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Books I've read

World History

• The Eternal Frontier: An Ecological History of North America and Its Peoples by Tim Flannery
• The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity by David Graeber and David Wengrow
• Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harari
• The Silk Roads: A New History of the World by Peter Frankopan
• River Kings: A New History of the Vikings from Scandinavia to the Silk Road by Cat Jarman
• A Distant Mirror by Barbara W. Tuchman
• The Age of Revolution: 1789-1848 by Eric Hobsbawm

Apes

• In the Shadow of Man by Jane Goodall
• Chimpanzee Politics by Frans de Waal
• The Great Ape Project edited by Paola Cavalieri and Peter Singer

Ethics

• Animal Liberation by Peter Singer
• Practical Ethics, 3rd edition by Peter Singer
• The Life You Can Save by Peter Singer
• What We Owe the Future by William MacAskill

Other nonfiction and essentially-nonfiction

• We Should All Be Feminists by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
• The Devil's Cup: A History of the World According to Coffee by Stewart Lee Allen
• Effective Java (2nd edition) by Joshua Bloch
• Gender Outlaw by Kate Bornstein
• Korea: A New History of South and North by Victor Cha and Ramon Pacheco Pardo
• Algorithms to Live By: The Computer Science of Human Decisions by Brian Christian and Tom Griffiths
• Raid on the Sun by Rodger Claire
• Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass by Frederick Douglass
• Three Castles Burning: A History of Dublin in Twelve Streets by Donal Fallon
• Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl (translation)
• On Fact and Fraud by David Goodstein
• The Anthropocene Reviewed: Essays on a Human-Centered Planet by John Green
• Homo Deus by Yuval Noah Harari
• 21 lessons for the 21st century by Yuval Noah Harari
• Hiroshima by John Hersey
• Rethinking Normal by Katie Rain Hill
• Moneyball by Michael Lewis
• Stuff Matters by Mark Miodownik
• Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert M. Pirsig
• The Hot Zone by Richard Preston
• The Tangled Tree: A Radical New History of Life by David Quammen
• Alone on the Ice: The Greatest Survival Story in the History of Exploration by David Roberts
• San Fransicko: Why Progressives Ruin Cities by Michael Shellenberger
• Start-up Nation by Dan Senor and Saul Singer
• Drop Dead Gorgeous by Miceala Shocklee
• Night by Elie Wiesel (translation by Marion Wiesel)
• The Autobiography of Malcolm X by Malcolm X and Alex Haley
• An Ordinary Man by Paul Rusesabagina and Tom Zoellner

Fiction, including some young adult and children's fiction

• Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
• The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga
• Unsong by Scott Alexander
• Legends & Lattes by Travis Baldree
• Beowulf by "Beowulf poet" (translation)
• Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
• A Clockwork Orange (including 21st chapter) by Anthony Burgess
• Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card
• Seventh Son by Orson Scott Card
• And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie
• The Three-Body Problem by Liu Cixin (translation by Ken Liu)
• The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho (translation by Alan R. Clarke)
• Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
• The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane
• Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick
• The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky (translation)
• The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas (translation by Eleanor Hochman)
• The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco (translation by William Weaver)
• Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
• Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides
• The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner
• The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
• The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen
• Freedom by Jonathan Franzen
• Neuromancer by William Gibson
• Darkness Visible by William Golding
• Free Fall by William Golding
• The Inheritors by William Golding
• Lord of the Flies by William Golding
• Pincher Martin by William Golding
• Rites of Passage by William Golding
• The Spire by William Golding
• Abraham Lincoln, Vampire Hunter by Seth Grahame-Smith
• The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
• A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry
• The Gunslinger (The Dark Tower #1) by Stephen King
• Go Set a Watchman by Harper Lee
• To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
• Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
• The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
• To Live by Yu Hua
• Godly by O. Humes
• Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
• The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka
• The Buried Giant by Kazuo Ishiguro
• Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
• The House in the Cerulean Sea by TJ Klune
• Mystic River by Dennis Lehane
• Beatrice and Virgil by Yann Martel
• Life of Pi by Yann Martel
• Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell
• Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
• The Scholomance triology by Naomi Novik (A Deadly Education, The Last Graduate, and The Golden Enclaves)
• Spinning Silver by Naomi Novik
• Uprooted by Naomi Novik
• The Housekeeper and the Professor by Yōko Ogawa
• Animal Farm by George Orwell
• 1984 by George Orwell
• Small Gods by Terry Pratchett
• Guards! Guards! by Terry Pratchett
• Interesting Times by Terry Pratchett
• Moving Pictures by Terry Pratchett
• Raising Steam by Terry Pratchett
• Ishmael by Daniel Quinn
• Anthem by Ayn Rand
• Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand
• Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J. K. Rowling
• Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets by J. K. Rowling
• Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban by J. K. Rowling
• Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by J. K. Rowling
• Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix by J. K. Rowling
• Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince by J. K. Rowling
• Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J. K. Rowling
• Harry Potter and the Cursed Child by J. K. Rowling
• The Sparrow by Mary Doria Russell
• The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger
• The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (translation)
• Hamlet by William Shakespeare
• Macbeth by William Shakespeare
• A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare
• Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare
• The Taming of the Shrew by William Shakespeare
• The Tempest by William Shakespeare
• Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
• Hyperion by Dan Simmons
• The Fall of Hyperion by Dan Simmons
• Go Ask Alice by Beatrice Sparks
• Rogue Squadron by Michael A. Stackpole
• The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
• Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
• Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson
• Dracula by Bram Stoker
• The Fellowship of the Ring J. R. R. Tolkien
• Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
• The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain
• Pudd'nhead Wilson by Mark Twain
• Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut
• The Sirens of Titan by Kurt Vonnegut
• Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut
• Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace
• The Murderbot Diaries #1, #2, #3, #4, and #5 by Martha Wells
• To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf
• Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality by Eliezer Yudkowsky

Young adult and children's fiction

• Fever 1793 by Laurie Halse Anderson
• The Coral Island by R. M. Ballantyne
• Tangerine by Edward Bloor
• The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky
• James and the Giant Peach by Roald Dahl
• Half Magic by Edward Eager
• My Side of the Mountain by Jean Craighead George
• Turtles All The Way Down by John Green
• Among the Hidden by Margaret Peterson Haddix
• Tunnel in the Sky by Robert A. Heinlein
• Catfishing on CatNet by Naomi Kritzer
• A Wrinkle In Time by Madeleine L'Engle
• The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by C. S. Lewis
• The Giver by Lois Lowry
• Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH by Robert C. O'Brien
• The Knight at Dawn by Mary Pope Osborne
• Hatchet by Gary Paulsen
• Where the Red Fern Grows by Wilson Rawls
• Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them by J. K. Rowling
• Quidditch Through the Ages by J. K. Rowling
• Milkweed by Jerry Spinelli
• The Hobbit by J. R. R. Tolkien
• Charlotte's Web by E. B. White
• Stewart Little by E. B. White
• The Hunger by John Whitman
• Little House in the Big Woods by Laura Ingalls Wilder
• Dragonwings by Laurence Yep

Short stories and novelettes

• Universal Love, Said The Cactus Person by Scott Alexander
• The Dead Past by Isaac Asimov
• Marooned off Vesta by Isaac Asimov
• Exhalation: Stories by Ted Chiang (I had previously read just "The Truth of Fact, the Truth of Feeling")
• Lamb to the Slaughter by Roald Dahl
• The Lottery by Shirley Jackson
• Cat Pictures Please by Naomi Kritzer
• The Paper Menagerie by Ken Liu
• Natural Disasters by Alexis Schaitkin
• The Gentleman from Cracow by Isaac Bashevis Singer
• Gimpel the Fool by Isaac Bashevis Singer
• The Slaughterer by Isaac Bashevis Singer
• Zlateh the Goat by Isaac Bashevis Singer
• Harrison Bergeron by Kurt Vonnegut
• Bullet in the Brain by Tobias Wolff
• Three Worlds Collide by Eliezer Yudkowsky

Graphic novels, comics, and picture books

• Bring Me the Head of Willy the Mailboy! by Scott Adams
• Casual Day Has Gone Too Far by Scott Adams
• Excuse Me While I Wag by Scott Adams
• Random Acts of Management by Scott Adams
• Words You Don't Want to Hear During Your Annual Performance Review by Scott Adams
• Fun Home by Alison Bechdel
• Unnatural Dykes To Watch Out For by Alison Bechdel
• The Best We Could Do by Thi Bui
• Open Borders: The Science and Ethics of Immigration by Bryan Caplan and Zach Weinersmith
• The Giving Tree by Shel Silverstein
• Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson