Reads

2026 (so far)

• Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin
• No One Writes to the Colonel by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
• Dune: Messiah by Frank Herbert
• Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry
• How to Make a Few Billion Dollars by Brad Jacobs
• …

2025

• Same As Ever by Morgan Housel
• The 33 Strategies of War by Robert Greene
• The Anthology of Balaji by Eric Jorgensen
• This Is Strategy by Seth Godin
• Thinking in Systems by Donella Meadows
• Unreasonable Hospitality by Will Guidara
• Dune by Frank Herbert
• The Pathless Path by Paul Millerd
• Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
• Fierce Intimacy by Terry Real
• Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert Heinlein
• The Paper Menagerie by Ken Liu
• The River of Doubt by Candice Millard
• Make Something Wonderful by Steve Jobs
• Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy
• Awareness by Anthony de Mello

2024

• Homo Deus by Yuval Noah Harari
• The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand
• Magdalena by Wade Davis
• East of Eden by John Steinbeck
• In An Instant by Bob and Lee Woodruff
• Tribe by Sebastian Junger
• The Comfort Crisis by Michael Easter
• No Time for Spectators by Martin Dempsey
• Fundraising by Ryan Breslow
• Scaling People by Claire Hughes Johnson
• Zorba the Greek by Nikos Kazantzakis
• The Second Mountain by David Brooks
• 1984 by George Orwell
• The Road by Cormac McCarthy

2023

• The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt by Edmund Morris
• Is This Anything? by Jerry Seinfeld
• The Kill Chain by Christian Brose
• Essentialism by Greg McKeown
• Rabbit, Run by John Updike
• The Enchiridion by Epictetus
• The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien
• Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World by Jack Weatherford
• Atomic Habits by James Clear
• A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara
• The Creative Act: A Way of Being by Rick Rubin
• Hot Water by P.G. Wodehouse

2022

• This Is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone
• The Art of Seduction by Robert Greene
• Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson
• The Lessons of History by Will and Ariel Durant
• The War of Art: Winning the Inner Creative Battle by Steven Pressfield
• Beyond Order by Jordan B. Peterson
• Linchpin by Seth Godin
• Risk: A User’s Guide by Stanley McChrystal
• Four Thousand Weeks – Time Management for Mortals by Oliver Burkeman
• Liar’s Poker by Michael Lewis
• Very Good, Jeeves! by P. G. Wodehouse
• The Firm: The Story of McKinsey and Its Secret Influence on American Business by Duff McDonald
• The Last Lion, Volume 1: Winston Spencer Churchill, Visions of Glory by William Manchester
• The Beginning of Infinity by David Deutsch
• The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right by Atul Gawande
• The Lion Tracker’s Guide to Life by Boyd Varty
• Think Again: The Power of Knowing What You Don’t Know by Adam Grant
• The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers by Ben Horowitz
• Casino Royale by Ian Fleming
• Tools of Titans: The Tactics, Routines, and Habits of Billionaires, Icons, and World-Class Performers by Tim Ferriss
• How to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie
• The Network State by Balaji Srinivasan
• On The Shortness of Life by Seneca
• Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future by Ashlee Vance
• Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly by Anthony Bourdain
• Invent & Wander by Jeff Bezos
• Always Faithful by Tom Schueman and Zainullah Zaki
• Tribe of Mentors by Tim Ferriss
• Principles for Dealing With The Changing World Order: Why Nations Succeed and Fail by Ray Dalio
• Mating in Captivity by Esther Perel

2021

• Man’s Search for Meaning by Viktor E. Frankl
• The 48 Laws of Power by Robert Greene
• The Richest Man in Babylon by George S. Clason
• Natural Born Heroes by Christopher McDougall
• The 5 Love Languages by Gary Chapman
• Rogue Male by Geoffrey Household
• The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
• Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer
• Tuesdays With Morrie by Mitch Albom
• Rogue Justice by Geoffrey Household
• My Early Life by Winston Churchill
• Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can’t Stop Talking
• The Way to Love by Anthony De Mello
• The 4-Hour Workweek by Tim Ferriss
• The Splendid and the Vile by Erik Larson
• 12 Rules for Life by Jordan B. Peterson
• The Almanack of Naval Ravikant: A Guide to Wealth and Happiness by Eric Jorgenson
• Greenlights by Matthew McConaughey
• South of Broad by Pat Conroy
• Surely You’re Joking, Mr. Feynman! by Richard Feynman
• Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari
• The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway*
• Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future by Peter Thiel

(*) Indicates re-read