Sep 8, 2025 5 min read

Books

This page is an incomplete catalog of books that I've read or currently own. I've bolded books that stood out to me.

I use an Amazon list to keep track of books I'm considering purchasing.

Fiction & Literature

100 Years of Solitude — Gabriel García Márquez
The Screwtape Letters — C.S. Lewis
After Dark — Haruki Murakami
Kafka on the Shore — Haruki Murakami
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle — Haruki Murakami
Norwegian Wood — Haruki Murakami
Dance Dance Dance — Haruki Murakami
Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World — Haruki Murakami
A Wild Sheep Chase — Haruki Murakami
The Armor of Light — Ken Follett
The Pillars of the Earth — Ken Follett
Tender is the Flesh — Agustina Bazterrica
Red Rising (Series) — Pierce Brown
The Martian Way — Isaac Asimov
The Plague — Albert Camus
Sirens of Titan — Kurt Vonnegut
The Rise of Endymion — Dan Simmons
Endymion — Dan Simmons
Death's End — Liu Cixin
The Mind Body Problem — Rebecca Goldstein
The Dispossessed — Ursula K. Le Guin
Animal Farm — George Orwell
Einstein's Dreams — Alan Lightman
Where the Crawdads Sing — Delia Owens
The Fifth Season (Trilogy) — N. K. Jemisin
Exhalation — Ted Chiang
Atlas Shrugged — Ayn Rand
The Fountainhead — Ayn Rand *
Fall of Hyperion — Dan Simmons
Moby Dick or, The Whale — Herman Melville
The Stand — Stephen King
Cat's Cradle — Kurt Vonnegut
Contact — Carl Sagan *
Wise Man's Fear — Patrick Rothfuss *
The Name Of The Wind — Patrick Rothfuss *
Slaughterhouse Five — Kurt Vonnegut
Slapstick — Kurt Vonnegut
The Dark Forest — Cixin Liu
Catch-22 — Joseph Heller
Flowers for Algernon — Daniel Keyes
Ender's Game — Orson Scott Card
The Collapsing Empire — John Scalzi
Machine Learning — Hugh Howey
Stories of Your Life and Others — Ted Chiang
The Three Body Problem — Cixin Liu
Hyperion Cantos — Dan Simmons *
Saturn Run — John Sandford
Trilogy War Stories — Ken Follett
Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy — Douglas Adams *
The Dark Tower Series — Stephen King
Salem's Lot — Stephen King
Brave New World — Aldous Huxley
American Psycho — Bret Easton Ellis
Fahreinheit 451 — Ray Bradbury
1984 — George Orwell
Do Android's Dream of Electric Sheep — Phillip Dick
Foundation Series — Isaac Asimov *
Robot Series — Isaac Asimov
Dune — Frank Herbert *
His Dark Materials Series — Philip Pullman *
Artemis Fowl Series — Eoin Colfer
The Keys to the Kingdom Series — Garth Nix
The Great Tree of Avalon — TA Barron
The Hunger Games — Suzanne Collins
The Heir Chronicles — Cinda W. Chima
The Merlin Saga — TA Barron
Dragonlance Series — Weis & Hickman
Pendragon Series — DJ MacHale
Bartimaeus Trilogy — Jonathan Stroud
The Chronicles of Narnia — CS Lewis *
The Merlin Conspiracy — Diana W. Jones
The Lord of the Rings — JRR Tolkein
A Song Of Ice And Fire — George RR Martin
Harry Potter — JK Rowling
Pebble in the Sky — Isaac Asimov
The Stars, Like Dust — Isaac Asimov
Nightfall — Isaac Asimov *
Sharp Objects — Gillian Flynn
The Inheritance Cycle — Christopher Paolini

Biography & Autobiography

Becoming Steve Jobs — Brent Schlender
Daily Rituals: How Artists Work — Mason Currey
The Maniac — Benjamin Labatut
Savage Journey — Peter Richardson
Elon Musk — Walter Isaacson
From Third World to First — Lee Kuan Yew
Cinema Speculation — Quentin Tarantino
On The Road — Jack Kerouac
The Contrarian — Max Chafkin
Build — Tony Fadell
Total Recall — Arnold Schwarzenegger
The Man From the Future (Von Neumann) — Ananyo Bhattacharya
American Prometheus — Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin
Autobiography — John Stuart Mill
Pieces of the Action — Vannevar Bush
The World of Yesterday — Stefan Zweig
American Sketches — Walter Isaacson
Leonardo Da Vinci — Walter Isaacson
The Book of Disquiet — Fernando Pessoa *
Albert Einstein: His Life and Universe — Water Isaacson
Benjamin Franklin: An American Life — Walter Isaacson
On Writing — Stephen King *
Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life — William Finnegan *
Hard Drive: Bill Gates and the Making of Microsoft — James Wallace
What Do You Care What Other People Think? — Richard Fenyman
The Everything Store — Brad Stone
Surely You're Joking, Mr. Fenyman — Richard Fenyman *
Shoe Dog — Phil Knight *
Steve Jobs — Walter Isaacson
Can't Hurt Me — David Goggins
Becoming — Michelle Obama
The Last Lecture — Randy Pausch
Elon Musk — Ashlee Vance
Yeager — Chuck Yeager

Business, Economics & Management

Unreasonable Hospitality — Will Guidara
Double Your Profits — Robert Fifer
Rich Dad Poor Dad — Robert Kiyosaki
Boom — Byrne Hobart
The Mom Test — Rob Fitzpatrick
Boom — Michael Shnayerson
Monetizing Innovation — Madhavan Ramanujam
Poor Charlie's Almanack — Charlie Munger *
Scaling People — Claire Hughes Johnson
Skunk Works — Ben Rich *
The Score Takes Care of Itself — Bill Walsh
Invent & Wander — Jeff Bezos
The Big Short — Michael Lewis
The Four Hour Work Week — Tim Ferriss
Liar's Poker — Michael Lewis
Managing Yourself — Clayton M. Christensen
Bitcoin Billionaires — Ben Mezrich
Bad Blood — John Carreyrou
Zero to One — Peter Thiel
The Hard Thing About Hard Things — Ben Horowitz *

Philosophy & Thought

The Story of Philosophy — Will Durant *
As a Man Thinketh — James Allen
Land and Sea — Carl Schmitt
The Concept of the Political — Carl Schmitt
The Sovereign Individual — James Dale Davidson
The Tao of Physics — Fritjof Capra *
Democracy In America — Alexis de Tocqueville
Things Hidden Since The Foundation Of The World — Rene Girard
The Obstacle is the Way — Ryan Holiday
The Bed of Procrustes — Nassim Nicolas Taleb
Basic Writings of Nietzsche — Friedrich Nietzsche
Finite and Infinite Games — James P. Carse
Stubborn Attachments — Tyler Cowen
Lila — Robert Pirsig
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance — Robert Pirsig *
On The Shortness Of Life — Seneca *
Art of War — Sun Tzu
Become What You Are — Alan Watts

Science, Technology & History

Empire of AI — Karen Hao
How Countries Go Broke — Ray Dalio
The Revolt of the Public — Martin Gurri
The Shape of Time: Remarks on the History of Things — George Kubler
The Prize — Daniel Yergin *
Only the Paranoid Survive — Andy Grove *
Nuclear War — Anne Jacobsen
Token Supremacy — Zachary Small
Good Strategy, Bad Strategy — Richard Rumelt *
A Philosophy of Software Design — John Ousterhout
Radical Markets — Eric Posner
Legal Systems Very Different From Ours — David Freeman
The Fund — Rob Copeland
Godel, Escher, Bach — Douglas Hofstadter
Meaning in History — Karl Lowith
The Decadent Society — Ross Douthat
The Making of the Atomic Bomb — Richard Rhodes
Walden — Henry David Thoreau
How The Internet Happened — Brian McCullough
Adventures of a Young Naturalist — David Attenborough
The Diversity Myth — Peter Thiel
1776 — David McCullough
The Founders — Jimmy Soni
The Design of Everyday Things — Don Norman
An Elegant Puzzle — Will Larson
Talent — Tyler Cowen
The Dream Machine — M. Mitchell Waldrop
All Things Are Possible — Lev Shestov
Conspiracy — Ryan Holiday
How To Actually Change Your Mind — Eliezer Yudkowsky
The Gospels: A New Translation — Sarah Ruden
High Growth Handbook — Elad Gil *
The Big Score — Michael S. Malone
Infamous Scribblers — Eric Burns
The Craft — John Dickie
Princples for Dealing with the Changing World Order — Ray Dalio
Albion's Seed — David Hackett Fischer
When Money Dies — Adam Fergusson
A Short History Of Nearly Everything — Bill Bryson
Essays After Eighty — Donald Hall
Revolution in the Valley — Andy Hertzfeld
How Asia Works — Joe Studwell
The Making of Karateka — Jordan Mechner
Guns, Germs, and Steel — Jared Diamond
The Code Breaker — Walter Isaacson
A World Without Email — Cal Newport
Skin In The Game — Nassim Taleb
The New New Thing — Michael Lewis
The Black Swan — Nassim Taleb
A Brief History of Time — Stephen Hawking *
Kissinger — Walter Issacson
Seeing Like A State — James C. Scott
Range — David Epstein
Rome, Inc. — Stanley Bing
Thus Spoke Zarathustra — Friedrich Nietzsche
Antifragile — Nassim Taleb *
Loonshots — Safi Bahcall
Innovators — Walter Isaacson
Working in Public — Nadia Eghbal
Marching Powder — Thomas McFadden
Chaos Monkeys — Antonio García Martínez
Mankind in Amnesia — Immanuel Velikovsky
The Lives of The Artists — Giorgio Vassari
The Art of Doing Science and Engineering — Richard Hamming *
The Making of Prince of Persia — Jordan Mechner *
Model Thinker — Scott Page
Thinking, Fast & Slow — Daniel Kahneman
Seasteading — Joe Quirk
Principles — Ray Dalio *
What You Do Is Who You Are — Ben Horowitz
High Output Management — Andy Grove
Hackers and Painters — Paul Graham *
The Secret of Apollo — Stephen Johnson
Turing's Cathedral — George Dyson *
Factfulness — Hans Rosling *
Sapiens: A Brief History of Human Kind — Yuval Noah Harari *

Arts & Culture

Selected Poems — T.S. Eliot
The War of Art — Steven Pressfield
Picasso's War — Hugh Eakin
The Eyes of the Skin — Juhani Pallasmaa
Ways of Seeing — John Berger
Theories and Documents of Contemporary Art — Misc
Bird by Bird — Anne Lamott
Design as Art — Bruno Munari
The Power of Myth — Joseph Campbell
Several Short Sentences About Writing — Verlyn Klinkenborg
A Pattern Language — Christopher Alexander *
Grid Systems in Graphic Design — Josef Müller-Brockmann
Braiding Sweetgrass — Robin Wall Kimmerer
The Timeless Way of Building — Christopher Alexander *
Slouching Towards Bethlehem — Joan Didion
Essays In Idleness — Yoshida Kenkō
In Patagonia — Bruce Chatwin
Infinite Jest — David Foster Wallace
Greenlights — Matthew McConaughey
A Swim In A Pond In The Rain — George Saunders
Selected Essays of E.B. White — E.B. White
On Writing Well — William Zinsser
Me Talk Pretty One Day — David Sedaris
How To Read A Book — Mortimer Adler
The Mezzanine — Nicholson Baker *

Last updated: 2025.09.08