The Shelf

A virtual bookshelf for curious visitors and future self-reference

  • The Black Swan – Nassim Taleb
  • Thinking, Fast and Slow – Daniel Kahneman
  • Skin in the Game – Nassim Taleb
  • Revolutionary Road – Richard Yates
  • The Catcher in the Rye – J.D. Salinger
  • Dealers of Lightning – Michael A. Hiltzik
  • Why Everyone (else) is a Hypocrite – Robert Kurzban
  • The Society of Mind – Marvin Minsky
  • Alchemy: The Surprising Power of Ideas That Don’t Make Sense – Rory Sutherland
  • The Red Queen – Matt Ridley
  • The Design of Everyday Things – Don Norman
  • Influence – Robert B. Cialdini
  • Free Innovation – Eric von Hippel
  • The Essays: A Selection – Montaigne
  • The Elephant in the Brain – Robin Hanson & Kevin Simler
  • Surely You’re Joking Mr. Feynman – Richard Feynman
  • Mindstorms: Children, Computers and Powerful Ideas – Seymor Papert
  • Thinking in Space – Bryan Lawson
  • Public Relations – Edward L. Bernays
  • Zero to One – Peter Thiel
  • 100 Plus – Sonia Arrison
  • Gödel, Escher, Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid – Douglas R. Hofstadter
  • What Technology Wants – Kevin Kelly
  • Novum Organum – Francis Bacon
  • Genentech: The Beginnings of Biotech – Sally Smith Hughes
  • Things Hidden Since the Foundation of the World – René Girard
  • Contemporary Perspectives on Rhetoric – Karen Foss and Robert Trapp
  • Consider the Lobster – David Foster Wallace
  • Infinite Powers: How Calculus Reveals the Secrets of the Universe – Steven Strogatz
  • The Medium is the Massage – Marshall McLuhan & Quentin Fiore
  • Große Gestalten der Geschichte – Wilhelm Herzog
  • The Decadent Society – Ross Douthat
  • Where Is My Flying Car?: A Memoir of Future Past – J Storrs Hall
  • Brief Interviews with Hideous Men – David Foster Wallace
  • A Wild Sheep Chase – Haruki Murakami
  • The Importance of Being Earnest – Oscar Wilde
  • The Death of Ivan Ilyich – Leo Tolstoy
  • The Three Body Problem – Liu Cixin
  • Slouching Towards Bethlehem – Joan Didion
  • The Diamond Age – Neal Stephenson
  • Everything and Nothing – Jorge Luis Borges
  • Lolita – Vladimir Nabovok
  • Animal Farm – George Orwell
    The Mind-Body Problem – Rebecca Newberger Goldstein
  • The Bell Jar – Sylvia Plath
  • Infinite Jest – David Foster Wallace
  • The Fountainhead – Ayn Rand
  • Snow Crash – Neil Stephenson
  • Atlas Shrugged – Ayn Rand
  • New Atlantis – Francis Bacon
  • Exhalation – Ted Chiang
  • The Mysterious Stranger – Mark Twain
  • Franny and Zooey – J.D. Salinger
  • The Master and Margarita – Mikhail Bulgakov
  • Levels of the Game – John McPhee
  • On The Road – Jack Kerouac
  • Something Incredibly Wonderful Happens – Frank Oppenheimer and His Astonishing Exploratorium – K. C. Cole
  • Against Method – Paul Feyerabend
  • Science Since Babylon – Derek J. de Solla Price
  • The Examined Life – Robert Nozick
  • Aquinas (A Beginner’s Guide) – Edward Feser
  • The Anatomy of the State – Murray Rothbard
  • Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal – Ayn Rand
  • Science and the Moral Life – Max Otto
  • Phaedrus – Plato
  • Stubborn Attachments – Tyler Cowen
  • Knowledge, Reality, and Value – Michael Huemer
  • Although of Course You End Up Becoming Yourself – David Lipsky
  • The 1946 London Lectures – Maria Montessori
  • Connectography – Parag Kanna
  • Warning to the West – Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
  • Draft No. 4 – John McPhee
  • The Anxiety of Influence – Harold Bloom
  • The Trial and Death of Socrates – Plato
  • Classical Ethics, East and West – Robert Zeuschner
  • The Big Score – Michael S. Malone
  • Moral Imagination: Essays – David Bromwich
  • The Story of Philosophy – Will Durant
  • The SALT Summaries – Stewart Brand
  • The System of Liberty – George H. Smith
  • The Perennial Philosophy – Aldous Huxley
  • The Force of Knowledge: The Scientific Dimension of Society – John Ziman
  • The Two Cultures and the Scientific Revolution – C. P. Snow