List of books brought up on V Sauce
3 min readSep 20, 2021
Brought up list from this source:
https://websitefinder.wordpress.com/2018/11/25/57-books-featured-in-vsauces-videos%E2%80%8B/
- What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions by Randall Munroe
- Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies by Jared Diamond
- The Improbability Principle: Why Coincidences, Miracles, and Rare Events Happen Every Day by David J. Hand
- Things to Make and Do in the Fourth Dimension by Matt Parker
- Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future by Peter Thiel
- The Meaning of It All: Thoughts of a Citizen-Scientist by Richard Feynman
- The Seven Mysteries of Life: An Exploration of Science and Philosophy by Guy Murchie
- Just My Type: A Book About Fonts by Simon Garfield
- Gadsby by Ernest Vincent Wright
- The Pea and the Sun: A Mathematical Paradox by Leonard M. Wapner
- The Outer Limits of Reason: What Science, Mathematics, and Logic Cannot Tell Us by Noson S. Yanofsky
- Why Beliefs Matter: Reflections on the Nature of Science by E. Brian Davies
- Death by Black Hole: And Other Cosmic Quandaries by Neil deGrasse Tyson
- Everything Bad is Good for You by Steven Johnson
- The Mind Test by Rita Aero
- A Philosophy of Boredom by Lars Fr. H. Svendsen
- Soccernomics by Simon Kuper
- Paper Towns by John Green
- There Are Two Errors in the the Title of This Book by Robert M. Martin
- Smoke Gets in Your Eyes: And Other Lessons from the Crematory by Caitlin Doughty
- The Poetry of Thought: From Hellenism to Celan by George Steiner
- Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
- The $12 Million Stuffed Shark: The Curious Economics of Contemporary Art by Don Thompson
- Rethinking Curating: Art After New Media by Beryl Graham
- Quirkology by Richard Wiseman
- The Universal History of Numbers: From Prehistory to the Invention of the Computer by Georges Ifrah
- The 80/20 Principle: The Secret to Achieving More with Less by Richard Koch
- Remember, Remember (The Fifth Of November): The History Of Britain In Bite Sized Chunks by Judy Parkinson
- The Scapegoat by René Girard
- Command and Control: Nuclear Weapons, the Damascus Accident, and the Illusion of Safety by Eric Schlosser
- Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity by Katherine Boo
- Should You Judge This Book by Its Cover?: 100 Fresh Takes on Familiar Sayings and Quotationsby Julian Baggini
- Rene Girard and Myth: An Introduction by Richard J. Golsan
- Relativity Visualized: The Gold Nugget of Relativity Books by Lewis Carroll Epstein
- A Universe from Nothing: Why There Is Something Rather than Nothing by Lawrence M. Krauss
- Evolution and Conversion: Dialogues on the Origins of Culture by René Girard
- The Universe and the Teacup: The Mathematics of Truth and Beauty by K.C. Cole
- The World Until Yesterday: What Can We Learn from Traditional Societies? by Jared Diamond
- Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community by Robert D. Putnam
- How to Disappear by Frank M. Ahearn
- Boredom: A Lively History by Peter Toohey
- The Whys of a Philosophical Scrivener by Martin Gardner
- The Half-life of Facts: Why Everything We Know Has an Expiration Date by Samuel Arbesman
- Mathematics, Magic and Mystery by Martin Gardner
- Probability Tales by Charles M. Grinstead
- After We Die: The Life and Times of the Human Cadaver by Norman L. Cantor
- Spacesuit: Fashioning Apollo by Nicholas de Monchaux
- The Pun Also Rises: How the Humble Pun Revolutionized Language, Changed History, and Made Wordplay More Than Some Antics by John Pollack
- The Art of Immersion: How the Digital Generation Is Remaking Hollywood, Madison Avenue, and the Way We Tell Stories by Frank Rose
- The 7 Laws of Magical Thinking: How Irrational Beliefs Keep Us Happy, Healthy, and Sane by Matthew Hutson
- Everyone Loves a Good Train Wreck: Why We Can’t Look Away by Eric G. Wilson
- Motel of the Mysteries by David Macaulay
- Expedition To Earth by Arthur C. Clarke
- The Logic of Scientific Discovery by Karl Popper
- The Pig That Wants to Be Eaten: 100 Experiments for the Armchair Philosopher by Julian Baggini
- The Life of the Cosmos by Lee Smolin
- In Search of the Multiverse by John Gribbin