This is a list of books I've considered over time. Most I haven't finished, those I have, have a rating from C to S
based on how much I enjoyed them.
| Book |
Rating |
| The Dispossesed by Ursula K. Le Guin |
S |
| A Brief History of Intelligence by Max Bennett |
N/A |
| We Who Wrestle With God by Jordan Peterson |
A |
| Hyperion by Dan Simmons |
S |
| Caesar by Adrian Goldsworthy |
A |
| Endurance by Alfred Lansing |
S |
| Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes |
S |
| Source Code by Bill Gates |
A |
| Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri |
TBD |
| Means of Ascent by Robert A. Caro |
S |
| Master of the Senate by Robert A. Caro |
S |
| Eat & Run by Scott Jurek |
A |
| What I Talk About When I Talk About Running by Haruki Murakami |
S |
| Endure: Mind, Body, and the Curiously Elastic Limits of Human Performance by Alex Hutchinson |
A |
| Book |
Rating |
| A Mind At Play, Claude Shannon |
A |
| 1Q84 |
S |
| Von Neumann's Biography |
B |
| The Power Law, A Story of Venture Capital |
S |
| The Maniac |
A |
| 100 Years of Solitude |
N/A |
| Slow Productivity by Cal Newport |
A |
| The Mind Gym |
N/A |
| Look Ahead by Cass Sunstein |
B |
| No Man is an Island |
B |
| Stalin: The Paradoxes of Power |
S |
| 1984 by George Orwell |
S |
| The Founders: The Story of Paypal and the Entrepreneurs Who Shaped Silicon Valley |
A |
| Wanting: The Power of Mimetic Desire In Everyday Life by Luke Burgis |
A |
| The Ruthless Elimination of Hurry |
A |
| The Book of Laughter and Forgetting |
S |
| The Unbearable Lightness of Being |
A |
| Make Something Wonderful by Steve Jobs |
N/A |
| The Death of Ivan Ilych by Leo Tolstoy |
S |
| The Rise and Fall of American Growth: The U.S. Standard of Living Since the Civil War |
S |
| Jiu-Jitsu University by Saulo Ribeiro |
A |
| Mornings on Horseback by David McCullough |
A |
| A Collection of Essays by George Orwell |
A |
| SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome by Mary Beard |
N/A |
| The Making of the Atomic Bomb: 25th Anniversary Edition by Richard Rhodes |
N/A |
| The First Tycoon: The Epic Life of Cornelius Vanderbilt by T.J. Stiles |
N/A |
| The Man Who Quit Money by Mark Sundeen |
N/A |
| The NVIDIA Way by Tae Kim |
S |
| So Good They Can't Ignore You by Cal Newport |
S |
| Book |
Rating |
| The Three Body Problem (Volumes 1-3) by Cixin Liu |
S |
| Shop Class as Soulcraft by Matthew B. Crawford |
A |
| Rethink your Position by Katy Bowman |
B |
| The Five Invitations by Frank Ostaseski |
A |
| An Elegant Puzzle by Will Larson |
S |
| Edison by Edmund Morris |
A |
| Foundation by Isaac Asimov |
A |
| Unix: A History and Memoir by Brian Kernighan |
A |
| Die With Zero by Bill Perkins |
S |
| Writing an Interpreter in Go |
S |
| Writing a Compiler in Go |
S |
| Fluent Python by Luciano Ramalho |
S |
| The Fundamentals of Data Engineering by Joe Reis |
B |
| Computer Networking: A Top-Down Approach |
A |
| Structure and Interpretations of Computer Programs |
In Progress |
| Dune 1 & Dune Messiah by Frank Herbert |
S / A |
| Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky |
S |
| Elon Musk by Walter Isaacson |
S |
| Siddharta by Hermann Hesse |
N/A |
| The Linux Programming Interface by Michael Kerrisk |
A |
| Bullshit Jobs by David Graeber |
B |
| Meditations by Marcus Aurelius |
S |
| The 38 Letters from J.D. Rockefeller to his Son |
A |
| The C Programming Language Vol. 2 by Kernighan and Ritchie |
S |
| The Creative Act by Rick Rubin |
A |
| Flour Water Salt Yeast by Ken Forkish |
S |
| How to Know a Person by David Brooks |
A |
| Build the Life You Want by Arthur Brooks |
A |