Books

A log of my reading since 2016.

2022

1. Working Backwards by Colin Bryar and Bill Carr
2. The Crossing by Cormac McCarthy
3. Can't Hurt Me by David Goggins
4. Amusing Ourselves to Death by
5. The River of Doubt by Candice Millard

2021

1. How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big by Scott Adams
2. Ship of Gold in the Deep Blue Sea by Gary Kinder
3. The Manager's Path by Camille Fournier
4. The Psychology of Money by Morgan Housel
5. The Five Dysfunctions of a Team by Patrick Lencioni

2020

1. The Great Stagnation by Tyler Cowen
2. All the Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthy
3. How to Take Smart Notes by Sönke Ahrens
4. Scarcity by Sendhil Mullainathan, Eldar Shafir
5. Range by David Epstein
6. The Three Body Problem by Cixin Liu
7. Inspired by Marty Cagan
8. The Art of Statistics by David Spiegelhalter
9. The Black Swan by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
10. Give and Take by Adam Grant
11. Operating Manual For Spaceship Earth by Buckminster Fuller
12. Reader, Come Home by Maryanne Wolf
13. If Beale Street Could Talk by James Baldwin
14. The Tartar Steppe by Dino Buzzati
15. The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People by Stephen Covey
16. Cable Cowboy by Mark Robichaux
17. The Outsiders by William N. Thorndike, Jr.
18. Eleven Rings by Phil Jackson
19. Dune by Frank Herbert
20. The Happiest Baby on the Block by Harvey Karp
21. Stealing Home by Eric Nusbaum
22. Silence by Shusaku Endo
23. Cribsheet by Emily Oster
24. Daring Greatly by Brené Brown
25. Ready for Anything by David Allen

2019

1. The Upside of Stress by Kelly McGonigal
2. Exit West by Mohsin Hamid
3. The Automatic Millionaire by David Bach
4. Work Rules by Lazlo Bock
5. A Mind At Play by Jimmy Soni & Rob Goodman
6. The Autobiography of Malcolm X by Alex Haley
7. The Curse of Bigness by Tim Wu
8. Eames by Gloria Koenig
9. The Spanish Civil War by Helen Graham
10. 7 Powers by Hamilton Helmer
11. Managing Oneself by Peter F. Drucker
12. Why Nations Fail by Daron Acemoglu and James Robinson
13. The Tiger by John Vaillant
14. Self Reliance by Ralph Waldo Emerson
15. The Library Book by Susan Orlean
16. Being Mortal by Atul Gawande
17. Atomic Habits by James Clear
18. Jack London & the Klondike by Franklin Walker
19. Fat Chance by Dr. Robert Lustig
20. Captains Courageous by Rudyard Kipling
21. On Writing by Stephen King
22. What Makes Sammy Run by Budd Schulberg
23. The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
24. The Power Broker by Robert Caro
25. Awareness by Anthony De Mello
26. Nature Form & Spirit by Mira Nakashima
27. The Soul of a Tree by George Nakashima
28. Where Men Win Glory by Jon Krakauer

2018

1. The Shallows by Nicholas Carr
2. Desert Solitaire by Edward Abbey
3. Digital Gold by Nathaniel Popper
4. Why We Sleep by Matthew Walker
5. Don't Make Me Think by Steve Krug
6. The Hard Thing About Hard Things by Ben Horowitz
7. Only the Paranoid Survive by Andy Grove
8. When by Daniel H. Pink
9. Conspiracy by Ryan Holiday
10. 12 Rules for Life by Jordan Peterson
11. Leonardo Da Vinci by Walter Isaacson
12. Red Notice by Bill Browder
13. Shop Class As Soulcraft by Matthew B. Crawford
14. Olgilvy on Advertising by David Olgilvy
15. Measure What Matters by John Doerr
16. Guns, Germs, and Steel by Jared Diamond
17. Kitchen Confidential by Anthony Bourdain
18. Reclaiming Conversation by Sherry Turkle
19. Never Split the Difference by Chris Voss
20. Crucial Conversations by Kerry Patterson , Joseph Grenny , et al.
21. The Attention Merchants by Tim Wu

2017

1. The Right Stuff by Tom Wolfe
2. High Output Management by Andy Grove
3. 1984 by George Orwell
4. The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro
5. The War of Art by Steven Pressfield
6. The Master Switch by Tim Wu
7. Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert M. Pirsig
8. Zero to One by Peter Thiel
9. A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius by Dave Eggers
10. The Practicing Mind by Thomas M. Sterner
11. Data Science for Business by Foster Provost and Tom Fawcett
12. Grit by Angela Duckworth
13. Mindset by Carol S. Dweck
14. The Inner Game of Tennis by W. Timothy Gallwey
15. Blue Ocean Strategy by W. Chan Kim and Renée Mauborgne
16. The Trial by Franz Kafka
17. The Stranger by Albert Camus
18. Simple Rules by Donald Sull and Kathleen M. Eisenhard
19. Shoe Dog by Phil Knight
20. Meditations by Marcus Aurelius
21. Reset by Ellen Pao
22. In Search of Time by Dan Falk

2016

1. Thinking Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman
2. Deep Work by Cal Newport
3. How to Read a Book by Mortimer J. Adler, Charles Van Doren
4. Getting to Yes by Roger Fisher , William L. Ury, et al.
5. Beyond Bullshit by Samuel A. Culbert
6. The Art and Science of Negotiation by Howard Raiffa
7. So Good They Can't Ignore You by Cal Newport
8. Where Good Ideas Come From by Steven Johnson
9. Surely You're Joking Mr. Feynman by Richard P. Feynman
10. The Checklist Manifesto by Atul Gawande
11. Decode and Conquer by Lewis Lin
12. Getting Past No by William Ury
13. Peak Learning by Ronald Gross
14. The Pyramid Principle by Barbara Minto
15. Candide by Voltaire
16. Flow by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
17. Tribe by Sebastian Junger
18. Antifragile by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
19. The Lessons of History by Will Durant and Ariel Durant
20. Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harari
21. The Plague by Albert Camus
22. Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor E. Frankl
23. Seven Brief Lessons on Physics by Carlo Rovelli
24. Hooked by Nir Eyal
25. When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi
26. Skill by Christopher S. Ahmad
27. Sense of Style by Steven Pinker
28. Barbarian Days by William Finnegan
29. Algorithms to Live By by Brian Christian and Tom Griffiths
30. The Art of Strategy by Avinash K. Dixit and Barry J. Nalebuff
31. Inspired by Marty Cagan
32. Getting Things Done by David Allen
33. Zen and the Art of Happiness by Chris Prentiss
34. Education of a Wandering Man by Louis L'Amour
35. Hillbilly Elegy by J. D. Vance
36. The Wright Brothers by David McCullough
37. The Sea-Wolf by Jack London