Bookshelf
Books I've read, am reading, or want to read since 2024. Tracked via Hardcover API.
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Masters of Doom: How Two Guys Created an Empire and Transformed Pop Culture
David Kushner

Mastery
Robert Greene

A Philosophy of Software Design
John Ousterhout

Isaac Newton
James Gleick

Modern Software Engineering
David Farley

The Complete Software Developer's Career Guide: How to Learn Your Next Programming Language, Ace Your Programming Interview, and Land The Coding Job Of Your Dreams
John Sonmez

Washington: A Life
Ron Chernow

Thomas Jefferson and the Tripoli Pirates
Brian Kilmeade

Lenin: The Man, the Dictator, and the Master of Terror
Victor Sebestyen

The Meaning of It All: Thoughts of a Citizen-Scientist
Richard P. Feynman

On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
Stephen King

Make Your Bed
William H. McRaven

Bigger Leaner Stronger: The Simple Science of Building the Ultimate Male Body
Michael Matthews

Einstein: His Life and Universe
Walter Isaacson

Leonardo da Vinci
Walter Isaacson

Brave New World
Aldous Huxley

Total Recall: My Unbelievably True Life Story
Arnold Schwarzenegger

Poor Charlie's Almanack: The Essential Wit and Wisdom of Charles T. Munger
Peter D. Kaufman

Educated: A Memoir
Tara Westover

When Breath Becomes Air
Paul Kalanithi

The Great Gatsby
F. Scott Fitzgerald

Maybe You Should Talk to Someone: A Therapist, Her Therapist, and Our Lives Revealed
Lori Gottlieb

An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness
Kay Redfield Jamison

Severance
Ling Ma

Strangers: A Memoir of Marriage
Belle Burden

Caffeine: How Caffeine Created the Modern World
Michael Pollan

On the Shortness of Life
Seneca

The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
Benjamin Franklin

Ultralearning: Accelerate Your Career, Master Hard Skills and Outsmart the Competition
Scott H. Young

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Douglas Adams

Traction: A Startup Guide to Getting Customers
Gabriel Weinberg

The Mom Test: How to talk to customers & learn if your business is a good idea when everyone is lying to you
Rob Fitzpatrick

The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War
Michael Shaara

The Lean Startup: How Today's Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses
Eric Ries

Meditations
Marcus Aurelius

The Design of Everyday Things
Donald A. Norman

The Art of War
Sun Tzu

Benjamin Franklin: An American Life
Walter Isaacson

April 1865
Jay Winik

The Martian
Andy Weir

Steve Jobs
Walter Isaacson

Elon Musk
Walter Isaacson
L'Etranger (Collection Folio, 2) (French Edition) Publisher: Gallimard
Albert Camus

Source Code: My Beginnings
Bill Gates

The 4-Hour Workweek: Escape 9-5, Live Anywhere, and Join the New Rich
Timothy Ferriss
Fidel Castro My Life by Castro Fidel & Ignacio Ramonet
Fidel Castro

The E-Myth Revisited: Why Most Small Businesses Don't Work and What to Do About It
Michael E. Gerber

Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance
Angela Duckworth

Talking to Strangers: What We Should Know About the People We Don’t Know
Malcolm Gladwell

Effortless: Make It Easier to Do What Matters Most
Greg McKeown

Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit Of Less
Greg McKeown

Chip War: The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology
Chris Miller

The Pragmatic Programmer: From Journeyman to Master
Andrew Hunt

Algorithms to Live By: The Computer Science of Human Decisions
Brian Christian

The Least of Us
Sam Quinones

How to Think Like a Roman Emperor: The Stoic Philosophy of Marcus Aurelius
Donald J. Robertson

So Good They Can't Ignore You: Why Skills Trump Passion in the Quest for Work You Love
Cal Newport

Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World
Cal Newport

How to Think Like Socrates
Donald J. Robertson

Can't Hurt Me: Master Your Mind and Defy the Odds
David Goggins

Atomic habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones
James Clear

Alexander the Great
Philip Freeman

Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era
James M. McPherson

Caesar: Life of a Colossus
Adrian Goldsworthy

Napoleon: A Life
Andrew Roberts
Did Not Finish(1)

Dungeon Crawler Carl
Matt Dinniman
Want to Read(39)

Master and Commander
Patrick O'Brian

The Body: A Guide for Occupants
Bill Bryson

Kissinger
Walter Isaacson

Saint Thomas Aquinas
G. K. Chesterton

Factfulness
Hans Rosling

The Winner Effect
Ian H. Robertson

Relentless: From Good to Great to Unstoppable
Tim S. Grover

Winning: The Unforgiving Race to Greatness
Tim S. Grover

Exhalation
Ted Chiang

Starship Troopers
Robert A. Heinlein

Stranger in a Strange Land
Robert A. Heinlein

Demon Copperhead
Barbara Kingsolver

Bring Up the Bodies
Hilary Mantel

Wolf Hall
Hilary Mantel

How I Learned to Understand the World: A Memoir
Hans Rosling

The Singapore Story: Memoirs of Lee Kuan Yew
Lee Kuan Yew

Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945
Tony Judt

Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World
Jack Weatherford

The Great Mental Models: General Thinking Concepts
Rhiannon Beaubien

Breath: The New Science of a Lost Art
James Nestor

Waking Up: A Guide to Spirituality Without Religion
Sam Harris

Titan: The Life of John D. Rockefeller, Sr.
Ron Chernow

Life at the Speed of Play: Launch Products People Love!
Mark Pincus

Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams
Matthew Walker

Crime and Punishment
Fyodor Dostoevsky

Frankenstein
Mary Shelley

The Death of Ivan Ilyich
Leo Tolstoy

How We Die
Sherwin B. Nuland

A Short History of Nearly Everything
Bill Bryson

Shoe Dog: A Memoir by the Creator of NIKE
Phil Knight

Material World: The Six Raw Materials That Shape Modern Civilization
Ed Conway

Outlive: The Science and Art of Longevity
Peter Attia

Thus Spoke Zarathustra
Friedrich Nietzsche

Protocols: An Operating Manual for the Human Body
Andrew D. Huberman

Autumn in the Heavenly Kingdom: China, the West, and the Epic Story of the Taiping Civil War
Stephen R. Platt

The Coming of the Third Reich
Richard J. Evans

SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome
Mary Beard

Empire: The Rise and Demise of the British World Order and the Lessons for Global Power
Niall Ferguson

The Last King of America
Andrew Roberts