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Reading…

…for the First Time (Fiction and Poetry and Such)

  • Iain M. Banks, The Player of Games

  • William Gibson, The Peripheral

  • Iain M. Banks, Consider Phlebas

  • Larry Niven, Ringworld’s Children

  • Larry Niven, The Ringworld Throne

  • Larry Niven, The Ringworld Engineers

  • Larry Niven, Ringworld

  • Peter Nichols, Modernisms: A Literary Guide

  • Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone, This is How You Lose the Time War

  • Haruki Murakami, Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World

  • Isaac Asimov, The Complete Robot

  • Jennifer Egan, The Candy House

  • Ted Chiang, Stories of Your Life

  • Emily St. John Mandel, Sea of Tranquility: A Novel

  • Connie Willis, Doomsday Book

  • Patricia Lockwood, No One is Talking about This

  • Stuart Kells, Shakespeare’s Library

  • Anita Brookner, Look at Me

  • Daniel Mendelssohn, Three Rings: A Tale of Exile, Narrative, and Fate

  • Lauren Groff, Matrix: A Novel

  • Colm Toibin, The Master

  • Kim Stanley Robinson, The Ministry for the Future

  • Anthony Doerr, Cloud Cuckoo Land: A Novel

  • Maggie O'Farrell, Hamnet

  • Marion Turner, Chaucer: A European Life

  • Don DeLillo, Mao II

  • Issac Asimov, Forward the Foundation

  • Kazuo Ishiguro, An Artist of the Floating World

  • Issac Asimov, Prelude to Foundation

  • Penelope Fitzgerald, The Blue Flower

  • Kazuo Ishiguro, A Pale View of the Hills

  • Sarah Moss, Ghost Wall

  • Issac Asimov, Foundation and Earth

  • Ted Chiang, Exhalation

  • Issac Asimov, Foundation’s Edge

  • P. W. Singer and August Cole, Burn-In: A Novel of the Real Robotic Revolution

  • Issac Asimov, Second Foundation

  • Karel Čapek, Rossum’s Universal Robots

  • Issac Asimov, Foundation and Empire

  • Maya Jasanoff, The Dawn Watch: Joseph Conrad in a Global World

  • Issac Asimov, Foundation

  • Michael Chabon, Gentlemen of the Road

  • Primo Levi, The Monkey’s Wrench

  • Andrew Martin, Early Work: A Novel

  • Italo Calvino, The Complete Cosmicomics

  • Don DeLillo, The Silence

  • Domenico Starnone, Trick

  • Richard Powers, Galatea 2.2

  • Anita Brookner, Hotel Du Lac

  • Don DeLillo, Zero K

  • Anthony Trollope, The Way We Live Now

  • Cesare Pavese, The Moon and the Bonfires

  • Kazuo Ishiguro, Klara and the Sun

  • Don DeLillo, Point Omega

  • Emily St. John Mandel, The Glass Hotel

  • George Saunders, Lincoln in the Bardo

  • Kazuo Ishiguro, The Buried Giant

  • Sarah Moss, Summerwater

  • Jeff VanderMeer, Dead Astronauts

  • James Shapiro, Shakespeare in a Divided America

  • Seamus Heaney (trans), Beowulf

    …for the First Time (Philosophy and Philosophy Adjacent Topics)

  • Sarah Bakewell, At the Existentialist Café: Freedom, Being, and Apricot Cocktails

  • Toby Ord, The Precipice

  • Stuart Jeffries, Everything, All the Time, Everywhere: How We Became Postmodern

  • Charles Taylor, The Malaise of Modernity

  • Jeremy Waldron, One Another’s Equals: The Basis of Human Equality

  • Jeffery L. Nicholas (Editor), The Expanse and Philosophy

  • Michael Walzer, In the Company of Critics

  • Timothy J. Demy et al. (eds.), Military Ethics and Emerging Technologies

  • Daniel Dennett, Intuition Pumps And Other Tools for Thinking

  • David J. Gunkel, Robot Rights

  • Michael Walzer, Arguing about War

  • Catherine Wilson, How to Be an Epicurean: The Ancient Art of Living Well

  • George Kateb, Human Dignity

    …for the First Time (Other Non-Fiction)

  • Julia Galef, The Scout Mindset

  • John R. White, A History of American Higher Education (Third Edition)

  • Tim Marshall, Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Explain Everything About the World

  • Thomas M. Kostigen, Hacking Planet Earth: Technologies That Can Counteract Climate Change and Create a Better Future

  • Brad DeLong, Slouching Towards Utopia: An Economic History of the Twentieth Century

  • Louis Menand, The Free World: Art and Thought in the Cold War

  • Howard Raiffa, Memoir: Analytic Roots of a Decision Scientist

  • Michael Wooldridge, A Brief History of Artificial Intelligence What It Is, Where We Are, and Where We Are Going

  • Andrea Wulf, The Invention of Nature: Alexander von Humboldt's New World

  • Julian Bell, Van Gogh: A Power Seething

  • Ross King, Mad Enchantment: Claude Monet and the Painting of the Water Lilies

  • Alistair Horne, Seven Ages of Paris

  • Carter Malkasian, The American War in Afghanistan: A History'

  • The Art Institute of Chicago: The Essential Guide (Revised Edition)

  • Craig Whitlock, The Afghanistan Papers: A Secret History of the War

  • Tim Harford, The Data Detective

  • Thich Nhat Hanh, The Heart of the Buddha’s Teaching

  • Keith Devlin, The Unfinished Game: Pascal, Fermat, and the Seventeenth-Century Letter that Made the World Modern

  • Aubrey Clayton, Bernoulli’s Fallacy

  • Craig Clunas, Art in China

  • Robert E. Fischer, Buddhist Art and Architecture

  • Martin Show, The New Western War of War

  • Robert Ayson, Thomas Schelling and the Nuclear Age

  • Stuart Russell and Peter Norvig, Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach

  • George Friedman, The Next 100 Years: A Forecast for the 21st Century

  • David Spiegelhalter, The Art of Statistics

  • Michael Lewis, The Premonition: A Pandemic Story

  • Erik Brynjolfsson and Andrew McAfee, The Second Machine Age: Work, Progress, and Prosperity in a Time of Brilliant Technologies

  • Yuval Noah Harari, Homo Deus

  • Beppe Severgnini, La Bella Figura

  • Max Tegmark, Life 3.0

  • John Hooper, The Italians

  • Paul Scharre, Army of None: Autonomous Weapons and the Future of War

  • Margaret MacMillan, War: How Conflict Shapes Us

  • Cass Sunstein, The Cost-Benefit Revolution

  • Paul Starr, The Social Transformation of American Medicine (Second Edition)

  • Walpola Rahula, What the Buddha Taught

  • Brian Christian, The Alignment Problem

  • Susan Schneider, Artificial You

  • Stuart Russell, Human Compatible

  • William Poundstone, The Doomsday Calculation

  • John Berry, The Great Influenza

…Once Again as Part of My Teaching

  • Thomas Nagel, What Does It All Mean?

  • Nick Bostrom, Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies

  • JJC Smart and Bernard Williams, Utilitarianism: For and Against

  • Immanuel Kant, Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals

  • Peter Singer, The Life You Can Save

  • Peter Singer, The Most Good You Can Do

  • Will MacAskill, Doing Good Better

TV

  • Into the Night, Seasons 1 and 2

  • Katla

  • The Silo, Season 1

  • Travelers, Seasons 1-3

  • Alice in Border Land, Season 2

  • Tales from the Loop, Season 1

  • 1899, Season 1

  • Altered Carbon, Season 1

  • Severance, Season 1

  • The Peripheral, Season 1

  • Counterpart, Seasons 1 and 2

  • Sandman, Season 1

  • Archer, Seasons 12 - 14

  • Undone, Seasons 1 and 2

  • Slow Horses, Seasons 1-3

  • Russian Doll, Seasons 1 and 2

  • For All Mankind, Season 1

  • The Expanse, Season 6

  • My Brilliant Friend, Season 1

  • Lovecraft Country

  • Archer, Season 11

  • Alice in Borderland, Season 1

  • Watchmen, Season 1

  • Homecoming, Seasons 1 and 2

  • Dark, Season 3

  • The Expanse, Seasons 1-5 (again!)

Museums and Such

  • The National Center for Civil and Human Rights, Atlanta, GA

  • The David J. Spencer Museum at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA

  • The Georgia Aquarium, Atlanta, GA

  • The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA

  • The Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA

  • The Metropolitan Museum, New York, NY

  • The Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, NY

  • The New York Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY

  • The Walters Museum of Art, Baltimore, MD

  • The Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, MD

  • American Visionary Art Museum, Baltimore, MD

  • The National Aquarium, Baltimore, MD