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