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Biographies and Memoirs
- Albert Einstein by Walter Isaacson
- The Autobiography of Malcolm X by Alex Haley
- Autobiography of a Yogi by Paramhansa Yogananda (half)
- Benjamin Franklin by Edmund Morgan (half)
- Built from Scratch by Marcus and Blank
- Death of a King by Tavis Smiley
- Dream Big by Cristiane Correa
- Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and … by Ashlee Vance
- Gandhi by Louis Fischer
- Henry Kissinger by Walter Isaacson
- Hillbilly Elegy by J.D. Vance
- The Last Man Who Knew Everything by Andrew Robinson
- Leonardo Da Vinci by Walter Isaacson
- Losing my Virginity by Richard Branson
- Malcolm X by Manning Marable
- Memories, Dreams, Reflections by Carl G. Jung
- On Writing: A Memoir on the Craft by Stephen King
- Orphic Paris by Henri Cole
- The Professor and the Madman by Simon Winchester
- Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson
- Team of Rivals by Doris Kearns Goodwin
- What I Talk About When I Talk About Running by Haruki Murakami
Economics and Entrepreneurship
- The 4 Hour Work Week by Tim Ferriss
- The $100 Startup by Chris Guillebeau
- Antifragile by Nassim Taleb
- Anything You Want: 40 Lessons for New … by Derek Sivers
- The Art of Strategy by Avinash Dixit
- The Black Swan by Nassim Taleb
- Borrowing Brilliance by David Kord Murray
- Built to Last by Collins and Porras
- Buzzmarketing: Get People to … by Mark Hughes
- Contagion by Jonah Berger
- Crossing the Chasm by Geoffrey Moore
- Data Driven by Chavez, O’Hara, and Vaidya
- The Entrepreneur Mind by Kevin Johnson
- First, Break All the Rules by Buckingham and Coffman
- Fooled by Randomness by Nassim Taleb
- Freakonomics by Levitt and Dubner
- Good to Great by Jim Collins
- Growth Hacker Marketing by Ryan Holiday
- The Hard Thing About Hard Things by Ben Horowitz
- Hooked by Nir Eyal
- How to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie
- The Industries of the Future by Alex Ross
- The Innovator’s Dilemma by Clayton Christensen
- The Knowledge Economy by Roberto Mangabeira Unger
- The Lean Startup by Eric Ries
- The Myths of Innovation by Scott Berkun
- The New Rules of Marketing & PR by David M. Scott
- One Up on Wall Street by Peter Lynch
- Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell
- Principles by Ray Dalio (partial)
- Propaganda by Edward Bernays
- Real Estate 101 by Gary Eldred
- Rocket Fuel by Wickman and Winters
- Smarter Faster Better: The Secrets of Being … by Charles Duhigg
- Think Like a Freak by Levitt and Dubner
- Tools of Titans by Tim Ferriss (partial)
- Work Rules by Laszlo Bock
- Zero to One by Peter Thiel
Diet and Nutrition
- The Blood Sugar Solution by Mark Hyman (partial)
- The Botany of Desire by Michael Pollan
- The China Study by Campbell and Campbell (half)
- In Defense of Food by Michael Pollan
- The End of Illness by David Agus
- Super Immunity by Joel Fuhrman
- Use Your Brain to Change Your Age by Daniel G. Amen
Fiction and Literature
- 1984 by George Orwell
- The Alchemist by Paolo Coelho
- Always Astonished by Fernando Pessoa
- The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay by Michael Chabon
- Angle of Repose by Wallace Stegner
- Animal Farm by George Orwell
- Anton Chekhov: The Complete Short Novels by Pevear, R. and Volokhonsky, L.
- Anton Chekhov: Selected Stories translated by Ann Dunnigan
- The Art of Fiction by Ayn Rand
- Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand
- Big Sur by Jack Kerouac
- Bird by Bird by Anne Lamott
- Blindness by Jose Saramago
- Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy
- Book of Dreams by Jack Kerouac
- The Book of Disquiet by Fernando Pessoa
- The Book of Laughter and Forgetting by Milan Kundera
- Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
- Brief Interviews with Hideous Men by David Foster Wallace
- The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
- Choke by Chuck Palahniuk
- The Celestine Prophecy by James Redfield
- The Circle by Dave Eggers
- In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
- Consider the Lobster by David Foster Wallace
- Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
- Critics, Monsters, Fanatics, … by Cynthia Ozick
- Crossing to Safety by Wallace Stegner
- Demian by Hermann Hesse
- Dom Casmurro by Machado de Assis
- The Elements of Style by Strunk and White (referenced often)
- The Essential Tales of Anton Chekhov by Richard Ford
- Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
- The Fall by Albert Camus
- Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S. Thompson
- The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin
- The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand
- Freedom by Jonathan Franzen
- Grand Central Winter by Lee Stringer
- Hadji Murat by Leo Tolstoy
- Hamlet by Shakespeare
- Humboldt’s Gift by Saul Bellow
- Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer
- Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg: The Letters (half)
- King Lear by Shakespeare
- Leaving the Sea: Stories by Ben Marcus
- Letter to a Young Poet by Rainer Maria Rilke
- Lord of the Flies by William Golding
- The Lusíads by Luis Vaz de Camões
- The Pale King by David Foster Wallace
- The Prince by Niccolo Machiavelli
- Quack This Way by Bryan A. Garner
- Reading Like a Writer by Francine Prose
- The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
- Seeing by Jose Saramago
- Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse
- Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut
- The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner
- The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Rober L. Stevenson
- A Supposedly Fun Thing I’ll Never do Again by David Foster Wallace
- The Stranger by Albert Camus
- To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf
- Tortilla Flat by John Steinbeck
- Travels with Charley by John Steinbeck
- The Trial by Franz Kafka
- Tropic of Cancer by Henry Miller
- The Tunnel by William H. Gass
- The Ultimate Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
- Walden by Thoreau
- The Western Canon by Harold Bloom
- Zen and The Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert Pirsig
Poetry
- Book of Longing by Leonard Cohen
- Borges: Selected Poems edited by Alexander Coleman
- Carlos Drummond De Andrade: Multitudinous Heart
- The Complete Works of Alberto Caeiro by Fernando Pessoa
- Conflict by Norman Fischer
- Escape This Crazy Life of Tears: Japan by Norman Fischer
- The Flame by Leonard Cohen
- Forbidden Words by Eugénio de Andrade
- Let Us Compare Mythologies by Leonard Cohen
- Luís De Camões: Selected Sonnets translated by William Baer
- Matsuo Basho by Makoto Ueda
- Message by Fernando Pessoa
- Nature by Norman Fischer
- Play the Piano Like a Percussion Instrument … by Charles Bukowski
- The Poetry of Jorge de Sena: A Bilingual Selection
- Sailing Alone Around the Room by Billy Collins
- Untitled Series: Life as it Is by Norman Fischer
- what’s in a name by Ana Luísa Amaral
History and Political/Social Science
- The Art of War by Sun Tzu (two different translations)
- The Coming Anarchy by Robert Kaplan
- The Communist Manifesto by Marx and Engels
- The Condemnation of Blackness by Muhammad (half)
- Human Nature and Conduct by John Dewey
- A Nation of Immigrants by John F. Kennedy
- The One Percent Doctrine by Ron Suskind
- The Political Writings by John Dewey; edited by Morris, D. and Shapiro, I.
- The Square and the Tower: Networks and Power… by Niall Ferguson
- The US Constitution and Other Writings by Canterbury Classics (half)
Psychology and Science
- Behave by Robert Sapolsky
- The Cannabis Encyclopedia by Jorge Cervantes
- Consciousness and the Brain by Stanislas Dehaene
- Lacan by Lionel Bailly
- Mycelium Running by Paul Stamets
- Nudge by R. H. Thaler and C.R. Sunstein
- The Power of Habit by Charles Duhigg
- Scale by Geoffrey West
- The Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins
- Tales from Both Sides of the Brain by Michael Gazzaniga (partial)
- Teaming with Fungi by Jeff Lowenfels
- Teaming with Microbes by Jeff Lowenfels
- Teaming with Nutrients by Jeff Lowenfels
- Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman
- We, The Divided Self by Rhonda Johnson and John G. Watkins
- The Writer and Psychoanalysis by Edmund Bergler
Philosophy, Spirituality, and Self-help
- The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People by Stephen R. Covey
- The 48 Laws of Power by Robert Greene
- The Art of Learning by Josh Waitzkin
- The Book of Secrets by Deepak Chopra
- Buddha’s Brain by Rick Hanson
- Candide by Voltaire
- Choose Yourself by James Altucher
- The Collected Works of Arthur Schopenhauer (partial)
- A Curious Mind: The Secret to a Bigger Life by Brian Grazer
- The Dhammapada by Fronsdal
- The Doors of Perception by Aldous Huxley
- Emptiness Dancing by Adyashanti
- Experience by Norman Fischer (finished, and rereading)
- The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide … by Don Miguel Ruiz
- Gödel, Escher, Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid by Douglas Hofstadter
- Heaven is for Real by Vincent and Burbo
- How to Change Your Mind by Michael Pollan
- In the Buddha’s Words: An Anthology of … by Bhikkhu Bodhi
- Man’s Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl
- Mastery by Robert Greene
- Meditations by Marcus Aurelius
- The Nature of Consciousness by Rupert Spira
- Nature, Addresses, Lectures by Ralph Waldo Emerson
- The Noble Eightfold Path by Bhikkhu Bodhi
- The Obstacle is the Way by Ryan Holiday
- Perfectly Yourself by Matthew Kelly
- Plain and Simple by Steve Hagen
- The Power of Kindness by Piero Ferrucci
- Pragmatic Thinking & Learning by Andy Hunt
- Psychotherapy East and West by Alan Watts
- Self-Reliance by Ralph W. Emerson
- Spiritual Enlightenment Now: The Damndest Thing by Jed McKenna
- Spiritually Incorrect Enlightenment by Jed McKenna
- The Starfish and the Spider by Brafman and Beckstrom
- Taking our Places: The Zen Path … by Norman Fischer
- Understanding the Heart by Minh Niem
- The Way of Zen by Alan Watts (skipped the history section)
- Wellbeing by Rath and Harter
- What the Buddha Taught by Walpola Rahula
- Wittgenstein: A Very Short Introduction by A.C. Grayling
- Zen and the Art of Writing by Ray Bradbury
- Zen Flesh, Zen Bones by Reps and Senzaki
Art and Other
- Dada and Surrealism: A Very Short … by David Hopkins (partial)
- Grapefruit by Yoko Ono
- How Music Works by David Byrnes (majority)
- Save the Cat by Blake Snyder
- Screenplay by Syd Field
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