I enjoy reading books and always curious what others are reading. I thought I’d share my bookshelf here. Some of the books here I started but never finished. The books that I especially liked are marked bold. The list is in no particular order.
2021
Before
- Designing Your Life: How to Build a Well-Lived, Joyful Life
- This Could Be Our Future: A Manifesto for a More Generous World
- How Adam Smith Can Change Your Life: An Unexpected Guide to Human Nature and Happiness
- Surely You’re Joking, Mr. Feynman!
- The One World Schoolhouse
- Fahrenheit 451
- Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World
- Me Before You (Me Before You Trilogy)
- Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty
- Creativity, Inc.
- Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can’t Stop Talking
- Company of one
- Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams
- Kubernetes: Up and Running: Dive into the Future of Infrastructure
- Poor Charlie’s Almanack The Wit and Wisdom of Charles T. Munger
- The Dream Machine A remarkable story about the history of computing
- Art of Living The Classical Manual on Virtue, Happiness, and Effectiveness
- Bigger Leaner Stronger
- Nonviolent Communication
- Principles: Life and Work
- Rich Dad Poor Dad
- The Personal MBA: Master the Art of Business
- The Meaning of It All: Thoughts of a Citizen-Scientist
- Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind By Yuval Noah Harari
- The Five Dysfunctions of a Team: A Leadership Fable
- The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon
- Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future
- The Pragmatic Programmer
- Shoe Dog A Memoir by the Creator of Nike
- Man’s Search for Meaning
- Outliers The Story of Success
- Zero to One
- Thinking, Fast and Slow
- To Sell Is Human: The Surprising Truth About Moving Others
- The Power of Habit
- Astrophysics for People in a Hurry
- The Little Book That Still Beats the Market
- The Score Takes Care of Itself My Philosophy of Leadership
- Steve Jobs
- Rework
- Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code
- Crucial Conversations
- The Martian
- The Hard Thing About Hard Things
- How to Win Friends & Influence People
- A Random Walk Down Wall Street
- Cracking the Coding Interview
- The Alchemist
- Web Operations: Keeping the Data on Time
- Benjamin Franklin: An American Life
- Starting Strength: Basic Barbell Training
- Berkshire Hathaway Letters to Shareholders, 2016
- Second Foundation
- Let My People Go Surfing
- Business Adventures
- Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion,
- Ready Player One
- The Intelligent Investor
- The Sun Also Rises
- For Whom the Bell Tolls
- Clean Code: A Handbook of Agile Software Craftsmanship
- Introduction to Algorithms, 3rd Edition (MIT Press)
- A Brief History of Time
- The Little Prince
- The Ultimate Hitchhiker’s Guide
- The Three-Body Problem
- The Essays of Warren Buffett
- Wine Folly: The Essential Guide to Wine
- Crime and Punishment
- The World Atlas of Coffee
- The Blue Bottle Craft of Coffee
- A Guide to the Good Life: The Ancient Art of Stoic Joy
- Algorithms Unlocked
- Founders at Work Stories of Startups’ Early Days
- Effective Java
- Hackers & Painters Big Ideas from the Computer Age
- Designing Data-Intensive Applications
- The Quick and Easy Way to Effective Speaking
- Anything You Want: 40 Lessons for a New Kind of Entrepreneur