Book Recommendations

Current Reading Lists (2022-24)

What I’m Reading Now (October 2024)

• Zen Flesh, Zen Bones compiled by Paul Reps and Nyogen Senzaki

Some Books I Read in 2024

• Made to Stick by Chip Heath and Dan Heath
• The Hero and the Outlaw by Margaret Mark and Carol S. Pearson
• One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
• Poor Charlie’s Almanack edited by Peter D. Kaufman
• Million Dollar Weekend by Noah Kagan
• The Hard Thing About Hard Things by Ben Horowitz
• The Anxious Generation by Jonathan Haidt
• Cultish by Amanda Montell
• The Demon of Unrest by Erik Larson
• That Will Never Work by Marc Randolph
• Modern Poker Theory by Michael Acevedo

Some Books I Read in 2023

• Never Finished by David Goggins
• The Passenger by Cormac McCarthy
• Build by Tony Fadell
• The Innovator’s Dilemma by Clayton M. Christensen
• What’s Our Problem? by Tim Urban
• Outlive by Peter Attia
• Tai-Pan by James Clavell
• Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin
• Lying for Money by Dan Davies
• The Years of Lyndon Johnson: The Path to Power by Robert A. Caro
• The Motive by Patrick Lencioni
• An Immense World by Ed Yong
• Elon Musk by Walter Isaacson
• How Big Things Get Done by Bent Flyvbjerg and Dan Gardner
• Clear Thinking by Shane Parrish
• How to Know a Person by David Brooks

Some Books I Read in 2022

• The Secret Pulse of Time by Stefan Klein
• Principles for Dealing with the Changing World Order by Ray Dalio
• Stolen Focus by Johann Hari
• The Gray Lady Winked by Ashley Rindsberg
• Season of Storms by Andrzej Sapkowski
• The Everything Store by Brad Stone
• Seveneves by Neal Stephenson
• 1Q84 by Haruki Murakami
• Pachinko by Min Jin Lee
• Talent by Tyler Cowen and Daniel Gross
• Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand
• The Great Demographic Reversal by Charles Goodhart and Manoj Pradhan
• Titan by Ron Chernow
• Reamde by Neal Stephenson
• Creativity, Inc. by Ed Catmull
• Lenin by Victor Sebestyen

My All-Time Recommended Reading Lists

To Understand Life

• War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
• The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
• The Republic by Plato
• Meditations by Marcus Aurelius
• This Life: Secular Faith and Spiritual Freedom by Martin Hagglund
• Fundamental Principles of the Metaphysics of Morals by Immanuel Kant
• The Denial of Death and Escape from Evil by Ernest Becker
• Man’s Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl
• Thinking in Bets by Annie Duke
• Fooled by Randomness, The Black Swan, and Antifragile by Nassim Nicholas Taleb

To Understand the World

• The Origins of Political Order and Political Order and Decay by Francis Fukuyama
• Lessons of History by William Durant and Ariel Durant
• Sapiens and Homo Deus by Yuval Noah Harari
• Guns, Germs and Steel by Jared Diamond
• Cows, Pigs, Wars and Witches by Marvin Harris
• Behind the Beautiful Forevers by Katherine Boo
• Three Women by Lisa Taddeo
• Debt: The First 5000 Years by David Graeber
• On the Genealogy of Morals by Friedrich Nietzsche
• Civilization and Its Discontents by Sigmund Freud
• Marriage: A History by Stephanie Coontz
• The Swerve by Stephen Greenblatt
• The Better Angels of Our Nature by Steven Pinker
• The Dictator’s Handbook by Bruce Bueno de Mesquita and Alastair Smith
• Democracy for Realists by Christopher Achen and Larry Bartels

To Understand Human Nature

• The Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins
• The Blank Slate by Steven Pinker
• The Evolving Self by Robert Kegan
• The True Believer by Eric Hoffer
• Stumbling on Happiness by Daniel Gilbert
• Influence by Robert Cialdini
• Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman
• Mindset by Carol Dweck
• Talking to Strangers by Malcolm Gladwell

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