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.