Summer Reads

You will love this book. It applies famous algorithms and data structures to things we do in life everyday.

Read these, and in this order, to experience the brilliant ‘multiverse’ realities that Mandel stitches together across several characters and time periods.

This collects many of the all-time great time-travel short stories, a great way to discover authors you might not have heard of before.

A fantastic overview of humanity’s relationship with the stars, and how that relationship has affected society throughout time.

The world has dwelt on the science that Einstein pioneered, yet is largely unaware of his good works to help others; this short book shows another side to him.

After chronicling the long arc of human history in Sapiens, Harari casts his gaze forward to the as-yet-unwritten future of our species. He puts into perspective just how epochal a time it is to be alive today.

Gathering IRL is a fundamental human need, but too often gatherings are wasted. This book provides approaches for how to gather more meaningfully.

Flush with secretive letters, nostalgic analogies, and alter egos, this exploration into fantasy is both lighthearted and substantive.

This classic and vivid work of sociology explores how auctions have emerged throughout society as a way of establishing community consensus around value.

If you aren’t already intimately familiar with chaos theory, it may reshape how you see the world today.