Completed Books

The Metamorphosis, Franz Kafka
★★★★☆

Completed 4/6/2025

How to Blow Up a Pipeline, Andreas Malm
★★★☆☆

Had interesting thoughts and brought up interesting history of both violence and "sabatage" surrounding political movements, but left me feeling unsatisfied with its final conclusion.

Completed 4/2/2025

The Anthropocene Reviewed: Essays on a Human-Centered Planet, John Green
★★★★☆

Loved this book, both is content and in form - little in depth essays are my favorite things to read.

Completed 1/29/2025

Every Tool's a Hammer: Life Is What You Make It, Adam Savage
★★★★★

Completed 1/20/2025

Slaughterhouse-Five, Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
★★★★☆

Completed 1/3/2025

Atomic America: How a Deadly Explosion and a Feared Admiral Changed the Course of Nuclear History, Todd Tucker
★★★★☆

Completed 1/2/2025

Concerning Dissent and Civil Disobedience - "We Have an Alternative to Violence", Abe Fortas
★★☆☆☆

kinda a civil disobedience manifesto. might have been interesting when it was published but really is boring nowadays.

Completed Oct 2024

The Stranger, Albert Camus
★★☆☆☆

Did not enjoy it

Completed Jan 2024

The Jungle, Unpton Sinclair
★★★★★

read for an english class, and very much enjoyed it. found it very interesting how this was written as a fictional narrative - from the way it was described, I thought it would be some sort of nonfiction editorial or something.

Completed Jan 2023

The Streamlined Decade, Donald J. Bush
★★★★☆

Completed Jan 2022

To-Read

Command and Control: Nuclear Weapons, the Damascus Accident, and the Illusion of Safety, Eric Schlosser

The Idea Factory: Bell Labs and the Great Age of American Innovation , Jon Gertner

Chernobyl: The History of a Nuclear Catastrophe, Serhii Plokhy

The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany, William L Shirer

A People's History of the United States, Howard Zinn

Man's Search for Meaning, Viktor Frankl

The Seven Mysteries Of Life: An Exploration of Science and Philosophy, Guy Murchie

Why Fish Don't Exist: A Story of Loss, Love, and the Hidden Order of Life, Lulu Miller

Silent Spring, Rachel Carson

Atomic Physics And Human Knowledge, Niels Bohr

Everything Is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection, John Green

Chip War: The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology, Chris Miller

The End of Everything, Katie Mack

Columbine, Dave Cullen

Political Tribes: Group Instinct and the Fate of Nations, Amy Chua

A People's Green New Deal, Max Ajl

Nuclear is Not the Solution: The Folly of Atomic Power in the Age of Climate Change, M.V. Ramana

Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson, Mitch Albom

The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism, Naomi Klein

The Terrorist's Dilemma: Managing Violent Covert Organizations, Jacob N. Shapiro

The Philosophy of Albert Einstein: Writings on Art, Science, and Peace, Albert Einstein

Trees, maps, and theorums, Jean-luc Doumont