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My reading list since 2015.
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Elon Musk
Walter Isaacson
No Bad Parts
Richard Schwartz
The First World War
Martin Gilbert
The Gospels (The Word on Fire Bible Volume I)
Compiled by Bishop Robert Barron
The Tender Parts: A Guide to Healing from Trauma through Internal Family Systems Therapy
Ilyse Kennedy
2024
Bad Therapy
Abigail Shrier
Crypto Confidential
Nat Eliason
East of Eden
John Steinbeck
Einstein’s Dreams
Alan Lightman
Flowers for Algernon
Daniel Keyes
Logicomix: An Epic Search for Truth
Christos H. Papadimitriou and Apostolos Doxiadis
Straw Dogs
John Gray
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
Robert Pirsig
2023
Bareboat Cruising (ASA 104)
US Sailing
Basic Cruising (ASA 103)
US Sailing
Country Driving: A Chinese Road Trip
Peter Hessler
Critical Lives: Muhammad
Yahiya Emerick
Death's End
Liu Cixin
Discipline Equals Freedom
Jocko Willink
Discourse on the Origin of Inequality
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Extreme Ownership
Jocko Willink
Global Islam: A Very Short Introduction
Nile Green
How the World Really Works: A Scientist's Guide to Our Past, Present and Future
Vaclav Smil
Into the Amazon: The Life of Cândido Rondon, Trailblazing Explorer, Scientist, Statesman, and Conservationist
Larry Rohter
Israel: A History
Martin Gilbert
Jesus: A Very Short Introduction
Richard Bauckham
Novacene
James Lovelock
On China
Henry Kissinger
Permutation City
Greg Egan
The Analects
Confucius
The Courage to Be Disliked
Ichiro Kishimi and Fumitake Koga
The Creative Act: A Way of Being
Rick Rubin
The Dark Forest
Liu Cixin
The Lessons of History
Will and Ariel Durant
The Pocket Rumi
Edited by Kabir Helminski
The Prince
Niccolo Machiavelli
The Right Stuff
Tom Wolfe
The River of Doubt: Theodore Roosevelt's Darkest Journey
Candice Millard
The Sacred Path to Islam
The Sincere Seeker Collection
The Sovereign Individual
James Dale Davidson
The Three Body Problem
Liu Cixin
The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying
Sogyal Rinpoche
The Upanishads
Translated by Juan Mascaro
The Year of Magical Thinking
Joan Didion
Unrestricted Warfare
Qiao Liang and Wang Xiangsui
What Your Food Ate: How to Heal Our Land and Reclaim Our Health
David R. Montgomery and Anne Bikle
Where's My Flying Car?
J. Storrs Hall
2022
Ten Arguments for Deleting Your Social Media Accounts Right Now
Jaron Lanier
The Dictator's Handbook: Why Bad Behavior is Almost Always Good Politics
Bruce Bueno de Mesquita and Alastair Smith
The Revolt of The Public and the Crisis of Authority in the New Millennium
Martin Gurri
The Revolt of the Elites and the Betrayal of Democracy
Christopher Lasch
2021
Approaching the Qur'an: The Early Revelations
Michael Sells
Crying in H-Mart
Michelle Zauner
Diffi cult Conversations
Douglas Stone
The Lessons of History
Will and Ariel Durant
The Torah
The Jewish Study Bible
2020
A Very Short Introduction to the U.S. Constitution
David J. Bodenhamer
Atomic Habits
James Clear
Discipline Equals Freedom
Jocko Willink
Educated
Tara Westover
Einstein’s Dreams
Alan Lightman
Get a Financial Life
Beth Kobliner
God’s Debris
Scott Adams
History of God
Karen Armstrong
King Warrior Magician Lover
Robert Moore and Douglas Gillette
Little Fires Everywhere
Celeste Ng
Lying
Sam Harris
Man’s Search for Meaning
Viktor Frankl
Muhammad
Karen Armstrong
Solitude and Leadership
William Deresiewicz
The Almanack of Naval
Eric Jorgenson
The Bible
Karen Armstrong
The Case for God
Karen Armstrong
The Code. The Evaluation. The Protocols.
Jocko Willink
The Conscience of a Conservative
Barry Goldwater
The De fining Decade
Meg Jay
The Fourth Turning
William Strauss and Neil Howe
The Lessons of History
Will and Ariel Durant
The Leviathan (Ch. 13, 17–21)
Thomas Hobbes
The Prophet
Kahlil Gibran
The Sense of an Ending
Julian Barnes
The Straussian Moment
Peter Thiel
When Breath Becomes Air
Dr. Paul Kalanithi
2019
12 Rules for Life
Jordan Peterson
A Monk’s Guide to a Clean House and Mind
Shoukei Matsumoto
All the Light We Cannot See
Anthony Doerr
Automating Inequality
Virginia Eubanks
Bad Blood
John Carreyrou
Hillbilly Elegy
J. D. Vance
Love Does
Bob Goff
Meditations
Marcus Aurelius
On The Shortness of Life
Seneca
Permanent Record
Edward Snowden
The Enchiridion
Epictetus
The Goal
Eliyahu M. Goldratt
The Johnstown Flood
David McCullough
The Republic (Books 1, 7, and 8)
Plato
The Sixth Extinction
Elizabeth Kolbert
The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Milan Kundera
The World After Capital
Albert Wenger
2018
A Little Life
Hanya Yanagihara
Deep Work
Cal Newport
Draw to Win
Dan Roam
Homo Deus
Yuval Noah Harari
Love Yourself Like Your Life Depends On It
Kamal Ravikant
Make Time: How to Focus on What Matters Every Day
Jake Knapp and John Zeratsky
Mortality
Christopher Hitchens
Powerful: Building a Culture of Freedom and Responsibility
Patty McCord
Presenting design like your life depends on it
Mike Monteiro
Sapiens
Yuval Noah Harari
The Best Interface is No Interface
Golden Krishna
The Design of Everyday Things
Don Norman
The Inmates are Running the Asylum
Alan Cooper
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
Washington Irving
The Startup Gold Mine
Neil Soni
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Robert Louis Stevenson
The Vignelli Canon
Massimo Vignelli
Universal Principles of Design
2017
Ant Farm
Simon Rich
Antifragile
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Atomic Design
Brad Frost
Black Swan
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Creative Confidence
Tom Kelley & David Kelley
Crushing Low Stakes Poker: Volume 1
Mike Turner
Crushing Low Stakes Poker: Volume 2
Mike Turner
Death of Ivan Ilych
Leo Tolstoy
Emergency: This Book Will Save Your Life
Neil Strauss
Essential Poker Math
Alton Hardin
Finite and Infinite Games
James Carse
Fooled by Randomness
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Free Range Chickens
Simon Rich
Free Will
Sam Harris
How I Found Freedom in an Unfree World
Harry Browne
In Praise of Idleness
Bertrand Russell
Islam and The Future of Tolerance
Sam Harris
Jobs to be Done
Intercom
Letter to a Christian Nation
Sam Harris
Radical Focus
Christina Wodtke
Sapiens
Yuval Noah Harari
Sleep Wise
Daniel Jin Blum
Tao Te Ching
Laozi
The Alchemist
Paulo Coelho
The Course: Hold Em Strategies for Smart Players
Ed Miller
Tuesdays with Morrie
Mitch Albom
2016
Buddha’s Brain
Rick Hanson
Change by Design
Tim Brown
Chaos Monkeys
Antonio Garcia Martinez
Designing the Obvious
Robert Hoekman Jr.
Early Retirement Extreme: A philosophical and practical guide to financial independence
Jacob Lund Fisker
Hipster Business Models
Priceonomics
How to Eat
Thich Nhat Hanh
How to Love
Thich Nhat Hanh
How to Relax
Thich Nhat Hanh
How to Sit
Thich Nhat Hanh
How to Walk
Thich Nhat Hanh
Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion
Robert Cialdini
Lying
Sam Harris
Sprint
Jake Knapp
The Best Interface is No Interface
Golden Krishna
The Count of Monte Cristo
Alexander Dumas
The Design of Everyday Things
Don Norman
The Epic Struggle of the Internet of Things
Bruce Sterling
The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up
Marie Kondo
The Little Prince
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
The Way of the Superior Man
David Deida
Unscalable
Charlie Guo
Zero to One
Peter Thiel
2015 and earlier (ONLY IMPACTFUL / MEANINGFUL READS)
1984
George Orwell
A Thousand Splendid Suns
Khaled Hosseini
An Ordinary Man
Paul Rusesabagina
Animal Farm
George Orwell
Anthem
Ayn Rand
Atlas Shrugged
Ayn Rand
Black Like Me
John Howard Griffin
Brave New World
Alduous Huxley
Butterick’s Practical Typography
Matthew Butterick
Choke
Chuck Palahniuk
Descent into Chaos
Ahmed Rashid
East of Eden
John Steinbeck
Fight Club
Chuck Palahniuk
Flags of Our Fathers
James Bradley
For Whom the Bell Tolls
Ernest Hemingway
Freakonomics
Steven Levitt
Letters from a Stoic
Seneca
Liar’s Poker
Michael Lewis
Of Mice and Men
John Steinbeck
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
Ken Kesey
Pakistan on the Brink
Ahmed Rashid
Slaughterhouse Five
Kurt Vonnegut
Snow
Orhan Pamuk
Steve Jobs
Walter Isaacson
The Aquariums of Pyongyang
Kang Chol-Hwan
The Bell Jar
Sylvia Plath
The Big Short
Michael Lewis
The Fighter’s Mind
Sam Sheridan
The Giver
Lois Lowry
The Great Gatsby
F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Gun
C.J. Chivers
The Hobbit
J.R.R. Tolkien
The Kite Runner
Khaled Hosseini
The Lean Startup
Eric Ries
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Oscar Wilde
The Post American World 2.0
Fareed Zakaria
To Kill a Mockingbird
Harper Lee
Tuesdays with Morrie
Mitch Albom
Watchmen
Alan Moore