Books

Below are the books I have read or am planning to read in the near future. It is complete as I can make it, though I am sure I am forgetting some. The list is in no particular order, I have made notes next to some books that made an impression on me.

• Triumph and Tragedy
• Life Lessons From The Cockpit: Captivating Stories Of a BlackHawk Pilot | Tips For Your Success - a great read by a man I look up to
• "Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!": Adventures of a Curious Character
• The River : A Journey to the Source of HIV and AIDS
• Clean Code: A Handbook of Agile Software Craftsmanship
• Shoe Dog
• Infinite Powers: How Calculus Reveals the Powers of the Universe
• Calculus: An Intuitive and Physical Approach
• Still the Iron Age: Iron and Steel in the Modern World
• The Rise and Fall of American Growth: The U.S. Standard of Living since the Civil War
• American Ulysses: A Life of Ulysses S. Grant
• Gut: The Inside Story of Our Body's Most Underrated Organ
• Letters from a Stoic
• Steve Jobs
• Thinking in Bets: Making Smarter Decisions When You Don't Have All the Facts
• Oil: A Beginner's Guide
• Energy: A Beginner's Guide
• The Grid: The Fraying Wires Between Americans and Our Energy Future
• Rise of the Robots: Technology and the Threat of a Jobless Future
• The Wright Brothers
• The Next Factory of the World: How Chinese Investment Is Reshaping Africa
• Iran Rising: The Survival and Future of the Islamic Republic
• The Wealth of Nations
• The Industries of the Future
• River Out of Eden: A Darwinian View of Life
• Homo Dues: A Brief History of Tomorrow
• Leondardo da Vinci
• Stuff Matters: Exploring the Marvelous Materials That Shape Our Man-Made World
• The Innovators: How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses, and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution
• Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
• Life After Google: The Fall of Big Data and the Rise of the Blockchain Economy
• AI Superpowers: China, Silicon Valley, and the New World Order
• The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World
• Einstein: His Life and Universe
• Never Split the Difference: Negotiating as if Your Life Depended on It
• Thinking with Type: A Critical Guide for Designers, Writers, Editors & Students
• The Black Swan
• Fooled by Randomness
• The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms - I read this regularly
• Meditations - Also a regular read
• Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind - A regular read
• Principles: Life and Work - This book changed my life
• Grinding It Out: The Making of McDonald's
• The Undoing Project: A Friendship That Changed Our Minds
• The Innovator's Dilemma: When New Technologies Cause Great Firms to Fail
• The New New Thing: A Silicon Valley Story
• Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future - This book changed my perspective in a lot of ways
• The Lean Startup: How Today's Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses
• The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers - I definitely read this book a little too early
• Tribe of Mentors: Short Life Advice from the Best in the World
• Tools of Titans: The Tactics, Routines, and Habits of Billionaires, Icons, and World-Class Performers
• Extreme Ownership: How U.S. Navy SEALs Lead and Win - This is a great read
• The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business
• The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon
• Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future
• Alibaba: The House That Jack Ma Built
• Pour Your Heart Into It: How Starbucks Built a Company One Cup at a Time
• The Airbnb Story: How Three Ordinary Guys Disrupted an Industry, Made Billions . . . and Created Plenty of Controversy
• Wild Ride: Inside Uber's Quest for World Domination
• The Snowball: Warren Buffett and the Business of Life
• The Intelligent Investor
• The Little Book of Common Sense Investing: The Only Way to Guarantee Your Fair Share of Stock Market Returns
• One Up On Wall Street: How To Use What You Already Know To Make Money In
• A Random Walk Down Wall Street: The Time-Tested Strategy for Successful Investing
• The Most Important Thing Illuminated: Uncommon Sense for the Thoughtful Investor
• Rich Dad Poor Dad: What the Rich Teach Their Kids About Money That the Poor and Middle Class Do Not!
• How To Win Friends and Influence People
• The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People
• The 48 Laws of Power
• Mastery
• The 33 Strategies of War
• The Art of War
• The Prince
• The Communist Manifesto
• 1984
• The Great Gatsby
• The 50th Law
• Conspiracy: Peter Thiel, Hulk Hogan, Gawker, and the Anatomy of Intrigue
• Den of Thieves
• Eat Mor Chikin: Inspire More People
• Trump: The Art of the Deal
• Alexander the Great
• Iran: A Beginner's Guide
• The Kite Runner
• A Thousand Splendid Suns
• The Da Vinci Code
• The Richest Man in Babylon
• FAKE: Fake Money, Fake Teachers, Fake Assets: How Lies Are Making the Poor and Middle Class Poorer
• Bitcoin Billionaires: A True Story of Genius, Betrayal, and Redemption
• Outliers: The Story of Success
• Talking to Strangers: What We Should Know about the People We Don't Know
• Originals: How Non-Conformists Move the World
• Purple Cow, New Edition: Transform Your Business by Being Remarkable
• All Marketers are Liars: The Underground Classic That Explains How Marketing Really Works--and Why Authenticity Is the Best Marketing of All
• Building a StoryBrand: Clarify Your Message So Customers Will Listen
• The 1-Page Marketing Plan: Get New Customers, Make More Money, And Stand Out From The Crowd
• Contagious: Why Things Catch On
• Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die
• Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products
• Creative Selection: Inside Apple's Design Process During the Golden Age of Steve Jobs
• The Private Life of Chairman Mao
• 1776
• Subliminal: How Your Unconscious Mind Rules Your Behavior
• Incognito: The Secret Lives of the Brain
• From Bacteria to Bach and Back: The Evolution of Minds
• Civilization: The West and the Rest
• The Great Degeneration: How Institutions Decay and Economies Die
• China's Vision of Victory
• The Dream Machine
• The Chip: How Two Americans Invented the Microchip and Launched a Revolution
• Killing Reagan: The Violent Assault That Changed a Presidency
• Killing Patton: The Strange Death of World War II's Most Audacious General
• The Alchemist
• The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer
• The Gene: An Intimate History
• The Laws of Medicine: Field Notes from an Uncertain Science
• In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto
• Food Rules: An Eater's Manual
• King Larry: The Life and Ruins of a Billionaire Genius
• Primary Greatness: The 12 Levers of Success
• Who Moved My Cheese?: An A-Mazing Way to Deal with Change in Your Work and in Your Life
• A More Beautiful Question: The Power of Inquiry to Spark Breakthrough Ideas
• The Strategy-Focused Organization: How Balanced Scorecard Companies Thrive in the New Business Environment
• Decoded
• The Messy Middle: Finding Your Way Through the Hardest and Most Crucial Part of Any Bold Venture
• Guns, Germs and Steel: The Fate of Human Societies
• Village of Secrets: Defying the Nazis in Vichy France
• The Communist Manifesto
• Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds and Confusion de Confusiones
• World War I
• Creative Visualization
• The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History
• The Money Culture
• The Players Ball: A Genius, a Con Man, and the Secret History of the Internet's Rise
• Collision of Empires: The War on the Eastern Front in 1914
• Contact
• Freud: A Very Short Introduction
• The Equation that Couldn't Be Solved: How Mathematical Genius Discovered the Language of Symmetry
• Civilization and Its Discontents
• Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea