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I've come to believe quality is far superior to quantity. Reading a great book 3 times can do more for you than reading 3 mediocre ones. Nevertheless, the bookshelf keeps growing.

322 books · 104 read · 31,552 pages read · avg rating 4.19 (68 rated)

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Barbarian Days
A Surfing Life (Pulitzer Prize Winner)
William FinneganBiography★★★★★
Incredible storytelling, and even better for surfers. The book follows every surfers ultimate quest for the perfect, uncrowded wave. Many waves traveled to are now household names, and his story tells the tail of these places rich with nostalgia. It's particularly gripping for anyone who has gone on a classic surf adventure, or has surfed any of the waves mentioned.
Code
The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software
Charles PetzoldEngineering★★★★★It starts from simple light switches, and reasons all the way up to complex computers.
East of Eden
John Steinbeck★★★★★
Themes of multigenerational influence, good and evil in everyone, Cain and Able, and the central theme "thou mayest" - timshel. "That single shift changes everything. It means human beings are not doomed by blood, inheritance, or original sin. They are free. They may choose the good path—or not. The power and the responsibility sit with the individual"
Guns, Germs, and Steel
The Fates of Human Societies
Jared M. DiamondHistory★★★★★
High Output Management
Andrew S. GroveManagement★★★★★
Poor Charlie's Almanack
The Wit and Wisdom of Charles T. Munger
Charles T. MungerCritical Thinking★★★★★
Predictably Irrational, Revised and Expanded Edition
The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions
Dan Ariely★★★★★
Sapiens
A Brief History of Humankind
Yuval Noah HarariHistory★★★★★
Secrets of Power Negotiating
15th Anniversary Edition
Roger Dawson★★★★★
Snow Crash
Neal Stephenson★★★★★So good, such a conceptual mind meld plus page turner.
Structures
Or Why Things Don't Fall Down
J. E. GordonDesign, Engineering★★★★★Knowing a few instrumental concepts, you can understand most physical structures.
Tao of Charlie Munger
A Compilation of Quotes from Berkshire Hathaway's Vice Chairman on Life, Business, and the Pursuit of Wealth With Commentary by David Clark
David ClarkBiography★★★★★
The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People
Powerful Lessons in Personal Change
Stephen R. Covey★★★★★
The Goal
A Process of Ongoing Improvement
Eliyahu M. Goldratt, Jeff CoxLeadership, Management★★★★★Attack the bottleneck relentlessly.
The Hard Thing About Hard Things
Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers
Ben Horowitz★★★★★
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Douglas AdamsScience Fiction★★★★★
The Innovator's Dilemma
The Revolutionary Book That Will Change the Way You Do Business
Clayton M. Christensen★★★★★
The Lessons of History
Will Durant, Ariel DurantBiography★★★★★
"The present is the past rolled up for action, and the past is the present unrolled for understanding." Deep insights on historical facts.
The Martian
A Novel
Andy WeirScience Fiction★★★★★
The Rational Optimist
How Prosperity Evolves
Matt Ridley★★★★★
Writing That Works, 3rd Edition
How to Communicate Effectively in Business
Kenneth Roman, Joel Raphaelson★★★★★
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
An Inquiry into Values
Robert M. Pirsig★★★★★
Zero to One
Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future
Peter Thiel, Blake Masters★★★★★
"Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!": Adventures of a Curious Character
Richard P. Feynman★★★★
Takeaway - the most tallented people seem to have the most fun. Play = highest leverage learning
An Astronaut's Guide to Life on Earth
Chris Hadfield★★★★
Bold
How to Go Big, Create Wealth and Impact the World
Peter H. Diamandis, Steven KotlerCritical Thinking★★★★
Childhood's End
A Novel
Arthur C. ClarkeScience Fiction★★★★
Crossing the Chasm, 3rd Edition
Marketing and Selling Disruptive Products to Mainstream Customers
Geoffrey A. Moore★★★★
Debt
The First 5,000 Years,Updated and Expanded
David GraeberInvesting, Economics★★★★
Digital Gold
Bitcoin and the Inside Story of the Misfits and Millionaires Trying to Reinvent Money
Nathaniel Popper★★★★
Exponential Organizations
Why new organizations are ten times better, faster, and cheaper than yours (and what to do about it)
Salim Ismail, Michael S. Malone, Yuri van Geest★★★★
False Economy
A Surprising Economic History of the World
Alan BeattieInvesting, Economics★★★★
For Whom the Bell Tolls
Ernest Hemingway's Undiscovered Country
Allen Josephs★★★★
Getting Past No
Fisher, William Ury, Roger, Ury, William★★★★
How To Win Friends and Influence People
Dale Carnegie★★★★
How to Win Friends and Influence People in the Digital Age
Brent Cole, Dale Carnegie & Associates★★★★
Islands in the Stream
A Novel
Ernest Hemingway★★★★
Juliet, Naked
Nick Hornby★★★★
Let My People Go Surfing
The Education of a Reluctant Businessman
Yvon ChouinardManagement★★★★
Man's Search for Meaning
The Classic Tribute to Hope from the Holocaust
Viktor Emil Frankl★★★★In essence, "he who has a why to live for can bear almost any how" (Nietzsche).
Mavericks at Work
Why the Most Original Minds in Business Win
William C. Taylor, William Taylor, Polly G. LaBarreLeadership, Management★★★★
McQueen
The Biography
Christopher Sandford★★★★
Rework
Jason Fried, David Heinemeier Hansson★★★★
Start with Why
How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone to Take Action
Simon SinekLeadership, Management★★★★
Superintelligence
Paths, Dangers, Strategies
Nick Bostrom★★★★
The Golden Spruce
A True Story of Myth, Madness and Greed
John Vaillant★★★★
The Incredible Secret Money Machine
Don Lancaster★★★★
The Innovator's DNA
Mastering the Five Skills of Disruptive Innovators
Jeff Dyer, Hal B. Gregersen, Clayton M. Christensen★★★★
The Lean Startup
How Today's Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses
Eric Ries★★★★
The Master Switch
The Rise and Fall of Information Empires
Tim Wu★★★★
The Narrow Road
A Brief Guide to the Getting of Money
Felix Dennis★★★★
The Search
How Google and Its Rivals Rewrote the Rules of Business and Transformed Our Culture
John Battelle★★★★
The Signal and the Noise
Why So Many Predictions Fail-but Some Don't
Nate SilverInvesting, Economics★★★★
Traction
How Any Startup Can Achieve Explosive Customer Growth
Gabriel Weinberg, Justin Mares★★★★
Venture Deals
Be Smarter Than Your Lawyer and Venture Capitalist
Brad Feld, Jason Mendelson★★★★
What If?
Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions
Randall Munroe★★★★
What to Do when Its Your Turn (and Its Always Your Turn).
Seth Godin★★★★
Call Me Ted
Ted Turner, Bill BurkeBiography★★★He hustled radio/tv stations and raced sailboats. So much hustle.
How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big
Kind of the Story of My Life
Scott Adams★★★
Legacy
James Kerr★★★
Read Write Own
Building the Next Era of the Internet
Chris DixonInvesting, Economics★★★
A good primer on blockchains and why they're important to a free web. Technologies advance in grouped waves, and crypto is alongside AI and robotics.
Rich Dad, Poor Dad
What the Rich Teach Their Kids about Money -- that the Poor and Middle Class Do Not!
★★★
The 33 Strategies of War
Robert GreeneStrategy, War★★★
The Builders
How a Small Group of Property Developers Fuelled the Building Boom and Transformed Ireland
Frank McDonald, Kathy Sheridan★★★
The Martha Rules
10 Essentials for Achieving Success as You Start, Build, or Manage a Business
Martha StewartBiography★★★
Tribes
We Need You to Lead Us
Seth GodinLeadership, Management★★★
Change by Design
How Design Thinking Transforms Organizations and Inspires Innovation
Tim BrownDesign, Engineering
Economics in One Lesson
The Shortest and Surest Way to Understand Basic Economics
Henry Hazlitt
How Will You Measure Your Life?
Clayton M. Christensen, James Allworth, Karen DillonPhilosophy
Jonathan Livingston Seagull
Richard BachPhilosophy
Letters of a Businessman to His Son
G. Kingsley Ward
Make Something Wonderful
Steve Jobs
MONEY Master the Game
7 Simple Steps to Financial Freedom
Tony RobbinsInvesting, Economics
Moonwalking with Einstein
The Art and Science of Remembering Everything
Joshua Foer
Nexus
Ramez NaamScience Fiction
On Writing
A Memoir Of The Craft
Stephen KingWriting
Only the Paranoid Survive
How to Exploit the Crisis Points That Challenge Every Company
Andrew S. Grove
Principles for Dealing with the Changing World Order
Why Nations Succeed and Fail
Ray DalioInvesting, Economics
Ready Player One
Ernest ClineScience Fiction
Reality Check
The Irreverent Guide to Outsmarting, Outmanaging, and Outmarketing Your Competit ion
Guy Kawasaki
Setting the Table
The Transforming Power of Hospitality in Business
Danny Meyer
Seven Brief Lessons on Physics
Carlo RovelliScience/Math
Skin in the Game
Hidden Asymmetries in Daily Life
Nassim Nicholas TalebCritical Thinking
Skunk Works
A Personal Memoir of My Years of Lockheed
Leo Janos, Ben R. Rich
Staying Alive in Avalanche Terrain
Bruce Tremper
Story
Style, Structure, Substance, and the Principles of Screenwriting
Robert McKeeWriting
The Almanack of Naval Ravikant: A Guide to Wealth and Happiness
Eric Jorgenson
The Black Swan
The Impact of the Highly Improbable
Nassim Nicholas TalebInvesting, Economics
The Blind Watchmaker
Why the Evidence of Evolution Reveals a Universe Without Design
Charles Simonyi Professor of the Public Understanding of Science Richard Dawkins, Richard Dawkins
The Design of Everyday Things
Revised and Expanded Edition
Don Norman
The Effective Executive
The Definitive Guide to Getting the Right Things Done
Peter F. DruckerLeadership, Management
The Elephant and the Dragon
The Rise of India and China and What It Means for All of Us
Robyn Meredith
The Entrepreneur's Guide to Business Law
Constance E. Bagley, Craig E. Dauchy
The Genome War
How Craig Venter Tried to Capture the Code of Life and Save the World
James ShreeveHistory, Biography
The Intelligent Investor, Rev. Ed
The Definitive Book on Value Investing
Benjamin GrahamInvesting, Economics
The Old Man and the Sea
Ernest Hemingway
The Psychology of Money
Timeless lessons on wealth, greed, and happiness
Morgan Housel
The Sovereign Individual
Mastering the Transition to the Information Age
James Dale Davidson, Lord William Rees-Mogg
The Stuff of Thought
Language as a Window into Human Nature
Steven Pinker
The Tipping Point
How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference
Malcolm Gladwell
Thinking, Fast and Slow
Daniel Kahneman
Walden
Introduction and Annotations by Bill McKibben
Henry David Thoreau
Walden and Civil Disobedience
Henry David Thoreau
When the Heavens Went on Sale
The Misfits and Geniuses Racing to Put Space Within Reach
Ashlee Vance
Reading 12
The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
Benjamin FranklinBiography
The First Tycoon
The Epic Life of Cornelius Vanderbilt (Pulitzer Prize Winner)
T.J. StilesBiography
How Economics Explains the World
A Short History of Humanity
Andrew LeighEconomics, Investing
Bruce Lee Striking Thoughts
Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living
Bruce Lee, John LittlePhilosophy
How to Create a Mind
The Secret of Human Thought Revealed
Ray KurzweilPhilosophy
The Inner Game of Tennis
The Classic Guide to the Mental Side of Peak Performance
W. Timothy GallweyPhilosophy
The Fabric of Reality
David DeutschPhysics, Critical Thinking,
Daemon
Daniel SuarezScience Fiction
Benjamin Franklin
An American Life
Walter Isaacson
The Beginning of Infinity
Explanations that Transform The World
David Deutsch
The Daily Stoic
366 Meditations on Wisdom, Perseverance, and the Art of Living
Ryan Holiday, Stephen Hanselman
Values
Mark Carney
On Deck 6
Titan
The Life of John D. Rockefeller, Sr.
Ron ChernowBiography
No Two Alike
Human Nature and Human Individuality
Judith Rich HarrisCritical Thinking
Technological Revolutions and Financial Capital
The Dynamics of Bubbles and Golden Ages
Carlota PerezInvesting, Economics★★★★
Autobiography of a Yogi
Sri Sri Paramahansa Yogananda
Little Rice
Smartphones, Xiaomi, and the Chinese Dream
Clay Shirky
The Power of Your Subconscious Mind
Joseph Murphy
Read Some 6
God's Debris
A Thought Experiment
Scott AdamsCritical Thinking
Murder on the Orient Express
A Hercule Poirot Mystery: The Official Authorized Edition
Agatha ChristieFiction★★★
Eloquent JavaScript
A Modern Introduction to Programming
Marijn Haverbeke
Professional JavaScript for Web Developers
Nicholas C. Zakas
The Box
How the Shipping Container Made the World Smaller and the World Economy Bigger - Second Edition with a new chapter by the author
Marc Levinson
The Unlikely Spy
Daniel Silva
Not Started 194
The Industrial Revolution
Patrick N. Allitt
The brothers kasperov
What Is Intelligence?
Lessons from AI About Evolution, Computing, and Minds
Blaise Aguera y Arcas
Models of My Life
Herbert A. SimonAutobiography
Andrew Carnegie
David NasawBiography
Genius
The Life and Science of Richard Feynman
James GleickBiography
Henry J. Kaiser
Builder in the Modern American West
Mark S. FosterBiography
Leonardo da Vinci
Walter IsaacsonBiography
The Gambler
How Penniless Dropout Kirk Kerkorian Became the Greatest Deal Maker in Capitalist History
William C. RempelBiography, Investing
Critique of Pure Reason
Immanuel KantCritical Thinking
Factfulness
Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World--and Why Things Are Better Than You Think
Hans Rosling, Anna Rosling Rönnlund, Ola RoslingCritical Thinking
Genome
The Autobiography of a Species in 23 Chapters
Matt RidleyCritical Thinking
River Out of Eden
A Darwinian View of Life
Richard DawkinsCritical Thinking
The Demon-Haunted World
Science as a Candle in the Dark
Carl SaganCritical Thinking
The Principia: The Authoritative Translation
Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy
Isaac NewtonCritical Thinking
The Selfish Gene
Richard DawkinsCritical Thinking
Rocket Men
The Daring Odyssey of Apollo 8 and the Astronauts Who Made Man's First Journey to the Moon
Robert KursonDesign, Engineering
Capitalism and Freedom
Milton Friedman, Rose D. FriedmanEconomics
Free to Choose
A Personal Statement
Milton Friedman, Rose D. FriedmanEconomics
Learning the Art of Electronics
A Hands-On Lab Course
Thomas C. Hayes, David Abrams, Paul HorowitzElectronics
Doing the Impossible
George E. Mueller and the Management of NASA’s Human Spaceflight Program
Arthur L. SlotkinEngineering, History
Moby-Dick
Herman MelvilleFiction
The Prize
The Epic Quest for Oil, Money & Power
Daniel YerginHistory, Biography
The Tycoons
How Andrew Carnegie, John D. Rockefeller, Jay Gould, and J. P. Morgan Invented the American Supereconomy
Charles R. MorrisHistory, Biography
Common Stocks and Uncommon Profits and Other Writings
Philip A. FisherInvesting
Competitive Advantage
Creating and Sustaining Superior Performance
Michael E. PorterInvesting
How to Get Rich
Felix DennisInvesting
The Four Pillars of Investing
William J. BernsteinInvesting
The Little Book That Still Beats the Market
Joel GreenblattInvesting
A Random Walk Down Wall Street
Including a Life-cycle Guide to Personal Investing
Burton Gordon MalkielInvesting, Economics
Buffett
The Making of an American Capitalist
Roger LowensteinInvesting, Economics
Financial Shenanigans
Howard M. SchilitInvesting, Economics
Financial Statement Analysis
A Practitioner's Guide
Martin S. Fridson, Fernando AlvarezInvesting, Economics
Margin of Safety
Risk-Averse Value Investing Strategies for the Thoughtful Investor
Seth A. KlarmanInvesting, Economics
More Money Than God
Hedge Funds and the Making of the New Elite
Sebastian MallabyInvesting, Economics
One Up On Wall Street
How To Use What You Already Know To Make Money In
Peter LynchInvesting, Economics
Security Analysis: The Classic 1934 Edition
Benjamin Graham, David Le Fevre DoddInvesting, Economics
The Financial Numbers Game
Detecting Creative Accounting Practices
Charles W. Mulford, Eugene E. ComiskeyInvesting, Economics
The Little Book That Beats the Market
Joel GreenblattInvesting, Economics
The Man Who Solved the Market
How Jim Simons Launched the Quant Revolution
Gregory ZuckermanInvesting, Economics
The Money Game
Adam SmithInvesting, Economics
The Mystery of Capital
Why Capitalism Triumphs in the West and Fails Everywhere Else
Hernando De SotoInvesting, Economics
The Smartest Investment Book You'll Ever Read
The Proven Way to Beat the "Pros" and Take Control of Your Financial Future
Daniel R. SolinInvesting, Economics
The Snowball
Warren Buffett and the Business of Life
Alice SchroederInvesting, Economics
The Warren Buffett Portfolio
Mastering the Power of the Focus Investment Strategy
Robert G. HagstromInvesting, Economics
Social Intelligence
The New Science of Success
Karl AlbrechtLeadership
Reinventing Organizations
A Guide to Creating Organizations Inspired by the Next Stage of Human Consciousness
Frederic LalouxLeadership, Management[imported status: The Bible of Zappos & Tony Hsua]
The E-Myth Revisited
Why Most Small Businesses Don't Work and What to Do About It
Michael E. GerberLeadership, Management
The Halo Effect
. . . and the Eight Other Business Delusions That Deceive Managers
Phil RosenzweigLeadership, Management
The Wealth of Nations
Adam SmithLeadership, Management
Ficciones
Jorge Luis BorgesPhilosophy
Letters from a Stoic
Epistulae Morales Ad Lucilium
SenecaPhilosophy
Meditations
A New Translation
Marcus AureliusPhilosophy
Musashi
吉川英治Philosophy
The Book of Life
Daily Meditations with Krishnamurti
J KrishnamurtiPhilosophy
The Prophet
Deluxe Illustrated Edition
Kahlil GibranPhilosophy
Wind, Sand And Stars
Antoine de Saint-ExupéryPhilosophy
The Book of Five Rings
Including The Book of Family Traditions on the Art of War by Yagyu Munenori
Miyamoto MusashiPhilosophy, Strategy, War
The Prince
Niccolò MachiavelliPhilosophy, Strategy, War
Thinking Physics is Gedanken Physics
Lewis C. EpsteinPhysics
Fluent Python
Clear, Concise, and Effective Programming
Luciano RamalhoProgramming
The Fall of the Roman Empire
A New History of Rome and the Barbarians
Peter HeatherRoman Empire
Chapterhouse: Dune
Frank HerbertScience Fiction
Look to Windward
Iain BanksScience Fiction
Rendezvous with Rama
Arthur C. ClarkeScience Fiction
Ringworld
Larry NivenScience Fiction
Seveneves
A Novel
Neal StephensonScience Fiction
The Moon is a Harsh Mistress
Robert A. HeinleinScience Fiction
The Salmon of Doubt
Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time
Douglas AdamsScience Fiction
Six Thinking Hats
Edward De BonoStrategy
On Grand Strategy
John Lewis GaddisStrategy, War
The Art of War (The Classic Lionel Giles Translation)
Sun TzuStrategy, War
The Essential Art of War
Ralph D. SawyerStrategy, War
The Influence of Sea Power Upon History, 1660-1783
A. T. MahanStrategy, War
One Thousand Exercises in Probability
Geoffrey Grimmett, David StirzakerTextbook
1984
George Orwell
2001
A Space Odyssey
Arthur C. Clarke
7 Powers
The Foundations of Business Strategy
Hamilton Helmer
A Beautiful Constraint
How To Transform Your Limitations Into Advantages, and Why It's Everyone's Business
Adam Morgan, Mark Barden
A Brief History of Time
Stephen Hawking
A Mathematician's Apology
G. H. Hardy
A Matter of Degrees
What Temperature Reveals about the Past and Future of Our Species, Planet, and Universe
Gino Segre
A Piece of the Sun
The Quest for Fusion Energy
Daniel Clery
A Short History of Nearly Everything
Bill Bryson
A Time of Gifts
On Foot to Constantinople: From the Hook of Holland to the Middle Danube
Patrick Leigh Fermor
Age of Propaganda
The Everyday Use and Abuse of Persuasion
Anthony R. Pratkanis, Elliot Aronson
AI Superpowers
China, Silicon Valley, and the New World Order
Kai-Fu Lee
Algorithms to Live By
The Computer Science of Human Decisions
Brian Christian, Tom Griffiths
Antifragile
Things That Gain from Disorder
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Anything You Want
40 Lessons for a New Kind of Entrepreneur
Derek Sivers
Atomic Habits
An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones
James Clear
Bargaining for Advantage
Negotiation Strategies for Reasonable People
G. Richard Shell
Beyond Good and Evil
Prelude to a Philosophy of the Future
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Helen Zimmern
Breakpoint and Beyond
Mastering the Future - Today
George T. Ainsworth-Land, Beth Jarman
Build
An Unorthodox Guide to Making Things Worth Making
Tony Fadell
Capital
Volume I
Karl Marx
Capital in the Twenty-First Century
Thomas Piketty
Creative Selection
Inside Apple's Design Process During the Golden Age of Steve Jobs
Ken Kocienda
Crime and Punishment
Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Constance Garnett
Darwin's Blind Spot
Evolution Beyond Natural Selection
Frank Ryan
Deep Simplicity
Bringing Order to Chaos and Complexity
John Gribbin
Diaspora
A Novel
Greg Egan
Distress
A Novel
Greg Egan
Doing the Impossible
George E. Mueller and the Management of NASA’s Human Spaceflight Program
Arthur L. Slotkin
Einstein's Mistakes
The Human Failings of Genius
Hans C. Ohanian
Exploring Personal Genomics
Joel T. Dudley, Konrad J. Karczewski
Flowers for Algernon
Daniel Keyes
Fooled by Randomness
The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Foundation
Isaac Asimov
Future Perfect
The Case for Progress in a Networked Age
Steven Johnson
Getting Things Done
The Art of Stress-Free Productivity
David Allen
Getting to Yes
Negotiating Agreement Without Giving in
Roger Fisher, William Ury, Bruce Patton
Happiness
A Guide to Developing Life's Most Important Skill
Matthieu Ricard
Hare Brain, Tortoise Mind
Guy Claxton
How the Internet Happened
From Netscape to the iPhone
Brian McCullough
How to Talk to Anyone
92 Little Tricks for Big Success in Relationships
Leil Lowndes
Howard Hughes
His Life & Madness
Donald L. Barlett, James B. Steele
Idea Makers
Personal Perspectives on the Lives & Ideas of Some Notable People
Stephen Wolfram
In Patagonia
Bruce Chatwin
Influence
The Psychology of Persuasion
Robert B. Cialdini, PhD
Irrational Exuberance
Revised and Expanded Third Edition
Robert J. Shiller
Learn to Program
Chris Pine
Life 3.0
Being Human in the Age of Artificial Intelligence
Max Tegmark
Little Rice
Smartphones, Xiaomi, and the Chinese Dream
Clay Shirky
Living within Limits
Ecology, Economics, and Population Taboos
Garrett Hardin
Lord of Light
Roger Zelazny
Machine Stops
E. M. Forster
Medieval Technology and Social Change
Lynn White (Jr.)
Modern Man in Search of a Soul
C.G. Jung
My Family and Other Animals
Gerald Durrell
Notes from Underground
Fyodor Dostoevsky
One, Two, Three-- Infinity
Facts and Speculations of Science
George Gamow
Originals
How Non-Conformists Move the World
Adam Grant
Out of Control
The New Biology of Machines, Social Systems and the Economic World
Kevin Kelly
Peers, Inc.
How People and Platforms Are Inventing the Collaborative Economy and Reinventing Capitalism
Robin Chase
Physics
Principles with Applications
Douglas C. Giancoli
Probability and Random Processes
Geoffrey Grimmett, David Stirzaker
Raising Venture Capital for the Serious Entrepreneur
Dermot Berkery
Reality Is Not What It Seems
The Journey to Quantum Gravity
Carlo Rovelli
Red Notice
How I Became Putin's No. 1 Enemy
Bill Browder
Simple & Direct
Jacques Barzun
Small Giants
Companies That Choose to Be Great Instead of Big
Bo Burlingham
Sprint
How to Solve Big Problems and Test New Ideas in Just Five Days
Jake Knapp, John Zeratsky, Braden Kowitz
Story of Philosophy
Will Durant
The 2nd Law
Energy, Chaos, and Form
P. W. Atkins
The Age of Diminished Expectations
U.S. Economic Policy in the 1990s
Paul R. Krugman
The Agile Gene
How Nature Turns on Nurture
Matt Ridley
The Art of Execution
How the world's best investors get it wrong and still make millions
Lee Freeman-Shor
The Artist's Way
A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity
Julia Cameron
The Better Angels of Our Nature
Why Violence Has Declined
Steven Pinker
The Choice
The Dragon Heart Legacy, Book 3
Nora Roberts
The Cold Start Problem
Andrew Chen[invalid previous ISBN: 9780062969769]
The Compound Effect
Darren Hardy
Conquest of Gaul
S. A. Hanford, Jane Gardner, S. Handford
The End of Loser Liberalism: Making Markets Progressive
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Dean Baker
The Entrepreneur's Guide to Business Law
Constance E. Bagley, Craig E. Dauchy
Essenital Drucker
Peter F. Drucker
The Feynman Lectures on Physics, Vol. I
The New Millennium Edition: Mainly Mechanics, Radiation, and Heat
Richard P. Feynman, Robert B. Leighton, Matthew Sands
The Feynman Lectures on Physics, Vol. II
The New Millennium Edition: Mainly Electromagnetism and Matter
Richard P. Feynman, Robert B. Leighton, Matthew Sands
The Four Steps to the Epiphany
Successful Strategies for Products that Win
Steven Gary Blank
The Hero with a Thousand Faces
Joseph Campbell
The Hero with a Thousand Faces
Joseph Campbell
The Library of Babel and Other Stories
Jorge Luis Borges
The Longman Guide to Revising Prose
A Quick and Easy Method for Turning Good Writing Into Great Writing
Richard A. Lanham
The Man Who Knew Infinity
A Life of the Genius Ramanujan
Robert Kanigel
The Master and Margarita
Mikhail Bulgakov
The Mystery of Capital
Why Capitalism Triumphs in the West and Fails Everywhere Else
Hernando De Soto
The New Adolescence
Raising Happy and Successful Teens in an Age of Anxiety and Distraction
Christine Carter[invalid previous ISBN: 9781948836541]
The Origins of Efficiency
Brian Potter
The Origins of Virtue
Human Instincts and the Evolution of Cooperation
Matt Ridley
The Power of Habit
Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business
Charles Duhigg
The Princeton Companion to Mathematics
Timothy Gowers, June Barrow-Green, Imre Leader
The Psychology of Computer Programming
Gerald M. Weinberg
The Quest for El Cid
Richard A. Fletcher
The Robert Collier Letter Book
Fifth Edition
Robert Collier
The Transhumanist Wager
Zoltan Istvan
The Transparent Society
Will Technology Force Us To Choose Between Privacy And Freedom?
David Brin
The Truth Machine
The Blockchain and the Future of Everything
Michael J. Casey, Paul Vigna
The War of Art
Break Through the Blocks and Win Your Inner Creative Battles
Steven Pressfield
Thing Explainer
Complicated Stuff in Simple Words
Randall Munroe
Things Hidden Since the Foundation of the World
René Girard, Jean-Michel Oughourlian, Guy Lefort
To Engineer Is Human
The Role of Failure in Successful Design
Henry Petroski
Too Soon Old, Too Late Smart
Thirty True Things You Need to Know Now
Gordon Livingston
Tools of Titans
The Tactics, Routines, and Habits of Billionaires, Icons, and World-class Performers
Timothy Ferriss
Troublemakers
Silicon Valley's Coming of Age
Leslie Berlin
Visual Complex Functions
An Introduction with Phase Portraits
Elias Wegert
What Technology Wants
Kevin Kelly
Where Good Ideas Come From
Steven Johnson
Whiplash
How to Survive Our Faster Future
Joi Ito, Jeff Howe
Why Stocks Go Up and Down
William H. Pike
Why We Sleep
Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams
Matthew Walker
Wing Leader
Top-scoring Allied Fighter Pilot of World War Two
James Edgar Johnson
The theory of moral sentiments
Adam Smith
Lunar Men
Jennifer S. Uglow

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Stephen Biesty's Incredible Cross-Sections
Stephen Biesty
Thing Explainer
Complicated Stuff in Simple Words
Randall Munroe
Secrets of Mental Math
The Mathemagician's Guide to Lightning Calculation and Amazing Math Tricks
Arthur Benjamin, Michael Shermer
Tom Swift in the Race to the Moon
Victor Appleton (II.)
There's No Such Thing as a Dragon
Jack Kent