Books Tim Ferriss Recommends

The War of Art

Steven Pressfield

Man's Search for Meaning

Viktor Frankl

Meditations

Marcus Aurelius

The Immortality Key

Brian Muraresku

Coyote America

Dan Flores

Awareness

Anthony de Mello (inferred)

Why We Sleep

Matthew Walker

Radical Acceptance

Tara Brach

Of Wolves and Men

Barry Lopez

Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind

Yuval Noah Harari

The Beginning of Infinity

David Deutsch

The Molecule of More

Daniel Z. Lieberman and Michael E. Long (inferred)

The Coddling of the American Mind

Jonathan Haidt

Exhalation

Ted Chiang

Little, Big

John Crowley

Outlive

Peter Attia (inferred)

How to Change Your Mind

Michael Pollan (inferred)

Fooled by Randomness

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Don't Shoot the Dog

Karen Pryor (inferred)

Siddhartha

Hermann Hesse (inferred)

The Brothers Karamazov

Fyodor Dostoevsky (inferred)

Deep Work

Cal Newport

Essentialism

Greg McKeown

The Comfort Crisis

Michael Easter

Four Thousand Weeks

Oliver Burkeman (inferred)

Lost Connections

Johann Hari

Dune

Frank Herbert

How to Win Friends and Influence People

Dale Carnegie

Nonviolent Communication

Marshall Rosenberg (inferred)

The Psychology of Money

Morgan Housel

Trauma: The Invisible Epidemic

Paul Conti (inferred)

Mastery

Robert Greene

The 80/20 Principle

Richard Koch

1,000 True Fans

Kevin Kelly (inferred)

Breath: The New Science of a Lost Art

James Nestor

Snow Crash

Neal Stephenson

The Obstacle Is the Way

Ryan Holiday

The Year of Living Biblically

A.J. Jacobs

Bad Science

Ben Goldacre

Brave New World

Aldous Huxley

Crime and Punishment

Fyodor Dostoevsky

How to Stop Worrying and Start Living

Dale Carnegie

More Money Than God

Sebastian Mallaby

On Writing

Stephen King

Open

Andre Agassi (inferred)

Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!

Richard Feynman

The 22 Immutable Laws of Marketing

Al Ries and Jack Trout (inferred)

The Overstory

Richard Powers (inferred)

Trickster Makes This World

Lewis Hyde

The 15 Commitments of Conscious Leadership

Diana Chapman, Jim Dethmer, Kaley Klemp (inferred)

Bird by Bird

Anne Lamott (inferred)

Tribe: On Homecoming and Belonging

Sebastian Junger

Antifragile

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Cryptonomicon

Neal Stephenson

Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World

Jack Weatherford

Getting Past No

William Ury (inferred)

The Black Swan

Nassim Nicholas Taleb (inferred)

Vagabonding

Rolf Potts

Arctic Dreams

Barry Lopez

Atlas Shrugged

Ayn Rand (inferred)

Born Standing Up

Steve Martin

Built to Sell

John Warrillow

Conscious Loving

Gay Hendricks, Kathlyn Hendricks (inferred)

Draft No. 4

John McPhee

Exploring the World of Lucid Dreaming

Stephen LaBerge

Godel, Escher, Bach

Douglas Hofstadter (inferred)

Gold

Rumi, translated by Haleh Liza Gafori

Influence

Robert Cialdini

On Grief and Grieving

David Kessler and Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

Shoe Dog

Phil Knight

Stranger in a Strange Land

Robert Heinlein

The Fountainhead

Ayn Rand (inferred)

The Last Lion

William Manchester

The Lessons of History

Will and Ariel Durant

The Master and Margarita

Mikhail Bulgakov

The Power Law

Sebastian Mallaby

The Prophet

Kahlil Gibran

Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance

Robert Pirsig

The 4-Hour Body

Tim Ferriss

The 4-Hour Chef

Tim Ferriss (inferred)

Atomic Habits

James Clear

Good to Great

Jim Collins (inferred)

Projections: A Story of Human Emotions

Karl Deisseroth

The Anxious Generation

Jonathan Haidt

The Art of Learning

Josh Waitzkin

American Buffalo

Steven Rinella (inferred)

Built to Move

Kelly Starrett

From Strength to Strength

Arthur Brooks

The Body Keeps the Score

Bessel van der Kolk

The Graveyard Book

Neil Gaiman

Already Free

Bruce Tift

Blood Meridian

Cormac McCarthy

Complexity: The Emerging Science at the Edge of Order and Chaos

M. Mitchell Waldrop (inferred)

Finite and Infinite Games

James Carse

Flow

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

Getting Things Done

David Allen

High Output Management

Andy Grove

Infinite Jest

David Foster Wallace

Levels of the Game

John McPhee

Longitude

Dava Sobel (inferred)

Master of the Senate

Robert Caro

One Hundred Years of Solitude

Gabriel García Márquez

Poor Charlie's Almanack

Charlie Munger (inferred)

Stories of Your Life and Others

Ted Chiang

Tao Te Ching (Stephen Mitchell translation)

Lao Tzu, trans. Stephen Mitchell (inferred)

The Alchemist

Paulo Coelho

The Artist's Way

Julia Cameron

The Blade Itself

Joe Abercrombie

The DC Comics Guide to Writing Comics

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 Neverending Story

Michael Ende

The Power Broker

Robert Caro

The Precipice

Toby Ord

The Structure of Scientific Revolutions

Thomas Kuhn (inferred)

The Work

Byron Katie (inferred)

This Is Water

David Foster Wallace

What Happened to You?

Oprah Winfrey and Bruce Perry

Wherever You Go, There You Are

Jon Kabat-Zinn

The 4-Hour Workweek

Tim Ferriss

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 (inferred)

Excellent Advice for Living

Kevin Kelly

I Don't Want to Talk About It

Terry Real

Leonardo da Vinci

Walter Isaacson

Lying

Sam Harris (inferred)

Steve Jobs

Walter Isaacson

Stolen Focus

Johann Hari

The Lion Tracker's Guide to Life

Boyd Varty

The Undoing Project

Michael Lewis (inferred)

Blink

Malcolm Gladwell

Fierce Intimacy

Terry Real

Losing My Virginity

Richard Branson

Principles for Dealing with the Changing World Order

Ray Dalio

Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World

David Epstein

Seveneves

Neal Stephenson

The Changing World Order

Ray Dalio

Thinking, Fast and Slow

Daniel Kahneman

A Brief History of Time

Stephen Hawking

A Guide to the Good Life

William B. Irvine (inferred)

About Face

Colonel David Hackworth

All the Light We Cannot See

Anthony Doerr (inferred)

Between the World and Me

Ta-Nehisi Coates

Black Box Thinking

Matthew Syed (inferred)

Bloodlands

Timothy Snyder

Blue Ocean Strategy

W. Chan Kim and Renee Mauborgne (inferred)

Body for Life

Bill Phillips

Cat's Cradle

Kurt Vonnegut (inferred)

Competitive Strategy

Michael Porter

Crossing the Chasm

Geoffrey Moore

Crucial Conversations

Diana, Herself

Martha Beck

Die with Zero

Bill Perkins (inferred)

Dominion

Tom Holland

East Coker (Four Quartets)

T.S. Eliot

Ego Is the Enemy

Ryan Holiday (inferred)

Ender's Game

Orson Scott Card (inferred)

Factfulness

Hans Rosling (inferred)

Falling Upward

Richard Rohr

Free-Range Kids

Lenore Skenazy

Generations

Jean Twenge

Getting the Love You Want

Harville Hendrix (inferred)

Good Strategy Bad Strategy

Richard Rumelt

Here Is New York

E.B. White

I Am That

Nisargadatta Maharaj

Invisible Cities

Italo Calvino

Japanese Death Poems

Yoel Hoffmann (inferred)

Let My People Go Surfing

Yvon Chouinard

Letters from a Stoic

Seneca (inferred)

Love in the Time of Cholera

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Mr. China

Tim Clissold (inferred)

Neuromancer

William Gibson

Never Let Me Go

Kazuo Ishiguro

On the Shortness of Life

Seneca

Pachinko

Min Jin Lee

Parable of the Sower

Octavia Butler (inferred)

Parable of the Talents

Octavia Butler (inferred)

Perspectives on Strategy

Carl Stern and George Stalk

PiHKAL

Alexander Shulgin

Plato's Dialogues

Plato

Radical Candor

Kim Scott

Rediscovering Life

Anthony De Mello

Save the Cat

Blake Snyder

Self-Reliance

Ralph Waldo Emerson (inferred)

Self-Renewal

John Gardner

Shackleton's Incredible Voyage

Alfred Lansing (inferred)

Six Thinking Hats

Edward de Bono

Spark

John Ratey

Stumbling on Happiness

Daniel Gilbert

Tao Te Ching

Lao Tzu (inferred)

The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People

Stephen Covey (inferred)

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 Case for God

Karen Armstrong (inferred)

The Checklist Manifesto

Atul Gawande

The Coming Wave

Mustafa Suleyman

The Doors of Perception

Aldous Huxley

The Emotion Machine

Marvin Minsky (inferred)

The Great Depression: A Diary

Benjamin Roth

The Greatest Salesman in the World

Og Mandino

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

Douglas Adams

The Hundred-Year Marathon

Michael Pillsbury

The Lincoln Highway

Amor Towles (inferred)

The Man Who Solved the Market

Gregory Zuckerman (inferred)

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 (inferred)

The Paper Menagerie

Ken Liu

The Power of Now

Eckhart Tolle (inferred)

The Purpose Driven Life

Rick Warren (inferred)

The Rational Optimist

Matt Ridley

The Road

Cormac McCarthy

The Scout Mindset

Julia Galef

The Swerve

Stephen Greenblatt

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 (inferred)

Three Simple Lines

Natalie Goldberg

TiHKAL

Alexander Shulgin

Time Enough for Love

Robert Heinlein (inferred)

Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow

Gabrielle Zevin

Travels with Charley

John Steinbeck

Trust Me, I'm Lying

Ryan Holiday

Understanding Comics

Scott McCloud

Why Greatness Cannot Be Planned

Kenneth O. Stanley (inferred)

Wolf Hall trilogy

Hilary Mantel

Women Who Love Too Much

Robin Norwood

Writing Down the Bones

Natalie Goldberg

Zorba the Greek

Nikos Kazantzakis (inferred)

Start with Why

Simon Sinek

The 48 Laws of Power

Robert Greene

A World Without Email

Cal Newport

Fight Club

Chuck Palahniuk

Lifespan: Why We Age - and Why We Don't Have To

David Sinclair

The Infinite Game

Simon Sinek

This Is Marketing

Seth Godin

A Path with Heart

Jack Kornfield

Anything You Want

Derek Sivers

Hold Me Tight

Dr. Sue Johnson (inferred)

Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow

Yuval Noah Harari

In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts

Gabor Maté

Rebel Without a Crew

Robert Rodriguez

Tales of a Shaman's Apprentice

Mark Plotkin

The Righteous Mind

Jonathan Haidt

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

Dacher Keltner

Becoming a Supple Leopard

Kelly Starrett (inferred)

Build: An Unorthodox Guide to Making Things Worth Making

Tony Fadell

Everything Is F*cked: A Book About Hope

Mark Manson (inferred)

Finding Ultra

Rich Roll

Liar's Poker

Michael Lewis (inferred)

Moneyball

Michael Lewis (inferred)

One Blade of Grass

Henry Shukman (inferred)

Skin in the Game

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

So Good They Can't Ignore You

Cal Newport

The 4-Hour Work Week

Tim Ferriss

The Art of Memoir

Mary Karr

The Case Against Reality

Donald Hoffman

The Code Breaker

Walter Isaacson

The Omnivore's Dilemma

Michael Pollan

The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck

Mark Manson

The Wayfinders: Why Ancient Wisdom Matters in the Modern World

Wade Davis

This Is Your Mind on Plants

Michael Pollan

Waking Up

Sam Harris

10% Happier

Dan Harris

A Lamp in the Darkness

Jack Kornfield

Affective Computing

Rosalind Picard

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

Bruce Greyson

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

Sean Kelly and Hubert Dreyfus

Awaken the Giant Within

Tony Robbins

Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst

Robert Sapolsky

Beyond Entrepreneurship

Jim Collins

Conscious

Annaka Harris

Consider This

Chuck Palahniuk

Diagnosis and Treatment of Movement Impairment Syndromes

Shirley A. Sahrmann

Direct from Dell

Michael Dell (inferred)

Discipline Is Destiny

Ryan Holiday

Endurance: A Year in Space, A Lifetime of Discovery

Scott Kelly

From Eternity to Here

Sean Carroll

Getting to Yes

Roger Fisher and William Ury (inferred)

Medicine Quest

Mark Plotkin

Mental Toughness Training for Sports

Jim Loehr

Original Love

Henry Shukman

Remote

Jason Fried and David Heinemeier Hansson

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 End of the World Is Just the Beginning

Peter Zeihan

The Fabric of Reality

David Deutsch

The Four Hour Chef

Tim Ferriss (inferred)

The Gift of Fear

Gavin de Becker

The Great CEO Within

Matt Mochary

The House of Rothschild

Niall Ferguson

The Power of Regret

Daniel Pink

The Price of Everything

Russ Roberts

The Secret Chief

MAPS (inferred)

The Sports Gene: Inside the Science of Extraordinary Athletic Performance

David Epstein

The Tipping Point

Malcolm Gladwell

The Way of the Warrior Kid

Jocko Willink

Why Zebras Don't Get Ulcers

Robert Sapolsky

Wool

Hugh Howey

1,000 True Fans (essay)

Kevin Kelly

1001 Ways to Market Your Books

John Kremer (inferred)

32 Principles

Henry Gracie

4,000 Weeks: Time Management for Mortals

Oliver Burkeman (inferred)

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

Will Bowen

A Failure of Nerve

Edwin Friedman

A Gentleman in Moscow

Amor Towles (inferred)

A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius

Dave Eggers (inferred)

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 (inferred)

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 (inferred)

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 (inferred)

A Whack on the Side of the Head

Roger von Oech (inferred)

ABC Warriors

Simon Bisley (inferred)

Against the Gods: The Remarkable Story of Risk

Peter Bernstein

Aikido in the Dynamic Sphere

A. Westbrook and O. Ratti

Alan Watts books

Alan Watts

Alcoholics Anonymous (The Big Book)

Alcoholics Anonymous (inferred)

Alice in Wonderland

Lewis Carroll

All Fours

Miranda July (inferred)

Amazon Shareholder Letters (1997-2020)

Jeff Bezos

Andy Goldsworthy: A Collaboration with Nature

Andy Goldsworthy

Arabian Sands

Wilfred Thesiger

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

Art Is the Highest Form of Hope & Other Quotes from Artists

Phaidon (inferred)

At Play in the Fields of the Lord

Peter Matthiessen

Autobiography of a Face

Lucy Grealy

Barbarians at the Gate

Bryan Burrough and John Helyar (inferred)

Beautiful Trouble

Beloved

Toni Morrison

Bhagavad Gita (Stephen Mitchell translation)

Stephen Mitchell

Bicycle Day

Brian Blomerth

Biocentrism

Robert Lanza (inferred)

Bionomics: Economy as Ecosystem

Michael Rothschild

Black Swan Green

David Mitchell (inferred)

book on the wisdom of Dharma by Sanjay Gupta

Sanjay Gupta (inferred)

Boone: A Biography

Robert Morgan

Boys & Sex

Peggy Orenstein

Breakfast of Champions

Kurt Vonnegut

Breathing for Warriors

Belisa Vranich (inferred)

Buddhism Without Beliefs

Stephen Batchelor

Buffett: The Making of an American Capitalist

Roger Lowenstein (inferred)

Building on Bedrock

Derek Lidow

Bullshit Jobs

David Graeber

Bury the Chains

Adam Hochschild (inferred)

Bwiti: An Ethnography of the Religious Imagination in Africa

James W. Fernandez

Calvin and Hobbes

Bill Watterson (inferred)

Capital Ideas

Peter Bernstein

Catch-22

Joseph Heller (inferred)

Chimpanzee Culture Wars (Langlitz primatology book)

Nicolas Langlitz

Chimpanzee Politics

Frans de Waal (inferred)

China's World View

David Daokui Li

Chip War

Chris Miller

Chiyo-ni: Woman Haiku Master

Patricia Donegan and Yoshie Ishibashi (inferred)

Churchill: Walking with Destiny

Andrew Roberts

City of Gold

Coming into the Country

John McPhee

Coming Through Slaughter

Michael Ondaatje

Complexity

Mitchell Waldrop

Complexity: A Guided Tour

Melanie Mitchell

Confessions of the Pricing Man

Hermann Simon (inferred)

Conscious Business

Fred Kofman

Conscious Uncoupling

Katherine Woodward Thomas

Consider the Lobster

David Foster Wallace

Constructive Anatomy / The Complete Guide to Drawing from Life

George Bridgman

Conversations with Friends

Sally Rooney

Counsels and Maxims

Arthur Schopenhauer

Creating Shareholder Value

Alfred Rappaport

Crucial Confrontations

Dancing in the Streets: A History of Collective Joy

Barbara Ehrenreich

Darkness at Noon

Arthur Koestler

Dave Barry collections

Dave Barry (inferred)

David Whyte poetry books

David Whyte

Death

Todd May

December 1941

Craig Shirley (inferred)

Deception in the Digital Age

Cameron Malin

Decisive

Chip Heath and Dan Heath

Deep Down Dark

Hector Tobar

Deluxe: How Luxury Lost Its Luster

Dana Thomas

Democracy and the Market

Adam Przeworski

Descartes' Error

Antonio Damasio

Dig Your Well Before You're Thirsty

Harvey Mackay

Direct Truth

Kapil Gupta

Discourses (collected works of Epictetus)

Epictetus

Discworld novels

Terry Pratchett

Disunited Nations

Peter Zeihan (inferred)

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

Celeste Headlee (inferred)

Dragonsbane

Barbara Hambly

Drawdown

Paul Hawken (inferred)

Dreaming Yourself Awake

B. Alan Wallace (inferred)

Dreyer's English

Benjamin Dreyer

Easy Strength

Dan John and Pavel Tsatsouline

eBoys

Randall E. Stross (inferred)

Ed Coan: The Man, The Myth, The Method

Ed Coan (inferred)

Educating Intuition

Robin Hogarth (inferred)

Empires of Light

Jill Jonnes (inferred)

Empty Mansions

Bill Dedman (inferred)

Empty Planet

Darrell Bricker and John Ibbitson (inferred)

Entangled Life

Merlin Sheldrake

ESPD 50 box set (Ethnopharmacologic Search for Psychoactive Drugs)

Dennis McKenna (inferred)

Essentials of Classic Italian Cooking

Marcella Hazan

Everything Is Its Own Reward

Paul Madonna

Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds

Charles Mackay

Eyeless in Gaza

Aldous Huxley

Fair Play

Eve Rodsky

Fallen Leaves

Will Durant

Five Dysfunctions of a Team

Patrick Lencioni

Fortune's Children

Arthur T. Vanderbilt II (inferred)

Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom

David Blight

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

Mark Fainaru-Wada and Lance Williams (inferred)

Gay Hendricks new zone of genius follow-up book

Gay Hendricks

Genentech: The Beginnings of Biotech

Sally Smith Hughes (inferred)

Generation X

Douglas Coupland

Genome

Matt Ridley

Girls & Sex

Peggy Orenstein

Going to Pieces Without Falling Apart

Mark Epstein

Good Calories, Bad Calories

Gary Taubes

Goodbye, Darkness

William Manchester

Guerilla Financing

Guerrilla Financing

Guns, Germs, and Steel

Jared Diamond (inferred)

Half a Life

Darin Strauss

Hallucinations

Oliver Sacks

Happy Money: The Science of Smarter Spending

Elizabeth Dunn and Michael Norton (inferred)

HBR's 10 Must Reads on Mental Toughness

Harvard Business Review

Healing Back Pain

John Sarno

Hey, Whipple, Squeeze This

Luke Sullivan

Hiding the Elephant

Jim Steinmeyer

His Very Best: Jimmy Carter, a Life

Jonathan Alter

Homegrown

Jeffrey Toobin

How Buildings Learn

Stewart Brand

How Innovation Works

Matt Ridley

How Minds Are Changed

David McRaney (inferred)

How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy

Jenny Odell (inferred)

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 (inferred)

Hyperion / Hyperion Cantos

Dan Simmons

I Feel Love

Rachel Nuwer (inferred)

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

John Breglio

If This Is a Man

Primo Levi

Immunity to Change

Robert Kegan

In the Body of the World

Eve Ensler

Inadequate Equilibria

Eliezer Yudkowsky

Infidel

Ayaan Hirsi Ali

Insisting on the Impossible

Victor McElheny (inferred)

Invisible Women

Caroline Criado Perez

Irrational Man

William Barrett (inferred)

It Takes What It Takes

Trevor Moawad (inferred)

John D.: The Founding Father of the Rockefellers

David Freeman Hawke

Joy on Demand

Chade-Meng Tan

Ka

John Crowley

Kennedy

Ted Sorensen

Know My Name

Chanel Miller

L.A. Confidential (novel)

James Ellroy

Labyrinths

Jorge Luis Borges

Land's Polaroid

Peter Wensberg (inferred)

Lateral Thinking

Edward de Bono

Laziness Does Not Exist

Devon Price (inferred)

Leadership and Self-Deception

The Arbinger Institute (inferred)

Learned Optimism

Martin Seligman (inferred)

Let's Get Real or Let's Not Play

Mahan Khalsa

Lights Out: A Cyberattack, A Nation Unprepared, Surviving the Aftermath

Ted Koppel (inferred)

Love Warrior

Glennon Doyle

Made to Stick

Chip Heath and Dan Heath

Magic by Misdirection

Dariel Fitzkee

Magic Glasses

Frank Harris (inferred)

Make It Stick

Harvard University Press (inferred)

Making Movies

Sidney Lumet

Masterpieces of Fantasy Art

Mathemagics

Arthur Benjamin

Meditations for Mortals

Oliver Burkeman

Memoirs of a Geisha

Arthur Golden (inferred)

Midnight's Children

Salman Rushdie (inferred)

Mindset

Carol Dweck (inferred)

Ministry for the Future

Kim Stanley Robinson

More Heat Than Light: Economics as Social Physics

Philip Mirowski

Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore

Robin Sloan (inferred)

Musashi

Eiji Yoshikawa (inferred)

Muscles and Meridians

Philip Beach

My Early Life

Winston Churchill

My Family and Other Animals

Gerald Durrell

Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass (autobiographies of Frederick Douglass)

Frederick Douglass

Nature

Ralph Waldo Emerson (inferred)

Neuropsychedelia

Nicolas Langlitz

Night Sky with Exit Wounds

Ocean Vuong

No Bad Parts

Richard Schwartz

No Ordinary Time

Doris Kearns Goodwin

No Rules Rules

Reed Hastings and Erin Meyer (inferred)

On Anger (De Ira)

Seneca

On Liberty

John Stuart Mill

On the Origin of Species

Charles Darwin

On War

Carl von Clausewitz

On Writing Well

William Zinsser

One Piece

Eiichiro Oda (inferred)

One Simple Idea: Turn Your Dreams into a Licensing Goldmine While Letting Others Do the Work

Stephen Key

One Up on Wall Street

Peter Lynch

Onward

Howard Schultz

Originals

Adam Grant

Palace Walk

Naguib Mahfouz

Parent Effectiveness Training

Thomas Gordon (inferred)

Passages

Gail Sheehy

Pattern Breakers

Mike Maples Jr.

Pattern Recognition

William Gibson

Peace Is Every Step

Thich Nhat Hanh

Philosophy in the Real World

Brian Magee

Picnic, Lightning

Lawrence Scott (inferred)

Pilgrim at Tinker Creek

Annie Dillard

Play It Away

Charlie Hoehn

Pnin

Vladimir Nabokov

Polar Bears: Ecology and Behavior

Ian Stirling

Political Order and Political Decay

Francis Fukuyama

Polostan

Neal Stephenson

Positioning

Al Ries and Jack Trout

Pour Your Heart Into It

Howard Schultz

Practical Shooting: Beyond Fundamentals

Brian Enos

Principles for a Changing World Order

Ray Dalio (inferred)

Probable Impossibilities / The Accidental Universe

Alan Lightman

Propaganda

Edward Bernays

Psilocybin: Magic Mushroom Grower's Guide

O.T. Oss and O.N. Oeric (Dennis and Terence McKenna) (inferred)

Psychology of Intelligence Analysis

Richards J. Heuer Jr.

Pyramid of Success

John Wooden

Quit: The Power of Knowing When to Walk Away

Annie Duke (inferred)

Radical Hope: Ethics in the Face of Cultural Devastation

Jonathan Lear

Raymond Chandler / Philip Marlowe novels

Raymond Chandler

Ready Player One

Ernest Cline (inferred)

Ready, Fire, Aim

Michael Masterson

Real American

Julie Lythcott-Haims

Real Happiness

Sharon Salzberg

Real Life Korean Conversations for Beginners

Talk To Me In Korean

Rejection

Tony Tulathimutte

Reminiscences of a Stock Operator

Edwin Lefevre (inferred)

Resonance

Hartmut Rosa

Running Lean

Ash Maurya (inferred)

Sacred Knowledge: Psychedelics and Religious Experiences

William Richards

Save the Cat Goes to the Movies

Blake Snyder (inferred)

Scale

Geoffrey West

Scarcity

Sendhil Mullainathan and Eldar Shafir (inferred)

Schaum's Outline of Statistics

Schaum (inferred)

Scientific Advertising

Claude C. Hopkins

Screenplay: The Foundations of Screenwriting

Syd Field

Sculpting in Time

Andrei Tarkovsky

Secrets of Closing the Sale

Zig Ziglar

Secrets of Power Negotiating

Roger Dawson (inferred)

See You at the Top

Zig Ziglar

Seeing Like a State

James C. Scott (inferred)

Self-Therapy

Jay Earley

Selling to the Affluent

Thomas J. Stanley

Seriously Funny

Gerald Nachman (inferred)

Seven Powers

Hamilton Helmer

Sex, Lies, and Videotape (book about the making of)

Steven Soderbergh

Shambhala: The Sacred Path of the Warrior

Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche (inferred)

Shantaram

Gregory David Roberts (inferred)

Shogun

James Clavell (inferred)

Showmanship for Magicians

Dariel Fitzkee

Simon Bisley Bible (Old and New Testament illustrations)

Simon Bisley (inferred)

Situational Awareness: The Decade Ahead

Leopold Aschenbrenner

Six Pillars of Self-Esteem

Nathaniel Branden

Slaine the Horned God

Simon Bisley (inferred)

Small Giants: Companies That Choose to Be Great Instead of Big

Bo Burlingham

Socrates in 90 Minutes

Paul Strathern (inferred)

Solaris

Stanislaw Lem

Son of the Morning Star

Evan S. Connell

Song of Myself (Leaves of Grass)

Walt Whitman

Sophie's World

Jostein Gaarder

Sources of the Self

Charles Taylor

Speak Like Churchill, Stand Like Lincoln

James C. Humes

Square Foot Gardening

Mel Bartholomew (inferred)

Startup: A Silicon Valley Adventure

Jerry Kaplan

Stop Fixing Yourself: Wake Up, All Is Well

Anthony de Mello

Stories of Your Life and Others / Exhalation

Ted Chiang

Striking Thoughts

Bruce Lee

Suggestible You: The Curious Science of Your Brain's Ability to Deceive, Transform, and Heal

Erik Vance

Super Connectors

Charles Duhigg

Superconnect

Richard Koch and Greg Lockwood

Superforecasting: The Art and Science of Prediction

Philip Tetlock and Dan Gardner

Swarm

Mark Moffett

Talk to Me in Korean Level 1

Talk To Me In Korean

Tara Brach's books

Tara Brach

Tell Me Who You Are

Winona Guo and Priya Vulchi

The 5 Types of Wealth

Sahil Bloom (inferred)

The Advantage

Patrick Lencioni

The Adventures of Johnny Bunko

Daniel Pink

The Aleph

Jorge Luis Borges

The Alexandria Quartet

Lawrence Durrell

The Apology

Eve Ensler

The Art of Asking

Amanda Palmer

The Art of Power

Thich Nhat Hanh

The Art of Seeing

The Best American Science and Nature Writing

The Body Electric

Robert O. Becker (inferred)

The Bogleheads' Guide to Investing

Taylor Larimore, Mel Lindauer, Michael LeBoeuf (inferred)

The Book of Awakening

Mark Nepo

The Book of Joy

Dalai Lama and Desmond Tutu (inferred)

The Book of Life

Jiddu Krishnamurti

The Book of Two Ways

Jodi Picoult

The Cathedral and the Bazaar

Eric S. Raymond (inferred)

The Choice

Edith Eger

The Collapse of Complex Societies

Joseph Tainter

The Collected Essays of George Orwell

George Orwell

The Collected Poems of Hafez

Hafez (inferred)

The Company: A Short History of a Revolutionary Idea

John Micklethwait and Adrian Wooldridge (inferred)

The Culture Code

Daniel Coyle

The Daily Stoic

Ryan Holiday

The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity

David Graeber

The Desert Smells Like Rain

Gary Nabhan

The Difference: How the Power of Diversity Creates Better Groups, Firms, Schools, and Societies

Scott E. Page

The Diversity Bonus

Scott E. Page

The Drama of the Gifted Child

Alice Miller (inferred)

The Drawdown Review

Project Drawdown (inferred)

The E-Myth

Michael Gerber

The Easy Way to Quit Caffeine

Allen Carr (inferred)

The Easy Way to Quit Smoking

Allen Carr

The Effective Executive (Ozymandias note)

Percy Shelley

The Elements of Style

Strunk and White

The End of Alzheimer's

Dale Bredesen

The End of October

Lawrence Wright

The Enneads

Plotinus

The Ethnopharmacologic Search for Psychoactive Drugs

Dennis McKenna (inferred)

The Every

Dave Eggers (inferred)

The Fatal Conceit: The Errors of Socialism

Friedrich A. Hayek

The Fault in Our Stars

John Green

The Fellowship of the River

Joseph Tafur (inferred)

The Felt Meanings of the World

Quentin Smith (inferred)

The Fires Within

Arthur C. Clarke

The Five Love Languages

Gary Chapman (inferred)

The Full Facts Book of Cold Reading

Ian Rowland

The Future of Life

Edward O. Wilson

The Game

Neil Strauss

The Garden of Forking Paths

Jorge Luis Borges

The Gathering Storm

Winston Churchill

The Goal

Eliyahu Goldratt (inferred)

The Godfather

Mario Puzo

The Good Earth

Pearl Buck

The Half-Life of Facts: Why Everything We Know Has an Expiration Date

Samuel Arbesman

The Hannibal Lecter series

Thomas Harris

The High Growth Handbook

Elad Gil

The History of England

Thomas Babington Macaulay

The Ideal Team Player

Patrick Lencioni

The Illusion of Life: Disney Animation

Frank Thomas and Ollie Johnston

The Information

James Gleick

The Innocent Anthropologist

Nigel Barley

The Innovator's Dilemma

Clayton Christensen (inferred)

The Integrative Action of the Nervous System

Charles Sherrington (inferred)

The Invention of Nature

Andrea Wulf

The Journalist and the Murderer

Janet Malcolm (inferred)

The Last Good Kiss

James Crumley

The Last of the Mohicans

James Fenimore Cooper (inferred)

The Last Tycoons

William D. Cohan

The Lean Startup

Eric Ries (inferred)

The Lies of Locke Lamora

Scott Lynch

The Lions of Al-Rassan

Guy Gavriel Kay

The Long Ships

Frans G. Bengtsson

The Luxury Strategy

Jean-Noel Kapferer and Vincent Bastien (inferred)

The Magic Strings of Frankie Presto

Mitch Albom (inferred)

The Making of a Manager

Julie Zhuo

The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat

Oliver Sacks

The Man Who Quit Money

Mark Sundeen (inferred)

The Map and the Territory

Michel Houellebecq

The Master Switch

Timothy Wu

The Medium Is the Massage

Marshall McLuhan

The Metaphysical Club

Louis Menand

The Namesake

Jhumpa Lahiri

The Nature of Drugs

Alexander Shulgin

The Noonday Demon

Andrew Solomon

The Nurture Assumption: Why Children Turn Out the Way They Do

Judith Rich Harris

The Oceans and the Stars

Mark Helprin

The Origins of the Second World War

A.J.P. Taylor

The Origins of Virtue

Matt Ridley

The Patron Way

Ilana Edelstein

The Pearl

John Steinbeck

The Philosophy of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT): Stoic Philosophy as Rational and Cognitive Psychotherapy

Donald Robertson

The Pirates! In an Adventure with Communists

Gideon Defoe (inferred)

The Pirates! In an Adventure with Scientists (with Darwin)

Gideon Defoe (inferred)

The Poems of Emily Dickinson

Emily Dickinson

The Poems of Hafez

Hafez

The Power of Myth

Joseph Campbell

The Problems of Philosophy

Bertrand Russell

The Red Queen

Matt Ridley

The Resurrection of Jesus: Apologetics, Polemics, History

Dale Allison (inferred)

The Right Stuff

Tom Wolfe

The Rise of Yeast

Nicholas P. Money

The Road Back to You

Ian Morgan Cron, Suzanne Stabile

The Road Less Stupid

Keith Cunningham (inferred)

The Science of Can and Can't

Chiara Marletto

The Science of Fear

Dan Gardner

The Scientists

John Gribbin (inferred)

The Score Takes Care of Itself

Bill Walsh

The Screwtape Letters

C.S. Lewis

The Second Mountain

David Brooks

The Second World War (memoirs)

Winston Churchill

The Secret History

Donna Tartt

The Secret of Our Success

Joseph Henrich

The Sermon on the Mount

Emmet Fox

The Sibley Guide to Birds

David Allen Sibley

The Story Grid

Shawn Coyne

The Story of a Seagull and the Cat Who Taught Her to Fly

Luis Sepulveda

The Strange Last Voyage of Donald Crowhurst

Nicholas Tomalin and Ron Hall (inferred)

The Struggle for Mastery in Europe

A.J.P. Taylor

The Sun Also Rises

Ernest Hemingway

The Surrender Experiment

Michael Singer

The Tail End

Tim Urban

The Tao of Charlie Munger

David Clark (inferred)

The Tao of Health, Sex, and Longevity

Daniel Reid

The Teenage Liberation Handbook

Grace Llewellyn (inferred)

The Tending Instinct

Shelley Taylor

The Theory of Moral Sentiments

Adam Smith (inferred)

The Third Door

Alex Banayan (inferred)

The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet

David Mitchell

The Three Laws of Performance

Steve Zaffron and Dave Logan

The Top Idea in Your Mind

Paul Graham

The Triangle Fire

The Trick Brain

Dariel Fitzkee

The Triumph of the Fungi

Nicholas P. Money

The Unbearable Lightness of Being

Milan Kundera (inferred)

The Uninhabitable Earth

David Wallace-Wells

The Unsinkable Titanic Thompson

Carlton Stowers (inferred)

The Varieties of Religious Experience

William James

The Varieties of Spiritual Experience: 21st Century Research and Perspectives

David B. Yaden (inferred)

The View from Nowhere

Thomas Nagel

The Way and the Power

Frederick Lovret (inferred)

The Way to Love

Anthony de Mello

The WEIRDest People in the World

Joseph Henrich

The Will to Believe

William James

The Wisdom of Crowds

James Surowiecki

The Wizard of Earthsea

Ursula K. Le Guin

The Wizard of the Four Winds

Douglas Sharon

The Work (Byron Katie worksheets)

Byron Katie

The Work (Byron Katie's worksheets)

Byron Katie (inferred)

The World at the End of the World

Luis Sepulveda

The World Turned Upside Down

Yang Jisheng

The Wright Brothers

David McCullough

They're Made of Meat

Terry Bisson

Think on These Things

Jiddu Krishnamurti

Thrilled to Death

Lynne Tillman

Thus Spoke the Plant

Monica Gagliano

Tigana

Guy Gavriel Kay

Times Alone: Selected Poems of Antonio Machado (translated by Robert Bly)

Antonio Machado, Robert Bly (translator)

Tiny Beautiful Things

Cheryl Strayed

Titan: The Life of John D. Rockefeller, Sr.

Ron Chernow

To Bless the Space Between Us

John O'Donohue (inferred)

To the Lighthouse

Virginia Woolf

Total Freedom

Jiddu Krishnamurti

Train Dreams

Denis Johnson

Trejo: My Life of Crime, Redemption, and Hollywood

Danny Trejo

True Hallucinations

Terence McKenna

Tuxedo Park

Ultimate Sales Machine

Chet Holmes

Unbroken

Laura Hillenbrand

Uncle Tungsten

Oliver Sacks

Under and Alone

William Queen (inferred)

Unreasonable Hospitality

Will Guidara

Unreliable Memoirs

Clive James

Upstream

Dan Heath

Violence

James Gilligan (inferred)

Visions of Japan: Kawase Hasui's Masterpieces

Kawase Hasui

Waking the Tiger

Peter Levine

Wendell Berry books

Wendell Berry

What Everyone Needs to Know About Islam

John L. Esposito (inferred)

What I Talk About When I Talk About Running

Haruki Murakami

What Is Ancient Philosophy?

Pierre Hadot

What is Zen?: Plain Talk for a Beginner's Mind

Norman Fischer

What School Could Be

Ted Dintersmith

What They Don't Teach You at Harvard Business School

Mark McCormack

What's Our Problem?

Tim Urban (inferred)

Where Men Win Glory

Jon Krakauer

White Noise

Don DeLillo

Whiz Mob

David W. Maurer

Who

Geoff Smart and Randy Street (inferred)

Why Buddhism Is True

Robert Wright

Why I'm a Bad Correspondent

Neal Stephenson (inferred)

Wild Geese (and other poetry)

Mary Oliver

Winter's Tale

Mark Helprin

With Winning in Mind

Lanny Bassham

Words That Work

Frank Luntz

Working: Researching, Interviewing, Writing

Robert Caro

World as Lover, World as Self

Joanna Macy

You Belong

Sebene Selassie

You Can Be a Stock Market Genius

Joel Greenblatt

Your Money and Your Brain

Jason Zweig

Your Money or Your Life

Vicki Robin and Joe Dominguez (inferred)

Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind

Shunryu Suzuki

Tribe of Mentors

Tim Ferriss

Tools of Titans

Tim Ferriss

Digital Minimalism

Cal Newport

Gates of Fire

Steven Pressfield

A Man for All Markets

Ed Thorp

Greenlights

Matthew McConaughey

Linchpin

Seth Godin

Livewired

David Eagleman

Mating in Captivity

Esther Perel

Purple Cow

Seth Godin

Same as Ever

Morgan Housel

The Dip

Seth Godin

The Future of the Mind

Michio Kaku

The Legend of Bagger Vance

Steven Pressfield

The State of Affairs

Esther Perel

Turning Pro

Steven Pressfield

A Man at Arms

Steven Pressfield

After the Ecstasy, the Laundry

Jack Kornfield

Angel: How to Invest in Technology Startups

Jason Calacanis

Beat the Dealer

Ed Thorp

Beat the Market

Ed Thorp

Beyond Anxiety: Curiosity, Creativity, and Finding Your Life's Purpose

Martha Beck

Big Magic

Elizabeth Gilbert

Brain Energy

Chris Palmer

Built to Last

Jim Collins

City of Girls

Elizabeth Gilbert

Do the Work

Steven Pressfield

Eat Pray Love

Elizabeth Gilbert

Great by Choice

Jim Collins

Happy

Fearne Cotton

Help, Thanks, Wow: The Three Essential Prayers

Anne Lamott

How the Mighty Fall

Jim Collins

How to Live

Derek Sivers

I Will Teach You to Be Rich

Ramit Sethi

Love Sense

Sue Johnson

Operating Instructions: A Journal of My Son's First Year

Anne Lamott

Permission Marketing

Seth Godin

The Art of Forgiveness, Lovingkindness, and Peace

Jack Kornfield

The Happiness Hypothesis

Jonathan Haidt

The Myth of Normal: Trauma, Illness and Healing in a Toxic Culture

Gabor Maté

The Network State: How to Start a New Country

Balaji Srinivasan

The Song of Significance: A New Manifesto for Teams

Seth Godin

The Tao of Seneca

Tim Ferriss

The Way of Integrity: Finding the Path to Your True Self

Martha Beck

The Wise Heart: A Guide to the Universal Teachings of Buddhist Psychology

Jack Kornfield

Tough: My Journey to True Power

Terry Crews

Tribes

Seth Godin

Unreasonable Success and How to Achieve It

Richard Koch

What Technology Wants

Kevin Kelly

21 Lessons for the 21st Century

Yuval Noah Harari

A Book of Secrets

Derren Brown

A Madman Dreams of Turing Machines

Janna Levin

Almost Everything: Notes on Hope

Anne Lamott

Atlas of the Heart

Brené Brown

Attachment Theory in Practice

Sue Johnson

Be Useful: Seven Tools for Life

Arnold Schwarzenegger (inferred)

Benjamin Franklin: An American Life

Walter Isaacson

Beyond Entrepreneurship 2.0

Jim Collins

Black Hole Blues and Other Songs from Outer Space

Janna Levin

Black Hole Survival Guide

Janna Levin

Blue Shoe

Anne Lamott

Bringing Home the Dharma

Jack Kornfield

Build the Life You Want

Arthur C. Brooks and Oprah Winfrey

Cathedral of the Wild

Boyd Varty

Cherry

Mary Karr

Choke

Chuck Palahniuk

Consolations II

David Whyte

Dare to Lead

Brené Brown

Deadlift Dynamite

Pavel Tsatsouline and Andy Bolton

Difficult Conversations: How to Discuss What Matters Most

Douglas Stone, Bruce Patton, Sheila Heen

Doom: The Politics of Catastrophe

Niall Ferguson

Dusk, Night, Dawn: On Revival and Courage

Anne Lamott

Einstein: His Life and Universe

Walter Isaacson

Empire of the Invisible

David Eagleman

Expectations Investing (Revised Edition)

Michael Mauboussin and Alfred Rappaport

Financial Times Guide to Strategy

Richard Koch

Galileo's Error: Foundations for a New Science of Consciousness

Philip Goff

Girl Decoded

Rana el Kaliouby

Good Inside: A Guide to Becoming the Parent You Want to Be

Dr. Becky Kennedy

Govt Cheese

Steven Pressfield

Grace (Eventually): Thoughts on Faith

Anne Lamott

How the Universe Got Its Spots

Janna Levin

How to Become a Straight-A Student

Cal Newport

Idea Makers

Stephen Wolfram (inferred)

Imperfect Birds

Anne Lamott

In My Time of Dying

Sebastian Junger (inferred)

Incognito

David Eagleman

Is This Anything?

Jerry Seinfeld

Kissinger: A Biography

Walter Isaacson

Leaders: Myth and Reality

Stanley McChrystal (inferred)

Lit

Mary Karr

Magdalena: River of Dreams

Wade Davis

Managing Without Management

Richard Koch

Maps of Meaning: The Architecture of Belief

Jordan Peterson (inferred)

Money: Master the Game

Tony Robbins

No Time Like the Present: Finding Freedom, Love, and Joy Right Where You Are

Jack Kornfield

Nobody Wants to Read Your Shit

Steven Pressfield

One River: Explorations and Discoveries in the Amazon Rain Forest

Wade Davis

Out of Control

Kevin Kelly

Parallel Worlds

Michio Kaku

Physics of the Future

Michio Kaku

Physics of the Impossible

Michio Kaku

Plan B: Further Thoughts on Faith

Anne Lamott

Quiet Power: The Secret Strength of Introverts

Susan Cain

Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking

Susan Cain

Reboot: Leadership and the Art of Growing Up

Jerry Colonna

Rosie

Anne Lamott

Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout

Cal Newport

Thanks for the Feedback: The Science and Art of Receiving Feedback Well

Sheila Heen, Douglas Stone

That Will Never Work

Marc Randolph

The Age of AI and Our Human Future

Eric Schmidt, Henry A. Kissinger, Daniel Huttenlocher

The Amazon: What Everyone Needs to Know

Mark Plotkin

The Artist's Journey

Steven Pressfield

The Big Short

Michael Lewis (inferred)

The Blind Side

Michael Lewis (inferred)

The Brotherhood of the Screaming Abyss

Dennis McKenna

The Future of Humanity

Michio Kaku

The God Equation

Michio Kaku

The Inevitable

Kevin Kelly

The Innovators

Walter Isaacson

The Invention of Sound

Chuck Palahniuk

The Liars' Club

Mary Karr

The Lion's Gate

Steven Pressfield

The MeatEater Guide to Wilderness Skills and Survival

Steven Rinella

The Perfect Storm

Sebastian Junger

The Pity of War

Niall Ferguson

The Plantpower Way

Rich Roll and Julie Piatt

The Sovereign Child: How a Forgotten Philosophy Can Liberate Kids and Their Parents

Aaron Stupple

The Square and the Tower

Niall Ferguson

The Star Principle

Richard Koch

The Stimulated Mind

Tommy Wood

The Warrior Ethos

Steven Pressfield

Things Become Other Things

Craig Mod

Tides of War

Steven Pressfield

Traveling Mercies: Some Thoughts on Faith

Anne Lamott

Tropic of Squalor

Mary Karr

Useful Not True

Derek Sivers

Vanishing Asia

Kevin Kelly

Virtual History

Niall Ferguson

Virtually Human

Martine Rothblatt (inferred)

War

Sebastian Junger

When the Body Says No

Gabor Maté

Wild Problems: A Guide to the Decisions That Define Us

Russ Roberts

Will

Will Smith