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We talk a lot about nonfiction, but is that all we read? We go over why fiction's worth taking seriously, along with a few of our favorite books.
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Things mentioned in this episode:
Tom's Books:
Martin's Books:
Other links:
- Tom on Goodreads
- Martin on Goodreads
- Crash Course
- Tom's Impossible List
- How Ben Franklin Structured His Day
- The Procrastination Equation: An In-Depth Breakdown (Ep. 167)
- How to Make Consistent Progress on Your Goals (Even If You're Lazy)
- Man's Search for Meaning, by Viktor Frankl
- Buffer - The Surprising Power of Reading Fiction
- Cuckoo's Egg, by Clifford Stoll
- Story of a Shipwrecked Sailor, by Gabriel García-Márquez (Spanish version)
- How to Remember More of What You Learn with Spaced Repetition
- 9 Life-Changing Books (Ep. 96)
- Neuromancer, by William Gibson
- The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making, by Catherynne Valente
- Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, and Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There, by Lewis Carroll
- A Crash Course on How to Start Investing (Even If You’re in Debt) (Ep. 168)
- Listen Money Matters
- Cryptonomicon
- Tom's Top 10 Favorite Fiction Books!
- The Name of the Wind, and The Wise Man's Fear, by Patrick Rothfuss
- Rogues, by George R. R. Martin, Neil Gaiman, Patrick Rothfuss, and more (the anthology with a story about one of the characters from The Kingkiller Chronicle)
- Ender's Game, by Orson Scott Card
- Rationality: From AI to Zombies, by Eliezer Yudkowsky
- Predictably Irrational, by Dan Ariely
- Thinking, Fast and Slow, by Daniel Kahneman
- A Short History of Nearly Everything, by Bill Bryson
- Marvel Unlimited
- Mistborn: The Final Empire, by Brandon Sanderson
- The Metropolitan Man, by Alexander Wales
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