Books I’ve read in reverse chronological order

2025:

  • Lenin by Victor Sebestyen
  • The Code of the Woosters by P.G. Wodehouse
  • A New World Begins by Jeremy Popkin
  • What is Life? by Erwin Schrödinger
  • Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
  • Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
  • Wind, Sand, and Stars by Antoine De Saint-Exupéry
  • Persuasion by Jane Austen
  • Bobos in Paradise (skimmed) by David Brooks
  • A Study in Scarlet by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
  • The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde


2024:

  • The Name of the Wind (DNF) by Patrick Rothfuss
  • The Crystal Frontier (DNF) by Carlos Fuentes
  • The Myth of Sisyphus by Albert Camus
  • Exhalation by Ted Chiang
  • As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner
  • Plagues and Peoples by William H. McNeil
  • The Ancient City by Numa Denis Fustel de Coulanges
  • Uzumaki by Junji Ito
  • The Second Coming of the KKK by Linda Gordon
  • The Fall by Albert Camus
  • Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  • The Captive Mind by Czeslaw Milosz
  • The Pursuit of Italy by David Gilmore
  • Death in Venice by Thomas Mann
  • His Master’s Voice (DNF) by Stanislaw Lem
  • Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
  • The Cossacks by Leo Tolstoy
  • The Gambler by Fyodor Dostoevsky
  • Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami
  • Barbarian Days (DNF)by William Finnegan
  • The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky
  • Autobiography by Benjamin Franklin
  • Leave Me Alone and I’ll Make You Rich by McCloskey and Carden
  • The True Believer by Eric Hoffer
  • The Managerial Revolution by James Burnham
  • Letter from Birmingham Jail by Martin Luther King Jr
  • Radical Chic & Mau-Mauing the Flak Catchers by Tom Wolfe
  • Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
  • The Ascent of Man by Jacob Bronowski
  • The Diary of Young Girl by Anne Frank
  • Economics in One Lesson by Henry Hazlitt
  • Homage to Catalonia by George Orwell
  • The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
  • The Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins
  • The Double Helix by James Watson
  • The Science of Can and Can’t by Chiara Marletto
  • One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  • Hyperion by Dan Simmons


2023:

  • Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
  • Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
  • The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin
  • The Prince by Niccolò Machiavelli
  • The Three-Body Problem by Cixin Liu
  • Stoner by John Williams
  • For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway
  • The Castle by Franz Kafka
  • The Meaning of It All by Richard Feynman
  • To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
  • The Trial by Franz Kafka
  • The Plague by Albert Camus
  • What Makes Sammy Run by Budd Schulberg
  • 12 Rules for Life by Jordan Peterson
  • 1984 by George Orwell
  • A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway


2022:

  • Dirty Hands by Jean-Paul Sartre
  • No Exit by Jean-Paul Sartre
  • How to Invest by David Rubenstein
  • Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson
  • The Stranger by Albert Camus
  • Siddhartha by Herman Hesse (re-read)
  • Think on These Things by Krishnamurti
  • Influence by Robert Cialdini
  • Too soon old, too late smart by Gordon Livingston
  • The Great Gatsby by F Scott Fitzgerald
  • Antifragile by Nassim Taleb
  • Foundations of Applied Mathematics by Michael Greenberg
  • A Mathematician’s Apology by GH Hardy
  • The Way to Love by Anthony De Mello
  • Essential Calculus by James Stewart
  • How Innovation Works by Matt Ridley
  • Six Not So Easy Pieces by Richard Feynman
  • The Fabric of Reality by David Deutsch
  • What Do You Care What Other People Think? by Richard Feynman
  • Godel, Escher, Bach by Douglas Hofstadter
  • The Book by Alan Watts
  • What I Learned Losing a Million Dollars by Paul and Moynihan
  • On Writing Well by William Zinsser
  • Skin in the Game by Nassim Taleb
  • Six Easy Pieces by Richard Feynman
  • The Prophet by Kahlil Gibran
  • The Way of Zen by Alan Watts


2021:

  • Letters from a Stoic by Seneca
  • God’s Debris by Scott Adams
  • Love Yourself Like Your Life Depends On It by Kamal Ravikant
  • Awareness by Anthony de Mello
  • Black Swan by Nassim Taleb
  • Fooled by Randomness by Nassim Taleb
  • Enchiridion by Epictetus
  • Four Hour Workweek by Tim Ferriss
  • Enlightenment Now by Steven Pinker
  • Managing Oneself by Peter Drucker
  • The Beginning of Infinity by David Deutsch
  • Waking Up by Sam Harris
  • Harry Potter & the Deathly Hallows by JK Rowling
  • Harry Potter & the Half Blood Prince by JK Rowling
  • Harry Potter & the Order of the Phoenix by JK Rowling
  • Harry Potter & the Goblet of Fire by JK Rowling
  • Surely You’re Joking Mr. Feynman by Richard Feynman
  • Bomber Mafia by Malcolm Gladwell
  • Superintelligence by Nick Bostrom
  • The Body Keeps the Score by Bessel van der Kolk
  • Behave by Robert Sapolsky
  • Lying by Sam Harris
  • The Emperor of All Maladies by Siddhartha Mukherjee
  • Catcher in the Rye by JD Salinger
  • Harry Potter & the Prisoner of Azkaban by JK Rowling
  • The Intelligent Investor by Benjamin Graham
  • Harry Potter & the Chamber of Secrets by JK Rowling
  • 21 Lessons for the 21st Century by Yuval Noah Harari


2020:

  • Physics of Wall Street by James Owen Weatherall
  • Moonwalking with Einstein by Joshua Foer
  • The Lessons of History by Will & Ariel Durant
  • The Vital Question by Nick Lane
  • I Contain Multitudes by Ed Yong
  • Leonardo DaVinci by Walter Isaacson
  • Art of War by Sun Tzu
  • Cats Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut
  • Ego is the Enemy by Ryan Holiday
  • Dune by Frank Herbert
  • String Theory by David Foster Wallace
  • Stillness is the Key by Ryan Holiday
  • The Obstacle is the Way by Ryan Holiday
  • Thinking, Fast & Slow by Daniel Kahneman
  • Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse
  • Talking to Strangers by Malcolm Gladwell
  • Harry Potter & the Sorcerer’s Stone by JK Rowling
  • How to Win Friends & Influence People by Dale Carnegie
  • Homo Deus by Yuval Noah Harari
  • Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harari
  • Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
  • How to Change Your Mind by Michael Pollan
  • Principles: Life & Work by Ray Dalio
  • The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
  • Man’s Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl
  • Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand
  • Bright Lights, Big City by Jay McInerney
  • Genius by James Gleick
  • Made to Stick by Chip & Dan Heath
  • Einstein by Walter Isaacson
  • Brave New World by Arduous Huxley
  • The Omnivore’s Dilemma by Michael Pollan
  • The Lord of the Rings by JRR Tolkien
  • The Hobbit by JRR Tolkien
  • Facing the Anthropocene by Ian Angus
  • Nudge by Cass Sunstein & Richard Thaler
  • Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell
  • Zero to One by Peter Thiel


2019:

  • Getting Things Done by David Allen
  • Payoff: The Hidden Logic that Shapes Our Motivations by Dan Ariely
  • Meditations by Marcus Aurelius
  • The Order of Time by Carlo Rovelli
  • Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut
  • When by Daniel Pink
  • The Blue Zones Solution by Dan Buettner
  • One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey


2018:

  • Chaos by James Gleick
  • Blink by Malcolm Gladwell


2017

  • Astrophysics for People in a Hurry by Neil Degrasse Tyson
  • Seven Brief Lessons on Physics by Carlo Rovelli
  • Elon Musk by Ashlee Vance