books recommended by Cleo Abram

Cleo Abram is a video producer at Vox. She is a producer on Vox’s Netflix show Explained, and a host and producer on Vox’s YouTube Originals show Glad You Asked.

Cleo Abram is a video producer at Vox. She is a producer on Vox’s Netflix show Explained, and a host and producer on Vox’s YouTube Originals show Glad You Asked.

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books recommended by Cleo Abram

Dune

Dune

Frank Herbert

1984

1984

George Orwell

The Three-Body Problem

The Three-Body Problem

Cixin Liu

Moonwalking with Einstein

Moonwalking with Einstein

Joshua Foer

High Growth Handbook

High Growth Handbook

Elad Gil

The Overstory

The Overstory

Richard Powers

You Look Like a Thing and I Love You

You Look Like a Thing and I Love You

Janelle Shane

Stories of Your Life and Others

Stories of Your Life and Others

Ted Chiang

Seveneves

Seveneves

Neal Stephenson

Exhalation

Exhalation

Ted Chiang

Dark Matter

Dark Matter

Blake Crouch

Exit West

Exit West

Mohsin Hamid

Never Split the Difference

Never Split the Difference

Chris Voss

Slaughterhouse-Five

Slaughterhouse-Five

Kurt Vonnegut

Americanah

Americanah

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

The Looming Tower

The Looming Tower

Lawrence Wright

The Name of the Wind

The Name of the Wind

Patrick Rothfuss

The Visual Display of Quantitative Information

The Visual Display of Quantitative Information

Edward R. Tufte

Asymmetry

Asymmetry

Lisa Halliday

Screenplay

Screenplay

Syd Field

The Dream Machine

The Dream Machine

M. Mitchell Waldrop

The Wealth of Networks

The Wealth of Networks

Yochai Benkler

Reinventing Comics

Reinventing Comics

Scott McCloud

The Master Switch

The Master Switch

Tim Wu

Norse Mythology

Norse Mythology

Neil Gaiman

NW

Zadie Smith

Phantoms in the Brain

Phantoms in the Brain

V.S. Ramachandran & Sandra Blakeslee,

Recursion

Recursion

Blake Crouch

Stranger in a Strange Land

Stranger in a Strange Land

Robert A. Heinlein

The Paper Mengerie

The Paper Mengerie

Ken Liu

Why Not Me?

Why Not Me?

Mindy Kaling

Why We're Polarized

Why We're Polarized

Ezra Klein

The City We Became

The City We Became

N.K. Jemisin

1491

1491

Charles C. Mann

Astounding

Astounding

Alec Nevala-Lee

Death's End

Death's End

Cixin Liu

Dollars and Sense

Dollars and Sense

Dan Ariely

Figuring

Figuring

Maria Popova

Frankenstein Dreams

Frankenstein Dreams

Michael Sims

Girl Gone Viral

Girl Gone Viral

Arvin Ahmadi

Good Charts

Good Charts

Scott Berinato

How We Got to Now

How We Got to Now

Steven Johnson

Iraq + 100

Iraq + 100

Nassan Blasim

Parable of the Sower

Parable of the Sower

Octavia E. Butler

Parable of the Talents

Parable of the Talents

Octavia E. Butler

The Attention Merchants

The Attention Merchants

Tim Wu

The Dark Forest

The Dark Forest

Cixin Liu

The Fifth Season

The Fifth Season

N. K. Jemisin

The Obelisk Gate

The Obelisk Gate

N.K. Jemisin

The Stone Sky

The Stone Sky

N.K. Jemisin

The Trouble With Poetry

The Trouble With Poetry

Billy Collins

The Wandering Earth

The Wandering Earth

Cixin Liu

The Wise Man's Fear

The Wise Man's Fear

Patrick Rothfuss

We Are Our Brains

We Are Our Brains

D. F. Swaab

What We See When We Read

What We See When We Read

Peter Mendelsund

Ancillary Justice

Ancillary Justice

Ann Leckie

Y: The Last Man Book One

Y: The Last Man Book One

Brian K. Vaughan

Y: The Last Man Book Two

Y: The Last Man Book Two

Brian K. Vaughan

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Reading and experience train your model of the world. And even if you forget the experience or what you read, its effect on your model of the world persists. Your mind is like a compiled program you've lost the source of. It works, but you don't know why.

— Paul Graham