booklog
if you have any recommendations, I would love to hear them!
Completed Books
Cosmos, Carl Sagan
★★★★★
EVERYBODY READ THIS BOOK NOW!
Completed April 2026
The Dragons of Eden, Carl Sagan
★★★★★
Oh how I love Carl Sagan. A very interesting look into the mind.
Completed April 2026
Project Hail Mary, Andy Weir [Audiobook]
★★★★☆
Very enjoyable story, although at times I was annoyed by the characters actions being different from how I had characterized them. I do not often read fiction though, may just be my growing pains in the genre.
Completed March 2026
A Full Life, Jimmy Carter [Audiobook]
★★★☆☆
I do love an audiobook voiced by its author. Very interesting hearing first hand history.
Completed July 2025
Uranium, Tom Zoellner
★★★★☆
Had lots of insight on the history of uranium mining I have never heard about before
Completed 7/5/2025
Nuclear is Not the Solution, M.V. Ramana
★★★☆☆
Obviously went in with a negative view, but we agreed about many things (mostly just about our adversion to government and corperations).
My biggest problem with it is that the nuclear advocate he argues against is that of a nuclear industry businessman, not a environmentalist citizen which I would think the more important crowd.
Completed 7/1/2025
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 October 2024
The Stranger, Albert Camus
★★☆☆☆
Did not enjoy it
Completed January 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 January 2023
The Streamlined Decade, Donald J. Bush
★★★★☆
Completed January 2022
The Hobbit, J.R.R. Tolkien
★★★★★
Completed [Unknown]
The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams
★★★★★
Completed [Unknown]
Not Quite Read
I chronically do not finish books, but do enjoy what I have read from them. This is less of a did not finish, more of a will finish, someday.
A People's History of the United States, Howard Zinn
Man's Search for Meaning, Viktor Frankl
One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This, Omar El Akkad
The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Making of the Atomic Bomb, Richard Rhodes
To-Read
Listed in no particular order:
The Demon-Haunted World, Carl Sagan
Pale Blue Dot, Carl Sagan
A Short History of Nearly Everything, Bill Bryson
The Ascent of Man, Jacob Bronowski
The Discovery of Dynamics, Julian Barbour
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 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
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
