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Friday, January 1, 2016

Books I am reading in 2016

A list of books, I have read, am reading, will read in 2016

Ranked in approximate order to totally subjective awesomeness.
  1.  The Making of The Atomic Bomb, Richard Rhodes
  2. The Path to Power (The Years of Lyndon Johnson, Volume 1). Robert A. Caro
  3. Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption. Bryan Stevenson
  4. The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness, Michelle Alexander
  5. Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy, Cathy O'Neil
  6. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind; Yuval Noah Harari
  7. Cryptnomicron, Neal Stephenson
  8. What If? Randall Munroe
  9. Capital in the Twenty-First Century, Thomas Piketty
  10. Yiddush Policemen's Union, Michael Chabon
  11. Dream Team: How Michael, Magic, Larry, Charles, and the Greatest Team of All Time Conquered the World and Changed the Game of Basketball Forever; Jack McCallum 
  12.  1776. David McCullough
  13. Pastrami on Rye: An Overstuffed History of the Jewish Deli. Ted Merwin
  14. Six Easy Pieces: Essentials of Physics Explained by Its Most Brilliant Teacher. Richard P. Feynman
  15. The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined, Steven Pinker
  16. Superforcasting: The Art and Science of Prediction; Philip E. Tetlock and Dan Gardner

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