Books To Read 2025

Based on the original post by Andrej Karpathy, here is a list of books mentioned:

• All short stories by Ted Chiang, particularly:
  • Exhalation
  • Division By Zero
  • Understand
  • The Story of Your Life (basis for the film “Arrival”)
  • Liking What You See
  • The Lifecycle of Software Objects
  • What’s Expected of us
• The Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins (nonfiction)
• The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien (fantasy)
• The Martian by Andy Weir (~scifi)
• The Vital Question by Nick Lane (nonfiction)
• How To Live by Derek Sivers (nonfiction)
• 1984 by George Orwell (nonfiction, though it’s actually fiction)
• In Defense of Food by Michael Pollan (nonfiction/food)
• The Accidental Superpower by Peter Zeihan (nonfiction/geopolitics)
• Countdown to Zero Day by Kim Zetter (nonfiction/cyberwarfare)
• A Fire Upon the Deep by Vernor Vinge (scifi) - Specifically Chapter 1 was mentioned
• Guns Germs and Steel by Jared Diamond (nonfiction/history)
• Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes (scifi)
• Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand (scifi)
• An Immense World by Ed Yong (nonfiction/bio)
• The Master Switch by Tim Wu (nonfiction/tech history)