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A running list of what I'm reading and what I hope to get to.

Currently reading

  • Exhalation, Ted Chiang
  • The Iliad, Homer

Want to read

187 books
  • 12 Rules for Life, Jordan B. Peterson
  • 36 Arguments for the Existence of God, Rebecca Goldstein
  • A Brief History of Time, Stephen Hawking
  • A Guide to the Good Life, William B. Irvine
  • A Higher Loyalty, James Comey
  • A Paradise Built in Hell, Rebecca Solnit
  • A Primate's Memoir, Robert Sapolsky
  • A Tale of Love and Darkness, Amos Oz
  • Accelerate, Nicole Forsgren, Jez Humble, and Gene Kim
  • Acid for the Children, Flea
  • Against the Gods, Peter L. Bernstein
  • Alaric the Goth, Douglas Boin
  • American Pastoral, Philip Roth
  • An Engine, Not a Camera, Donald MacKenzie
  • Anarchy, State, and Utopia, Robert Nozick
  • And the Money Kept Rolling In (and Out), Paul Blustein
  • Antifragile, Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • Are You a Stock or a Bond?, Moshe A. Milevsky
  • Berlin Alexanderplatz, Alfred Döblin
  • Between the World and Me, Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • Black Mass, John Gray
  • Blindness, José Saramago
  • Bonjour Tristesse, Françoise Sagan
  • Brave New World, Aldous Huxley
  • Breakneck, Dan Wang
  • But What If We're Wrong?, Chuck Klosterman
  • Candide, Voltaire
  • Capitalism and Freedom, Milton Friedman
  • Capitalism, Alone, Branko Milanovic
  • Chaos, James Gleick
  • Cien años de soledad, Gabriel García Márquez
  • Confessions of an Economic Hit Man, John Perkins
  • Cool Gray City of Love, Gary Kamiya
  • Cosmopolitanism, Kwame Anthony Appiah
  • Crónica de una muerte anunciada, Gabriel García Márquez
  • Death's End, Liu Cixin
  • Deep Utopia, Nick Bostrom
  • Diamonds, Gold, and War, Martin Meredith
  • Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, Philip K. Dick
  • Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom, Cory Doctorow
  • Everything and More, David Foster Wallace
  • Expectations Investing, Michael Mauboussin and Alfred Rappaport
  • Family Lexicon, Natalia Ginzburg
  • Ficciones, Jorge Luis Borges
  • Fin-de-Siècle Vienna, Carl Schorske
  • Financial Shenanigans, Howard Schilit
  • Flash Boys, Michael Lewis
  • Fooled by Randomness, Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • For the Time Being, Annie Dillard
  • Foucault's Pendulum, Umberto Eco
  • Founder vs Investor, Elizabeth Zalman and Jerry Neumann
  • Founders at Work, Jessica Livingston
  • Gödel, Escher, Bach, Douglas Hofstadter
  • Gringo Viejo, Carlos Fuentes
  • Hackers and Painters, Paul Graham
  • Hamilton, Ron Chernow
  • Hayek: A Life, 1899–1950, Bruce Caldwell
  • Hidden Globe, Atossa Araxia Abrahamian
  • High Output Management, Andrew S. Grove
  • Homage to Catalonia, George Orwell
  • How to Castrate a Bull, Dave Hitz and Pat Walsh
  • How to Live, Sarah Bakewell
  • If on a winter's night a traveler, Italo Calvino
  • Imagined Communities, Benedict Anderson
  • In Other Words, Jhumpa Lahiri
  • In the Beginning Was the Command Line, Neal Stephenson
  • In the First Circle, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
  • Individualism and Economic Order, Friedrich Hayek
  • Infamous Scribblers, Eric Burns
  • Infinite City, Rebecca Solnit
  • Infomocracy, Malka Older
  • Inside Out: A Personal History of Pink Floyd, Nick Mason
  • Invisible Cities, Italo Calvino
  • Invisible Countries, Joshua Keating
  • July's People, Nadine Gordimer
  • Katalin Street, Magda Szabó
  • Kitchen Confidential, Anthony Bourdain
  • La casa de los espíritus, Isabel Allende
  • La ciudad y los perros, Mario Vargas Llosa
  • La hojarasca, Gabriel García Márquez
  • La invención de Morel, Adolfo Bioy Casares
  • La Promesa, Silvina Ocampo
  • Las batallas en el desierto, José Emilio Pacheco
  • Last Call, Daniel Okrent
  • Life, the Movie, Neal Gabler
  • Life: A User's Manual, Georges Perec
  • Lifecycle Investing, Ian Ayres and Barry Nalebuff
  • Lords of Finance, Liaquat Ahamed
  • Los Palimpsestos, Aleksandra Lun
  • Man's Search for Meaning, Viktor Frankl
  • Metaphors We Live By, George Lakoff and Mark Johnson
  • Milton Friedman: The Last Conservative, Jennifer Burns
  • Mutual Aid, Peter Kropotkin
  • My Brilliant Friend, Elena Ferrante
  • Neuromancer, William Gibson
  • Notes on Complexity, Neil Theise
  • One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
  • Only the Paranoid Survive, Andrew S. Grove
  • Open Society, Karl Popper
  • Order without Design, Alain Bertaud
  • Pachinko, Min Jin Lee
  • Palo Alto, Malcolm Harris
  • Permutation City, Greg Egan
  • Pumpkinflowers, Matti Friedman
  • Radical Markets, Glen Weyl and Eric Posner
  • Radicalized, Cory Doctorow
  • Rayuela, Julio Cortázar
  • Ready Player One, Ernest Cline
  • Season of the Witch, David Talbot
  • Seeing Like a State, James C. Scott
  • Severance, Ling Ma
  • Siddhartha, Hermann Hesse
  • Skin in the Game, Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • Slouching Towards Bethlehem, Joan Didion
  • Slouching Towards Utopia, J. Bradford DeLong
  • Snow Crash, Neal Stephenson
  • Society of Mind, Marvin Minsky
  • Solenoid, Mircea Cărtărescu
  • Someone Who Will Love You in All Your Damaged Glory, Raphael Bob-Waksberg
  • Steppenwolf, Hermann Hesse
  • Stories of Your Life and Others, Ted Chiang
  • Suite Française, Irène Némirovsky
  • Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!, Richard Feynman
  • Telex from Cuba, Rachel Kushner
  • The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, Shoshana Zuboff
  • The Ascent of Money, Niall Ferguson
  • The Beginning of Infinity, David Deutsch
  • The Black Swan, Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • The Bonfire of the Vanities, Tom Wolfe
  • The Company of Strangers, Paul Seabright
  • The Courage to Be Disliked, Ichiro Kishimi and Fumitake Koga
  • The Dark Forest, Liu Cixin
  • The Death and Life of Great American Cities, Jane Jacobs
  • The Design of Everyday Things, Don Norman
  • The Elusive Quest for Growth, William Easterly
  • The Founder's Dilemmas, Noam Wasserman
  • The Hour of the Star, Clarice Lispector
  • The Inevitable, Kevin Kelly
  • The Lean Startup, Eric Ries
  • The Little Prince, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
  • The Making of a Manager, Julie Zhuo
  • The Manager's Path, Camille Fournier
  • The Maverick and His Machine, Kevin Maney
  • The Mind of God, Paul Davies
  • The Myth of America's Decline, Josef Joffe
  • The Namesake, Jhumpa Lahiri
  • The Need for Roots, Simone Weil
  • The Overstory, Richard Powers
  • The Phoenix Project, Gene Kim
  • The Power Law, Sebastian Mallaby
  • The Rational Optimist, Matt Ridley
  • The Selfish Gene, Richard Dawkins
  • The Silk Roads, Peter Frankopan
  • The Sovereign Individual, James Dale Davidson and William Rees-Mogg
  • The Start-up of You, Reid Hoffman
  • The Storyteller, Dave Grohl
  • The Three-Body Problem, Liu Cixin
  • The Value of Everything, Mariana Mazzucato
  • The Verge, Patrick Wyman
  • The Way We Never Were, Stephanie Coontz
  • The Western Canon, Harold Bloom
  • The World of Yesterday, Stefan Zweig
  • The Year of Magical Thinking, Joan Didion
  • The Yellow Wind, David Grossman
  • These Truths, Jill Lepore
  • Thinking in Bets, Annie Duke
  • Thinking in Systems, Donella Meadows
  • Thinking, Fast and Slow, Daniel Kahneman
  • This Life, Martin Hägglund
  • Trillions, Robin Wigglesworth
  • Triumph of the City, Edward Glaeser
  • Turing's Cathedral, George Dyson
  • Two Kinds of Time, Graham Peck
  • Un verdor terrible, Benjamín Labatut
  • Vanished Kingdoms, Norman Davies
  • Walkaway, Cory Doctorow
  • What Is Progress?, Aldo Schiavone
  • What Money Can't Buy, Michael Sandel
  • What Tech Calls Thinking, Adrian Daub
  • What's the Future and Why It's Up to Us, Tim O'Reilly
  • When the Wolves Bite, Scott Wapner
  • Why Information Grows, César Hidalgo
  • Wild Problems, Russ Roberts
  • Works and Days and Theogony, Hesiod
  • Zealot, Reza Aslan
  • Zero to One, Peter Thiel
  • Zionism and the Fin de Siècle, Michael Stanislawski