Bookshelf

This started off as an Evernote notebook of various reading lists, but after taking inspiration from others, I've decided to publish my bookshelf here.

Categorizing books takes a lot more effort than I initially thought.

Finally, I'll update this page whenever I read something new (or re-read it), so check back every few weeks for updates.

• Complexity: Life at the Edge of Chaos

  Roger Lewin · Systems Thinking

• High Output Management

  Andy Grove · Management & Productivity

• Excellent Sheep - The Miseducation of the American Elite and the Way to a Meaningful Life

  William Deresiewicz · Leadership

• The Dictator's Handbook: Why Bad Behavior is Almost Always Good Politics

  Bruce Bueno de Mesquita & Alastair Smith · Politics

• Talking to Humans

  Gilf Constable · Psychology

• How To Do Systems Analysis

  John Gibson, William Scherer, William Gibson · Systems Thinking

• Man, the State, and War

  Kenneth Waltz · International Affairs

• A First Course in Probability

  Sheldon Ross · Mathematics

• Kissinger: 1923-1968: The Idealist

  Niall Ferguson · Biography

• Thinking, Fast and Slow

  Daniel Kahneman · Psychology

• Brain On Fire: My Month Of Madness

  Susannah Cahalan · Biography

• The Man Who Created the Middle East: A Story of Empire, Conflict and the Sykes-Picot Agreement

  Christopher Simon Sykes · International Affairs

• Buckminster Fuller's Universe: His Life and Work

  L Steven Sieden · Biography

• Foundation

  Isaac Asimov · Fiction

• Cat's Cradle: A Novel

  Kurt Vonnegut · Fiction

• The Obstacle is the Way

  Ryan Holiday · Philosophy

• Secrets of Closing the Sale

  Zig Ziglar · Sales

• Tools of Titans: The Tactics, Routines, and Habits of Billionaires, Icons, and World-Class Performers

  Tim Ferriss · Psychology

• Financial Accounting

  Stickney · Accounting

• A First-Rate Madness: Uncovering the Links Between Leadership and Mental Illness

  Nassir Ghaemi · Psychology

• Motivation and Personality

  Maslow · Psychology

• The Dream Machine: J. C. R. Licklider and the Revolution That Made Computing Personal

  Mitchell Waldrop · Silicon Valley · Notes

• Positive Intelligence: Why Only 20% of Teams and Individuals Achieve Their True Potential and How You Can Achieve Yours

  Shirzad Chamine · Psychology

• The Way of Zen

  Alan Watts · Philosophy

• How to Win Friends and Influence People

  Dale Carnegie · Psychology

• The Years of Lyndon Johnson

  Robert Caro · Biography

• Hiring for Attitude: A Revolutionary Approach to Recruiting and Selecting People with Both Tremendous Skills and Superb Attitude

  Mark Murphy · Management & Productivity

• The Inner Game of Tennis: The Classic Guide to the Mental Side of Peak Performance

  Timothy Gallwey, Zach Kleinman · Psychology

• The Gardner and the Carpenter

  Allison Gotnick · Psychology

• The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable Fragility" (Incerto)

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb · Finance & Investing

• Howard Hughes: His Life and Madness

  Donald Barlett, James Steele · Biography

• Introduction to Tornado: Modern Web Applications with Python

  Michael Dory · Programming

• Leadership and Self-Deception: Getting Out of the Box

  The Arbinger Institute · Leadership

• David and Goliath

  Malcolm Gladwell · Business

• The Richest Man in Babylon

  George Clason · Business

• Finite and Infinite Games

  James Carse · Philosophy

• The Lessons of History

  Will Durant & Ariel Durant · History

• How to Use Financial Statements

  James Bandler · Accounting

• The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck: A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life

  Mark Manson · Philosophy

• Systemantics: How Systems Work and Especially How They Fail

  John Gail · Systems Thinking

• When Breath Becomes Air

  Paul Kalanthi · Biography

• Liar's Poker

  Michael Lewis · Finance & Investing

• Meditations

  Marcus Aurelius · Philosophy

• Ego is the Enemy

  Ryan Holiday · Psychology

• The Fish That Ate the Whale: The Life and Times of America's Banana King

  Rich Cohen · Biography

• Principles

  Ray Dalio · Management & Productivity

• The Quartet: Orchestrating the Second American Revolution, 1783-1789

  Joseph Ellis · History

• What Every BODY is Saying: An Ex-FBI Agents Guide to Speed-Reading People

  Joe Navarro and Marvin Karlins · Fiction

• Nonlinear Dynamics and Chaos

  Steven H. Strogatz · Systems Thinking

• Chase, Chance, and Creativity

  James Austin · Psychology

• Extreme Ownership: How U.S. Navy SEALs Lead and Win

  Jocko Willink · Leadership

• Influence

  Robert Cialdini · Psychology

• The Snowball: Warren Buffett and the Business of Life

  Alice Schroeder · Biography · Notes

• The Four Steps to the Epiphany: Successful Strategies for Startups That Win

  Steven Gary Blank · Business

• Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience

  Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi · Psychology

• Snow Crash

  Neal Stephenson · Fiction

• Making A Splash: A Growth Mindset Children's Book

  Carol E Reiley · Psychology

• Catch 22

  Joseph Heller · Fiction

• Real and Functional Analysis

  Serge Lang · Mathematics

• The Personal MBA: Master the Art of Business

  Josh Kaufman · Business

• Nikola Tesla: Imagination and the Man That Invented the 20th Century

  Sean Patrick · Biography

• The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers

  Ben Horowitz · Business

• Federalist Papers

  Alexander Hamilton · Government

• Shoe Dog

  Phil Knight · Biography

• The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon

  Brad Stone · Business

• Basic Economics: A Common Sense Guide to the Economy

  Thomas Sowell · Economics & Game Theory

• The Trauma of Everyday Life

  Mark Epstein · Psychology

• Personal Development for Smart People

  Steve Pavlina · Psychology

• The Effective Engineer: How to Leverage Your Efforts In Software Engineering to Make a Disproportionate and Meaningful Impact

  Edmond Lau · Management & Productivity

• The Way of Men

  Jack Donovan · Psychology

• Creativity, Inc.: Overcoming the Unseen Forces That Stand in the Way of True Inspiration

  Ed CatmullandAmy Wallace · Psychology

• The Brethren: Inside the Supreme Court

  Bob Woodward · Government

• The Finishing School

  Dick Couch · Leadership

• How to Read a Book

  Mortimer Adler and Charles Van Doren · Epistemology

• Don Quixote

  Miguel de Cervantes · Fiction

• Catcher in the Rye

  J.D. Salinger · Fiction

• Genghis Khan: His Conquests, His Empire, His Legacy

  Frank McLynn · Biography

• To Kill a Mockingbird

  Harper Lee · Fiction

• The Score Takes Care of Itself: My Philosophy of Leadership

  Bill Walsh and Steve Jamison · Leadership

• You Can Be a Stock Market Genius: Uncover the Secret Hiding Places of Stock Market Profits

  Joel Greenblatt · Finance & Investing

• Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking

  Susan Cain · Psychology

• The Ikea Story

  Bertil Torekull · Business

• Red Notice: A True Story of High Finance, Murder, and One Man's Fight for Justice

  Bill Browder · Biography

• Brave New Workd

  Aldous Huxley · Fiction

• A Course in Microeconomic Theory

  Kreps · Economics & Game Theory

• Theory of International Politics

  Kenneth Waltz · International Affairs

• Ready Player One

  Ernest Cline · Fiction

• The Art of War

  Sun Tzu · Leadership

• Writing That Works, 3e: How to Communicate Effectively in Business

  Kenneth Roman and Joel Raphaelson · Writing

• Save the Cat

  Blake Snyder · Writing

• Paradox - Nine Greatest Enigmas in Physics

  Jim Al-Khalili · Science

• The E-Myth Revisited: Why Most Small Businesses Don't Work and What to Do About It

  Michael E. Gerber · Leadership

• Aversive Interpersonal Behavior

  Robin M. Kowalski · Psychology

• The Outsiders: Eight Unconventional CEOs and Their Radically Rational Blueprint for Success

  William N. Thorndike · Finance & Investing

• Tesla: Inventor of the Electrical Age

  Bernard Carlson · Biography

• Mindset: The New Psychology of Success

  Carol Dweick · Psychology

• The Three Body Problem

  Cixin Liu · Fiction

• Strategy of Conflict

  Schelling · Economics & Game Theory

• Hard Drive: Bill Gates and the Making of the Microsoft Empire

  James Wallace, Jim Erickson · Biography

• When Genius Failed: The Rise and Fall of Long-Term Capital Management

  Roger Lowenstein · Finance & Investing

• The First Five Pages: A Writer's Guide To Staying Out of the Rejection Pile

  Noah Lukeman · Writing

• The Age of Intelligent Machines

  Ray Kurzweil · Technology

• The Logic of War and Peace

  Edward Luttwack · International Affairs

• Gang Leader for a Day

  Sudhir Venkatesh · Psychology

• The Death of Ivan Ilych

  Leo Tolstoy · Fiction

• SPQR - A History of Ancient Rome

  Mary Beard · History

• The Charisma Myth

  Olivia Cabane · Psychology

• Crossing the Chasm

  Geoffrey A. Moore · Silicon Valley

• Start-up Nation: The Story of Israel's Economic Miracle

  Dan Senor, Saul Singer · International Affairs

• The Scientist in the Crib

  Allison Gotnick · Psychology

• Congress and The Bureaucracy

  Douglas Arnold · Government

• Benjamin Franklin: An American Life

  Walter Isaacson · Biography

• The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood

  James Gleick · Science

• Lawrence in Arabia: War, Deceit, Imperial Folly and the Making of the Modern Middle East

  Scott Anderson · Fiction

• Pro Python (Expert's Voice in Open Source)

  Marty Alchin · Programming

• Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future

  Thiel & Masters · Business

• Hackers & Painters: Big Ideas from the Computer Age

  Paul Graham · Business

• Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets (Incerto)

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb · Finance & Investing

• Leading: Learning from Life and My Years at Manchester United

  Ferguson & Moritz · Leadership

• On the Shortness of Life

  Seneca · Philosophy

• A Brief History of Time

  Stephen Hawking · History

• The Complete Idiot's Guide to Economic Indicators

  Mark Rogers · Economics & Game Theory

• The Wisdom of Crowds

  James Surowiecki · Economics & Game Theory

• Presidential Power and the Modern Presidents: The Politics of Leadership from Roosevelt to Reagan

  Richard Neustadt · Government

• Time Travel: A History

  James Gleick · Science

• Winston Spencer Churchill, 1874 - 1965: 1,2,3

  William Manchester, Paul Reid · Biography

• Guns, Germs and Steel

  Jared Diamond · History

• The Fountainhead

  Ayn Rand · Fiction

• Salt Sugar Fat: How the Food Giants Hooked Us

  Michael Moss · Science

• Sam Walton: Made In America

  Sam Walton · Biography

• The Wisdom of the Enneagram

  Don Riso · Psychology

• Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values

  Robert Pirsig · Fiction

• The Art of Thinking Clearly

  Rolf Dobelli · Philosophy

• The Marshmallow Test

  Walter Mischel · Psychology

• Bank 3.0 - Why Banking is No Longer Somewhere You Go, But Something You Do

  Brett King · Economics & Game Theory

• Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance

  Angela Duckworth · Psychology

• A Few Lessons from Sherlock Holmes

  Peter Bevelin · Systems Thinking

• Farenheit 451

  Ray Bradbury · Fiction

• The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

  Douglas Adams · Fiction

• Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us

  Daniel Pink · Psychology

• Berkshire Hathaway Letters to Shareholders, 2015

  Warren Buffett · Finance & Investing

• Pebbles of Perception

  Laurence Endersen · Epistemology

• Warfighting

  US Marine Corps · Leadership

• Why Information Grows: The Evolution of Order, from Atoms to Economies

  Cesar Hidalgo · Economics & Game Theory

• How to Read a Financial Report

  John Tracy · Accounting

• Little Red Book of Selling: 12.5 Principles of Sales Greatness

  Jeffrey Gitomer · Sales

• Flash Boys

  Michael Lewis · Finance & Investing

• Smarter Faster Better: The Secrets of Being Productive in Life and Business

  Charles Duhigg · Psychology

• 100 Years of Solitude

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez · Fiction

• How to be a High School Superstar

  Cal Newport · Management & Productivity

• The Rise and Reign of Vladimir Putin

  Steven Myers · International Affairs

• Chaos Monkeys: Obscene Fortune and Random Failure in Silicon Valley

  Antonio Garcia Martinez · Silicon Valley

• The House of Morgan: An American Banking Dynasty and the Rise of Modern Finance

  Ron Chernow · History

• Financial Instruments: Equities, Debt, Derivatives, and Alternative Investments

  David Weiss · Finance & Investing

• Emotional Intelligence: Why It Can Matter More Than IQ

  Daniel Goleman · Psychology

• Neurosis and Human Growth: The Struggle Towards Self-Realization

  Karen Horney · Psychology

• How I Made $2,000,000 In the Stock Market

  Nicholas Darvas · Finance & Investing

• Rapt: Attention and the Focused Life

  Winifred Gallagher · Psychology

• The ONE Thing: The Surprisingly Simple Truth Behind Extraordinary Results

  Gary Keller · Management & Productivity

• The Great Gatsby

  F. Scott Fitzgerald · Fiction

• The Art of Learning: A Journey in the Pursuit of Excellence

  Josh Waitzkin · Epistemology

• Slaughterhouse-Five

  Kurt Vonnegut · Fiction

• The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine

  Michael Lewis · Finance & Investing

• How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big: Kind of the Story of My Life

  Scott Adams · Philosophy

• Legacy

  James Kerr · Leadership

• Rework

  Jason Fried and David Heinemeier Hansson · Business

• Neuromancer

  William Gibson · Fiction

• The Sovereign Individual: Mastering the Transition to the Information Age

  James Davidson and William Rees-Mogg · International Affairs

• The Prophet

  Kahlil Gibran · History

• How to Castrate a Bull: Unexpected Lessons on Risk, Growth, and Success in Business

  Dave Hitz, Pat Walsh · Silicon Valley

• How Children Succeed

  Paul Tough · Psychology

• How To Win Friends and Influence People

  Dale Carnegie · Psychology

• Titan: The Life of John D. Rockefeller, Sr.

  Ron Chernow · Biography

• Steve Jobs

  Walter Isaacson · Biography

• The Shadow World: Inside the Global Arms Trade

  Andrew Feinstein · International Affairs

• What I Wish I Knew When I Was 20: A Crash Course on Making Your Place in the World

  Tina Seelig · Business

• The New New Thing: A Silicon Valley Story

  Michael Lewis · Silicon Valley

• The Secret Power of Middle Children

  Catherine Salmon & Katrin Schumann · Psychology

• Genius: The Life and Mind of Richard Feynman

  James Gleick · Biography

• A Random Walk down Wall Street

  Burton G. Malkiel · Finance & Investing

• The Entrepreneur's Guide to Customer Development: A Cheat Sheet to the Four Steps to the Epiphany

  Brant Cooper, Patrick Vlaskovits · Business

• Freaks of Fortune

  Jonathan Levy · History

• The Boron Letters

  Gary Halbert · Sales

• Getting Things Done

  David Allen · Business

• Anything You Want: 40 Lessons for a New Kind of Entrepreneur

  Derek Sivers · Business

• Inside the Tornado

  Geoffrey Moore · Business

• Thinking in Systems: A Primer

  Donella H. Meadows · Systems Thinking

• The Andromeda Strain

  Michael Crichton · Fiction

• Awaken the Giant Within

  Tony Robbins · Psychology

• The New Strategic Selling

  Robert B. Miller and Stephen E. Heiman · Sales

• Letters from a Self-Made Merchant to His Son

  George Lorimer · Business

• Peak: Secrets from the New Science of Expertise

  Anders Ericsson and Robert Pool · Psychology

• Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder (Incerto)

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb · Finance & Investing

• Killing Mr. Lebanon: The Assassination of Rafik Hariri and its impact on the Middle East

  Nicholas Blanford · International Affairs

• Systems Thinking for Business: Capitalize on Structures Hidden in Plain Sight

  Rich Jolly · Systems Thinking

• Managing Humans: Biting and Humorous Tales of a Software Engineering Manager

  Michael Lopp · Management & Productivity

• Superforecasting: The Art And Science Of Prediction

  Philip E. Tetlock, Dan Gardner · Systems Thinking

• The Intelligent Investor

  Ben Graham · Finance & Investing

• Interpretation of Financial Statements

  Ben Graham · Accounting

• A Journey in Other Worlds

  John Jacob Astor · Fiction

• Ender's Game

  Orson Scott Card · Fiction

• 7 Habits of Highly Effective People

  Stephen R. Covey · Management & Productivity

• Pre-suasion: A Revolutionary Way To Influence And Persuade

  Robert Cialdini · Psychology

• The Happiness Hypothesis

  Jonathan Haidt · Psychology

• Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World

  Cal Newport · Management & Productivity

• Teaching Common Sense: The Grand Strategy Program at Yale University

  Linda Kulman · Leadership

• How to Not Be Wrong - The Power of Mathematical Thinking

  Jordan Eldberg · Systems Thinking

• History of the Peloponnesian War

  Thucydides · International Affairs

• The Art of Doing Science and Engineering

  Richard Hamming · Science

• To Sell Is Human: The Surprising Truth About Moving Others

  Daniel Pink · Sales

• Blue Ocean Strategy: How To Create Uncontested Market Space And Make The Competition Irrelevant

  Chan Kim · Technology

• Too Soon Old, Too Late Smart: Thirty True Things You Need to Know Now

  Gordon Livingston · Philosophy

• Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future

  Ashlee Vance · Biography

• The Art of Living: The Classical Mannual on Virtue, Happiness, and Effectiveness

  Epictetus and Sharon Lebell · Philosophy

• Pmarca Archives

  Marc Andressen · Business

• The Education of a Value Investor: My Transformative Quest for Wealth, Wisdom, and Enlightenment

  Guy Spier · Finance & Investing

• If the Universe Is Teeming with Aliens ... WHERE IS EVERYBODY?

  Stephen Webb · Science

• A Short History of Nearly Everything

  Bill Bryson · History

• Not Fade Away - A Short Life, Well Lived

  Laurence Shames and Peter Barton · Biography

• Impro: Improvisation and the Theatre

  Keith Johnstone · Psychology

• How to Create a Mind

  Ray Kurzweil · Science

• The Effective Executive: The Definitive Guide to Getting the Right Things Done

  Peter F. Drucker · Management & Productivity

• Salt: A World History

  Mark Kurlanksy · History

• Seeking Wisdom

  Peter Bevelin · Psychology

• The Prince

  Machiavelli · Leadership

• A Beautiful Mind: The Life of Mathematical Genius and Nobel Laureate John Nash

  Sylvia Nasar · Biography

• The War of Art

  Stephen Pressfield · Psychology

• The Innovators Dilemma

  Clayton M. Christensen · Business

• From Beirut to Jerusalem

  Thomas Friedman · International Affairs

• Ender's Game

  Orson Scott Card · Fiction

• Predictable Revenue: Turn Your Business Into A Sales Machine With The $100 Million Best Practices Of Salesforce.com

  Ross & Tyler · Sales

• Thank You For Being Late

  Thomas Friedman · Economics & Game Theory

• The Lion's Gate: On the Front Lines of the Six Day War

  Steven Pressfield · International Affairs

• The Power Broker

  Robert Caro · Biography

• Congress: The Electoral Connection

  David Mayhew · Government

• The Great Stagnation: How America Ate All the Low-Hanging Fruit of Modern History, Got Sick, and Will( Eventually) Feel Better

  Tyler Cowen · Economics & Game Theory

• Supercrunchers

  Ian Ayres · Business

• The Globalization Paradox: Democracy and the Future of the World Economy

  Dani Rodrik · Economics & Game Theory

• Founders at Work: Stories of Startups' Early Days

  Jessica Livingston · Silicon Valley

• Our Inner Conflicts

  Karen Horney · Psychology