Sep 8, 2025 6 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

One Hundred 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
1Q84 — Haruki Murakami
East of Eden — John Steinbeck
The Plague — Albert Camus
Heart of Darkness — Joseph Conrad
The Trial — Franz Kafka
The Complete Stories — Franz Kafka
The Complete Short Stories — Ernest Hemingway
The Old Man and the Sea — Ernest Hemingway
The Sun Also Rises — Ernest Hemingway
Tender Is the Flesh — Agustina Bazterrica
The Sirens of Titan — Kurt Vonnegut
Cat’s Cradle — Kurt Vonnegut
Slaughterhouse-Five — Kurt Vonnegut
Slapstick — Kurt Vonnegut
American Psycho — Bret Easton Ellis
Moby-Dick; or, The Whale — Herman Melville
The Stand — Stephen King
Salem’s Lot — Stephen King
The Dark Tower Series — Stephen King
Brave New World — Aldous Huxley
Fahrenheit 451 — Ray Bradbury
Animal Farm — George Orwell
1984 — George Orwell
Flowers for Algernon — Daniel Keyes
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? — Philip K. Dick
Ender’s Game — Orson Scott Card
Contact — Carl Sagan
Where the Crawdads Sing — Delia Owens
Sharp Objects — Gillian Flynn
Catch-22 — Joseph Heller
Atlas Shrugged — Ayn Rand
The Fountainhead — Ayn Rand *
Oryx and Crake — Margaret Atwood
Othello — William Shakespeare
The Right Stuff — Tom Wolfe

Science Fiction & Fantasy (Series / Major Works)

Red Rising (Series) — Pierce Brown
Hyperion Cantos — Dan Simmons *
Foundation Series — Isaac Asimov
Robot Series — Isaac Asimov
Nightfall — Isaac Asimov *
Dune (Series) — Frank Herbert
His Dark Materials Series — Philip Pullman
The Hunger Games — Suzanne Collins
Artemis Fowl Series — Eoin Colfer
The Inheritance Cycle — Christopher Paolini
Dragonlance Series — Weis & Hickman
The Lord of the Rings — J. R. R. Tolkien
A Song of Ice and Fire — George R. R. Martin
The Mists of Avalon — Marion Zimmer Bradley
Stranger in a Strange Land - Robert A. Heinlein
Harry Potter — J. K. Rowling
Bartimaeus Trilogy — Jonathan Stroud
Pendragon Series — D. J. MacHale
The Book of the New Sun (Series) — Gene Wolfe

Biography & Autobiography

Becoming Steve Jobs — Brent Schlender
Daily Rituals: How Artists Work — Mason Currey
The Maniac — Benjamín Labatut
When We Cease to Understand the World — Benjamín Labatut
Savage Journey — Peter Richardson
Elon Musk — Walter Isaacson
Elon Musk — Ashlee Vance
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 — Ananyo Bhattacharya
American Prometheus — Kai Bird & 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 — Walter 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 Feynman
The Everything Store — Brad Stone
Surely You’re Joking, Mr. Feynman — Richard Feynman *
Shoe Dog — Phil Knight *
Steve Jobs — Walter Isaacson
Can’t Hurt Me — David Goggins
Becoming — Michelle Obama
The Last Lecture — Randy Pausch
Yeager — Chuck Yeager
Autobiography of a Yogi — Paramahansa Yogananda
Henry J. Kaiser: Western Colossus — Mark S. Foster
Hillbilly Elegy — J. D. Vance
Who Is Michael Ovitz? — Michael Ovitz

Business, Economics & Management

Unreasonable Hospitality — Will Guidara
Double Your Profits — Robert Fifer
Rich Dad Poor Dad — Robert Kiyosaki
Boom — Byrne Hobart
Boom — Michael Shnayerson
The Mom Test — Rob Fitzpatrick
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 *
Atomic Habits — James Clear
Traction — Gino Wickman
The E-Myth Contractor — Michael E. Gerber
Pushing to the Front — Orison Swett Marden
The Scaling Era — Dwarkesh Patel
In Praise of Commercial Culture — Tyler Cowen
Thou Shall Prosper — Daniel Lapin
CryptoPunks — Matt Hall & John Watkinson
Founders at Work — Jessica Livingston
Talent — Tyler Cowen
The New New Thing — Michael Lewis

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 — René Girard
The Obstacle Is the Way — Ryan Holiday
The Bed of Procrustes — Nassim Nicholas 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
Tools for Conviviality — Ivan Illich
History as Art and as Science — Johan Huizinga
A Study of History, Vol. 1 — Arnold J. Toynbee
The Art of Not Being Governed — James C. Scott
The Philosophy of Elbert Hubbard — Elbert Hubbard
All Desire Is a Desire for Being — René Girard
The Interpretation of Dreams — Sigmund Freud
Meditations — Marcus Aurelius
Meditations on First Philosophy — René Descartes
The Righteous Mind — Jonathan Haidt
Better Than Sex: Confessions of a Political Junkie — Hunter S. Thompson
An Introduction to Zen Buddhism — D. T. Suzuki

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 — George Kubler
The Prize — Daniel Yergin *
Only the Paranoid Survive — Andy Grove *
Nuclear War — Annie 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 Friedman
The Fund — Rob Copeland
Gödel, Escher, Bach — Douglas Hofstadter
Meaning in History — Karl Löwith
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
Principles 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 Isaacson
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 Vasari
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 Humankind — Yuval Noah Harari *
The Cosmic Connection — Carl Sagan
College Physics — Serway & Vuille
Elliott Wave Principle — Robert R Prechter

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
The Dehumanization of Art - José Ortega y Gasset *
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 *
Interaction of Color — Josef Albers
The Creative Act: A Way of Being — Rick Rubin
The Artist’s Way — Julia Cameron
Reclaiming Art in the Age of Artifice — Austin Kleon

Last updated: 2026.1.02