Bookshelf
Below is a fairly complete catalog of the physical books I've read. Most of the more recent books on this list are coming from my Great Books Challenge. I've made a page that explains my reasons for reading here.
203 books
Recent
- Notes from Underground
- Down and Out in Paris and London
- Dirty Politics, Dirty Times
- Letters around a garden
- The Diary Papers of Emily and Anne Brontë
- Byron's Letters and Journals - Volume 2 - 1810 - 1812 - 'Famous in My Time'
- Maxims and Reflections
- The Dream of a Ridiculous Man
- The Picture of Dorian Gray
- Niels Lyhne
- Commentarii de Bello Gallico
- Essential Math for Data Science
- Discourses on Art
- Self Help
- Foreign Exchange Trading
- Eroticism
- Getting Real: the Smarter, Faster, Easier Way to Build a Successful Web Application
- Byron's Letters and Journals - Volume 1 - 1798 - 1810 - 'In My Hot Youth'
- The Faerie Queene
- Physics and Philosophy
- The Life of Charlotte Brontë
- The Rambler (Yale Edition - Volume V)
- Essays in Idleness: and Hojoki
- Private Notebooks: 1914-1916
- Dr. Johnson by Mrs. Thrale
- The Grasmere and Alfoxden Journals
- Measure What Matters
- The Interpretation of Financial Statements: The Classic 1937 Edition
- The Count of Monte Cristo
- Meno
- Oedipus at Colonius
- Second Treatise on Government
- The Rambler (Yale Edition - Volume III)
- So Bright and Delicate
- The Idea of Progress
- The Autobiography of Bertrand Russell
- Letters to a Young Poet
- Hamlet
- Othello
- De Profundis
- Pensées
- Lives (John Donne, Sir Henry Wotton, Richard Hooker, George Herbert, Robert Sanderson)
- King Lear
- The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia
- The Tempest
- Oedipus Rex
- Macbeth
- Letters to a Young Contrarian
- Letters concerning the English Nation
- Thoughts
- A Mathematician's Apology
- Meditations on First Philosophy
- The Art of Worldly Wisdom
- The Characters
- Life of Samuel Johnson
- Agnes Grey
- The Inner Game of Tennis
- Autobiography
- The Almanack of Naval Ravikant
- Theogony and Works and Days
- My Universities
- A Discourse on the Method
- Thus Spoke Zarathustra
- Ecce Homo
- Maxims
- Tao Te Ching
- As you like it
- The Symposium
- The Old Man and The Sea
- Lysistrata
2020
- The Englishman who Posted Himself and Other Curious Objects
- Mr. Selfridge's Romance of Commerce: An Abridged Version of the Classic Text on Business and Life
- Letters from a Stoic
- Finite and Infinite Games
- Man's Search for Meaning
- Succeeding with What You Have
- The Mamba Mentality
- The Alchemists
- The Wit & Wisdom of Oscar Wilde
- Start Now. Get Perfect Later
- Indistractable
- The Little Prince
- Henry Poole Co
- Random Reminiscences of Men and Events
- The Philobiblon of Richard de Bury
- The Swerve
- Walt Disney
- A Florence Diary
- Personal Recollections, from Early Life to Old Age, of Mary Somerville
2019
- Mellon
- The Death of the Banker
- The Millionaire Next Door
- You Need a Budget
- Poor Charlie's Almanack
- The Shallows -Nicholas Carr
- Ending Aging
- The Success System That Never Fails
- Salary Versus Dividends
- Warren Buffett Accounting Book
- Accounting Made Simple
- The Medici
- The 5am Club
- Digital Minimalism
- Letters of Note
- How to Live on 24 Hours a Day
- The Daily Stoic
- The Compound Effect
- Letters from a Self-Made Merchant to His Son
- Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
- The God Delusion
- As a Man Thinketh
- Books for Living
- Atomic Habits
- The Tao of Pooh
- The Power of Less
- What I Talk About When I Talk About Running
- Founder
- Lombard Street
- Make Time -Jake Knapp
- Steal Like an Artist
- A Book Addict's Treasury
- Ikigai
- The One Thing
- Rework
- Show Your Work!
- How to Own the World
- Tribe of Mentors
- A Bookman's Budget
- More Than Human
- The World According to Karl
2018
- So Good They Can't Ignore You
- The Prophet
- The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up
- Venture Deals, Third Edition
- The Productivity Project
- Peak
- The Internet of Money Volume Two
- A Guide to the Good Life
- Tools of Titans
- Zero to One
- Sapiens
- The Lean Startup
- Filander and Cold
- Good to Great
- Unlimited Power
- Go in Action
- The Barefoot Investor
- The Rise of Superman
- MAKE
- High Growth Handbook
- The Courage to Be Disliked
- Introducing Go
- Go in Practice
- The Hard Thing About Hard Things
- Leonardo da Vinci
- Go Programming Blueprints
- Animal Farm
- Go Standard Library Cookbook
- An Introduction to Programming in Go
- Learning React Native
- Transport
- React and React Native
- Vagabonding
- The $100 Startup
- Tao of Charlie Munger
- Building Microservices with Go
- Learning Go Programming
- Go in 24 Hours
- Life 3.0
- The Richest Man in Babylon
- Node.js, MongoDB, React, React Native Full-Stack Fundamentals and Beyond
2017
- Think and Grow Rich
- The World as I see it
- Hyperfocus
- Git Pocket Guide
- Level up your life
- The Linux Command Line
- Introducing Ethereum and Solidity
- Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie
- Albert Einstein, The Human Side
- Elon Musk
- The Putin Interviews
- Blockchain
- Ethereum Made Easy
- Nikola Tesla My Inventions
- First Person
- Interpreting Company Reports for Dummies
- Night
- Getting things Done
- Mastering Bitcoin
- The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
- The Celestine Prophecy
- A Mind For Numbers
- How to Win Friends & Influence People
- The Death of Ivan Ilyich
- Discipline Equals Freedom
- Striking Thoughts
- Outliers
- The Defining Decade
- Daily Rituals
- Master Getting Things Done the David Allen Way with Evernote
- A Book Addict's Treasury
- Man's Search For Meaning
Last updated 2026-05-18