Older Books

• Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder, Nassim Nicholas Taleb (this book will always be special to me. It was my first, punch above my level, quake book)
• How to Read a Book: The Classic Guide to Intelligent Reading, Mortimer J. Adler (and this book changed my life!)
• The Tao of Seneca, Tim Ferriss (my introduction to stoicism)
• Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind, Yuval Noah Harari
• Starfish, Peter Watts
• Maelström, Peter Watts
• Behemoth, Peter Watts
• Firefall, Peter Watts
• Blindsight, Peter Watts
• Echopraxia,Peter Watts
• The End of Jobs: Money, Meaning and Freedom Without the 9-to-5, Taylor Pearson
• 15 Secrets Successful People Know About Time Management: The Productivity Habits of 7 Billionaires, 13 Olympic Athletes, 29 Straight-A Students, and 239 Entrepreneurs, Kevin Kruse
• Hustle: The Life Changing Effects of Constant Motion, Jesse Tevelow
• Get Some Headspace: 10 minutes can make all the difference, Andy Puddicombe
• The Habitual Hustler: Daily Habits of 50 Self-Employed Entrepreneurs, Corey Breier
• Chankya's Chant, Ashwin Sanghi
• Dream With Your Eyes Open, Ronnie Screwvala
• The Mahabharata Quest: The Alexander Secret, Christopher C. Doyle
• The Lost Writings of Wu Hsin, Roy Melvyn
• How to Win Friends and Influence People, Dale Carnegie
• Choose Yourself: Be Happy, Make Millions, Live the Dream, James Altucher
• Turning Pro, Steven Pressfield
• Anything You Want, Derek Sivers
• Read This Before Our Next Meeting, Al Pittampalli
• Inside Apple, Adam Lashinsky
• In The Plex: How Google Thinks, Works, and Shapes Our Lives, Steven Levy
• Steve Jobs, Walter Isaacson
• Presentation Zen Design, Garr Reynolds
• The Presentation Secrets of Steve Jobs: How to Be Insanely Great in Front of Any Audience, Carmine Gallo
• Inside Steve's Brain, Leander Kahney
• Do the Work, Steven Pressfield
• The Non-Designer's Design Book, Robin Williams
• The Cognitive Style of PowerPoint: Pitching Out Corrupts Within, Edward R. Tufte
• Jab, Jab, Jab, Right Hook: How to Tell Your Story in a Noisy Social World, Gary Vaynerchuk
• The Art of Non-Conformity, Chris Guillebeau
• How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big: Kind of the Story of My Life, Scott Adams
• So Good They Can't Ignore You: Why Skills Trump Passion in the Quest for Work You Love, Cal Newport
• The Art of Learning: A Journey in the Pursuit of Excellence, Josh Waitzkin
• Confessions of a Public Speaker, Scott Berkun
• Sam Walton: Made In America, Sam Walton
• The Snowball: Warren Buffett and the Business of Life, Alice Schroeder
• The Swiss Family Robinson, Johann David Wyss
• The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Mark Twain
• Frankenstein, Mary Shelley
• King Solomon's Mines, H. Rider Haggard
• Tarzan of the Apes, Edgar Rice Burroughs
• Around the World in 80 Days, Jules Verne
• The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood, Howard Pyle
• The Last of the Mohicans, James Fenimore Cooper
• The Picture of Dorian Gray, Oscar Wilde
• The Little Prince, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
• The Complete Sherlock Holmes, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
• Emma, Jane Austen
• David Copperfield, Charles Dickens
• A Tale of Two Cities, Charles Dickens
• Oliver Twist, Charles Dickens
• Dracula, Bram Stoker
• The Lord of of the Rings, J.R.R. Tolkien
• Preacher (books 1-9), by Garth Ennis
• Sin City, Frank Miller
• Watchmen, Alan Moore
• V for Vendetta, Alan Moore
• Batman: The Dark Knight Returns, Frank Miller
• Batman: The Killing Joke, Alan Moore
• Batman: A Death in the Family, Jim Starlin
• The Name of the Rose, Umberto Eco
• The Pillars of the Earth, Ken Follett
• Memoirs of a Geisha, Arthur Golden
• At Home: A Short History of Private Life, Bill Bryson
• A Short History of Nearly Everything, Bill Bryson
• The Millionaire Mind, Thomas J. Stanley
• A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail, Bill Bryson
• Shit My Dad Says, Justin Halpern
• The Selfish Gene, Richard Dawkins
• The Richest Man in Babylon, George S. Clason
• I, Robot (The Robot Series), Isaac Asimov
• The Red Queen: Sex and the Evolution of Human Nature, Matt Ridley
• I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, Maya Angelou
• The Martian: A Novel, Andy Weir
• Artemis, Andy Weir
• 2001: a Space Odyssey, Arthur C. Clarke
• Bicentennial Man, Isaac Asimov
• Foundation, Isaac Asimov
• Jurassic Park, Michael Crichton
• Prey, Michael Crichton
• The Mote in God's Eye, Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle
• Twenty Thousand Leagues Under The Sea, Jules Verne
• Meditations, Marcus Aurelius
• Hyperion, Dan Simmons
• The Obstacle Is the Way: The Timeless Art of Turning Trials into Triumph, Ryan Holiday
• A Princess of Mars, Edgar Rice Burroughs
• The Gods of Mars, Edgar Rice Burroughs
• 3001 The Final Odyssey, Arthur C. Clarke
• Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Robert Louis Stevenson
• Man's Search for Meaning, Viktor E. Frankl
• Jonathan Livingston Seagull, Richard Bach
• How to Stop Worrying and Start Living, Dale Carnegie
• 2010: Odyssey Two, Arthur C. Clarke
• 2061: Odyssey Three, Arthur C. Clarke
• Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar, Cheryl Strayed
• The 4 Hour Body: An Uncommon Guide to Rapid Fat Loss, Incredible Sex and Becoming Superhuman, Timothy Ferriss
• A Mind for Numbers: How to Excel at Math and Science (Even If You Flunked Algebra), Barbara Oakley
• Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World, Cal Newport
• The Buddha in Blue Jeans Book Collection, Tai Sheridan Ph.D.
• Rebel Code: Linux And The Open Source Revolution, Glyn Moody
• Pandeymonium: Piyush Pandey On Advertising, Piyush Pandey
• The Other Jesus: Stories from World Religions, Todd Outcalt
• Coaching for Improved Work Performance, Ferdinand Fournies
• Anguished English: An Anthology of Accidental Assaults upon Our Language, Richard Lederer
• The Count of Monte Cristo, Alexandre Dumas
• The Black Swan, Nassim Nicholas Taleb
• Plain Talk: Lessons from a Business Maverick, Ken Iverson
• The Magic of Thinking Big, David J. Schwartz
• Lincoln the Unknown, Dale Carnegie
• Morgan's Run, Colleen McCullough
• Mastery, Robert Greene
• The 4 Disciplines of Execution: Achieving Your Wildly Important Goals, Chris McChesney
• Embrace the Struggle: Living Life on Life's Terms, Zig Ziglar
• Strategy Rules: Five Timeless Lessons from Bill Gates, Andy Grove, and Steve Jobs, David B. Yoffie
• Zig Ziglar's: How to Stay Motivated, Zig Ziglar
• Becoming Steve Jobs: The Evolution of a Reckless Upstart into a Visionary Leader, Brent Schlender
• Get Smarter: Life and Business Lessons, Seymour Schulich
• Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World, Jack Weatherford
• Practicing: A Musician's Return to Music, Glenn Kurtz
• Money Ball, Michael Lewis
• Flash Boys, Michael Lewis
• The Big Short, Michael Lewis
• Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage, Alfred Lansing
• Calvin and Hobbes, Bill Watterson
• Permission Marketing: Turning Strangers into Friends and Friends into Customers, Seth Godin
• Zig: The Autiobiography of Zig Ziglar, Zig Ziglar
• The Road to Little Dribbling: Adventures of an American in Britain, Bill Bryson
• Arsene Lupin, Maurice Leblanc
• Showstopper! the Breakneck Race to Create Windows NT and the Next Generation at Microsoft, G. Pascal Zachary
• The Practicing Mind, Thomas M. Sterner
• Average Is Over, Tyler Cowen
• Cumulus, Eliot Peper
• Seveneves Neal Stephenson
• Shoe Dog: A Memoir by the Creator of Nike, Phil Knight
• Peak, Anders Ericsson
• Fooled by Randomness, Nassim Nicholas Taleb
• Ego Is the Enemy, Ryan Holiday
• Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future, Peter Thiel
• Work the System, Sam Carpenter
• Soft Skills: The software developer's life manual, John Sonmez
• The 10X Rule, Grant Cardone
• Just Say No to Microsoft: How to Ditch Microsoft and Why It's Not as Hard as You Think, Tony Bove
• Rebel Code: Linux And The Open Source Revolution, Glyn Moody
• The Phoenix Project, Gene Kim
• Power of Full Engagement, Jim Loehr & Tony Schwartz
• Guitar Zero: The Science of Becoming Musical at Any Age, Gary Marcus
• Retire Inspired: It's Not an Age, It's a Financial Number, Chris Hogan
• Thinking, Fast and Slow, Daniel Kahneman
• The Lessons of History, Will Durant
• The Four Legendary Kingdoms, Matthew Reilly
• The Psychology of Human Misjudgement, Charlie Munger
• The Daily Show (The Book): An Oral History as Told by Jon Stewart, the Correspondents, Staff and Guests, Chris Smith
• An Unsuitable Boy, Karan Johar
• Genius: The Life and Science of Richard Feynman, James Gleick
• Alibaba: The House That Jack Ma Built, Duncan Clark
• Isaac Newton, James Gleick
• The Man In The High Castle, Philip K. Dick
• Life Is Worth Losing, George Carlin
• Sounds Like Me: My Life (So Far) in Song, Sara Bareilles
• Go Add Value Someplace Else, Scott Adams
• Born to Love, Cursed to Feel, Samantha King
• “What Do You Care What Other People Think?”: Further Adventures of a Curious Character, Richard P. Feynman
• Blackwater, Conn Iggulden
• Mycroft Holmes, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
• The Heretic Queen: Heiress of Misfortune, Pharaoh's Beloved, Michelle Moran
• Rebel Queen: A Novel, Michelle Moran
• The Innovators: How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses, and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution, Walter Isaacson
• The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms, Nassim Nicholas Taleb
• Way of the Warrior Kid: From Wimpy to Warrior the Navy SEAL Way: A Novel, Jocko Willink
• Discipline Equals Freedom: Field Manual, Jocko Willink

Want more? Here’s my Lindy set and here’s what I read through the years.