Reading List

What follows is a list of books which I either have read or plan to read, in relative order (which I randomly deviate from).

Already read = light gray
To read = dark gray
★ = recommended

Show only the ones I'd recommend

How to Win Friends and Influence People ★
Quantum Memory Power ★
What Every BODY Is Saying ★
Gödel, Escher, Bach ★
The Art of Deception ★
25 Things to Say to the Interviewer to Get the Job You Want ★
Robinson Crusoe
Ada or Ardor ★
David Copperfield (abandoned)
Wuthering Heights ★
Jane Eyre
The Scarlet Letter
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
Moby-Dick
A Bend In The River ★
The Woman in White ★
Bhagavad Gita
The Death of Ivan Ilyich
The Brothers Karamazov
Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
The Call of the Wild
Brave New World
Nineteen Eighty-Four ★
Ulysses (abandoned)
Othello
Slaughterhouse-five ★
Animal Farm ★
For Whom the Bell Tolls ★
The Grapes of Wrath ★
Narcissus and Goldmund ★
The Lean Startup
Atlas Shrugged ★
Resistance to Civil Government
The Little Prince
Walden
Fahrenheit 451
Predictably Irrational ★
4-Hour Workweek
Uncle Tom's Cabin
Tao Te Ching
American Gods
Devil in the White city
Manufacturing Consent (abandoned)
Tantra: The Supreme Understanding ★
Happiness: A Guide to Developing Life's Most Important Skill ★
Pride and Prejudice (abandoned)
Outlaw Cook ★
I Am that (abandoned)
The Elements
Language and Mind (abandoned)
Thinking Fast, and Slow ★
A brief history of everything (abandoned)
Ender's Game ★
On the origin of species (abandoned)
Shantaram ★
Great Expectations (abandoned)
Middlesex
Blood Meridian
The Art of Strategy ★
1Q84
Consider the Lobster ★
Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail 72 (abandoned)
Americanah ★
The (Honest) Truth About Dishonesty ★
Man's Search for Meaning ★
The Glass Bead Game
The Road to Character
Modern Man in Search of Soul
Algorithms To Live By ★
Faust ★
Cracking the Coding Interview ★
The Picture of Dorian Gray ★
Leviathan (abandoned)
Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience (abandoned)
Anna Karenina (abandoned)
Fifty Shades of Grey (abandoned)
Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity
The Stranger
Effective JavaScript
Old New Thing
Agile!: The Good, the Hype and the Ugly
Rework
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (abandoned)
I Robot
The Art of Learning: An Inner Journey to Optimal Performance ★
A Mind For Numbers
18 Minutes: Find Your Focus, Master Distraction, and Get the Rig
How to Get Ideas
The Design of Everyday Things
Catch-22 (abandoned)
The Mythical Man-Month (abandoned)
Naked Statistics ★
Your Money or Your Life (abandoned)
6 months to 6 figure income (abandoned)
The Defining Decade (abandoned)
Dealers of Lightning (abandoned)
Peopleware (abandoned)
The Master and Margarita
The Alchemist ★
This Will Make You Smarter (abandoned)
Das Kapital
Dune ★
Debt: The First 5000 Years (abandoned)
Hackers & Painters (abandoned)
Don Juan (abandoned)
The Snowball (abandoned)
What Is Mathematics? (abandoned)
A Field Guide to Getting Lost (abandoned)
Meditations (abandoned)
Mind of the Raven (abandoned)
The Sneetches and Other Stories
Your Favorite Seuss
Bartholomew and the Oobleck
I Had Trouble in Getting to Solla Sollew
Scrambled Eggs Super!
The Butter Battle Book
The 500 Hats of Bartholomew Cubbins
Sherlock Holmes
The Righteous Mind ★
ESO: Extended Sexual Orgasm ★
Stranger in a Strange Land
Super Crunchers
Nonviolent Communication
Papillon ★
How To Change Your Mind ★
The Cluster
Why We Sleep ★
Moonwalking with Einstein (abandoned)
The Metamorphosis
The Overstory (abandoned)
The Upside of Irrationality
The Songlines
Braiding Sweetgrass
All Over Creation (abandoned)
Co-Opetition ★
Wellness
Misbelief: What Makes Rational People Believe Irrational Things (abandoned)
The Drunkard's Walk: How Randomness Rules Our Lives ★
A Psalm for the Wild-Built
Humankind: A Hopeful History (abandoned)
Behave (abandoned)
The Luck Factor ★
Success and Luck
The Improbability Principle
The Success Equation
The Signal and the Noise ★
Notes on Complexity
I Am a Strange Loop
Sea of Tranquility (abandoned)
Our Mathematical Universe (abandoned)
Secure Love (abandoned)
The Mismeasure of Man (abandoned)
Predictive Analytics (abandoned)
Thinking in Systems: A Primer (abandoned)
The Lotus Sutra (abandoned)
Timequake (abandoned)
The Giving Tree
The I Ching or Book of Changes
What Makes You Not a Buddhist
Escape from Freedom (abandoned)
Notes on Being a Man (abandoned)
Taming the Monkey Mind (abandoned)
The Eye of the World
The Great Hunt (currently reading)
Old Path White Clouds
Losing Ourselves: Learning to Live Without a Self
Lessons in the Fundamentals of Go
Attack and Defense
The Way of Energy
The Essence of T'ai Chi
Taming the Drunken Monkey
The Dictionary of Body Language
The Dragon Reborn
Capital in the Twenty-First Century
The Road to Reality
Sync
Infinite Powers
The Joy of x
Mathematics for the Nonmathematician
Introduction to Probability
Elementary Number Theory
A Book of Abstract Algebra
Thursday-Night Poker
The Message of the Divine Iliad, Vol. I
In Exile from the Land of Snows
Seven Years in Tibet
The Power of Mind
The Seven-Point Mind Training
How to See Yourself As You Really Are
A Tale for the Time Being
The Selfish Gene
Pirkei Avot
Einstein's Dreams
The Glass Palace
The White Tiger
Hell's Angels: A Strange and Terrible Saga
A Peace to End All Peace
Mein Kampf
The Art of Pilgrimage
Undaunted Courage
Positivity
Resonant Leadership
White Noise
Libra
Love is a Dog From Hell
The Days Run Away Like Wild Horses Over the Hills
Women
Ham on Rye
There is No Year
Three Hundred Million
Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
The Tao of Travel
An Area of Darkness
2666
The Savage Detectives
The Tibetan Yogas Of Dream And Sleep
East of Eden
Thus Spoke Zarathustra
Ethics
Oryx and Crake
The Call of Cthulhu
On the Road
Bone Gap
Jitterbug Perfume
The Color of Magic
Cat's Cradle
The Satanic Verses
The Help
The Count of Monte Cristo
Walden Two
Siddhartha
Leaves of Grass
The White Plague
Freedom from the Known
Fire Watch
The Killer Angels
The Five Dysfunctions of a Team
This is How You Lose Her
The Night Circus
Reading Lolita in Tehran
Persepolis
Maus
The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress
Switch: How to Change Things When Change Is Hard
The Culture Code
Good to Great
Thought Contagion
The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman
Ossian
How Intelligence Happens
Mrs Dalloway
The Violent Bear It Away
The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!
How Are We to Live?
The Algorithm Design Manual
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Where'd You Go, Bernadette
Ego Is the Enemy
Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality
The Circle
The Denial of Death
The Bogleheads' Guide to Investing
Rich Dad Poor Dad
The Intelligent Investor
Insider Buy Superstocks
Pre-Suasion
The Interpretation of Dreams
All About Love
Hard Thing About Hard Things
Fashion is Spinach
The (Mis)Behavior of Markets
How to Prove It
Incerto
Governing The Commons
Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There
It Didn't Start with You
Ready Player One
Breath: The New Science of a Lost Art
Designing Your Life
Tribe: On Homecoming and Belonging
Zig Zag: The Surprising Path to Greater Creativity
Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion
A Complicated Kindness
Bel Canto
Black Enough: Stories of Being Young and Black in America
I Served the King of England
The Glass Hotel
The House of Broken Angels
Love, Dishonor, Die, Marry, Cherish, Perish
The Parable of the Sower
The Parable of the Talents
Station Eleven
There There
Emergent Strategy: Shaping change, changing worlds
The Ethical Slut
How Not to be a Hot Mess
In The Dream House
The power of habit
Homo Deus
A brief history of time
A Guide to the Good Life: The Ancient Art of Stoic Joy
Steppenwolf
Liespotting: Proven Techniques to Detect Deception
Seeds of Contemplation
The Cloud of Unknowing
Networks, Crowds, and Markets
Zorba the Greek
Me Talk Pretty One Day
Be Here Now
The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
The Compound Effect
The Black Swan
The Tipping Point
The Normal Distribution
Emergence: The Connected Lives...
Complex Adaptive Systems
The Evolution of Cooperation
The Structure and Dynamics of Networks
Chaos: Making a New Science
The Art of Choosing
The Laws of Simplicity
The Wisdom of Insecurity: A Message for an Age of Anxiety
Manwatching: A Field Guide to Human Behavior