Legend

• S = Strongly recommended
• A = Recommended
• B = Recommended with reservations
• C = Not recommended

2024

• A Mind At Play, Claude Shannon (A)
• 1Q84 (S)
• Von Neuman's Biography (B)
• The Power Law, A Story of Venture Capital (S)
• The Maniac (TBD)
• 100 Years of Solitude (TBD)
• Slow Productivity by Cal Newport (A)
• The Mind Gym
• 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 Every Day Life by Luke Borges (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 (TBD)
• The Dead 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, Saulo Ribeiro
• Mornings on Horseback: The Story of an Extraordinary Family, a Vanished Way of Life and the Unique Child Who Became Theodore Roosevelt (A)
• A Collection of Essays by George Orwell (A)
• SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome by Mary Beard
• The Making of the Atomic Bomb: 25th Anniversary Edition by Richard Rhodes
• The First Tycoon - The Epic Life of Cornelius Vanderbilt by T.J. Stiles

2023

• 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 (S) & Dune Messiah (A)
• Brothers Karamazov (S)
• Elon Musk by Walter Isaacson (S)
• Siddharta (TBD)
• The Linux Programming Interface (A)
• Bullshit Jobs (B)
• Meditations by Marcus Aurelius (S)
• The 38 Letters from JD Rockefeller to his son (A)
• The C Programming Language Vol. 2 (S)
• The Creative Act by Rick Rubin (TBD)
• Flour Water Salt Yeast (S)
• How to Know a Person by David Brooks (A)
• Build the life you want by Arthur Brooks (A)