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<h1>Books</h1>
<p>A subset of my bookshelf. I particularly enjoyed the sparkling books. Their order is random.</p>
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<li>Proofs and Refutations</li>
<li class="good_book">My Family and Other Animals</li>
<li>Why We Sleep</li>
<li>The Three Body Problem</li>
<li>Information Theory, Inference, and Learning Algorithms</li>
<li>Ishmael</li>
<li>Leviathan</li>
<li>Superintelligence</li>
<li>Meditations</li>
<li>Everybody Lies: Big Data, New Data, and what the Internet can tell us about Who We Really Are</li>
<li>Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time</li>
<li>Between the World and Me</li>
<li>A Walk in the Woods</li>
<li>What is Life?</li>
<li>On Liberty and The Subjection of Women</li>
<li class="good_book">How Fiction Works</li>
<li class="good_book">A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction</li>
<li class="good_book">How Buildings Learn: What Happens After They’re Built</li>
<li>Feynman Lectures on Computation</li>
<li>The Paris Review Interviews, Vol I</li>
<li>The Inner Game of Tennis: the Classic Guide to the Mental Side of Peak Performance</li>
<li>Principia Ethica</li>
<li class="good_book">The House of Wisdom: How Arabic Science Saved Ancient Knowledge and Gave Us the Renaissance</li>
<li>The Dark Forest</li>
<li>Thinking, Fast and Slow</li>
<li>Death’s End</li>
<li>Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future</li>
<li>A Crack in Creation: the New Power to Control Evolution</li>
<li>Underground: the Tokyo Gas Attack and the Japanese Psyche</li>
<li class="good_book">The Count of Monte Cristo</li>
<li>The Elements of Statistical Learning: Data Mining, Inference, and Prediction</li>
<li>Gathering Moss, a Natural and Cultural History of Mosses</li>
<li>The Magical World of Moss Gardening</li>
<li>The Annotated Turing: a Guided Tour through Alan Turing’s Historic Paper on Computability and the Turing Machine</li>
<li>A Death in the Family</li>
<li>The Selfish Gene</li>
<li class="good_book">The Order of Time</li>
<li>Spying on Whales</li>
<li>Scientific Freedom: The Elixir of Civilization</li>
<li>Six Easy Pieces</li>
<li>21 Lessons for the 21st Century</li>
<li>Cracking the Coding Interview</li>
<li>The Invisible Killer</li>
<li>The Map Of Knowledge</li>
<li>Algorithms To Live By</li>
<li>The Book of Why</li>
<li>The Character of Physical Law</li>
<li>How to Fall in Love with Anyone</li>
<li>Thinking in Numbers</li>
<li>Music: A Subversive History</li>
<li>Working in Public: The Making and Maintenance of Open Source Software</li>
<li>Listening to Whales: What the Orcas Have Taught Us</li>
<li>In Defence of Dogs</li>
<li>Machines Will Make Better Choices Than Humans</li>
<li class="good_book">The Art of Doing Science and Engineering</li>
<li>Why Zebras Don’t Get Ulcers</li>
<li>Bayesian Reasoning and Machine Learning</li>
<li>Mother Tongue</li>
<li>One Hundred Years of Solitude</li>
<li>What If: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions</li>
<li class="good_book">E=mc2: A Biography of the World’s Most Famous Equation</li>
<li>Amusing Ourselves To Death</li>
<li>Dancing In The Glory Of Monsters: The Collapse Of The Congo And The Great War Of Africa</li>
<li>Anna Karenina</li>
<li>The Turk: The Life and Times of the Famous Eighteenth-Century Chess-Playing Machine</li>
<li>Islands in the Stream</li>
<li>On Violence</li>
<li>L’éducation sentimentale</li>
<li>If This Isn’t Nice, What Is?</li>
<li>Snow Crash</li>
<li class="good_book">A Confederacy of Dunces</li>
<li class="good_book">Being Mortal</li>
<li>Normal People</li>
<li>The Unbearable Lightness of Being</li>
<li class="good_book">Skunk Works: A Personal Memoir of My Years at Lockheed</li>
<li class="good_book">The Living Mountain: A Celebration of the Cairngorm Mountains of Scotland</li>
<li>The Dialogues of Plato</li>
<li>Chip War: The Fight for the World’s Most Critical Technology</li>
<li>The World Of Yesterday</li>
<li>Faber & Faber: The Untold Story</li>
<li class="good_book">The Days of Abandonment</li>
<li>The Structure of Scientific Revolution</li>
<li>The House of Wisdom: How Arabic Science Saved Ancient Knowledge and Gave Us the Renaissance</li>
<li>Prisoners of Geography</li>
<li>Blacke Edge: Inside Information, Dirty Money, and the Quest to Bring Down the Most Wanted Man on Wall Street</li>
<li>Being and Time</li>
<li>Getting High - The Annapurna Circuit in Nepal</li>
<li class="good_book">When Breath Becomes Air</li>
<li class="good_book">Pachinko</li>
<li class="good_book">Another Country</li>
<li>Go Tell It On The Mountain</li>
<li class="good_book">Kitchen Confidential</li>
<li class="good_book">Stories of Your Life and Others</li>
<li>Just Kids</li>
<li class="good_book">Exhalation</li>
<li>Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow</li>
<li>If We Were Villains</li>
<li>Crying in H Mart</li>
<li>The Attention Merchants</li>
<li>War Doctor</li>
<li>Aesop’s Fables</li>
<li>The Earth Moved: On The Remarkable Achievements of Earthworms</li>
<li>111 Places in Toronto that you Must Not Miss</li>
<li>Smellosophy: What the Nose Tells the Mind</li>
<li>Vagina Obscura: An Anatomical Voyage</li>
<li>Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men</li>
<li>A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court</li>
<li>The Language of Food: A Linguist Reads the Menu</li>
<li>The Yosemite</li>
<li class="good_book">Clinical Casebook of Couple Therapy</li>
<li>Micromgégas, Zadig, Candide</li>
<li>Best in Travel 2022</li>
<li>Buddha (manga)</li>
<li>Toronto Short Stories</li>
<li class="good_book">Project Hail Mary</li>
<li>Cloud Cuckoo Land</li>
<li class="good_book">The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories</li>
<li>Andrew Carnegie</li>
<li class="good_book">The Old Man and the Sea</li>
<li>The House of Morgan</li>
<li class="good_book">Titan</li>
<li>On the Edge</li>
<li>A Game of Thrones</li>
<li>A Storm of Swords</li>
<li>What I Talk about When I Talk about Running</li>
<li>Seveneves</li>
<li class="good_book">Welcome to the Monkey House</li>
<li>A Clash of Kings</li>
<li class="good_book">Benjamin Franklin: An American Life</li>
<li>Shoe Dog</li>
<li class="good_book">The Return of the King</li>
<li>The Two Towers</li>
<li>Where Is My Flying Car?</li>
<li>Lads Before the Wind: Diary of a Dolphin Trainer</li>
<li>Marathoner: What to Expect When Training for and Running a Marathon</li>
<li>Into Thin Air</li>
<li>Himalaya</li>
<li>The Games of Anatoly Karpov</li>
<li>Trekking Annapurna</li>
<li>The Complete Grimm’s Fairy Tales</li>
<li>A Gentleman in Moscow</li>
<li>The Empiricists: Locke, Berkeley, Hume</li>
<li>Death on the Nile</li>
<li>A Tale of Two Cities</li>
<li>Born a Crime</li>
<li>The Grasshopper: Games, Life and Utopia</li>
<li>On Food and Cooking: The Science and Lore of the Kitchen</li>
<li>A Cloud a Day</li>
<li>Container Gardening Through the Year</li>
<li>Scotland: The Global History -- 1603 to the Present</li>
<li>Homage to Catalonia</li>
<li>Lonely Planet Best in Travel 2022</li>
<li>Dune</li>
<li>Mindhunter: Inside the FBI’s Elite Serial Crime Unit</li>
<li class="good_book">House of Huawei: The Secret History of China’s Most Powerful Company</li>
<li>Remarkably Bright Creatures</li>
<li>The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers</li>
<li>Dishoom: From Bombay with Love</li>
<li>The Maid</li>
<li>HBR’s 10 Must Reads for New Managers</li>
<li>Rage the Night</li>
<li>Mondrian Notes (pocket notepad)</li>
<li>Counterfeit</li>
<li class="good_book">Utilitarianism and Other Essays</li>
<li>The Body in the Library</li>
<li>Gulp: Adventures on the Alimentary Canal</li>
<li class="good_book">From Third World to First: The Singapore Story 1965-2000</li>
<li>Matrescence: On Pregnancy, Childbirth, and Motherhood</li>
<li>The Art of War & Other Classics of Eastern Philosophy</li>
<li>Invitation to a Banquet: The Story of Chinese Food</li>
<li>The Almagest</li>
<li>The Butcher</li>
<li>Six Feet Over: Science Tackles the Afterlife</li>
<li>The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle</li>
<li class="good_book">Genius: The Life and Science of Richard Feynman</li>
<li>Value(s): Building a Better World for All</li>
<li>In the Footsteps of Mr. Kurtz</li>
<li>Outlive</li>
<li>A Moveable Feast</li>
<li>Life Unfolding</li>
<li>Mozart: The Reign of Love</li>
<li>Piet Mondrian: A Life</li>
<li class="good_book">The Dream Machine: J. C. R. Licklider and the Revolution That Made Computing Personal</li>
<li class="good_book">The Machinery of Life</li>
<li>Operating Systems: Three Easy Pieces</li>
<li>A Book of Noises: Notes on the Auraculous</li>
<li>Designing Data-Intensive Applications</li>
<li>Entangled Life</li>
<li>The New Map</li>
<li>The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money & Power</li>
<li class="good_book">The Wright Brothers</li>
<li class="good_book">The Great Bridge</li>
<li>The Path Between the Seas: The Creation of the Panama Canal, 1870-1914</li>
<li class="good_book">The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood</li>
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