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. 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. Super Immunity by Joel Fuhrman
7. 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. The Art of Fiction by Ayn Rand
11. Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand
12. Big Sur by Jack Kerouac
13. Bird by Bird by Anne Lamott
14. Blindness by Jose Saramago
15. Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy
16. Book of Dreams by Jack Kerouac
17. The Book of Disquiet by Fernando Pessoa
18. The Book of Laughter and Forgetting by Milan Kundera
19. Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
20. Brief Interviews with Hideous Men by David Foster Wallace
21. The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
22. Choke by Chuck Palahniuk
23. The Celestine Prophecy by James Redfield
24. The Circle by Dave Eggers
25. In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
26. Consider the Lobster by David Foster Wallace
27. Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
28. Critics, Monsters, Fanatics, … by Cynthia Ozick
29. Crossing to Safety by Wallace Stegner
30. Demian by Hermann Hesse
31. Dom Casmurro by Machado de Assis
32. The Elements of Style by Strunk and White (referenced often)
33. The Essential Tales of Anton Chekhov by Richard Ford
34. Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
35. The Fall by Albert Camus
36. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S. Thompson
37. The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin
38. The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand
39. Freedom by Jonathan Franzen
40. Grand Central Winter by Lee Stringer
41. Hadji Murat by Leo Tolstoy
42. Hamlet by Shakespeare
43. Humboldt’s Gift by Saul Bellow
44. Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer
45. Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg: The Letters (half)
46. The Jungle by Upton Sinclair
47. King Lear by Shakespeare
48. Leaving the Sea: Stories by Ben Marcus
49. Letter to a Young Poet by Rainer Maria Rilke
50. Lord of the Flies by William Golding
51. The Lusíads by Luis Vaz de Camões
52. The Maias by Eça de Quierós
53. Manifestoes of Surrealism by André Breton
54. The Pale King by David Foster Wallace
55. The Prince by Niccolo Machiavelli
56. Quack This Way by Bryan A. Garner
57. Reading Like a Writer by Francine Prose
58. The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
59. Seeing by Jose Saramago
60. Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse
61. Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut
62. The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner
63. The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert L. Stevenson
64. A Supposedly Fun Thing I’ll Never do Again by David Foster Wallace
65. The Stranger by Albert Camus
66. To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf
67. Tortilla Flat by John Steinbeck
68. Travels with Charley by John Steinbeck
69. The Trial by Franz Kafka
70. Tropic of Cancer by Henry Miller
71. The Tunnel by William H. Gass
72. The Ultimate Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
73. The Virgin and the Gipsy & Other Stories
74. Walden by Thoreau
75. The Western Canon by Harold Bloom
76. Zen and The Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert Pirsig

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
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. Disorientations: Groundings by Jay Wright
9. Escape This Crazy Life of Tears: Japan by Norman Fischer
10. The Flame by Leonard Cohen
11. Forbidden Words by Eugénio de Andrade
12. Let Us Compare Mythologies by Leonard Cohen
13. Luís De Camões: Selected Sonnets translated by William Baer
14. Matsuo Basho by Makoto Ueda
15. Message by Fernando Pessoa
16. Middle Earth by Henri Cole
17. Nature by Norman Fischer
18. Play the Piano Like a Percussion Instrument … by Charles Bukowski
19. The Poetry of Jorge de Sena: A Bilingual Selection
20. Sailing Alone Around the Room by Billy Collins
21. Untitled Series: Life as it Is by Norman Fischer
22. What’s in a Name by Ana Luísa Amaral

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. Lacan by Lionel Bailly
5. Mycelium Running by Paul Stamets
6. Nudge by R. H. Thaler and C.R. Sunstein
7. The Power of Habit by Charles Duhigg
8. Scale by Geoffrey West
9. The Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins
10. Tales from Both Sides of the Brain by Michael Gazzaniga (partial)
11. Teaming with Fungi by Jeff Lowenfels
12. Teaming with Microbes by Jeff Lowenfels
13. Teaming with Nutrients by Jeff Lowenfels
14. Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman
15. We, The Divided Self by Rhonda Johnson and John G. Watkins
16. 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
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. Understanding the Heart by Minh Niem
37. The Way of Zen by Alan Watts (skipped the history section)
38. Wellbeing by Rath and Harter
39. What the Buddha Taught by Walpola Rahula
40. Wittgenstein: A Very Short Introduction by A.C. Grayling
41. Zen and the Art of Writing by Ray Bradbury
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