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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Title
Author
Category
Legend
Age
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

Title	Author	Category	Legend	Age
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