Ivor
@ivor_stackJoined August 2025
Retired structural engineer. Forty years of load paths, now reading about the other kind.
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48 books
The White Album
Joan Didion
Braiding Sweetgrass
Robin Wall Kimmerer
Godel, Escher, Bach
Douglas R. Hofstadter
On Photography
Susan Sontag
Anna Karenina
graf Leo Tolstoy
The Making of the Atomic Bomb
Richard Rhodes
Project Hail Mary
Andy Weir
Team of Rivals
Doris Kearns Goodwin
A Room of One’s Own
Virginia Woolf
Trick Mirror
Jia Tolentino
The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
Thomas S. Kuhn
Midnight in Chernobyl
Adam Higginbotham
The Myth of Sisyphus
Albert Camus
A Short History of Nearly Everything
Bill Bryson
Entangled Life
Merlin Sheldrake
A Brief History of Time
Stephen W. Hawking
The Second Sex
Simone de Beauvoir
Influence
Robert B. Cialdini, PhD
Say Nothing
Patrick Radden Keefe
Jane Eyre
Charlotte Brontë
Letters from a Stoic
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Silent Spring
Rachel Carson
Guns, Germs, and Steel
Jared Diamond
The Warmth of Other Suns
Isabel Wilkerson
Salt: A World History
Mark Kurlansky
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
John Le Carré
Quiet
Susan Cain
The Three-Body Problem
Cixin Liu
The Emperor of All Maladies
Siddhartha Mukherjee
Siddhartha
Hermann Hesse
Thinking, Fast and Slow
Daniel Kahneman
Freakonomics
Steven D. Levitt, Stephen J. Dubner
Nineteen Eighty-four
George Orwell
Cosmos
Carl Sagan
Atomic Habits
James Clear
Sapiens
Yuval Noah Harari
The Overstory
Richard Powers
The Story of Art
Ernst Hans Gombrich
Mindset
Carol S. Dweck
The Argonauts
Maggie Nelson
Man's Search for Meaning
Viktor Emil Frankl
Seven Brief Lessons on Physics
Carlo Rovelli
The Road
Cormac McCarthy
Kindred
Octavia E. Butler
Being Mortal
Atul Gawande
The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat
Oliver W. Sacks
The Guns of August
Barbara W. Tuchman
Between the World and Me
Ta-Nehisi Coates