I keep a list of the books I've read:
2024
- Anathem
- Damascus Station
- The Black Dahlia
- The Big Nowhere
- L.A. Confidential
- White Jazz
- Caledonian Road
- On the Edge: The Art of Risking Everything
- Beijing Rules: China's Quest for Global Influence
- Pattern Breakers: Why Some Start-Ups Change the Future
2023
- Impromptu: Amplifying Our Humanity Through AI
- Techlash: Who Makes the Rules in the Digital Gilded Age?
- The Coming Wave: Technology, Power, and the Twenty-first Century’s Greatest Dilemma
- Brave New World
- The Cryptopians
- Money Men: A Hot Startup, A Billion Dollar Fraud, A Fight for the Truth
- Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World
- Countdown to Zero Day: Stuxnet and the Launch of the World's First Digital Weapon
- Snow Crash
2022
- The Atlas of AI: Power, Politics, and the Planetary Costs of Artificial Intelligence
- The Exponential Age: How Accelerating Technology is Transforming Business, Politics and Society
- An Ugly Truth: Inside Facebook's Battle for Domination
- The Power Law: Venture Capital and the Making of the New Future
- Prisoners of Geography
- The Book of Five Rings
- Alchemy: The Surprising Power of Ideas That Don't Make Sense
- Project Hail Mary
2021
- Stakeholder Capitalism: A Global Economy that Works for Progress, People and Planet
- Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us
- Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die
- No Filter: The Inside Story of Instagram
- Redirect: Changing the Stories We Live By
- No Rules Rules: Netflix and the Culture of Reinvention
- The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business
- Pure Invention: How Japan's Pop Culture Conquered the World
- Noise: A Flaw in Human Judgment
- My Remarkable Journey, Katherine Johnson
- The Art of Choosing
- The Invisible Gorilla: How Our Intuitions Deceive Us
2020
- The Fifth Risk: Undoing Democracy
- Normal People
- Super Pumped: The Battle for Uber
- People Powered: How Communities Can Supercharge Your Business, Brand, and Teams
- Pale Blue Dot
- The Biggest Bluff: How I Learned to Pay Attention, Take Control and Master the Odds
- Get Together: How to Build a Community with Your People
- The Passion Economy: The New Rules for Thriving in the Twenty-First Century
- Why We Sleep
- The Border
- Choked - The Age of Air Pollution and the Fight for a Cleaner Future
- Invisible Women - Exposing Data Bias in a World Designed for Men
- This Is How You Lose the Time War
- The City in the Middle of the Night
- Black Leopard, Red Wolf
2019
- Hatching Twitter
- Subscribed
- Skin in the Game
- 1984
- Children of Blood and Bone
2018
- Principles: Life and Work
- Life 3.0: Being Human in the Age of Artificial Intelligence
- The Friendly Orange Glow: The Untold Story of the Plato System and the Dawn of Cyberculture
- Platform Scale: How an emerging business model helps startups build large empires with minimum investment
- Peers Inc
- The Industries of the Future
- Powerful: Building a Culture of Freedom and Responsibility
- Troublemakers: Silicon Valley's Coming of Age
- Leonardo Da Vinci
- Bad Blood
- The Fables of the Bees
2017
- What Is Not Yours Is Not Yours by Helen Oyeyemi
- The House of Silk by Anthony Horowitz
- Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
- Letters from a Self-Made Merchant to His Son by George Horace Lorimer
- The Undoing Project: A Friendship that Changed the World by Michael Lewis
- The Hard Thing About Hard Things by Ben Horowitz
- The Republic by Plato
- Forces of Nature by Professor Brian Cox
- Founders at Work: Stories of Startups’ Early Days by Jessica Livingston
- Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow by Yuval Noah Harari
- Disrupted: Ludicrous Misadventures in the Tech Start-Up Bubble by Dan Lyons
- The Song Machine: How to Make a Hit by John Seabrook
- Business Adventures: Twelve Classic Tales from the World of Wall Street by John Brooks
- The Road to Character by David Brooks
- Reality Is Not What It Seems: The Journey to Quantum Gravity by Carlo Rovelli
- The Moral Sayings of Publius Syrus: A Roman Slave by Publius Syrus
- I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
Books read in 2016:
- Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance by Angela Duckworth
- Team of Teams: New Rules of Engagement for a Complex World by General Stanley McChrystal, Tantum Collins and David Silverman
- Flash Boys: Cracking the Money Code by Michael Lewis.
- Pep Guardiola: Another Way of Winning by Guillem Balague
- The Design of Everyday Things by Donald A Norman
- Strategy by B.H. Liddell Hart
- Ask The Dust by John Fante
- The Blind Side: Evolution of a Game by Michael Lewis
- Zen in the Art of Archery by Eugen Herrigel
- Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything by Steven Levitt and Stephen Dubner
- Chaos Monkeys: Inside the Silicon Valley Money Machine by Antonio Garcia Martinez
- Predictive Analytics: The Power to Predict Who Will Click, Buy, Lie or Die by Eric Siegel
- Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari
Books read in 2015:
- Zero to One: Notes on Start-Ups, or How to Build the Future by Blake Masters, Peter Thiel
- Automate This: How Algorithms Came to Rule Our World by Christopher Steiner
- Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less by Greg McKeown
- ReWork: Change the Way You Work Forever by David Heinemeier Hansson
- The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference by Malcolm Gladwell
Books read between 2014 - 2005:
- The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho
- The Lean Startup by Eric Ries
- Liar's Poker by Michael Lewis
- The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable by Nassim Nicholas Taleb