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Bookshelf

A collection of books I've read across various domains and wanted to read.

Mathematics (8)

• Probability Theory: The Logic of Science — E. T. Jaynes
• Elements of Information Theory — Thomas M. Cover
• Statistical Consequences of Fat Tails — Nassim Taleb
• Information and the Nature of Reality — Paul Davies & Niels Henrik Gregersen
• A Mathematician's Apology — G. H. Hardy
• The Drunkard's Walk — Leonard Mlodinow
• Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid — Douglas Hofstadter

Fiction (30)

• Flowers for Algernon — Daniel Keyes
• The Last Question — Isaac Asimov
• The Dark Forest — Cixin Liu
• The Demons — Fyodor Dostoyevsky
• Heart of Darkness — Joseph Conrad
• Lord Jim — Joseph Conrad
• Nostromo — Joseph Conrad
• Voyage au bout de la nuit — Louis-Ferdinand Céline
• Hunger — Knut Hamsun
• Atlas Shrugged — Ayn Rand
• Blood Meridian — Cormac McCarthy
• The Road — Cormac McCarthy
• A Hero of Our Time — Mikhail Lermontov
• Der Mann ohne Eigenschaften — Robert Musil
• Dantons Tod — Georg Büchner
• Die Schlafwandler — Hermann Broch
• The Catcher in the Rye — J.D. Salinger
• 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea — Jules Verne
• Siddhartha — Hermann Hesse
• Animal Farm — George Orwell
• Neuromancer — William Gibson
• Radheya — Ranjit Desai
• The Three-Body Problem — Cixin Liu
• The Graveyard Book — Neil Gaiman
• The ABC Murders — Agatha Christie
• Solaris — Stanislaw Lem
• The Brothers Karamazov — Fyodor Dostoyevsky
• The Trial — Franz Kafka
• One Hundred Years of Solitude — Gabriel García Márquez
• The Magic Mountain — Thomas Mann
• The Dispossessed — Ursula K. Le Guin

Philosophy of Science (6)

• The Structure of Scientific Revolutions — Thomas Kuhn
• Against Method — Paul Feyerabend
• Conjectures and Refutations — Karl Popper
• What Is This Thing Called Science? — Alan Chalmers
• The Logic of Scientific Discovery — Karl Popper
• The End of Science — John Horgan

Political Philosophy (16)

• What Has the Government Done to Our Money? — Murray N. Rothbard
• The Anatomy of the State — Murray N. Rothbard
• Discourses on Livy — Niccolò Machiavelli
• Politische Theologie — Carl Schmitt
• The English Constitution — Walter Bagehot
• Der Begriff des Politischen — Carl Schmitt
• The Ordeal of Civility — John Murray Cuddihy
• Seeing Like a State — James C. Scott
• Science, Politics and Gnosticism — Eric Voegelin
• Industrial Society and Its Future — Ted Kaczynski
• From Third World to First — Lee Kuan Yew
• The Parasitic Mind — Gad Saad
• The Prince — Niccolò Machiavelli
• The Origins of Totalitarianism — Hannah Arendt
• The Open Society and Its Enemies — Karl Popper
• Leviathan — Thomas Hobbes
• Democracy in America — Alexis de Tocqueville

History (16)

• The Dawn of Everything — David Graeber & David Wengrow
• Anabasis — Xenophon
• The Campaigns of Alexander — Arrian
• Frederick II: A Medieval Emperor — Ernst Kantorowicz
• War and Peace and War — Peter Turchin
• End Times — Peter Turchin
• 1177 B.C.: The Year Civilization Collapsed — Eric H. Cline
• Byzantium (3 vols) — John Julius Norwich
• India and Its Foreign Policy Since Independence — Various Authors
• Sapiens — Yuval Noah Harari
• Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage — Alfred Lansing
• Guns, Germs, and Steel — Jared Diamond
• Collapse — Jared Diamond
• The Lessons of History — Will & Ariel Durant
• The History of the Peloponnesian War — Thucydides
• Postwar — Tony Judt

Science & Technology (25)

• On Intelligence — Jeff Hawkins
• Systems Medicine — Uri Alon
• Chip War: The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology — Chris Miller
• A Brief History of Time — Stephen Hawking
• Black Holes: The Reith Lectures — Stephen Hawking
• Seven Brief Lessons on Physics — Carlo Rovelli
• Chaos: Making a New Science — James Gleick
• In Search of Schrödinger's Cat — John Gribbin
• Relativity — Albert Einstein
• The Beginning of Infinity — David Deutsch
• Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies — Nick Bostrom
• Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs — Abelson & Sussman
• Proof of Stake: The Making of Ethereum — Vitalik Buterin
• Moonwalking with Einstein — Joshua Foer
• How the World Really Works — Vaclav Smil
• A Thousand Brains — Jeff Hawkins
• DMT: The Spirit Molecule — Rick Strassman
• Six Easy Pieces — Richard Feynman
• The Selfish Gene — Richard Dawkins
• The Extended Phenotype — Richard Dawkins
• The Emperor of All Maladies — Siddhartha Mukherjee
• Life 3.0: Being Human in the Age of Artificial Intelligence — Max Tegmark

Biography & Autobiography (8)

• The Essays of Warren Buffet — Lawrence A. Cunningham
• Elon Musk — Walter Isaacson
• The Outsiders — William N. Thorndike Jr.
• Invent and Wander — Jeff Bezos
• The 38 Letters from J.D. Rockefeller to His Son — John D. Rockefeller Jr.
• My Life in Advertising & Scientific Advertising — Claude C. Hopkins
• Steve Jobs — Walter Isaacson
• When Breath Becomes Air — Paul Kalanithi
• Pimp — Iceberg Slim

Strategy & Business (35)

• High Output Management — Andy Grove
• 7 Powers: The Foundations of Business Strategy — Hamilton Helmer
• Fundraising — Ryan Breslow
• Zero to One — Peter Thiel
• The Art of Innovation — Tom Kelley
• The Compound Effect — Darren Hardy
• Wild Problems — Russ Roberts
• Blitzscaling — Reid Hoffman
• The Changing World Order — Ray Dalio
• The Personal MBA — Josh Kaufman
• Thinking in Bets — Annie Duke
• The Startup of You — Reid Hoffman & Ben Casnocha
• Organizing Genius — Warren Bennis
• Venture Deals — Brad Feld & Jason Mendelson
• The Great CEO Within — Matt Mochary
• Disciplined Entrepreneurship — Bill Aulet
• High Growth Handbook — Elad Gil
• Principles — Ray Dalio
• Building an Elite Organization — Don Wenner
• Give and Take — Adam Grant
• The Tao of Charlie Munger — David Clark
• Insanely Simple — Ken Segall
• The Real Estate Game — William J. Poorvu
• Poor Charlie's Almanack — Peter Kaufman
• The Interpretation of Financial Statements — Benjamin Graham
• Recruiting — Ryan Breslow
• Good to Great — Jim Collins
• This Is Marketing — Seth Godin
• Start With Why — Simon Sinek
• The Goal — Eliyahu Goldratt
• The Innovator's Dilemma — Clayton Christensen
• The Innovator's Solution — Clayton Christensen
• The Hard Thing About Hard Things — Ben Horowitz
• Measure What Matters — John Doerr
• The Lean Startup — Eric Ries

Self-Improvement & Writing (18)

• Several Short Sentences About Writing — Verlyn Klinkenborg
• On Writing Well — William Zinsser
• The War of Art — Steven Pressfield
• Atomic Habits — James Clear
• How to Win Friends and Influence People — Dale Carnegie
• Mindset — Carol Dweck
• Steal Like an Artist — Austin Kleon
• Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance — Robert M. Pirsig
• Simple Steps to Impossible Dreams — Steven K. Scott
• Getting Things Done — David Allen
• Awaken the Giant Within — Tony Robbins
• Range — David Epstein
• Letters from a Stoic — Seneca
• Meditations on First Philosophy — René Descartes
• Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
• The Courage to Be Disliked — Ichiro Kishimi & Fumitake Koga
• Bird by Bird — Anne Lamott

Spirituality & Philosophy (33)

• Enlightenment Is Your Nature — Osho
• Antifragile — Nassim Taleb
• Tantra Illuminated — Christopher D. Wallis
• Feeling is the Secret — Neville Goddard
• The Surrender Experiment — Michael A. Singer
• The Gardener and the Carpenter — Alison Gopnik
• Ego is the Enemy — Ryan Holiday
• Affective Neuroscience — Jaak Panksepp
• The Almanack of Naval Ravikant — Eric Jorgenson
• On The Shortness of Life — Seneca
• Goddesses in Everywoman — Jean Shinoda Bolen
• Shiva Sutras — Swami Lakshmanjoo
• Why Greatness Cannot Be Planned — Kenneth Stanley & Joel Lehman
• An Introduction to Ergodicity Economics — Ole Peters, Alexander Adamou
• Nietzsche, the Aristocratic Rebel — Dominico Losurdo
• How to Use your Enemies — Baltasar Gracián
• Meditation — Marcus Aurelius
• The Power of Now — Eckhart Tolle
• Mandukya Karika — Gaudapada
• Top 5 Regrets of the Dying — Bronnie Ware
• Finite and Infinite Games — James Carse
• Civilization and Its Discontents — Sigmund Freud
• Courage: The Joy of Living Dangerously — Osho
• Choice Upanishads — A. Parthasarathy
• The Way of the Superior Man — David Deida
• Thus Spoke Zarathustra — Friedrich Nietzsche
• Being and Time — Martin Heidegger
• Tao Te Ching — Lao Tzu
• The Bhagavad Gita — Various translators
• The Upanishads — Various translators