what's come off the shelf, since 2021...
| title | author | published | read | keywords |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Anxious Generation | Jonathan Haidt | 2024 | 2026-04-06 | social science psychology social media mental health |
| The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma | Bessel van der Kolk | 2014 | 2026-03-24 | psychology psychiatry trauma mind neuroscience |
| 107 Days | Kamala Harris | 2025 | 2026-03-02 | politics history elections |
| The Running Ground | Nick Thompson | 2025 | 2026-02-21 | memoir running sports |
| The Power and the Glory | Graham Greene | 1940 | 2026-01-16 | fiction |
| How Emotions are Made: The Secret Life of the Brain | Lisa Feldman Barrett | 2017 | 2026-01-03 | neuroscience emotions psychology |
| Brighton Rock | Graham Greene | 1938 | 2026-01-02 | fiction |
| Flesh | David Szalay | 2025 | 2025-12-30 | fiction |
| The Corrections | Jonathan Franzen | 2001 | 2025-12-06 | fiction |
| SPQR | Mary Beard | 2016 | 2025-10-20 | roman history rome |
| Abundance | Ezra Klein & Derek Thompson | 2025 | 2025-10-17 | liberal politics economics policy |
| My Name Is Emilia Del Valle | Isabel Allende | 2025 | 2025-09-01 | historical fiction chilean civil war journalism |
| Revenge of the Tipping Point | Malcolm Gladwell | 2024 | 2025-08-27 | |
| Original Sin | Jake Tapper & Alex Thompson | 2025 | 2025-08-18 | american history election mental health |
| Proto: How One Ancient Language Went Global | Laura Spinney | 2025 | 2025-08-13 | linguistics proto-indo-european language |
| Travels with George | Nathaniel Philbrick | 2021 | 2025-07-28 | american revolution |
| The Last Days of the Romanovs | Helen Rappaport | 2017 | 2025-07-15 | russian history romanovs bolshevik revolution |
| Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community | Robert D. Putnam | 2000 | 2025-06-20 | history social capital social science civic engagement community |
| A Thousand Ships | Natalie Haynes | 2019 | 2025-06-06 | greek mythology trojan war odyssey |
| The Subtle Art of Not Giving a Fuck | Mark Manson | 2016 | 2025-06-02 | philosophy self help |
| The Tell-Tale Brain | V. S. Ramachandran | 2011 | 2025-05-30 | neuroscience psychology |
| China After Mao | Frank Dikötter | 2022 | 2025-05-20 | china communism socialism mao deng xiaoping xi jinping |
| Until The End of Time | Brian Greene | 2020 | 2025-05-14 | cosmology astrophysics life consciousness |
| Hillbilly Elegy | J. D. Vance | 2016 | 2025-05-06 | memoir appalachia poverty |
| The Abolition of Man | C. S. Lewis | 1943 | 2025-04-30 | christianity education morality |
| The Great Divorce | C. S. Lewis | 1945 | 2025-04-29 | christianity hell heaven fiction |
| The Shallows: What the Internet is Doing to Our Brains | Nicholas Carr | 2010 | 2025-04-26 | internet neuroscience |
| A Book About Love | Jonah Lehrer | 2016 | 2025-04-23 | love neuroscience |
| The Genetic Book of the Dead: A Darwinian Reverie | Richard Dawkins | 2024 | 2025-04-12 | genetics evolutionary biology science |
| Franklin & Washington: The Founding Partnership | Edward J. Larson | 2020 | 2025-04-11 | american history revolution founding fathers |
| The Joy of X | Steven Strogatz | 2019 | 2025-04-03 | mathematics algebra calculus numbers |
| Wired For Story | Lisa Cron | 2017 | 2025-04-01 | writing cognitive science narrative |
| Being You: A New Science of Consciousness | Anil Seth | 2021 | 2025-03-27 | consciousness neuroscience |
| The Cockroach | Ian McEwan | 2019 | 2025-03-26 | satire brexit metamorphosis |
| Patient H.M.: A Story of Memory, Madness, and Family Secrets | Luke Dittrich | 2017 | 2025-03-17 | neuroscience memoir amnesic lobotomy lobectomy memory |
| War | Bob Woodward | 2024 | 2025-03-11 | biden trump politics ukraine israel |
| Orbital | Samantha Harvey | 2024 | 2025-03-09 | space fiction sci-fi science fiction |
| Stone Blind | Natalie Haynes | 2023 | 2025-03-08 | medusa greek mythology retelling |
| Prisoner's Dilemma | William Poundstone | 1993 | 2025-03-04 | game theory philosophy ethics applied mathematics von neumann |
| The Coming Wave: Technology, Power, and the Twenty-first Century's Greatest Dilemma | Mustafa Suleyman | 2023 | 2025-02-25 | artificial intelligence containment regulation |
| How Innovation Works | Matt Ridley | 2021 | 2025-02-17 | innovation freedom |
| When Einstein Walked with Gödel | Jim Holt | 2018 | 2025-02-09 | mathematics logic physics philosophy |
| The Hidden Lives of Owls | Leigh Calvez | 2017 | 2025-02-04 | zoology ecology owls |
| Journey to the Edge of Reason: The Life of Kurt Gödel | Stephen Budiansky | 2021 | 2025-02-03 | godel history mathematics |
| What an Owl Knows | Jennifer Ackerman | 2023 | 2025-01-28 | zoology ecology owls |
| Time Travel: A History | James Gleick | 2016 | 2025-01-24 | time |
| Pale Fire | Vladimir Nabokov | 1962 | 2025-01-17 | fiction |
| Our Mathematical Universe | Max Tegmark | 2014 | 2025-01-16 | cosmology physics quantum physics mathematics science |
| The Runaway Species | Anthony Brandt; David Eagleman | 2017 | 2024-12-22 | neuroscience anthropology art creativity |
| A Brief History of Everyone Who Ever Lived: The Human Story Retold Through Our Genes | Adam Rutherford | 2017 | 2024-12-18 | genetics genomics evolutionary biology |
| In Search of Memory | Eric R. Kandel | 2007 | 2024-12-05 | neuroscience autobiography wwii |
| The Age of Insight: The Quest to Understand the Unconscious in Art, Mind, and Brain, from Vienna 1900 to the Present | Eric R. Kandel | 2012 | 2024-12-03 | art modernism expressionism neuroscience brain unconscious |
| The End of Race Politics | Coleman Hughes | 2024 | 2024-10-22 | race racism |
| Reductionism in Art and Brain Science | Eric R. Kandel | 2016 | 2024-10-18 | art modernism abstract expressionism neuroscience brain perception |
| Genome | Matt Ridley | 2011 | 2024-10-16 | genomics genetics |
| The Genome Defense | Jorge L. Contreras | 2021 | 2024-09-24 | genomics genetics law |
| Knife | Salman Rushdie | 2024 | 2024-09-10 | memoir |
| Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus | Mary Shelley | 1818 | 2024-08-19 | horror science fiction scifi |
| The Myth of Artificial Intelligence | Erik J. Larson | 2021 | 2024-08-02 | artificial intelligence |
| Schoenberg | Harvey Sachs | 2023 | 2024-07-27 | music biography schoenberg serialism |
| The Extended Mind | Annie M. Paul | 2021 | 2024-07-19 | neuroscience extended mind |
| Dark and Magical Places: The Neuroscience of Navigation | Christopher Kemp | 2022 | 2024-07-14 | neuroscience navigation hippocampus place cells grid cells |
| Human Compatible: Artificial Intelligence and the Problem of Control | Stuart Russell | 2019 | 2024-07-08 | artificial intelligence control problem alignment |
| The Disordered Mind | Eric R. Kandel | 2018 | 2024-06-30 | neuroscience mind disorders |
| Nothing to Be Frightened Of | Julian Barnes | 2008 | 2024-06-25 | memoir autobiography faith atheism death |
| Illiberal America: A History | Steven Hahn | 2024 | 2024-06-19 | illiberalism democracy american history |
| Elizabeth Finch | Julian Barnes | 2022 | 2024-06-05 | fiction christianity apostacy roman |
| Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men | Caroline Criado-Perez | 2019 | 2024-06-03 | data bias women feminism |
| A Universe from Nothing: Why There is Something from Nothing | Lawrence M. Krauss | 2012 | 2024-05-29 | astrophysics cosmology theoretical physics |
| In a Different Key: The Story of Autism | John Donvan, Caren Zucker | 2016 | 2024-05-24 | autism neuroscience |
| Isaac Newton | James Gleick | 2004 | 2024-05-14 | biography physics newtonian mechanics enlightenment |
| White Holes | Carlo Rovelli | 2023 | 2024-05-12 | astrophysics cosmology |
| Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly | Anthony Bourdain | 2000 | 2024-05-11 | food restaurants culinary industry autobiography |
| Touching a Nerve: The Self as Brain | Patricia S. Churchland | 2013 | 2024-05-08 | philosophy neuroscience mind |
| Six Impossible Things: The Mysteries of the Quantum World | John Gribbin | 2019 | 2024-05-02 | quantum physics theoretical physics |
| Johann Sebastian Bach: The Learned Musician | Christoph Wolff | 2001 | 2024-05-01 | music bach baroque biography |
| A Thousand Brains: A New Theory of Intelligence | Jeff Hawkins | 2021 | 2024-04-25 | neuroscience artificial intelligence |
| Genius: The Life and Science of Richard Feynman | James Gleick | 1993 | 2024-04-14 | quantum mechanics qed biography physics quantum electrodynamics |
| Quantum Man: Richard Feynman's Life in Science | Lawrence M. Krauss | 2011 | 2024-03-21 | quantum mechanics qed biography physics quantum electrodynamics |
| Subliminal: How Your Unconscious Mind Rules Your Behavior | Leonard Mlodinow | 2012 | 2024-03-07 | neuroscience psychology |
| Sentience: The Invention of Consciousness | Nicholas Humphrey | 2023 | 2024-02-29 | artificial intelligence neuroscience consciousness |
| Lucky Jim | Kingsley Amis | 1954 | 2024-02-26 | fiction comic |
| Not In Our Genes | Richard C. Lewontin, Steven Rose, Leon J. Kamin | 1984 | 2024-02-20 | evolutionary biology genetics |
| Heroes: Mortals and Monsters, Quests and Adventures | Stephen Fry | 2018 | 2024-02-15 | greek mythology |
| Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation | Kristin Kobes Du Mez | 2020 | 2024-02-08 | religion evangelical christianity |
| Brief Candle in the Dark | Richard Dawkins | 2015 | 2024-01-25 | essays evolutionary biology |
| Consciousness Explained | Daniel Dennett | 1992 | 2023-12-31 | consciousness philosophy neuroscience |
| The Passenger | Cormac McCarthy | 2022 | 2023-12-26 | fiction |
| Elbow Room | Daniel C. Dennett | 1984 | 2023-11-30 | philosophy free will compatibalism determinism |
| The Magic of Reality | Richard Dawkins | 2011 | 2023-11-28 | evolutionary biology mythology creation myths |
| If on a winters night a traveler | Italo Calvino | 1979 | 2023-11-18 | fiction |
| Behave | Robert M. Sapolsky | 2017 | 2023-11-13 | neuroscience biology psychology endocrinology |
| Irreversible Damage | Abigail Shrier | 2020 | 2023-11-07 | transgender |
| Feelings and Knowing | Antonio Damasio | 2021 | 2023-10-27 | neuroscience biology |
| Circe | Madeleine Miller | 2018 | 2023-10-24 | fiction greek mythology |
| Carry On, Jeeves | P. G. Wodehouse | 1925 | 2023-10-15 | fiction comic |
| Science in the Soul | Richard Dawkins | 2017 | 2023-10-03 | essays evolutionary biology |
| The Triple Helix: Gene, Organism, and Environment | Richard Lewontin | 2000 | 2023-09-04 | evolutionary biology genetics |
| Thomas Jefferson and the Tripoli Pirates | Brian Kilmeade | 2016 | 2023-08-17 | biography history american history islam |
| The Inimitable Jeeves | P. G. Wodehouse | 1923 | 2023-08-15 | comic wodehouse |
| The Gene’s-Eye View of Evolution | J. Arvid Ågren | 2021 | 2023-08-12 | evolutionary biology genetics |
| Kissinger: A Biography | Walter Isaacson | 2005 | 2023-06-10 | biography politics |
| The Biggest Ideas in the Universe | Sean Carroll | 2022 | 2023-05-04 | physics quantum mechanics relativity |
| A Brief History of Time | Stephen Hawking | 1988 | 2023-05-03 | physics cosmology |
| The Order of Time | Carlo Rovelli | 2018 | 2023-04-12 | theoretical physics time |
| Helgoland | Carlo Rovelli | 2021 | 2023-04-06 | theoretical physics quantum mechanics |
| Something Deeply Hidden | Sean Carroll | 2019 | 2023-03-30 | theoretical physics quantum mechanics |
| Seven Brief Lessons on Physics | Carlo Rovelli | 2016 | 2023-03-28 | physics |
| Human: The Science Behind What Makes Us Unique | Michael S. Gazzaniga | 2008 | 2023-03-17 | neuroscience cognitive psychology biology |
| Rebooting AI | Gary Marcus, Ernest Davis | 2020 | 2023-03-10 | artificial intelligence |
| The Revolutionary: Samuel Adams | Stacy Schiff | 2022 | 2023-02-14 | american revolution history |
| The Pope and Mussolini | David Kertzer | 2015 | 2023-02-01 | history world war ii wwii fascism catholicism |
| Tales from Both Sides of the Brain | Michael S. Gazzaniga | 2015 | 2023-01-14 | neuroscience biology autobiography cognitive psychology |
| Einstein: His Life and Universe | Walter Isaacson | 2007 | 2022-12-27 | biography physics relativity quantum mechanics |
| The War Poets | Robert Giddings | 1988 | 2022-12-16 | poetry world war i wwi |
| Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage | Alfred Lansing | 1999 | 2022-12-01 | biography explorer |
| Lying | Sam Harris | 2013 | 2022-11-27 | philosophy ethics |
| Conscious | Annaka Harris | 2019 | 2022-11-06 | consciousness philosophy neuroscience |
| Shame | Salman Rushdie | 1983 | 2022-11-04 | fiction |
| The End of Faith | Sam Harris | 2004 | 2022-10-12 | religion islam christianity atheism |
| Unveiled | Yasmine Mohammed | 2019 | 2022-10-03 | islam religion |
| Superintelligence | Nick Bostrom | 2014 | 2022-10-01 | artificial intelligence agi |
| The Strange Order of Things | Antonio Damasio | 2018 | 2022-09-27 | neuroscience time |
| The River of Consciousness | Oliver Sacks | 2017 | 2022-09-22 | consciousness neuroscience |
| Kinds of Minds | Daniel C. Dennett | 2019 | 2022-09-20 | consciousness philosophy |
| The War On The West | Douglas Murray | 2022 | 2022-09-17 | culture |
| Artificial Intelligence: A Guide for Thinking Humans | Melanie Mitchell | 2019 | 2022-09-14 | artificial intelligence |
| The Cement Garden | Ian McEwan | 1978 | 2022-09-11 | fiction |
| Life 3.0 | Mark Tegmark | 2018 | 2022-09-06 | artificial intelligence agi |
| Homo Deus | Yuval Noah Hariri | 2016 | 2022-08-30 | artificial intelligence agi |
| Pnin | Vladimir Nabokov | 1957 | 2022-08-14 | fiction |
| The Rational Optimist | Matt Ridley | 2010 | 2022-08-14 | reason economics |
| God Is Not Great | Christopher Hitchens | 2007 | 2022-08-12 | religion christianity atheism |
| Seize The Day | Saul Bellow | 1956 | 2022-08-08 | fiction |
| The Selfish Gene 2016 (40th Anniversary Ed.) | Richard Dawkins | 1979 | 2022-08-07 | evolutionary biology genetics |
| Why Evolution Is True | Jerry Coyne | 2010 | 2022-08-01 | evolutionary biology |
| Indelible City | Louisa Lim | 2022 | 2022-07-30 | hong kong history |
| Blood Meridian | Cormac McCarthy | 1985 | 2022-07-25 | fiction western |
| The Elegant Universe | Brian Greene | 1999 | 2022-07-24 | theoretical physics string theory science cosmology |
| Factfulness | Hans Rosling | 2018 | 2022-07-23 | reason statistics |
| Time’s Arrow | Martin Amis | 1991 | 2022-07-21 | fiction time nazism holocaust historical fiction |
| Klara and the Sun | Kazuo Ishiguro | 2021 | 2022-07-17 | artificial intelligence fiction science fiction |
| If Then | Jill Lepore | 2020 | 2022-07-07 | data computing analytics |
| The Grand Design | Stephen Hawking | 2010 | 2022-06-26 | physics cosmology astrophysics |
| Just Six Numbers | Martin Rees | 2001 | 2022-06-04 | physics science cosmology astrophysics cosmology |
| Hitch-22 | Christopher Hitchens | 2011 | 2022-05-30 | autobiography |
| Incognito: The Secret Lives of the Brain | David Eagleman | 2011 | 2022-05-18 | neuroscience cognitive psychology biology |
| The Beginning of Infinity | David Deutsch | 2011 | 2022-05-09 | physics science philosophy artificial intelligence cosmology |
| On Color | David Scott Kastan | 2018 | 2022-04-29 | color |
| The Constitution of Knowledge | Jonathan Rauch | 2021 | 2022-04-26 | culture philosophy |
| Enlightenment Now | Steven Pinker | 2018 | 2022-04-24 | history science psychology |
| Rationality | Steven Pinker | 2021 | 2022-04-19 | reason statistics psychology |
| The Third Chimpanzee | Jared Diamond | 1991 | 2022-04-13 | anthropology culture |
| Waiting for the Barbarians | J. M. Coetzee | 1980 | 2022-04-07 | fiction south africa colonialism |
| Free Will | Sam Harris | 2012 | 2022-04-04 | philosophy free will neuroscience |
| The Big Picture | Sean Carroll | 2017 | 2022-04-03 | physics science cosmology |
| The Odyssey | Homer, tr. Emily Wilson | 2018 | 2022-03-17 | greek mythology epic poetry |
| The Secular Enlightenment | Margaret C. Jacob | 2019 | 2022-03-17 | enlightenment history |
| The Greatest Show on Earth | Richard Dawkins | 2009 | 2022-03-01 | evolutionary biology science |
| Nine Nasty Words | John McWhorter | 2021 | 2022-02-11 | linguistics |
| The Moral Landscape | Sam Harris | 2011 | 2021-11-21 | ethics philosophy religion |
| Eat & Run | Scott Jurek | 2013 | 2021-11-20 | running nutrition ultramarathon |
| Mike and Psmith | P.G. Wodehouse | 1953 | 2021-10-26 | comic fiction |
| The Cool Impossible | Eric Orton | 2014 | 2021-08-08 | running ultramarathon endurance |
| Born to Run | Christopher McDougall | 2009 | 2021-07-26 | running tarahumara ultramarathon endurance |
| The Brain | David Eagleman | 2017 | 2021-06-27 | neuroscience biology |
| The Body | Bill Bryson | 2019 | 2021-05-27 | anatomy biology |
| The Coddling of the American Mind | Greg Lukianoff, Jonathan Haidt | 2018 | 2021-05-06 | psychology education parenting culture |
| The Closing of the Western Mind: The Rise of Faith and the Fall of Reason | Charles Freeman | 2003 | 2021-04-19 | history religion christianity |
| The God Delusion | Richard Dawkins | 2006 | 2021-03-30 | religion christianity islam atheism |
| Anatomy for Runners | Jay Dicharry | 2012 | 2021-03-22 | anatomy running sports fitness |
| The Four Horsemen | Christopher Hitchens, Richard Dawkins, Sam Harris, Daniel C. Dennet | 2007 | 2021-03-11 | religion philosophy atheism |
| Outgrowing God | Richard Dawkins | 2019 | 2021-03-01 | religion christianity atheism |
| The Three-Body Problem | Cixin Liu | 2014 | 2021-01-20 | science fiction scifi physics fiction china |
| What I talk about when I talk about running | Haruki Murakami | 2009 | 2021-01-14 | running short stories |
| Endure: Mind, Body, and the Curiously Elastic Limits of Human Performance | Alex Hutchinson | 2018 | 2021-01-01 | running endurance sports psychology fitness biology |