what i'm reading

ancient history

  1. Nero
    Anthony Everitt & Roddy Ashworth
    38 annotations

anthropology

  1. Cracking Complexity Now
    David Komlos & David Benjamin
    44 annotations
  2. Cows, Pigs, Wars, and Witches
    Marvin Harris
    1 annotation

architecture

  1. Terry Pratchett's Discworld Imaginarium
    Paul Kidby
    1 annotation
  2. Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain
    Betty Edwards
    18 annotations
  3. The Art of Comic Book Writing
    Mark Kneece
    17 annotations

astronomy

  1. You Are the Universe
    Deepak Chopra & Menas C. Kafatos, Ph.D.
    1 annotation

biology

  1. Sex in the Sea
    Marah J. Hardt
    12 annotations
  2. The Genius of Birds
    Jennifer Ackerman
    46 annotations
  3. Behave
    Robert M. Sapolsky
    15 annotations
  4. The Red Queen
    Matt Ridley
    4 annotations

careers

  1. How Would You Move Mount Fuji?
    William Poundstone
    1 annotation
  2. What Got You Here Won't Get You There
    Marshall Goldsmith & Mark Reiter
    71 annotations

classics

  1. Brave New World
    Aldous Huxley
    13 annotations
  2. The Great Gatsby
    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    1 annotation

coming of age

  1. Looking For Alaska
    John Green
    5 annotations

contemporary

  1. American Gods: The Tenth Anniversary Edition
    Neil Gaiman
    4 annotations

design

  1. Character Design from the Ground Up
    Kevin Crossley
    1 annotation
  2. This Means This, This Means That Second Edition
    Sean Hall
    16 annotations
  3. Editorial Design
    Cath Caldwell & Yolanda Zappaterra
    5 annotations
  4. Dark Matter and Trojan Horses. A Strategic Design Vocabulary.
    Dan Hill
    33 annotations
  5. The Graphic Design Bible
    Theo Inglis
    8 annotations
  6. Thoughts on Design
    Paul Rand
    4 annotations
  7. Elements of Design
    Gail Greet Hannah
    3 annotations

ecology

  1. Biomimicry
    Janine M Benyus
    18 annotations

economics

  1. The Data Detective
    Tim Harford
    2 annotations
  2. A People's Guide to Capitalism
    Hadas Thier
    4 annotations
  3. The Armchair Economist
    Steven E. Landsburg
    5 annotations

education

  1. The Elements of Style, Fourth Edition
    William Strunk, Jr. & E.B. White
    1 annotation
  2. Critical Thinking
    Jonathan Haber
    12 annotations
  3. How Math Explains the World
    James D. Stein
    1 annotation

engineering

  1. Invention and Innovation
    Vaclav Smil
    2 annotations
  2. Mythology 101
    Kathleen Sears
    4 annotations

essays

  1. Monkeys, Myths, and Molecules
    Joe Schwarcz
    3 annotations
  2. If This Isn't Nice, What Is?
    Kurt Vonnegut
    6 annotations

fairy tales

  1. Chinese Fairy Tales and Fantasies
    Moss Roberts
    4 annotations

fantasy

  1. The Ultimate Discworld Companion
    Terry Pratchett, Stephen Briggs & Paul Kidby
    1 annotation
  2. Equal Rites
    Terry Pratchett
    5 annotations
  3. Interesting Times
    Terry Pratchett
    4 annotations
  4. Mort
    Terry Pratchett
    1 annotation
  5. Small Gods
    Terry Pratchett
    22 annotations
  6. Something Wicked This Way Comes
    Ray Bradbury
    1 annotation

fantasy short stories

  1. Selections from Fragile Things, Volume Six
    Neil Gaiman
    1 annotation

fiction

  1. The Importance of Being Earnest
    Oscar Wilde
    1 annotation
  2. Lemonade Mouth
    Mark Peter Hughes
    1 annotation

film

  1. So Fetch
    Jennifer Keishin Armstrong
    1 annotation
  2. Life Moves Pretty Fast
    Hadley Freeman
    82 annotations

finance

  1. The Bogle Effect
    Eric Balchunas
    10 annotations
  2. Fooled by Randomness
    Nassim Nicholas Taleb
    12 annotations

foreign languages

  1. Veni Vidi Didici
    Jason Talley
    4 annotations

games

  1. Slaying the Dragon
    Ben Riggs
    6 annotations
  2. Video Game Storytelling
    Evan Skolnick
    3 annotations

gardening

  1. Botanical Shakespeare
    Gerit Quealy & Sumie Hasegawa Collins
    1 annotation

graphic novels

  1. The Legion of Regrettable Supervillains
    Jon Morris
    2 annotations

history

  1. On Grand Strategy
    John Lewis Gaddis
    11 annotations
  2. The Address Book
    Deirdre Mask
    1 annotation
  3. Stranger Than We Can Imagine
    John Higgs
    4 annotations
  4. The Bomber Mafia
    Malcolm Gladwell
    5 annotations
  5. How to Speak Science
    Bruce Benamran
    2 annotations
  6. Ask A Historian
    Greg Jenner
    26 annotations
  7. The Restaurant
    William Sitwell
    2 annotations
  8. The Disappearing Spoon
    Sam Kean
    4 annotations
  9. Monoculture
    F.S. Michaels
    34 annotations

home

  1. Backyard Farming: Raising Chickens
    Kim Pezza
    1 annotation

humor

  1. Dent's Modern Tribes
    Susie Dent
    31 annotations
  2. Word Perfect
    Susie Dent
    6 annotations
  3. Poe for Your Problems
    Catherine Baab-Muguira
    3 annotations
  4. If Nietzsche Were a Narwhal
    Justin Gregg
    1 annotation
  5. The Peter Principle
    Dr. Laurence J. Peter & Raymond Hull
    2 annotations

internet

  1. You Look Like a Thing and I Love You
    Janelle Shane
    2 annotations

investing

  1. Antifragile
    Nassim Nicholas Taleb
    56 annotations

kids

  1. Words That Built a Nation
    Marilyn Miller, Ellen Scordato, Dan Tucker & Mary Kate McDevitt
    11 annotations

language

  1. The Dictionary of Clichés
    Christine Ammer
    3 annotations

language arts

  1. Word Play
    Peter Farb
    12 annotations
  2. Story Genius
    Lisa Cron
    84 annotations
  3. The Gift of the Gab
    David Crystal
    1 annotation
  4. Do I Make Myself Clear?
    Harold Evans
    8 annotations
  5. Draft No. 4
    John McPhee
    5 annotations
  6. Ray Bradbury: On Writing
    Ray Bradbury
    2 annotations
  7. The Emotional Wound Thesaurus: A Writer's Guide to Psychological Trauma
    Becca Puglisi & Angela Ackerman
    22 annotations
  8. The Plot Machine
    Dale Kutzera
    8 annotations
  9. Dreyer's English
    Benjamin Dreyer
    9 annotations
  10. Woe Is I
    Patricia T. O'Conner
    37 annotations
  11. Writing to Be Understood
    Anne Janzer
    8 annotations
  12. Writing to Persuade: How to Bring People Over to Your Side
    Trish Hall
    29 annotations
  13. Endangered Phrases
    Steven D. Price
    1 annotation
  14. The Emotion Thesaurus: A Writer's Guide to Character Expression
    Becca Puglisi
    2 annotations
  15. On Language
    Noam Chomsky
    1 annotation
  16. The Science of Storytelling
    Will Storr
    39 annotations
  17. Creating Characters
    Writer's Digest Books
    1 annotation
  18. 45 Master Characters, Revised Edition
    Victoria Lynn Schmidt
    1 annotation
  19. The Secret Life of Pronouns
    James W. Pennebaker
    45 annotations
  20. Thank You for Arguing, Fourth Edition (Revised and Updated)
    Jay Heinrichs
    16 annotations
  21. The Chicago Guide to Grammar, Usage, and Punctuation
    Bryan A. Garner
    6 annotations
  22. Write Great Beginnings
    Sandra Gerth
    4 annotations
  23. Story or Die
    Lisa Cron
    111 annotations
  24. The Occupation Thesaurus: A Writer's Guide to Jobs, Vocations, and Careers
    Becca Puglisi
    1 annotation
  25. Through the Language Glass
    Guy Deutscher
    16 annotations
  26. I Is an Other
    James Geary
    115 annotations
  27. Don't Sleep, There Are Snakes
    Daniel L. Everett
    1 annotation
  28. It Was the Best of Sentences, It Was the Worst of Sentences
    June Casagrande
    21 annotations
  29. Rewrite Right!
    Jan Venolia & Ellen Sasaki
    59 annotations
  30. Wired for Story
    Lisa Cron
    81 annotations
  31. All the Knowledge in the World
    Simon Garfield
    11 annotations
  32. An Illustrated Book of Loaded Language
    Ali Almossawi & Alejandro Giraldo
    2 annotations
  33. An Emotional Dictionary
    Susie Dent
    24 annotations
  34. The Art of Brevity
    Grant Faulkner
    22 annotations
  35. Writing for Social Scientists
    Howard S. Becker
    21 annotations
  36. Interesting Stories about Curious Words
    Susie Dent
    25 annotations
  37. Winning Arguments
    Stanley Fish
    6 annotations
  38. Writing on Both Sides of the Brain
    Henriette Anne Klauser
    7 annotations
  39. Empires of the Word
    Nicholas Ostler
    2 annotations
  40. Verbal Judo, Second Edition
    George J. Thompson, PhD
    2 annotations
  41. The Negative Trait Thesaurus: A Writer's Guide to Character Flaws
    Angela Ackerman & Becca Puglisi
    14 annotations
  42. The Positive Trait Thesaurus: A Writer's Guide to Character Attributes
    Angela Ackerman & Becca Puglisi
    42 annotations
  43. The Sense of Style
    Steven Pinker
    35 annotations
  44. The Elements of Eloquence
    Mark Forsyth
    102 annotations
  45. The Language Hoax
    John H. McWhorter
    1 annotation

leadership

  1. Smarter Faster Better
    Charles Duhigg
    1 annotation
  2. Change by Design, Revised and Updated
    Tim Brown
    8 annotations
  3. Super Thinking
    Gabriel Weinberg & Lauren McCann
    11 annotations
  4. Think Again
    Adam Grant
    61 annotations
  5. Talent
    Tyler Cowen & Daniel Gross
    15 annotations
  6. Blink
    Malcolm Gladwell
    11 annotations
  7. HBR's 10 Must Reads on Change Management (including featured article "Leading Change," by John P. Kotter)
    Harvard Business Review, John P. Kotter, W. Chan Kim & Renée A. Mauborgne
    13 annotations
  8. Who
    Geoff Smart & Randy Street
    4 annotations
  9. The Strategist
    Cynthia Montgomery
    4 annotations
  10. Nudge
    Richard H. Thaler & Cass R. Sunstein
    11 annotations
  11. Give and Take
    Adam Grant
    10 annotations
  12. Nobody's Fool
    Daniel Simons & Christopher Chabris
    1 annotation
  13. The Problem with Change
    Ashley Goodall
    57 annotations
  14. Originals
    Adam Grant
    16 annotations

life sciences

  1. Other Minds
    Peter Godfrey-Smith
    5 annotations
  2. Mousy Cats and Sheepish Coyotes
    John Shivik
    2 annotations
  3. Sex on Six Legs
    Marlene Zuk
    18 annotations
  4. Blueprint
    Nicholas A. Christakis
    1 annotation
  5. Evolution in Four Dimensions, revised edition
    Eva Jablonka, Marion J. Lamb & Anna Zeligowski
    4 annotations
  6. Neurogastronomy
    Gordon M. Shepherd
    6 annotations
  7. Immune
    Philipp Dettmer
    14 annotations
  8. Dancing Cockatoos and the Dead Man Test: How Behavior Evolves and Why It Matters
    Marlene Zuk
    12 annotations
  9. Sleights of Mind
    Stephen Macknik, Susana Martinez-Conde & Sandra Blakeslee
    16 annotations
  10. How the Mind Works
    Steven Pinker
    1 annotation
  11. Moonwalking with Einstein
    Joshua Foer
    5 annotations
  12. The Social Conquest of Earth
    Edward O. Wilson
    3 annotations
  13. The Spark of Life: Electricity in the Human Body
    Frances Ashcroft
    5 annotations
  14. Your Brain on Art
    Susan Magsamen & Ivy Ross
    2 annotations
  15. The Liars of Nature and the Nature of Liars
    Lixing Sun
    6 annotations
  16. Most Delicious Poison
    Noah Whiteman
    18 annotations
  17. Kluge
    Gary Marcus
    51 annotations
  18. Lucid Dying
    Sam Parnia
    2 annotations

literary criticism

  1. The Bestseller Code
    Jodie Archer & Matthew L. Jockers
    34 annotations
  2. The Literature Book
    DK
    1 annotation
  3. Margaret Atwood: Crime Fiction Writer
    Jackie Shead
    20 annotations
  4. Kant and the Platypus
    Umberto Eco
    1 annotation
  5. Pandora's Jar
    Natalie Haynes
    11 annotations
  6. What Every Novelist Needs to Know about Narrators
    Wayne C. Booth
    12 annotations
  7. Literature, the Humanities, and Humanity
    Theodore Steinberg
    7 annotations

literature

  1. Quantum Shorts: Collected Flash Fiction Inspired by Quantum Physics
    Michael Brooks, Jenny Hogan & Puah Xin Yi
    1 annotation
  2. A Tale of Two Cities
    Charles Dickens
    1 annotation
  3. The Anchor Book of New American Short Stories
    Ben Marcus
    1 annotation
  4. Essays and Lectures
    Oscar Wilde
    3 annotations
  5. Everyday Shakespeare
    Ben Crystal & David Crystal
    4 annotations
  6. Shadow Show
    Sam Weller & Mort Castle
    1 annotation
  7. A Woman of No Importance
    Oscar Wilde
    8 annotations

mathematics

  1. The Maths Behind...
    Colin Beveridge
    6 annotations
  2. Math with Bad Drawings
    Ben Orlin
    8 annotations
  3. Statistics 101
    David Borman
    1 annotation
  4. The Mental Math Magician: Underground Secrets and Tricks to Amazing Lightning Speed Math and Becoming a Real Life Human Calculator
    Hugo Briggs
    2 annotations
  5. Change Is the Only Constant
    Ben Orlin
    35 annotations
  6. Shape
    Jordan Ellenberg
    3 annotations
  7. Math Games with Bad Drawings
    Ben Orlin
    8 annotations
  8. The Secret Lives of Numbers
    Kate Kitagawa & Timothy Revell
    12 annotations
  9. The New York Times Book of Mathematics
    Gina Kolata
    1 annotation
  10. 50 Math Tricks That Will Change Your Life
    Tanya Zakowich
    1 annotation
  11. Build a Mathematical Mind - Even If You Think You Can't Have One
    Albert Rutherford
    20 annotations
  12. Math for English Majors
    Ben Orlin
    1 annotation
  13. Probably Overthinking It
    Allen B. Downey
    2 annotations

memoirs

  1. Year of Yes
    Shonda Rhimes
    1 annotation
  2. Not Pretty Enough
    Gerri Hirshey
    1 annotation
  3. Option B
    Sheryl Sandberg & Adam Grant
    4 annotations
  4. From the Corner of the Oval
    Beck Dorey-Stein
    2 annotations
  5. Bookmarked
    Wendy W. Fairey
    1 annotation
  6. Monster, She Wrote
    Lisa Kroger & Melanie R. Anderson
    3 annotations
  7. Yearbook
    Seth Rogen
    1 annotation
  8. Hype
    Gabrielle Bluestone
    8 annotations
  9. The Code Breaker
    Walter Isaacson
    2 annotations
  10. Sometimes I Trip On How Happy We Could Be
    Nichole Perkins
    1 annotation
  11. Spark
    Claudia Kalb
    1 annotation
  12. Maybe You Should Talk to Someone
    Lori Gottlieb
    12 annotations
  13. Dyscalculia
    Camonghne Felix
    18 annotations
  14. Genius
    James Gleick
    20 annotations
  15. The Journal of Best Practices
    David Finch
    1 annotation
  16. Steve Jobs
    Walter Isaacson
    4 annotations
  17. Fooling Houdini
    Alex Stone
    6 annotations
  18. The Story of Alice
    Robert Douglas-Fairhurst
    5 annotations
  19. The Comfort of Crows (Reese's Book Club Pick)
    Margaret Renkl
    2 annotations
  20. Make Something Wonderful
    Steve Jobs
    1 annotation
  21. Mary Poppins, She Wrote
    Valerie Lawson
    4 annotations
  22. As You Wish
    Cary Elwes
    3 annotations

military history

  1. The Art of War
    Sun Tzu
    2 annotations

music

  1. Writing Better Lyrics
    Pat Pattison
    11 annotations
  2. The NPR Curious Listener's Guide to Classical Music
    Timothy K. Smith
    2 annotations
  3. This Is What It Sounds Like: A Legendary Producer Turned Neuroscientist on Finding Yourself Through Music
    Susan Rogers & Ogi Ogas
    4 annotations
  4. The Silent Musician
    Mark Wigglesworth
    7 annotations
  5. 60 Songs That Explain the '90s
    Rob Harvilla
    1 annotation

nature

  1. Algorithms to Live By
    Brian Christian & Tom Griffiths
    13 annotations
  2. The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs
    Steve Brusatte
    2 annotations
  3. No Beast So Fierce
    Dane Huckelbridge
    1 annotation
  4. Plastic
    Susan Freinkel
    4 annotations
  5. Becoming Wild
    Carl Safina
    2 annotations
  6. Entangled Life
    Merlin Sheldrake
    5 annotations
  7. Inside Animal Minds
    Mary Roach, Virgina Morell & Peter Miller
    1 annotation
  8. Crows
    Candace Savage
    1 annotation
  9. Fuzz: When Nature Breaks the Law
    Mary Roach
    5 annotations
  10. The Expectation Effect
    David Robson
    2 annotations
  11. Heartbreak: A Personal and Scientific Journey
    Florence Williams
    7 annotations
  12. An Immense World
    Ed Yong
    5 annotations
  13. Crow Planet
    Lyanda Lynn Haupt
    11 annotations
  14. Reading in the Brain
    Stanislas Dehaene
    1 annotation
  15. The Secret Life of Lobsters
    Trevor Corson
    1 annotation
  16. Mind of the Raven
    Bernd Heinrich
    2 annotations
  17. The Moral Landscape
    Sam Harris
    1 annotation
  18. This Explains Everything
    John Brockman
    10 annotations
  19. Denial
    Ajit Varki & Danny Brower
    1 annotation
  20. The Field Guide to Citizen Science
    Darlene Cavalier, Catherine Hoffman & Caren Cooper
    1 annotation
  21. Octopus, Squid & Cuttlefish
    Roger Hanlon, Michael Vecchione & Louise Allcock
    3 annotations
  22. The Restless Clock
    Jessica Riskin
    6 annotations
  23. How Animals Grieve
    Barbara J. King
    21 annotations
  24. The Art of Explanation
    Ros Atkins
    10 annotations
  25. How Music Works
    John Powell
    17 annotations
  26. The Soul of an Octopus
    Sy Montgomery
    7 annotations

nature essays

  1. The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe
    Dr. Steven Novella, Bob Novella, Cara Santa Maria, Jay Novella & Evan Bernstein
    1 annotation

nutrition

  1. How We Eat With Our Eyes and Think With Our Stomach
    Melanie Mühl & Diana von Kopp
    48 annotations
  2. Blood Type O Food, Beverage and Supplement Lists
    Dr. Peter J. D'Adamo & Catherine Whitney
    21 annotations

outdoors

  1. Intangibles
    Joan Ryan
    104 annotations
  2. The Big Time
    Michael MacCambridge
    23 annotations

paranormal

  1. Shadowfever
    Karen Marie Moning
    3 annotations

performing arts

  1. How to Tell a Story
    The Moth, Meg Bowles, Catherine Burns, Jenifer Hixson, Sarah Austin Jenness, Kate Tellers & Chenjerai Kumanyika
    9 annotations
  2. Making a Good Script Great
    Linda Seger
    25 annotations
  3. Comedy Book
    Jesse David Fox
    5 annotations

personal finance

  1. The Storyteller's Secret
    Carmine Gallo
    8 annotations
  2. Sell with a Story
    Paul Smith
    10 annotations
  3. The Visual Mba
    Jason Barron
    1 annotation
  4. Get to the Point!
    Joel Schwartzberg
    24 annotations
  5. The Idea Factory
    Jon Gertner
    9 annotations
  6. On Writing Well, 30th Anniversary Edition
    William Zinsser
    9 annotations
  7. Salt Sugar Fat
    Michael Moss
    12 annotations
  8. The Perfect Story
    Karen Eber
    16 annotations
  9. Superforecasting
    Philip E. Tetlock & Dan Gardner
    19 annotations

philosophy

  1. The Conquest of Happiness
    Bertrand Russell
    1 annotation
  2. Logic: A Complete Introduction
    Siu-Fan Lee
    33 annotations
  3. Philosophy in Minutes
    Marcus Weeks
    3 annotations
  4. The Socrates Express
    Eric Weiner
    4 annotations
  5. Plato and a Platypus Walk into a Bar . . .
    Thomas Cathcart & Daniel Klein
    7 annotations
  6. The Pig That Wants to Be Eaten
    Julian Baggini
    2 annotations
  7. Do You Think What You Think You Think?
    Julian Baggini & Jeremy Stangroom
    16 annotations
  8. Story of Philosophy
    Will Durant
    140 annotations
  9. Language and Silence
    George Steiner
    2 annotations
  10. An Illustrated Book of Bad Arguments
    Ali Almossawi & Alejandro Giraldo
    3 annotations
  11. Politics and the English Language
    George Orwell
    38 annotations
  12. The Philosophy Book
    DK
    10 annotations

physics

  1. The Perfect Theory
    Pedro G. Ferreira
    5 annotations
  2. Complexity
    M. Mitchell Waldrop
    9 annotations
  3. What Is Relativity?
    Jeffrey Bennett
    1 annotation
  4. A Beautiful Question
    Frank Wilczek
    8 annotations

political science

  1. A Generation of Sociopaths
    Bruce Cannon Gibney
    1 annotation
  2. A Libertarian Walks Into a Bear
    Matthew Hongoltz-Hetling
    2 annotations
  3. The Candidate's 7 Deadly Sins
    Dr. Peter A. Wish
    1 annotation
  4. Keywords
    John Patrick Leary
    29 annotations
  5. How to Win Friends and Influence Enemies
    Will Witt
    1 annotation
  6. The Smear
    Sharyl Attkisson
    27 annotations
  7. Prisoners of Geography
    Tim Marshall
    74 annotations

professions

  1. High-Impact Interview Questions
    Victoria Hoevemeyer
    1 annotation

psychology

  1. 50 Psychology Classics Second Edition
    Tom Butler-Bowdon
    1 annotation
  2. Scripts People Live
    Claude Steiner
    43 annotations
  3. Psychology in Minutes
    Marcus Weeks
    7 annotations
  4. The Science of Fate
    Hannah Critchlow
    4 annotations
  5. Meeting the Shadow
    Connie Zweig & Jeremiah Abrams
    5 annotations
  6. Rationality
    Steven Pinker
    13 annotations
  7. The Mind of the Mathematician
    Michael Fitzgerald & Ioan James
    1 annotation
  8. The Psychology of the Simpsons
    Alan S. Brown & Chris Logan
    7 annotations
  9. The Secret Life of Secrets
    Michael Slepian
    5 annotations
  10. What Makes Your Brain Happy and Why You Should Do the Opposite
    David DiSalvo
    2 annotations
  11. Connected
    Nicholas A. Christakis & James H. Fowler
    7 annotations
  12. What We Believe but Cannot Prove
    John Brockman
    1 annotation
  13. The Stuff of Thought
    Steven Pinker
    24 annotations
  14. Stumbling on Happiness
    Daniel Gilbert
    61 annotations
  15. A General Theory of Love
    Thomas Lewis, Fari Amini & Richard Lannon
    6 annotations
  16. The Lucifer Effect
    Philip Zimbardo
    2 annotations
  17. Games People Play
    Eric Berne
    13 annotations
  18. David and Goliath
    Malcolm Gladwell
    36 annotations
  19. Conformity
    Cass R. Sunstein & Robert H Frank
    53 annotations
  20. The Confidence Game
    Maria Konnikova
    10 annotations

public administration

  1. Biopiracy
    Vandana Shiva
    42 annotations
  2. Weapons of Math Destruction
    Cathy O'Neil
    3 annotations

quotations

  1. Only Dull People Are Brilliant at Breakfast
    Oscar Wilde
    3 annotations

reference

  1. A Stubbornly Persistent Illusion
    Stephen Hawking
    1 annotation
  2. Screenplay
    Syd Field
    62 annotations
  3. It's Raining Cats and Dogs and Other Beastly Expressions
    Christine Ammer
    17 annotations

relationships

  1. Creating Emotional Attraction
    Alex Altman
    9 annotations
  2. This Is Me Letting You Go
    Heidi Priebe
    1 annotation
  3. How to Fall in Love with Anyone
    Mandy Len Catron
    27 annotations
  4. How to Stay in Love
    James J. Sexton
    12 annotations
  5. He's Just Not That Into You
    Greg Behrendt & Liz Tuccillo
    3 annotations
  6. Models: Attract Women Through Honesty
    Mark Manson
    5 annotations
  7. Love Sense
    Dr. Sue Johnson
    60 annotations
  8. The Mathematics of Love
    Hannah Fry
    15 annotations
  9. Date-onomics
    Jon Birger
    8 annotations

romance

  1. Midnight Sun
    Stephenie Meyer
    4 annotations

sales

  1. Alchemy
    Rory Sutherland
    175 annotations
  2. Wanting
    Luke Burgis
    87 annotations
  3. Predictably Irrational, Revised and Expanded Edition
    Dr. Dan Ariely
    2 annotations
  4. Pitch Perfect
    Bill McGowan
    1 annotation

sci fi short stories

  1. Masterpieces
    Orson Scott Card
    2 annotations

science history

  1. Lost in Math
    Sabine Hossenfelder
    2 annotations

self improvement

  1. The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck
    Mark Manson
    3 annotations
  2. How to Be Miserable
    Randy J. Paterson
    2 annotations
  3. F*ck Love
    Michael Bennett, MD & Sarah Bennett
    5 annotations
  4. Happiness (HBR Emotional Intelligence Series)
    Harvard Business Review, Daniel Gilbert, Annie McKee, Gretchen Spreitzer & Teresa Amabile
    1 annotation
  5. Handwriting Analysis
    Karen Kristin Amend & Mary Stanbury Ruiz
    1 annotation
  6. Remembering the Presidents of the USA
    Kevin Horsley, Eloise Cooper & Sophie Pretorius
    2 annotations
  7. Great TED Talks: Creativity
    Tom May
    5 annotations
  8. The Mastery of Love
    Don Miguel Ruiz
    53 annotations
  9. The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success
    Deepak Chopra
    5 annotations
  10. It's Called a Breakup Because It's Broken
    Greg Behrendt & Amiira Ruotola-Behrendt
    5 annotations
  11. The Happiness Advantage
    Shawn Achor
    13 annotations
  12. Good Self, Bad Self
    Judy Smith
    10 annotations
  13. The Intelligent Conversationalist
    Imogen Lloyd Webber
    2 annotations

small business

  1. Your Next Five Moves
    Patrick Bet-David
    5 annotations
  2. The Practice
    Seth Godin
    2 annotations

social science

  1. A Woman Looking at Men Looking at Women
    Siri Hustvedt
    4 annotations
  2. The Curious Journalist's Guide to Data
    Jonathan Stray
    34 annotations
  3. Empire of Illusion
    Chris Hedges
    3 annotations
  4. Not That Bad
    Roxane Gay
    1 annotation
  5. Invisible Women
    Caroline Criado Perez
    76 annotations
  6. Homer Simpson Goes To Washington
    Joseph J. Foy
    4 annotations
  7. The Shame Machine
    Cathy O'Neil
    1 annotation
  8. The United States of Cryptids
    J. W. Ocker
    26 annotations
  9. Amusing Ourselves to Death
    Neil Postman & Andrew Postman
    17 annotations
  10. Fame
    Tom Payne
    37 annotations
  11. The Power of Myth
    Joseph Campbell & Bill Moyers
    5 annotations
  12. The Second Sex
    Simone de Beauvoir, Constance Borde & Sheila Malovany-Chevallier
    19 annotations
  13. Mythology
    Edith Hamilton, Aphrodite Trust & Apollo Trust
    12 annotations
  14. Poverty, by America
    Matthew Desmond
    70 annotations
  15. Love and Sex in Prison
    Gini Graham Scott, Ph.D.
    1 annotation
  16. Death Becomes Them
    Alix Strauss
    13 annotations
  17. The Devil You Know
    Gwen Adshead & Eileen Horne
    4 annotations
  18. Science of the Magical
    Matt Kaplan
    2 annotations
  19. Planet Funny
    Ken Jennings
    56 annotations
  20. On Death and Dying
    Elisabeth Kübler-Ross
    1 annotation
  21. The Secret History of Wonder Woman
    Jill Lepore
    8 annotations

sociology

  1. The Sociology Book
    Sarah Tomley, Mitchell Hobbs, Megan Todd, Marcus Weeks & DK
    13 annotations
  2. The Social Animal
    David Brooks
    3 annotations
  3. Rule Makers, Rule Breakers
    Michele Gelfand
    15 annotations
  4. The Road to Character
    David Brooks
    1 annotation

spirituality

  1. 101 Essays That Will Change the Way You Think
    Brianna Wiest
    42 annotations

system administration

  1. Taming the Terminal
    Bart Busschots
    4 annotations

theater

  1. The Comedies
    Oscar Wilde
    2 annotations
  2. Shakespeare's Philosophy
    Colin McGinn
    2 annotations
  3. A Practical Handbook for the Actor
    Melissa Bruder, Lee Michael Cohn, Madeleine Olnek, Nathaniel Pollack, Robert Previto, Scott Zigler & David Mamet
    4 annotations
  4. Lady Windermere’s Fan
    Oscar Wilde
    1 annotation

thesauruses

  1. The Well-Spoken Thesaurus
    Tom Heehler
    23 annotations
  2. Word by Word
    Kory Stamper
    5 annotations
  3. The American Heritage Dictionary of Idioms
    Christine Ammer
    20 annotations
  4. How to Tell Fate from Destiny
    Charles Harrington Elster
    16 annotations
  5. Dictionary of English Idioms: Vocabulary Building
    Manik Joshi
    4 annotations

thrillers

  1. Gone Girl
    Gillian Flynn
    6 annotations

true crime

  1. Forensics
    Val McDermid
    6 annotations
  2. Catch and Kill
    Ronan Farrow
    3 annotations
  3. The Secret Poisoner
    Linda Stratmann
    1 annotation
  4. The Anatomy Of Motive
    John E. Douglas
    1 annotation
  5. Six Degrees of Paris Hilton
    Mark Ebner
    1 annotation

tv

  1. Welcome to Dunder Mifflin
    Brian Baumgartner & Ben Silverman
    3 annotations

world

  1. Accidental Gods
    Anna Della Subin
    6 annotations

world affairs

  1. Why the Germans Do it Better
    John Kampfner
    2 annotations

world history

  1. Origin Story
    David Christian
    32 annotations
  2. The Little Book of History
    DK
    1 annotation
  3. Seven Games: A Human History
    Oliver Roeder
    14 annotations
  4. 100 Mistakes that Changed History
    Bill Fawcett
    1 annotation
  5. The Geography of Genius
    Eric Weiner
    25 annotations

writing

  1. Show, Don't Tell
    Sandra Gerth
    32 annotations
  2. The Conflict Thesaurus: A Writer's Guide to Obstacles, Adversaries, and Inner Struggles (Volume 1)
    Becca Puglisi
    12 annotations
  3. The Conflict Thesaurus: A Writer's Guide to Obstacles, Adversaries, and Inner Struggles (Volume 2)
    Becca Puglisi
    13 annotations

writing reference

  1. Write Your First Ghost Story
    D.G. Mayes
    2 annotations
  2. The Emotion Amplifier: A Writer's Guide to Character Stress and Volatility
    Becca Puglisi
    11 annotations