Bookshelf
Last updated on June 21, 2019
My bookshelf is a work in progress. I tend to read many books in parallel, but occasionally I'll pick up something that's so captivating I can't put it down until it's finished. Books in bold are so fantastic they shaped who I am today. If you want to read some, read those. As always, I'd love to hear from you if you have any recommendations.
The Dream Machine — M. Mitchell Waldrop
Born a Crime — Trevor Noah
Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World — Cal Newport
Rocket Men: The Daring Odyssey of Apollo 8 and the Astronauts Who Made Man's First Journey to the Moon — Robert Kurson
On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft — Stephen King
Stubborn Attachments: A Vision for a Society of Free, Prosperous, and Responsible Individuals — Tyler Cowen
Deep Learning — Ian Goodfellow
Shoe Dog — Phil Knight
Steve Jobs — Walter Isaacson
Principles — Ray Dalio
How to Lie with Statistics — Darrell Huff
Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman! — Richard Feynman
Ready Player One — Ernest Cline
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies — Jared Diamond
Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die — Chip Heath
Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies — Nick Bostrom
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind — Yuval Noah Harari
Troublemakers: Silicon Valley's Coming of Age — Leslie Berlin
A Mathematician's Apology — G.H. Hardy
The Drunkard's Walk: How Randomness Rules Our Lives — Leonard Mlodinow
The Sharing Economy: The End of Employment and the Rise of Crowd-Based Capitalism — Arun Sundararajan
The Charisma Myth: How Anyone Can Master the Art and Science of Personal Magnetism — Olivia Fox Cabane
The Startup Owner's Manual: The Step-By-Step Guide for Building a Great Company — Steve Blank
Hit Refresh — Satya Nadella
The Four: The Hidden DNA of Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Google — Scott Galloway
Narconomics: How to Run a Drug Cartel — Tom Wainwright
The Innovators: How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses, and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution — Walter Isaacson
Finite and Infinite Games — James P. Carse
The Founder's Dilemmas: Anticipating and Avoiding the Pitfalls That Can Sink a Startup — Noam Wasserman
The Kind Worth Killing — Peter Swanson
The Idea Factory: Bell Labs and the Great Age of American Innovation — Jon Gertner
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values — Robert M. Pirsig
The Three Body Problem — Liu Cixin
The Dark Forest — Liu Cixin
Death's End — Liu Cixin
Algorithms to Live By: The Computer Science of Human Decisions — Brian Christian
The Case Against Education: Why the Education System Is a Waste of Time and Money — Bryan Caplan
The Circle — Dave Eggers
Hatching Twitter: A True Story of Money, Power, Friendship, and Betrayal — Nick Bilton
The New New Thing: A Silicon Valley Story — Michael Lewis
Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams — Matthew Walker
Skin in the Game: Hidden Asymmetries in Daily Life — Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Daemon — Daniel Suarez
PoC||GTFO — Manul Laphroaig
Peer-To-Peer Computing: Applications, Architecture, Protocols, and Challenges — Yu-Kwong Ricky Kwok
Freedom — Daniel Suarez
Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup — John Carreyrou
The Dream Machine — M. Mitchell Waldrop
The Making of the Atomic Bomb — Richard Rhodes
Satisfaction: The Science of Finding True Fulfillment — Gregory Berns
Something Incredibly Wonderful Happens — K.C. Cole
The Revolt of The Public and the Crisis of Authority in the New Millennium — Martin Gurri
Where Is Everybody? Fifty Solutions to the Fermi Paradox and the Problem of Extraterrestrial Life — Stephen Webb
The Fish That Ate the Whale: The Life and Times of America's Banana King — Rich Cohen
Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones — James Clear
Out of Mao's Shadow: The Struggle for the Soul of a New China — Philip P. Pan
Age of Ambition: Chasing Fortune, Truth, and Faith in the New China — Evan Osnos
The Beginning of Infinity: Explanations That Transform the World — David Deutsch
Creativity, Inc: Overcoming the Unseen Forces That Stand in the Way of True Inspiration — Ed Catmull
How to Invent Everything: A Survival Guide for the Stranded Time Traveler — Ryan North
Only the Paranoid Survive — Andrew S. Grove
Nexus — Ramez Naam
Tools of Titans — Timothy Ferriss
Show Stopper! The Breakneck Race to Create Windows NT and the Next Generation at Microsoft — G. Pascal Zachary
Masters of Doom: How Two Guys Created an Empire and Transformed Pop Culture — David Kushner
Titan: The Life of John D. Rockefeller, Sr. — Ron Chernow
Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products — Nir Eyal
Atlas Shrugged — Ayn Rand
Walt Disney: The Triumph of the American Imagination — Neal Gabler
Blood, Sweat, and Pixels: The Triumphant, Turbulent Stories Behind How Video Games Are Made — Jason Schreier
Chaos Monkeys: Obscene Fortune and Random Failure in Silicon Valley — Antonio García Martínez
Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future — Peter Thiel
Opening the Xbox: Inside Microsoft's Plan to Unleash an Entertainment Revolution — Dean Takahashi
Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life — William Finnegan
Video Encoding by the Numbers — Jan Lee Ozer
Solve for Happy: Engineer Your Path to Joy — Mo Gawdat
How the Internet Happened: From Netscape to the iPhone — Brian McCullough
The Diamond Age: Or, A Young Lady's Illustrated Primer — Neal Stephenson
Man's Search for Meaning — Viktor E. Frankl
Homo Ludens: A Study of the Play-Element in Culture — Johan Huizinga
Computer Networking: A Top-Down Approach — James F. Kurose
The Wisdom of Insecurity: A Message for an Age of Anxiety — Alan W. Watts
Console Wars: Sega, Nintendo, and the Battle that Defined a Generation — Blake J. Harris
Trillion Dollar Coach: The Leadership Playbook of Silicon Valley's Bill Campbell — Eric Schmidt
Blade Runner — Philip K. Dick
Twenty Minutes in Manhattan — Michael Sorkin
A Guide to the Good Life: The Ancient Art of Stoic Joy — William Braxton Irvine
Delivering Happiness: A Path to Profits, Passion, and Purpose — Tony Hsieh
Loneliness: Human Nature and the Need for Social Connection — John T. Cacioppo
Emotional First Aid: Healing Rejection, Guilt, Failure, and Other Everyday Hurts — Guy Winch
Founders at Work: Stories of Startups' Early Days — Jessica Livingston
Digital Minimalism: Choosing a Focused Life in a Noisy World — Cal Newport
Adult Children of Alcoholics — Janet Geringer Woititz
This Is Marketing: You Can't Be Seen Until You Learn to See — Seth Godin
All Marketers Are Liars — Seth Godin
Dealers of Lightning: Xerox PARC and the Dawn of the Computer Age — Michael A. Hiltzik
An Elegant Puzzle: Systems of Engineering Management — Will Larson
Season of the Witch: Enchantment, Terror, and Deliverance in the City of Love — David Talbot
Thinking, Fast and Slow — Daniel Kahneman
Everyone's a Aliebn When Ur a Aliebn Too — Jomny Sun
The C Programming Language — Brian W. Kernighan
Liar's Poker — Michael Lewis
Crossing the Chasm: Marketing and Selling Disruptive Products to Mainstream Customers — Geoffrey A. Moore
Writing to Persuade: How to Bring People Over to Your Side — Trish Hall
Hackers & Painters: Big Ideas from the Computer Age — Paul Graham
An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations — Adam Smith
American Kingpin: The Epic Hunt for the Criminal Mastermind Behind the Silk Road — Nick Bilton
The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon — Brad Stone
Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future — Ashlee Vance
Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid — Douglas R. Hofstadter
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy — Douglas Adams
Brave New World / Brave New World Revisited — Aldous Huxley
The Book Thief — Markus Zusak
The Selfish Gene — Richard Dawkins
A Brief History of Time — Stephen Hawking
Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking — Susan Cain
How to Win Friends and Influence People — Dale Carnegie
Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim — David Sedaris
The Princess Bride — William Goldman
A Thousand Splendid Suns — Khaled Hosseini
The Hunger Games — Suzanne Collins
The Kite Runner — Khaled Hosseini
The Lean Startup — Eric Ries
Elements of Programming Interviews in Python: The Insiders' Guide — Adnan Aziz
Algorithms — Robert Sedgewick
Cracking the Coding Interview — Gayle Laakmann McDowell
When Breath Becomes Air — Paul Kalanithi
Starting Strength — Mark Rippetoe
The Signal and the Noise: Why Most Predictions Fail-But Some Don't — Nate Silver
The 48 Laws of Power — Robert Greene
The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers — Ben Horowitz
Automate the Boring Stuff with Python — Al Sweigart
The Elements of Style — William Strunk
Meditations — Marcus Aurelius