Information
Edward Tufte
Sunday 28 June
Beautiful Evidence
Edward Tufte
Friday 26 June
Visual Explanations
Edward Tufte
Thursday 25 June
The Visual Display of Quantitative Information
Edward Tufte
Sunday 21 June
Prior Notables
Waking Up
A guide to spirituality without religion
Sam Harris
2015
The Rational Optimist
How prosperity evolves
Matt Ridley
2014
The Zero Marginal Cost Society
The internet of things, the collaborative commons, and the eclipse of capitalism
Jeremy Rifkin
2014
Should We Eat Meat?
Evolution and consequences of modern carnivory
Vaclav Smil
2013
The Conundrum
How scientific innovation, increased efficiency, and good intentions can make our energy and climate problems worse
David Owen
2012
Tales from Outer Suburbia
Shaun Tan
2008