All of the following books have been read cover to cover. I also believe in treating books as blog posts and skipping to the interesting parts but they are not included here.
The Scaling Era by Dwarkesh Patel
There Is No Antimemetics Division by qntm
The Technological Republic by Alexander Karp
Superintelligence by Nick Bostrom
The Last Question by Isaac Asimov
Good Economics for Hard Times by Abhijit Banerjee and Ester Duflo
The Beginning of Infinity by David Deutsch
A Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawking
The Black Swan by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand
You and Your Research by Richard Hamming ✅
The Little Book of Deep Learning by Francois Fleuret ✅
Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin ✅
The Egg by Andy Weir ✅
The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri ✅
Zero to One by Peter Thiel ✅
The Creative Act by Rick Rubin ✅
The Almanack of Naval Ravikant by Eric Jorgenson ✅
How Democracies Die by Daniel Ziblatt and Steven Levitsky ✅
On Tyranny by Timothy Snyder ✅
Catch 22 by Joseph Heller ✅
Chronicles of a Death Foretold by Gabriel García Márquez ✅
As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner ✅
The Brief and Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Díaz ✅
Beloved by Toni Morrison ✅
Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut✅
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey ✅
No Exit by Jean-Paul Sartre ✅
The Stranger by Albert Camus ✅
Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad ✅
The Invisible Man by HG Wells ✅
1984 by George Orwell ✅
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee ✅
Animal Farm by George Orwell ✅
Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck ✅
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury ✅
The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath ✅
Macbeth by William Shakespeare ✅
Night by Elie Wiesel ✅
The War of the Worlds by H.G. Wells ✅
Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes ✅
I've read these pieces in fragments and have a few handwritten summaries and reflections here.
Plato's Theaetetus
Plato's The Allegory of the Cave, Republic VII
Descartes' Meditations on First Philosophy
Locke's An Essay Concerning Human Understanding
Kant's Critique of Pure Reason
Nagel's What All Mean: Other Minds, The Mind-Body Problem
Mill’s Utilitarianism
Aristotle’s The Nicomachean Ethics
Kant’s Foundations of the Metaphysics of Morals
Singer’s Famine, Affluence, Morality
Aquinas’ Does God Exist?
Hume’s Problems with the Cosmological Argument
Hume’s The Impossibility of an Ontological Proof
Anselm’s Ontological Argument
Kant’s The Impossibility of an Ontological Proof
Mackie’s Evil and Omnipotence
Feinberg's Psychological Egoism
Rachels' The Challenge of Cultural Relativism
Smith's The World's Religions
Otto's The Idea of the Holy
Nishitani's Religion and Nothingness
Nietzsche’s The Gay Science
Nietzsche’s The Antichrist
Nagel’s Meaning of Life
Sartre’s The Humanism of Existentialism
Sartre’s Freedom and Responsibility
Wollstonecraft’s A Vindication of the Rights of Women
Beauvoir’s The Second Sex
James’ Black Feminism