- 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, 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¶*†
2017 & Older …
All the Titles from 2017, and older