Reading List

• I keep an updated list of the books that I have since May, 2016
• As of May, 2017 I started writing about each of the books that I read (linked here)
• I sometimes read books twice, and mention them below twice to emphasize that
• If you see a book on here that you’ve read or are considering reading and want to talk, would love to chat
• Always up for recommendations :)

2022

• Dark Forest (Book 2 of the Three Body Problem series)
• High Output Management
• Dune Book 2
• This is your Mind on Plants
• Norwegian Wood
• The Righteous Mind

2021

• Mating in Captivity
• Never Split the Difference
• Cloud Atlas
• Dune Book 1
• First, Break All the Rules
• The Gifts of Imperfection
• Goliath, the 100 Year War Between Monopoly Power & Democracy
• Saving Capitalism
• Meet me in Paradise
• Strangers
• Wooden on Leadership
• The Three Body Problem
• The Overstory
• On the Road
• Kafka on the Shore

2020

• The Bridge Across Forever
• Kissinger: A Biography
• Red Rising Book 5
• Factfulness
• The Wealth of Nations
• A Brave New World
• 1984
• Pedagogy of the Oppressed
• Wool
• 1Q84

2019

• First, We Make the Beast Beautiful
• The Great Escape
• The Strange Death of Europe
• 21 Lessons About the 21st Century
• Red Rising Series (Books 1–4)
• Neverwhere
• Pablo Escobar: My Father
• Zero to One
• Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience
• The Road to Woodstock
• Ender’s Game
• The Upside of Stress
• Wrinkle in Time

2018

• Deal: My Three Decades of Drumming, Dreams, and Drugs with the Grateful Dead
• Homegoing* for class
• The Fifth Risk
• American Born Chinese* for class
• The Hour of the Star (Pontiero translation)* for class
• Most Likely to Succeed
• A Wild Sheep Chase
• Ready Player One
• Life 3.0
• How to Change Your Mind
• The Globalization Paradox
• The Third Plate
• Industries of the Future
• Harry Potter series (books 1–7)
• Alice and Wonderland
• Why Nations Fail
• Born to Run
• Guns, Germs and Steel
• Benjamin Franklin: An American Life
• Connectome: How the Brain’s Wiring Makes Us Who We Are
• Remains of the Day

May 2016–Dec 2017

• The Velveteen Principles
• In Cold Blood
• Superintelligence
• On The Move
• Scale: Universal Laws of Scaling
• Thinking Fast and Slow
• Fight Club
• The Drunkards Walk
• Hillbilly Elegy
• The Fountainhead
• Einstein: His Life and Universe
• Sapiens
• Lord of the Flies
• Lord of the Rings #3
• The Game
• Autobiography of a Yogi
• The Alchemist
• The art of racing the rain
• How to Win Friends and Influence People
• Shoe dog
• Steve Jobs (Walter Isaacson)
• Startup Nation
• The Game
• Blink
• The unbearable lightness of bein
• the everything store
• Tipping point
• As one is
• Upstarts
• PM Forni
• Lord of the Rings 1
• Let There be Water
• Lee
• Lord of the rings 2
• One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
• Influence
• The undoing project
• Misbehaving
• Nudge
• Antifragile
• Ego is the Enemy
• The subtle art of not giving a fuck
• Moonwalking with Einstein
• Outliers
• Catcher in the Rye
• Man’s Search for Meaning
• Unmasking Narcissism
• The Favorite Game
• Drive
• Wapshot Chronicles
• The Specific Edge
• Once a runner
• The selfish gene
• The power of habit
• The Hard Thing about Hard Things
• The lean startup
• The science behind expertise
• The happiness track
• Ghetto Bastard
• Happiness for Beginners
• Originals