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More Money Than God

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Open

Andre Agassi

Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!

Richard Feynman

The 22 Immutable Laws of Marketing

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Fyodor Dostoevsky

The Overstory

Richard Powers

The Plague

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Trickster Makes This World

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Fingerprints of the Gods

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The 15 Commitments of Conscious Leadership

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William Ury

The Black Swan

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Rolf Potts

1984

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A Fighter's Heart

Sam Sheridan

Arctic Dreams

Barry Lopez

Atlas Shrugged

Ayn Rand

Born Standing Up

Steve Martin

Brother Sam

Bill Kinison

Built to Sell

John Warrillow

Conscious Loving

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Draft No. 4

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Godel, Escher, Bach

Douglas Hofstadter

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On Grief and Grieving

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Shoe Dog

Phil Knight

Stranger in a Strange Land

Robert Heinlein

The Fountainhead

Ayn Rand

The Last Lion

William Manchester

The Lessons of History

Will and Ariel Durant

The Master and Margarita

Mikhail Bulgakov

The Power Law

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The Prophet

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Built to Move

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From Strength to Strength

Arthur Brooks

Outliers

Malcolm Gladwell

The Bitcoin Standard

Saifedean Ammous

The Body Keeps the Score

Bessel van der Kolk

The Circadian Code

Satchin Panda

The Graveyard Book

Neil Gaiman

The Selfish Gene

Richard Dawkins

The Status Game

Will Storr

A Hunger Artist

Franz Kafka

A Land So Strange

Andres Resendez

Already Free

Bruce Tift

An Immense World

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Hunter S. Thompson

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Flow

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Getting Things Done

David Allen

High Output Management

Andy Grove

Infinite Jest

David Foster Wallace

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Paul Ehrlich and Sandra Kahn

Levels of the Game

John McPhee

Life and Fate

Vasily Grossman

Longitude

Dava Sobel

Master of the Senate

Robert Caro

One Hundred Years of Solitude

Gabriel García Márquez

Playing Off the Rail

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Charlie Munger

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Robert Kiyosaki

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Tao Te Ching (Stephen Mitchell translation)

Lao Tzu, trans. Stephen Mitchell

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Paulo Coelho

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Julia Cameron

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Iain M. Banks

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Dennis O'Neil

The Effective Executive

Peter Drucker

The Great Nerve

Kevin Tracey

The Hard Thing About Hard Things

Ben Horowitz

The Healing Journey

Claudio Naranjo

The Lord of the Rings

J.R.R. Tolkien

The Neverending Story

Michael Ende

The Power Broker

Robert Caro

The Precipice

Toby Ord

The Structure of Scientific Revolutions

Thomas Kuhn

The Work

Byron Katie

Think and Grow Rich

Napoleon Hill

This Is Water

David Foster Wallace

War and Peace

Leo Tolstoy

What Do You Care What Other People Think?

Richard Feynman

What Happened to You?

Oprah Winfrey and Bruce Perry

Wherever You Go, There You Are

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Dean Buonomano

The 4-Hour Workweek

Tim Ferriss

12 Rules for Life

Jordan Peterson

Happy Sexy Millionaire

Steven Bartlett

How Emotions Are Made

Lisa Feldman Barrett

The Creative Act: A Way of Being

Rick Rubin

Effortless: Make It Easier to Do What Matters Most

Greg McKeown

Leaders Eat Last

Simon Sinek

Extreme Ownership

Jocko Willink

Supernatural

Graham Hancock

The Singularity Is Near

Ray Kurzweil

Can't Hurt Me

David Goggins

Deep Learning

Ian Goodfellow, Yoshua Bengio, Aaron Courville

Excellent Advice for Living

Kevin Kelly

I Don't Want to Talk About It

Terry Real

Leonardo da Vinci

Walter Isaacson

Lying

Sam Harris

Steve Jobs

Walter Isaacson

Stolen Focus

Johann Hari

The Lion Tracker's Guide to Life

Boyd Varty

The Undoing Project

Michael Lewis

Bad Therapy

Abigail Shrier

Blink

Malcolm Gladwell

Countdown

Shanna Swan

Fierce Intimacy

Terry Real

Indistractable

Nir Eyal

Jungle Keeper

Paul Rosolie

Life Ascending: The Ten Great Inventions of Evolution

Nick Lane

Losing My Virginity

Richard Branson

Love and Math

Edward Frenkel

Principles for Dealing with the Changing World Order

Ray Dalio

Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World

David Epstein

Red Famine: Stalin's War on Ukraine

Anne Applebaum

Right Brain Psychotherapy

Allan Schore

Seveneves

Neal Stephenson

Tell Your Children

Alex Berenson

The Book of Why

Judea Pearl

The Changing World Order

Ray Dalio

The Nature of the Beast: How Emotions Guide Us

David Anderson

The Strange Death of Europe

Douglas Murray

The Vital Question

Nick Lane

Thinking, Fast and Slow

Daniel Kahneman

What It Takes

Stephen Schwarzman

A Brief History of Time

Stephen Hawking

A Guide to the Good Life

William B. Irvine

About Face

Colonel David Hackworth

All the Light We Cannot See

Anthony Doerr

Between the World and Me

Ta-Nehisi Coates

Beyond Good and Evil

Friedrich Nietzsche

Black Box Thinking

Matthew Syed

Bloodlands

Timothy Snyder

Blue Ocean Strategy

W. Chan Kim and Renee Mauborgne

Body for Life

Bill Phillips

Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal

Ayn Rand

Cat's Cradle

Kurt Vonnegut

Cinema Speculation

Quentin Tarantino

Coming to Palestine

Sheldon Richman

Competitive Strategy

Michael Porter

Crossing the Chasm

Geoffrey Moore

Crucial Conversations

Destined for War (the Thucydides Trap)

Graham Allison

Diana, Herself

Martha Beck

Die with Zero

Bill Perkins

Dominion

Tom Holland

East Coker (Four Quartets)

T.S. Eliot

Ego Is the Enemy

Ryan Holiday

Ender's Game

Orson Scott Card

Factfulness

Hans Rosling

Falling Upward

Richard Rohr

Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail '72

Hunter S. Thompson

Free-Range Kids

Lenore Skenazy

Generations

Jean Twenge

Getting the Love You Want

Harville Hendrix

Good Strategy Bad Strategy

Richard Rumelt

Hate Inc.

Matt Taibbi

Here Is New York

E.B. White

Hidden War

John Nores Jr.

Hitler (biography)

Ian Kershaw

Human Action

Ludwig von Mises

I Am That

Nisargadatta Maharaj

Invisible Cities

Italo Calvino

Japanese Death Poems

Yoel Hoffmann

Layered Money

Nik Bhatia

Let My People Go Surfing

Yvon Chouinard

Letters from a Stoic

Seneca

Love in the Time of Cholera

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Middlemarch

George Eliot

Moby Dick

Herman Melville

Mr. China

Tim Clissold

Murder Machine

Gene Mustain and Jerry Capeci

My Big TOE (Theory of Everything)

Thomas Campbell

Neuromancer

William Gibson

Never Let Me Go

Kazuo Ishiguro

Obama's Wars

Bob Woodward

On the Shortness of Life

Seneca

Pachinko

Min Jin Lee

Parable of the Sower

Octavia Butler

Parable of the Talents

Octavia Butler

Perspectives on Strategy

Carl Stern and George Stalk

PiHKAL

Alexander Shulgin

Plato's Dialogues

Plato

Radical Candor

Kim Scott

Reasons and Persons

Derek Parfit

Rediscovering Life

Anthony De Mello

Revolution 1989: The Fall of the Soviet Empire

Victor Sebestyen

Running the Table

L. Jon Wertheim

Save the Cat

Blake Snyder

Season of the Witch

David Talbot

Self-Reliance

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Self-Renewal

John Gardner

Sex at Dawn

Chris Ryan

Shackleton's Incredible Voyage

Alfred Lansing

Six Thinking Hats

Edward de Bono

Spark

John Ratey

Steppenwolf

Hermann Hesse

Stumbling on Happiness

Daniel Gilbert

Tao Te Ching

Lao Tzu

The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People

Stephen Covey

The Ancient City

Numa Denis Fustel de Coulanges

The Ape That Understood the Universe

Steve Stewart-Williams

The Artist's Way Morning Pages Journal

Julia Cameron

The Baron in the Trees

Italo Calvino

The Bear

Andrew Krivak

The Bible

The Big Leap

Gay Hendricks

The Black Cloud

Fred Hoyle

The Blocksize War

Jonathan Bier

The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse

Charlie Mackesy

The Case for God

Karen Armstrong

The Checklist Manifesto

Atul Gawande

The Coming Wave

Mustafa Suleyman

The Courage to Be Disliked

Ichiro Kishimi & Fumitake Koga

The Doors of Perception

Aldous Huxley

The Double Helix

James D. Watson

The Emotion Machine

Marvin Minsky

The Evolution of Beauty

Richard Prum

The Feynman Lectures on Physics

Richard Feynman

The Glass Bead Game

Hermann Hesse

The Great Depression: A Diary

Benjamin Roth

The Great Taking

David Webb

The Greatest Salesman in the World

Og Mandino

The Gulag Archipelago

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

The Hero with a Thousand Faces

Joseph Campbell

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

Douglas Adams

The Hundred-Year Marathon

Michael Pillsbury

The Intelligent Investor

Benjamin Graham

The Kentucky Derby Is Decadent and Depraved

Hunter S. Thompson

The Lincoln Highway

Amor Towles

The Machiavellians

James Burnham

The Man Who Solved the Market

Gregory Zuckerman

The MANIAC

Benjamin Labatut

The Metamorphosis of Prime Intellect

Roger Williams

The Mind Body Prescription

John Sarno

The Mind of a Mnemonist: A Little Book About a Vast Memory

A. R. Luria

The Name of the Wind

Patrick Rothfuss

The Old Man and the Sea

Ernest Hemingway

The Paper Menagerie

Ken Liu

The Power of Now

Eckhart Tolle

The Purpose Driven Life

Rick Warren

The Rational Optimist

Matt Ridley

The Richest Man in Babylon

George S. Clason

The Road

Cormac McCarthy

The Sacred Mushroom and the Cross

John Marco Allegro

The Scout Mindset

Julia Galef

The Secret Pulse of Time

Stefan Klein

The Slight Edge

Jeff Olson

The Stand

Stephen King

The Swerve

Stephen Greenblatt

The Three-Body Problem

Liu Cixin

The True Believer

Eric Hoffer

The Untethered Soul

Michael Singer

The Way of the Superior Man

David Deida

The Well of Being

Jean-Pierre Weill

The Wolf at the Door

Ian Shapiro

This Is How You Lose the Time War

Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone

Three Simple Lines

Natalie Goldberg

TiHKAL

Alexander Shulgin

Time Enough for Love

Robert Heinlein

Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow

Gabrielle Zevin

Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus

Ludwig Wittgenstein

Travels with Charley

John Steinbeck

Trust Me, I'm Lying

Ryan Holiday

Ulysses

Alfred, Lord Tennyson

Understanding Comics

Scott McCloud

When Reason Goes on Holiday

Neven Sesardic

Why Greatness Cannot Be Planned

Kenneth O. Stanley

Wolf Hall trilogy

Hilary Mantel

Women Who Love Too Much

Robin Norwood

Wonderful Life: The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History

Stephen Jay Gould

Wrestling Tough

Mike Chapman

Writing Down the Bones

Natalie Goldberg

Yoga Body

Mark Singleton

Zorba the Greek

Nikos Kazantzakis

Dear Reader: The Unauthorized Autobiography of Kim Jong Il

Michael Malice

Start with Why

Simon Sinek

The 48 Laws of Power

Robert Greene

A World Without Email

Cal Newport

Fight Club

Chuck Palahniuk

Maps of Meaning

Jordan Peterson

Seven and a Half Lessons About the Brain

Lisa Feldman Barrett

The Infinite Game

Simon Sinek

This Is Marketing

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$100M Leads

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$100M Offers

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A Path with Heart

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Anything You Want

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Hold Me Tight

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Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow

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In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts

Gabor Maté

On Intelligence

Jeff Hawkins

Principles

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Provoked

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Rebel Without a Crew

Robert Rodriguez

Tales of a Shaman's Apprentice

Mark Plotkin

The Righteous Mind

Jonathan Haidt

American Cosmic

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Awe: The New Science of Everyday Wonder and How It Can Transform Your Life

Dacher Keltner

Becoming a Supple Leopard

Kelly Starrett

Build: An Unorthodox Guide to Making Things Worth Making

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Drug Use for Grown-Ups

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Endure

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Everything Is F*cked: A Book About Hope

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Finding Ultra

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Good Energy

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Liar's Poker

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Life 3.0: Being Human in the Age of Artificial Intelligence

Max Tegmark

Moneyball

Michael Lewis

Never Finished

David Goggins

One Blade of Grass

Henry Shukman

Proving Einstein Right

S. James Gates Jr. and Cathie Pelletier

Skin in the Game

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So Good They Can't Ignore You

Cal Newport

Superintelligence

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The 4-Hour Work Week

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The Art of Memoir

Mary Karr

The Case Against Reality

Donald Hoffman

The Code Breaker

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The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck

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This Is Your Mind on Plants

Michael Pollan

Waking Up

Sam Harris

10% Happier

Dan Harris

8 Rules of Love

Jay Shetty

A Lamp in the Darkness

Jack Kornfield

Affect Regulation and the Origin of the Self (Allan Schore)

Allan Schore

Affective Computing

Rosalind Picard

After: A Doctor Explores What Near-Death Experiences Reveal About Life and Beyond

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AI Superpowers

Kai-Fu Lee

All Things Shining: Reading the Western Classics to Find Meaning in a Secular Age

Sean Kelly and Hubert Dreyfus

America's Cultural Revolution

Christopher Rufo

Awaken the Giant Within

Tony Robbins

Back Mechanic

Stuart McGill

Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst

Robert Sapolsky

Beyond Entrepreneurship

Jim Collins

Cause Unknown

Edward Dowd

Clearer, Closer, Better: How Successful People See the World

Emily Balcetis

Cobalt Red

Siddharth Kara

Confidence

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Conscious

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Consider This

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Continental Reckoning: The American West in the Age of Expansion

Elliott West

Crush It!

Gary Vaynerchuk

Diagnosis and Treatment of Movement Impairment Syndromes

Shirley A. Sahrmann

Direct from Dell

Michael Dell

Discipline Is Destiny

Ryan Holiday

Elon Musk

Walter Isaacson

Endurance: A Year in Space, A Lifetime of Discovery

Scott Kelly

Enlightenment Now

Steven Pinker

First, Break All the Rules

Marcus Buckingham

From Eternity to Here

Sean Carroll

Getting to Yes

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Grokking Deep Learning

Andrew Trask

Gulag

Anne Applebaum

Happy People Are Annoying

Josh Peck

Human Compatible

Stuart Russell

Irreversible Damage

Abigail Shrier

Medicine Quest

Mark Plotkin

Mental Toughness Training for Sports

Jim Loehr

Of Boys and Men

Richard Reeves

On the Measure of Intelligence

Francois Chollet

Original Love

Henry Shukman

Prepared

Mike Glover

Relax into Stretch

Pavel Tsatsouline

Remote

Jason Fried and David Heinemeier Hansson

San Fransicko

Michael Shellenberger

Speed & Scale: An Action Plan for Solving Our Climate Crisis

John Doerr

Stormlight Archive

Brandon Sanderson

Sum: Forty Tales from the Afterlives

David Eagleman

The Better Angels of Our Nature

Steven Pinker

The Blind Watchmaker

Richard Dawkins

The C Programming Language

Brian Kernighan and Dennis Ritchie

The Creative Habit

Twyla Tharp

The End of the World Is Just the Beginning

Peter Zeihan

The Fabric of Reality

David Deutsch

The Four Hour Chef

Tim Ferriss

The Gift of Fear

Gavin de Becker

The Giza Power Plant

Christopher Dunn

The God Delusion

Richard Dawkins

The Gray Man

Mark Greaney

The Great CEO Within

Matt Mochary

The Hormone Cure

Sarah Gottfried

The House of Rothschild

Niall Ferguson

The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy

John Mearsheimer and Stephen Walt

The Naked Warrior

Pavel Tsatsouline

The New Breed

Kate Darling

The Power of Regret

Daniel Pink

The Price of Everything

Russ Roberts

The Russo-Ukrainian War

Serhii Plokhy

The Science of Storytelling

Will Storr

The Secret Chief

MAPS

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David Epstein

The Tipping Point

Malcolm Gladwell

The Way of the Warrior Kid

Jocko Willink

Why We're Polarized

Ezra Klein

Why Zebras Don't Get Ulcers

Robert Sapolsky

Wild New World: The Epic Story of Animals and People in America

Dan Flores

Wool

Hugh Howey

Your Brain on Birth Control

Sarah Hill

1,000 True Fans (essay)

Kevin Kelly

1001 Ways to Market Your Books

John Kremer

11/22/63

Stephen King

1177 B.C.: The Year Civilization Collapsed

Eric Cline

1948: A History of the First Arab-Israeli War

Benny Morris

32 Principles

Henry Gracie

4,000 Weeks: Time Management for Mortals

Oliver Burkeman

A Billion Wicked Thoughts

Ogi Ogas and Sai Gaddam

A Billion Years: My Escape From a Life in the Highest Ranks of Scientology

Mike Rinder

A Bright Future

Joshua Goldstein and Staffan Qvist

A Casino Odyssey in Cyberspace

Roger Williams

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A Cent of Money: A History of Money

Jonathan Williams

A Christian's Guide to Psychedelics

Wendi Reese

A Complaint Free World (21-day no complaint experiment)

Will Bowen

A Failure of Nerve

Edwin Friedman

A Gentleman in Moscow

Amor Towles

A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius

Dave Eggers

A Letter of Consolation

Henri Nouwen

A Little Life

Hanya Yanagihara

A Million Miles in a Thousand Years

Donald Miller

A Mind at Play

Jimmy Soni and Rob Goodman

A Moral Man (Amoral Man)

Derek DelGaudio

A Mortal Man

Derek DelGaudio

A Pickpocket's Tale: The Spectacular Thefts of Apollo Robbins

Adam Green

A Poison Like No Other: How Microplastics Corrupted Our Planet and Our Bodies

Matt Simon

A Pretext for War: 9/11, Iraq, and the Abuse of America's Intelligence Agencies

James Bamford

A Renegade History of the United States

Thaddeus Russell

A Sense of Where You Are

John McPhee

A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again

David Foster Wallace

A Table for Two

Amor Towles

A Theory of Fun for Game Design

Raph Koster

A Thousand Days: John F. Kennedy in the White House

Arthur Schlesinger

A Thousand Splendid Suns

Khaled Hosseini

A Walk in the Woods

Bill Bryson

A Whack on the Side of the Head

Roger von Oech

A.D. After Disclosure

Richard Dolan

ABC Warriors

Simon Bisley

Abduction: Human Encounters with Aliens

John E. Mack

Absalom, Absalom!

William Faulkner

Adaptation and Natural Selection

George C. Williams

Addiction by Design: Machine Gambling in Las Vegas

Natasha Dow Schull

After Steve

Tripp Mickle

Against the Gods: The Remarkable Story of Risk

Peter Bernstein

Aikido in the Dynamic Sphere

A. Westbrook and O. Ratti

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Alan Watts

Alcoholics Anonymous (The Big Book)

Alcoholics Anonymous

Alice in Wonderland

Lewis Carroll

All Fours

Miranda July

All the Pretty Horses

Cormac McCarthy

Amazon Shareholder Letters (1997-2020)

Jeff Bezos

American Pastoral

Philip Roth

American Psycho

Bret Easton Ellis

Amusing Ourselves to Death

Neil Postman

An Emotional Education

Alain de Botton

Andy Goldsworthy: A Collaboration with Nature

Andy Goldsworthy

Angela's Ashes

Frank McCourt

Anna Karenina

Leo Tolstoy

Arabian Sands

Wilfred Thesiger

Art & Arcana: A Visual History (Dungeons & Dragons)

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Phaidon

As a Man Thinketh

James Allen

Asimov on Numbers

Isaac Asimov

Ask the Dust

John Fante

At Large and at Small

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At Play in the Fields of the Lord

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Aurora

Kim Stanley Robinson

Authors of the Impossible

Jeffrey Kripal

Autism and LSD

Autobiography of a Face

Lucy Grealy

Automate the Boring Stuff with Python

Al Sweigart

Barbarians at the Gate

Bryan Burrough and John Helyar

Barefoot Running (Ken Bob Saxton's book)

Ken Bob Saxton

Beautiful Ruins

Jess Walter

Beautiful Trouble

Beetle in the Anthill

Arkady and Boris Strugatsky

Beloved

Toni Morrison

Beyond Belief: The American Press and the Coming of the Holocaust

Deborah Lipstadt

Beyond Winning: Negotiating to Create Value in Deals and Disputes

Robert Mnookin

Bhagavad Gita (Stephen Mitchell translation)

Stephen Mitchell

Bicycle Day

Brian Blomerth

Biocentrism

Robert Lanza

Biology as Ideology

Richard Lewontin

Bionomics: Economy as Ecosystem

Michael Rothschild

Bison Ecology and Bison Diplomacy

Dan Flores

Bitcoin and Cryptocurrency Technologies

Arvind Narayanan

Bitcoin white paper

Satoshi Nakamoto

Bitcoin Whitepaper

Satoshi Nakamoto

Black Elk Speaks

John G. Neihardt

Black Gangster

Donald Goines

Black Swan Green

David Mitchell

Blind Man's Bluff: The Untold Story of American Submarine Espionage

Sherry Sontag and Christopher Drew

Blind Spots

Marty Makary

Blindsight

Peter Watts

Bone Games

Rob Schultheis

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Sanjay Gupta

Books by Thomas Sowell

Thomas Sowell

Boone: A Biography

Robert Morgan

Born Fighting: How the Scots-Irish Shaped America

Jim Webb

Born to Rebel: Birth Order, Family Dynamics, and Creative Lives

Frank J. Sulloway

Born to Run

Christopher McDougall

Boys & Sex

Peggy Orenstein

Breakfast of Champions

Kurt Vonnegut

Breaking Open the Head

Daniel Pinchbeck

Breathing for Warriors

Belisa Vranich

Bright Future

Joshua Goldstein and Staffan Qvist

Brotherhood of the Rose

David Morrell

Buddenbrooks

Thomas Mann

Buddhism Without Beliefs

Stephen Batchelor

Buffett: The Making of an American Capitalist

Roger Lowenstein

Build a Large Language Model from Scratch

Sebastian Raschka

Build a Reasoning Model from Scratch

Sebastian Raschka

Building on Bedrock

Derek Lidow

Bullshit Jobs

David Graeber

Bury the Chains

Adam Hochschild

Bwiti: An Ethnography of the Religious Imagination in Africa

James W. Fernandez

By Water Beneath the Walls

Benjamin Milligan

Caffeine: How Coffee and Tea Created the Modern World

Michael Pollan

Calculating God

Robert Sawyer

Calvin and Hobbes

Bill Watterson

Cam Hanes's book (Endure)

Cam Hanes

Can a Scientist Believe in Miracles

Ian Hutchinson

Can Love Last?

Stephen Mitchell

Cancer Ward

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Capital Ideas

Peter Bernstein

Catch-22

Joseph Heller

Censored: Distraction and Diversion Inside China's Great Firewall

Margaret Roberts

Children of Dune

Frank Herbert

Children Who Remember Previous Lives

Ian Stevenson

Chimpanzee Culture Wars (Langlitz primatology book)

Nicolas Langlitz

Chimpanzee Politics

Frans de Waal

China's World View

David Daokui Li

Chip War

Chris Miller

Chiyo-ni: Woman Haiku Master

Patricia Donegan and Yoshie Ishibashi

Christopher Dunn's work (The Giza Power Plant)

Christopher Dunn

Churchill, Hitler, and the Unnecessary War

Pat Buchanan

Churchill: Walking with Destiny

Andrew Roberts

City of Gold

Clock Without Hands

Carson McCullers

Code Complete

Steve McConnell

Collapse: The Fall of the Soviet Union

Vladislav Zubok

Coming Apart

Charles Murray

Coming into the Country

John McPhee

Coming Through Slaughter

Michael Ondaatje

Communion

Whitley Strieber

Competing Against Luck

Clay Christensen

Complexity

Mitchell Waldrop

Complexity: A Guided Tour

Melanie Mitchell

Conan

Robert E. Howard

Conan the Barbarian (Robert E. Howard books)

Robert E. Howard

Confessions of a Sociopath

M.E. Thomas

Confessions of the Pricing Man

Hermann Simon

Confrontations

Jacques Vallée

Conscious Business

Fred Kofman

Conscious Uncoupling

Katherine Woodward Thomas

Consider the Lobster

David Foster Wallace

Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge

E.O. Wilson

Constructive Anatomy / The Complete Guide to Drawing from Life

George Bridgman

Contact

Carl Sagan

Contingency, Irony, and Solidarity

Richard Rorty

Conversations with Friends

Sally Rooney

Conversations with God

Neale Donald Walsch

Cosmos

Carl Sagan

Counsels and Maxims

Arthur Schopenhauer

Count Down

Dr. Shanna Swan

Creating Shareholder Value

Alfred Rappaport

Creative Selection

Ken Kocienda

Crowds and Power

Elias Canetti

Crucial Confrontations

Cujo

Stephen King

Dancing in the Streets: A History of Collective Joy

Barbara Ehrenreich

Dark Universe

Daniel F. Galouye

Darkness at Noon

Arthur Koestler

Darkness Visible

William Styron

Dave Barry collections

Dave Barry

David Goggins' two books (Can't Hurt Me / Never Finished)

David Goggins

David Whyte poetry books

David Whyte

Death

Todd May

December 1941

Craig Shirley

Deception in the Digital Age

Cameron Malin

Decisive

Chip Heath and Dan Heath

Deep Down Dark

Hector Tobar

Deep Learning with Python

Francois Chollet

Deep Survival

Laurence Gonzalez

Deluxe: How Luxury Lost Its Luster

Dana Thomas

Demian

Herman Hesse

Democracy and the Market

Adam Przeworski

Descartes' Error

Antonio Damasio

Devil's Game: How the United States Helped Unleash Fundamentalist Islam

Robert Dreyfuss

Dig Your Well Before You're Thirsty

Harvey Mackay

Direct Truth

Kapil Gupta

Dirt to Soil: One Family's Journey into Regenerative Agriculture

Gabe Brown

Disconnected Kids

Dr. Robert Melillo

Discourses (collected works of Epictetus)

Epictetus

Discovery of the Unconscious

Henri Ellenberger

Discworld novels

Terry Pratchett

Disunited Nations

Peter Zeihan

Do Nothing: How to Break Away from Overworking, Overdoing, and Underliving

Celeste Headlee

Doctor Zhivago

Boris Pasternak

Don Quixote

Miguel de Cervantes

Dopefiend

Donald Goines

Dove

Robin Lee Graham

Dragonsbane

Barbara Hambly

Drawdown

Paul Hawken

Dreaming Yourself Awake

B. Alan Wallace

Dreams of a Final Theory

Steven Weinberg

Dreyer's English

Benjamin Dreyer

Drinking: A Love Story

Caroline Knapp

Dubliners (The Dead)

James Joyce

Duel at Dawn

Amir Alexander

Earth Abides

George R. Stewart

Easy Strength

Dan John and Pavel Tsatsouline

eBoys

Randall E. Stross

Economic Calculation in the Socialist Commonwealth

Ludwig von Mises

Economics in One Lesson

Henry Hazlitt

Economix: How Our Economy Works (and Doesn't Work)

Michael Goodwin

Ed Coan: The Man, The Myth, The Method

Ed Coan

Educating Intuition

Robin Hogarth

Eichmann in Jerusalem

Hannah Arendt

Elastic: Flexible Thinking in a Time of Change

Leonard Mlodinow

Emotional Success

David DeSteno

Empires of Light

Jill Jonnes

Empty Mansions

Bill Dedman

Empty Planet

Darrell Bricker and John Ibbitson

Encyclopaedia Britannica

Encyclopaedia Britannica

Entangled Life

Merlin Sheldrake

Eon

Greg Bear

ESPD 50 box set (Ethnopharmacologic Search for Psychoactive Drugs)

Dennis McKenna

Essentials of Classic Italian Cooking

Marcella Hazan

Ever Since Darwin

Stephen Jay Gould

Everything Is Its Own Reward

Paul Madonna

Everything You Know Is Wrong

Lloyd Pye

Exploration Fawcett

Percy Fawcett

Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds

Charles Mackay

Eyeless in Gaza

Aldous Huxley

Fair Play

Eve Rodsky

Fallen Leaves

Will Durant

Fearless

Eric Blehm

Fifth Business

Robertson Davies

Finite and Infinite Machines

Marvin Minsky

First and Last Men

Olaf Stapledon

Five Dysfunctions of a Team

Patrick Lencioni

Five Types of People Who Can Ruin Your Life

Bill Eddy

Flowers for Algernon

Daniel Keyes

Forcing God's Hand

Grace Halsell

Fortune's Children

Arthur T. Vanderbilt II

Foundation trilogy

Isaac Asimov

Frame-Up! The Untold Story of Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle

Andy Edmonds

Fraternity of the Stone

David Morrell

Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom

David Blight

Free Speech for Me But Not for Thee

Nat Hentoff

Freedom From Fear

David M. Kennedy

Gabriel Allon series

Daniel Silva

Game Engine Black Book: Wolfenstein 3D

Fabien Sanglard

Game of Shadows: Barry Bonds, BALCO, and the Steroids Scandal That Rocked Professional Sports

Mark Fainaru-Wada and Lance Williams

Gay Hendricks new zone of genius follow-up book

Gay Hendricks

Genentech: The Beginnings of Biotech

Sally Smith Hughes

Generation X

Douglas Coupland

Genome

Matt Ridley

Ghosts of Extinction

Girls & Sex

Peggy Orenstein

Give and Take

Adam Grant

global icons book (on bin Laden, Bob Marley, Tupac)

Jeremy Prestholdt

God Emperor of Dune

Frank Herbert

Gods of Eden

William Bramley

Going Clear

Lawrence Wright

Going to Pieces Without Falling Apart

Mark Epstein

Good Calories, Bad Calories

Gary Taubes

Goodbye, Darkness

William Manchester

Grant

Ron Chernow

Gravity's Rainbow

Thomas Pynchon

Grokking Bitcoin

Kalle Rosenbaum

Guerilla Financing

Guerrilla Financing

Guns Up

Johnnie Clark

Guns, Germs, and Steel

Jared Diamond

Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution

Steven Levy

Hagakure

Yamamoto Tsunetomo

Half a Life

Darin Strauss

Hallucinations

Oliver Sacks

Hamlet's Mill

Giorgio de Santillana and Hertha von Dechend

Happy Money: The Science of Smarter Spending

Elizabeth Dunn and Michael Norton

Hard Drive: Bill Gates and the Making of the Microsoft Empire

James Wallace and Jim Erickson

Hard to Be a God

Arkady and Boris Strugatsky

Harry Potter

J.K. Rowling

Havana Nocturne: How the Mob Owned Cuba and Then Lost It to the Revolution

T.J. English

Have Space Suit—Will Travel

Robert A. Heinlein

HBR's 10 Must Reads on Mental Toughness

Harvard Business Review

Healing Back Pain

John Sarno

Heavy Metal

Herzog

Saul Bellow

Hey, Whipple, Squeeze This

Luke Sullivan

Hiding the Elephant

Jim Steinmeyer

High Fidelity

Nick Hornby

His Very Best: Jimmy Carter, a Life

Jonathan Alter

Hitch-22

Christopher Hitchens

Hitler (two-volume biography), Volume 2

Ian Kershaw

Homegrown

Jeffrey Toobin

How Buildings Learn

Stewart Brand

How Can the Human Mind Occur in the Physical Universe?

John R. Anderson

How Innovation Works

Matt Ridley

How Minds Are Changed

David McRaney

How the Hippies Saved Physics

David Kaiser

How to Build a Brain

Chris Eliasmith

How to Do Great Work

Paul Graham

How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy

Jenny Odell

How to Do the Work

Nicole LePera

How to Get Rich

Felix Dennis

How to Grow More Vegetables

John Jeavons

How to Keep Your Cool: An Ancient Guide to Anger Management

Seneca

How to Lie With Statistics

Darrell Huff

How to Read a Book

Mortimer Adler

How to Tame a Fox (and Build a Dog)

Lee Alan Dugatkin and Lyudmila Trut

How to Write Funny and Make Money Being Funny

unknown

How We Live Is How We Die

Pema Chodron

Hyperion / Hyperion Cantos

Dan Simmons

I Feel Love

Rachel Nuwer

I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream

Harlan Ellison

I Wanna Be a Producer: How to Make a Killing on Broadway... or Get Killed

John Breglio

If

Rudyard Kipling

If This Is a Man

Primo Levi

Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah

Richard Bach

Immunity to Change

Robert Kegan

In Search of the Miraculous

P. D. Ouspensky

In the Belly of the Beast

Jack Henry Abbott

In the Body of the World

Eve Ensler

In the Penal Colony

Franz Kafka

Inadequate Equilibria

Eliezer Yudkowsky

Infidel

Ayaan Hirsi Ali

Insisting on the Impossible

Victor McElheny

Interview with the Vampire

Anne Rice

Into the Wild

Jon Krakauer

Introduction to Algorithms (CLRS)

Cormen, Leiserson, Rivest, Stein

Introduction to Objectivist Epistemology

Ayn Rand

Inventing Bitcoin

Yan Pritzker

Invictus

William Ernest Henley

Invisible Man

Ralph Ellison

Invisible Women

Caroline Criado Perez

Iran's Perilous Pursuit of Nuclear Weapons

David Albright

Iron John: A Book About Men

Robert Bly

Irrational Man

William Barrett

It Takes What It Takes