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
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The Armor of Light
Ken Follett
F
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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
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26
Kissinger
Walter Issacson
NF
-
26
Exhalation
Ted Chiang
F
-
26
Seeing Like A State
James C. Scott
NF
-
26
Range
David Epstein
NF
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26
Rome, Inc.
Stanley Bing
NF
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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
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26
Marching Powder
Thomas McFadden
NF
-
26
Lila
Robert Pirsig
NF
-
26
On Writing Well
William Zinsser
NF
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25
Chaos Monkeys
Antonio García Martínez
NF
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26
Mankind in Amnesia
Immanuel Velikovsky
NF
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26
The Lives of The Artists
Giorgio Vassari
NF
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26
The Four Hour Work Week
Tim Ferriss
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
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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
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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
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Nightfall
Isaac Asimov
SF
🌟
Sharp Objects
Gillian Flynn
F
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The Inheritance Cycle
Christopher Paolini
F, YA
-
Legend
Personal Recommendations
🌟Highly recommend
🧠Thought-provoking
♥️ Unique
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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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