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Books Ted Chiang recommends

Public list compiled from their own recommendations. Science fiction writer; author of Stories of Your Life and Others and Exhalation.

Compiled by Kaffe from public sources, with a link to each one. Ted Chiang is not affiliated with Kaffe.

  1. The Language Instinct by Steven Pinker: IndieBound interview; explicitly recommends it source
  2. Seeing Voices by Oliver Sacks: his IndieBound staff-style picks source
  3. An American Childhood by Annie Dillard: his IndieBound staff-style picks source
  4. Iron and Silk by Mark Salzman: his IndieBound staff-style picks source
  5. The Gift of Stones by Jim Crace: his IndieBound staff-style picks source
  6. Peace by Gene Wolfe: his IndieBound staff-style picks source
  7. Lempriere's Dictionary by Lawrence Norfolk: his IndieBound staff-style picks; prefers the original British edition source
  8. Asimov's New Guide to Science by Isaac Asimov: PNBA Q&A; loved it as a kid, still recalls its explanations source
  9. The Foundation Trilogy by Isaac Asimov: PNBA Q&A; enormously influential when he started writing source
  10. I, Robot by Isaac Asimov: PNBA Q&A; enormously influential when he started writing source
  11. Pilgrim at Tinker Creek by Annie Dillard: book recommendations at end of Ezra Klein Show (2021); seen via transcript search result source
  12. CivilWarLand in Bad Decline by George Saunders: book recommendations at end of Ezra Klein Show (2021); seen via transcript search result source
  13. On Fragile Waves by E. Lily Yu: book recommendations at end of Ezra Klein Show (2021); seen via transcript search result source
  14. The Botany of Desire by Michael Pollan: IndieBound interview; was reading it and found it interesting source

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