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Library works at the moment, but I need to implement some better review process/display.

Status Title Author Rating
Want to read Prisoner's Dilemma William Poundstone
Want to read The Mating Mind Geoffrey Miller
Want to read Orientalism Edward W. Said
Want to read The Elephant in the Brain: Hidden Motives in Everyday Life Kevin Simler
Want to read The Dictator's Handbook Bruce Bueno de Mesquita
Want to read The Enigma of Reason Hugo Mercier
Want to read The Book of Why Judea Pearl
Want to read Primates and Philosophers: How Morality Evolved Stephen Macedo
Reading Thinking, Fast and Slow Daniel Kahneman
Read Moonwalking with Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything Joshua Foer ∗∗∗∗
Read The Selfish Gene Richard Dawkins
Read In search of Schrödinger's cat John Gribbin ∗∗∗∗
Read Thus Spoke Zarathustra Friedrich Nietzsche
Read The Red Queen Matt Ridley ∗∗∗∗∗
Read A Little History of Philosophy Nigel Warburton ∗∗∗∗
Read The Order of Time Carlo Rovelli
Read Steppenwolf Hermann Hesse ∗∗∗∗
Read Sapiens: A Graphic History, Volume 1 - The Birth of Humankind David Vandermeulen
Read The Blind Watchmaker: Why the Evidence of Evolution Reveals a Universe without Design Richard Dawkins
Read The First Three Minutes: A Modern View of the Origin of the Universe Steven Weinberg
Read The Naked Ape Desmond Morris
Read How to Teach Quantum Physics to Your Dog Chad Orzel ∗∗∗∗
Read Thinking in Systems Donella Meadows ∗∗∗∗
I would have given this 4 if I had no idea about systems theory, but as an electronics engineer, many things explained in the book are daily stuff for me. So I unfortunately can not say I have learned too much reading this, which is not a bad thing at all. But it was a little boring at times. From an engineering perspective, the explanations for fundamental terms in systems theory are straight-forward and clear and author makes them understandable for the ones which are not exposed to these kind of thinking or problem solving daily. So leaving my background on the side, I can easily say it was a nice and easy read. One thing bothered me most of the time though, is that the author chooses to give an unnecessarily lot of examples on basic topics, especially in the beginning of the book. I would have left many of them out. I just skipped the parts where more than one example is given actually.
Read Chess Story Stefan Zweig
Read The Bonobo and the Atheist Frans de Waal ∗∗∗∗∗
Read Myths from Mesopotamia Stephanie Dalley ∗∗∗
Read How to Teach Relativity to Your Dog Chad Orzel
Read Homo faber Max Frisch
Read Neither Here nor There: Travels in Europe Bill Bryson
Read Blueprint Robert Plomin ∗∗∗∗
Read Safsatalar Ansiklopedisi Immanuel Tolstoyevski ∗∗∗∗
Read Of the Abuse of Words John Locke ∗∗∗
Read Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity and Poverty Daron Acemoğlu
Read Haben oder Sein Erich Fromm ∗∗∗∗
Read Benim de Söyleyeceklerim Var! Umut Sarıkaya ∗∗∗∗∗
Read Learn Rust in a Month of Lunches David Macleod ∗∗∗∗
Read The Satanic Verses Salman Rushdie ∗∗∗∗
Read Empire of Cotton: A New History of Global Capitalism Sven Beckert ∗∗∗∗
Read The Beak of the Finch: A Story of Evolution in Our Time Jonathan Weiner ∗∗∗∗∗
Read A Tramp Abroad Mark Twain ∗∗∗∗
Read The Dispossessed Ursula K. Le Guin
Read The Right to Be Lazy Paul Lafargue ∗∗∗
Read The Descent of Man Charles Darwin
Read The Language Instinct: The New Science of Language and Mind Steven Pinker ∗∗∗∗
Read The Catcher in the Rye J. D. Salinger ∗∗∗∗
Read Guns, Germs and Steel: A Short History of Everybody for the Last 13,000 Years Jared Diamond