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
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 and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill
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, Literature and Poetry

1984 by George Orwell
The Alchemist by Paolo Coelho
Always Astonished by Fernando Pessoa
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay by Michael Chabon
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
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
Borges: Selected Poems edited by Alexander Coleman
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
The Complete Works of Alberto Caeiro by Fernando Pessoa
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
Forbidden Words by Eugénio de Andrade
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
Matsuo Basho by Makoto Ueda
Message by Fernando Pessoa
The Pale King by David Foster Wallace
Play the Piano Like a Percussion Instrument … by Charles Bukowski
The Poetry of Jorge de Sena: A Bilingual Selection
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
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

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
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