Joe Ochman

14 books

Air-Borne: The Hidden History of the Life We Breathe by Carl Zimmer

Air-Borne: The Hidden History of the Life We Breathe

Carl Zimmer

496 pages • 2025

nonfiction health science informative reflective medium-paced
Antifragile by Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Antifragile

Incerto #4

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

519 pages • paperback • 2012

nonfiction business economics philosophy psychology challenging informative reflective slow-paced
Becoming Earth: How Our Planet Came to Life by Ferris Jabr

Becoming Earth: How Our Planet Came to Life

Ferris Jabr

304 pages • hardcover • 2024

nonfiction nature science hopeful informative reflective medium-paced
The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable by Nassim Nicholas Taleb

The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable

Incerto #2

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

366 pages • hardcover • 2007

nonfiction business economics philosophy psychology challenging informative reflective slow-paced
The City Game: Triumph, Scandal, and a Legendary Basketball Team by Matthew Goodman

The City Game: Triumph, Scandal, and a Legendary Basketball Team

Matthew Goodman

448 pages • 2019

nonfiction history sports reflective slow-paced
Island of Vice: Theodore Roosevelt's Doomed Quest to Clean up Sin-loving New York by Richard Zacks

Island of Vice: Theodore Roosevelt's Doomed Quest to Clean up Sin-loving New York

Richard Zacks

465 pages • 2012

nonfiction biography history informative slow-paced
Knockemstiff by Donald Ray Pollock

Knockemstiff

Donald Ray Pollock

206 pages • 2008

fiction contemporary short stories dark reflective medium-paced
Life's Edge: The Search for What It Means to Be Alive by Carl Zimmer

Life's Edge: The Search for What It Means to Be Alive

Carl Zimmer

368 pages • hardcover • 2021

nonfiction essays history science emotional informative reflective medium-paced
The Revolution Was Televised: How the Sopranos, Mad Men, Breaking Bad, Lost, and Other Groundbreaking Dramas Changed TV Forever by Alan Sepinwall

The Revolution Was Televised: How the Sopranos, Mad Men, Breaking Bad, Lost, and Other Groundbreaking Dramas Changed TV Forever

Alan Sepinwall

400 pages • paperback • 2012

nonfiction informative fast-paced
She Has Her Mother's Laugh: The Powers, Perversions, and Potential of Heredity by Carl Zimmer

She Has Her Mother's Laugh: The Powers, Perversions, and Potential of Heredity

Carl Zimmer

672 pages • paperback • 2018

nonfiction history science informative reflective slow-paced