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.

Full show notes

Things mentioned in this episode:

Tom's Books:

American Gods, by Neil Gaiman

The Diamond Age, by Neal Stephenson

Logicomix, by Apostolos Doxiadis

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, by Douglas Adams

Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality, by Eliezer Yudkowsky

Martin's Books:

The Sirens of Titan, by Kurt Vonnegut

The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet, by David Mitchell

The Buried Giant, by Kazuo Ishiguro

The Slow Regard of Silent Things, by Patrick Rothfuss

Avatar: The Last Airbender - The Lost Adventures, by Gene Yang, Michael DiMartino, and Bryan Konietzko (also see The Promise, which takes place after the series)

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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