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

TitleAuthorCategoryLegendAge

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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