"So many idiots, too few bullets"
Although I do not disagree with the above quote, there is an alternative and perhaps a better version of it...
“So many books, so little time" ― Frank Zappa
$100M Offers: How to Make Offers So Good People Feel Stupid Saying No. By: Alex Hormozi (My rating - rubbish, not my cup of tea)
The Psychology of Money: Timeless Lessons on Wealth, Greed, and Happiness. By: Morgan Housel
The Almanack of Naval Ravikant: A Guide to Wealth and Happiness. By: Eric Jorgenson, Tim Ferriss (My rating *****, one of the best books I've ever read)
The Genetic Book of the Dead. By: Richard Dawkins
The Fabric of Reality: The Science of Parallel Universes - and Its Implications By: David Deutsch
Never Finished: Unshackle Your Mind and Win the War Within By: David Goggins (My rating **)
Why We Believe in God(s): A Concise Guide to the Science of Faith By: J. Anderson Thomson, Clare Aukofer
Principles for Dealing with the Changing World Order: Why Nations Succeed or Fail. By: Ray Dalio
The 10,000 Year Explosion: How Civilization Accelerated Human Evolution. By: Gregory Cochran, Henry Harpending
The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature. By: Steven Pinker
Principles: Life and Work. By: Ray Dalio
Superforecasting: The Art and Science of Prediction. By: Philip Tetlock, Dan Gardner
The Origins of Political Order: From Prehuman Times to the French Revolution. By: Francis Fukuyama
The Grand Biocentric Design: How Life Creates Reality. By: Robert Lanza, Matej Pavšič
Survival of the Prettiest: The Science of Beauty. By: Nancy Etcoff
Blueprint: How DNA Makes Us Who We Are. By: Robert Plomin
A Troublesome Inheritance: Genes, Race, and Human History. By: Nicholas Wade (My rating: FIVE STARS - A must read)
Born to Run: The Hidden Tribe, the Ultra-Runners, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen. By: Christopher McDougall
Apocalypse Never: Why Environmental Alarmism Hurts Us All. By: Michael Shellenberger (My rating: FIVE STARS - A must read)
George Orwell’s 1984: An Audible Original adaptation. By: George Orwell, Joe White - adaptation
The Mind's Eye. By: Oliver Sacks
The Power of Geography: Ten Maps That Reveal the Future of Our World. By: Tim Marshall
Stolen Focus: Why You Can't Pay Attention. By: Johann Hari
Fake Invisible Catastrophes and Threats of Doom. By: Dr. Patrick Moore (My rating: FIVE STARS - A must read)
Think Again: The Power of Knowing What You Don't Know. By: Adam Grant
The Expectation Effect: How Your Mindset Can Transform Your Life. By: David Robson
Underland: A Deep Time Journey. By: Robert Macfarlane
Thinking in Systems: A Primer. By: Donella H. Meadows
The Inevitable: Understanding the 12 Technological Forces That Will Shape Our Future. By: Kevin Kelly
Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Tell You Everything You Need to Know About Global Politics. By: Tim Marshall
Man's Search for Meaning. By: Viktor E. Frankl (My rating: FIVE STARS - A must read)
Fluke: Chance, Chaos, and Why Everything We Do Matters. By: Dr Brian Klaas (My rating FIVE STARS. A truly thought provoking book)
The Incredible Unlikeliness of Being: Evolution and the Making of Us. By: Dr Alice Roberts
The Case Against the Sexual Revolution. By: Louise Perry (My rating: FIVE STARS - A must read)
Determined: Life Without Free Will. By: Robert M. Sapolsky
The Paradox of Choice: Why More is Less. By: Barry Schwartz
Guns, Germs and Steel: The Fate of Human Societies. By: Jared Diamond (My rating: FIVE STARS - A master piece)
Psychedelics: The Revolutionary Drugs That Could Change Your Life – A Guide from the Expert. By: Professor David Nutt
The WEIRDest People in the World: How the West Became Psychologically Peculiar and Particularly Prosperous. By: Joseph Henrich (My rating: FIVE STARS - A book that answered a lot of questions I had)
The Boy Who Was Raised as a Dog: And Other Stories from a Child Psychiatrist's Notebook -- What Traumatized Children Can Teach Us About Loss, Love, and Healing. By: Bruce D. Perry, Maia Szalavitz (My rating: FIVE STARS. Every parent should read this book)
Brief Answers to the Big Questions. By: Stephen Hawking, Professor Kip Thorne - foreword
The Universe in Your Hand: A Journey Through Space, Time and Beyond. By: Christophe Galfard
Scale: The Universal Laws of Life and Death in Organisms, Cities and Companies. By: Geoffrey West
The Capitalist Manifesto: Why the Global Free Market Will Save the World. By: Johan Norberg (My rating *****)
I Contain Multitudes: The Microbes Within Us and a Grander View of Life. By: Ed Yong (My rating *****)
Alchemy: The Surprising Power of Ideas That Don't Make Sense. By: Rory Sutherland (My rating *****)
Four Thousand Weeks: Embrace your limits. Change your life. Make your four thousand weeks count. By: Oliver Burkeman (My rating *****)
Quirkology: The Curious Science of Everyday Lives. By: Richard Wiseman (Ny rating *****)
The Human Mind: A Brief Tour of Everything We Know. By: Paul Bloom
The Invisible Universe. By: Matthew Bothwell
A Thousand Brains: A New Theory of Intelligence. By: Jeff Hawkins, Richard Dawkins - foreword
Being You: A New Science of Consciousness. By: Professor Anil Seth
The Selfish Gene. By Richard Dawkins
What's Our Problem?: A Self-Help Book for Societies. By Tim Urban
Never Split the Difference: Negotiating as if Your Life Depended on It. By Chris Voss, Tahl Raz
A Hunter-Gatherer’s Guide to the 21st Century. By Heather Heying
The Courage to Be Disliked : How to Free Yourself, Change Your Life and Achieve Real Happiness. By Fumitake Koga, Ichiro Kishimi
Rational Optimist: How Prosperity Evolves. By Matt Ridley. Truly a 7 star book. Dare to be an optimist.
Cannabis (Seeing Through the Smoke): The New Science of Cannabis and Your Health. By Professor David Nutt. (My rating *****. I must read for everyone interested in drugs or not.
Until the End of Time: Mind, Matter, and Our Search for Meaning in an Evolving Universe. By Brian Greene
Extraterrestrial: The First Sign of Intelligent Life Beyond Earth. By Avi Loeb
Animal Farm. By Simon Orwell (My rating ****)
Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About The World - And Why Things Are Better Than You Think. By: Hans Rosling , Ola Rosling , Anna Rosling Rönnlund (My rating *****, This book destroyes a lot of fear spread by politicians, media and some charities)
The Intelligent Brain. By Richard J. Haier. (Five stars. It's OK to be intellegent and talk about it)
Sex at Dawn: How We Mate, Why We Stray, and What It Means for Modern Relationships. By: Christopher Ryan , Cacilda Jetha (My rating *****, some eye opening realities that put our biology andf cultural norms at odds)
Why Women Have Sex: Understanding Sexual Motivations - from Adventure to Revenge. By: Cindy M. Meston , David M. Buss
The Age of AI: And Our Human Future. By Henry A Kissinger, Eric Schmidt, Daniel Huttenlocher (My rating ***, a glimpse of the future fruits and challenges)
The Body Keeps the Score: Mind, Brain and Body in the Transformation of Trauma. By Bessel A. van der Kolk (My rating ****, very informative and enlightening)
Why Women Have Sex: Understanding Sexual Motivation from Adventure to Revenge (and Everything in Between). By Cindy Meston, David Buss (Rating *****, great insights into female evolutionary psychology)
The Evolution of Desire. By David M Buss (Rating *****)
The Beginning of Infinity. By David Duetch (Rating *****)
The Soverign Indivedual
Getting Things Done, By David Allen
Finding Your Purpose, By Christine Whelan
Last and First Men, By Olaf Stepledon
How to Change Your Mind, By Michael Pollan
The Righteous Mind: Why Good People are Divided by Politics and Religion, By Jonathan Haidt. (My rating *****, loved it)
Waking Up, By Sam Harris
Seven and a Half Lessons About the Brain, By Lisa FeidmanBarrett
The Idiot Brain: A Neuroscientist Explains What Your Head Is Really up To. Bt: Dean Burnett
Behave. By: Robert Spolski
Capitalism and Freedom, Milton Friedman & Rose Friedman
Barking Up the Wrong Tree, Eric Barker
Algorithms to Live By: The Computer Science of Human Decisions, Brian Christian & Tom Griffiths
A Primate's Memoir, Robert Sapolski (My rating *****. Loved it!)
The Body, Bill Bryson. (My rating *****. We live and spend our lives in our bodies but we hardly put any effort into understanding it. This book is a good introcuctio to our bodies and elolution of the medical science)
Humble Pi, Matt Parker
12 Rules For Life, Jordan Peterson. (My rating ****. A great book for those with interest in Darwinian evolutionary psychology. I had rated it five starts had the author not spent so much time talking and justifying christianity.)
Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress, Steven Pinker. (My rating *****. This book destroys the anti-progress Far Right and the fear mongering and illogical Left. This book is for the seekers of truth)
Why We Sleep, Matthew Walker (My rating * * * * *, once you read this and understand sleep, never will you again think that sleep is a waste of time)
What We Cannot Know, Marcus du Sautoy
The Mind Is Flat, Nick Chater
We Have No Idea, Jorge Cham
21 Lessons for the 21st Century, Yuval Noah Harari (My rating * * * * *)
Trading Beyond the Matrix, Van Tharp
The Future of Humanity, Michio Kaku
Life 3.0, Max Tegmark (My rating * * * * *)
Soonish, Dr. Kelly Weinersmith
Homo Deus, Yuval Noah Harari (My rating * * * * *)
The Economic Singularity, Calum Chace
The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck, Mark Manson
Sapiens, Yuval Noah Harari (My rating * * * * *, The best book I have ever read)
Other Minds, Peter Godfrey-Smith
Why Nations Fail, Daron Acemoglu (My rating * * * * *)
Quiet, Susan Cain. (My rating *****. Every introvert should read this book. It helped me understand myself.)
The Gene, Siddhartha Mukherjee
The Silk Roads, Peter Frankopan
The Brain, David Eagleman
Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are?, Frans de Waal
Dark Matter, Blake Crouch
Reality Is Not What It Seems, Carlo Rovelli
The Second World War, Antony Beevor
World War One: History in an Hour, Rupert Colley
DMT: The Spirit Molecule, Rick Strassman
The Chimp Paradox, Prof Steve Peters
The Better Angels of Our Nature, Steven Pinker
The Greatest Minds and Ideas of All Time, Will Durant
This Explains Everything, John Brockman
Secrets in the Cellar, John Glatt
The Martian, Andy Weir
Notes From a Small Island, Bill Bryson
Superintelligence, Nick Bostrom
Londoners: The Days and Nights of London Now - As Told by Those Who Love It, Hate It, Live It, Left It, and Long for It, Craig Taylor
This Idea Must Die, John Brockman
Mother of Eden, Chris Beckett
House of Suns, Alastair Reynolds
Hitch-22, Christopher Hitchens
Marx: Philosophy in an Hour, Paul Strathern
What If?, Randall Munroe
Osama, Lavie Tidhar
How the Mind Works, Steven Pinker
Free Will, Sam Harris (My rating * * * * *, This book taught me why not to judge people)
Inside the House of Money: Top Hedge Fund Traders on Profiting in the Global Markets, Steven Drobny
In the Shadow of the Sword, Tom Holland (My rating * * * * *)
Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams
Red Dwarf: Better Than Life, Grant Naylor (My rating * * * * *)
Our Mathematical Universe, Max Tegmark (My rating * * * * *)
The Holy Machine, Chris Beckett
Kiln People, David Brin
Internal Time, Till Roenneberg
Influx, Daniel Suarez
How the Universe Got Its Spots, Janna Levin
The Road Less Traveled, M. Scott Peck M.D.
The Great Ideas of Philosophy, 2nd Edition, Daniel N. Robinson
How We Feel, Giovanni Frazzetto
Bad Science, Ben Goldacre
The Particle at the End of the Universe, Sean Carroll
Alex's Adventures in Numberland, Alex Bellos
Dark Eden, Chris Beckett
Debt, David Graeber
The Antidote, Oliver Burkeman
Why Is the Penis Shaped Like That?, Jesse Bering
A History of the World, Andrew Marr
Joseph Anton, Salman Rushdie
Red Dwarf, Rob Grant
Hedge Fund Market Wizards, Jack D. Schwager
Existence, David Brin
Contact, Carl Sagan (My rating * * * * *), A masterpiece
Why Does E=MC2 and Why Should We Care, Brian Cox
You Are Here, Christopher Potter
A Classical Education, Caroline Taggart
Overcoming Shyness and Social Anxiety, Ruth Searle
Higher Brain Function Hypnosis: Declutter the Mind, Better Memory, Fast Learning & Retention (Subliminal Meditation, Self Hypnosis, NLP), Erick Brown Hypnosis
Awaken the Giant Within, Anthony Robbins
At Home: A Short History of Private Life, Bill Bryson
Public Speaking Confidence, Glenn Harrold FBSCH Dip C.H.
The Lowdown, David Gwillam
Learn How to Think Positively, Glenn Harrold
Fooled by Randomness, Nassim Nicholas Taleb (My rating * * * * *)
The Gifts of Imperfection, Brené Brown
How to Make Anyone Fall in Love with You, Leil Lowndes
Develop Your Self-Confidence, Glenn Harrold
The Blind Watchmaker, Richard Dawkins (My rating * * * * *, a gem for those who really want to understand evolution)
How to Win Friends & Influence People, Dale Carnegie
13 Things That Don't Make Sense: The Most Intriguing Scientific Mysteries, Michael Brooks
Adapt, Tim Harford
Beyond Boundaries, Miguel Nicolelis
The Moral Landscape, Sam Harris
Quantum Theory Cannot Hurt You, Marcus Chown
Parallel Worlds, Michio Kaku
The God Delusion, Richard Dawkins (My rating * * * * *)
The YES Factor, Tonya Reiman
The Satanic Verses, Salman Rushdie
A Short History of Nearly Everything, Bill Bryson (My rating * * * * *)
A Briefer History of Time, Stephen Hawking (My rating * * * * *)
The Greatest Show on Earth, Richard Dawkins (My rating * * * * *)
God Is Not Great, Christopher Hitchens (My rating * * * * *)
The Grand Design, Stephen Hawking (My rating * * * * *)
Irrational Exuberance, Robert J Shiller (My rating * * * * *)