Bookshelf
This space is used to catalog books that I currently own. The legend helps to highlight books that stood out. I keep track of my age when I read books, since books affect me differently at times.
Catalog
Wishlist: https://www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/ls/IGNT0ACTUIV8?ref_=wl_share
Title | Author | Category | Legend | Age |
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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 |
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 |
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 | - |
Legend
Personal Recommendations
🌟Highly recommend
🧠Thought-provoking
♥️ Unique
Hyperlinks link to book reviews or summaries.
Category
[SF] Science Fiction | [B] Biography | [NF] Non-Fiction | [F] Fiction | [P] Philosophy
[M] Management | [AB] Autobiography | [YA] Young Adult | [H] Horror
*I started this list in 2019, so there are plenty of omissions prior to that. I've included most of favorites.
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