Books

Books I will read and have read.

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To Read

Non-fiction

• Enlightenment Now (Steven Pinker)
• Guns, Germs and Steel (Jared Diamond)
• History of the Peloponnesian War (Thucydides)
• Lives (Plutarch)
• Skin in the Game (Nassim Taleb)
• The 48 Laws of Power (Robert Greene)
• The Art of War (Sun Tzu)
• The Power of Myth (Joseph Campbell)
• The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt (Edmund Morris)
• Upheaval (Jared Diamond)
• Average is Over (Tyler Cowen)
• Bird By Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life (Anne Lamott)
• Cyropaedia (Xenophon)
• Empire State of Mind (Zack O’Malley Greenburg)
• Endurance: Shackleton’s Incredible Voyage (Alfred Lansing)
• How to Live: Or a Life of Montaigne in One Question and Twenty Attempts at an Answer (Sarah Bakewall)
• Leadership: In Turbulent Times (Doris Goodwin)
• Letters from a Self-Made Merchant to His Son (George Horace Lorimer)
• Letters to His Son (Lord Chesterfield)
• Man’s Search for Meaning (Viktor Frankl)
• Shadow Divers (Robert Kurson)
• Tao Te Ching (Lao Tzu)
• The Autobiography of Malcolm X: As Told to Alex Haley (Malcolm X)
• The Beginning of Infinity (David Deutsch)
• The Big Picture (Sean Carroll)
• The Book of Five Rings (Miyamoto Musashi)
• The Fabric of Reality (David Deutsch)
• The Fish That Ate the Whale (Rich Cohen)
• The Lives of the Most Excellent Painters, Sculptors, and Architects (Giorgio Vasari)
• The Moral Animal (Robert Wright)
• The Origins of Virtue (Matt Ridley)
• The Power Broker (Robert A. Caro)
• The Rational Optimist (Matt Ridley)
• The River of Doubt: Theodore Roosevelt’s Darkest Journey (Candice Millard)
• The Score Takes Care of Itself (Bill Walsh)
• The Tiger: A True Story of Vengeance and Survival (John Vaillant)
• Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Life and Love from Dear Sugar (Cheryl Strayed)
• What I Learned Losing a Million Dollars (Jim Paul and Brendan Moynihan)

Fiction

• Frankenstein (Mary Shelley)
• Last and First Men (Olaf Stapledon)
• Neuromancer (William Gibson)
• Cloud Atlas (David Mitchell)
• Fight Club (Chuck Palahniuk)
• Gardens of the Moon (Steven Erikson)
• Snowcrash (Neal Stephenson)
• The Forever War (Joe Haldeman)
• What Makes Sammy Run? (Budd Schulberg)

Done

Non-fiction

Fiction

In Progress

• Babylon's Ashes [Book 6, Expanse] (James S.A. Corey)
• The Last Wish [The Witcher] (Andrzej Sapkowski)
• Love & Math (Edward Frenkel)
• Man's Search for Meaning (Viktor Frankl)