1. 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)*‡
  2. How to Read a Book: The Classic Guide to Intelligent Reading, Mortimer J. Adler (and this book changed my life!)*‡
  3. The Tao of Seneca, Tim Ferriss (my introduction to stoicism)*‡
  4. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind, Yuval Noah Harari*†
  5. Starfish, Peter Watts*
  6. Maelström, Peter Watts*
  7. Behemoth, Peter Watts*
  8. Firefall, Peter Watts*
  9. Blindsight, Peter Watts*
  10. Echopraxia,Peter Watts*
  11. The End of Jobs: Money, Meaning and Freedom Without the 9-to-5, Taylor Pearson†
  12. 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†
  13. Hustle: The Life Changing Effects of Constant Motion, Jesse Tevelow†
  14. Get Some Headspace: 10 minutes can make all the difference, Andy Puddicombe*‡
  15. The Habitual Hustler: Daily Habits of 50 Self-Employed Entrepreneurs, Corey Breier†
  16. Chankya’s Chant, Ashwin Sanghi
  17. Dream With Your Eyes Open, Ronnie Screwvala*†
  18. The Mahabharata Quest: The Alexander Secret, Christopher C. Doyle
  19. The Lost Writings of Wu Hsin, Roy Melvyn*
  20. How to Win Friends and Influence People, Dale Carnegie*‡
  21. Choose Yourself: Be Happy, Make Millions, Live the Dream, James Altucher†
  22. Turning Pro, Steven Pressfield†
  23. Anything You Want, Derek Sivers†
  24. Read This Before Our Next Meeting, Al Pittampalli†
  25. Inside Apple, Adam Lashinsky†
  26. In The Plex: How Google Thinks, Works, and Shapes Our Lives, Steven Levy†
  27. Steve Jobs, Walter Isaacson*†
  28. Presentation Zen Design, Garr Reynolds*‡
  29. The Presentation Secrets of Steve Jobs: How to Be Insanely Great in Front of Any Audience, Carmine Gallo†
  30. Inside Steve’s Brain, Leander Kahney*‡
  31. Do the Work, Steven Pressfield*‡
  32. The Non-Designer’s Design Book, Robin Williams*‡
  33. The Cognitive Style of PowerPoint: Pitching Out Corrupts Within, Edward R. Tufte†
  34. Jab, Jab, Jab, Right Hook: How to Tell Your Story in a Noisy Social World, Gary Vaynerchuk†
  35. The Art of Non-Conformity, Chris Guillebeau†
  36. How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big: Kind of the Story of My Life, Scott Adams†
  37. So Good They Can’t Ignore You: Why Skills Trump Passion in the Quest for Work You Love, Cal Newport*‡
  38. The Art of Learning: A Journey in the Pursuit of Excellence, Josh Waitzkin
  39. Confessions of a Public Speaker, Scott Berkun*‡
  40. Sam Walton: Made In America, Sam Walton*†
  41. The Snowball: Warren Buffett and the Business of Life, Alice Schroeder*†
  42. The Swiss Family Robinson, Johann David Wyss*
  43. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Mark Twain*
  44. Frankenstein, Mary Shelley*
  45. King Solomon’s Mines, H. Rider Haggard*
  46. Tarzan of the Apes, Edgar Rice Burroughs*
  47. Around the World in 80 Days, Jules Verne*
  48. The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood, Howard Pyle*
  49. The Last of the Mohicans, James Fenimore Cooper*
  50. The Picture of Dorian Gray, Oscar Wilde*
  51. The Little Prince, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry*
  52. The Complete Sherlock Holmes, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle*
  53. Emma, Jane Austen*
  54. David Copperfield, Charles Dickens*
  55. A Tale of Two Cities, Charles Dickens*
  56. Oliver Twist, Charles Dickens*
  57. Dracula, Bram Stoker*
  58. The Lord of of the Rings, J.R.R. Tolkien*
  59. Preacher (books 1-9), by Garth Ennis
  60. Sin City, Frank Miller*
  61. Watchmen, Alan Moore*
  62. V for Vendetta, Alan Moore*
  63. Batman: The Dark Knight Returns, Frank Miller*
  64. Batman: The Killing Joke, Alan Moore*
  65. Batman: A Death in the Family, Jim Starlin
  66. The Name of the Rose, Umberto Eco*
  67. The Pillars of the Earth, Ken Follett
  68. Memoirs of a Geisha, Arthur Golden
  69. At Home: A Short History of Private Life, Bill Bryson
  70. A Short History of Nearly Everything, Bill Bryson*
  71. The Millionaire Mind, Thomas J. Stanley
  72. A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail, Bill Bryson*
  73. Shit My Dad Says, Justin Halpern
  74. The Selfish Gene, Richard Dawkins†
  75. The Richest Man in Babylon, George S. Clason*‡
  76. I, Robot (The Robot Series), Isaac Asimov*
  77. The Red Queen: Sex and the Evolution of Human Nature, Matt Ridley†
  78. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, Maya Angelou
  79. The Martian: A Novel, Andy Weir*
  80. Artemis, Andy Weir*
  81. 2001: a Space Odyssey, Arthur C. Clarke
  82. Bicentennial Man, Isaac Asimov*
  83. Foundation, Isaac Asimov*
  84. Jurassic Park, Michael Crichton*
  85. Prey, Michael Crichton
  86. The Mote in God’s Eye, Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle
  87. Twenty Thousand Leagues Under The Sea, Jules Verne*
  88. Meditations, Marcus Aurelius*†
  89. Hyperion, Dan Simmons
  90. The Obstacle Is the Way: The Timeless Art of Turning Trials into Triumph, Ryan Holiday
  91. A Princess of Mars, Edgar Rice Burroughs*
  92. The Gods of Mars, Edgar Rice Burroughs*
  93. 3001 The Final Odyssey, Arthur C. Clarke
  94. Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Robert Louis Stevenson
  95. Man’s Search for Meaning, Viktor E. Frankl
  96. Jonathan Livingston Seagull, Richard Bach
  97. How to Stop Worrying and Start Living, Dale Carnegie*‡
  98. 2010: Odyssey Two, Arthur C. Clarke
  99. 2061: Odyssey Three, Arthur C. Clarke
  100. Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar, Cheryl Strayed*†
  101. The 4 Hour Body, Timothy Ferriss†
  102. A Mind for Numbers: How to Excel at Math and Science (Even If You Flunked Algebra), Barbara Oakley*‡
  103. Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World, Cal Newport*†
  104. The Buddha in Blue Jeans Book Collection, Tai Sheridan Ph.D.†
  105. Rebel Code: Linux And The Open Source Revolution, Glyn Moody†
  106. Pandeymonium: Piyush Pandey On Advertising, Piyush Pandey†
  107. The Other Jesus: Stories from World Religions, Todd Outcalt†
  108. Coaching for Improved Work Performance, Ferdinand Fournies*‡
  109. Anguished English: An Anthology of Accidental Assaults upon Our Language, Richard Lederer*†
  110. The Count of Monte Cristo, Alexandre Dumas*
  111. The Black Swan, Nassim Nicholas Taleb*†
  112. Plain Talk: Lessons from a Business Maverick, Ken Iverson*†
  113. The Magic of Thinking Big, David J. Schwartz*†
  114. Lincoln the Unknown, Dale Carnegie*†
  115. Morgan’s Run, Colleen McCullough*
  116. Mastery, Robert Greene*‡
  117. The 4 Disciplines of Execution: Achieving Your Wildly Important Goals, Chris McChesney†
  118. Embrace the Struggle: Living Life on Life’s Terms, Zig Ziglar†
  119. Strategy Rules: Five Timeless Lessons from Bill Gates, Andy Grove, and Steve Jobs, David B. Yoffie†
  120. Zig Ziglar’s: How to Stay Motivated, Zig Ziglar*‡
  121. Becoming Steve Jobs: The Evolution of a Reckless Upstart into a Visionary Leader, Brent Schlender*†
  122. Get Smarter: Life and Business Lessons, Seymour Schulich†
  123. Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World, Jack Weatherford†
  124. Practicing: A Musician’s Return to Music, Glenn Kurtz†
  125. Money Ball, Michael Lewis†
  126. Flash Boys, Michael Lewis†
  127. The Big Short, Michael Lewis*†
  128. Endurance: Shackleton’s Incredible Voyage, Alfred Lansing†
  129. Calvin and Hobbes, Bill Watterson*
  130. Permission Marketing: Turning Strangers into Friends and Friends into Customers, Seth Godin*†
  131. Zig: The Autiobiography of Zig Ziglar, Zig Ziglar*
  132. The Road to Little Dribbling: Adventures of an American in Britain, Bill Bryson*
  133. Arsene Lupin, Maurice Leblanc*
  134. Showstopper! the Breakneck Race to Create Windows NT and the Next Generation at Microsoft, G. Pascal Zachary*†
  135. The Practicing Mind, Thomas M. Sterner†
  136. Average Is Over, Tyler Cowen†
  137. Cumulus, Eliot Peper
  138. Seveneves, Neal Stephenson
  139. Shoe Dog: A Memoir by the Creator of Nike, Phil Knight*†
  140. Peak, Anders Ericsson*†
  141. Fooled by Randomness, Nassim Nicholas Taleb*†
  142. Ego Is the Enemy, Ryan Holiday*†
  143. Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future, Peter Thiel†
  144. Work the System, Sam Carpenter†
  145. Soft Skills: The software developer’s life manual, John Sonmez†
  146. The 10X Rule, Grant Cardone†
  147. Just Say No to Microsoft: How to Ditch Microsoft and Why It’s Not as Hard as You Think, Tony Bove†
  148. Rebel Code: Linux And The Open Source Revolution, Glyn Moody†
  149. The Phoenix Project, Gene Kim†
  150. Power of Full Engagement, Jim Loehr & Tony Schwartz‡
  151. Guitar Zero: The Science of Becoming Musical at Any Age, Gary Marcus†
  152. Retire Inspired: It’s Not an Age, It’s a Financial Number, Chris Hogan‡
  153. Thinking, Fast and Slow, Daniel Kahneman†
  154. The Lessons of History, Will Durant*†
  155. The Four Legendary Kingdoms, Matthew Reilly
  156. The Psychology of Human Misjudgement, Charlie Munger*†
  157. The Daily Show (The Book): An Oral History as Told by Jon Stewart, the Correspondents, Staff and Guests, Chris Smith†#
  158. An Unsuitable Boy, Karan Johar†
  159. Genius: The Life and Science of Richard Feynman, James Gleick*†
  160. Alibaba: The House That Jack Ma Built, Duncan Clark†
  161. Isaac Newton, James Gleick*†
  162. The Man In The High Castle, Philip K. Dick*
  163. Life Is Worth Losing, George Carlin*†
  164. Sounds Like Me: My Life (So Far) in Song, Sara Bareilles*†
  165. Go Add Value Someplace Else, Scott Adams
  166. Born to Love, Cursed to Feel, Samantha King
  167. “What Do You Care What Other People Think?”: Further Adventures of a Curious Character, Richard P. Feynman*†
  168. Blackwater, Conn Iggulden
  169. Mycroft Holmes, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
  170. The Heretic Queen: Heiress of Misfortune, Pharaoh’s Beloved, Michelle Moran
  171. Rebel Queen: A Novel, Michelle Moran
  172. The Innovators: How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses, and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution, Walter Isaacson*†
  173. The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms, Nassim Nicholas Taleb*†
  174. Way of the Warrior Kid: From Wimpy to Warrior the Navy SEAL Way: A Novel, Jocko Willink†
  175. Discipline Equals Freedom: Field Manual, Jocko Willink*†