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
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	-

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.