Bookshelf
Mostly biographies. Always taking recs.
- Meditations
- How Not to Be Wrong: The Power of Mathematical Thinking
- The Trading Game: A Confession
- The Shortest History of Italy: 3,000 Years from the Romans to the Renaissance to a Modern Republic―A Retelling for Our Times
- Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
- Calling Bullshit: The Art of Skepticism in a Data-Driven World
- The Lean Startup
- Outliers: The Story of Success
- The Great Gatsby
- The Giver
- To Kill a Mockingbird
- The Book Thief
- The God Delusion
- Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions
- Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking
- Seven Brief Lessons on Physics
- What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions
- The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine
- Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones
- Principles: Life and Work
- Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead
- Thinking, Fast and Slow
- Steve Jobs
- The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business
- Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything
- The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change
- How to Win Friends & Influence People
- Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap... and Others Don't
- The Underground Railroad
- The Psychology of Money
- The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference
- The Red and the Blue: The 1990s and the Birth of Political Tribalism
- This Time Is Different: Eight Centuries of Financial Folly
- The Iron Cage: The Story of the Palestinian Struggle for Statehood
- Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking
- The Global Brain: Your Roadmap for Innovating Faster and Smarter in a Networked World
- A Brief History of Time
- Birds of Paradise Lost
- How We Decide
- Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
- Promise Me, Dad: A Year of Hope, Hardship, and Purpose
- Buffett: The Making of an American Capitalist
- The Aims of Argument: Text and Reader
- Citizenship: A Very Short Introduction
- Humans of New York: Stories
- Inner Engineering: A Yogi's Guide to Joy
- Can't Hurt Me: Master Your Mind and Defy the Odds
- Self-Reliance and Other Essays
- #BreakIntoVC: How to Break Into Venture Capital And Think Like an Investor Whether You're a Student, Entrepreneur or Working Professional
- Man's Search for Meaning
- Siddhartha
- The Courage to Be Disliked: The Japanese Phenomenon That Shows You How to Change Your Life and Achieve Real Happiness
- Open
- The Iliad
- Personal Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant
- Far Away and Long Ago
- Their Eyes Were Watching God
- Economics in One Lesson: The Shortest and Surest Way to Understand Basic Economics
- Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman! Adventures of a Curious Character
- Idea Makers: Personal Perspectives on the Lives & Ideas of Some Notable People
- How Will You Measure Your Life?
- A Promised Land
- My Own Words
- First Principles: What America's Founders Learned from the Greeks and Romans and How That Shaped Our Country
- The Mamba Mentality: How I Play
- The Great Mental Models: General Thinking Concepts
- The Art of Doing Science and Engineering: Learning to Learn
- Hindu Culture An Introduction
- Believe in People: Bottom-Up Solutions for a Top-Down World
- Becoming Steve Jobs: The Evolution of a Reckless Upstart into a Visionary Leader