Bookshelf
Books that had a particular influence on me have an *asterisk. Otherwise, the order is mostly random.
- * Walt Disney: The Triumph of the American Imagination by Neal Gabler
- The Wright Brothers by David McCullough
- * Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
- * Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman! by Richard P. Feynman
- Forward the Foundation by Isaac Asimov
- Prelude to Foundation by Isaac Asimov
- Foundation and Earth by Isaac Asimov
- The Foundation Trilogy by Isaac Asimov
- Foundation by Isaac Asimov
- Foundation's Edge by Isaac Asimov
- Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut
- Why We Sleep by Matthew Walker
- Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind by Shunryu Suzuki
- Atomic Habits by James Clear
- Pachinko by Min Jin Lee
- * Factfulness by Hans Rosling
- How to Change Your Mind by Michael Pollan
- Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
- *Flatland by Edwin Abbott Abott
- The Beautiful and Damned by F. Scott Fitzgerald
- * The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho
- * Lifelong Kindergarten by Mitch Resnick
- The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand
- Plato's Complete Works by Plato
- Beyond Good and Evil by Friedrich Nietzsche
- Evil: The Science Behind Humanity's Dark Side by Julia Shaw
- The Intelligent Investor by Benjamin Graham
- Essentialism by Greg McKeown
- Breakfast at Tiffany's by Truman Capote
- Red Notice by Bill Browder
- Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle
- Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson
- * The Art of War by Sun Tzu
- The Bible by Unknown Author
- A Song for Bellafortuna by Vincent B. 'Chip' LoCoco
- What You Do Is Who You Are by Ben Horowitz
- Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life by William Finnegan
- * How to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie
- Confucius Analects by Confucius
- Ready Player One by Ernest Cline
- Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse
- Three Kingdoms by Luo Guanzhong
- Short Stories in Italian edited by Nick Roberts
- Time's Magpie by David M. Schultz
- Educated by Tara Westover
- Essential by Greg McKeown
- Bad Blood by John Carreyrou
- Recursion by Blake Crouch
- The Originator Wars by Raymond L. Weil
- * Nature's Metropolis *** by William Cronon
- Tao Te Ching by Lao Tzu
- The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up by Marie Kondo
- * Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert M. Pirsig
- Colombia by Enrique Serrano
- 12 Rules for Life by Jordan B. Peterson
- The Right and Wrong Stuff by Carter Cast
- Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill
- Meditations by Marcus Aurelius
- Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng
- A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway
- How to Train a Wild Elephant by Jan Chozen Bays
- All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque
- Copenhagen by Michael Frayn
- Grit by Angela Duckworth
- The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
- The Call of the Wild by Jack London
- The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
- You Must Write a Book by Honoree Corder
- A Walk in the Woods by Bill Bryson
- 10% Happier by Dan Harris
- * Ordinary Grace by William Kent Krueger
- The Power of Habit by Charles Duhigg
- * The Time Keeper by Mitch Albom
- River Town by Peter Hessler
- Five Star Billionaire by Tash Aw
- * Steal Like an Artist by Austin Kleon
- A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backman
- 1984 by George Orwell
- The 4-Hour Workweek by Timothy Ferriss
- A Fraction of the Whole by Steve Toltz
- Smarter Faster Better by Charles Duhigg
- Norse Mythology by Neil Gaiman
- Dark Matter by Blake Crouch
- Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harari
- Think Small: The United States and the Lure of Community Development by Ryan Malloy
- Breakfast with Buddha by Roland Merullo
- The Power of Now by Eckhart Tolle
- Around the World in 80 Days by Jules Verne
- The Lean Startup by Eric Ries
- Shoe Dog by Phil Knight
- The Right Stuff by Tom Wolfe
- This Side of Paradise by F. Scott Fitzgerald
- The Tale of Genji by Murasaki Shikibu
- When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi
- All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr
- The Notebook by Nicholas Sparks
- Resilience by Eric Greitens
- East of Eden by John Steinbeck
- The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
- Orphan Train by Christina Baker Kline
- The Grand Inquisitor by Fyodor Dostoevsky
- The Dharma Bums by Jack Kerouac
- The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People by Stephen Covey
- On the Road by Jack Kerouac
- Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom
- The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
- Tender Is the Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald
- The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain
- The Crazed by Ha Jin
- Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand
- Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn
- The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins
- The Other Wes Moore by Wes Moore
- The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
- Mississippi by William Faulkner
- The Same Kind of Different as Me by Ron Hall, Denver Moore, Lynn Vincent
- Debt: The First 5000 Years by David Graeber
- * Theodore Rex by Edmund Morris
- Bushido: The Soul of Japan by Inazo Nitobe
- Confederates in the Attic by Tony Horwitz
- The Odyssey by Homer
- A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
- Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
- Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim by David Sedaris
- A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson
- Peter and the Starcatchers by Dave Barry, Ridley Pearson
- * Artemis Fowl by Eoin Colfer
- Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J.K. Rowling
- Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets by J.K. Rowling
- Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban by J.K. Rowling
- Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by J.K. Rowling
- Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix by J.K. Rowling
- Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince by J.K. Rowling
- Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J.K. Rowling
- Eragon by Christopher Paolini
- The Power Broker by Robert A. Caro
- A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles
- Babylon Revisited by F. Scott Fitzgerald
- The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien
- * The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
- For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway
- Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
- * A Separate Peace by John Knowles
- Seal Team Six: Memoirs of an Elite Navy SEAL by Howard E. Wasdin, Stephen Templin
- * The Once and Future King by T. H. White
- Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
- The Signal and the Noise by Nate Silver
- The Fault in Our Stars by John Green
- * Huo Zhe, To Live by Yu Hua
- Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger
- The Giver by Lois Lowry
- Animal Farm by George Orwell
- To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
- Steinbeck by John Steinbeck
- Hamlet by William Shakespeare
- Robert Frost Collected Poems by Robert Frost
- The Crucible by Arthur Miller
- The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros
- * Paul Graham Essays by Paul Graham
- A Room of One's Own by Virginia Woolf
- Looking for Alaska? by John Green
- * Flannery O'Connor's Short Stories by Flannery O'Connor
- Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
- Open by Andre Agassi
- * The Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins
- Guns, Germs, and Steel by Jared Diamond
- Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates
- The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
- Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
- The Pearl by John Steinbeck
- * The Hobbit by J. R. R. Tolkien
- The Lord of the Rings Series by J. R. R. Tolkien
- The Chronicles of Narnia by C. S. Lewis
- Dreams from My Father by Barack Obama
- George Washington Biography by Ron Chernow
- The Patriarch by David Nasaw
- The Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan
- The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank
- The Complete Stories of Edgar Allan Poe by Edgar Allan Poe
- The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
- The Naval War of 1812 by Theodore Roosevelt
- Quotations from Chairman Mao Zedong by Mao Zedong
- * Understanding China by John Bryan Starr
- R for Data Science (R4DS) by Hadley Wickham
- * An Introduction to Statistical Learning by Gareth James, Daniela Witten, Trevor Hastie,
Robert
Tibshirani
- * This Is My God by Herman Wouk
- T. S. Eliot Collected Poems by T. S. Eliot
- Rumi's Poems by Rumi
- Lotus Sutra by Saddharma Pundarika
- * 100 Things a Boy Can Make by Daniel C. Beard
- * Hatchet by Gary Paulsen
- Flint by Louis L'Amour
- * How to Solve It by George Polya
- * Mindstorms by Seymour Papert
- * The Children's Machine by Seymour Papert
- * Poor Richard's Almanack by Benjamin Franklin
- Zero to One by Peter Thiel
- Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat by Samin Nosrat
- The Art of Game Design by Jesse Schell
- Eddy Covariance Flux Measurements by G. Burba & D. Anderson
- Henry V by William Shakespere
- Benjamin Franklin by Walter Isaacson
- Amp it Up by Frank Slootman
- The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller
- In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
- A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway
- Lincoln Highway by Amor Towles
- Three Body Problem by CiXin Lu
- Dark Forest by Cixin Lu
- Death's End by Cixin Lu
- Circe by Madeline Miller
- Ender's Shadow by Orson Scott Card
- Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card
- Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl
- * Starting Point by Hayao Miyazaki
- Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir
- Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion by Robert Cialdini
- Red Rising by Pierce Brown
- StoryWorthy by Matthew Dicks
- 100M Offers by Alex Hormozi
- Poor Charlie's Almanack by Charles T. Munger
- Alchemy by Rory Sutherland
- Fooled By Randomness by Nassim Taleb
- A Theory of Human Motivation by A. H. Maslow
- Entire Dune Series by Frank Herbert