Reading

Books I ❤

  • Circe, Madeline Miller

  • The Laws of Human Nature, Robert Greene

  • The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate - Discoveries from a Secret World, Peter Wohlleben

  • Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World, Jack Weatherford

  • Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind, Yuval Noah Harari

  • Einstein: His Life and Universe, Walter Isaacson

  • Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World – and Why Things Are Better Than You Think, Rosling Hans

  • Făuritoarea de vise, @PhoenixMihaela

  • Lumea Sofiei, Jostein Gaarder

  • Educated: A Memoir, Tara Westover

  • Memoirs of a Geisha, Arthur Golden

  • The Universe in a Nutshell, Stephen Hawking

  • 1984, George Orwell

  • The Red and the Black (Roșu și negru), Stendhal

  • Crime and Punishment (Crimă și pedeapsă), Fyodor Dostoyevsky

  • Thus Spoke Zarathustra, Friederch Nietzche

  • The Plague (La peste), Albert Camus

  • Arta conversației, Ileana Vulpescu

Easy reads & fun

  • Dodge & Twist, Tony Lee

  • Killer by Nature, Jan Smith

  • Zero G, Dan Wells

  • Christmas Eve, 1914, Charles Olivier

  • Wishes and Wellingtons, Julie Berry

  • Queen of Thieves, Toxic_Wonderland

  • Murder on the Orient Express, and every book I could get my hands on from Agatha Christie

  • The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel: Books 1 - 5, Scott, Michael

  • Grimpow: The Invisible Road, Rafael Ábalos

  • Riley Mack and the Other Known Troublemakers, Chris Grabenstein

Historical and (Auto)Biographies

  • Einstein: His Life and Universe, Walter Isaacson

  • Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World, Jack Weatherford

  • Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind, Yuval Noah Harari

  • The Innovators: How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses, and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution, Walter Isaacson

  • Breve historia de la medicina, Pedro Gargantilla

  • A Mind of Her Own, Paula McLain

  • Elizabeth II: Life of a Monarch, Ruth Cowen

  • Becoming, Michelle Obama

  • The Perfectionists How Precision Engineers Created the Modern World, Simon Winchester

Interesting & weird

  • The Happiness Hypothesis (Jonathan Haidt)

  • Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End

  • Girl Logic: The Genius and the Absurdity, Iliza Shlesinger

  • The Complete Conversations with God: An Uncommon Dialogue: Books I, II & III, Neale Donald Walsch

Reading

  • El cerebro del niño, Daniel J. Siegel & Tina Payne Bryson

  • Cosmos, Carl Sagan

  • Energy and Civilization: A History, Smil, Vaclav

  • The Witcher Saga, Andrzej Sapkowsk

  • The Oxford book of Modern Science Writing, Dawkins, Richard

Science, Nature, and Engineering

  • The Universe in a Nutshell, Stephen Hawking

  • In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts: Close Encounters with Addiction, Gabor Maté

  • The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate - Discoveries from a Secret World, Peter Wohlleben

  • The Oxford book of Modern Science Writing, Richard Dawkins

Wishlist

  • Sacrul şi profanul (Mircea Eliade)

  • Liquid Rules: The Delightful and Dangerous Substances That Flow Through Our Lives (Mark Miodownik)

  • Biomimicry: Innovation Inspired by Nature (Janine M. Benyus)

  • Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow

  • The Theory of Everything: The Quest to Explain All Reality

  • The Three-Body Problem (Liu Cixin)

  • Divine Comedy (Dante Alighieri)

  • Indistractable: How to Control Your Attention and Choose Your Life (Nir Eyral)

  • Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones (James Clear)

  • Every Tool's a Hammer: Lessons from a Lifetime of Making (Adam Savage)

  • The Selfish Gene (Richard Dawkins )

  • The Man on the Mountaintop (Susan Trott)

  • The Theory of Everything: The Quest to Explain All Reality (Don Lincoln)

  • Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams (Matthew Walker)

  • Norse Mythology (Neil Gaiman)

  • Where the Crawdads Sing (Delia Owens)

  • Thermodynamics: Four Laws That Move the Universe (Jeffrey C. Grossman)

  • The Doomsday Machine (Daniel Ellsberg)

  • Genius Foods: Become Smarter, Happier, and More Productive While Protecting Your Brain for Life (Max Lugavere, Paul Grewal)

  • Atomic Adventures: Secret Islands, Forgotten N-Rays, and Isotopic Murder - A Journey into the Wild World of Nuclear Science (James Mahaffey)

  • Sex at Dawn: How We Mate, Why We Stray, and What It Means for Modern Relationships (Christopher Ryan, Cacilda Jetha)

  • The Wizards of Once (Cressida Cowell)