Bookshelf

BOOK	AUTHOR	RATING	NOTE
The Fountainhead	Ayn Rand	★★★★★	Protagonist is the quintessential visionary...
The Brothers Karamazov	Fyodor Dostoevsky	★★★★★	Faith vs Reason vs Impulse vs Hedonism.
Poor Charlie's Almanack	Charles T. Munger	★★★★★	Multidisciplinary knowledge >.
The Death of Ivan Ilych	Leo Tolstoy	★★★★★	Don't live superficially.
Letters from a Stoic	Seneca	★★★★★	Be conscious of your thoughts.
The Story of Philosophy	Will Durant	★★★★★	Everything is downstream of philosophy.
Elon Musk	Walter Isaacson	★★★★★	Visionary application of business and engin...
War and Peace	Leo Tolstoy	★★★★★	Witness lives and dreams start and end.
Siddhartha	Hermann Hesse	★★★★★	Jesus, Buddha, Socrates didn't follow someo...
The Straussian Moment	Peter Thiel	★★★★★	Western philosophy and liberal democracy wi...
The Sovereign Individual: The Transition to the Information Age	James Dale Davidson	★★★★★	Predicted everything. The information age w...
The Divine Comedy	Dante Alighieri	★★★★★	Confronting morality.
Demian	Hermann Hesse	★★★★★	Authenticity via nonconformity. Pursuing in...
The Silmarillion	J.R.R. Tolkien	★★★★★	World building.
Essays: Self-Reliance, History, American Scholar, etc...	Ralph Waldo Emerson	★★★★★	Historical figures affirmed their intuition...
Can't Hurt Me	David Goggins	★★★★★	Callous your mind.
Leonardo da Vinci	Walter Isaacson	★★★★★	Relentless curiosity is rare and valuable.
The Idiot	Fyodor Dostoevsky	★★★★★	Naive virtue encounters the world.
East of Eden	John Steinbeck	★★★★★	Good and evil have difficulty understanding...
Letters to a Young Poet	Rainer Rilke	★★★★★	Unspeakable intuition is truer than words.
What Has Government Done to Our Money?	Murray N. Rothbard	★★★★★	Explains the essence and properties of mone...
Anatomy of the State	Murray N. Rothbard	★★★★★
The Dream of a Ridiculous Man	Fyodor Dostoevsky	★★★★★	Fall of Eden from first person perspective.
Notes from the Underground	Fyodor Dostoevsky	★★★★★	The acutely conscious mind destroys itself.
Think and Grow Rich	Napoleon Hill	★★★★★	Success conscious frame of mind.
The Power of Now	Eckhart Tolle	★★★★★
What If?	Randall Munroe	★★★★★	Favorite book in middle school. Fun science...
The Picture of Dorian Gray	Oscar Wilde	★★★★★	High density of good quotes in the dialogue...
The Russian Cosmists	George M. Young	★★★★★	Best philosophical argument for space trave...
Lee Kuan Yew: The Grand Master's Insights	Graham Allison	★★★★★	Q&A with Singapore's founder on important t...
Animal Farm	George Orwell	★★★★★	Microcosm of communist revolution.
Ethics	Baruch Spinoza	★★★★★	Durant's intro is needed.
Dubliners	James Joyce	★★★★★	Mundane modern life.
Heart of Darkness	Joseph Conrad	★★★★★	Degredation of human nature.
The Untethered Soul	Michael A. Singer	★★★★★	Reduces neuroticism.
The Inner Game of Tennis	W. Timothy Gallwey	★★★★★	You can know and act without hard thinking ...
The Vintage Guide to Classical Music	Jan Swafford	★★★★★	Broad overview of classical music.
The Network State	Balaji Srinivasan	★★★★★	Revolutionary idea + contemporary political...
100M Leads	Alex Hormozi	★★★★★	How to generate potential customers.
100M Offers	Alex Hormozi	★★★★★	How to present an offer.
100M Money Models	Alex Hormozi	★★★★★	How to structure pricing plans.
Expert Secrets	Russell Brunson	★★★★★	How to present and monetize ideas.
The Forgotten Highlander	Alistair Urquhart	★★★★☆	Gruesome POW experience.
Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage	Alfred Lansing	★★★★☆	Grueling Antarctic expedition.
The Heavenly Christmas Tree	Fyodor Dostoevsky	★★★★☆	Bittersweet.
The Almanack of Naval Ravikant	Eric Jorgenson	★★★★☆	Simple wisdom.
When Einstein Walked with Gödel	Jim Holt	★★★★☆	Science & philosophy.
E Unibus Pluram	David Foster Wallace	★★★★☆	Too much irony in pop culture.
The Use of Knowledge in Society	Friedrich Hayek	★★★★☆	No central authority can understand everyth...
Man's Search for Meaning	Viktor E. Frankl	★★★★☆	POW experience.
Four Quartets	T.S. Eliot	★★★★☆	Decent.
Mere Christianity	C.S. Lewis	★★★★☆	Non-biblical introduction to Christianity.
The Kite Runner	Khaled Hosseini	★★★★☆	Good climax. Liked it in high school.
Never Split the Difference	Chris Voss	★★★★☆	Negotiation tips.
Where the Sidewalk Ends	Shel Silverstein	★★★★☆	Good childhood book.
I, Pencil	Leonard Edward Read	★★★★☆	Best short explanation of the economy.
The Law	Frédéric Bastiat	★★★★☆	The purpose of law.
The Gulag Archipelago (Abridged)	Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn	★★★★☆	Compiled experiences of Soviet prison camps...
The Millionaire Fast Lane	M.J. DeMarco	★★★★☆	Sold me on entrepreneurship.
The Hobbit	J.R.R. Tolkien	★★★★☆	Liked it in middle school.
Politics and the English Language	George Orwell	★★★★☆	How to write clearly.
Red Rising	Pierce Brown	★★★★☆	Liked it in middle school.
Tao Te Ching	Lao Tzu	★★★★☆	Taoism.
The Master and Margarita	Mikhail Bulgakov	★★★★☆	Russian novel.
The Courage to Be Disliked	Ichiro Kishimi	★★★★☆	Past does not matter.
Crime and Punishment	Fyodor Dostoevsky	★★★★☆	Guilt and redemption.
Meditations	Marcus Aurelius	★★★★☆	Stoicism.
How to Win Friends & Influence People	Dale Carnegie	★★★★☆	My successful grandfather's #1 recommended ...
White Nights	Fyodor Dostoevsky	★★★★☆	Overly introspective loner.
Outwitting the Devil	Napoleon Hill	★★★★☆	Definiteness of Purpose.
Practicing the Power of Now	Eckhart Tolle	★★★★☆	Words are signposts of deeper thoughts.
As a Man Thinketh	James Allen	★★★★☆	Plant good seeds of thought.
1984	George Orwell	★★★★☆	Surveillance dystopia.
Man and His Symbols	Carl Jung	★★★★☆	My into to Jungian psychology.
The Score Takes Care of Itself	Bill Walsh	★★★★☆	Organizations must have a standard of excel...
The Anthology of Balaji	Eric Jorgenson	★★★★☆	Can craft truth seeking incentive structure...
The Beginning of Infinity	David Deutsch	★★★★☆	Explanations are infinitely improvable.
Notes from Underground	Fyodor Dostoevsky	★★★★☆
Blood Meridian	Cormac McCarthy	★★★★☆
Zero to One	Peter Thiel	★★★★☆
The Road to Serfdom	Friedrich Hayek	★★★★☆	Downfalls of government central planning.
One Hundred Years of Solitude	Gabriel García Márquez	★★★★☆	Intergenerational story about a growing fam...
Essay Writing Guide	Jordan B. Peterson	★★★★☆	Each paragraph/sentence/word must be meanin...
A Hunger Artist	Franz Kafka	★★★★☆
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?	Philip K. Dick	★★★★☆
Thus Spoke Zarathustra	Friedrich Nietzsche	★★★★☆
The Way of the Superior Man	David Deida	★★★★☆
The House of the Dead	Fyodor Dostoevsky	★★★★☆
The Children of Húrin	J.R.R. Tolkien	★★★★☆	Underappreciated Tolkien work.
Invention: A Life	James Dyson	★★★★☆	Persistent inventor and businessman.
Fallen Leaves	Will Durant	★★★★☆	Philosopher and historian's final thoughts ...
In the Penal Colony	Franz Kafka	★★★★☆
A Theory of Everything	Ken Wilber	★★★★☆	New philosophies will integrate past philos...
The Iliad	Homer	★★★★☆
The Alchemist	Paulo Coelho	★★★★☆
The Doors of Perception & Heaven and Hell	Aldous Huxley	★★★★☆	Ideas exist in your mind before they are co...
A Gentle Creature	Fyodor Dostoevsky	★★★★☆
The Metamorphosis	Franz Kafka	★★★★☆
Faust Pt 1	Johann Wolfgang von Goethe	★★★★☆
Explaining Postmodernism	Stephen R.C. Hicks	★★★★☆	History of the philosophy that led to postm...
Moonwalking with Einstein	Joshua Foer	★★★★☆
Sun & Steel	Yukio Mishima	★★★★☆	Mishima seeks experiences that words cannot...
Industrial Society and Its Future	Theodore John Kaczynski	★★★★☆
An Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard	Thomas Gray	★★★★☆
Treasure Island	Robert Louis Stevenson	★★★★☆
The Prince	Niccolò Machiavelli	★★★★☆	Brutal but effective political advice.
The Odyssey	Homer	★★★★☆
The Old Man and the Sea	Ernest Hemingway	★★★★☆
The Sun Also Rises	Ernest Hemingway	★★★★☆	Bittersweet.
Lord of the Flies	William Golding	★★★★☆	Humans can degrade into barbarism.
Atlas Shrugged	Ayn Rand	★★★★☆	Productive people hold up society.
On Heroes, Hero Worship and the Heroic in History	Thomas Carlyle	★★★★☆	Great individuals forge history.
The American Scholar: Self-Reliance, Compensation	Ralph Waldo Emerson	★★★★☆	Call to intellectual independence. Urges yo...
Micromegas	Voltaire	★★★★☆
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man	James Joyce	★★★★☆
Anthem	Ayn Rand	★★★★☆	Collectivist dystopia.
The Virtue of Selfishness	Ayn Rand	★★★★☆
The Champion's Mind	Jim Afremow	★★★★☆	Athlete stories and advice.
David and Goliath	Malcolm Gladwell	★★★★☆
Fahrenheit 451	Ray Bradbury	★★★★☆
The Abolition of Man	C.S. Lewis	★★★★☆	Defends objective values and human nature. ...
A Book of Five Rings	Miyamoto Musashi	★★★★☆
The Art of War	Sun Tzu	★★★★☆
Poor Richard's Almanack	Benjamin Franklin	★★★★☆	Aphorisms.
Brave New World	Aldous Huxley	★★★★☆	Drugged up dystopia.
The Bitcoin Standard	Saifedean Ammous	★★★★☆	Austrian econ + Bitcoin primer.
The Road	Cormac McCarthy	★★★★☆
Hatchet	Gary Paulsen	★★★★☆	Enjoyed when I was a boy.
The Monkey's Paw	W.W. Jacobs	★★★★☆
Searching for and Maintaining Peace: A Small Treatise on Peace of Heart	Jacques Philippe	★★★★☆
One up on Wall Street	Peter Lynch	★★★★☆	Business phases, Company Categories, Gave m...
Accounting Made Simple	Mike Piper	★★★★☆	Good but too simple.
Deep Learning	Ian Goodfellow	★★★★☆	My foundation of AI mathematics.
The Screwtape Letters	C.S. Lewis	★★★☆☆	How to make someone doubt Christian doctrin...
Zombies in Western Culture: A Twenty-First Century Crisis	John Vervaeke	★★★☆☆	Meaning crisis. Lifeless but living.
The 22 Immutable Laws of Marketing: Violate Them at Your Own Risk	Al Ries	★★★☆☆	Own a word in customers mind. Extending you...
The Heroes Journey	Joseph Campbell	★★★☆☆	Learned about the monomyth and narrative st...
The Mythical Man-Month	Frederick P. Brooks Jr.	★★★☆☆	Software development in teams should be sur...
The Myth of Sisyphus	Albert Camus	★★★☆☆	If life is meaningless, make it meaningful.
Demons	Fyodor Dostoevsky	★★★☆☆	Insight on leftist revolutationaries but pl...
As We May Think	Vannevar Bush	★★★☆☆
On Self-Respect	Joan Didion	★★★☆☆
Rich Dad Poor Dad	Robert T. Kiyosaki	★★★☆☆
Becoming Supernatural	Joe Dispenza	★★★☆☆
Ode to a Nightingale	John Keats	★★★☆☆
Stillness Is the Key	Ryan Holiday	★★★☆☆
A Mathematician's Lament	Paul Lockhart	★★★☆☆
The Egg	Andy Weir	★★★☆☆
Tuesdays with Morrie	Mitch Albom	★★★☆☆
The Importance of Being Earnest	Oscar Wilde	★★★☆☆	Dont remember.
The Obstacle Is the Way	Ryan Holiday	★★★☆☆
A Mind for Numbers	Barbara Oakley	★★★☆☆
On the Genealogy of Morals	Friedrich Nietzsche	★★★☆☆	Concepts are great. Need to reread.
Eugene Onegin	Alexander Pushkin	★★★☆☆
Anna Karenina	Leo Tolstoy	★★★☆☆
The Personal MBA	Josh Kaufman	★★★☆☆
AI Superpowers	Kai-Fu Lee	★★★☆☆
King, Warrior, Magician, Lover	Robert L. Moore	★★★☆☆
Ego Is the Enemy	Ryan Holiday	★★★☆☆
A Brief Guide to World Domination	Chris Guillebeau	★★★☆☆
A Mathematician's Apology	G. H. Hardy	★★★☆☆	Hard to say math is directly useful to soci...
The 4-Hour Workweek	Timothy Ferriss	★★★☆☆	Organize life to prioritizes time and freed...
The Gambler	Fyodor Dostoevsky	★★★☆☆	Not remarkable like his other works.
Zen in the Art of Archery	Eugen Herrigel	★★★☆☆	Don't remember.
No Longer Human	Osamu Dazai	★★★☆☆	Suicidal man's thoughts. Helps understand h...
Breathing for Warriors	Belisa Vranich	★★★☆☆	Meh.
Mental Toughness	David Bishopson	★★★☆	Short.
Economics in One Lesson	Henry Hazlitt	★★★☆☆
Waiting for Godot	Samuel Beckett	★★★☆☆	Meaningless but that's the point. Has some ...
Groundwork for the Metaphysics of Morals	Immanuel Kant	★★★☆☆	Don't remember.
The Analects	Confucius	★★★☆☆	Nature, virtue, wisdom etc...
The Richest Man in Babylon	George S. Clason	★★★☆☆	Save % of income.
A Brief History of Time	Stephen Hawking	★★★☆☆	Modern physics.
The Bhagavad Gita	Swami Sivananda Saraswati	★★★☆☆	Interesting.
The Little Book of Common Sense Investing	John Bogle	★★★☆☆	Single thesis, invest in index funds.
Rich Dad Poor Dad	Robert Kiyosaki	★★★☆☆	Solid advice.
Dotcom Secrets	Russell Brunson	★★★☆☆	Not as good as Expert Secrets.
The Psychology of Money	Morgan Housel	★★★☆☆	Too much like a self-help book.
Head First C	David Griffiths	★★★☆☆	Reading a textbook doesn't teach you how to...
Dune (Dune, #1)	Frank Herbert	★★★☆☆	Wish it was more philosophical. Some intere...
Beyond Good and Evil	Friedrich Nietzsche	★★★☆☆	Aphorisms were good. Probably went through ...
Blue Ocean Strategy	W. Chan Kim and Renée Mauborgne	★★★☆☆	Pivot to untapped markets. What non-custome...
The Last Lecture	Randy Pausch	★★★☆☆	Life advice.
Understanding Media	Marshall McLuhan	★★☆☆☆	Vague explanations of an interesting concep...
The E-Myth Revisited	Michael Gerber	★★☆☆☆	Low signal, too much narrative.
The Consolation of Philosophy	Boethius	★★☆☆☆	Cool personification of Fortune and Philoso...
The Communist Manifesto	Karl Marx	★★☆☆☆	Incitations to violence to support a warped...