# Bookshelf ## Catalog Wishlist:

Title	Author	Category	Legend	Age
100 Years of Solitude	Gabriel García Márquez	F
Selected Poems	T.S. Eliot	NF
Empire of AI	Karen Hao	NF
The Screwtape Letters	C.S. Lewis	F
The War of Art	Steven Pressfield	NF
After Dark	Haruki Murakami	F
Kafka on the Shore	Haruki Murakami	F
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle	Haruki Murakami	F
Norwegian Wood	Haruki Murakami	F
Dance Dance Dance	Haruki Murakami	F
Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World	Haruki Murakami	F
A Wild Sheep Chase	Haruki Murakami	F
Unreasonable Hospitality	Will Guidara	NF
Double Your Profits	Robert Fifer	NF
Rich Dad Poor Dad	Robert Kiyosaki	NF
Picasso's War	Hugh Eakin	NF
The Eyes of the Skin	Juhani Pallasmaa	NF
Ways of Seeing	John Berger	NF
Theories and Documents of Contemporary Art	Misc	NF
Becoming Steve Jobs	Brent Schlender	B
How Countries Go Broke	Ray Dalio	NF
The Revolt of the Public	Martin Gurri	NF
The Shape of Time: Remarks on the History of Things	George Kubler	NF	-	31
The Armor of Light	Ken Follett	F	-	30
The Pillars of the Earth	Ken Follett	F	-	30
Tender is the Flesh	Agustina Bazterrica	F	-	30
Bird by Bird	Anne Lamott	NF	-	30
Design as Art	Bruno Munari	NF	-	30
The Power of Myth	Joseph Campbell	NF	-	30
Boom	Byrne Hobart	NF	-	30
The Mom Test	Rob Fitzpatrick	NF	-	30
The Prize	Daniel Yergin	NF	⭐	30
Only the Paranoid Survive	Andy Grove	NF	⭐	30
Nuclear War	Anne Jacobsen	NF	-	30
Several Short Sentences About Writing	Verlyn Klinkenborg	NF	-	30
Boom	Michael Shnayerson	NF	-	30
Token Supremacy	Zachary Small	NF	-	30
Good Strategy, Bad Strategy	Richard Rumelt	NF	⭐	29
Daily Rituals: How Artists Work	Mason Currey	B	-	29
Red Rising (Series)	Pierce Brown	SF	-	29
A Philosophy of Software Design	John Ousterhout	NF	-	29
The Martian Way	Isaac Asimov	SF	-	29
Radical Markets	Eric Posner	NF	-	29
Monetizing Innovation	Madhavan Ramanujam	M	-	29
The Maniac	Benjamin Labatut	B	-	29
Legal Systems Very Different From Ours	David Freeman	NF	-	29
A Pattern Language	Christopher Alexander	NF	⭐️	29
Poor Charlie's Almanack	Charlie Munger	M	⭐️	29
The Story of Philosophy	Will Durant	P	⭐️	29
Grid Systems in Graphic Design	Josef Müller-Brockmann	NF	-	29
Braiding Sweetgrass	Robin Wall Kimmerer	NF	-	29
As a Man Thinketh	James Allen	NF	-	29
Scaling People	Claire Hughes Johnson	M	-	29
The Fund	Rob Copeland	NF	-	29
The Plague	Albert Camus	F	-	29
Sirens of Titan	Kurt Vonnegut	F	-	29
Savage Journey	Peter Richardson	B	-	29
Godel, Escher, Bach	Douglas Hofstadter	NF	-	29
Land and Sea	Carl Schmitt	NF	-	29
The Concept of the Political	Carl Schmitt	NF	-	29
The Timeless Way of Building	Christopher Alexander	NF	⭐️	29
Slouching Towards Bethlehem	Joan Didion	NF	-	29
The Sovereign Individual	James Dale Davidson	NF	-	29
Elon Musk	Walter Isaacson	B	-	29
From Third World to First	Lee Kuan Yew	AB	-	29
The Tao of Physics	Fritjof Capra	NF	⭐️	29
Cinema Speculation	Quentin Tarantino	AB	-	28
The Rise of Endymion	Dan Simmons	F	-	28
Endymion	Dan Simmons	F	-	28
Essays In Idleness	Yoshida Kenkō	NF	-	28
On The Road	Jack Kerouac	AB	-	28
The Contrarian	Max Chafkin	B	-	28
In Patagonia	Bruce Chatwin	NF	-	28
Meaning in History	Karl Lowith	NF	-	28
Democracy In America	Alexis de Tocqueville	NF	-	28
Things Hidden Since The Foundation Of The World	Rene Girard	P	-	28
Build	Tony Fadell	AB	-	28
Death's End	Liu Cixin	F	-	28
The Decadent Society	Ross Douthat	NF	-	28
Total Recall	Arnold Schwarzenegger	AB	-	28
The Man From the Future (Von Neumann)	Ananyo Bhattacharya	B	-	28
Infinite Jest	David Foster Wallace	NF	-	28
The Making of the Atomic Bomb	Richard Rhodes	NF	-	28
American Prometheus	Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin	B	-	28
Walden	Henry David Thoreau	NF	-	28
How The Internet Happened	Brian McCullough	NF	-	28
Adventures of a Young Naturalist	David Attenborough	NF	-	28
The Diversity Myth	Peter Thiel	NF	-	28
The Obstacle is the Way	Ryan Holiday	NF	-	28
The Bed of Procrustes	Nassim Nicolas Taleb	NF	-	28
1776	David McCullough	NF	-	28
The Founders	Jimmy Soni	NF	-	28
Autobiography	John Stuart Mill	AB	-	27
Pieces of the Action	Vannevar Bush	AB	-	27
The Design of Everyday Things	Don Norman	NF	-	27
An Elegant Puzzle	Will Larson	NF	-	27
Talent	Tyler Cowen	NF	-	27
The Dream Machine	M. Mitchell Waldrop	NF	-	27
All Things Are Possible	Lev Shestov	NF	-	27
Conspiracy	Ryan Holiday	NF	-
How To Actually Change Your Mind	Eliezer Yudkowsky	NF	-	27
The Gospels: A New Translation	Sarah Ruden	NF	-	27
The World of Yesterday	Stefan Zweig	AB	-	27
High Growth Handbook	Elad Gil	NF	⭐️	27
The Big Score	Michael S. Malone	NF	-	27
Infamous Scribblers	Eric Burns	NF	-	27
The Craft	John Dickie	NF	-	27
Princples for Dealing with the Changing World Order	Ray Dalio	NF	-	27
Albion's Seed	David Hackett Fischer	NF	-	27
When Money Dies	Adam Fergusson	NF	-	27
A Short History Of Nearly Everything	Bill Bryson	NF	-	27
Essays After Eighty	Donald Hall	NF	-	27
Revolution in the Valley	Andy Hertzfeld	NF	-	27
The Mind Body Problem	Rebecca Goldstein	F	-	27
How Asia Works	Joe Studwell	NF	-	27
Greenlights	Matthew McConaughey	NF	-	27
The Dispossessed	Ursula K. Le Guin	F	-	27
Skunk Works	Ben Rich	M	⭐️	27
The Score Takes Care of Itself	Bill Walsh	M	-	27
Invent & Wander	Jeff Bezos	M	-	27
Animal Farm	George Orwell	F	-	27
Einstein's Dreams	Alan Lightman	NF	-	27
Where the Crawdads Sing	Delia Owens	F	-	26
The Big Short	Michael Lewis	NF	-	26
The Making of Karateka	Jordan Mechner	NF	-	25,26
A Swim In A Pond In The Rain	George Saunders	NF	-	26
Basic Writings of Nietzsche	Friedrich Nietzsche	P	-	26
Finite and Infinite Games	James P. Carse	P	-	26
Guns, Germs, and Steel	Jared Diamond	NF	-	26
The Code Breaker	Walter Isaacson	NF	-	26
A World Without Email	Cal Newport	NF	-	26
Skin In The Game	Nassim Taleb	NF	-	26
The New New Thing	Michael Lewis	NF	-	26
The Black Swan	Nassim Taleb	NF	-	26
The Fifth Season (Trilogy)	N. K. Jemisin	F	-	26
A Brief History of Time	Stephen Hawking	NF	🧠	26
Kissinger	Walter Issacson	NF	-	26
Exhalation	Ted Chiang	F	-	26
Seeing Like A State	James C. Scott	NF	-	26
Range	David Epstein	NF	-	26
Rome, Inc.	Stanley Bing	NF	-	26
Selected Essays of E.B. White	E.B. White	NF	-	26
Thus Spoke Zarathustra	Friedrich Nietzsche	NF	-	26
Stubborn Attachments	Tyler Cowen	NF	-	26
American Sketches	Walter Isaacson	B	-	26
Antifragile	Nassim Taleb	NF	🌟	26
Loonshots	Safi Bahcall	NF	-	26
Innovators	Walter Isaacson	NF	-	26
Working in Public	Nadia Eghbal	NF	-	26
Marching Powder	Thomas McFadden	NF	-	26
Lila	Robert Pirsig	NF	-	26
On Writing Well	William Zinsser	NF	-	25
Chaos Monkeys	Antonio García Martínez	NF	-	26
Mankind in Amnesia	Immanuel Velikovsky	NF	-	26
The Lives of The Artists	Giorgio Vassari	NF	-	26
The Four Hour Work Week	Tim Ferriss	NF	-	25
The Art of Doing Science and Engineering	Richard Hamming	NF	🧠	25
Liar's Poker	Michael Lewis	NF	-	25
The Making of Prince of Persia	Jordan Mechner	NF	🌟	25
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance	Robert Pirsig	NF	🧠	25, 26
Model Thinker	Scott Page	NF	-	25
Me Talk Pretty One Day	David Sedaris	NF	-	25
Atlas Shrugged	Ayn Rand	F	-	25
The Fountainhead	Ayn Rand	F	🌟	25
On The Shortness Of Life	Seneca	NF	🌟	24
Leonardo Da Vinci	Walter Isaacson	B	-	25
The Book of Disquiet	Fernando Pessoa	AB	🌟	25, 26
Fall of Hyperion	Dan Simmons	SF	-	20,25
Moby Dick or, The Whale	Herman Melville	F	-	25
Albert Einstein: His Life and Universe	Water Isaacson	B	-	25
Benjamin Franklin: An American Life	Walter Isaacson	B	-	25
How To Read A Book	Mortimer Adler	NF	-	25
Managing Yourself	Clayton M. Christensen	NF	-	25
Thinking, Fast & Slow	Daniel Kahneman	NF	-	25
Seasteading	Joe Quirk	NF	-	25
Principles	Ray Dalio	NF	🌟	25, 27
What You Do Is Who You Are	Ben Horowitz	NF	-	25
High Output Management	Andy Grove	NF	-	25, 27
The Stand	Stephen King	F	-	25
On Writing	Stephen King	AB	🌟	25
Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life	William Finnegan	AB	🌟	25
Cat's Cradle	Kurt Vonnegut	F	-	25
Hard Drive: Bill Gates and the Making of Microsoft	James Wallace	B	-	25
Hackers and Painters	Paul Graham	NF	🌟	25
Contact	Carl Sagan	SF	🧠	16,25
Wise Man's Fear	Patrick Rothfuss	F	🌟	25
The Name Of The Wind	Patrick Rothfuss	F	🌟	25
Slaughterhouse Five	Kurt Vonnegut	F	-	25
Slapstick	Kurt Vonnegut	SF	-	25
The Secret of Apollo	Stephen Johnson	NF	-	25
What Do You Care What Other People Think?	Richard Fenyman	AB	-	24
Bitcoin Billionaires	Ben Mezrich	NF	-	24
Bad Blood	John Carreyrou	NF	-	24
The Dark Forest	Cixin Liu	SF	-	24
The Mezzanine	Nicholson Baker	NF	♥️	24
Catch-22	Joseph Heller	F	-	16,24
Art of War	Sun Tzu	P	-	24
Flowers for Algernon	Daniel Keyes	F	-	16,24
Ender's Game	Orson Scott Card	SF	-	24
Turing's Cathedral	George Dyson	NF	🧠	24
The Everything Store	Brad Stone	B	-	24
Surely You're Joking, Mr. Fenyman	Richard Fenyman	B	🌟	24
Zero to One	Peter Thiel	M	-	24,26,27
Shoe Dog	Phil Knight	AB	🌟	24,28
Steve Jobs	Walter Isaacson	B	-	24
Become What You Are	Alan Watts	P	-	24
Can't Hurt Me	David Goggins	AB	-	24
Factfulness	Hans Rosling	NF	🧠	24
Becoming	Michelle Obama	B	-	24
Sapiens: A Brief History of Human Kind	Yuval Noah Harari	NF	🧠	24
The Collapsing Empire	John Scalzi	SF	-	24
The Last Lecture	Randy Pausch	AB	-	24
The Hard Thing About Hard Things	Ben Horowitz	M	🌟	24
Machine Learning	Hugh Howey	SF	-	23
Stories of Your Life and Others	Ted Chiang	SF	-	23
The Three Body Problem	Cixin Liu	SF	-	23
Hyperion Cantos	Dan Simmons	SF	🌟	20,23
Elon Musk	Ashlee Vance	B	-	23,25
Saturn Run	John Sandford	SF	-	23,24
Trilogy War Stories	Ken Follett	F	-	23
Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy	Douglas Adams	F	🌟	23
Yeager	Chuck Yeager	AB	-	23
The Dark Tower Series	Stephen King	F, H	-	23
Salem's Lot	Stephen King	H	-	23
Brave New World	Aldous Huxley	F	-	22
American Psycho	Bret Easton Ellis	F	-	21
Fahreinheit 451	Ray Bradbury	F	-	16,24
1984	George Orwell	F	-	16,23
Do Android's Dream of Electric Sheep	Phillip Dick	SF	-	18
Foundation Series	Isaac Asimov	SF	🌟	19,20,21,22,23,24,25
Robot Series	Isaac Asimov	SF	-	19
Dune	Frank Herbert	SF	🌟	20,21,22,23,24,25
His Dark Materials Series	Philip Pullman	F, YA	🌟	13
Artemis Fowl Series	Eoin Colfer	F, YA	-	13
The Keys to the Kingdom Series	Garth Nix	F, YA	-	14
The Great Tree of Avalon	TA Barron	F, YA	-	14
The Hunger Games	Suzanne Collins	F, YA	-
The Heir Chronicles	Cinda W. Chima	F, YA	-
The Merlin Saga	TA Barron	F, YA	-
Dragonlance Series	Weis & Hickman	F, YA	-
Pendragon Series	DJ MacHale	F, YA	-
Bartimaeus Trilogy	Jonathan Stroud	F, YA	-
The Chronicles of Narnia	CS Lewis	F, YA	🌟
The Merlin Conspiracy	Diana W. Jones	F, YA	-
The Lord of the Rings	JRR Tolkein	F	-
A Song Of Ice And Fire	George RR Martin	F	-
Harry Potter	JK Rowling	F, YA	-
Pebble in the Sky	Isaac Asimov	SF	-
The Stars, Like Dust	Isaac Asimov	SF	-
Nightfall	Isaac Asimov	SF	🌟
Sharp Objects	Gillian Flynn	F	-
The Inheritance Cycle	Christopher Paolini	F, YA	-

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