I really enjoy getting book recommendations from people on Twitter or other places on the web. One great resource, which is also the inspiration for this page, is Patrick Collison’s bookshelf. I liked the idea of a centralized digital bookshelf so much, that I decided to make my own.

More recently, I’ve found few other good digital bookshelves here and here.

Below is a reasonably complete list of all the books I own. Similar to the physical bookshelves in most homes, these are arranged in a more or less random order. I’m firmly in the camp that one should buy books at a faster rate than one reads them. So, I’ve only read about half of the books on this list. I have flagged a few entries that I think are exceptional by bolding them and I have italicized books that are significantly above average.

• The Power of Ideas
• Thinking Without a Banister
• The Human Condition
• Eichmann in Jerusalem
• The Last Lion
• Poor Charlie’s Almanack
• Thomas jefferson: The Art of Power
• The Lincoln Reader
• Endgame: Boby Fischer’s Remarkable Rise and Fall
• Pops: A Life of Louis Armstrong
• Revolution in the Head: The Beatles’ Records and the Sixties
• The Life of the Mind
• Kitchen Confidential
• The Western Canon: The Books and School of the Ages
• The New Science
• The Essays of Montaigne
• Against the Current: Essays in the History of Ideas
• Vico and Herder
• The Proper Study of Mankind
• Complete Works of Shakespeare
• Respnosibility and Judgement
• Memoirs: A Twentieth Century Journey In Science And Politics
• Now It Can Be Told: The Story of the Manhattan Project
• Information Rules: A Strategic Guide to the Network Economy
• Thinking in Systems: A Primer
• Prediction Machines: The Simple Economics of Artificial Intelligence
• Understanding Michael Porter
• The Singapore Story
• Illuminations: Essays and Reflections
• The Power Broker
• I, Claudius
• Washington: A Life
• Hamilton
• Team of Rivals
• The Wizard and the Prophet
• A Beautiful Mind
• The Dream Machine
• The Gulag Achipeleago
• Hard Landing
• The Dominion of the Dead
• Forests: The Shadow of Civilization
• Gardens: An Essay on the Human Condition
• Liar’s Poker
• The Paris Review Interviews
• High Strung: Bjorn Borg, John McEnroe and the Last Days of Tennis’s Golden Age
• the Romanovs: 1613-1918
• Conan Doyle for the Defense
• Thinking Fast and Slow
• The Silk Roads: A New History of the World
• Selected Writings of Thomas Jefferson
• American Political Tradition
• The Complete Sherlock Holmes
• The Night Manager
• Die Trying
• The Killing Floor
• How Markets Fail: The Logic of Economic Calamities
• Three Bags Full: A Sheep Detective Story
• Of Privacy and Power
• Pattern Recognition
• I Like to Watch: Arguing My Way Through the TV Revolution
• Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion
• Agent Running in the Field
• A Man for All Markets
• An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding
• Born to Run
• Plato: The Complete Works
• The Book Why
• Payment Systems in the US
• Blue Ocean Strategy
• The Arabian Nights
• Poor Richard’s Almanack
• Norse Mythology
• The Effective Executive
• Investing: The Last Liberal Art
• Nudge
• Capital Returns: Investing Through the Capital Cycle
• Men in Dark Times
• Moby Dick
• The Origins of Totalitarianism
• Capitalism without Capital: The Rise of the Intangible Economy
• Gotham: A History of New York City to 1898
• A Legacy of Spies
• Innovation and Entrepreneurship
• Zero to One
• The Sense of Style
• Benjamin Franklin an American Life
• American Prometheus
• My Life
• The Scientist as Rebel
• The Looking Glass War
• Call for the Dead
• Barbarians at the Gate
• The Everything Store
• Models of My Life
• Metamorphoses
• Six Memos for the Next Millennium
• Shakespeare After All
• Only the Paranoid Survive
• Surely You’re Joking, Mr. Feynman!
• The Outsiders: Eight Unconventional CEOs and Their Radically Rational Blueprint for Success
• Titan: The Life of John D. Rockefeller, Sr.
• High Output Management
• The Idea Factory: Bell Labs and the Great Age of American Innovation
• Russian Thinkers
• Notes from Underground
• Juvenescence: A Cultural History of Our Age
• Creativity, Inc.
• The Martian
• Ghost Fleet
• Security Analysis
• Berkshire Hathaway Letters to Shareholders
• Bossy Pants
• Yes Please
• Market Wizards: Interviews with Top Traders
• Hedge Fund Market Wizards: How Winning Traders Win
• Smiley’s People
• The Honourable Schoolboy
• Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy
• Plutarch’s Lives
• Open
• A Collection of Essays
• The Iliad
• The Odyssey
• The Aeneid
• Karl Marx: His Life and Environment
• Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
• Paradise Lost
• Incognito: The Secret Lives of the Brain
• Leonardo and the Lasat Supper
• The Code Book
• Arctic Dreams
• Blink
• The Man Who Mistook His Wife For A Hat
• Prisoners of Geography
• The Fifth Risk
• Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World
• Thank You for Arguing
• Sake and Satori
• A Whole New Mind
• The Hard Thing About Hard Things
• The Intelligent Investor
• A Random Walk down Wall Street
• Business Adventures
• Why We Run
• All I Want To Know Is Where I’m Going To Die So I’ll Never Go There
• To Pixar and Beyond
• Creative Selection
• The Theory of Poker
• Selected Essays on Kant
• Critique of the Power of Judgment
• Gödel, Escher, Bach -The Ethics of Ambiguity
• Basic Writings: Ten Key Essays, plus the Introduction to Being and Time
• The Principle of Reason
• Nietzsche: The Gay Science
• Basic Writings of Nietzsche
• Beyond Good and Evil
• The Birth of Tragedy
• The Rebel
• The Myth of Sisyphus
• Kafka: A Collection of Critical Essays
• Pensees
• The Portable Emerson
• The Lessons of History
• Walden and Other Writings
• What is Life?
• Creative Evolution
• Time and Free Will
• The Six Great Humanistic Essays of John Stuart Mill
• Society Must Be Defended
• The Foucault Reader
• Madness and Civilization
• The Theory of Moral Sentiments
• The Man Who Solved the Market
• How the Scots Invented the Modern World
• The Ride of a Lifetime
• The Wars of the Roses: The Fall of the Plantagenets and the Rise of the Tudors
• And Then There Were None
• A Perfect Spy
• The Murder of Roger Ackyroyd
• Bomb Power: The Modern Presidency and the National Security State
• Skunk Works: A Personal Memoir of My Years at Lockheed
• 7 Powers: The Foundations of Business Strategy
• Connecting the Dots
• Lord Jim
• A Murder of Quality
• Sometimes a Great Notion
• The Three Body Problem
• Cat’s Eye
• Waiting for Godot
• The Unbearable Lightness of Being
• Doctor Faustus
• Night
• Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas
• The Waste Land and Other Poems
• to the Lighthouse
• A Room of One’s Own
• A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
• Wolf Hall
• A Tale of Two Cities
• Hocus Pocus
• Slaughterhouse-Five
• Selected Short Stories of Nathaniel Hawthorne
• The Tell-Tale Heart and Other Stories
• The Moon is Down
• Dracula
• One Hundred Years of Solitude
• The Death of Virgil
• The Selected Poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke
• The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge
• The Unkown Masterpiece
• Germinal
• The Secret Pilgrim
• Hag-Seed
• Working
• Why Information Grows
• The Rise and Fall of American Growth
• The Beginning of Infinity
• The Passage of Power: The Years of Lyndon Johnson IV
• A Rage in Harlem
• Master of the Senate: The Years of Lyndon Johnson III
• Means of Ascent: The Years of Lyndn Johnson II
• All the King’s Men
• The Path to Power: The Years of Lyndon Johnson I
• The Master Switch: The Rise and Fall of Information Empires
• AI Superpowers: China, Silicon Valley, and the New World Order
• The Confidence-Man: His Masquerade
• Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion
• Common Stocks and Uncommon Profits
• Andrew Carnegie
• A World Lit Only by Fire
• The Last of the Mohicans
• Rocket Men: The Daring Odyssey of Apollo 8 and the Astronauts Who Made Man’s First Journey to the Moon
• Plato at the Googleplex
• Good to Great
• The Ashes of Revolt
• Poems, Protest, and a Dream
• [Fathers and Sons](https://www.amazon.com/Fathers-Sons-Oxford-Worlds-Classics-ebook/dp/B005RBUKK2/ref=sr_1_1?crid=28EFYE980FXOU&dchild=1&keywords=fathers+and+sons+ivan+turgenev&qid=1590439123&sprefix=fathers+and+son%2Caps%2C 210&sr=8-1)
• Doctor Zhivago
• Hadji Murat
• The Brothers Karamazov
• My Talisman: The Poetry & Life of Alexander Pushkin
• The Master and Margarita
• Nine Plays of Chekov
• Pnin
• Pale Fire
• Selected Short Stories of Franz Kafka
• Prables and Paradoxes
• The First Man
• Arcadia
• Wonder Boys
• All the Light We Cannot See
• The Yiddish Policemen’s Union
• The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay
• A Clockwork Orange
• The Final Solution: A Story of Detection
• Joseph and His Brothers
• Death in Venice
• Thinking About the Longstanding Problems of Virtue and Happiness
• Last Evenings on Earth
• The Club Dumas
• Midnight’s Children
• Dune
• R.U.R.
• Spirits Rebellious
• Snow Country
• The Name of the Rose
• Group Portrait with Lady
• Primary Colors
• The Prophet
• The Collected Poems of Octavio Paz
• Neruda: Selected Poems
• The Hero with a Thousand Faces
• Theogony and Works and Days
• Superforecasting: The Art and Science of Prediction
• The House of Morgan: An American Banking Dynasty and the Rise of Modern Finance
• The Little Drummer Girl
• The Good Spy: The Life and Death of Robert Ames
• Why We Sleep
• Einstein: His Life and Universe
• The Undoing Project: A Friendship That Changed Our Minds
• The New New Thing
• Principles: Life and Work
• Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future
• Machine, Platform, Crowd: Harnessing Our Digital Future
• SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome
• Microsoft Secrets
• The Righteous Mind
• The Lean Startup
• Crossing the Chasm
• Dealers of Lightning: Xerox PARC and the Dawn of the Computer Age
• Playing to the Edge: American Intelligence in the Age of Terror
• Shoe Dog
• The Originals
• Borges: Collected Fictions
• Borges: Selected Non-Fictions
• Borges: Selected Poems
• Homo Faber
• Ape and Essence
• The Perennial Philosophy
• Point Counter Point
• Good Omens
• The Moonshine War
• Nine Stories
• The Princess Bride
• A Canticle for Leibowitz
• The Plague
• The Fall
• Tender is the Night
• Under the Volcano
• A Farewell to Arms
• For Whom the Bell Tolls
• Three Famous Short Novels
• The Complete Works of Lewis Carroll
• Dante’s Inferno
• The Three Musketeers
• Don Quixote
• An Impeccable Spy: Richard sorge, Salin’s Master Agenti
• The Captain Class
• The Victory Machine: The Making and Unmaking of the Warriors Dynasty
• Coach Wooden and Me
• Tyrant: Shakespeare on Politics
• How to Read a Book
• Draft No. 4
• Crashed: How a Decade of Financial Crises Changed the World
• Adaptive Markets: Financial Evolution at the Speed of Thought
• Six Short Stories
• Billy Budd, Sailori
• The Glass Hotel
• Oedipus Rex
• The War that Killed Achilles
• The Iliad
• The Odyessey
• Essays of E. B. White
• The Oresteia
• The Dark Forest
• Table Talk: Essays on Men and Manners
• Music: A Subversive History
• Scale: The Universal Laws of Life, Growth, and Death in Organisms, Cities, and Companies
• Tales From the Ant World
• Everything is Obvious: How Common Sense Fails Us
• Sid Meier’s Memoir!: A Life in Computer Games
• Masters of Doom: How Two Guys Created an Empire and Transformed Pop Culture
• Invent and Wander: The Collected Writings of Jeff Bezos
• Leap of Faith: Hubris, Negligence, and America’s Greatest Foreign Policy Tragedy
• Cable Cowboy
• Prometheus Bound
• The Three Theban Plays (Fagles Translation)
• The Return to the Little Kingdom
• The Ministry for the Future
• Softwar: An Intimate Portrait of larry Ellison and Oracle
• The Price of Peace: Money Democracy, and the Life of John Maynard Keynes
• Fortune Favors the Dead
• The Deluge: The Great War, America and the Remaking of the Global Order, 1916-1931
• Treasure Island
• A Small Town in Germany
• Amazon Unbound
• The Kid Stays in the Picture
• The Burial at Thebes
• The Tycoons
• The Coen Brothers: This Book Really Ties the Films Together
• Fortune’s Children: The Fall of the House of Vanderbilt
• Characters of Shakespeare’s Plays
• The Age of Movies: Selected Writings
• American Colossus: The Triumph of Capitalism, 1865-1900