Biographies and Memoirs

1. Albert Einstein by Walter Isaacson
2. The Autobiography of Malcolm X by Alex Haley
3. Autobiography of a Yogi by Paramhansa Yogananda (half)
4. Benjamin Franklin by Edmund Morgan (half)
5. Built from Scratch by Marcus and Blank
6. The Code Breaker by Walter Isaacson
7. Death of a King by Tavis Smiley
8. Dream Big by Cristiane Correa
9. Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and … by Ashlee Vance
10. Gandhi by Louis Fischer
11. Henry Kissinger by Walter Isaacson
12. Hillbilly Elegy by J.D. Vance
13. The Last Man Who Knew Everything by Andrew Robinson
14. Leonardo Da Vinci by Walter Isaacson
15. Losing my Virginity by Richard Branson
16. Malcolm X by Manning Marable
17. Memories, Dreams, Reflections by Carl G. Jung
18. On Writing: A Memoir on the Craft by Stephen King
19. Orphic Paris by Henri Cole
20. The Professor and the Madman by Simon Winchester
21. Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson
22. Team of Rivals by Doris Kearns Goodwin
23. Titan by Ron Chernow
24. What I Talk About When I Talk About Running by Haruki Murakami

Economics and Entrepreneurship

1. The 4 Hour Work Week by Tim Ferriss
2. The $100 Startup by Chris Guillebeau
3. Antifragile by Nassim Taleb
4. Anything You Want: 40 Lessons for New … by Derek Sivers
5. The Art of Strategy by Avinash Dixit
6. The Black Swan by Nassim Taleb
7. Borrowing Brilliance by David Kord Murray
8. Built to Last by Collins and Porras
9. Buzzmarketing: Get People to … by Mark Hughes
10. Contagion by Jonah Berger
11. Crossing the Chasm by Geoffrey Moore
12. Data Driven by Chavez, O’Hara, and Vaidya
13. The Entrepreneur Mind by Kevin Johnson
14. First, Break All the Rules by Buckingham and Coffman
15. Fooled by Randomness by Nassim Taleb
16. Freakonomics by Levitt and Dubner
17. Good to Great by Jim Collins
18. Growth Hacker Marketing by Ryan Holiday
19. The Hard Thing About Hard Things by Ben Horowitz
20. Hooked by Nir Eyal
21. How to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie
22. The Industries of the Future by Alex Ross
23. The Innovator’s Dilemma by Clayton Christensen 
24. The Knowledge Economy by Roberto Mangabeira Unger 
25. The Lean Startup by Eric Ries 
26. The Myths of Innovation by Scott Berkun
27. The New Rules of Marketing & PR by David M. Scott
28. One Up on Wall Street by Peter Lynch
29. Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell
30. Principles by Ray Dalio (partial)
31. Propaganda by Edward Bernays
32. Real Estate 101 by Gary Eldred
33. Rocket Fuel by Wickman and Winters
34. Smarter Faster Better: The Secrets of Being … by Charles Duhigg
35. Think Like a Freak by Levitt and Dubner
36. Tools of Titans by Tim Ferriss (partial)
37. Work Rules by Laszlo Bock
38. Zero to One by Peter Thiel

Diet and Nutrition

1. The Blood Sugar Solution by Mark Hyman (partial)
2. The Botany of Desire by Michael Pollan
3. The China Study by Campbell and Campbell (half)
4. In Defense of Food by Michael Pollan
5. The End of Illness by David Agus
6. The Omnivore’s Dilemma by Michael Pollan
7. Super Immunity by Joel Fuhrman
8. Use Your Brain to Change Your Age by Daniel G. Amen

Fiction and Literature

1. 1984 by George Orwell
2. 2666 by Roberto Bolaño
3. The Alchemist by Paolo Coelho
4. Always Astonished by Fernando Pessoa
5. The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay by Michael Chabon
6. Angle of Repose by Wallace Stegner
7. Animal Farm by George Orwell
8. Anton Chekhov: The Complete Short Novels by Pevear, R. and Volokhonsky, L.
9. Anton Chekhov: Selected Stories translated by Ann Dunnigan
10. Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand
11. Big Sur by Jack Kerouac
12. Blindness by José Saramago
13. Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy
14. Book of Dreams by Jack Kerouac
15. The Book of Disquiet by Fernando Pessoa
16. The Book of Laughter and Forgetting by Milan Kundera
17. Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
18. Brief Interviews with Hideous Men by David Foster Wallace
19. The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
20. Choke by Chuck Palahniuk
21. The Celestine Prophecy by James Redfield
22. The Circle by Dave Eggers
23. In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
24. Consider the Lobster by David Foster Wallace
25. Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
26. Critics, Monsters, Fanatics, … by Cynthia Ozick
27. Crossing to Safety by Wallace Stegner
28. Demian by Hermann Hesse
29. Dom Casmurro by Machado de Assis
30. The Essential Tales of Anton Chekhov by Richard Ford
31. Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
32. The Fall by Albert Camus
33. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S. Thompson
34. The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin
35. The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand
36. Freedom by Jonathan Franzen
37. Grand Central Winter by Lee Stringer
38. Hadji Murat by Leo Tolstoy
39. Hamlet by Shakespeare
40. Humboldt’s Gift by Saul Bellow
41. Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer
42. Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg: The Letters (half)
43. The Jungle by Upton Sinclair
44. King Lear by Shakespeare
45. Leaving the Sea: Stories by Ben Marcus
46. Letter to a Young Poet by Rainer Maria Rilke
47. Lord of the Flies by William Golding
48. The Lusíads by Luis Vaz de Camões
49. The Maias by Eça de Quierós
50. Manifestoes of Surrealism by André Breton
51. The Pale King by David Foster Wallace
52. The Prince by Niccolo Machiavelli
53. The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
54. Seeing by José Saramago
55. Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse
56. Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut
57. The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner
58. The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert L. Stevenson
59. A Supposedly Fun Thing I’ll Never do Again by David Foster Wallace
60. The Stranger by Albert Camus
61. A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
62. To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf
63. Tortilla Flat by John Steinbeck
64. Travels with Charley by John Steinbeck
65. The Trial by Franz Kafka
66. Tropic of Cancer by Henry Miller
67. The Tunnel by William H. Gass
68. The Ultimate Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
69. Underworld by Don DeLillo
70. The Virgin and the Gipsy & Other Stories
71. Walden by Thoreau
72. Zen and The Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert Pirsig

Literary Criticism and Theory

1. Adverse Genres by Kenneth David Jackson
2. The Art of Fiction by Ayn Rand
3. Bird by Bird by Anne Lamott
4. The Elements of Style by Strunk and White
5. Quack This Way by Bryan A. Garner
6. Reading Like a Writer by Francine Prose
7. Seven Types of Ambiguity by William Empson
8. The Western Canon by Harold Bloom
9. Zen and the Art of Writing by Ray Bradbury

Poetry

1. Book of Longing by Leonard Cohen
2. Borges: Selected Poems edited by Alexander Coleman
3. Carl Sandburg: Selected Poems edited by George and Willene Hendrick
4. Carlos Drummond De Andrade: Multitudinous Heart; translated by Richard Zenith
5. A Choir of Honest Killers by Buddy Wakefield
6. The Complete Works of Alberto Caeiro by Fernando Pessoa
7. Conflict by Norman Fischer
8. David Whyte: Essentials
9. Disorientations: Groundings by Jay Wright
10. Escape This Crazy Life of Tears: Japan by Norman Fischer
11. The Flame by Leonard Cohen
12. Forbidden Words by Eugénio de Andrade
13. Let Us Compare Mythologies by Leonard Cohen
14. Luís De Camões: Selected Sonnets; translated by William Baer
15. Matsuo Basho by Makoto Ueda
16. Message by Fernando Pessoa
17. Middle Earth by Henri Cole
18. Nature by Norman Fischer
19. Play the Piano Like a Percussion Instrument … by Charles Bukowski
20. The Poetry of Jorge de Sena: A Bilingual Selection
21. The Poetry of Robert Frost; edited by Edward C. Lathem
22. Sailing Alone Around the Room by Billy Collins
23. This Day by Wendell Berry
24. Untitled Series: Life as it Is by Norman Fischer
25. What’s in a Name by Ana Luísa Amaral
26. William Carlos Williams: Selected Poems; edited by Charles Tomlinson

History and Political/Social Science

1. The Art of War by Sun Tzu (two different translations)
2. The Coming Anarchy by Robert Kaplan
3. The Communist Manifesto by Marx and Engels
4. The Condemnation of Blackness by Muhammad (half)
5. Human Nature and Conduct by John Dewey
6. A Nation of Immigrants by John F. Kennedy
7. The One Percent Doctrine by Ron Suskind
8. The Political Writings by John Dewey; edited by Morris, D. and Shapiro, I.
9. The Square and the Tower: Networks and Power… by Niall Ferguson
10. The US Constitution and Other Writings by Canterbury Classics (half)

Psychology and Science

1. Behave by Robert Sapolsky
2. The Cannabis Encyclopedia by Jorge Cervantes
3. Consciousness and the Brain by Stanislas Dehaene
4. Growth: From Microorganisms to Megacities by Vaclav Smil
5. Lacan: A Beginner’s Guide by Lionel Bailly
6. Modern Man in Search of a Soul by Carl G. Jung
7. Mycelium Running by Paul Stamets
8. Nudge by R. H. Thaler and C.R. Sunstein
9. The Power of Habit by Charles Duhigg
10. Scale by Geoffrey West
11. The Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins
12. Tales from Both Sides of the Brain by Michael Gazzaniga (partial)
13. Teaming with Fungi by Jeff Lowenfels
14. Teaming with Microbes by Jeff Lowenfels
15. Teaming with Nutrients by Jeff Lowenfels
16. Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman
17. We, The Divided Self by Rhonda Johnson and John G. Watkins
18. The Writer and Psychoanalysis by Edmund Bergler

Philosophy, Self-help, and Spirituality

1. The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People by Stephen R. Covey
2. The 48 Laws of Power by Robert Greene
3. The Art of Learning by Josh Waitzkin
4. The Book of Secrets by Deepak Chopra
5. Buddha’s Brain by Rick Hanson
6. Candide by Voltaire
7. Choose Yourself by James Altucher
8. The Collected Works of Arthur Schopenhauer (partial)
9. A Curious Mind: The Secret to a Bigger Life by Brian Grazer
10. The Dhammapada by Fronsdal
11. The Doors of Perception by Aldous Huxley
12. Emptiness Dancing by Adyashanti
13. Experience by Norman Fischer (finished, and rereading)
14. The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide … by Don Miguel Ruiz
15. Gödel, Escher, Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid by Douglas Hofstadter
16. Heaven is for Real by Vincent and Burbo
17. How to Change Your Mind by Michael Pollan
18. In the Buddha’s Words: An Anthology of … by Bhikkhu Bodhi
19. Man’s Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl
20. Mastery by Robert Greene
21. Meditations by Marcus Aurelius; translated by George Hays (2002)
22. The Nature of Consciousness by Rupert Spira
23. Nature, Addresses, Lectures by Ralph Waldo Emerson
24. The Noble Eightfold Path by Bhikkhu Bodhi
25. The Obstacle is the Way by Ryan Holiday
26. Perfectly Yourself by Matthew Kelly
27. Plain and Simple by Steve Hagen
28. The Power of Kindness by Piero Ferrucci
29. Pragmatic Thinking & Learning by Andy Hunt
30. Psychotherapy East and West by Alan Watts
31. Self-Reliance by Ralph W. Emerson
32. Spiritual Enlightenment Now: The Damndest Thing by Jed McKenna
33. Spiritually Incorrect Enlightenment by Jed McKenna
34. The Starfish and the Spider by Brafman and Beckstrom
35. Taking our Places: The Zen Path … by Norman Fischer
36. This is Your Mind On Plants by Michael Pollan
37. Understanding the Heart by Minh Niem
38. The Way of Zen by Alan Watts (skipped the history section)
39. Wellbeing by Rath and Harter
40. What the Buddha Taught by Walpola Rahula
41. Wittgenstein: A Very Short Introduction by A.C. Grayling
42. Zen Flesh, Zen Bones by Reps and Senzaki

Art and Other

1. Dada and Surrealism: A Very Short … by David Hopkins (partial)
2. Grapefruit by Yoko Ono
3. How Music Works by David Byrnes (majority)
4. Save the Cat by Blake Snyder
5. Screenplay by Syd Field