60 books
Bookshelf
Books that I either enjoyed enough to want to read them again, or that had a profound impact on my life (or both, in some cases). Curated from my library on Hardcover.
Wherever You Go, There You Are
Jon Kabat-Zinn
When Breath Becomes Air
Paul Kalanithi
Walden
Henry David Thoreau
Until the End of Time: Mind, Matter, and Our Search for Meaning in an Evolving Universe
Brian Greene
Travels with Charley
John Steinbeck
Thinking, Fast and Slow
Daniel Kahneman
The Three-Body Problem
Cixin Liu
The Story of the Human Body: Evolution, Health, and Disease
Daniel E. Lieberman
The Story of Philosophy: The Lives and Opinions of the World's Greatest Philosophers
Will Durant
The Silk Roads: A New History of the World
Peter Frankopan
The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion
Jonathan Haidt
The Right Stuff
Tom Wolfe
The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt
Edmund Morris
The Path Between the Seas: The Creation of the Panama Canal 1870-1914
David McCullough
The Overstory
Richard Powers
The Order of Time
Carlo Rovelli
The Myth of Sisyphus
Albert Camus
The Lessons of History
Will Durant, Ariel Durant
The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers
Ben Horowitz
The Divine Within
Aldous Huxley
The Crossing
Cormac McCarthy
The Conquest of Happiness
Bertrand Russell
The beginning of infinity explanations that transform the world
David Deutsch
The 42nd Parallel
John Dos Passos
Lonesome Dove
Larry McMurtry
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
Yuval Noah Harari
Reality is Not What it Seems
Carlo Rovelli
Poor Charlie's Almanack: The Wit and Wisdom of Charles T. Munger
Charles T. Munger
On the Shortness of Life
Seneca
Mortality
Christopher Hitchens
Meditations
Marcus Aurelius
Liar's Poker
Michael Lewis
Letters from a Stoic
Seneca
Island
Aldous Huxley
Guns, Germs and Steel: A Short History of Everybody for the Last 13,000 Years
Jared Diamond
Freedom
Jonathan Franzen
Flash Boys
Michael Lewis
No cover
Finding Meaning in the Second Half of Life: How to Finally, Really Grow Up
James Hollis
Fallen Leaves
Will Durant
Existentialism is a Humanism
Jean-Paul Sartre
Empires of Light: Edison, Tesla, Westinghouse, and the Race to Electrify the World
Jill Jonnes
East of Eden
John Steinbeck
Dune
Frank Herbert
No cover
Dialogues
Seneca
Crossroads
Jonathan Franzen
Cloud Cuckoo Land
Anthony Doerr
Cities of the Plain
Cormac McCarthy
Buffalo for the Broken Heart: Restoring Life to a Black Hills Ranch
Dan O'Brien
Blood Meridian: Or the Evening Redness in the West
Cormac McCarthy
Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End
Atul Gawande
Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life
William Finnegan
Atomic habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones
James Clear
A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments
David Foster Wallace
Arguably
Christopher Hitchens
A Man on the Moon: The Voyages of the Apollo Astronauts
Andrew Chaikin
A Man in Full
Tom Wolfe
All The Pretty Horses
Cormac McCarthy
All the Light We Cannot See
Anthony Doerr
A Guide to the Good Life
William B. Irvine
1776
David McCullough