Reading List 2024-5

An aspirational reading list for 2024/2025.

Da lady completely missed her 2024 goal so she wrapping it into 2025.

Done Reading

• 💯 Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies by Jared Diamond Ph.D. [Audible]
• My Life with the Chimpanzees by Jane Goodall [Audible]
• Napoleon's Hemorrhoids… And Other Small Events That Changed History by Phil Mason [Audible]
• 💯 If Walls Could Talk by Lucy Worsley [Audible]
• Blowout: Corrupted Democracy, Rogue State Russia, and the Richest, Most Destructive Industry on Earth by Rachel Maddow
• Ketones, The Fourth Fuel: Warburg to Krebs to Veech, the 250 Year Journey to Find the Fountain of Youth by Travis Christofferson [Kindle]
• Ketogenic: The Science of Therapeutic Carbohydrate Restriction in Human Health by Tim Noakes (Ed.), Tamzyn Murphy (Ed.), et. al. [Kindle]
• 👍 The Bullet Journal Method: Track the Past, Order the Present, Design the Future by Ryder Carroll [Kindle]
• 👍 The Inconvenient Indian: A Curious Account of Native People in North America by Thomas King [Kindle]
• Smoke Gets in Your Eyes: And Other Lessons from the Crematory by Caitlin Doughty [Audible]
• 👍 An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us by Ed Yong [Audible]
• Mitochondria and the Future of Medicine: The Key to Understanding Disease, Chronic Illness, Aging, and Life Itself by Lee Know [Audible]
• Complete Dehydrator Cookbook: How to Dehydrate Fruit, Vegetables, Meat & More by Carole Cancler [Kindle]
• 👎 The Voices at CERN by Franklin Clermont [Kindle]
• Keep Sharp: Build a Better Brain at Any Age by Sanjay Gupta M.D. [Kindle]
• Medical Mysteries Across History by Roy Benaroch MD, The Great Courses on Audible.
• Medical Mysteries Across History, Pt.2 by Roy Benaroch MD, The Great Courses on Audible.
• The Butchering Art: Joseph Lister's Quest to Transform the Grisly World of Victorian Medicine by Lindsey Fitzharris
[Kindle]
• 👍 Doctor Ice Pick by Claire Prentice [Kindle]
• 💯 The History of Classical Music by Richard Fawkes [Audible]
• Second Nature: A Gardener's Education by Michael Pollan
• ChatGPT for Beginners: Mastering the Art of Effective Prompting Kindle Edition by James Joseph Kupczyk
• 👎 Lies My Doctor Told Me by Dr. Ken Berry [Audible]
• Without Conscience: The Disturbing World of the Psychopaths Among Us by Robert D. Hare
• Why Zebras Don't Get Ulcers: The Acclaimed Guide to Stress, Stress-Related Diseases, and Coping (Third Edition) by Robert M. Sapolsky [Kindle]
• The Threat of the Poison Reign: A Treatise on Electromagnetic Pollution by Joseph R. Scogna Jr., Kathy M. Scogna
• Reservoir Cats: True Stories and Cat's Eye Views from Squirt by Penel Ashworth [Kindle]

 

Podcasts on Audible

• Science Rules! with Bill Nye by Stitcher & Bill Nye (4/23/2019-11/1/2023)
• 👍 Science with Sabine by Sabine Hossenfelder
• 💯 Stephen Fry's Victorian Secrets by Stephen Fry (12 episodes)
• News in Slow French by Easy French Radio
• Soul Of The Blues With Cassie CJ Fox
• The Incerto Podcast by Curious Worldview
• Write Now with Scrivener by Literature & Latte
• The Podcast With A Thousand Faces by Joseph Campbell Foundation
• Pathways with Joseph Campbell by Joseph Campbell Foundation

 

In Progress

If hard copy, I am actively reading it. If eBook or audiobook, I may be actively reading, but most likely I've only downloaded and previewed for formatting or listenability.

• Astrophysics for People in a Hurry by Neil deGrasse Tyson [Audible]
• Worlds in Collision by Immanuel Velikovsky [Kindle][Audible]
• 💯 A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson [Audible]
• 💯 Surviving Autocracy by Masha Gessen [Audible]
• Project Origami (AK Peters/CRC Recreational Mathematics Series) [Kindle]
• Atomic Habits by James Clear [Audible]

 

To Read

• POST-COMMUNIST MAFIA STATE: The Case of Hungary by Bálint Magyar
  Download the .pdf from the Central European University's Doctoral School of Political Science, Public Policy and International Relations
• The Transhumanist Reader: Classical and Contemporary Essays on the Science, Technology, and Philosophy of the Human Future by Max More [Paperback]
• Antinet Zettelkasten: A Knowledge System That Will Turn You Into a Prolific Reader, Researcher and Writer by Scott P. Scheper [Paperback]
• Medieval Myths & Mysteries by Dorsey Armstrong [Audible]
• From Here to Eternity: Traveling the World to Find the Good Death by Caitlin Doughty [Hardcover]
• Existential Physics: A Scientist's Guide to Life's Biggest Questions by Sabine Hossenfelder [Audible]
• Bill Nye's Comic History of the United States by Bill Nye [Paperback]
• Lost in Math: How Beauty Leads Physics Astray by Sabine Hossenfelder [Kindle]
• Clowders by Vanessa Morgan [Kindle]
• FreeCAD 0.21: A Power Guide for Beginners and Intermediate Users by CADArtifex [Kindle]
• The Singularity Is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology by Ray Kurzweil [Audible]
• This Is Your Mind on Plants by Michael Pollan [Audible]
• KiCad - Getting Started in KiCad by David Jahshan [Kindle]
• Arduino for Beginners: 10 Best Starter Projects for Any Maker by inventr.io [Kindle]
• Raised Bed Gardening: Growing Vegetables for Beginners by Kendra K [Kindle]
• 💯 Yuval Noah Harari Box Set (Sapiens, Homo Deus, 21 Lessons for 21st Century) [Paperback]
• The Other Valley: A Novel by Scott Alexander Howard [Kindle]
• Seveneves by Neal Stephenson [Audible]
• Alan Cumming: Legal Immigrant by Alan Cumming [Audible]
• Elizabeth Zimmermann - book with row by row and adult BSJ.
• Stephen Fry's Inside Your Mind [Podcast] (12 episodes)
• The Age of Spiritual Machines: When Computers Exceed Human Intelligence [Audible]
• WordPress for Beginners 2023: A Visual Step-by-Step Guide to Mastering WordPress (Webmaster Series) by Dr. Andy Williams
• Scrivener for Beginners: A Beginner’s Guide to Learn How to Use Scrivener and Start Writing by Elaine Stewart
• The Skeptic's Guide to Alternative Medicine by Steven Novella MD
• Minimalist Muscle Activation: Crush Structural Imbalances, Find Clarity in Your Movement, and Live Pain-Free and Strong Now and in the Future by Sean Schniederjan [Kindle]
• Spinal Catastrophism: A Secret History (Urbanomic / Mono Book 7) Thomas Moynihan [Kindle]
• 💯 Bulfinch’s Mythology by Thomas Bulfinch
• The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin
• The World of J.R.R. Tolkien by Dimitra Fimi, The Great Courses on Audible.

 

Maybe

• AI Snake Oil: What Artificial Intelligence Can Do, What It Can’t, and How to Tell the Difference by Arvind Narayanan, Sayash Kapoor [Kindle]
• Intelligent Automation: Learn How to Harness Artificial Intelligence to Boost Business & Make Our World More Human [Audible]
• In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto [Audible][Kindle]
• Scrivener Superpowers: How to Use Cutting-Edge Software to Energize Your Creative Writing Practice [Kindle]
• Survival 101: The Ultimate Guide to Building Your 72-Hour Emergency Kit by M Mangum
• Essential Keto Desserts: 85 Delicious, Low-Carb Recipes to Satisfy Your Sweet Tooth by Hilda Solares
• The 4 Pillars of Critical Thinking: 103 Techniques & Hacks to Improve Your Work and Personal Life by Mastering Mental Skills. Analyze Situations Better and Reason Well by Detecting Logical Fallacies by Patrik Meyer [Kindle]
• Card Weaving OR Tablet Weaving For Beginners: A Simple Guide To The Tools, Techniques And Basics Of Making Tablet Or Card Weaving by Jane Jude [Kindle]
• Knits for Nerds: 30 Projects by Joan of Dark a.k.a Toni Carr [Kindle]
• Yarn Substitution Made Easy: Matching the Right Yarn to Any Knitting Pattern by Carol J. Sulcoski [Kindle]
• Strange Blood: 71 Essays on Offbeat and Underrated Vampire Movies [Kindle]
• When Animals Attack: The 70 Best Horror Movies with Killer Animals [Kindle]
• Falling Felines and Fundamental Physics by Gregory J. Gbur [Audible]
• Waxwing Creek: A collection of interconnected horror stories [Kindle]
• The Particle at the End of the Universe: How the Hunt for the Higgs Boson Leads Us to the Edge of a New World [Audible]
• Claws: The Legend Behind Texas's Most Bizarre Unsolved Murders [Kindle]
• The Jungle: A Signature Performance by Casey Affleck Upton Sinclair [Audible]
• Letters on Demonology and Witchcraft Sir Walter Scott [Audible]
• Gulliver's Travels: A Signature Performance by David Hyde Pierce Jonathan Swift [Audible]
• The Rough Riders Theodore Roosevelt [Audible]
• Dandelion Wine Ray Bradbury [Audible]
• The Turn of the Screw Henry James [Audible]
• The Deerslayer James Fenimore Cooper [Audible]
• Frankenstein Mary Shelley [Audible]
• The Metamorphosis and Other Stories Franz Kafka [Audible]
• TBD 3 more Native American books
• TBD CNC router?
• TBD Nikola Tesla?
• TBD Evolutionary Psychology Primer [Kindle]
• TBD kindle create tutorial [Kindle]
• Walden by Henry David Thoreau
• Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë
• The Battle for Your Brain: Defending the Right to Think Freely in the Age of Neurotechnology [Audible]
• The Uncensored Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde, Nicholas Frankel - editor
• freecad Manual [Kindle]