Library
A list of books I'm currently reading:
- Jean Raspail. The Camp of the Saints. 1973.
- Jim Baker. Crossroads. 2012.
- Charles T. Munger. Poor Charlie's Almanack. 2023.
- Richard Rhodes. The Making of the Atomic Bomb. 1986.
- Robin Hanson. The Age of Em. 2016.
- David Deutsch. The Beginning of Infinity. 2011.
Books I've read
An incomplete list of books I've read (and reread) since 2009. My favorite books are bolded.
2024 / 2023 / 2022 / 2021 / 2020 / 2019 / 2018 / 2017 / 2016 / 2015 / 2014 / 2013 / 2012 / 2011 / 2010 / 2009
2024 ↑
- Karl Ove Knausgaard. My Struggle (Book 6). 2018.
- Rainer Maria Rilke. Briefe an einen jungen Dichter. 1929.
- Jens Peter Jacobsen. Niels Lyhne. 1880.
- Steve Jobs. Make Something Wonderful. 2023.
- Nadia Eghbal. Working in Public: The Making and Maintenance of Open Source Software. 2020.
- Annie Jacobsen. Nuclear War: A Scenario. 2024.
- Aaron van Wirdum. The Genesis Book: The Story of the People and Projects That Inspired Bitcoin. 2024.
2023 ↑
- Bernard B. Fall. Street Without Joy: The French Debacle in Indochina. 1961.
- Stefan Zweig. Die Welt von Gestern: Erinnerungen eines Europäers. 1942.
- Thomas Pynchon. The Crying of Lot 49. 1965.
- Ijoma Mangold. Die orange Pille: Warum Bitcoin weit mehr als nur ein neues Geld ist. 2023.
- Sophocles and James Scully (translator). Aias. 2011.
- Mike Ma. Gothic Violence. 2021.
- Sophocles and Robert Bagg (translator). Women of Trakhis. 2011.
- Xenophon and H. G. Dakyns (translator). Agesilaus. 1997.
- Euripides and Paul Woodruff (translator). Bacchae. 1998.
- Michel Houellebecq. Platform. 2001.
- Milan Kundera. The Unbearable Lightness of Being. 1984.
- Yukio Mishima. Sun and Steel. 1968.
- Stefan Zweig. Schachnovelle. 1943.
- Sophocles and James Scully (translator). Philoktetes. 2011.
- Charles Dickens. A Christmas Carol. 1843.
- Walter Isaacson. Elon Musk. 2023.
- Plato and Robin Waterfield (translator). Phaedrus. 2002.
2022 ↑
- Alina Chan and Matt Ridley. Viral: The Search for the Origin of COVID-19. 2021.
- Phil Champagne. The Book of Satoshi: The Collected Writings of Bitcoin Creator Satoshi Nakamoto. 2014.
- Derek Sivers. Your Music and People. 2020.
- Lionel Shriver. The Mandibles: A Family, 2029-2047. 2016.
- John Vigor. The Seaworthy Offshore Sailboat: A Guide to Essential Features, Gear, and Handling. 1999.
- Karl Ove Knausgaard. My Struggle (Book 5). 2010.
- Allen Farrington and Sacha Meyers. Bitcoin is Venice: Essays on the Past and Future of Capitalism. 2022.
- Ilya Kaminsky. Deaf Republic. 2019.
- Thomas S. Kuhn. The Structure of Scientific Revolutions. 1962.
- Sahil Lavingia. The Minimalist Entrepreneur: How Great Founders Do More with Less. 2021.
- Timothy Snyder. Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin. 2010.
- Will and Ariel Durant. The Lessons of History. 1968.
- Balaji Srinivasan. The Network State: How To Start a New Country. 2022.
- Mike Ma. Harassment Architecture. 2019.
- Jonathan Bier. Reckless: The Story Of Cryptocurrency Interest Rates. 2022.
2021 ↑
- Joseph Conrad. Heart of Darkness. 1899.
- Albert Camus. The Plague. 1947.
- Adam Fergusson. When Money Dies: The Nightmare of Deficit Spending, Devaluation, and Hyperinflation in Weimar Germany. 1975.
- Roger Scruton. Gentle Regrets: Thoughts from a Life. 2005.
- Jonathan Bier. The Blocksize War: The Battle Over Who Controls Bitcoin’s Protocol Rules. 2021.
- Derek Sivers. How to Live. 2021.
- Morgan Housel. The Psychology of Money: Timeless lessons on wealth, greed, and happiness. 2020.
- Lawrence M. Krauss. The Physics of Climate Change. 2021.
- Matthew Leising. Out of the Ether: The Amazing Story of Ethereum and the $55 Million Heist that Almost Destroyed It All. 2020.
- Isaac Asimov. Foundation (Foundation Series #3). 1951.
- Vijay Boyapati. The Bullish Case for Bitcoin. 2021.
- Bruno Maçães. History Has Begun: The Birth of a New America. 2020.
- Unknown and Seamus Heaney (translator). Beowulf. 2001.
2020 ↑
- Rainer Maria Rilke. Briefe an einen jungen Dichter. 1929.
- Mikhail Bulgakov. The Master and Margarita. 1967.
- Stewart Brand. Whole Earth Discipline: Why Dense Cities, Nuclear Power, Transgenic Crops, Restored Wildlands, Radical Science, and Geoengineering are Necessary. 2009.
- José Saramago. Blindness. 1995.
- Steven Levy. Facebook: The Inside Story. 2020.
- Nassim Nicholas Taleb. The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable. 2017.
- Knut Hamsun. Hunger. 1890.
- James Dale Davidson and William Rees-Mogg. The Sovereign Individual: Mastering the Transition to the Information Age. 1997.
- Derek Sivers. Hell Yeah or No: What's Worth Doing. 2020.
- John Williams. Augustus. 1972.
- Frank Dikötter. The Cultural Revolution: A People's History, 1962-1976.
- Tom Holland. Dominion: The Making of the Western Mind. 2019.
- Harry G. Frankfurt. On Bullshit. 2005.
- David Graeber. Debt: The First 5000 Years. 2011.
- Margaret Atwood. The Handmaid's Tale. 1985.
2019 ↑
- Jordan B. Peterson. 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos. 2018.
- Evan Ratliff. The Mastermind: The Hunt for the World's Most Prolific Criminal.
- Paul Jarvis. Company of One: Why Staying Small is the Next Big Thing for Business.
- Hans Rosling. Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World and Why Things Are Better Than You Think.
- James Clear. Atomic Habits. 2018.
- Natsume Sōseki. Kokoro. 1914.
- John Carreyrou. Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup.
- Matt Kepnes. How to Travel the World on $50 a Day.
- Frank Dikötter. Mao's Great Famine: The History of China's Most Devastating Catastrophe, 1958–62. 2011.
- Karl Ove Knausgaard. My Struggle (Book 3).
- Karl Ove Knausgaard. My Struggle (Book 4).
- Christopher Clark. The Iron Kingdom: The Rise and Downfall of Prussia, 1600-1947. 2006.
- Marc Levinson. The Box: How the Shipping Container Made the World Smaller and the World Economy Bigger. 2006.
- Ted Chiang. Exhalation: Stories.
- Ben Mezrich. Bitcoin Billionaires: A True Story of Genius, Betrayal, and Redemption. 2019.
- Rab Houston. Scotland: A Very Short Introduction.
- Italo Calvino. Il barone rampante. 1957.
- Yan Pritzker. Inventing Bitcoin: The Technology Behind The First Truly Scarce and Decentralized Money Explained.
- Jim Paul and Brendan Moynihan. What I Learned Losing a Million Dollars.
- William Finnegan. Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life.
- Edward Snowden. Permanent Record. 2019.
- Neal Stephenson. Cryptonomicon. 1999.
- Sönke Ahrens. Das Zettelkasten-Prinzip: Erfolgreich wissenschaftlich Schreiben und Studieren mit effektiven Notizen. 2017.
- Michel Houellebecq. The Elementary Particles. 1998.
- Nassim Nicholas Taleb. The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms.
- Gregory Zuckerman. The Man Who Solved The Market: How Jim Simons Launched the Quant Revolution.
- Max Tegmark. Life 3.0: Being Human in the Age of Artificial Intelligence.
- James C. Scott. Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed.
- Jamie Woodward. The Ice Age: A Very Short Introduction.
2018 ↑
- Ian Frazier. Travels in Siberia.
- Richard Yates. Eleven Kinds of Loneliness. 1962.
- Domenico Starnone. Lacci. 2014.
- Robert M. Pirsig. Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry into Values.
- John Williams. Butcher's Crossing. 1960.
- Nassim Nicholas Taleb. Skin in the Game: Hidden Asymmetries in Daily Life. 2017.
- Oliver Sacks. On the Move: A Life. 2015.
- Haruki Murakami. Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage. 2013.
- Michael Lewis. Liar's Poker. 1989.
- Philip Roth. Portnoy's Complaint. 1969.
- George Garnett. The Norman Conquest: A Very Short Introduction.
- Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa. Il Gattopardo. 1958.
- Saifedean Ammous. The Bitcoin Standard: The Decentralized Alternative to Central Banking. 2018.
- Daron Acemoglu and James A. Robinson. Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty. 2012.
- David Mitchell. The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet. 2010.
- Neil Gaiman. Norse Mythology. 2017.
- Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. Americanah. 2013.
- Ray Bradbury. Fahrenheit 451. 1953.
2017 ↑
- Cormac McCarthy. The Road.
- Junot Díaz. The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao.
- Andrew Hodges. Alan Turing: The Enigma.
- Bret Easton Ellis. American Psycho.
- Yuval Noah Harari. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind.
- Lee Kuan Yew. The Singapore Story.
- Peter Thiel. Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future..
- Hermann Hesse. Siddharta.
- Michael King. The Penguin History of New Zealand.
- John Williams. Stoner. 1965.
- Yasunari Kawabata. Snow Country.
- Ted Chiang. Stories of your Life and Others.
- Rolf Potts. Vagabonding.
- Cormac McCarthy. Blood Meridian.
- Cormac McCarthy. No Country for Old Men.
- Yuval Noah Harari. Homo Deus.
- Philip Roth. American Pastoral.
- Hermann Hesse. Demian.
- Karl Ove Knausgaard. My Struggle (Book 1).
- Karl Ove Knausgaard. My Struggle (Book 2).
- Hermann Hesse. Peter Camenzind.
- Colson Whitehead. The Underground Railroad. 2016.
- Jimmy Soni and Rob Goodman. A Mind at Play: How Claude Shannon Invented the Information Age.
- Cixin Liu. The Three-Body Problem (Remembrance of Earth's Past #1). 2008.
- Karl Marlantes. Matterhorn: A Novel of the Vietnam War. 2009.
- Roberto Saviano. ZeroZeroZero. 2013.
- Kazuo Ishiguro. The Remains of the Day.
- Hugh Thomas. Conquest: Montezuma, Cortés, and the Fall of Old Mexico.
- Eliezer Yudkowsky. Inadequate Equilibria: Where and How Civilizations Get Stuck.
- Italo Calvino. Le città invisibili.
- Min Jin Lee. Pachinko. 2017.
- Hermann Hesse. Narziß und Goldmund. 1930.
2016 ↑
- Hermann Hesse. Das Glasperlenspiel.
- Harper Lee. To Kill a Mockingbird.
- Calvin Newport. So Good They Can't Ignore You.
- Nathaniel Popper. Digital Gold: Bitcoin and the Inside Story of the Misfits and Millionaires Trying to Reinvent Money.
- JD Salinger. The Catcher in the Rye.
- Calvin Newport. Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World.
- Max Frisch. Stiller.
- Friedrich Dürrenmatt. Das Versprechen.
2015 ↑
- Saul Bellow. Herzog.
- Julien Gracq. The Opposing Shore.
- Esther Vilar. The Manipulated Man.
- John Steinbeck. Cannery Row. 1945.
- John Steinbeck. East of Eden. 1952.
- Michael Lewis. Flash Boys: A Wall Street Revolt. 2014.
- Urs Widmer. Reise an den Rand des Universums.
2014 ↑
- Franz Kafka. Der Verschollene.
- Charles Bukowsky. Women.
- Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell to Arms. 1929.
- Neal Stephenson. Cryptonomicon.
- Erich Maria Remarque. Im Westen nichts Neues. 1928.
- Nassim Nicholas Taleb. Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder.
- Neal Stephenson. Snow Crash. 1992.
- Viktor Frankl. Man’s Search for Meaning.
- John Williams. Stoner. 1965.
- Richard Yates. Revolutionary Road. 1961.
- John Steinbeck. Of Mice and Men. 1937.
2013 ↑
- Hermann Hesse. Der Steppenwolf.
- Gordon Mathews. Ghetto at the Center of the World: Chungking Mansions, Hong Kong.
- Hermann Hesse. Siddharta.
- John Steinbeck. Grapes of Wrath. 1939.
- Haruki Murakami. Norwegian Wood.
- Kurt Vonnegut. Slaughterhouse-Five.
- Vladimir Nabokov. Lolita. 1955.
- Salman Rushdie. Midnight's Children. 1981.
- Dino Buzzati. Il deserto dei tartari. 1940.
- Noam Chomsky. Understanding Power.
- Alexander Görsdorf. Taube Nuss: Nichtgehörtes aus dem Leben eines Schwerhörigen.
- Julian Assange. Cypherpunks: Freedom and the Future of the Internet.
2012 ↑
- Jack Kerouac. On The Road. 1957.
- Douglas Rushkoff. Program or Be Programmed: Ten Commands for a Digital Age.
- Fernando Pessoa. O Banqueiro Anarquista.
- Volker Reinhardt. Die Geschichte der Schweiz.
- Hape Kerkeling. Ich bin dann mal weg: Meine Reise auf dem Jakobsweg.
- Albert Camus. L’étranger.
- Cormac McCarthy. No Country for Old Men.
- Haruki Murakami. 1Q84 Book 1.
- Haruki Murakami. 1Q84 Book 2.
- Haruki Murakami. 1Q84 Book 3.
- F. Scott Fitzgerald. The Great Gatsby.
- Chris Guillebeau. The $100 Startup.
- Tim Ferriss. The 4-Hour Workweek.
- Umberto Eco. Il cimitero di Praga.
- Khaled Hosseini. Drachenläufer.
- Daniel Tudor. Korea: The Impossible Country.
2011 ↑
- George Soros. Soros on Soros.
- Malcolm Gladwell. Outliers.
- Matthew B. Crawford. Shop Class as Soulcraft.
- Gene Sharp. From Dictatorship to Democracy.
- Jules Verne. Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea.
- Sunzi. Daode Jing.
- Tim Wu. The Master Switch: The Rise and Fall of Information Empires.
- Nassim Nicholas Taleb. Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets.
- Phil Gordon. Poker.
- Jules Verne. From the Earth to the Moon.
- Karl R. Popper. Alles Leben ist Problemlösen.
- George Orwell. Animal Farm.
- Frédéric Bastiat. The Law. 1850.
- Joseph von Eichendorff. Aus dem Leben eines Taugenichts.
- Fyodor Dostoyevsky. Notes from the Underground.
- Marcus Aurelius. Thoughts of Marcus Aurelius.
- Douglas R. Hofstadter. I am a Strange Loop.
- Ayn Rand. Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal.
- Peter L. Brandt. Diary of a Professional Commodity Trader.
- Henry David Thoreau. Civil Disobedience.
- G. H. Hardy. A Mathematician's Apology.
- Benjamin Graham. The Intelligent Investor: The Definitive Book on Value Investing.
- Rob Walling. Stay Small: A Developer's Guide to Launching a Startup.
- Mary Shelley. Frankenstein.
- Philip K. Dick. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?. 1968.
- Jon Krakauer. Into The Wild.
- J.R.R. Tolkien. The Hobbit.
2010 ↑
- Jessica Livingston. Founders at Work: Stories of Startups' Early Days. 2001.
- Andrew Ross Sorkin. Too Big to Fail: The Inside Story of How Wall Street and Washington Fought to Save the Financial System and Themselves. 2009.
- William Golding. Lord of the Flies. 1954.
- Jaron Lanier. You Are Not a Gadget.
- Nassim Nicholas Taleb. The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable. 2007.
- Andrew W. Lo and Jasmina Hasanhodzic. The Heretics of Finance.
- Frédéric Bastiat. The Law. 1850.
- William J. Bernstein. A Splendid Exchange: How Trade Shaped the World. 2008.
- Friedrich Dürrenmatt. Der Richter und sein Henker. 1951.
- Max Frisch. Homo Faber. 1957.
- Michael Lewis. The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine. 2010.
- Gregory Zuckerman. The Greatest Trade Ever: The Behind-the-Scenes Story of How John Paulson Defied Wall Street and Made Financial History. 2009.
- Frédéric Bastiat. Essays on Political Economy.
- Suelette Dreyfus. Underground: Tales of Hacking, Madness and Obsession on the Electronic Frontier.
- Friedrich Nietzsche. Ecce homo: Wie man wird, was man ist. 1908.
- Humphrey B. Neill. The Art of Contrary Thinking.
- Franz Kafka. Betrachtung.
- Gerald M. Loeb. The Battle for Investment Survival.
- Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
- René Descartes. Discourse on the Method.
- Elroy Dimson, Paul Marsh and Mike Staunton. Triumph of the Optimists: 101 Years of Global Investment Returns.
- Sun Tzu. The Art of War.
- Theodore Kaczynski. Industrial Society and Its Future.
- Francis Fukuyama. Our Posthuman Future: Consequences of the Biotechnology Revolution.
- Michael Lewis. Liar's Poker.
- Jason Fried and David Heinemeier Hansson. Rework.
- Cliff Stoll. The Cuckoo's Egg.
- Liaquat Ahamed. Lords of Finance: The Bankers Who Broke the World.
- William Shakespeare. Othello.
- Spencer E. Ante. Creative Capital: Georges Doriot and the Birth of Venture Capital.
- Niccolò Machiavelli. The Prince.
- William Shakespeare. The Tragedy of Julius Caesar.
- David A. Moss. A Concise Guide to Macroeconomics.
- Luigi Pirandello. La giara.
- Aldous Huxley. Brave New World.
- William Poundstone. Fortune's Formula: The Untold Story of the Scientific Betting System That Beat the Casinos and Wall Street.
- John Stuart Mill. Utilitarianism.
- Andrew W. Lo and Jasmina Hasanhodzic. The Evolution of Technical Analysis.
- Hermann Hesse. Unterm Rad.
- Edwin Abbott Abbott. Flatland.
- Edwin Lefèvre. Reminiscences of a Stock Operator. 1923.
- Max Frisch. Andorra.
- John Allen Paulos. A Mathematician Plays The Stock Market.
- Jason Fried and David Heinemeier Hansson. Rework.
- Jason Fried and David Heinemeier Hansson. Getting Real: The Smarter, Faster, Easier Way to Build a Successful Web Application.
- Steven Levy. Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution. 1984.
2009 ↑
- Emanuel Derman. My Life as a Quant: Reflections on Physics and Finance. 2004.
- Edwin Lefèvre. Reminiscences of a Stock Operator. 1923.
- Malcolm Gladwell. Outliers: The Story of Success. 2008.
- Benôit Mandelbrot. The Misbehavior of Markets: A Fractal View of Financial Turbulence. 2004.
- Richard Bookstaber. A Demon of Our Own Design: Markets, Hedge Funds, and the Perils of Financial Innovation. 2007.
- Sun Tzu. The Art of War.
- William Poundstone. Fortune's Formula: The Untold Story of the Scientific Betting System That Beat the Casinos and Wall Street. 2005.
- Alice Schroeder. The Snowball: Warren Buffett and the Business of Life.
- Ayn Rand. The Fountainhead. 1943.
- Victor Niederhoffer and Laurel Kenner. Practical Speculation. 2003.
- Ayn Rand. Atlas Shrugged. 1957.
- Michael Fitzgerald and Ioan James. The Mind of the Mathematician.
- Leo Tolstoi. Herr und Knecht. 1895.
- Gottfried Keller. Kleider machen Leute. 1874.
- John Perkins. Confessions of an Economic Hit Man. 2004.
- Tom Wolfe. The Bonfire of the Vanities. 1987.
- George Orwell. Nineteen Eighty Four. 1949.
- Franz Kafka. Die Verwandlung.
- Franz Kafka. Der Prozeß. 1915.
- Jürgen A. Alt. Das Abenteuer der Erkenntnis: Eine kleine Geschichte des Wissens. 2002.
- Matthew B. Crawford. Shop Class as Soulcraft. 2009.
- Victor Niederhoffer. The Education of a Speculator. 1996.
- Thomas Mann. Der Tod in Venedig. 1912.
- Georg Büchner. Dantons Tod. 1902.
- Noam Chomsky. Hegemony or Survival: America's Quest for Global Dominance. 2003.
- Josh Waitzkin. The Art of Learning. 2007.
- Thomas Jefferson. Autobiography of Thomas Jefferson.
- Niall Ferguson. The Cash Nexus: Money and Power in the Modern World, 1700-2000.
- Cory Doctorow. Makers.
- Italo Calvino. Marcovaldo.
- Gustave Le Bon. Psychologie der Massen.
- David J. Leinweber. Nerds on Wall Street.
- Fyodor Dostoevsky. The Gambler. 1866.
- Alain de Botton. Status Anxiety. 2004.
- Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels. The Communist Manifesto.