February 10, 2023: Book Revue 2022 📖📚📕

Book Reports From Last Year's Readings

They can take our net worth, but they can’t [yet] take away our library cards! If you need entertainment during bad markets, try picking up a book.

Among the many great things of 2022 was the opportunities for reading some really good books (along with plenty of forgettable ones). This review of the books I read in 2022 was intended to be released around the New Year, but kept getting delayed as it kept expanding. Hopefully it still provides some enjoyment and pointers for the readers.

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• Non-Fiction

  • Essays

    • George Orwell: A Collection of Essays

    • H. L. Mencken: Prejudices (first and second series)

  • Science/Math

    • Amir Aczel: Finding Zero: A Mathematician's Odyssey to Uncover the Origins of Numbers

    • Vlatko Vedral: Decoding Reality : The Universe as Quantum Information

    • Eric Kandel: There is Life after the Nobel Prize

  • Biology/Health

    • Chris Case: The Haywire Heart: How Too Much Exercise Can Kill You, and What You Can Do to Protect Your Heart

    • Lee Know: Mitochondria and the Future of Medicine: The Key to Understanding Disease, Chronic Illness, Aging, and Life Itself

    • Mark Kurlansky: Salt: A World History

    • Ed Yong: I Contain Multitudes

    • Norman Doidge: The Brain that Changes Itself

    • Sy Montgomery: The Soul of an Octopus: A Surprising Exploration into the Wonder of Consciousness

  • Economics

    • David Graeber: Debt: the First 5000 Years

    • Frederick Kaufman: The Money Plot: A History of Currency's Power to Enchant, Control, and Manipulate

  • Other Non-Fiction

    • Jonathan Haidt: The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion

    • Tom O’Neill: Chaos: Charles Manson, the CIA, and the Secret History of the Sixties

    • John Hemming: The Conquest of the Incas

    • David Kushner: Masters of Doom: How Two Guys Created an Empire and Transformed Pop Culture

    • Robert A. Caro: The Power Broker Robert Moses and the Fall of New York

    • Graham Hancock: Fingerprints of the Gods

• Fiction

  • Frank Herbert: Dune

  • Ernest Cline: Ready Player One

  • Jules Verne The Complete Collection

  • George Harriman: Krazy & Ignatz: “He Nods in Quiescent Siesta”

At any rate, this post is “loosely” paywalled — paywalled in that I’m dropping a free link into every Discord group that has a #book-club channel in a thinly veiled effort to encourage more Discord mods to create such channels. All non-mods can reply to get a link to view the article (reply publicly that is, I don’t check DMs).

For a good 2023 reading list, see this list by Curve chad Chan-Ho Suh: https://www.chanhosuh.com/2023-reading-list.html