Bookshelf
Books are in reverse chronological order of when I read them. Reach out for recs.
Title
Author(s)
Men and Rubber: The Story of BusinessHarvey S. Firestone
Mistborn: The Hero of AgesBrandon Sanderson
Mistborn: The Well of AscensionBrandon Sanderson
Mistborn: The Final EmpireBrandon Sanderson
The ProphetKhalil Gibran
Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and TomorrowGabrielle Zevin
Powerful
Building a Culture of Freedom and ResponsibilityPatty McCord
GenerationsThe Real Differences Between Gen Z, Millenials, Gen X, Boomers, and Silents - and What They Mean for America’s FutureJean M. Twenge
2034
A Novel of the Next World WarElliot Ackerman and James G. Stavridis
Who
The A Method for Hiring Geoff Smart
Getting Things Done
The Art of Stress Free ProductivityDavid Allen
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
J.K. Rowling
The Great CEO Within
The Tactical Guide to Company BuildingMatt Mocharty
BabelR.F. Kuang
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
J.K. Rowling
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
J.K. Rowling
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
J.K. Rowling
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
J.K. Rowling
Excellent Advice for Living: Wisdom I Wish I’d Known Earlier
Kevin Kelly
Iron Flame
Rebecca Yarros
Fourth WingRebecca Yarros
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
J.K. Rowling
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone
J.K. Rowling
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
Douglas Adams
Ficciones
Jorge Luis Borges
RecursionBlake Crouch
VC: An American History
Tom Nicholas
FoundationIsaac Asimov
The Great Stagnation
How America Ate All The Low-Hanging Fruit of Modern History, Got Sick, and Will (Eventually) Feel BetterTyler Cowen
Outlive
The Science and Art of LongevityPeter Attia
Project Hail Mary
Andy Weir
The Pluri Society
Sherry Ning
Chip War
The Fight for the World’s Most Critical TechnologyChris Miller
Lessons from the Titans
What Companies in the New Economy Can Learn from the Great Industrial Giants to Drive Sustainable SuccessScott Davis et al
The Ministry for the Future
Kim Stanley Robinson
Invent and Wander
The Collected Writings of Jeff BezosJeff Bezos
Deep Work
Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted WorldCal Newport
Death’s End (Three-Body Problem #3)
Cixin Liu
The Dark Forest (Three-Body Problem #2)
Cixin Liu
Freedom at Midnight
Dominique Lapierre
The Three-Body Problem (Three Body Problem #1)
Cixin Liu
Exhalation
Ted Chiang
Scaling People
Tactics for Management and Company BuildingClaire Hughes Johnson
The Boy, the Mole, the Fox, and the Horse
Charlie Mackesy
The Creative Act
A Way of BeingRick Rubin
Amp It Up
Leading for Hypergrowth by Raising Expectations, Increasing Urgency, and Elevating IntensityFrank Slootman
What’s Our Problem?
A Self-Help Book for SocietiesTim Urban
High Growth Handbook
Scaling Startups from 10 to 10,000 PeopleElad Gil
The Anatomy of the Swipe
Making Money MoveAhmed Siddiqui
Dune Messiah
Frank Herbert
DuneFrank Herbert
The Field Guide to Global Payments
Sophia Goldberg
Steve Jobs
Walter Isaacson
Build
An Unorthodox Guide to Making Things Worth MakingTony Fadell
Leonardo Da Vinci
Walter Isaacson
The Return of the King (The Lord of the Rings #3)
J.R.R. Tolkein
The Power Law: Venture Capital and the Making of the New FutureSebastian Mallaby
The Two Towers (The Lord of the Rings #2)
J.R.R. Tolkein
The Fellowship of the Ring (The Lord of the Rings #1)
J.R.R. Tolkein
The Hobbit (The Lord of the Rings #0)
J.R.R. Tolkein
This Is Your Mind on Plants
Michael Pollan
The Wires of War
Technology and the Global Struggle for PowerJacob Helberg
Amazon Unbound
Jeff Bezos and the Invention of a Global EmpireBrad Stone
The Everything Store
Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon
Brad Stone
The Lessons of History
Will Durant
The Color of Law
A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated AmericaRichard Rothstein
Atomic Habits
An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad OnesJames Clear
Kitchen Confidential
Adventures in the Culinary UnderbellyAnthony Bourdain
Red Notice
A True Story of High Finance, Murder, and One Man’s Fight for JusticeBill Browder
Emergency
This Book Will Save Your LifeNeil Strauss
Caste
The Origins of Our DiscontentsIsabel Wilkerson
Flash Boys
A Wall Street RevoltMichael Lewis
Liar’s Poker
Michael Lewis
Open
Andre Agassi
Travels with Charley: In Search of America
John Steinbeck
What I Talk About When I Talk About Running
Haruki Murakami
Six Easy Pieces
Essentials of Physics By Its Most Brilliant TeacherRichard Feynman
Greenlights
Matthew McConaughey
Tao Te Ching
Lao Tzu
The Almanack of Naval Ravikant
A Guide to Wealth and HappinessEric Jorgenson
Here
Richard McGuire
The Psychology of Money
Morgan Housel
Born a Crime
Stories From a South African ChildhoodTrevor Noah
Lying
Sam Harris
Between the World and Me
Ta-Nehisi Coates
ReunionFred Uhlman
Pachinko
Min Jin Lee
The Dutch House
Ann Patchett
Essentialism
The Disciplined Pursuit of LessGreg McKeown
The Hard Thing About Hard Things
Building a Business When There Are No Easy AnswersBen Horowitz
The Water Dancer
Ta-Nehisi Coates
The 4-Hour Workweek
Tim Ferriss
I Will Teach You to Be Rich
Ramit Sethi
The Precipice
Toby Ord
Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World
Jack Weatherford
King of Capital
The Remarkable Rise, Fall, and Rise Again of Steve Schwartzman and BlackstoneDavid Carey
Win Bigly
Persuasion in a World Where Facts Don’t MatterScott Adams
Love Yourself Like Your Life Depends on It
Kamal Ravikant
White Fragility
Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk About RacismRobin DiAngelo
Maybe You Should Talk to Someone
Lori Gottlieb
The Dreamers
Karen Thompson Walker
Vagabonding
An Uncommon Guide to the Art of Long-Term World TravelRolf Potts
Too Big to Fail
The Inside Story of How Wall Street and Washington Fought to Save the Financial System from Crisis - and ThemselvesAndrew Ross Sorkin
The Moment of Lift
How Empowering Women Changes the WorldMelinda French Gates
Originals
How Non-Conformists Move the WorldAdam Grant
Loonshots
How to Nurture the Crazy Ideas that Win Wars, Cure Diseases, and Transform IndustriesSafi Bahcall
Tiny Beautiful Things
Advice on Love and Life from Dear SugarCheryl Strayed
Siddhartha
Herman Hesse
To Kill a Mockingbird
Harper Lee
The Signal and the Noise
Why So Many Predictions Fail - But Some Don’tNate Silver
KaterinaJames Frey
Range
Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized WorldDavid Epstein
Why We Sleep
Unlocking the Power of Sleep and DreamsMatthew Walker
How to Stop Worrying and Start Living
Time-Tested Methods for Conquering WorryDale Carnegie
EducatedTara Westover
Trillion Dollar Coach
The Leadership Playbook of Silicon Valley’s Bill CampbellEric Schmidt et al
Lean In
Women, Work, and the Will to LeadSheryl Sandberg
The Defining Decade
Why Your Twenties Matter - And How to Make the Most of Them NowMeg Jay
Being Mortal
Medicine and What Matters in the EndAtul Gawande
10% Happier
Dan Harris
Becoming
Michelle Obama
Hunger
A Memoir of (My) BodyRoxane Gay
Leadership
In Turbulent TimesDoris Kearns Goodwin
Bad Blood
Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley StartupJohn Carreyou
When
The Scientific Secrets of Perfect TimingDaniel Pink
When Breath Becomes Air
Paul Kalanithi
The Fifth Risk
Michael Lewis
Boomerang
Travels in the New Third WorldMichael Lewis
The Happiness Project
Gretchen Rubin
Levels of the Game
John McPhee
Shoe Dog
A Memoir by the Creator of NikePhil Knight
Hillbilly Elegy
A Memoir of a Family and Culture in CrisisJ.D. Vance
Zero to One
Notes on Startups, or How to Build the FuturePeter Thiel
Life Is So Good
One Man’s Extraordinary Journey through the 20th Century and How He Learned to Read at 98George Dawson
How to Change Your Mind
What the New Science of Psychedelics Teaches Us About Consciousness, Dying, Addiction, Depression, and TranscendenceMichael Pollan
Black Klansman
A MemoirRon Stallworth
Killers of the Flower Moon
The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBIDavid Grann
What Happened
Hillary Rodham Clinton
The Alchemist
Paulo Coelho
Astrophysics for People in a Hurry
Neil deGrasse Tyson
Gods at War
Shotgun Takeovers, Government by Deal, and the Private Equity ImplosionSteven M. Davidoff
The Ascent of Money
A Financial History of the WorldNiall Ferguson
Sapiens
A Brief History of HumankindYuval Noah Harari
Man’s Search for Meaning
Viktor E. Frankl
Option B
Facing Adversity, Building Resilience, and Finding JoySheryl Sandberg, Adam Grant