Bookshelf | Brandon Smith

What I'm reading now

Death's End

Cixin Liu

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2016

Follow the Science: How Big Pharma Misleads, Obscures, and Prevails

Sharyl Attkisson

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2024

Good Energy: The Surprising Connection Between Metabolism and Limitless Health

Casey Means & Calley Means

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2024

What I've read this year

The Creative Act: A Way of Being

Rick Rubin

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2023

Co-Intelligence: Living and Working with AI

Ethan Mollick

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2024

Just Enough Research

Erica Hall

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2013

The Dark Forest

Cixin Liu

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2015

Supercommunicators: How to Unlock the Secret Language of Connection

Charles Duhigg

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2024

White Holes

Carlo Rovelli

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2023

The Baron in the Trees

Italo Calvino

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1957

The Three-Body Problem

Cixin Liu

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2006

The Stranger

Albert Camus

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1942

The Illustrated Brief History Of Time

Stephen Hawking

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1988

Breath: The New Science of a Lost Art

James Nestor

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2020

All the Light We Cannot See

Anthony Doerr

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2014

The Toll (Arc of a Scythe #3)

Neal Shusterman

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2019

Artemis

Andy Weir

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2017

Save the Cat! Writes a Novel

Jessica Brody

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2018

Hidden Potential: The Science of Achieving Greater Things

Adam Grant

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2023

Previous years

What I Read in 2017

Published

Dec 31, 2017

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Photo of wind sweeping sand over the dunes in Death Valley National Park near sunset.

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Sunrise on the Teton mountain range in Wyoming. The mountains are covered in freshly fallen snow, with pine trees silhouetted in the foreground.

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A photo of a man walking on the dunes in Death Valley at sunset.

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Giant rocks at Joshua Tree National Park reaching into the sky.

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Portrait of songwriter Jessica Lindsay sitting at the piano next to the window with a double image of her reflected on the left side.