A list of books I'm currently reading:
The Dawn of Everything
A New History of Humanity
David Graeber and David Wengrow (2021)
Dune (Dune Chronicles, Book 1)
Frank Herbert (1965)
Against the Grain
A Deep History of the Earliest States
James C. Scott (2017)
The Odyssey
Homer (translated by Emily Wilson) (2018)
This is an incomplete list of books I've read (and reread) since 2009 in reverse chronological order. My favorite books are underlined.
Harassment Architecture
Mike Ma (2019)
The Network State
How To Start a New Country
Balaji Srinivasan (2022)
The Lessons of History
Will and Ariel Durant (1968)
Bloodlands
Europe Between Hitler and Stalin
Timothy Snyder (2010)
The Minimalist Entrepreneur
How Great Founders Do More with Less
Sahil Lavingia (2021)
The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
Thomas S. Kuhn (1962)
Deaf Republic
Ilya Kaminsky (2019)
Building a Second Brain
A Proven Method to Organise Your Digital Life and Unlock Your Creative Potential
Tiago Forte (2022)
Bitcoin is Venice
Essays on the Past and Future of Capitalism
Allen Farrington and Sacha Meyers (2022)
My Struggle (Book 5)
Karl Ove Knausgaard (2010)
The Seaworthy Offshore Sailboat
A Guide to Essential Features, Gear, and Handling
John Vigor (1999)
The Mandibles
A Family, 2029-2047
Lionel Shriver (2016)
Your Music and People
Derek Sivers (2020)
The Book of Satoshi
The Collected Writings of Bitcoin Creator Satoshi Nakamoto
Phil Champagne (2014)
Viral
The Search for the Origin of COVID-19
Alina Chan and Matt Ridley (2021)
Beowulf
Unknown (translated by Seamus Heaney)
History Has Begun
The Birth of a New America
Bruno Maçães (2020)
The Bullish Case for Bitcoin
Vijay Boyapati (2021)
Foundation (Foundation Series #3)
Isaac Asimov (1951)
Out of the Ether
The Amazing Story of Ethereum and the $55 Million Heist that Almost Destroyed It All
Matthew Leising (2020)
The Physics of Climate Change
Lawrence M. Krauss (2021)
The Psychology of Money
Timeless lessons on wealth, greed, and happiness
Morgan Housel (2020)
How to Live
Derek Sivers (2021)
The Blocksize War
The Battle Over Who Controls Bitcoin’s Protocol Rules
Jonathan Bier (2021)
Gentle Regrets
Thoughts from a Life
Roger Scruton (2005)
When Money Dies
The Nightmare of Deficit Spending, Devaluation, and Hyperinflation in Weimar Germany
Adam Fergusson (1975)
The Plague
Albert Camus (1947)
Heart of Darkness
Joseph Conrad (1899)
The Handmaid's Tale
Margaret Atwood (1985)
Debt
The First 5000 Years
David Graeber (2011)
On Bullshit
Harry G. Frankfurt (2005)
Dominion
The Making of the Western Mind
Tom Holland
The Cultural Revolution
A People's History, 1962-1976
Frank Dikötter
Augustus
John Williams (1972)
Hell Yeah or No
What's Worth Doing
Derek Sivers (2020)
The Sovereign Individual
Mastering the Transition to the Information Age
James Dale Davidson and Lord William Rees-Mogg (1997)
Hunger
Knut Hamsun (1890)
The Black Swan
The Impact of the Highly Improbable
Nassim Nicholas Taleb (2017)
The Inside Story
Steven Levy
Blindness
José Saramago (1995)
Whole Earth Discipline
Why Dense Cities, Nuclear Power, Transgenic Crops, Restored Wildlands, Radical Science, and Geoengineering are Necessary
Stewart Brand (2009)
The Master and Margarita
Mikhail Bulgakov (1967)
Briefe an einen jungen Dichter
Rainer Maria Rilke (1929)
The Ice Age
A Very Short Introduction
Jamie Woodward
Seeing Like a State
How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed
James C. Scott
Life 3.0
Being Human in the Age of Artificial Intelligence
Max Tegmark
The Man Who Solved The Market
How Jim Simons Launched the Quant Revolution
Gregory Zuckerman
The Bed of Procrustes
Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
The Elementary Particles
Michel Houellebecq
Das Zettelkasten-Prinzip
Sönke Ahrens
Cryptonomicon
Neal Stephenson
Permanent Record
Edward Snowden
Barbarian Days
A Surfing Life
William Finnegan
What I Learned Losing a Million Dollars
Jim Paul and Brendan Moynihan
Inventing Bitcoin
The Technology Behind The First Truly Scarce and Decentralized Money Explained
Yan Pritzker
Il barone rampante
Italo Calvino
Scotland
A Very Short Introduction
Rab Houston
Bitcoin Billionaires
A True Story of Genius, Betrayal, and Redemption
Ben Mezrich
Exhalation
Stories
Ted Chiang
The Box
How the Shipping Container Made the World Smaller and the World Economy Bigger
Marc Levinson
The Iron Kingdom
The Rise and Downfall of Prussia, 1600-1947
Christopher Clark
My Struggle (Book 4)
Karl Ove Knausgaard
My Struggle (Book 3)
Karl Ove Knausgaard
Mao's Great Famine
The History of China's Most Devastating Catastrophe, 1958–62
Frank Dikötter
Bad Blood
Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup
John Carreyrou
Kokoro
Natsume Sōseki
Atomic Habits
James Clear
Factfulness
Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World and Why Things Are Better Than You Think
Hans Rosling
The Mastermind
The Hunt for the World's Most Prolific Criminal
Evan Ratliff
12 Rules for Life
An Antidote to Chaos
Jordan B. Peterson
Fahrenheit 451
Ray Bradbury
Americanah
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Norse Mythology
Neil Gaiman
The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet
David Mitchell
Why Nations Fail
The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty
Daron Acemoglu and James A. Robinson
The Bitcoin Standard
The Decentralized Alternative to Central Banking
Saifedean Ammous
Il Gattopardo
Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa
The Norman Conquest
A Very Short Introduction
George Garnett
Portnoy's Complaint
Philip Roth
Liar's Poker
Michael Lewis
Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage
Haruki Murakami
On the Move
A Life
Oliver Sacks
Skin in the Game
Hidden Asymmetries in Daily Life
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Butcher's Crossing
John Williams
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
An Inquiry into Values
Robert M. Pirsig
Lacci
Domenico Starnone
Eleven Kinds of Loneliness
Richard Yates
Travels in Siberia
Ian Frazier
Narziß und Goldmund
Hermann Hesse
Pachinko
Min Jin Lee
Le città invisibili
Italo Calvino
Inadequate Equilibria
Where and How Civilizations Get Stuck
Eliezer Yudkowsky
Conquest
Montezuma, Cortés, and the Fall of Old Mexico
Hugh Thomas
The Remains of the Day
Kazuo Ishiguro
ZeroZeroZero
Roberto Saviano (2013)
Matterhorn
A Novel of the Vietnam War
Karl Marlantes (2009)
The Three-Body Problem (Remembrance of Earth's Past, Book 1)
Cixin Liu (2008)
A Mind at Play
How Claude Shannon Invented the Information Age
Jimmy Soni and Rob Goodman
The Underground Railroad
Colson Whitehead (2016)
Peter Camenzind
Hermann Hesse
My Struggle (Book 2)
Karl Ove Knausgaard
My Struggle (Book 1)
Karl Ove Knausgaard
Demian
Hermann Hesse
American Pastoral
Philip Roth
Homo Deus
Yuval Noah Harari
No Country for Old Men
Cormac McCarthy
Blood Meridian
Cormac McCarthy
Vagabonding
Rolf Potts
Stories of your Life and Others
Ted Chiang
Snow Country
Yasunari Kawabata
Stoner
John Williams (1965)
The Penguin History of New Zealand
Michael King
Siddharta
Hermann Hesse
Zero to One
Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future.
Peter Thiel
The Singapore Story
Lee Kuan Yew
Sapiens
A Brief History of Humankind
Yuval Noah Harari
American Psycho
Bret Easton Ellis
Alan Turing
The Enigma
Andrew Hodges
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
Junot Díaz
The Road
Cormac McCarthy
Das Versprechen
Friedrich Dürrenmatt
Stiller
Max Frisch
Deep Work
Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World
Calvin Newport
The Catcher in the Rye
JD Salinger
Digital Gold
Bitcoin and the Inside Story of the Misfits and Millionaires Trying to Reinvent Money
Nathaniel Popper
So Good They Can't Ignore You
Calvin Newport
To Kill a Mockingbird
Harper Lee
Das Glasperlenspiel
Hermann Hesse
Reise an den Rand des Universums
Urs Widmer
Flash Boys
A Wall Street Revolt
Michael Lewis (2014)
East of Eden
John Steinbeck (1952)
Cannery Row
John Steinbeck (1945)
The Manipulated Man
Esther Vilar
The Opposing Shore
Julien Gracq
Herzog
Saul Bellow
Of Mice and Men
John Steinbeck (1937)
Revolutionary Road
Richard Yates (1961)
Stoner
John Williams (1965)
Man’s Search for Meaning
Viktor Frankl
Snow Crash
Neal Stephenson (1992)
Antifragile
Things That Gain from Disorder
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Im Westen nichts Neues
Erich Maria Remarque (1928)
Cryptonomicon
Neal Stephenson
A Farewell to Arms
Ernest Hemingway (1929)
Women
Charles Bukowsky
Cypherpunks
Freedom and the Future of the Internet
Julian Assange
Understanding Power
Noam Chomsky
Il deserto dei tartari
Dino Buzzati (1940)
Midnight's Children
Salman Rushdie (1981)
Lolita
Vladimir Nabokov (1955)
Slaughterhouse-Five
Kurt Vonnegut
Norwegian Wood
Haruki Murakami
Grapes of Wrath
John Steinbeck (1939)
Siddharta
Hermann Hesse
Ghetto at the Center of the World
Chungking Mansions, Hong Kong
Gordon Mathews
Der Steppenwolf
Hermann Hesse
Korea
The Impossible Country
Daniel Tudor
Drachenläufer
Khaled Hosseini
Il cimitero di Praga
Umberto Eco
The 4-Hour Workweek
Tim Ferriss
The $100 Startup
Chris Guillebeau
The Great Gatsby
F. Scott Fitzgerald
1Q84 Book 3
Haruki Murakami
1Q84 Book 2
Haruki Murakami
1Q84 Book 1
Haruki Murakami
No Country for Old Men
Cormac McCarthy
L’étranger
Albert Camus
Ich bin dann mal weg
Meine Reise auf dem Jakobsweg
Hape Kerkeling
Die Geschichte der Schweiz
Volker Reinhardt
O Banqueiro Anarquista
Fernando Pessoa
Program or Be Programmed
Ten Commands for a Digital Age
Douglas Rushkoff
On The Road
Jack Kerouac (1957)
The Hobbit
J.R.R. Tolkien
Into The Wild
Jon Krakauer
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
Philip K. Dick (1968)
Frankenstein
Mary Shelley
Stay Small
A Developer's Guide to Launching a Startup
Rob Walling
The Intelligent Investor
The Definitive Book on Value Investing
Benjamin Graham
A Mathematician's Apology
G. H. Hardy
Civil Disobedience
Henry David Thoreau
Capitalism
The Unknown Ideal
Ayn Rand
I am a Strange Loop
Douglas R. Hofstadter
Thoughts of Marcus Aurelius
Marcus Aurelius
Notes from the Underground
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Aus dem Leben eines Taugenichts
Joseph von Eichendorff
The Law
Frédéric Bastiat (1850)
Animal Farm
George Orwell
Alles Leben ist Problemlösen
Karl R. Popper
From the Earth to the Moon
Jules Verne
Poker
Phil Gordon
Fooled by Randomness
The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
The Master Switch
The Rise and Fall of Information Empires
Tim Wu
Daode Jing
Sunzi
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
Jules Verne
From Dictatorship to Democracy
Gene Sharp
Shop Class as Soulcraft
Matthew B. Crawford
Outliers
Malcolm Gladwell
Soros on Soros
George Soros
Hackers
Heroes of the Computer Revolution
Steven Levy (1984)
Getting Real
The Smarter, Faster, Easier Way to Build a Successful Web Application
Jason Fried and David Heinemeier Hansson
Rework
Jason Fried and David Heinemeier Hansson
A Mathematician Plays The Stock Market
John Allen Paulos
Andorra
Max Frisch
Reminiscences of a Stock Operator
Edwin Lefèvre (1923)
Flatland
Edwin Abbott Abbott
Unterm Rad
Hermann Hesse
Utilitarianism
John Stuart Mill
Fortune's Formula
The Untold Story of the Scientific Betting System That Beat the Casinos and Wall Street
William Poundstone
Brave New World
Aldous Huxley
La giara
Luigi Pirandello
A Concise Guide to Macroeconomics
David A. Moss
The Tragedy of Julius Caesar
William Shakespeare
The Prince
Niccolò Machiavelli
Creative Capital
Georges Doriot and the Birth of Venture Capital
Spencer E. Ante
Othello
William Shakespeare
Lords of Finance
The Bankers Who Broke the World
Liaquat Ahamed
The Cuckoo's Egg
Cliff Stoll
Rework
Jason Fried and David Heinemeier Hansson
Liar's Poker
Michael Lewis
Our Posthuman Future
Consequences of the Biotechnology Revolution
Francis Fukuyama
The Art of War
Sun Tzu
Triumph of the Optimists
101 Years of Global Investment Returns
Elroy Dimson, Paul Marsh and Mike Staunton
Discourse on the Method
René Descartes
Pride and Prejudice
Jane Austen
The Battle for Investment Survival
Gerald M. Loeb
Betrachtung
Franz Kafka
The Art of Contrary Thinking
Humphrey B. Neill
Ecce homo
Wie man wird, was man ist
Friedrich Nietzsche
Underground
Tales of Hacking, Madness and Obsession on the Electronic Frontier
Suelette Dreyfus
Essays on Political Economy
Frédéric Bastiat
The Greatest Trade Ever
The Behind-the-Scenes Story of How John Paulson Defied Wall Street and Made Financial History
Gregory Zuckerman
The Big Short
Inside the Doomsday Machine
Michael Lewis
Homo Faber
Max Frisch
Der Richter und sein Henker
Friedrich Dürrenmatt
A Splendid Exchange
How Trade Shaped the World
William J. Bernstein (2008)
The Law
Frédéric Bastiat
The Heretics of Finance
Andrew W. Lo and Jasmina Hasanhodzic
The Black Swan
The Impact of the Highly Improbable
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
You Are Not a Gadget
Jaron Lanier
Lord of the Flies
William Golding
Too Big to Fail
The Inside Story of How Wall Street and Washington Fought to Save the Financial System and Themselves
Andrew Ross Sorkin
Founders at Work
Stories of Startups' Early Days
Jessica Livingston
The Communist Manifesto
Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels
Status Anxiety
Alain De Botton
The Gambler
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Nerds on Wall Street
David J. Leinweber
Psychologie der Massen
Gustave Le Bon
Marcovaldo
Italo Calvino
Makers
Cory Doctorow
The Cash Nexus
Money and Power in the Modern World, 1700-2000
Niall Ferguson
Autobiography of Thomas Jefferson
Thomas Jefferson
The Art of Learning
Josh Waitzkin
Hegemony or Survival
America's Quest for Global Dominance
Noam Chomsky
Dantons Tod
Georg Büchner
Der Tod in Venedig
Thomas Mann (1912)
The Education of a Speculator
Victor Niederhoffer
Shop Class as Soulcraft
Matthew B. Crawford
Das Abenteuer der Erkenntnis
Eine kleine Geschichte des Wissens
Jürgen A. Alt (2002)
Der Prozeß
Franz Kafka
Die Verwandlung
Franz Kafka
Nineteen Eighty Four
George Orwell (1949)
The Bonfire of the Vanities
Tom Wolfe (1987)
Confessions of an Economic Hit Man
John Perkins (2004)
Kleider machen Leute
Gottfried Keller (1874)
Herr und Knecht
Leo Tolstoi (1895)
The Mind of the Mathematician
Michael Fitzgerald and Ioan James
Atlas Shrugged
Ayn Rand (1957)
Practical Speculation
Victor Niederhoffer and Laurel Kenner
The Fountainhead
Ayn Rand (1943)
The Snowball
Warren Buffett and the Business of Life
Alice Schroeder
Fortune's Formula
The Untold Story of the Scientific Betting System That Beat the Casinos and Wall Street
William Poundstone
The Art of War
Sun Tzu
A Demon of Our Own Design
Markets, Hedge Funds, and the Perils of Financial Innovation
Richard Bookstaber (2007)
The Misbehavior of Markets
A Fractal View of Financial Turbulence
Benôit Mandelbrot (2004)
Outliers
The Story of Success
Malcolm Gladwell (2008)
Reminiscences of a Stock Operator
Edwin Lefèvre (1923)
My Life as a Quant
Reflections on Physics and Finance
Emanuel Derman (2004)