Omar Bohsali

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.

• Congress and The Bureaucracy
  Douglas Arnold · Government
• Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World
  Cal Newport · Management & Productivity
• Nonlinear Dynamics and Chaos
  Steven H. Strogatz · Systems Thinking
• Ender's Game
  Orson Scott Card · Fiction
• SPQR - A History of Ancient Rome
  Mary Beard · History
• Inside the Tornado
  Geoffrey Moore · Business
• A Short History of Nearly Everything
  Bill Bryson · History
• The Boron Letters
  Gary Halbert · Sales
• Neuromancer
  William Gibson · Fiction
• Seeking Wisdom
  Peter Bevelin · Psychology
• Systemantics: How Systems Work and Especially How They Fail
  John Gail · Systems Thinking
• The Power Broker
  Robert Caro · Biography
• The Rise and Reign of Vladimir Putin
  Steven Myers · International Affairs
• Liar's Poker
  Michael Lewis · Finance & Investing
• Benjamin Franklin: An American Life
  Walter Isaacson · Biography
• Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience
  Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi · Psychology
• Congress: The Electoral Connection
  David Mayhew · Government
• Genghis Khan: His Conquests, His Empire, His Legacy
  Frank McLynn · Biography
• From Beirut to Jerusalem
  Thomas Friedman · International Affairs
• Salt Sugar Fat: How the Food Giants Hooked Us
  Michael Moss · Science
• High Output Management
  Andy Grove · Management & Productivity
• The Scientist in the Crib
  Allison Gotnick · Psychology
• Catch 22
  Joseph Heller · Fiction
• The Age of Intelligent Machines
  Ray Kurzweil · Technology
• The E-Myth Revisited: Why Most Small Businesses Don't Work and What to Do About It
  Michael E. Gerber · Leadership
• Influence
  Robert Cialdini · Psychology
• Pro Python (Expert's Voice in Open Source)
  Marty Alchin · Programming
• When Breath Becomes Air
  Paul Kalanthi · Biography
• The Four Steps to the Epiphany: Successful Strategies for Startups That Win
  Steven Gary Blank · Business
• The New Strategic Selling
  Robert B. Miller and Stephen E. Heiman · Sales
• The Right Stuff
  Tom Wolfe · History
• The Trauma of Everyday Life
  Mark Epstein · Psychology
• Chaos Monkeys: Obscene Fortune and Random Failure in Silicon Valley
  Antonio Garcia Martinez · Silicon Valley
• Letters from a Self-Made Merchant to His Son
  George Lorimer · Business
• The Lessons of History
  Will Durant & Ariel Durant · History
• Managing Humans: Biting and Humorous Tales of a Software Engineering Manager
  Michael Lopp · Management & Productivity
• Supercrunchers
  Ian Ayres · Business
• Talking to Humans
  Gilf Constable · Psychology
• The Way of Men
  Jack Donovan · Psychology
• Excellent Sheep - The Miseducation of the American Elite and the Way to a Meaningful Life
  William Deresiewicz · Leadership
• The Quartet: Orchestrating the Second American Revolution, 1783-1789
  Joseph Ellis · History
• Not Fade Away - A Short Life, Well Lived
  Laurence Shames and Peter Barton · Biography
• Motivation and Personality
  Maslow · Psychology
• 100 Years of Solitude
  Gabriel Garcia Marquez · Fiction
• Flash Boys
  Michael Lewis · Finance & Investing
• Real and Functional Analysis
  Serge Lang · Mathematics
• Hiring for Attitude: A Revolutionary Approach to Recruiting and Selecting People with Both Tremendous Skills and Superb Attitude
  Mark Murphy · Management & Productivity
• Meditations
  Marcus Aurelius · Philosophy
• Hard Drive: Bill Gates and the Making of the Microsoft Empire
  James Wallace, Jim Erickson · Biography
• What I Wish I Knew When I Was 20: A Crash Course on Making Your Place in the World
  Tina Seelig · Business
• Predictable Revenue: Turn Your Business Into A Sales Machine With The $100 Million Best Practices Of Salesforce.com
  Ross & Tyler · Sales
• To Sell Is Human: The Surprising Truth About Moving Others
  Daniel Pink · Sales
• The Art of Thinking Clearly
  Rolf Dobelli · Philosophy
• Don Quixote
  Miguel de Cervantes · Fiction
• The Globalization Paradox: Democracy and the Future of the World Economy
  Dani Rodrik · Economics & Game Theory
• Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values
  Robert Pirsig · Fiction
• The Finishing School
  Dick Couch · Leadership
• Farenheit 451
  Ray Bradbury · Fiction
• Thank You For Being Late
  Thomas Friedman · Economics & Game Theory
• The First Five Pages: A Writer's Guide To Staying Out of the Rejection Pile
  Noah Lukeman · Writing
• Ready Player One
  Ernest Cline · Fiction
• Time Travel: A History
  James Gleick · Science
• Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder (Incerto)
  Nassim Nicholas Taleb · Finance & Investing
• Thinking in Systems: A Primer
  Donella H. Meadows · Systems Thinking
• Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future
  Thiel & Masters · Business
• Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future
  Ashlee Vance · Biography
• Salt: A World History
  Mark Kurlanksy · History
• Making A Splash: A Growth Mindset Children's Book
  Carol E Reiley · Psychology
• The Dream Machine: J. C. R. Licklider and the Revolution That Made Computing Personal
  Mitchell Waldrop · Silicon Valley · Notes
• The Outsiders: Eight Unconventional CEOs and Their Radically Rational Blueprint for Success
  William N. Thorndike · Finance & Investing
• Winston Spencer Churchill, 1874 - 1965: 1,2,3
  William Manchester, Paul Reid · Biography
• Smarter Faster Better: The Secrets of Being Productive in Life and Business
  Charles Duhigg · Psychology
• The War of Art
  Stephen Pressfield · Psychology
• Howard Hughes: His Life and Madness
  Donald Barlett, James Steele · Biography
• Rework
  Jason Fried and David Heinemeier Hansson · Business
• If the Universe Is Teeming with Aliens ... WHERE IS EVERYBODY?
  Stephen Webb · Science
• A First-Rate Madness: Uncovering the Links Between Leadership and Mental Illness
  Nassir Ghaemi · Psychology
• To Kill a Mockingbird
  Harper Lee · Fiction
• Leading: Learning from Life and My Years at Manchester United
  Ferguson & Moritz · Leadership
• Emotional Intelligence: Why It Can Matter More Than IQ
  Daniel Goleman · Psychology
• The Man Who Created the Middle East: A Story of Empire, Conflict and the Sykes-Picot Agreement
  Christopher Simon Sykes · International Affairs
• Our Inner Conflicts
  Karen Horney · Psychology
• Introduction to Tornado: Modern Web Applications with Python
  Michael Dory · Programming
• The Effective Engineer: How to Leverage Your Efforts In Software Engineering to Make a Disproportionate and Meaningful Impact
  Edmond Lau · Management & Productivity
• The Years of Lyndon Johnson
  Robert Caro · Biography
• The Secret Power of Middle Children
  Catherine Salmon & Katrin Schumann · Psychology
• Pmarca Archives
  Marc Andressen · Business
• A Few Lessons from Sherlock Holmes
  Peter Bevelin · Systems Thinking
• Guns, Germs and Steel
  Jared Diamond · History
• Killing Mr. Lebanon: The Assassination of Rafik Hariri and its impact on the Middle East
  Nicholas Blanford · International Affairs
• The Logic of War and Peace
  Edward Luttwack · International Affairs
• When Genius Failed: The Rise and Fall of Long-Term Capital Management
  Roger Lowenstein · Finance & Investing
• Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us
  Daniel Pink · Psychology
• Brave New Workd
  Aldous Huxley · Fiction
• Systems Thinking for Business: Capitalize on Structures Hidden in Plain Sight
  Rich Jolly · Systems Thinking
• The Gardner and the Carpenter
  Allison Gotnick · Psychology
• Snow Crash
  Neal Stephenson · Fiction
• Foundation
  Isaac Asimov · Fiction
• Paradox - Nine Greatest Enigmas in Physics
  Jim Al-Khalili · Science
• Thinking, Fast and Slow
  Daniel Kahneman · Psychology
• The ONE Thing: The Surprisingly Simple Truth Behind Extraordinary Results
  Gary Keller · Management & Productivity
• The Death of Ivan Ilych
  Leo Tolstoy · Fiction
• 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
• Too Soon Old, Too Late Smart: Thirty True Things You Need to Know Now
  Gordon Livingston · Philosophy
• Sons of Wichita: How the Koch Brothers Became America's Most Powerful and Private Dynasty
  Daniel Schulman · Biography
• The Inner Game of Tennis: The Classic Guide to the Mental Side of Peak Performance
  Timothy Gallwey, Zach Kleinman · Psychology
• Impro: Improvisation and the Theatre
  Keith Johnstone · Psychology
• The Sovereign Individual: Mastering the Transition to the Information Age
  James Davidson and William Rees-Mogg · International Affairs
• How I Made $2,000,000 In the Stock Market
  Nicholas Darvas · Finance & Investing
• The Way of Zen
  Alan Watts · Philosophy
• Pebbles of Perception
  Laurence Endersen · Epistemology
• Secrets of Closing the Sale
  Zig Ziglar · Sales
• Ego is the Enemy
  Ryan Holiday · Psychology
• Blue Ocean Strategy: How To Create Uncontested Market Space And Make The Competition Irrelevant
  Chan Kim · Technology
• Warfighting
  US Marine Corps · Leadership
• A Journey in Other Worlds
  John Jacob Astor · Fiction
• Creativity, Inc.: Overcoming the Unseen Forces That Stand in the Way of True Inspiration
  Ed CatmullandAmy Wallace · Psychology
• What Every BODY is Saying: An Ex-FBI Agents Guide to Speed-Reading People
  Joe Navarro and Marvin Karlins · Fiction
• How to Read a Book
  Mortimer Adler and Charles Van Doren · Epistemology
• Principles
  Ray Dalio · Management & Productivity
• 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
• The Intelligent Investor
  Ben Graham · Finance & Investing
• Chase, Chance, and Creativity
  James Austin · Psychology
• The Wisdom of Crowds
  James Surowiecki · Economics & Game Theory
• The Effective Executive: The Definitive Guide to Getting the Right Things Done
  Peter F. Drucker · Management & Productivity
• How To Do Systems Analysis
  John Gibson, William Scherer, William Gibson · Systems Thinking
• How to Win Friends and Influence People
  Dale Carnegie · Psychology
• The Dictator's Handbook: Why Bad Behavior is Almost Always Good Politics
  Bruce Bueno de Mesquita & Alastair Smith · Politics
• Complexity: Life at the Edge of Chaos
  Roger Lewin · Systems Thinking
• How to be a High School Superstar
  Cal Newport · Management & Productivity
• Rapt: Attention and the Focused Life
  Winifred Gallagher · Psychology
• Strategy of Conflict
  Schelling · Economics & Game Theory
• Sam Walton: Made In America
  Sam Walton · Biography
• The Wisdom of the Enneagram
  Don Riso · Psychology
• How to Read a Financial Report
  John Tracy · Accounting
• Financial Accounting
  Stickney · Accounting
• Lawrence in Arabia: War, Deceit, Imperial Folly and the Making of the Modern Middle East
  Scott Anderson · Fiction
• The Marshmallow Test
  Walter Mischel · Psychology
• The Happiness Hypothesis
  Jonathan Haidt · Psychology
• The Charisma Myth
  Olivia Cabane · Psychology
• Shoe Dog
  Phil Knight · Biography
• Genius: The Life and Mind of Richard Feynman
  James Gleick · Biography
• The Lion's Gate: On the Front Lines of the Six Day War
  Steven Pressfield · International Affairs
• Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets (Incerto)
  Nassim Nicholas Taleb · Finance & Investing
• Positive Intelligence: Why Only 20% of Teams and Individuals Achieve Their True Potential and How You Can Achieve Yours
  Shirzad Chamine · Psychology
• The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
  Douglas Adams · Fiction
• Leadership and Self-Deception: Getting Out of the Box
  The Arbinger Institute · Leadership
• Hackers & Painters: Big Ideas from the Computer Age
  Paul Graham · Business
• A Higher Loyalty
  James Comey · Leadership
• History of the Peloponnesian War
  Thucydides · International Affairs
• The Entrepreneur's Guide to Customer Development: A Cheat Sheet to the Four Steps to the Epiphany
  Brant Cooper, Patrick Vlaskovits · Business
• Financial Instruments: Equities, Debt, Derivatives, and Alternative Investments
  David Weiss · Finance & Investing
• The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable Fragility" (Incerto)
  Nassim Nicholas Taleb · Finance & Investing
• Titan: The Life of John D. Rockefeller, Sr.
  Ron Chernow · Biography
• The Art of Learning: A Journey in the Pursuit of Excellence
  Josh Waitzkin · Epistemology
• The Obstacle is the Way
  Ryan Holiday · Philosophy
• Anything You Want: 40 Lessons for a New Kind of Entrepreneur
  Derek Sivers · Business
• Gang Leader for a Day
  Sudhir Venkatesh · Psychology
• Founders at Work: Stories of Startups' Early Days
  Jessica Livingston · Silicon Valley
• On the Shortness of Life
  Seneca · Philosophy
• Legacy
  James Kerr · Leadership
• Buckminster Fuller's Universe: His Life and Work
  L Steven Sieden · Biography
• Start-up Nation: The Story of Israel's Economic Miracle
  Dan Senor, Saul Singer · International Affairs
• Brain On Fire: My Month Of Madness
  Susannah Cahalan · Biography
• Slaughterhouse-Five
  Kurt Vonnegut · Fiction
• The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine
  Michael Lewis · Finance & Investing
• How to Castrate a Bull: Unexpected Lessons on Risk, Growth, and Success in Business
  Dave Hitz, Pat Walsh · Silicon Valley
• Theory of International Politics
  Kenneth Waltz · International Affairs
• Man, the State, and War
  Kenneth Waltz · International Affairs
• Interpretation of Financial Statements
  Ben Graham · Accounting
• 7 Habits of Highly Effective People
  Stephen R. Covey · Management & Productivity
• Basic Economics: A Common Sense Guide to the Economy
  Thomas Sowell · Economics & Game Theory
• Getting Things Done
  David Allen · Business
• The Innovators Dilemma
  Clayton M. Christensen · Business
• The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck: A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life
  Mark Manson · Philosophy
• Red Notice: A True Story of High Finance, Murder, and One Man's Fight for Justice
  Bill Browder · Biography
• Nikola Tesla: Imagination and the Man That Invented the 20th Century
  Sean Patrick · Biography
• Superforecasting: The Art And Science Of Prediction
  Philip E. Tetlock, Dan Gardner · Systems Thinking
• A Beautiful Mind: The Life of Mathematical Genius and Nobel Laureate John Nash
  Sylvia Nasar · Biography
• The Shadow World: Inside the Global Arms Trade
  Andrew Feinstein · International Affairs
• Tools of Titans: The Tactics, Routines, and Habits of Billionaires, Icons, and World-Class Performers
  Tim Ferriss · Psychology
• Save the Cat
  Blake Snyder · Writing
• How Children Succeed
  Paul Tough · Psychology
• Crossing the Chasm
  Geoffrey A. Moore · Silicon Valley
• You Can Be a Stock Market Genius: Uncover the Secret Hiding Places of Stock Market Profits
  Joel Greenblatt · Finance & Investing
• Berkshire Hathaway Letters to Shareholders, 2015
  Warren Buffett · Finance & Investing
• The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood
  James Gleick · Science
• A Random Walk down Wall Street
  Burton G. Malkiel · Finance & Investing
• Cat's Cradle: A Novel
  Kurt Vonnegut · Fiction
• The Complete Idiot's Guide to Economic Indicators
  Mark Rogers · Economics & Game Theory
• Skin in the Game
  Nassim Nicholas Taleb · Philosophy
• The Art of Doing Science and Engineering
  Richard Hamming · Science
• Teaching Common Sense: The Grand Strategy Program at Yale University
  Linda Kulman · Leadership
• Tesla: Inventor of the Electrical Age
  Bernard Carlson · Biography
• The Man Who Solved The Market
  Gregory Zuckerman · Biography
• The Square and The Tower
  Nilal Ferguson · Networks
• Freaks of Fortune
  Jonathan Levy · History
• The Art of Living: The Classical Mannual on Virtue, Happiness, and Effectiveness
  Epictetus and Sharon Lebell · Philosophy
• The Art of War
  Sun Tzu · Leadership
• A First Course in Probability
  Sheldon Ross · Mathematics
• Aversive Interpersonal Behavior
  Robin M. Kowalski · Psychology
• The Andromeda Strain
  Michael Crichton · Fiction
• Steve Jobs
  Walter Isaacson · Biography
• Pre-suasion: A Revolutionary Way To Influence And Persuade
  Robert Cialdini · Psychology
• Why Information Grows: The Evolution of Order, from Atoms to Economies
  Cesar Hidalgo · Economics & Game Theory
• How to Create a Mind
  Ray Kurzweil · Science
• The Richest Man in Babylon
  George Clason · Business
• The Brethren: Inside the Supreme Court
  Bob Woodward · Government
• The Fountainhead
  Ayn Rand · Fiction
• Neurosis and Human Growth: The Struggle Towards Self-Realization
  Karen Horney · Psychology
• Awaken the Giant Within
  Tony Robbins · Psychology
• The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers
  Ben Horowitz · Business
• How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big: Kind of the Story of My Life
  Scott Adams · Philosophy
• The House of Morgan: An American Banking Dynasty and the Rise of Modern Finance
  Ron Chernow · History
• A Brief History of Time
  Stephen Hawking · History
• The Fish That Ate the Whale: The Life and Times of America's Banana King
  Rich Cohen · Biography
• Kissinger: 1923-1968: The Idealist
  Niall Ferguson · Biography
• The Three Body Problem
  Cixin Liu · Fiction
• The Education of a Value Investor: My Transformative Quest for Wealth, Wisdom, and Enlightenment
  Guy Spier · Finance & Investing
• Extreme Ownership: How U.S. Navy SEALs Lead and Win
  Jocko Willink · Leadership
• Finite and Infinite Games
  James Carse · Philosophy
• The Ikea Story
  Bertil Torekull · Business
• How to Use Financial Statements
  James Bandler · Accounting
• The Great Gatsby
  F. Scott Fitzgerald · Fiction
• Catcher in the Rye
  J.D. Salinger · Fiction
• The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon
  Brad Stone · Business
• The Score Takes Care of Itself: My Philosophy of Leadership
  Bill Walsh and Steve Jamison · Leadership
• Peak: Secrets from the New Science of Expertise
  Anders Ericsson and Robert Pool · Psychology
• Ender's Game
  Orson Scott Card · Fiction
• The Personal MBA: Master the Art of Business
  Josh Kaufman · Business
• Little Red Book of Selling: 12.5 Principles of Sales Greatness
  Jeffrey Gitomer · Sales
• How To Win Friends and Influence People
  Dale Carnegie · Psychology
• The Snowball: Warren Buffett and the Business of Life
  Alice Schroeder · Biography · Notes
• Presidential Power and the Modern Presidents: The Politics of Leadership from Roosevelt to Reagan
  Richard Neustadt · Government
• Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking
  Susan Cain · Psychology
• The Prince
  Machiavelli · Leadership
• Writing That Works, 3e: How to Communicate Effectively in Business
  Kenneth Roman and Joel Raphaelson · Writing
• Mindset: The New Psychology of Success
  Carol Dweick · Psychology
• How to Not Be Wrong - The Power of Mathematical Thinking
  Jordan Eldberg · Systems Thinking
• David and Goliath
  Malcolm Gladwell · Business
• The Prophet
  Kahlil Gibran · History
• The New New Thing: A Silicon Valley Story
  Michael Lewis · Silicon Valley
• Federalist Papers
  Alexander Hamilton · Government
• Personal Development for Smart People
  Steve Pavlina · Psychology
• A Course in Microeconomic Theory
  Kreps · Economics & Game Theory