Bookshelf

Some books I've found to be informative. Favourites marked with ★.

• Essays in Pursuasion - John Maynard Keynes
• Impact: Reshaping Capitalism to Drive Real Change - Sir Ronald Cohen ★
• Sea Stories: My Life in Special Operations - Admiral William H. McRaven
• The Wisdom of the Bullfrog: Leadership Made Simple (But Not Easy) - Admiral William H. McRaven
• The Hero Code: Lessons Learned from Lives Well Lived - Admiral William H. McRaven ★
• Great Britain? How to Get Our Future Back - Torsten Bell ★
• Managing People - Harvard Business Review
• Breakneck: China's Quest to Engineer the Future - Dan Wang
• Built To Last: Successful Habits of Visionary Companies - Jim Collins ★
• Rethinking the Economics of Land and Housing - Josh Ryan-Collins, Toby Lloyd, and Laurie Macfarlane
• The Forty Rules of Love - Elif Shafak
• Meditations - Marcus Aurelius ★
• Letters from a Stoic - Lucius Annaeus Seneca
• Discourses, Fragments, Handbook - Epictetus
• The Art of Living: The Classical Manual on Virtue, Happiness, and Effectiveness - Epictetus (interpreted by Sharon Lebell)
• Nicomachean Ethics - Aristotle ★
• Fragments - Heraclitus ★
• Tao Te Ching: A Book about the Way and the Power of the Way - Lao Tzu, translated by Ursula K. Le Guin ★
• Bhagavad Gita - Anonymous (Sanskrit text) ★
• Thus Spoke Zarathustra - Friedrich Nietzsche
• The Prophet - Kahlil Gibran ★
• Creating a Life: Finding Your Individual Path - James Hollis
• A Life of Meaning: Relocating Your Center of Spiritual Gravity - James Hollis
• The Really Hard Problem: Meaning in a Material World - Owen Flanagan
• Mimesis: Desire and the Novel - René Girard
• The Hero with a Thousand Faces - Joseph Campbell ★
• Value(s): Building a Better World for All - Mark Carney ★
• Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty - Daron Acemoglu & James A. Robinson
• The Intelligent Investor: The Definitive Book on Value Investing - Benjamin Graham ★
• Poor Charlie's Almanack: The Wit and Wisdom of Charles T. Munger - Charles T. Munger (ed. Peter D. Kaufman)
• The Most Important Thing: Uncommon Sense for the Thoughtful Investor - Howard Marks ★
• Mastering the Market Cycle: Getting the Odds on Your Side - Howard Marks
• Distressed Debt Analysis: Strategies for Speculative Investors - Stephen G. Moyer
• Investment Banking: Valuation, Leveraged Buyouts, and Mergers & Acquisitions - Joshua Rosenbaum & Joshua Pearl
• Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game - Michael Lewis
• The Almanack of Naval Ravikant: A Guide to Wealth and Happiness - Eric Jorgenson (based on Naval Ravikant)
• Principles: Life and Work - Ray Dalio ★
• Rethinking the Economics of Land and Housing - Josh Ryan-Collins
• General System Theory: Foundations, Development, Applications - Ludwig von Bertalanffy
• An Introduction to Cybernetics - W. Ross Ashby
• Theory of Games and Economic Behavior - John von Neumann & Oskar Morgenstern ★
• The Essence of Chaos - Edward N. Lorenz
• What Is Life? With Mind and Matter and Autobiographical Sketches - Erwin Schrödinger
• Thinking in Systems: A Primer - Donella H. Meadows ★
• Psycho-Cybernetics - Maxwell Maltz
• Brief Answers to the Big Questions - Stephen Hawking ★
• Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica - Isaac Newton
• Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!: Adventures of a Curious Character - Richard P. Feynman ★
• Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea - Charles Seife
• Thinking, Fast and Slow - Daniel Kahneman ★
• Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid - Douglas Hofstadter
• Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious - C. G. Jung
• The Red Book - C. G. Jung ★
• Man and His Symbols - C. G. Jung
• Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones - James Clear
• Clear Thinking: Turning Ordinary Moments into Extraordinary Results - Shane Parrish
• Extreme Ownership: How U.S. Navy SEALs Lead and Win - Jocko Willink & Leif Babin
• The Art of Resilience: Strategies for an Unbreakable Mind and Body - Ross Edgley
• Don't Die - Bryan Johnson
• Neurodiversity Edge: The Ultimate Handbook for Neurodivergent Employees and Managers - Kristin Kise & Gavin Bollard
• Siddhartha - Hermann Hesse ★
• Steppenwolf - Hermann Hesse
• Demian - Hermann Hesse
• The Glass Bead Game - Hermann Hesse ★
• Foucault's Pendulum - Umberto Eco
• The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams ★
• The Beginning of Infinity: Explanations That Transform the World - David Deutsch ★
• The Fabric of Reality: The Science of Parallel Universes - and Its Implications - David Deutsch
• Children of Time - Adrian Tchaikovsky ★
• Children of Ruin - Adrian Tchaikovsky
• Children of Memory - Adrian Tchaikovsky
• The Culture Series - Iain M. Banks
• Master and Commander - Patrick O'Brian ★
• The Cosmere (universe-spanning novel sequence) - Brandon Sanderson ★
• The Once and Future King - T. H. White ★
• The Trial - Franz Kafka
• The Magic Mountain - Thomas Mann
• The Road - Cormac McCarthy
• One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel García Márquez
• The Overstory - Richard Powers
• Neverwhere - Neil Gaiman
• Howl's Moving Castle - Diana Wynne Jones
• The Pillars of the Earth - Ken Follett
• The Worthing Saga - Orson Scott Card
• Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell - Susanna Clarke
• This is How You Lose the Time War - Alix E. Harrow & Andrew Joseph White
• The Jade City - Ken Liu
• The Jade War - Ken Liu
• The Jade Oath - Ken Liu
• The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories - Ken Liu
• Stories of Your Life and Others - Ted Chiang ★
• Exhalation: Stories - Ted Chiang
• The Singapore Story: Memoirs of Lee Kuan Yew, Vol. 1 - Lee Kuan Yew ★
• Lee Kuan Yew: The Grand Master's Insights on China, the United States, and the World - Graham Allison, Robert D. Blackwill & Ali Wyne
• A Promised Land - Barack Obama ★
• The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin - Benjamin Franklin
• Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln - Doris Kearns Goodwin
• The Splendid and the Vile: A Saga of Churchill, Family, and Defiance During the Blitz - Erik Larson
• The Story of Civilization - Will Durant & Ariel Durant ★
• Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind - Yuval Noah Harari
• The National Parks: America's Best Idea - An Illustrated History - Dayton Duncan & Ken Burns
• What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions - Randall Munroe
• Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Explain Everything About the World - Tim Marshall ★
• Abundance: The Future Is Better Than You Think - Peter Diamandis & Steven Kotler

Want to Read

• Power and Progress: Our Thousand-Year Struggle Over Technology and Prosperity - Daron Acemoglu & Simon Johnson
• The Federalist Papers - Alexander Hamilton, James Madison & John Jay
• Governing the Commons: The Evolution of Institutions for Collective Action - Elinor Ostrom
• Cybernetics: Or Control and Communication in the Animal and the Machine - Norbert Wiener
• Self-Reproducing Automata - John von Neumann
• Institutions, Institutional Change, and Economic Performance - Douglass North
• Red Rising - Pierce Brown
• A Short History of Financial Euphoria - John Kenneth Galbraith