Reading list
My favorite books and what I’m currently reading.
Dec 31, 2019
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Currently Reading
Books I’m currently reading
Favorite Books
My favorite favorites are marked with a ⭐️ below:
Science
- ⭐️ The Beginning of Infinity: Explanations That Transform the World (Deutsch)
- ⭐️ Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (Harari)
- Factfulness: Ten Reasons We’re Wrong About the World – and Why Things Are Better Than You Think (Rosling)
- Ageless: The New Science of Getting Older Without Getting Old (Steele)
- The Body: A Guide For Occupants (Bryson)
- Deep (Nestor)
- Homo Deus: A History of Tomorrow (Harari)
Politics & Culture
- ⭐️ What’s Our Problem?: A Self-Help Book for Societies (Urban)
- ⭐️ The Parasitic Mind: How Infectious Ideas Are Killing Common Sense (Saad)
- The Canceling of the American Mind: Cancel Culture Undermines Trust and Threatens Us All—But There Is a Solution (Lukianoff)
- Bad Therapy: Why the Kids Aren’t Growing Up (Shrier)
Philosophy
- ⭐️ The Almanack of Naval Ravikant: A Guide to Wealth and Happiness (Jorgenson)
- ⭐️ Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder (Taleb)
- The Black Swan (Taleb)
- The Obstacle Is The Way (Holiday)
- Ego Is The Enemy (Holiday)
- Why Buddhism Is True (Wright)
Health
- ⭐️ Atomic Habits (Clear)
- ⭐️ The Paleo Solution (Wolfe)
- The Power Of Habit (Duhigg)
- Thinking, Fast and Slow (Kahneman)
- Breath (Nestor)
- The Mind-Gut Connection (Mayer)
- Born To Run (McDougall)
Biographies
- ⭐️ Elon Musk (Isaacson)
- ⭐️ Steve Jobs (Isaacson)
- Bill Walsh: The Score Takes Care of Itself: My Philosophy of Leadership (Walsh)
- Elon Musk (Vance)
- The Innovators (Isaacson)
- Half the Sky (Kristof, WuDunn)
- Between The World And Me (Coates)
- Dreams from My Father (Obama)
- Long Walk to Freedom (Mandela)
- Across That Bridge (Lewis)
- Einstein (Isaacson)
Business
- ⭐️ Principles: Life and Work (Dalio)
- ⭐️ The Changing World Order: Why Nations Succeed and Fail (Dalio)
- Poor Charlie’s Almanack: The Wit and Wisdom of Charles T. Munger (Kaufman)
- What You Do Is Who You Are (Horowitz)
- Accelerate: Building and Scaling High-Performing Technology Organizations (Forsgren)
- Measure What Matters (Doer)
- The Hard Thing About Hard Things (Horowitz)
- Sprint (Knapp)
- The Lean Startup (Ries)
Software Engineering
- ⭐️ Software Engineering At Google (Winters)
- ⭐️ The Phoenix Project (Kim)
- A Philosophy Of Software Design (Ousterhout)
- Clean Architecture (Fowler)
- The Kubernetes Book (Poulton)
- The Art Of PostgreSQL (Fontaine)
- Data Warehouse Toolkit (Kimball)
- Metaprogramming Ruby (Perrotta)
- The Go Programming Language (Donovan)
Product
- ⭐️ Product-Led Growth: How to Build a Product That Sells Itself (Bush)
- ⭐️ The Innovator’s Dilemma (Christensen)
- Demand-Side Sales 101: Stop Selling and Help Your Customers Make Progress (Moesta)
- Competing Against Luck (Christensen)
Nature
- ⭐️ Yosemite (Muir)
- The Overstory (Powers)
- The Uninhabitable Earth (Wallace-Wells)
- The Sixth Extinction (Kolbert)
- The Invention Of Nature: Alexander von Humboldt’s New World (Wulf)
Family
- ⭐️ Cribsheet (Oster)
- The Montessori Toddler: A Parent’s Guide to Raising a Curious and Responsible Human Being (Davies)
- The Happiest Baby On The Block (Karp)
- Hold Me Tight (Johnson)
Fiction
- ⭐️ The Three Body Problem Trilogy (Cixin)
- Hail Mary (Weir)
- Seveneves (Stephenson)
- Snow Crash (Stephenson)
Most Recently Read
Books I’ve most recently read
Want To Read
Books I want to read
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