BOOKSHELF

CURRENTLY READING
  • The Managerial Revolution
  • How Asia Works
  • Principles for Navigating Big Debt Crises
QUEUED
  • The Beginning of Infinity
  • The Fabric of Reality
  • Henry J. Kaiser: Builder in the Modern American West
  • A New World Begins: The History of the French Revolution
  • The Diversity Myth
  • Intellectuals: From Marx and Tolstoy to Sartre and Chomsky
  • Private Truths, Public Lies
  • Transformer: The Deep Chemistry of Life and Death
  • The Horse, the Wheel, and Language
  • The Dawn of Everything
  • Goebbels: A Biography
  • The Prize
  • Washington: A Life
  • The Federalist Papers
2026
  • The Infinity Machine
  • Runnin' Down a Dream
    Why people think this book is good is beyond me?
  • Lee Kuan Yew: The Grand Master's Insights on China, the United States, and the World
    He did something right!
  • The Book of Elon
  • Days of Rage
    You think the 2020s are bad, read about the home-grown terrorism of the 60s/70s
  • American Caesar: Douglas MacArthur 1880-1964
2025
  • Chip War
    yawn!
  • Stalin: The Court of the Red Tsar
  • Anarchy, State, and Utopia
  • Rising Tide
    boring but good, his other books are better
  • Energy and Civilization: A History
  • On Democracies and Death Cults
  • The Myth of the Rational Voter
    It gets a lot of hype, not sure why. Thanks for nothing Tyler Cownen!
  • Original Sin
    Guy was like 6 months late.
  • Terror and Liberalism
  • The Age of Acrimony
  • Sherman: Soldier, Realist, American
  • Scientific Freedom
  • The Thinking Machine
  • Command and Control
  • Breakneck
  • Ben Hogan’s Five Lessons
  • The Three-Body Problem
  • The Philosopher in the Valley
  • Kelly: More Than My Share of It All
  • Waste Land
2024
  • The End of Race Politics
  • The Holocaust: An Unfinished History
  • Where Is My Flying Car?
  • The Tiger
  • Freedom’s Forge
  • Shadow Divers
  • Blood on Their Hands
  • Nuclear War: A Scenario
    Some scary-ass shit here!
  • The Dollar Crisis
    Peter Theil recommends this ?
  • Operation Paperclip
2023
  • The House of Morgan
  • Plagues Upon the Earth
  • Theodore Rex
  • Grant
  • Pricing Insurance Risk
  • Rising Tide: The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927
  • The Man Without a Face
  • The Autobiography of Malcolm X
  • My Bondage and My Freedom
  • American Prometheus
    Way better than the movie.
  • Citizens: A Chronicle of the French Revolution
  • The Guns of August
    If someone tells you this book is good, never accept a recommendation from them again.
  • The Civil War: A Narrative
  • The Gulag Archipelago
  • The First World War
  • The New Atlantis
  • The End of the World is Just the Beginning
    read it based on interview w Sam Harris, I guess we'll see if he is right in the next decade.
  • JFK and the Unspeakable
    got boring after 300 pages of the same shit
  • Colonel Roosevelt
  • A Stillness at Appomattox
    this guy is a master
  • Abraham Lincoln: A Life
  • The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich
  • Elon Musk
  • Blood and Honor
  • When Race Trumps Merit
  • When Reason Goes on Holiday
    ok?
  • Talent
    could have been a blog post
  • Going Infinite
  • The Power Broker
  • The Path to Power
  • Means of Ascent
  • Master of the Senate
  • The Passage of Power
  • Bubble in the Sun
2022
  • Galileo: And the Science Deniers
  • The Sleepwalkers
  • Liftoff
  • The Future Is History
  • Mob Boss
  • The Scout Mindset
  • A Primate’s Memoir
  • The Sovereign Individual
  • The Network State
  • Human Smoke
  • The Constitution of Knowledge
  • The Immortality Key
  • The Power Law
  • Down and Out in Paradise
  • The World of Natural Wine
  • The New Wines of Mount Etna
  • Stalin: Volume I
  • Chaos
  • Eisenhower in War and Peace
  • Adventures on the Wine Route
  • Ordinary Men
  • Invisible Man
2021
  • The Cold War: A New History
  • Franklin and Winston
    yawn!
  • These Truths
  • Sono un ottimista globale
  • The Professor and the Madman
  • Why Don’t We Learn from History?
  • The Politics of Bitcoin
  • The Forgotten Man
  • The Divided Brain and the Search for Meaning
  • The Intelligent Investor
  • The Decadent Society
  • Osman’s Dream
  • Napoleon: A Life
  • The Fourth Turning
  • The Road
  • The Old Man and the Sea
  • Leadership in War
  • Power to Save the World
  • Ronald Reagan
  • Fundamentals: Ten Keys to Reality
  • The Looming Tower
  • Seeing Like a State
  • Kill Switch
  • Pax Romana
  • Salt: A World History
  • Lincoln on the Verge
  • The Vision of the Anointed
  • The Housing Boom and Bust
  • Applied Economics
  • Flowers for Algernon
  • The Almanack of Naval Ravikant
  • Amazon Unbound
  • The Gray Lady Winked
  • The Book of Why
  • Apocalypse Never
  • Hunting Eichmann
  • The Meritocracy Trap
  • Ten Global Trends Every Smart Person Should Know
  • Usual Cruelty
  • The Easy Way to Control Alcohol
2020
  • Why Nations Fail
  • The Violence Inside Us
  • The Abandonment of the Jews
  • Midnight in Chernobyl
  • Between the World and Me
    overrated.
  • Influenza
  • Fight Club
    movie was better lol
  • Cod
  • The Basque History of the World
  • The Big Oyster
  • Skunk Works
  • Until We Reckon
  • Wiseguy
  • The Button
  • Blueprint: How DNA Makes Us Who We Are
  • Making Sense
  • American Nations
  • Gaspipe
  • The Breakthrough
  • Something Deeply Hidden
  • I Heard You Paint Houses
  • Politics Is for Power
  • The Precipice
    pretty overrated.
  • Tripping Over the Truth
  • Caste
  • The Drunkard’s Walk
  • Bullshit Jobs
  • The Utopia of Rules
  • Reckoning with Race
  • Hate Inc.
  • White Guilt
  • Breath
  • The 1619 Project: A Critique
  • Union
  • Our Mathematical Universe
  • The Great Mortality
  • Founding Brothers
  • Murder Machine
  • The Ice Man
  • Apollo’s Arrow
  • The Dip
  • Rules for Radicals
  • Parasitic Mind
  • Lying
  • On Liberty
  • The Death of Common Sense
  • The United States of Paranoia
  • Republic of Lies
  • Rubicon
    not as great as everyone says
  • The Electric War
  • Franklin and Winston
  • Leadership: In Turbulent Times
  • Closing of the American Mind
  • Infinite Powers
  • The New Jim Crow
  • Three Felonies a Day
  • Brave New World
  • All the Pieces Matter: The Inside Story of The Wire
  • On Tyranny
  • Donnie Brasco: Unfinished Business
2019
  • Benjamin Franklin: An American Life
  • Cosa Nostra: A History of the Sicilian Mafia
  • The Monster of Florence
  • Sapiens
  • Superbugs: The Race to Stop an Epidemic
  • Thomas Jefferson
  • Hitch-22
  • Empire of the Summer Moon
  • Godel's Proof
  • SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome
  • The Particle at the End of the Universe
  • Battleground: Fact & Fantasy in Palestine
  • The Demon Under the Microscope
  • Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World
  • The Warmth of Other Suns
  • The Last Lion: Defender of the Realm
  • Howard Hughes: His Life and Madness
  • Truman
  • The Undoing Project
  • The New New Thing
  • The Premonition
  • The Death of Expertise
  • Meditations
    i'm actually dumber for having read this thing. fuck you Ryan Holiday.
  • Killers of the Flower Moon
  • In the Closet of the Vatican
  • The View from Flyover Country
  • The Sopranos Sessions
2018
  • Skin in the Game
  • Factfulness
  • Fire and Fury
  • Sideways
  • A Short History of Nearly Everything
  • The History of the Standard Oil Company
  • No One Left to Lie To
  • The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt
  • Coming Apart
  • Power, Sex, Suicide: Mitochondria and the Meaning of Life
  • Probability 1
  • More from Less
  • 21 Lessons for the 21st Century
  • Gulag
  • The Second Founding
  • The Last Lion: Alone
  • Kissinger: A Biography
  • Team of Rivals
  • The Blind Side
  • Boomerang
  • The Fifth Risk
  • Dopesick
  • The Way of the Strangers
  • Sicily: An Island at the Crossroads of History
  • Billion Dollar Whale
    yawn! i wanted to love it.
  • The Better Angels of Our Nature
  • Bad Blood
  • The Way of the Linguist
  • Radical
  • Citizen-Protectors
  • In altre parole
  • The Strange Death of Europe
  • Islam and the Future of Tolerance
  • Black Flags: The Rise of ISIS
  • Leonardo da Vinci
  • Rise and Kill First
  • Nothing to Envy
  • Betrayal: The Crisis in the Catholic Church
  • Ghettoside
  • Behave
  • How to Read a Book
    I dont get the hype
2017
  • Fooled by Randomness
  • 1984
  • The Sixth Extinction
  • The Triumph of Christianity
  • The Color of Law
  • A Problem From Hell
  • God Is Not Great
  • Parting the Waters: America in the King Years 1954-63
  • Misquoting Jesus
  • Oxygen: The Molecule that Made the World
  • Moonwalking with Einstein
  • Designing Data-Intensive Applications
  • Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow
  • The Making of the Atomic Bomb
  • Battle Cry of Freedom
  • The Last Lion: Visions of Glory
  • Enemies: A History of the FBI
  • Titan
  • Liar's Poker
  • Moneyball
  • Life 3.0
  • Eating Animals
  • Seinfeldia
  • The Dirty Guide to Wine
  • Animal Farm
  • Keep the Aspidistra Flying
  • A Farewell to Arms
  • Secrets of the Sommeliers
  • Corruption in America
  • Deep Work
  • The Bell Curve
2016
  • Against the Gods
  • Dark Money
  • Down and Out in Paris and London
  • Elon Musk
  • Flash Boys
  • Flash in the Pan
  • Heat
  • Homage to Catalonia
  • Kitchen Confidential
  • Life Ascending
  • Life on the Line
  • Mere Christianity
  • Modern Romance
  • Smartcuts
  • The Assassination Complex
  • The Big Switch
  • The Innovators
  • The Luck Factor
  • The Million Dollar Spy
  • The Rum Diaries
  • The Vital Question
    best book on biology i have ever read.
2015
  • An Atheist’s Guide to Reality
  • Antifragile
  • Bill Dollar Lessons
  • Blockchain
  • Chasing the Scream
  • Contagious: When Things Catch On
  • Countdown to Zero Day
  • Drug Crazy
  • Einstein
  • Escaping Camp 14
  • Evaluating Learning Algorithms
  • Fear and Loathing
  • Getting Read
  • Growth Hacker Marketing
  • El Narco
  • Inevitable Illusions
  • Let’s Explore Diabetes with Owls
    horrible, like everything he writes.
  • Life, God, and Other Small Topics
  • Manufacturing Consent
  • Paul and Jesus
  • Perfect Rigor
  • Predictably Irrational
    guy is a fraud.
  • Proof: The Science of Booze
  • The 48 Laws of Power
  • The Big Miss
  • The Black Swan
  • The Borgias
    my gf now wife recommend it, horrible book
  • The Cult of Statistical Significance
  • The Four Hour Work Week
    this guy is also a fraud
  • The Honest Truth About Dishonesty
    this guy is a fraud!
  • The Lean Startup
    overrated!
  • The Man Who Knew Infinity
  • The Misbehavior of Markets
  • The Most Good You Can Do
    fuck this guy and his shitty books
  • The Obstacle Is the Way
  • The Organized Mind
  • The Pirate’s Dilemma
  • The Red Market
  • The Tipping Point
  • The Trial of Henry Kissinger
  • The Wisdom of Crowds
  • The World According to Monsanto
  • Trust Me, I’m Lying
  • When I Stop Talking, You’ll Know I’m Dead
  • When Jesus Became God
  • Zealot
2014
  • 13 Hours
  • A History of Finance
  • Antifragile
  • Bad Pharma
  • Bayesian for Hackers
  • Blink
  • Crossing the Chasm
  • Data Analysis in Python
  • Data Analysis with Open Source Tools
  • Data Visualization for the Web
  • David and Goliath
  • Doing Bayesian Data Analysis
  • Guerilla Marketing
  • How Jesus Became God
  • iOS Development Big Nerd Ranch
  • Learning from Data
  • Machine Learning for Hackers
  • No Place to Hide
  • Permission Marketing
  • Positioning
  • Probability: A Logic Science
  • Reducing Drug Violence in America
  • Steve Jobs
  • The Black Swan
  • The Divide
  • The Hard Thing About Hard Things
  • The Idea Factory
  • The Long Tail
  • The Snowden Files
  • Thinking Fast and Slow
  • Two Scoops of Django
  • Zero to One
PRE-2014
  • Too Big to Fail
  • This Time Is Different
  • The Big Short
  • ECONned