Farnam Street - The Books I’ve Read in 2017

1.
Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking
Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking 4.08 avg rating — 465,764 ratings
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The Invention of Nature: Alexander von Humboldt's New World
The Invention of Nature: Alexander von Humboldt's New World 4.32 avg rating — 28,490 ratings
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Energy and Civilization: A History
Energy and Civilization: A History 4.09 avg rating — 3,928 ratings
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Reality is Not What it Seems: The Journey to Quantum Gravity
Reality is Not What it Seems: The Journey to Quantum Gravity 4.33 avg rating — 15,942 ratings
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The Prophet
The Prophet 4.23 avg rating — 321,147 ratings
6.
Why Zebras Don't Get Ulcers
Why Zebras Don't Get Ulcers 4.17 avg rating — 16,474 ratings
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Nobody Wants to Read Your Sh*t: Why That Is And What You Can Do About It
Nobody Wants to Read Your Sh*t: Why That Is And What You Can Do About It 4.19 avg rating — 2,695 ratings
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The War of Art
The War of Art 3.98 avg rating — 113,880 ratings
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The Knowledge Illusion: Why We Never Think Alone
The Knowledge Illusion: Why We Never Think Alone 3.84 avg rating — 2,554 ratings
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The Usefulness of Useless Knowledge
The Usefulness of Useless Knowledge 4.23 avg rating — 707 ratings
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Liars and Outliers: Enabling the Trust that Society Needs to Thrive
Liars and Outliers: Enabling the Trust that Society Needs to Thrive 3.78 avg rating — 1,461 ratings
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I Am a Strange Loop
I Am a Strange Loop 3.95 avg rating — 8,441 ratings
13.
How Emotions Are Made: The Secret Life of the Brain
How Emotions Are Made: The Secret Life of the Brain 4.10 avg rating — 12,381 ratings
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Emergence: The Connected Lives of Ants, Brains, Cities, and Software
Emergence: The Connected Lives of Ants, Brains, Cities, and Software 3.95 avg rating — 3,539 ratings
15.
Milk and honey
Milk and honey
by: Rupi Kaur
3.96 avg rating — 777,015 ratings
16.
The Quotable Darwin
The Quotable Darwin 4.35 avg rating — 17 ratings
17.
A Full Life: Reflections at Ninety
A Full Life: Reflections at Ninety 3.87 avg rating — 7,327 ratings
18.
The Printing Press as an Agent of Change: Communications and Cultural Trans (Complete in One Volume)
The Printing Press as an Agent of Change: Communications and Cultural Trans (Complete in One Volume) 4.12 avg rating — 170 ratings
19.
The Twenty-Four Hour Mind: The Role of Sleep and Dreaming in Our Emotional Lives
The Twenty-Four Hour Mind: The Role of Sleep and Dreaming in Our Emotional Lives 3.77 avg rating — 324 ratings
20.
Seduced by Logic: Émilie Du Châtelet, Mary Somerville and the Newtonian Revolution
Seduced by Logic: Émilie Du Châtelet, Mary Somerville and the Newtonian Revolution 3.79 avg rating — 87 ratings
21.
Cleopatra: A Life
Cleopatra: A Life 3.73 avg rating — 121,465 ratings
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Perilous Interventions: The Security Council and the Politics of Chaos
Perilous Interventions: The Security Council and the Politics of Chaos 4.04 avg rating — 146 ratings
23.
A Man for All Markets: From Las Vegas to Wall Street, How I Beat the Dealer and the Market
A Man for All Markets: From Las Vegas to Wall Street, How I Beat the Dealer and the Market 4.24 avg rating — 7,501 ratings
24.
Homo Deus: A History of Tomorrow
Homo Deus: A History of Tomorrow 4.19 avg rating — 278,933 ratings
25.
The Hedgehog and the Fox: An Essay on Tolstoy's View of History
The Hedgehog and the Fox: An Essay on Tolstoy's View of History 4.03 avg rating — 2,294 ratings
26.
Come as You Are: The Surprising New Science that Will Transform Your Sex Life
Come as You Are: The Surprising New Science that Will Transform Your Sex Life 4.28 avg rating — 81,149 ratings
26.
For All the Tea in China: Espionage, Empire and the Secret Formula for the World's Favourite Drink
For All the Tea in China: Espionage, Empire and the Secret Formula for the World's Favourite Drink 3.78 avg rating — 4,227 ratings
26.
Storm in a Teacup: The Physics of Everyday Life
Storm in a Teacup: The Physics of Everyday Life 4.03 avg rating — 4,896 ratings
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Problem Solved: A Powerful System for Making Complex Decisions with Confidence and Conviction
Problem Solved: A Powerful System for Making Complex Decisions with Confidence and Conviction 3.34 avg rating — 94 ratings
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Warnings: Finding Cassandras to Stop Catastrophes
Warnings: Finding Cassandras to Stop Catastrophes 3.93 avg rating — 742 ratings
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Dragon Lady: The Life and Legend of the Last Empress of China
Dragon Lady: The Life and Legend of the Last Empress of China 3.82 avg rating — 676 ratings
32.
Four Queens: The Provençal Sisters Who Ruled Europe
Four Queens: The Provençal Sisters Who Ruled Europe 3.89 avg rating — 4,568 ratings
32.
A Mind at Play: How Claude Shannon Invented the Information Age
A Mind at Play: How Claude Shannon Invented the Information Age 4.16 avg rating — 2,735 ratings
32.
Scale: The Universal Laws of Growth, Innovation, Sustainability, and the Pace of Life, in Organisms, Cities, Economies, and Companies
Scale: The Universal Laws of Growth, Innovation, Sustainability, and the Pace of Life, in Organisms, Cities, Economies, and Companies 4.11 avg rating — 5,360 ratings
35.
Captivate: The Science of Succeeding with People
Captivate: The Science of Succeeding with People 4.11 avg rating — 7,827 ratings
35.
Montaigne
Montaigne 4.02 avg rating — 2,680 ratings
35.
Principles: Life and Work
Principles: Life and Work
by: Ray Dalio
4.10 avg rating — 64,766 ratings
38.
The Mathematics of Love: Patterns, Proofs, and the Search for the Ultimate Equation (TED Books)
The Mathematics of Love: Patterns, Proofs, and the Search for the Ultimate Equation (TED Books) 3.66 avg rating — 3,062 ratings
39.
One Mission: How Leaders Build a Team of Teams
One Mission: How Leaders Build a Team of Teams 3.88 avg rating — 655 ratings
40.
Wonderland: How Play Made the Modern World
Wonderland: How Play Made the Modern World 3.84 avg rating — 1,407 ratings
40.
Ice Age
Ice Age 4.07 avg rating — 427 ratings
42.
Aphorisms and Thoughts
Aphorisms and Thoughts 3.67 avg rating — 79 ratings
42.
The Great Escape: Health, Wealth, and the Origins of Inequality
The Great Escape: Health, Wealth, and the Origins of Inequality 3.82 avg rating — 2,418 ratings
42.
Do the Work
Do the Work 3.97 avg rating — 20,740 ratings
45.
Paris
Paris 4.50 avg rating — 24 ratings
46.
A Fortunate Universe: Life in a Finely Tuned Cosmos
A Fortunate Universe: Life in a Finely Tuned Cosmos 4.21 avg rating — 211 ratings
46.
Leonardo da Vinci
Leonardo da Vinci 4.19 avg rating — 122,298 ratings
48.
Thomas Sankara: An African Revolutionary
Thomas Sankara: An African Revolutionary 4.25 avg rating — 454 ratings
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The Theory That Would Not Die: How Bayes' Rule Cracked the Enigma Code, Hunted Down Russian Submarines, and Emerged Triumphant from Two Centuries of Controversy
The Theory That Would Not Die: How Bayes' Rule Cracked the Enigma Code, Hunted Down Russian Submarines, and Emerged Triumphant from Two Centuries of Controversy 3.76 avg rating — 2,741 ratings
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The Victorian City: Everyday Life in Dickens' London
The Victorian City: Everyday Life in Dickens' London 4.01 avg rating — 1,762 ratings
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Romantic Outlaws: The Extraordinary Lives of Mary Wollstonecraft and Her Daughter Mary Shelley
Romantic Outlaws: The Extraordinary Lives of Mary Wollstonecraft and Her Daughter Mary Shelley 4.22 avg rating — 7,201 ratings
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Tomorrow Is Now
Tomorrow Is Now 4.29 avg rating — 239 ratings
53.
The Power Paradox: How We Gain and Lose Influence
The Power Paradox: How We Gain and Lose Influence 3.68 avg rating — 1,422 ratings
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You Play the Girl: On Playboy Bunnies, Stepford Wives, Train Wrecks, & Other Mixed Messages
You Play the Girl: On Playboy Bunnies, Stepford Wives, Train Wrecks, & Other Mixed Messages 3.89 avg rating — 1,613 ratings
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Economics for Humans
Economics for Humans 3.36 avg rating — 88 ratings
55.
The Secret Lives of Color
The Secret Lives of Color 4.04 avg rating — 19,350 ratings
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George C. Marshall: Rubrics of Leadership
George C. Marshall: Rubrics of Leadership 3.62 avg rating — 8 ratings
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The Undoing Project: A Friendship That Changed Our Minds
The Undoing Project: A Friendship That Changed Our Minds 3.99 avg rating — 62,920 ratings
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Genghis Khan and the Quest for God: How the World's Greatest Conqueror Gave Us Religious Freedom
Genghis Khan and the Quest for God: How the World's Greatest Conqueror Gave Us Religious Freedom 4.04 avg rating — 833 ratings
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The Time Illusion
The Time Illusion 4.08 avg rating — 645 ratings
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Invention: The Care and Feeding of Ideas
Invention: The Care and Feeding of Ideas 3.72 avg rating — 36 ratings
62.
The Power of Moments: Why Certain Experiences Have Extraordinary Impact
The Power of Moments: Why Certain Experiences Have Extraordinary Impact 4.12 avg rating — 24,097 ratings
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Wired to Care: How Companies Prosper When They Create Widespread Empathy
Wired to Care: How Companies Prosper When They Create Widespread Empathy 3.84 avg rating — 537 ratings
63.
A Crack in Creation: Gene Editing and the Unthinkable Power to Control Evolution
A Crack in Creation: Gene Editing and the Unthinkable Power to Control Evolution 4.13 avg rating — 6,304 ratings
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Maxims and Reflections
Maxims and Reflections 3.92 avg rating — 167 ratings
66.
Early Greek Philosophy, Volume II: Beginnings and Early Ionian Thinkers, Part 1
Early Greek Philosophy, Volume II: Beginnings and Early Ionian Thinkers, Part 1 4.45 avg rating — 29 ratings
66.
The General vs. the President: MacArthur and Truman at the Brink of Nuclear War
The General vs. the President: MacArthur and Truman at the Brink of Nuclear War 4.18 avg rating — 2,962 ratings
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Operation Kronstadt: The True Story of Honor, Espionage, and the Rescue of Britain's Greatest Spy, The Man with a Hundred Faces
Operation Kronstadt: The True Story of Honor, Espionage, and the Rescue of Britain's Greatest Spy, The Man with a Hundred Faces 3.90 avg rating — 217 ratings
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The Code of Trust: An American Counterintelligence Expert's Five Rules to Lead and Succeed
The Code of Trust: An American Counterintelligence Expert's Five Rules to Lead and Succeed 3.87 avg rating — 531 ratings
68.
The Complete Calvin and Hobbes
The Complete Calvin and Hobbes 4.81 avg rating — 41,683 ratings
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The Ethics of Ambiguity
The Ethics of Ambiguity 4.17 avg rating — 7,756 ratings
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Ubiquity: Why Catastrophes Happen
Ubiquity: Why Catastrophes Happen 3.89 avg rating — 689 ratings
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Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less
Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less 4.06 avg rating — 126,036 ratings
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The TB12 Method: How to Achieve a Lifetime of Sustained Peak Performance
The TB12 Method: How to Achieve a Lifetime of Sustained Peak Performance
by: Tom Brady
3.54 avg rating — 3,367 ratings
75.
Tools of Titans: The Tactics, Routines, and Habits of Billionaires, Icons, and World-Class Performers
Tools of Titans: The Tactics, Routines, and Habits of Billionaires, Icons, and World-Class Performers 4.10 avg rating — 44,102 ratings
76.
The Company of Strangers: A Natural History of Economic Life
The Company of Strangers: A Natural History of Economic Life 3.68 avg rating — 300 ratings
77.
The Quest for Cosmic Justice
The Quest for Cosmic Justice 4.39 avg rating — 3,229 ratings
78.
How We Got to Now: Six Innovations That Made the Modern World
How We Got to Now: Six Innovations That Made the Modern World 4.11 avg rating — 15,320 ratings
79.
Why Time Flies: A Mostly Scientific Investigation
Why Time Flies: A Mostly Scientific Investigation 3.42 avg rating — 1,368 ratings
80.
Shoe Dog: A Memoir by the Creator of Nike
Shoe Dog: A Memoir by the Creator of Nike 4.46 avg rating — 350,918 ratings
81.
The Laws of Medicine: Field Notes from an Uncertain Science (TED Books)
The Laws of Medicine: Field Notes from an Uncertain Science (TED Books) 4.06 avg rating — 5,072 ratings
81.
Tribe Of Mentors: Short Life Advice from the Best in the World
Tribe Of Mentors: Short Life Advice from the Best in the World 4.07 avg rating — 17,582 ratings
81.
How to Read Wittgenstein
How to Read Wittgenstein
by: Ray Monk
4.03 avg rating — 547 ratings
84.
Option B: Facing Adversity, Building Resilience, and Finding Joy
Option B: Facing Adversity, Building Resilience, and Finding Joy 3.85 avg rating — 56,328 ratings
85.
Humility Is the New Smart: Rethinking Human Excellence in the Smart Machine Age
Humility Is the New Smart: Rethinking Human Excellence in the Smart Machine Age 3.60 avg rating — 549 ratings
86.
The Einstein Factor: A Proven New Method for Increasing Your Intelligence
The Einstein Factor: A Proven New Method for Increasing Your Intelligence 3.73 avg rating — 492 ratings
87.
The Coaching Habit: Say Less, Ask More & Change the Way You Lead Forever
The Coaching Habit: Say Less, Ask More & Change the Way You Lead Forever 4.01 avg rating — 27,705 ratings
88.
The Secret History of the Mongol Queens: How the Daughters of Genghis Khan Rescued His Empire
The Secret History of the Mongol Queens: How the Daughters of Genghis Khan Rescued His Empire 3.93 avg rating — 4,563 ratings
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Mobs, Messiahs, and Markets: Surviving the Public Spectacle in Finance and Politics
Mobs, Messiahs, and Markets: Surviving the Public Spectacle in Finance and Politics 3.69 avg rating — 256 ratings
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Perennial Seller: The Art of Making and Marketing Work that Lasts
Perennial Seller: The Art of Making and Marketing Work that Lasts 4.15 avg rating — 3,442 ratings
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Capitalism, Democracy, and Ralph's Pretty Good Grocery
Capitalism, Democracy, and Ralph's Pretty Good Grocery 3.54 avg rating — 39 ratings