Doug O'laughlin's votes on the list Thoughtful Reads / Book Club

Listopia > Doug O'laughlin's votes on the list Thoughtful Reads / Book Club (67 Books)

1	The Grid: The Fraying Wires Between Americans and Our Energy Future by Gretchen Bakke 3.86 avg rating — 4,739 ratings Doug added it to to-read See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
2	String Theory: David Foster Wallace on Tennis by David Foster Wallace 4.15 avg rating — 6,063 ratings Doug added it to to-read See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
3	The Myth of the Strong Leader: Political Leadership in the Modern Age by Archie Brown 3.66 avg rating — 810 ratings Doug added it to to-read See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
4	The Gene: An Intimate History by Siddhartha Mukherjee 4.35 avg rating — 56,703 ratings Doug added it to to-read See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
5	Shoe Dog: A Memoir by the Creator of Nike by Phil Knight 4.45 avg rating — 377,281 ratings Doug rated it 5 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
6	Black Hole Blues and Other Songs from Outer Space by Janna Levin 3.74 avg rating — 2,603 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
7	Time Travel: A History by James Gleick (Goodreads Author) 3.58 avg rating — 4,779 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
8	The Confidence Game: Why We Fall for It . . . Every Time by Maria Konnikova (Goodreads Author) 3.65 avg rating — 6,101 ratings Doug rated it 3 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
9	Being a Dog: Following the Dog Into a World of Smell by Alexandra Horowitz 3.75 avg rating — 1,738 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
10	The Glass Universe: How the Ladies of the Harvard Observatory Took the Measure of the Stars by Dava Sobel 3.60 avg rating — 3,572 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
11	Felt Time: The Psychology of How We Perceive Time by Marc Wittmann 3.53 avg rating — 611 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
12	I Contain Multitudes: The Microbes Within Us and a Grander View of Life by Ed Yong 4.17 avg rating — 32,453 ratings Doug rated it 4 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
13	The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate: Discoveries from a Secret World by Peter Wohlleben 4.06 avg rating — 90,294 ratings Doug rated it 5 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
14	The Big Picture: On the Origins of Life, Meaning, and the Universe Itself by Sean Carroll (Goodreads Author) 4.18 avg rating — 10,368 ratings Doug added it to to-read See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
15	Seven Brief Lessons on Physics by Carlo Rovelli 3.98 avg rating — 68,070 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
16	The Age of Em: Work, Love and Life When Robots Rule the Earth by Robin Hanson 3.42 avg rating — 624 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
17	Thieves of State: Why Corruption Threatens Global Security by Sarah Chayes 4.11 avg rating — 1,075 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
18	Le Dernier des nôtres by Adélaïde de Clermont-Tonnerre 3.71 avg rating — 1,898 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
19	The 100-Year Life: Living and Working in an Age of Longevity by Lynda Gratton 3.82 avg rating — 2,293 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
20	Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis by J.D. Vance 3.83 avg rating — 509,127 ratings Doug added it to to-read See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
21	Grit: Passion, Perseverance, and the Science of Success by Angela Duckworth (Goodreads Author) 4.08 avg rating — 144,392 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
22	The Inevitable: Understanding the 12 Technological Forces That Will Shape Our Future by Kevin Kelly (Goodreads Author) 3.89 avg rating — 11,985 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
23	The Silk Roads: A New History of the World by Peter Frankopan 4.17 avg rating — 50,068 ratings Doug rated it 3 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
24	Other People's Money: The Real Business of Finance by John Kay 3.92 avg rating — 1,491 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
25	But What If We're Wrong? Thinking About the Present As If It Were the Past by Chuck Klosterman 3.66 avg rating — 18,816 ratings Doug added it to to-read See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
26	The Mandibles: A Family, 2029–2047 by Lionel Shriver (Goodreads Author) 3.71 avg rating — 12,067 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
27	Through the Eye of a Needle: Wealth, the Fall of Rome, and the Making of Christianity in the West, 350-550 AD by Peter Brown 4.29 avg rating — 679 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
28	Somme: Into the Breach by Hugh Sebag-Montefiore 4.06 avg rating — 429 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
29	How To Watch Football by Ruud Gullit 3.12 avg rating — 1,305 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
30	A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles (Goodreads Author) 4.32 avg rating — 682,697 ratings Doug rated it 5 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
31	White Trash: The 400-Year Untold History of Class in America by Nancy Isenberg 3.77 avg rating — 25,403 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
32	Global Inequality: A New Approach for the Age of Globalization by Branko Milanović really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1,143 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
33	The Rise and Fall of American Growth: The U.S. Standard of Living since the Civil War (The Princeton Economic History of the Western World) by Robert J. Gordon 4.19 avg rating — 2,179 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
34	The Euro and the Battle of Ideas by Markus Brunnermeier 3.92 avg rating — 133 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
35	Avid Reader: A Life by Robert Adams Gottlieb 3.77 avg rating — 1,414 ratings Doug added it to to-read See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
36	The Pigeon Tunnel: Stories from My Life by John le Carré 4.05 avg rating — 6,786 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
37	All That Man Is by David Szalay 3.70 avg rating — 10,916 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
38	Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City by Matthew Desmond (Goodreads Author) 4.47 avg rating — 115,770 ratings Doug added it to to-read See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
39	$2.00 a Day: Living on Almost Nothing in America by Kathryn J. Edin 3.96 avg rating — 8,891 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
40	Strangers in Their Own Land: Anger and Mourning on the American Right by Arlie Russell Hochschild 4.12 avg rating — 18,069 ratings Doug added it to to-read See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
41	Taxing the Rich: A History of Fiscal Fairness in the United States and Europe by Kenneth Scheve 3.73 avg rating — 66 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
42	Creativity, Inc.: Overcoming the Unseen Forces That Stand in the Way of True Inspiration by Ed Catmull 4.21 avg rating — 103,934 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
43	Ready Player One: A Novel By Ernest Cline \| Digest & Review by Reader's Companions 4.16 avg rating — 32 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
44	Why Are We Waiting?: The Logic, Urgency, and Promise of Tackling Climate Change by Nicholas Stern 3.84 avg rating — 58 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
45	The Man Who Knew: The Life and Times of Alan Greenspan by Sebastian Mallaby 4.32 avg rating — 1,281 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
46	The Vegetarian by Han Kang 3.65 avg rating — 411,891 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
47	The End of Alchemy: Money, Banking, and the Future of the Global Economy by Mervyn A. King 4.07 avg rating — 2,225 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
48	The Industries of the Future by Alec J. Ross (Goodreads Author) 3.96 avg rating — 8,460 ratings Doug added it to to-read See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
49	The Romanovs, 1613-1918 by Simon Sebag Montefiore (Goodreads Author) 4.02 avg rating — 16,611 ratings Doug added it to to-read See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
50	Meetings with Remarkable Manuscripts by Christopher de Hamel 4.42 avg rating — 1,614 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
51	A Call to Conscience: The Landmark Speeches by Clayborne Carson 4.62 avg rating — 1,191 ratings Doug added it to to-read See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
52	Alexander Hamilton by Ron Chernow 4.22 avg rating — 202,684 ratings Doug rated it 5 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
53	Failure to Adjust: How Americans Got Left Behind in the Global Economy (A Council on Foreign Relations Book) by Edward Alden 4.11 avg rating — 66 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
54	Democracy for Realists: Why Elections Do Not Produce Responsive Government by Christopher H. Achen 3.98 avg rating — 1,147 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
55	The Great Convergence: Information Technology and the New Globalization by Richard Baldwin 3.82 avg rating — 527 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
56	The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins (Goodreads Author) 3.96 avg rating — 3,329,132 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
57	Black Box Thinking: Why Some People Never Learn from Their Mistakes - But Some Do by Matthew Syed 4.28 avg rating — 14,726 ratings Doug added it to to-read See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
58	Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari 4.33 avg rating — 1,288,088 ratings Doug rated it 4 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
59	The Architecture of Collapse: The Global System in the 21st Century by Mauro F. Guillén 4.40 avg rating — 15 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
60	Red Notice: A True Story of High Finance, Murder, and One Man's Fight for Justice by Bill Browder (Goodreads Author) 4.44 avg rating — 110,147 ratings Doug rated it 4 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
61	The Undoing Project: A Friendship That Changed Our Minds by Michael Lewis 3.99 avg rating — 64,602 ratings Doug rated it 4 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
62	Kissinger: Vol 1: The Idealist, 1923-1968 by Niall Ferguson 4.17 avg rating — 1,218 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
63	The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt 3.97 avg rating — 1,056,935 ratings Doug added it to to-read See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
64	Lab Girl by Hope Jahren (Goodreads Author) 3.98 avg rating — 72,425 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
65	Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood by Trevor Noah 4.49 avg rating — 821,977 ratings Doug rated it 5 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
66	Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman 4.17 avg rating — 599,530 ratings Doug rated it 5 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
67	Unraveling the Mystery of Autism and Pervasive Developmental Disorder: A Mother's Story of Research and Recovery by Karyn Seroussi 3.43 avg rating — 7 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars