Bookshelf

A list of books I'm currently reading:

• David Graeber and David Wengrow, The Dawn of Everything
• Frank Herbert, Dune (Dune Chronicles, Book 1)
• Sahil Lavingia, The Minimalist Entrepreneur
• James C. Scott, Against the Grain
• Homer (translated by Emily Wilson), The Odyssey
• Thomas S. Kuhn, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions

Books I've read

This is an incomplete list of books I've read (and reread) since 2009 in reverse chronological order. My favorite books are bolded.

2022

• Allen Farrington and Sacha Meyers, Bitcoin is Venice
• Karl Ove Knausgaard, My Struggle (Book 5)
• John Vigor, The Seaworthy Offshore Sailboat
• Lionel Shriver, The Mandibles
• Derek Sivers, Your Music and People
• Phil Champagne, The Book of Satoshi
• Alina Chan and Matt Ridley, Viral

2021

• Unknown (translated by Seamus Heaney), Beowulf
• Bruno Maçães, History Has Begun
• Vijay Boyapati, The Bullish Case for Bitcoin
• Isaac Asimov, Foundation (Foundation Series #3)
• Matthew Leising, Out of the Ether
• Lawrence M. Krauss, The Physics of Climate Change
• Morgan Housel, The Psychology of Money
• Derek Sivers, How to Live
• Jonathan Bier, The Blocksize War
• Roger Scruton, Gentle Regrets
• Adam Fergusson, When Money Dies
• Albert Camus, The Plague
• Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness

2020

• Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid's Tale
• David Graeber, Debt
• Harry G. Frankfurt, On Bullshit
• Tom Holland, Dominion
• Frank Dikötter, The Cultural Revolution
• John Williams, Augustus
• Derek Sivers, Hell Yeah or No
• James Dale Davidson and Lord William Rees-Mogg, The Sovereign Individual
• Kalle Rosenbaum, Grokking Bitcoin
• Knut Hamsun, Hunger
• Nassim Nicholas Taleb, The Black Swan (Reread)
• Steven Levy, Facebook
• José Saramago, Blindness
• Stewart Brand, Whole Earth Discipline
• Mikhail Bulgakov, The Master and Margarita
• Rainer Maria Rilke, Briefe an einen jungen Dichter

2019

• Jamie Woodward, The Ice Age
• James C. Scott, Seeing Like a State
• Max Tegmark, Life 3.0
• Gregory Zuckerman, The Man Who Solved The Market
• Nassim Nicholas Taleb, The Bed of Procrustes
• Michel Houellebecq, The Elementary Particles
• Sönke Ahrens, Das Zettelkasten-Prinzip
• Neal Stephenson, Cryptonomicon (Reread)
• Edward Snowden, Permanent Record
• William Finnegan, Barbarian Days
• Jim Paul and Brendan Moynihan, What I Learned Losing a Million Dollars
• Yan Pritzker, Inventing Bitcoin
• Italo Calvino, Il barone rampante
• Rab Houston, Scotland
• Ben Mezrich, Bitcoin Billionaires
• Ted Chiang, Exhalation
• Marc Levinson, The Box
• Christopher Clark, The Iron Kingdom
• Karl Ove Knausgaard, My Struggle (Book 4)
• Karl Ove Knausgaard, My Struggle (Book 3)
• Frank Dikötter, Mao's Great Famine
• John Carreyrou, Bad Blood
• Natsume Sōseki, Kokoro
• James Clear, Atomic Habits
• Hans Rosling, Factfulness
• Paul Jarvis, Company of One
• Evan Ratliff, The Mastermind
• Jordan B. Peterson, 12 Rules for Life

2018

• Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451
• Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Americanah
• Neil Gaiman, Norse Mythology
• David Mitchell, The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet
• Daron Acemoglu and James A. Robinson, Why Nations Fail
• Saifedean Ammous, The Bitcoin Standard
• Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa, Il Gattopardo
• George Garnett, The Norman Conquest
• Philip Roth, Portnoy's Complaint
• Ryan Holiday, Conspiracy
• Michael Lewis, Liar's Poker (Reread)
• Haruki Murakami, Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage
• Oliver Sacks, On the Move
• Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Skin in the Game
• John Williams, Butcher's Crossing
• Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
• Domenico Starnone, Lacci
• Richard Yates, Eleven Kinds of Loneliness
• Ian Frazier, Travels in Siberia

2017

• Hermann Hesse, Narziß und Goldmund
• Min Jin Lee, Pachinko
• Italo Calvino, Le città invisibili
• Eliezer Yudkowsky, Inadequate Equilibria
• Hugh Thomas, Conquest
• Kazuo Ishiguro, The Remains of the Day
• Roberto Saviano, ZeroZeroZero
• Karl Marlantes, Matterhorn
• Cixin Li, The Three-Body Problem
• Jimmy Soni and Rob Goodman, A Mind at Play
• Colson Whitehead, The Underground Railroad
• Hermann Hesse, Peter Camenzind
• Karl Ove Knausgaard, My Struggle (Book 2)
• Karl Ove Knausgaard, My Struggle (Book 1)
• Hermann Hesse, Demian
• Philip Roth, American Pastoral
• Yuval Noah Harari, Homo Deus
• Cormac McCarthy, No Country for Old Men
• Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian
• Rolf Potts, Vagabonding
• Ted Chiang, Stories of your Life and Others
• Yasunari Kawabata, Snow Country
• John Williams, Stoner
• Michael King, The Penguin History of New Zealand
• Hermann Hesse, Siddharta (Reread)
• Peter Thiel, Zero to One
• Tim Ferriss, Tools of Titans
• Lee Kuan Yew, The Singapore Story
• Yuval Noah Harari, Sapiens
• Bret Easton Ellis, American Psycho
• Andrew Hodges, Alan Turing
• Junot Díaz, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
• Cormac McCarthy, The Road

2016

• Friedrich Dürrenmatt, Das Versprechen
• Max Frisch, Stiller
• Calvin Newport, Deep Work
• JD Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye
• Nathaniel Popper, Digital Gold
• Calvin Newport, So Good They Can't Ignore You
• Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird
• Hermann Hesse, Das Glasperlenspiel

2015

• Urs Widmer, Reise an den Rand des Universums
• Michael Lewis, Flash Boys
• John Steinbeck, East of Eden
• John Steinbeck, Cannery Row
• Esther Vilar, The Manipulated Man
• Julien Gracq, The Opposing Shore
• Saul Bellow, Herzog

2014

• John Steinbeck, Of Mice and Men
• Richard Yates, Revolutionary Road
• John Williams, Stoner
• Viktor Frankl, Man’s Search for Meaning
• Neal Stephenson, Snow Crash
• Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Antifragile
• Erich Maria Remarque, Im Westen nichts Neues
• Neal Stephenson, Cryptonomicon
• Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms
• Charles Bukowsky, Women

2013

• Julian Assange, Cypherpunks
• Noam Chomsky, Understanding Power
• Dino Buzzati, Il deserto dei tartari
• Salman Rushdie, Midnight's Children
• Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita
• Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five
• Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood
• John Steinbeck, Grapes of Wrath
• Hermann Hesse, Siddharta
• Gordon Mathews, Ghetto at the Center of the World
• Hermann Hesse, Der Steppenwolf

2012

• Daniel Tudor, Korea
• Khaled Hosseini, Drachenläufer
• Umberto Eco, Il cimitero di Praga
• Susan Cain, Quiet
• Tim Ferriss, The 4-Hour Workweek
• Chris Guillebeau, The $100 Startup
• F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
• Haruki Murakami, 1Q84 Book 3
• Haruki Murakami, 1Q84 Book 2
• Haruki Murakami, 1Q84 Book 1
• Cormac McCarthy, No Country for Old Men
• Albert Camus, L’étranger
• Hape Kerkeling, Ich bin dann mal weg
• Volker Reinhardt, Die Geschichte der Schweiz
• Fernando Pessoa, O Banqueiro Anarquista
• Douglas Rushkoff, Program or Be Programmed
• Jack Kerouac, On The Road

2011

• J. R. R. Tolkien, The Hobbit
• Jon Krakauer, Into The Wild
• Philip K. Dick, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
• Mary Shelley, Frankenstein
• Rob Walling, Stay Small
• Benjamin Graham, The Intelligent Investor
• G. H. Hardy, A Mathematician's Apology
• Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience
• Ayn Rand, Capitalism
• Douglas R. Hofstadter, I am a Strange Loop
• Marcus Aurelius, Thoughts of Marcus Aurelius
• Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Notes from the Underground
• Joseph von Eichendorff, Aus dem Leben eines Taugenichts
• Frédéric Bastiat, The Law
• George Orwell, Animal Farm (Reread)
• Karl R. Popper, Alles Leben ist Problemlösen
• Jules Verne, From the Earth to the Moon
• Phil Gordon, Poker
• Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Fooled by Randomness
• Tim Wu, The Master Switch
• Sunzi, Daode Jing
• Jules Verne, Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
• Gene Sharp, From Dictatorship to Democracy
• Matthew B. Crawford, Shop Class as Soulcraft
• Malcolm Gladwell, Outliers
• George Soros, Soros on Soros

2010

• Steven Levy, Hackers
• Jason Fried and David Heinemeier Hansson, Getting Real
• Jason Fried, David Heinemeier Hansson, Rework
• John Allen Paulos, A Mathematician Plays The Stock Market
• Max Frisch, Andorra
• Edwin Lefèvre, Reminiscences of a Stock Operator
• Edwin Abbott Abbott, Flatland
• Hermann Hesse, Unterm Rad (Reread)
• John Stuart Mill, Utilitarianism
• William Poundstone, Fortune's Formula (Reread)
• Aldous Huxley, Brave New World
• Luigi Pirandello, La giara
• David A. Moss, A Concise Guide to Macroeconomics
• William Shakespeare, The Tragedy of Julius Caesar
• Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince
• Spencer E. Ante, Creative Capital
• William Shakespeare, Othello
• Liaquat Ahamed, Lords of Finance
• Cliff Stoll, The Cuckoo's Egg
• Jason Fried and David Heinemeier Hansson, Rework
• Michael Lewis, Liar's Poker
• Francis Fukuyama, Our Posthuman Future
• Sun Tzu, The Art of War (Reread)
• Elroy Dimson, Paul Marsh, Mike Staunton, Triumph of the Optimists
• René Descartes, Discourse on the Method
• Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
• Gerald M. Loeb, The Battle for Investment Survival
• Franz Kafka, Betrachtung
• Humphrey B. Neill, The Art of Contrary Thinking
• Friedrich Nietzsche, Ecce homo
• Suelette Dreyfus, Underground
• Frédéric Bastiat, Essays on Political Economy
• Gregory Zuckerman, The Greatest Trade Ever
• Michael Lewis, The Big Short
• Max Frisch, Homo Faber
• Friedrich Dürrenmatt, Der Richter und sein Henker
• William J. Bernstein, A Splendid Exchange
• Frédéric Bastiat, The Law
• Andrew W. Lo, Jasmina Hasanhodzic, The Heretics of Finance
• Nassim Nicholas Taleb, The Black Swan
• Jaron Lanier, You Are Not a Gadget
• William Golding, Lord of the Flies
• Andrew Ross Sorkin, Too Big to Fail
• Jessica Livingston, Founders at Work

2009

• Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels, The Communist Manifesto
• Alain De Botton, Status Anxiety
• Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Gambler
• David J. Leinweber, Nerds on Wall Street
• Gustave Le Bon, Psychologie der Massen
• Italo Calvino, Marcovaldo
• Cory Doctorow, Makers
• Niall Ferguson, The Cash Nexus
• Thomas Jefferson, Autobiography of Thomas Jefferson
• Josh Waitzkin, The Art of Learning
• Noam Chomsky, Hegemony or Survival
• Georg Büchner, Dantons Tod
• Thomas Mann, Der Tod in Venedig
• Seth Godin, Tribes
• Victor Niederhoffer, The Education of a Speculator
• Matthew B. Crawford, Shop Class as Soulcraft
• Jürgen A. Alt, Das Abenteuer der Erkenntnis
• Franz Kafka, Der Prozeß
• Franz Kafka, Die Verwandlung
• George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty Four
• Tom Wolfe, The Bonfire of the Vanities
• John Perkins, Confessions of an Economic Hit Man
• Gottfried Keller, Kleider machen Leute
• Leo Tolstoi, Herr und Knecht
• Michael Fitzgerald, Ioan James, The Mind of the Mathematician
• Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged
• Victor Niederhoffer, Laurel Kenner, Practical Speculation
• Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead
• Alice Schroeder, The Snowball
• William Poundstone, Fortune's Formula
• Sun Tzu, The Art of War
• Richard Bookstaber, A Demon of Our Own Design
• Benôit Mandelbrot, The Misbehavior of Markets
• Malcolm Gladwell, Outliers
• Edwin Lefèvre, Reminiscences of a Stock Operator
• Emanuel Derman, My Life as a Quant