“In omnibus requiem quaesivi, sed non inveni, nisi in hoexkens ende boexkens,”

By the time I reached the age of 12, I stopped being interested in fiction for the most part. I did read the required reading for school, but found myself as a kid doing a deep dive into history, biology, and social studies. It took me a long time to realize why I lost interest in books of fiction. Looking back, I realize the fantastical practice of tabletop RPG’s filled the niche better for me as it was a cooperative imaginative adventure among friends.

Some of the more recent books on my ‘have read’ list are:

• Thinking Fast & Slow, Daniel Kahneman*
• 7 ½ Lessons about the Brain, Lisa Feldman Barrett
• Phantoms in the Brain, V S Ramachandran
• On Second Thought, William R. Miller
• Moral Resilience, Cynthia Hylton Rushton
• Social Chemistry, Marissa King
• Social Intelligence, Daniel Goleman
• Platonic, Marissa G. Franco
• Together, Dr. Vivek H. Murthy
• The Power of Meaning, Emily Esfahani Smith
• Grit, Angela Duckworth
• Braving the Wilderness, Brene Brown
• Atlas of the Heart, Brene Brown
• Say What you Mean, Oren Jay Sofer
• The Dawn of Everything, Graeber & Wengrow*
• The Craving Mind, Judson Brewer
• Self Compassion, Kristin Neff
• Laziness Does Not Exist, Devon Price, PhD
• The Body is not an Apology, Sonya Renee Taylor
• The Shame Machine, Cathy O’Neil
• Weapons of Math Destruction, Cathy O’Neil
• The Deepest Well, Nadine Burke Harris
• Tattoos on the Heart, Gregory Boyle
• The Different Drum, M. Scott Peck*
• The Telomere Effect, Blackburn Elizabeth, Elissa Epel
• Deaths of Despair, Anne Case & Angus Deaton
• Bootstrapped, Alissa Quart
• Poverty by America, Matthew Desomond
• Tribe, Sebastian Junger
• Human Kind, Rutger Bregman
• Outliers, Malcolm Gladwell
• Supercommunicators, Charles Duhigg

*as of the publication of this list, these books are a work in progress (have read some, still to complete)