Book List

This is a list of books that I've read.

Books that I thought were phenomenal are highlighted in green, books that I thought were particularly great are highlighted in blue, and all the other books are highlighted in gray.

2025:

• The Lost Executioner
• Werner Herzog – A Guide for the Perplexed
• The Yellow Dog (Inspector Maigret, 5)
• The Night at the Crossroads (Inspector Maigret, 6)
• The Carter of "La Providence" (Inspector Maigret, 4)
• 1929: Inside the Greatest Crash in Wall Street History--and How It Shattered a Nation
• The Hanged Man of Saint-Pholien (Inspector Maigret, 3)
• The Late Monsieur Gallet (Inspector Maigret, 2)
• Pietr the Latvian (Inspector Maigret, 1)
• How To Build A Car
• From Third World to First
• The Gentle Giant
• The Burnout Society
• The Price of Time
• Antimemetics
• Writing That Works
• Insull
• The Unpublished David Ogilvy
• Confessions of an Advertising Man
• Survival in the Killing Fields
• The Grid
• There Is No Antimemetics Division
• Seeing like a State
• Love: What Life Is All About
• Envisioning Information
• King, Warrior, Magician, Lover
• The Visual Display of Quantitative Information
• Hillbilly Elegy
• High Output Management
• The Disappearance of Rituals
• Apprentice to Genius
• Six Days of War

2024:

• Empire of the Summer Moon
• The Great Game
• The Fish That Ate the Whale
• Counseling with Choice Theory
• Becoming Trader Joe
• The Tiger
• The Alchemy of Air
• Death in Florence
• Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil
• Reflections on the Art of Living: A Joseph Campbell Companion
• Evolution of Desire: A Life of René Girard
• When We Cease to Understand the World
• Troubled
• How Buildings Learn
• Nuclear War: A Scenario
• Impro
• Working
• The Passage of Power
• Outlive
• Master Of The Senate
• Means of Ascent
• The Path To Power
• The Power Broker
• The Prize

2023:

• A Gentleman in Moscow
• The Road
• Beloved
• Napoleon: A Life
• Same as Ever
• Maus
• Wanting
• Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
• The MANIAC
• King Lear
• The Score Takes Care of Itself
• Reasons to Be Hopeful
• The Wager
• The Meaning of It All
• Men and Rubber
• Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
• Amusing Ourselves to Death
• Chaos Monkey
• The Ascent of Man
• The Beginning of Infinity
• American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer
• How To Raise Successful People: Simple Lessons for Radical Results
• A Thousand Splendid Suns
• Paper Belt on Fire: How Renegade Investors Sparked a Revolt Against the University
• Napoleon: A Concise Biography
• The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck
• The Mind of Napoleon
• John D.
• Arrival (Stories of Your Life MTI)
• The Hidden Girl and Other Stories
• Against the Odds: An Autobiography
• The Ghost Map
• In Love: A Memoir of Love and Loss
• Exhalation: Stories
• 7 Powers
• A Man for All Markets

2022:

• The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories
• The Great CEO Within
• Benjamin Franklin: An American Life
• The Three-Body Problem
• Crises of the Republic
• Responsibility and Judgment
• Between Past and Future
• Eichmann in Jerusalem
• Greenlights
• Man’s Search for Meaning
• Shantaram
• The Origins of Totalitarianism
• Liar's Poker
• The Defining Decade
• How Will You Measure Your Life?
• Food Rules
• The Power Law
• The Last Lecture
• Talent
• "Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!"
• How to Live
• The Psychology of Money
• When Genius Failed
• Pioneering Portfolio Management
• All About Hedge Funds
• The Code Breaker
• Do Epic Shit
• Lying
• Endurance
• The Cult of We
• On the Shortness of Life
• How to Win Friends & Influence People
• Fundraising
• Recruiting
• The Alchemist
• The Empire of Pain
• What it Takes
• Zero to One

Pre-2022:

• The Lessons of History
• The Almanack of Naval Ravikant
• The Story of a Brief Marriage
• The Known World
• To the Lighthouse
• Moby-Dick
• Flash Boys
• Atomic Habits
• The Richest Man in Babylon
• The Big Short
• The Fifth Risk
• Think Again
• The New Confessions of an Economic Hit Man
• The Inevitable
• Misbehaving
• The Premonition
• MBS
• Into Thin Air
• The Ride of a Lifetime
• Rich Dad Poor Dad
• Range
• On the Beach
• The Optimist's Telescope
• The Man Who Solved the Market
• Sula
• The Handmaid's Tale
• Slaughterhouse-Five