Books

People often ask for book recommendations and I like seeing what other people are reading so here is a list of books I own. I've probably read 70% of them. I wouldn't recommend all of them but those I liked are in italics and those I'd recommend are in italics and bold.

2024

• Foundation and Earth
  Isaac Asimov
• Foundation's Edge
  Isaac Asimov
• Second Foundation
  Isaac Asimov
• Invitation to a Banquet: The Story of Chinese Food
  Fuchsia Dunlop
• The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
  Douglas Adams

2023

• Klara and the Sun
  Kazuo Ishiguro
• I, Robot (The Robot Series)
  Isaac Asimov
• Foundation and Empire
  Isaac Asimov
• Seven Brief Lessons on Physics
  Carlo Rovelli
• Foundation
  Isaac Asimov
• Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams
  Matthew Walker
• The Thrawn Trilogy 3-Book Bundle: Heir to the Empire, Dark Force Rising, The Last Command
  Timothy Zahn
• MCU: The Reign of Marvel Studios
  Joanna Robinson, Dave Gonzales, Gavin Edwards
• American Prometheus
  Kai Bird, Martin J. Sherwin
• When We Cease to Understand the World
  Benjamín Labatut
• Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow
  Gabrielle Zevin
• Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World
  Jack Weatherford
• What's Our Problem?: A Self-Help Book for Societies
  Tim Urban
• The Stress Prescription: Seven Days to More Joy and Ease
  Dr. Elissa Epel
• Star Wars: Dark Force Rising: The Thrawn Trilogy, Book 2
  Timothy Zahn
• Star Wars: Heir to the Empire: The Thrawn Trilogy, Book 1
  Timothy Zahn
• Star Wars: The Old Republic: Fatal Alliance
  Sean Williams
• Children of Dune
  Frank Herbert
• The Creative Act: A Way of Being
  Rick Rubin
• "Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!": Adventures of a Curious Character
  Richard P. Feynman, Ralph Leighton, Edward Hutchings, Albert R. Hibbs
• Revan: Star Wars Legends (The Old Republic)
  Drew Karpyshyn
• Dynasty of Evil: A Novel of the Old Republic
  Drew Karpyshyn
• Rule of Two: Star Wars Legends (Darth Bane)
  Drew Karpyshyn
• Star Wars: Thrawn Ascendancy (Book III: Lesser Evil)
  Timothy Zahn
• Star Wars: Thrawn Ascendancy (Book I: Chaos Rising)
  Timothy Zahn
• Star Wars: Thrawn Ascendancy (Book II: Greater Good)
  Timothy Zahn
• Path of Destruction: A Novel of the Old Republic
  Drew Karpyshyn
• Chip War: The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology
  Chris Miller
• Thrawn: Treason (Star Wars: Thrawn Book 3)
  Timothy Zahn
• Star Wars: Darth Plagueis
  James Luceno
• Scaling People: Tactics for Management and Company Building
  Claire Hughes Johnson
• Thrawn: Alliances (Star Wars: Thrawn Book 2)
  Timothy Zahn

2022

• The Silk Roads: A New History of the World
  Peter Frankopan
• Norse Mythology
  Neil Gaiman
• Sphere
  Michael Crichton
• Star Wars: Thrawn
  Timothy Zahn
• Outlive: The Science and Art of Longevity
  Peter Attia MD
• Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals
  Oliver Burkeman
• The Silmarillion
  J.R.R. Tolkien, Christopher Tolkien
• Food Rules: An Eater's Manual
  Michael Pollan
• The Metaverse: And How It Will Revolutionize Everything
  Matthew Ball
• Principles for Dealing with the Changing World Order: Why Nations Succeed and Fail
  Ray Dalio
• The Network State: How To Start a New Country
  Balaji Srinivasan
• Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid
  Douglas R Hofstadter
• The Midnight Library
  Matt Haig
• Founders at Work: Stories of Startups' Early Days
  Jessica Livingston
• The Diet Compass: the 12-step guide to science-based nutrition for a healthier and longer life
  Bas Kast, David Shaw
• Dune
  Frank Herbert
• Children of Dune
  Frank Herbert
• Heretics of Dune
  Frank Herbert
• Chapterhouse: Dune
  Frank Herbert

2021

• The Daily Stoic: 366 Meditations on Wisdom, Perseverance, and the Art of Living
  Ryan Holiday, Stephen Hanselman
• Hackers & Painters: Big Ideas from the Computer Age
  Paul Graham
• This Is How You Lose the Time War
  Amal El-Mohtar, Max Gladstone
• The Last of the Mohicans; A narrative of 1757
  James Fenimore Cooper
• Crying in H Mart: A Memoir
  Michelle Zauner
• The Story of China: The Epic History of a World Power from the Middle Kingdom to Mao and the China Dream
  Michael Wood
• Project Hail Mary: A Novel
  Andy Weir
• Fundamentals: Ten Keys to Reality
  Frank Wilczek
• A Beautiful Question: Finding Nature's Deep Design
  Frank Wilczek
• A Monk's Guide to a Clean House and Mind
  Shoukei Matsumoto
• How to Avoid a Climate Disaster: The Solutions We Have and the Breakthroughs We Need
  Bill Gates
• The Cold Start Problem: How to Start and Scale Network Effects
  Andrew Chen

2020

• Pachinko
  Min Jin Lee
• The Mamba Mentality: How I Play
  Kobe Bryant
• The Conquest of Happiness
  Bertrand Russell
• Frank Ramsey: A Sheer Excess of Powers
  Cheryl Misak
• Strange Weather in Tokyo: A Novel
  Hiromi Kawakami, Allison Markin Powell
• The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
  Douglas Adams
• The Inner Game of Tennis: The Classic Guide to the Mental Side of Peak Performance
  W. Timothy Gallwey, Zach Kleinman, Pete Carroll, Zach Kleiman
• Zen: The Authentic Gate
  Kōun Yamada
• The Artist's Way
  Julia Cameron
• Talking to Strangers: What We Should Know About the People We Don't Know
  Malcolm Gladwell
• Very Important People: Status and Beauty in the Global Party Circuit
  Ashley Mears
• LeMay: The Life and Wars of General Curtis LeMay
  Warren Kozak
• Stories of Your Life and Others
  Ted Chiang
• Breasts and Eggs: A Novel
  Mieko Kawakami, Sam Bett, David Boyd
• The Order of Time
  Carlo Rovelli
• Americana: A 400-Year History of American Capitalism
  Bhu Srinivasan
• The Ride of a Lifetime: Lessons Learned from 15 Years as CEO of the Walt Disney Company
  Robert Iger

2019

• Exhalation: Stories
  Ted Chiang
• Upheaval: Turning Points for Nations in Crisis
  Jared Diamond
• Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones
  James Clear
• What You Do Is Who You Are: How to Create Your Business Culture
  Ben Horowitz, Henry Louis Gates
• The Mind-Body Problem
  Rebecca Goldstein, Jane Smiley
• The Making of a Manager: What to Do When Everyone Looks to You
  Julie Zhuo
• The Girl With All the Gifts
  M. R. Carey
• Cult of the Dead Cow: How the Original Hacking Supergroup Might Just Save the World
  Joseph Menn
• How to Change Your Mind: What the New Science of Psychedelics Teaches Us About Consciousness, Dying, Addiction, Depression, and Transcendence
  Michael Pollan
• Kafka on the Shore
  Haruki Murakami
• 1Q84
  Haruki Murakami, Jay Rubin, Philip Gabriel
• South of the Border, West of the Sun: A Novel
  Haruki Murakami, Philip Gabriel
• Wind/Pinball: Two novels
  Haruki Murakami, Ted Goossen
• The Wandering Earth: Classic Science Fiction Collection
  Cixin Liu, Verbena C.W., Holger Nahm
• A Man for All Markets: From Las Vegas to Wall Street, How I Beat the Dealer and the Market
  Edward O. Thorp, Nassim Nicholas Taleb
• Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking
  Susan Cain
• Masters of Doom: How Two Guys Created an Empire and Transformed Pop Culture
  David Kushner
• The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories
  Ken Liu
• Steinbeck: A Life in Letters
  John Steinbeck, Elaine Steinbeck, Robert Wallsten
• Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup
  John Carreyrou
• Red Notice: A True Story of High Finance, Murder, and One Man's Fight for Justice
  Bill Browder

2018

• Ai Superpowers: China, Silicon Valley, and the New World Order
  Kai-Fu Lee
• Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood
  Trevor Noah
• Rich People Problems (Crazy Rich Asians Trilogy Book 3)
  Kevin Kwan
• China Rich Girlfriend: A Novel (Crazy Rich Asians Trilogy Book 2)
  Kevin Kwan
• Billion Dollar Whale: The Man Who Fooled Wall Street, Hollywood, and the World
  Bradley Hope, Tom Wright
• Crazy Rich Asians (Crazy Rich Asians Trilogy Book 1)
  Kevin Kwan
• Capitalism without Capital: The Rise of the Intangible Economy
  Jonathan Haskel, Stian Westlake
• The Singapore Story: Memoirs of Lee Kuan Yew
  Lee Kuan Yew
• The Sympathizer: A Novel (Pulitzer Prize for Fiction)
  Viet Thanh Nguyen
• Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less
  Greg Mckeown
• The Lessons of History
  Will Durant, Ariel Durant
• Cryptoassets: The Innovative Investor's Guide to Bitcoin and Beyond
  Chris Burniske, Jack Tatar
• High Growth Handbook: Scaling Startups From 10 to 10,000 People
  Elad Gil
• Death's End (The Three-Body Problem Series Book 3)
  Cixin Liu, Ken Liu
• The Dark Forest (The Three-Body Problem Series Book 2)
  Cixin Liu, Joel Martinsen
• The Three-Body Problem
  Cixin Liu, Ken Liu
• Skin in the Game: Hidden Asymmetries in Daily Life
  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

2017

• Shoe Dog: A Memoir by the Creator of Nike
  Phil Knight
• Debt: The First 5,000 Years,Updated and Expanded
  David Graeber
• Principles: Life and Work
  Ray Dalio
• Norwegian Wood
  Haruki Murakami, Jay Rubin
• Cryptonomicon
  Neal Stephenson
• Irrational Exuberance: Revised and Expanded Third Edition
  Robert J. Shiller
• Option Volatility and Pricing: Advanced Trading Strategies and Techniques, 2nd Edition
  Sheldon Natenberg
• Ikigai: The Japanese Secret to a Long and Happy
  Héctor García

2016

• High Output Management
  Andrew S. Grove

2015

• Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance an Inquiry Into Values
  Robert M. Pirsig
• The Martian
  Andy Weir
• Michael Jordan: The Life
  Roland Lazenby
• Thinking, Fast and Slow
  Daniel Kahneman, Straus Farrar & Giroux
• Modern Romance
  Aziz Ansari, Eric Klinenberg
• The Crossroads of Should and Must: Find and Follow Your Passion
  Elle Luna
• Becoming Steve Jobs: The Evolution of a Reckless Upstart into a Visionary Leader
  Brent Schlender, Rick Tetzeli
• Kafka on the Shore
  Haruki Murakami
• The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle: A Novel
  Haruki Murakami, Jay Rubin

2014

• It's Not How Good You Are, Its How Good You Want to Be: The World's Best Selling Book
  Paul Arden
• The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers
  Ben Horowitz

2013

• Hatching Twitter: A True Story of Money, Power, Friendship, and Betrayal
  Nick Bilton
• Jony Ive: The Genius Behind Apple's Greatest Products
  Leander Kahney
• The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon
  Brad Stone
• Without Their Permission: How the 21st Century Will Be Made, Not Managed
  Alexis Ohanian
• Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead
  Sheryl Sandberg
• World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War
  Max Brooks
• The Design of Everyday Things
  Donald A. Norman
• Pharrell: Places and Spaces I've Been
  Pharrell Williams

2012

• The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined
  Steven Pinker
• Deng Xiaoping and the Transformation of China
  Ezra F. Vogel
• The Quest: Energy, Security, and the Remaking of the Modern World
  Daniel Yergin
• Moonwalking with Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything
  Joshua Foer
• Behind the Beautiful Forevers
  Katherine Boo
• The City that Became Safe:New York's Lessons for Urban Crime and Its Control (Studies in Crime and Public Policy)
  Franklin E. Zimring
• This Time Is Different: Eight Centuries of Financial Folly
  Carmen M.Reinhart, Kenneth Rogoff
• One Billion Hungry: Can We Feed the World?
  Gordon Conway, Rajiv Shah
• The PayPal Wars: Battles with eBay, the Media, the Mafia, and the Rest of Planet Earth
  Eric M. Jackson
• Living Beautifully: with Uncertainty and Change
  Pema Chodron
• Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
  Jared Diamond
• Batman: The Killing Joke
  Alan Moore
• Batman: Year One
  Frank Miller
• Batman: The Dark Knight Returns
  Frank Miller

2011

• Measuring the User Experience: Collecting, Analyzing, and Presenting Usability Metrics (Interactive Technologies)
  Thomas Tullis, William Albert
• The Elements of Typographic Style
  Robert Bringhurst
• The Lean Startup: How Today's Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses
  Eric Ries
• Einstein: His Life and Universe
  Walter Isaacson
• Designing Type
  Karen Cheng
• The Pixar Touch
  David A. Price
• Steve Jobs
  Walter Isaacson
• In The Plex: How Google Thinks, Works, and Shapes Our Lives
  Steven Levy
• Little Bets: How Breakthrough Ideas Emerge from Small Discoveries
  Peter Sims
• Universal Principles of Design
  William Lidwell
• The 4-Hour Body: An Uncommon Guide to Rapid Fat-Loss, Incredible Sex, and Becoming Superhuman
  Timothy Ferriss
• Cooking for Geeks: Real Science, Great Hacks, and Good Food
  Jeff Potter

2010

• Decoded
  Jay-Z
• Designing Web Interfaces: Principles and Patterns for Rich Interactions
  Bill Scott, Theresa Neil
• Talent Is Overrated: What Really Separates World-Class Performers from Everybody Else
  Geoff Colvin
• Rework
  Jason Fried, David Heinemeier Hansson
• All Star Superman, Vol. 1
  Grant Morrison
• All Star Superman, Vol. 2
  Grant Morrison

2009

• Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets
  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
• They Call Me Coach
  John Wooden
• SuperFreakonomics: Global Cooling, Patriotic Prostitutes, and Why Suicide Bombers Should Buy Life Insurance
  Steven D. Levitt, Stephen J. Dubner
• Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions
  Dan Ariely

2008

• The Last Lecture
  Randy Pausch
• The Bottom Billion: Why the Poorest Countries are Failing and What Can Be Done About It
  Paul Collier
• The World Without Us
  Alan Weisman