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 — Fyodor Dostoevsky
• Down and Out in Paris and London — George Orwell
• Dirty Politics, Dirty Times — Lord Michael Ashcroft
• Letters around a garden — Rainer Maria Rilke
• The Diary Papers of Emily and Anne Brontë — Edited by Christine Alexander, with Mandy Swann
• Byron's Letters and Journals - Volume 2 - 1810 - 1812 - 'Famous in My Time' — Edited by Leslie A. Marchand
• Maxims and Reflections — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
• The Dream of a Ridiculous Man — Fyodor Dostoevsky
• The Picture of Dorian Gray — Oscar Wilde
• Niels Lyhne — Jens Peter Jacobsen
• Commentarii de Bello Gallico — Julius Caesar
• Essential Math for Data Science — Thomas Nield
• Discourses on Art — Sir Joshua Reynolds
• Self Help — Samuel Smiles
• Foreign Exchange Trading — Stuart Fieldhouse
• Eroticism — Georges Bataille
• Getting Real: the Smarter, Faster, Easier Way to Build a Successful Web Application — David Heinemeier Hansson and Jason Fried
• Byron's Letters and Journals - Volume 1 - 1798 - 1810 - 'In My Hot Youth' — Edited by Leslie A. Marchand
• The Faerie Queene — Edmund Spenser
• Physics and Philosophy — Werner Heisenberg
• The Life of Charlotte Brontë — Elizabeth Gaskell
• The Rambler (Yale Edition - Volume V) — Samuel Johnson
• Essays in Idleness: and Hojoki — Kenkō & Chōmei
• Private Notebooks: 1914-1916 — Ludwig Wittgenstein
• Dr. Johnson by Mrs. Thrale — Hester Lynch Piozzi
• The Grasmere and Alfoxden Journals — Dorothy Wordsworth
• Measure What Matters — John Doerr
• The Interpretation of Financial Statements: The Classic 1937 Edition — Graham and Meredith
• The Count of Monte Cristo — Alexandre Dumas
• Meno — Plato
• Oedipus at Colonius — Sophocles
• Second Treatise on Government — John Locke
• The Rambler (Yale Edition - Volume III) — Samuel Johnson
• So Bright and Delicate — John Keats
• The Idea of Progress — William Ralph Inge
• The Autobiography of Bertrand Russell — Bertrand Russell
• Letters to a Young Poet — Rainer Maria Rilke
• Hamlet — William Shakespeare
• Othello — William Shakespeare
• De Profundis — Oscar Wilde
• Pensées — Blaise Pascal
• Lives (John Donne, Sir Henry Wotton, Richard Hooker, George Herbert, Robert Sanderson) — Izaak Walton
• King Lear — William Shakespeare
• The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia — Samuel Johnson
• The Tempest — William Shakespeare
• Oedipus Rex — Sophocles
• Macbeth — William Shakespeare
• Letters to a Young Contrarian — Christopher Hitchens
• Letters concerning the English Nation — Voltaire
• Thoughts — Giacomo Leopardi
• A Mathematician's Apology — G. H. Hardy
• Meditations on First Philosophy — Rene Descartes
• The Art of Worldly Wisdom — Baltasar Gracián y Morales
• The Characters — Jean de La Bruyère
• Life of Samuel Johnson — James Boswell -
• Agnes Grey — Anne Brontë
• The Inner Game of Tennis
• Autobiography — John Stuart Mill
• The Almanack of Naval Ravikant
• Theogony and Works and Days — Hesiod
• My Universities — Maxim Gorky
• A Discourse on the Method — Rene Descartes
• Thus Spoke Zarathustra — Friedrich Nietzsche
• Ecce Homo — Friedrich Nietzsche
• Maxims — La Rochefoucauld
• Tao Te Ching — Lao Tzu
• As you like it — William Shakespeare
• The Symposium — Plato
• The Old Man and The Sea — Ernest Hemingway
• Lysistrata — Aristophanes

2020

• The Englishman who Posted Himself and Other Curious Objects — John Tingey
• Mr. Selfridge's Romance of Commerce: An Abridged Version of the Classic Text on Business and Life — H. Gordon Selfridge
• Letters from a Stoic — Seneca
• Finite and Infinite Games — James P. Carse
• Man's Search for Meaning — Viktor E. Frankl
• Succeeding with What You Have — Charles Schwab
• The Mamba Mentality — Kobe Bryant
• The Alchemists — Jim Ratcliffe
• The Wit & Wisdom of Oscar Wilde — Ralph Keyes
• Start Now. Get Perfect Later — Rob Moore
• Indistractable — Nir Eyal
• The Little Prince — Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
• Henry Poole Co — James Sherwood
• Random Reminiscences of Men and Events — John D. Rockefeller
• The Philobiblon of Richard de Bury — Richard de Bury
• The Swerve — Stephen Greenblatt
• Walt Disney — Neal Gabler
• A Florence Diary — Diana Athill
• Personal Recollections, from Early Life to Old Age, of Mary Somerville — Mary Somerville

2019

• Mellon — David Cannadine
• The Death of the Banker — Ron Chernow
• The Millionaire Next Door — Thomas J. Stanley, William D. Danko
• You Need a Budget — Jesse Mecham
• Poor Charlie's Almanack — Peter E. Kaufman
• The Shallows -Nicholas Carr
• Ending Aging — Aubrey de Grey, Michael Rae
• The Success System That Never Fails — W. Clement Stone
• Salary Versus Dividends — Nick Braun
• Warren Buffett Accounting Book — Stig Brodersen, Preston Pysh
• Accounting Made Simple — Mike Piper
• The Medici — Mary Hollingsworth
• The 5am Club — Robin S. Sharma
• Digital Minimalism — Cal Newport
• Letters of Note — Shaun Usher
• How to Live on 24 Hours a Day — Arnold Bennett
• The Daily Stoic — Ryan Holiday
• The Compound Effect — Darren Hardy
• Letters from a Self-Made Merchant to His Son — George Horace Lorimer
• Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass — Frederick Douglass
• The God Delusion — Richard Dawkins
• As a Man Thinketh — James Allen
• Books for Living — Will Schwalbe
• Atomic Habits — James Clear
• The Tao of Pooh — Benjamin Hoff
• The Power of Less — Resumiendo Libros
• What I Talk About When I Talk About Running — Haruki Murakami
• Founder — Amos Elon
• Lombard Street — Walter Bagehot
• Make Time -Jake Knapp
• Steal Like an Artist — Austin Kleon
• A Book Addict's Treasury — Julie Rugg, Lynda Murphy
• Ikigai — Hector Garcia Puigcerver
• The One Thing — Gary Keller
• Rework — Jason Fried
• Show Your Work! — Austin Kleon
• How to Own the World — Andrew Craig
• Tribe of Mentors — Timothy Ferriss
• A Bookman's Budget — Austin Dobson
• More Than Human — Ramez Naam
• The World According to Karl — Sandrine Gulbenkian

2018

• So Good They Can't Ignore You
• The Prophet — Kahlil Gibran
• The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up — Marie Kondō
• Venture Deals, Third Edition — Brad Feld
• The Productivity Project — Chris Bailey
• Peak — K. Anders Ericsson
• The Internet of Money Volume Two — Andreas M. Antonopoulos
• A Guide to the Good Life — William B. Irvine
• Tools of Titans — Timothy Ferriss
• Zero to One — Peter Thiel
• Sapiens — Yuval Noah Harari
• The Lean Startup — Eric Ries
• Filander and Cold — George Kelsey
• Good to Great — James C. Collins
• Unlimited Power — Anthony Robbins
• Go in Action — William Kennedy, Brian Ketelsen, Erik St. Martin
• The Barefoot Investor — Scott Pape
• The Rise of Superman — Steven Kotler
• MAKE — Pieter Levels
• High Growth Handbook — Elad Gil
• The Courage to Be Disliked — Ichiro Kishimi, Fumitake Koga
• Introducing Go — Caleb Doxsey
• Go in Practice — Matt Butcher
• The Hard Thing About Hard Things — Ben Horowitz
• Leonardo da Vinci — Walter Isaacson
• Go Programming Blueprints — Mat Ryer
• Animal Farm — George Orwell
• Go Standard Library Cookbook — Radomir Sohlich
• An Introduction to Programming in Go — Caleb Doxsey
• Learning React Native — Bonnie Eisenman
• Transport — Phillip P. Peterson
• React and React Native — Adam Boduch
• Vagabonding — Rolf Potts
• The $100 Startup — Chris Guillebeau
• Tao of Charlie Munger — David Clark
• Building Microservices with Go — Nic Jackson
• Learning Go Programming — Vladimir Vivien
• Go in 24 Hours — George Ornbo
• Life 3.0 — Max Tegmark
• The Richest Man in Babylon — George S. Clason
• Node.js, MongoDB, React, React Native Full-Stack Fundamentals and Beyond — Eric Bush

2017

• Think and Grow Rich — Napolean Hill
• The World as I see it — Albert Einstein
• Hyperfocus — Ron Travis Sr.
• Git Pocket Guide — Robert Silverman
• Level up your life — Steve Kamb
• The Linux Command Line — William E Jr Shotts
• Introducing Ethereum and Solidity — Chris Dannen
• Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie — Andrew Carnegie
• Albert Einstein, The Human Side — Albert Einstein
• Elon Musk — Ashlee Vance
• The Putin Interviews — Oliver Stone
• Blockchain — Melanie Swan
• Ethereum Made Easy — Dale Michelson
• Nikola Tesla My Inventions — Nikola Tesla
• First Person — Vladimir Putin
• Interpreting Company Reports for Dummies — Ken Langdon
• Night — Elie Weisel
• Getting things Done — David Allen
• Mastering Bitcoin — Andreas Antonopoulos
• The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin — Benjamin Franklin
• The Celestine Prophecy — James Redfield
• A Mind For Numbers — Barbara Oakley
• How to Win Friends & Influence People
• The Death of Ivan Ilyich — Leo Tolstoy
• Discipline Equals Freedom — Jocko Willink
• Striking Thoughts — Bruce Lee
• Outliers — Malcolm Gladwell
• The Defining Decade — Meg Jay
• Daily Rituals — Mason Currey
• Master Getting Things Done the David Allen Way with Evernote — Dominic Wolff
• A Book Addict's Treasury — Lynda Murphy
• Man's Search For Meaning — Viktor E. Frankl

Last updated 2026-05-18