Books

Everything else I’ve read

Books I’ve finished since I turned 18. A ‡ marks books I really liked and would recommend to anyone.

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• Why Nations Fail — Daron Acemoğlu
• The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy — Douglas Adams
• Unsong — Scott Alexander
• Gene Wolfe's The Book of the New Sun: A Chapter Guide — Michael Andre-Driussi
• Lexicon Urthus — Michael Andre-Driussi
• ‡Eichmann in Jerusalem — Hannah Arendt
• Outlive — Peter Attia
• The Handmaid's Tale — Margaret Atwood
• Consider Phlebas — Iain M. Banks
• Excession — Iain M. Banks
• Inversions — Iain M. Banks
• Look to Windward — Iain M. Banks
• The Player of Games — Iain M. Banks
• The State of the Art — Iain M. Banks
• Use of Weapons — Iain M. Banks
• The Italians — Luigi Barzini
• Putin's People — Catherine Belton
• Inside the Mind of Xi Jinping — François Bougon
• ‡World War Z — Max Brooks
• Berkshire Hathaway Letters to Shareholders — Warren Buffett
• A Clockwork Orange — Anthony Burgess
• The Stranger — Albert Camus
• How to Win Friends and Influence People — Dale Carnegie
• The Path to Power — Robert A. Caro
• The Power Broker — Robert A. Caro
• ‡Working — Robert A. Caro
• Written on Water — Eileen Chang
• Stories of Your Life and Others — Ted Chiang
• ‡Tao of Charlie Munger — David Clark
• ‡Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell — Susanna Clarke
• Caliban's War — James S.A. Corey
• Drive — James S.A. Corey
• Leviathan Wakes — James S.A. Corey
• The Butcher of Anderson Station — James S.A. Corey
• GOAT: Who is the Greatest Economist of all Time and Why Does it Matter? — Tyler Cowen
• The Great Stagnation — Tyler Cowen
• The Marginal Revolution: Rise and Decline, and the Pending AI Revolution — Tyler Cowen
• ‡Big Debt Crises — Ray Dalio
• Principles: Life and Work — Ray Dalio
• The Inferno — Dante
• ‡Lying for Money — Dan Davies
• Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? — Philip K. Dick
• The Man in the High Castle — Philip K. Dick
• Crime and Punishment — Fyodor Dostoevsky
• Common Stocks and Uncommon Profits — Philip A. Fisher
• Everything Under the Heavens — Howard W. French
• American Gods — Neil Gaiman
• Good Omens — Neil Gaiman
• The Sandman (Vols. 1–10 + Overture) — Neil Gaiman
• The Pursuit of Italy — David Gilmour
• The Balkans — Misha Glenny
• Katharine Graham's Washington — Katharine Graham
• The Intelligent Investor — Benjamin Graham
• Lights Out — Thomas Gryta
• The Forever War — Joe Haldeman
• Where Is My Flying Car? — J. Storrs Hall
• Dune, Dune Messiah & Children of Dune — Frank Herbert
• Psychology of Intelligence Analysis — Richards J. Heuer
• When Nations Can't Default: A History of War Reparations and Sovereign Debt — Simon Hinrichsen
• The Hard Thing About Hard Things — Ben Horowitz
• Elon Musk — Walter Isaacson
• Steve Jobs — Walter Isaacson
• Nuclear War — Annie Jacobsen
• Groupthink — Irving L. Janis
• ‡Pandaemonium 1660–1886 — Humphrey Jennings
• Tombstone — Yang Jisheng
• The Metamorphosis — Franz Kafka
• Thinking, Fast and Slow — Daniel Kahneman
• Empire of Pain — Patrick Radden Keefe
• Rogues — Patrick Radden Keefe
• ‡Say Nothing — Patrick Radden Keefe
• Godfather of the Kremlin — Paul Klebnikov
• Shoe Dog — Phil Knight
• The Unincorporated Man — Dani & Eytan Kollin
• Arguing with Zombies — Paul Krugman
• ‡The Maniac — Benjamín Labatut
• ‡When We Cease to Understand the World — Benjamín Labatut
• Mister K. — Jérôme Lefilliâtre
• Freakonomics — Steven Levitt
• Flash Boys — Michael Lewis
• Liar's Poker — Michael Lewis
• China's World View — David Daokui Li
• Death's End — Cixin Liu
• Sovereign Funds — Zongyuan Zoe Liu
• The Dark Forest — Cixin Liu
• The Three-Body Problem — Cixin Liu
• More Money Than God — Sebastian Mallaby
• The Power Law — Sebastian Mallaby
• ‡The Last Lion — William Manchester
• Mastering the Market Cycle — Howard Marks
• Scourge and Fire — Lauro Martines
• ‡Draft No. 4 — John McPhee
• Moby-Dick — Herman Melville
• A Woman First: First Woman — Selina Meyer
• Chip War — Chris Miller
• ‡Complexity: A Guided Tour — Melanie Mitchell
• ‡Poor Charlie’s Almanack — Charlie Munger
• Ringworld — Larry Niven
• Long Day's Journey into Night — Eugene O'Neill
• Who Is Michael Ovitz? — Michael Ovitz
• Battleground — Christopher Phillips
• And On That Bombshell — Richard Porter
• The Origins of Efficiency — Brian Potter
• Equal Rites — Terry Pratchett
• Eric — Terry Pratchett
• Feet of Clay — Terry Pratchett
• Going Postal — Terry Pratchett
• Guards! Guards! — Terry Pratchett
• Jingo — Terry Pratchett
• Men at Arms — Terry Pratchett
• Mort — Terry Pratchett
• Night Watch — Terry Pratchett
• Pyramids — Terry Pratchett
• Small Gods — Terry Pratchett
• Sourcery — Terry Pratchett
• The Colour of Magic — Terry Pratchett
• The Fifth Elephant — Terry Pratchett
• The Light Fantastic — Terry Pratchett
• The Truth — Terry Pratchett
• Theatre of Cruelty — Terry Pratchett
• Thud! — Terry Pratchett
• Wyrd Sisters — Terry Pratchett
• Financier: The Biography of André Meyer — Cary Reich
• A Fine Line Between Stupid and Clever — Rob Reiner
• ‡Cable Cowboy — Mark Robichaux
• Blue Mars — Kim Stanley Robinson
• Green Mars — Kim Stanley Robinson
• Red Mars — Kim Stanley Robinson
• Factfulness — Hans Rosling
• The Order of Time — Carlo Rovelli
• The Concept of the Political — Carl Schmitt
• The Snowball — Alice Schroeder
• Frankenstein — Mary Shelley
• ‡Riches Among the Ruins — Robert P. Smith
• The Anthology of Balaji — Balaji Srinivasan
• Cryptonomicon — Neal Stephenson
• Quicksilver — Neal Stephenson
• Seveneves — Neal Stephenson
• The Confusion — Neal Stephenson
• The System of the World — Neal Stephenson
• Amazon Unbound — Brad Stone
• ‡Accelerando — Charles Stross
• Softwar — Matthew Symonds
• Antifragile — Nassim Nicholas Taleb
• Fooled by Randomness — Nassim Nicholas Taleb
• Skin in the Game — Nassim Nicholas Taleb
• The Bed of Procrustes — Nassim Nicholas Taleb
• The Black Swan — Nassim Nicholas Taleb
• Elder Race — Adrian Tchaikovsky
• ‡Superforecasting — Philip E. Tetlock
• ‡Misbehaving — Richard H. Thaler
• Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas — Hunter S. Thompson
• The Hobbit — J.R.R. Tolkien
• The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien — J.R.R. Tolkien
• The Lord of the Rings — J.R.R. Tolkien
• The Silmarillion — J.R.R. Tolkien
• War and Peace — Leo Tolstoy
• The Party's Interest Comes First — Joseph Torigian
• A Deepness in the Sky — Vernor Vinge
• The Dream Machine — M. Mitchell Waldrop
• Breakneck — Dan Wang
• The Oxford History of Modern China — Jeffrey N. Wasserstrom
• Blindsight — Peter Watts
• Echopraxia — Peter Watts
• The Freeze-Frame Revolution — Peter Watts
• Terry Pratchett: A Life with Footnotes — Rob Wilkins
• Mr Wilman's Motoring Adventure — Andy Wilman
• ‡The Complete Book of the New Sun — Gene Wolfe
• The Story of China — Michael Wood
• The Prize — Daniel Yergin
• The Singapore Story — Lee Kuan Yew
• The Devil's Financial Dictionary — Jason Zweig