Here is a list of books that I have enjoyed. There is a separate section of this site called academic work that contains the content I have read for my Middle Eastern History studies, and a listing of books in the photography section that I have read for my photography, hiking, and nature interests.

TL;DR Book Hall of Fame

• Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer
• Antifragile by Nassim Taleb (+ the rest of the Incerto)
• 10 Arugments to Delete Your Social Media Accounts Right Now by Jaron Lanier
• The World Until Yesterday by Jared Diamond
• Technopoly: The Surrender of Culture to Technology by Neil Postman
• The Decadent Society: How We Became Victims of our Own Success by Ross Douthat
• Food of the Gods by Terence McKenna

Nature

• The Revolutionary Genius of Plants by Stefano Mancuso
• This is Your Mind on Plants by Michael Pollan
• Finding the Mother Tree by Suzanne Simard
• The Revolutionary Genuis of Plants by Stefano Mancuso
• Encounters with the Archdruid by John McPhee
• The Inner Life of Animals by Peter Wohlleben
• A Hunter-Gatherer’s Guide to the 21st Century by Heather Heying and Bret Weinstein
• Why is Sex Fun? By Jared Diamond
• The Hidden Life of Trees by Peter Wohlleben
• Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer
• Mountain Light: In Search of the Dynamic Landscape by Galen Rowell
• Assembling California by John McPhee
• The Yosemite by John Muir
• Coming Into the Country by John McPhee
• My First Summer in the Sierra by John Muir
• American Terroir by Rowan Jacobsen

Society

• The Wayfinders: Why Ancient Wisdom Matters in the Modern World by Wade Davis
• The Revolt of The Public and the Crisis of Authority in the New Millennium by Martin Gurri
• Sacred Instructions: Indigenous Wisdom for Living Spirit-Based Change by Sherri Mitchell
• Power to the People by Audrey Kurth Cronin
• The War on the West by Douglas Murray
• Girlhood by Melissa Febos
• Thinking in Systems by Donella Meadows
• Speed & Scale by John Doerr
• The Sovereign Individual by James Dale Davidson
• The End of Education: Redefining the Value of School by Neil Postman
• The Disappearance of Childhood by Neil Postman
• Born to Run by Christopher McDougall
• Technopoly: The Surrender of Culture to Technology by Neil Postman
• Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business by Neil Postman
• The Decadent Society: How We Became Victims of our Own Success by Ross Douthat
• The Third Chimpanzee by Jared Diamond
• Upheaval: Turning Points for Nations in Crisis by Jared Diamond
• Digital Minimalism: Choosing a Focused Life in a Noisy World by Cal Newport
• Life After Google: The Fall of Big Data and the Rise of the Blockchain Economy by George Gilder
• Tribe: On Homecoming and Belonging by Sebastian Junger
• AI Superpowers: China, Silicon Valley, and the New World Order by Kai-Fu Lee
• 10 Arugments to Delete Your Social Media Accounts Right Now by Jaron Lanier
• 21 Lessons for the 21st Century by Yuval Noah Harari
• The World Until Yesterday by Jared Diamond
• Principles: Life and Work by Ray Dalio
• The Internet of Us by Michael Lynch
• The Seventh Sense by Joshua Cooper Ramo
• Nudge by Richard Thaler and Cass Sunstein
• Zero to One by Peter Thiel
• Weapons of Math Destruction by Cathy O’neil

Philosophy

• The Lion Tracker’s Guide to Life by Boyd Varty
• Beyond Order by Jordan Peterson
• Waking Up by Sam Harris
• Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert Pirsig
• Galen Rowell’s Inner Game of Outdoor Photography
• 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos by Jordan Peterson
• Fooled by Randomness by Nassim Taleb
• Meditations by Marcus Aurelius
• Skin in the Game by Nassim Taleb
• Black Swan by Nassim Taleb
• Antifragile by Nassim Taleb
• Another Day Not Wasted by Guy Tal
• Homo Deus by Yuval Harari

History

• Facing East from Indian Country: A Native History of Early America by Daniel Richter
• Food of the Gods by Terence McKenna
• What Went Wrong?: The Clash Between Islam and Modernity in the Middle East by Bernard Lewis
• Notes on a Century by Bernard Lewis
• Fields of Blood: Religion and the History of Violence by Karen Armstrong
• The Story of Tea: A Cultural History and Drinking Guide by Mary Lou Heiss and Robert Heiss
• Imperial Twilight: The Opium War and the End of China’s Last Golden Age by Stepehn Platt
• Sapiens by Yuval Harari
• Orientalism by Edward Said
• Guns, Germs, and Steel by Jared Diamond
• Understanding the Present by Bryan Appelyard
• Life on the Edge: The Coming of Age of Quantum Biology by Johnjoe Mcfadden and Jim Al-Khalili
• Herodotus’ Histories
• The Children of Athena: Greek Writers and Thinkers in the Age of Rome, 150 BC-AD 400 by Charles Freeman
• Albion’s Seed: Four British Folkways in America

Biography

• Cathedral of the Wild by Boyd Varty
• A Passion for Nature: The Life of John Muir by Donald Worster
• Heretic by Aayan Hirsi Ali
• Wild Life by Robert Trivers
• Champlain’s Dream by David Hackett Fischer
• Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power by Jon Meacham
• Antonio Carlos Jobim: An Illuminated Man by Helena Jobim
• The Undoing Project by Michael Lewis
• The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin