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Read in 2026

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    Psycho-Cybernetics — Maxwell Maltz
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    God and Golem, Inc. — Norbert Wiener
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    Designing Freedom — Stafford Beer
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    Cybernetics — Norbert Wiener
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    White Noise — Don DeLillo
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    How Asia Works — Joe Studwell

Favorites of all time

literature

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    The Turn of the Screw — Henry James
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    Absalom, Absalom! — William Faulkner
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    The Brothers Karamazov — Fyodor Dostoevsky
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    Brief Interviews with Hideous Men — David Foster Wallace
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    Doctor Zhivago — Boris Pasternak
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    White Noise — Don DeLillo
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    Our Man in Havana — Graham Greene
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    Blood Meridian — Cormac McCarthy
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    The Power and the Glory — Graham Greene
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    The Master and Margarita — Mikhail Bulgakov
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    And Quiet Flows the Don — Mikhail Sholokhov
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    Finnegans Wake — James Joyce

philosophy

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    Phaedo — Plato
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    On Duties — Cicero
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    The Consolation of Philosophy — Boethius
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    Orthodoxy — G. K. Chesterton
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    The Incoherence of the Philosophers — Al-Ghazali
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    Anti‑Oedipus — Gilles Deleuze & Félix Guattari
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    Elements of the Philosophy of Right — G. W. F. Hegel
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    After Virtue — Alasdair MacIntyre
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    Naming and Necessity — Saul Kripke
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    Being and Time — Martin Heidegger
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    Discipline and Punish — Michel Foucault
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    The Road to Serfdom — F. A. Hayek
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    Moses and Monotheism — Sigmund Freud
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    Confessions — Augustine

probability

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    Large Deviations Techniques and Applications — Amir Dembo & Ofer Zeitouni
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    Probability in High Dimension — Ramon van Handel
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    High-Dimensional Probability — Roman Vershynin
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    A Mini-Course on Percolation Theory — Jeffrey E. Steif