# Books I've Read Reading notes, highlights, and reflections on the books that have shaped how I think — listed in the order I read them. ## The Shelf - **[[The Nerd Reich]]** (2026) — How Silicon Valley's wealthiest founders moved from libertarian fantasy to actively dismantling American democracy, turning technology into the operating system of state power itself. - **[[The Fraud]]** (2026) — A forensic account of how Keir Starmer and his inner circle captured the Labour Party, silenced its left wing, and delivered a government that abandoned nearly every promise it made to win. - **[[Hell - In Search of a Christian Ecology|Hell: In Search of a Christian Ecology]]** (2026) — Reclaiming the idea of hell as a site of ecological and spiritual reckoning rather than mere eternal punishment. - **[[All We Can Save]]** (2026) — An anthology of more than sixty women's voices charting truth, courage, and solutions for the climate crisis across science, activism, poetry, and Indigenous leadership. - **[[The Spirit Level]]** (2026) — Wilkinson and Pickett's case that inequality is corrosive, and why more equal societies almost always do better across health, trust, and social cohesion. - **[[Station Eleven]]** (2026) — Emily St. John Mandel's non-linear post-apocalyptic novel about the endurance of art and humanity twenty years after a pandemic wipes out ninety-nine percent of the world. - **[[How Did We Get Into This Mess]]** (2026) — George Monbiot's essays on how neoliberalism, corporate power, media failure, and political timidity combined to erode democracy and accelerate environmental destruction. - **[[Doughnut Economics]]** (2026) — Kate Raworth's reimagining of economics as a target between social foundations and ecological ceilings, replacing the endless-growth treadmill with a regenerative doughnut. - **[[Humans - A Brief History of How We F*cked It All Up]]** (2025) — Tom Phillips' darkly comic tour of human history as one long chain of arrogance, poor planning, and catastrophic blunders. --- _New additions appear here as soon as their note has a `Read` date._