Bookshelf

A list I keep of books I read in the past few years. List is in no particular order. Books I rated 5 stars are highlighted in orange. 4-star rating are green.

• Difficult Conversations: How to Discuss What Matters Most by Douglas Stone (My rating: -/5)
  
• Bruce by Peter Ames Carlin (My rating: 3/5)
  
• Insanely Great: The Life and Times of Macintosh, the Computer that changed Everything by Steven Levy (My rating: 3/5)
  
• Venture Deals by Brad Feld (My rating: 4/5)
  
• The Person You Mean to Be: How Good People Fight Bias by Dolly Chugh (My rating: -/5)
  
• The Innovator's Dilemma: The Revolutionary Book that Will Change the Way You Do Business by Clayton M. Christensen (My rating: 4/5)
  
• The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway (My rating: -/5)
  
• Inside Apple by Adam Lashinsky (My rating: 2/5)
  
• Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap... and Others Don't by James C. Collins (My rating: -/5)
  
• Switch: How to Change Things When Change Is Hard by Chip Heath (My rating: -/5)
  
• Red Notice: A True Story of High Finance, Murder, and One Man's Fight for Justice by Bill Browder (My rating: 5/5)
  
• The Gene: An Intimate History by Siddhartha Mukherjee (My rating: 5/5)
  
• Good Strategy Bad Strategy: The Difference and Why It Matters by Richard P. Rumelt (My rating: 3/5)
  
• Facebook: The Inside Story by Steven Levy (My rating: 3/5)
  
• Think Like a Rocket Scientist: Simple Strategies You Can Use to Make Giant Leaps in Work and Life by Ozan Varol (My rating: 3/5)
  
• Titan: The Life of John D. Rockefeller, Sr. by Ron Chernow (My rating: 4/5)
  
• Crossing the Chasm: Marketing and Selling High-Tech Products to Mainstream Customers by Geoffrey A. Moore (My rating: 4/5)
  
• Ruined by Design: How Designers Destroyed the World, and What We Can Do to Fix It by Mike Monteiro (My rating: -/5)
  
• Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones by James Clear (My rating: 3/5)
  
• Never Split the Difference: Negotiating As If Your Life Depended On It by Chris Voss (My rating: 4/5)
  
• Animal Farm by George Orwell (My rating: -/5)
  
• Conversational Design by Erika Hall (My rating: -/5)
  
• Startup Life: Surviving and Thriving in a Relationship with an Entrepreneur by Brad Feld (My rating: -/5)
  
• Meaningful Work: A Quest to Do Great Business, Find Your Calling, and Feed Your Soul by Shawn Askinosie (My rating: -/5)
  
• Badass: Making Users Awesome by Kathy Sierra (My rating: -/5)
  
• The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood (My rating: -/5)
  
• Uncanny Valley: A Memoir by Anna Wiener (My rating: 3/5)
  
• The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right by Atul Gawande (My rating: 4/5)
  
• SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome by Mary Beard (My rating: 4/5)
  
• But What If We're Wrong? Thinking About the Present As If It Were the Past by Chuck Klosterman (My rating: -/5)
  
• Creativity, Inc.: Overcoming the Unseen Forces That Stand in the Way of True Inspiration by Ed Catmull (My rating: 4/5)
  
• It Can't Happen Here by Sinclair Lewis (My rating: -/5)
  
• Caesar: Life of a Colossus by Adrian Goldsworthy (My rating: -/5)
  
• Losing My Virginity: How I've Survived, Had Fun, and Made a Fortune Doing Business My Way by Richard Branson (My rating: 2/5)
  
• The Storm Before the Storm: The Beginning of the End of the Roman Republic by Mike Duncan (My rating: 5/5)
  
• The Spy Who Came in from the Cold by John le Carré (My rating: 5/5)
  
• Women by Charles Bukowski (My rating: 3/5)
  
• How to Measure Anything: Finding the Value of "Intangibles" in Business by Douglas W. Hubbard (My rating: 4/5)
  
• The Robber Barons by Matthew Josephson (My rating: -/5)
  
• The Da Vinci Code (Robert Langdon, #2) by Dan Brown (My rating: -/5)
  
• She Has Her Mother's Laugh: The Powers, Perversions, and Potential of Heredity by Carl Zimmer (My rating: 5/5)
  
• Principles For Dealing With the Changing World Order: Why Nations Succeed and Fail by Ray Dalio (My rating: 5/5)
  
• My First New York: Early Adventures in the Big City (As Remembered by Actors, Artists, Athletes, Chefs, Comedians, Filmmakers, Mayors, Models, Moguls, Porn Stars, Rockers, Writers, and Others by New York Magazine (My rating: 2/5)
  
• One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey (My rating: -/5)
  
• Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap... and Others Don't by James C. Collins (My rating: 5/5)
  
• Make Your Own Neural Network by Tariq Rashid (My rating: 4/5)
  
• American Kingpin: The Epic Hunt for the Criminal Mastermind Behind the Silk Road by Nick Bilton (My rating: 3/5)
  
• In the Plex: How Google Thinks, Works, and Shapes Our Lives by Steven Levy (My rating: 4/5)
  
• Outliers: The Story of Success by Malcolm Gladwell (My rating: 4/5)
  
• The Almanack of Naval Ravikant: A Guide to Wealth and Happiness by Eric Jorgenson (My rating: 4/5)
  
• Getting to Yes: Negotiating Agreement Without Giving In by Roger Fisher (My rating: -/5)
  
• The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde (My rating: -/5)
  
• Diplomacy by Henry Kissinger (My rating: -/5)
  
• Brave New Work: Are You Ready to Reinvent Your Organization? by Aaron Dignan (My rating: 3/5)
  
• Only the Paranoid Survive by Andrew S. Grove (My rating: 5/5)
  
• Good Economics for Hard Times: Better Answers to Our Biggest Problems by Abhijit V. Banerjee (My rating: -/5)
  
• Secrets of Sand Hill Road: Venture Capital and How to Get It by Scott Kupor (My rating: 3/5)
  
• Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly by Anthony Bourdain (My rating: 5/5)
  
• Creative Confidence: Unleashing the Creative Potential Within Us All by Tom Kelley (My rating: -/5)
  
• Accelerando (Singularity) by Charles Stross (My rating: 3/5)
  
• Mathematics: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions) by Timothy Gowers (My rating: -/5)
  
• Setting the Table: The Transforming Power of Hospitality in Business by Danny Meyer (My rating: 5/5)
  
• Dit kan niet waar zijn by Joris Luyendijk (My rating: 3/5)
  
• The Ride of a Lifetime: Lessons Learned from 15 Years as CEO of the Walt Disney Company by Robert Iger (My rating: 5/5)
  
• Don't Even Think About It: Why Our Brains Are Wired to Ignore Climate Change by George Marshall (My rating: 3/5)
  
• Under Red Skies: Three Generations of Life, Loss, and Hope in China by Karoline Kan (My rating: 5/5)
  
• Start with Why: How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone to Take Action by Simon Sinek (My rating: -/5)
  
• Steppenwolf by Hermann Hesse (My rating: 5/5)
  
• Out of Mao's Shadow: The Struggle for the Soul of a New China by Philip P. Pan (My rating: -/5)
  
• RAILROADER: The Unfiltered Genius and Controversy of Four-Time CEO Hunter Harrison by Howard Green (My rating: 4/5)
  
• Life by Keith Richards (My rating: -/5)
  
• The Quiet American by Graham Greene (My rating: 5/5)
  
• Super Pumped: The Battle for Uber by Mike Isaac (My rating: 4/5)
  
• How to Be a Founder: How Entrepreneurs can Identify, Fund and Launch their Best Ideas by Alice Bentinck (My rating: -/5)
  
• High Output Management by Andrew S. Grove (My rating: 4/5)
  
• We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy by Ta-Nehisi Coates (My rating: 4/5)
  
• Machine Learning for Email: Spam Filtering and Priority Inbox by Drew Conway (My rating: 3/5)
  
• The Pyramid Principle: Logic in Writing & Thinking by Barbara Minto (My rating: 4/5)
  
• The Marketing Playbook: Five Battle-Tested Plays for Capturing and Keeping the Leadin Any Market by John Zagula (My rating: 2/5)
  
• The Geometry of Wealth: How to shape a life of money and meaning by Brian Portnoy (My rating: -/5)
  
• The Singularity is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology by Ray Kurzweil (My rating: -/5)
  
• The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck (My rating: 5/5)
  
• A People's History of the United States by Howard Zinn (My rating: -/5)
  
• Scrum: The Art of Doing Twice the Work in Half the Time by Jeff Sutherland (My rating: -/5)
  
• Clinical Trials in Oncology (Chapman & Hall/CRC Interdisciplinary Statistics Book 28) by Stephanie Green (My rating: -/5)
  
• The Founders: The Story of Paypal and the Entrepreneurs Who Shaped Silicon Valley by Jimmy Soni (My rating: 5/5)
  
• What Every Body is Saying: An Ex-FBI Agent's Guide to Speed-Reading People by Joe Navarro (My rating: -/5)
  
• Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World—and Why Things Are Better Than You Think by Hans Rosling (My rating: -/5)
  
• Win Bigly: Persuasion in a World Where Facts Don't Matter by Scott Adams (My rating: -/5)
  
• The Firm: The Story of McKinsey and Its Secret Influence on American Business by Duff McDonald (My rating: 2/5)
  
• Conspiracy: Peter Thiel, Hulk Hogan, Gawker, and the Anatomy of Intrigue by Ryan Holiday (My rating: -/5)
  
• Kokoro by Natsume Sōseki (My rating: -/5)
  
• Notes from an Apocalypse: A Personal Journey to the End of the World and Back by Mark O'Connell (My rating: -/5)
  
• Confessions of an Economic Hit Man by John Perkins (My rating: 4/5)
  
• The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon by Brad Stone (My rating: 4/5)
  
• Educated by Tara Westover (My rating: 4/5)
  
• Creative Selection: Inside Apple's Design Process During the Golden Age of Steve Jobs by Ken Kocienda (My rating: 4/5)
  
• Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi (My rating: -/5)
  
• Never Eat Alone: And Other Secrets to Success, One Relationship at a Time by Keith Ferrazzi (My rating: 3/5)
  
• The Infinite Game by Simon Sinek (My rating: 2/5)
  
• The Unwinding: An Inner History of the New America by George Packer (My rating: 4/5)
  
• The Sales Acceleration Formula: Using Data, Technology, and Inbound Selling to go from $0 to $100 Million by Mark Roberge (My rating: 1/5)
  
• The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine (Movie Tie-in Editions) by Michael Lewis (My rating: -/5)
  
• One Strategy: Organization, Planning, and Decision Making by Steven Sinofsky (My rating: 5/5)
  
• The Education of an Idealist: A Memoir by Samantha Power (My rating: 5/5)
  
• Madly, Deeply: The Diaries of Alan Rickman by Alan Rickman (My rating: 2/5)
  
• No Filter: The Inside Story of Instagram by Sarah Frier (My rating: 5/5)
  
• Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari (My rating: 3/5)
  
• Naked Lunch by William S. Burroughs (My rating: 1/5)
  
• All The King's Men by Robert Penn Warren (My rating: -/5)
  
• Double Down: Game Change 2012 by Mark Halperin (My rating: 4/5)
  
• Born Standing Up: A Comic's Life by Steve Martin (My rating: 5/5)
  
• The Flawless Consulting Fieldbook and Companion: A Guide to Understanding Your Expertise by Peter Block (My rating: -/5)
  
• Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future by Peter Thiel (My rating: 4/5)
  
• Trillion Dollar Coach: The Leadership Playbook of Silicon Valley's Bill Campbell by Eric Schmidt (My rating: -/5)
  
• The Art of Project Management (Theory in Practice (O'Reilly)) by Scott Berkun (My rating: 3/5)
  
• In the Company of Giants: Candid Conversations with the Visionaries of the Digital World by Rama Jager (My rating: 4/5)
  
• Letterman: The Last Giant of Late Night by Jason Zinoman (My rating: 4/5)
  
• Bitcoin Billionaires: A True Story of Genius, Betrayal, and Redemption by Ben Mezrich (My rating: 2/5)
  
• Poor Richard's Almanack by Benjamin Franklin (My rating: 5/5)
  
• Winning by Jack Welch (My rating: 3/5)
  
• The Power Law: Venture Capital and the Making of the New Future by Sebastian Mallaby (My rating: 5/5)
  
• The Heroic and Exceptional Minority: A Guide to Mythological Self-Awareness and Growth by Gregory V. Diehl (My rating: -/5)
  
• Dream Hoarders: How the American Upper Middle Class Is Leaving Everyone Else in the Dust, Why That Is a Problem, and What to Do About It by Richard V. Reeves (My rating: -/5)
  
• When the Wolves Bite: Two Billionaires, One Company, and an Epic Wall Street Battle by Scott Wapner (My rating: 4/5)
  
• Jack: Straight from the Gut by Jack Welch (My rating: -/5)
  
• Taking the Work Out of Networking: An Introvert's Guide to Making Connections That Count by Karen Wickre (My rating: -/5)
  
• High Output Management by Andrew S. Grove (My rating: 5/5)
  
• The Price of Inequality: How Today's Divided Society Endangers Our Future by Joseph E. Stiglitz (My rating: -/5)
  
• Stubborn Attachments: A Vision for a Society of Free, Prosperous, and Responsible Individuals by Tyler Cowen (My rating: 5/5)
  
• Ai Superpowers: China, Silicon Valley, and the New World Order by Kai-Fu Lee (My rating: 3/5)
  
• A Vast Machine: Computer Models, Climate Data, and the Politics of Global Warming (Infrastructures) by Paul N. Edwards (My rating: 4/5)
  
• Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies by Jared Diamond (My rating: -/5)
  
• The 4-Hour Workweek by Timothy Ferriss (My rating: 2/5)
  
• Radical Uncertainty: Decision-Making Beyond the Numbers by John Kay (My rating: 5/5)
  
• The Book of Why: The New Science of Cause and Effect by Judea Pearl (My rating: 3/5)
  
• Mirror Worlds: Or the Day Software Puts the Universe in a Shoebox...How It Will Happen and What It Will Mean by David Gelernter (My rating: 4/5)
  
• Kissinger by Walter Isaacson (My rating: 4/5)
  
• Sourdough by Robin Sloan (My rating: -/5)
  
• Russian Roulette: The Inside Story of Putin's War on America and the Election of Donald Trump by Michael Isikoff (My rating: 3/5)
  
• Becoming Steve Jobs: The Evolution of a Reckless Upstart into a Visionary Leader by Brent Schlender (My rating: 2/5)
  
• Startup Seed Funding for the Rest of Us: How to Raise $1 Million for Your Startup - Even Outside of Silicon Valley by Mike Belsito (My rating: 1/5)
  
• Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die by Chip Heath (My rating: 3/5)
  
• The Path to Power by Robert A. Caro (My rating: -/5)
  
• Predictable Revenue: Turn Your Business Into a Sales Machine with the $100 Million Best Practices of Salesforce.com by Aaron Ross (My rating: 3/5)
  
• The Beginning of Infinity: Explanations That Transform the World by David Deutsch (My rating: 5/5)
  
• Bandwidth (Analog #1) by Eliot Peper (My rating: -/5)
  
• Chronicles: Volume One by Bob Dylan (My rating: 5/5)
  
• 1Q84 (1Q84 #1-3) by Haruki Murakami (My rating: -/5)
  
• The Messy Middle: Finding Your Way Through the Hardest and Most Crucial Part of Any Bold Venture by Scott Belsky (My rating: -/5)
  
• Who Is Michael Ovitz? by Michael Ovitz (My rating: 5/5)
  
• Love Is a Dog from Hell by Charles Bukowski (My rating: 3/5)
  
• The Sovereign Individual: Mastering the Transition to the Information Age by James Dale Davidson (My rating: 5/5)
  
• Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House by Michael Wolff (My rating: -/5)
  
• A Collection of Essays by George Orwell (My rating: 5/5)
  
• No Rules Rules: Netflix and the Culture of Reinvention by Reed Hastings (My rating: 3/5)
  
• Down and Out in Paris and London by George Orwell (My rating: 5/5)
  
• The Snowball: Warren Buffett and the Business of Life by Alice Schroeder (My rating: -/5)
  
• Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad (My rating: -/5)
  
• What Is Node? by Brett McLaughlin (My rating: 3/5)
  
• From Impossible To Inevitable: How Hyper-Growth Companies Create Predictable Revenue by Aaron Ross (My rating: -/5)
  
• The World as It Is: A Memoir of the Obama White House by Ben Rhodes (My rating: 5/5)
  
• The Curse of Lono by Hunter S. Thompson (My rating: 4/5)
  
• Managing Oneself (Harvard Business Review Classics) by Peter F. Drucker (My rating: -/5)
  
• Shoe Dog: A Memoir by the Creator of Nike by Phil Knight (My rating: 5/5)
  
• On Intelligence by Jeff Hawkins (My rating: -/5)
  
• The FUTURE AND ITS ENEMIES: The Growing Conflict Over Creativity, Enterprise, and Progress by Virginia Postrel (My rating: -/5)
  
• Make Time: How to Focus on What Matters Every Day by Jake Knapp (My rating: 4/5)
  
• Medium Raw: A Bloody Valentine to the World of Food and the People Who Cook by Anthony Bourdain (My rating: 4/5)
  
• The New Rules of Work: The Modern Playbook for Navigating Your Career by Alexandra Cavoulacos (My rating: -/5)
  
• 7 Powers: The Foundations of Business Strategy by Hamilton Wright Helmer (My rating: 5/5)
  
• Do More Faster: Techstars Lessons to Accelerate Your Startup by Brad Feld (My rating: 2/5)
  
• Black Edge: Inside Information, Dirty Money, and the Quest to Bring Down the Most Wanted Man on Wall Street by Sheelah Kolhatkar (My rating: 4/5)
  
• Deep Thinking: Where Machine Intelligence Ends and Human Creativity Begins by Garry Kasparov (My rating: 4/5)
  
• How Will You Measure Your Life? by Clayton M. Christensen (My rating: -/5)
  
• The Startup Owner's Manual: The Step-By-Step Guide for Building a Great Company by Steve Blank (My rating: 2/5)
  
• Very Important People: Status and Beauty in the Global Party Circuit by Ashley Mears (My rating: 3/5)
  
• An Elegant Puzzle: Systems of Engineering Management by Will Larson (My rating: 4/5)
  
• De Aanslag by Harry Mulisch (My rating: -/5)
  
• Little Bets: How Breakthrough Ideas Emerge from Small Discoveries by Peter Sims (My rating: 4/5)
  
• How to Live: Or A Life of Montaigne in One Question and Twenty Attempts at an Answer by Sarah Bakewell (My rating: -/5)
  
• The Difference Between God and Larry Ellison*: Inside Oracle Corporation; *God Doesn't Think He's Larry Ellison by Mike Wilson (My rating: 4/5)
  
• The Wilderness: Deep Inside the Republican Party's Combative, Contentious, Chaotic Quest to Take Back the White House by McKay Coppins (My rating: 3/5)
  
• Hackers and Painters: Big Ideas from the Computer Age by Paul Graham (My rating: 4/5)
  
• The Captain Class: A New Theory of Leadership by Sam Walker (My rating: 5/5)
  
• The Nasty Bits: Collected Varietal Cuts, Usable Trim, Scraps, and Bones by Anthony Bourdain (My rating: 4/5)
  
• Delivering Happiness: A Path to Profits, Passion, and Purpose by Tony Hsieh (My rating: 3/5)
  
• Rework by Jason Fried (My rating: 2/5)
  
• Show Stopper!: The Breakneck Race to Create Windows NT and the Next Generation at Microsoft by G. Pascal Zachary (My rating: 4/5)
  
• Autobiography of a Yogi by Paramahansa Yogananda (My rating: 4/5)
  
• The Google Story: Inside the Hottest Business, Media and Technology Success of Our Time by David A. Vise (My rating: 3/5)
  
• The Cold Start Problem: How to Start and Scale Network Effects by Andrew Chen (My rating: 4/5)
  
• Songs of Innocence and of Experience by William Blake (My rating: 4/5)
  
• Option B: Facing Adversity, Building Resilience, and Finding Joy by Adam Sandberg, Sheryl, Grant (My rating: -/5)
  
• A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway (My rating: -/5)
  
• De brief voor de koning (De brief voor de koning #1) by Tonke Dragt (My rating: 3/5)
  
• Head On (Lock In, #2) by John Scalzi (My rating: -/5)
  
• The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain (My rating: -/5)
  
• Focus: A Simplicity Manifesto in the Age of Distraction by Leo Babauta (My rating: 3/5)
  
• Competing Against Luck by Clayton M. Christensen (My rating: 5/5)
  
• The Upside of Stress: Why Stress Is Good for You, and How to Get Good at It by Kelly McGonigal (My rating: 4/5)
  
• Radical Candor: Be a Kickass Boss Without Losing Your Humanity by Kim Malone Scott (My rating: 5/5)
  
• Remain in Love: Talking Heads, Tom Tom Club, Tina by Chris Frantz (My rating: 5/5)
  
• Screw It, Let's Do It: Lessons in Life by Sir Richard Branson (My rating: 2/5)
  
• In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler's Berlin by Erik Larson (My rating: 4/5)
  
• Thinking in Bets: Making Smarter Decisions When You Don't Have All the Facts by Annie Duke (My rating: 4/5)
  
• Super Thinking: The Big Book of Mental Models by Gabriel Weinberg (My rating: 4/5)
  
• Leaders Eat Last by Simon Sinek (My rating: -/5)
  
• Wooden on Leadership: How to Create a Winning Organization by John Wooden (My rating: 5/5)
  
• Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (Harry Potter, #7) by J.K. Rowling (My rating: -/5)
  
• The Diamond Age: Or, a Young Lady's Illustrated Primer by Neal Stephenson (My rating: -/5)
  
• Capital in the Twenty First Century by Thomas Piketty (My rating: -/5)
  
• Winter in Wartime by Jan Terlouw (My rating: -/5)
  
• How to Win at the Sport of Business: If I Can Do It, You Can Do It by Mark Cuban (My rating: 3/5)
  
• Amp It Up: Leading for Hypergrowth by Raising Expectations, Increasing Urgency, and Elevating Intensity by Frank Slootman (My rating: 5/5)
  
• Tap Dancing to Work: Warren Buffett on Practically Everything, 1966-2012 by Carol J. Loomis (My rating: -/5)
  
• The Road Ahead by Bill Gates (My rating: -/5)
  
• Behind the Cloud: The Untold Story of How Salesforce.com Went from Idea to Billion-Dollar Company-and Revolutionized an Industry by Marc Benioff (My rating: 3/5)
  
• Father, Son & Co.: My Life at IBM and Beyond by Thomas J. Watson Jr. (My rating: -/5)
  
• Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity by David Allen (My rating: 4/5)
  
• Think Like A Grandmaster by Alexander Kotov (My rating: -/5)
  
• Blood Meridian: Or the Evening Redness in the West by Cormac McCarthy (My rating: -/5)
  
• A Random Walk Down Wall Street by Burton G. Malkiel (My rating: 4/5)
  
• Father, Son & Co.: My Life at IBM and Beyond by Thomas J. Watson Jr. (My rating: 3/5)
  
• The Gambler by Fyodor Dostoevsky (My rating: 4/5)
  
• Product Leadership: How Top Product Managers Launch Awesome Products and Build Successful Teams by Richard Banfield (My rating: 2/5)
  
• American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis (My rating: -/5)
  
• Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (My rating: 4/5)
  
• How Judges Think by Richard A. Posner (My rating: -/5)
  
• That Will Never Work: The Birth of Netflix and the Amazing Life of an Idea by Marc Randolph (My rating: 5/5)
  
• The Paladin by David Ignatius (My rating: 4/5)
  
• Goodbye, Darkness: A Memoir of the Pacific War by William Manchester (My rating: 4/5)
  
• Elon Musk: Inventing the Future by Ashlee Vance (My rating: 4/5)
  
• The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers by Ben Horowitz (My rating: 5/5)
  
• The Water Will Come: Rising Seas, Sinking Cities, and the Remaking of the Civilized World by Jeff Goodell (My rating: -/5)
  
• The Master Switch: The Rise and Fall of Information Empires by Tim Wu (My rating: 3/5)
  
• The Lean Startup: How Today's Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses by Eric Ries (My rating: 2/5)
  
• Reinventing Fire: Bold Business Solutions for the New Energy Era by Amory B. Lovins (My rating: 3/5)
  
• The Infinite Resource: The Power of Ideas on a Finite Planet by Ramez Naam (My rating: -/5)
  
• Margaret Thatcher: Herself Alone: The Authorized Biography by Charles Moore (My rating: 4/5)
  
• A Promised Land by Barack Obama (My rating: -/5)
  
• The Long Tail: Why the Future of Business is Selling Less of More by Chris Anderson (My rating: 2/5)
  
• Damn Right!: Behind the Scenes with Berkshire Hathaway Billionaire Charlie Munger by Janet Lowe (My rating: -/5)
  
• Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (Harry Potter, #1) by J.K. Rowling (My rating: -/5)
  
• Built to Last: Successful Habits of Visionary Companies (Good to Great, 2) by James C. Collins (My rating: 4/5)
  
• Model-Based Machine Learning by John Winn (My rating: -/5)
  
• The Elon Musk Blog Series: Wait But Why by Tim Urban (My rating: 5/5)
  
• Magic Box Paradigm: A framework for startup acquisitions by Ezra Roizen (My rating: -/5)
  
• The Great Successor: The Divinely Perfect Destiny of Brilliant Comrade Kim Jong Un by Anna Fifield (My rating: 3/5)
  
• Business @ the Speed of Thought: Succeeding in the Digital Economy by Bill Gates (My rating: -/5)
  
• The Alliance: Managing Talent in the Networked Age by Reid Hoffman (My rating: -/5)
  
• Keeping Up with the Quants: Your Guide to Understanding and Using Analytics by Thomas H. Davenport (My rating: -/5)
  
• Expert Political Judgment: How Good Is It? How Can We Know? by Philip E. Tetlock (My rating: -/5)
  
• A Spy Among Friends: Kim Philby and the Great Betrayal by Ben Macintyre (My rating: 4/5)
  
• Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup by John Carreyrou (My rating: 5/5)
  
• The Director by David Ignatius (My rating: 4/5)
  
• The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank (My rating: -/5)
  
• If Beale Street Could Talk by James Baldwin (My rating: 5/5)
  
• The Sheltering Sky by Paul Bowles (My rating: 3/5)
  
• Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (Harry Potter, #3) by J.K. Rowling (My rating: -/5)
  
• Turks fruit by Jan Wolkers (My rating: -/5)
  
• Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess (My rating: -/5)
  
• The Lonely City: Adventures in the Art of Being Alone by Olivia Laing (My rating: 3/5)
  
• How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big: Kind of the Story of My Life by Scott Adams (My rating: 4/5)
  
• The Presentation Secrets of Steve Jobs by Carmine Gallo (My rating: 2/5)
  
• Play On: The New Science of Elite Performance at Any Age by Jeff Bercovici (My rating: 2/5)
  
• Getting Real: The Smarter, Faster, Easier Way to Build a Web Application by 37 Signals (My rating: -/5)
  
• Hamlet by William Shakespeare (My rating: 4/5)
  
• The Mythical Man-Month: Essays on Software Engineering by Frederick P. Brooks Jr. (My rating: -/5)
  
• Inside Steve's Brain by Leander Kahney (My rating: 3/5)
  
• Industrial Society and Its Future by Theodore J. Kaczynski (My rating: 4/5)
  
• How We Learn: The Surprising Truth About When, Where, and Why It Happens by Benedict Carey (My rating: -/5)
  
• Mastery by Robert Greene (My rating: -/5)
  
• Becoming by Michelle Obama (My rating: 4/5)
  
• The Education of a Value Investor: My Transformative Quest for Wealth, Wisdom, and Enlightenment by Guy Spier (My rating: -/5)
  
• Blitzscaling: The Lightning-Fast Path to Building Massively Valuable Companies by Reid Hoffman (My rating: 3/5)
  
• What Would Google Do? by Jeff Jarvis (My rating: 3/5)
  
• Brotopia: Breaking Up the Boys' Club of Silicon Valley by Emily Chang (My rating: -/5)
  
• Principles: Life and Work by Ray Dalio (My rating: 5/5)
  
• The American Dream Is Not Dead: (But Populism Could Kill It) (New Threats to Freedom Series) by Michael R. Strain (My rating: -/5)
  
• To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee (My rating: -/5)
  
• Softwar: An Intimate Portrait of Larry Ellison and Oracle by Matthew Symonds (My rating: 5/5)
  
• The White Album by Joan Didion (My rating: -/5)
  
• Build: An Unorthodox Guide to Making Things Worth Making by Tony Fadell (My rating: 5/5)
  
• The Tale (Hesperus Modern Voices) by Joseph Conrad (My rating: 3/5)
  
• The Pleasure of My Company by Steve Martin (My rating: 4/5)
  
• Slow Horses (Slough House, #1) by Mick Herron (My rating: 2/5)
  
• Einstein: His Life and Universe by Walter Isaacson (My rating: -/5)
  
• Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City by Matthew Desmond (My rating: 5/5)
  
• Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies by Nick Bostrom (My rating: 4/5)
  
• Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead by Sheryl Sandberg (My rating: -/5)
  
• Every Song Ever: Twenty Ways to Listen in an Age of Musical Plenty by Ben Ratliff (My rating: -/5)
  
• The Outsiders: Eight Unconventional CEOs and Their Radically Rational Blueprint for Success by William N. Thorndike Jr. (My rating: 5/5)
  
• Me by Elton John (My rating: 4/5)
  
• 1984 by George Orwell (My rating: 4/5)
  
• Mastering the Chess Openings volume 1 by John L. Watson (My rating: -/5)
  
• The Wires of War: Technology and the Global Struggle for Power by Jacob Helberg (My rating: 2/5)
  
• The Art of the Start: The Time-Tested, Battle-Hardened Guide for Anyone Starting Anything by Guy Kawasaki (My rating: 4/5)
  
• Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill (My rating: 3/5)
  
• Measure What Matters by John Doerr (My rating: 4/5)
  
• Game Change: Obama and the Clintons, McCain and Palin, and the Race of a Lifetime by John Heilemann (My rating: 5/5)
  
• Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress by Steven Pinker (My rating: -/5)
  
• A Cook's Tour: Global Adventures in Extreme Cuisines by Anthony Bourdain (My rating: 4/5)
  
• Invent and Wander: The Collected Writings of Jeff Bezos by Jeff Bezos (My rating: 5/5)
  
• The Fifth Risk: Undoing Democracy by Michael Lewis (My rating: 5/5)
  
• The Beatles Anthology by The Beatles (My rating: -/5)
  
• Tales of Ordinary Madness by Charles Bukowski (My rating: -/5)
  
• Learning React: Functional Web Development with React and Redux by Alex Banks (My rating: -/5)
  
• Prediction Machines: The Simple Economics of Artificial Intelligence by Ajay Agrawal (My rating: -/5)
  
• Billion Dollar Whale: The Man Who Fooled Wall Street, Hollywood, and the World by Tom Wright (My rating: 5/5)
  
• Sifting Through the Madness for the Word, the Line, the Way: New Poems by Charles Bukowski (My rating: 5/5)
  
• Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance by Barack Obama (My rating: -/5)
  
• Reaganland: America's Right Turn 1976-1980 by Rick Perlstein (My rating: -/5)
  
• Making News at The New York Times (The New Media World) by Nikki Usher (My rating: 3/5)
  
• A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles (My rating: 4/5)
  
• Don't Make Me Think by Steve Krug (My rating: 3/5)
  
• The Adventures of Augie March by Saul Bellow (My rating: -/5)
  
• The Friends of Eddie Coyle by George V. Higgins (My rating: 5/5)
  
• The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald (My rating: 4/5)
  
• How to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie (My rating: 3/5)
  
• Thirteen Days: A Memoir of the Cuban Missile Crisis by Robert F. Kennedy (My rating: 4/5)
  
• Oeroeg by Hella S. Haasse (My rating: -/5)
  
• The Visual Display of Quantitative Information, 2nd Ed. by Edward R. Tufte (My rating: -/5)
  
• How Google Works by Eric Schmidt (My rating: -/5)
  
• Modern Chess Openings (McKay Chess Library) by Nick de Firmian (My rating: -/5)
  
• The Rational Optimist: How Prosperity Evolves by Matt Ridley (My rating: 3/5)
  
• The Phoenix Project: A Novel About IT, DevOps, and Helping Your Business Win by Gene Kim (My rating: 2/5)
  
• All Out War: The Full Story of How Brexit Sank Britain’s Political Class by Tim Shipman (My rating: 3/5)
  
• The Five Dysfunctions of a Team: A Leadership Fable by Patrick Lencioni (My rating: -/5)
  
• The Intelligent Investor by Benjamin Graham (My rating: -/5)
  
• Fantasyland: How America Went Haywire: A 500-Year History by Kurt Andersen (My rating: -/5)
  
• Post Office by Charles Bukowski (My rating: 4/5)
  
• How Not to Be Wrong: The Power of Mathematical Thinking by Jordan Ellenberg (My rating: -/5)
  
• Who Gets In?: Strategies for Fair and Effective College Admissions by Rebecca Zwick (My rating: -/5)
  
• Founders at Work: Stories of Startups' Early Days by Jessica Livingston (My rating: 4/5)
  
• A Crack in Creation: Gene Editing and the Unthinkable Power to Control Evolution by Jennifer A. Doudna (My rating: -/5)
  
• The Principles of Product Development Flow: Second Generation Lean Product Development by Donald G. Reinertsen (My rating: 4/5)
  
• The Model Thinker: What You Need to Know to Make Data Work for You by Scott E. Page (My rating: 5/5)
  
• Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst by Robert M. Sapolsky (My rating: -/5)
  
• Whiplash: How to Survive Our Faster Future by Joichi Ito (My rating: -/5)
  
• The End of Education: Redefining the Value of School by Neil Postman (My rating: -/5)
  
• Subscribed: Why the Subscription Model Will Be Your Company's Future - and What to Do About It by Tien Tzuo (My rating: -/5)
  
• FAQ ME by James Altucher (My rating: 2/5)
  
• Down the Highway: The Life of Bob Dylan by Howard Sounes (My rating: 4/5)
  
• Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson (My rating: 3/5)
  
• Born to Run by Bruce Springsteen (My rating: 5/5)
  
• Loonshots: How to Nurture the Crazy Ideas That Win Wars, Cure Diseases, and Transform Industries by Safi Bahcall (My rating: 3/5)
  
• The Score Takes Care of Itself: My Philosophy of Leadership by Bill Walsh (My rating: 3/5)
  
• A Concise History of the Netherlands (Cambridge Concise Histories) by James C. Kennedy (My rating: -/5)
  
• Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind: Informal Talks on Zen Meditation and Practice by Shunryu Suzuki (My rating: 4/5)
  
• How Will You Measure Your Life? by Clayton M. Christensen (My rating: 2/5)
  
• Addiction by Design: Machine Gambling in Las Vegas by Natasha Dow Schüll (My rating: 5/5)
  
• The Complete Poetry and Prose by William Blake (My rating: 4/5)
  
• Pattern Classification by David G. Stork (My rating: -/5)
  
• Evolving Ourselves: How Unnatural Selection and Nonrandom Mutation are Changing Life on Earth by Juan Enriquez (My rating: -/5)
  
• On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft by Stephen King (My rating: 5/5)
  
• Well-Designed: How to Use Empathy to Create Products People Love by Jon Kolko (My rating: -/5)
  
• The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand (My rating: 3/5)
  
• The Biggest Bluff: How I Learned to Pay Attention, Master Myself, and Win by Maria Konnikova (My rating: 5/5)
  
• American Pastoral by Philip Roth (My rating: -/5)
  
• Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business by Neil Postman (My rating: 4/5)
  
• Ik dood by Giorgio Faletti (My rating: 3/5)
  
• The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York by Robert A. Caro (My rating: 5/5)
  
• Power Play: Tesla, Elon Musk, and the Bet of the Century by Tim Higgins (My rating: -/5)
  
• Seeing What Others Don't: The Remarkable Ways We Gain Insights by Gary Klein (My rating: -/5)
  
• Reinventing Fire: Bold Business Solutions for the New Energy Era by Amory B. Lovins (My rating: 4/5)
  
• Benjamin Franklin: An American Life by Walter Isaacson (My rating: 5/5)
  
• Days of Rage: America's Radical Underground, the FBI, and the Forgotten Age of Revolutionary Violence by Bryan Burrough (My rating: 5/5)
  
• The Tyranny of the Meritocracy: Democratizing Higher Education in America by Lani Guinier (My rating: -/5)
  
• High Growth Handbook: Scaling Startups From 10 to 10,000 People by Elad Gil (My rating: 4/5)
  
• The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change by Stephen R. Covey (My rating: 3/5)
  
• The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World by Niall Ferguson (My rating: -/5)
  
• Blue Ocean Strategy: How to Create Uncontested Market Space and Make the Competition Irrelevant by W. Chan Kim (My rating: 3/5)
  
• Alchemy: The Surprising Power of Ideas That Don't Make Sense by Rory Sutherland (My rating: 3/5)
  
• A Higher Loyalty: Truth, Lies, and Leadership by James Comey (My rating: 4/5)
  
• Bobby Fischer Teaches Chess by Bobby Fischer (My rating: -/5)
  
• Factotum by Charles Bukowski (My rating: 4/5)
  
• Catch and Kill: Lies, Spies, and a Conspiracy to Protect Predators by Ronan Farrow (My rating: 5/5)
  
• Superforecasting: The Art and Science of Prediction by Philip E. Tetlock (My rating: -/5)
  
• Skin in the Game: The Hidden Asymmetries in Daily Life by Nassim Nicholas Taleb (My rating: 4/5)
  
• The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers by Ben Horowitz (My rating: 4/5)
  
• Drawdown: The Most Comprehensive Plan Ever Proposed to Reverse Global Warming by Paul Hawken (My rating: 5/5)
  
• Tools of Titans: The Tactics, Routines, and Habits of Billionaires, Icons, and World-Class Performers by Timothy Ferriss (My rating: 2/5)
  
• De heilige Rita by Tommy Wieringa (My rating: 5/5)
  
• The Courage to be Disliked by Ichiro Kishimi (My rating: -/5)
  
• Hatching Twitter: A True Story of Money, Power, Friendship, and Betrayal by Nick Bilton (My rating: 2/5)
  
• The Culture Code: The Secrets of Highly Successful Groups by Daniel Coyle (My rating: -/5)
  
• Sweetbitter by Stephanie Danler (My rating: 4/5)
  
• The Billionaire and the Mechanic: How Larry Ellison and a Car Mechanic Teamed Up to Win Sailing's Greatest Race, The America's Cup by Julian Guthrie (My rating: 5/5)
  
• Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman (My rating: 3/5)
  
• Metamagical Themas: Questing for the Essence of Mind and Pattern by Douglas R. Hofstadter (My rating: 4/5)
  
• The McKinsey Edge: Success Principles from the World’s Most Powerful Consulting Firm by Shu Hattori (My rating: 2/5)
  
• The Four Steps to the Epiphany: Successful Strategies for Products that Win by Steve Blank (My rating: 2/5)
  
• Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams by Matthew Walker (My rating: 4/5)
  
• All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr (My rating: -/5)
  
• 21 Lessons for the 21st Century by Yuval Noah Harari (My rating: 4/5)
  
• Teaching in a Digital Age by A.W. (Tony) Bates (My rating: 3/5)
  
• Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder by Nassim Nicholas Taleb (My rating: 5/5)