My Bookshelf
Read in 2025
- Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
- The Cathedral and the Bazaar by Eric S. Raymond
- Everything Is Tuberculosis by John Green
- The Optimist: Sam Altman, OpenAI, and the Race to Invent the Future by Keach Hagey
- Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
- The Scaling Era by Dwarkesh Patel
- Wanting by Luke Burgis
- After Dark by Haruki Murakami
- The Technological Republic by Alexander C. Karp
- INTROSPECT by Visakan Veerasamy
- Co-Intelligence by Ethan Mollick
- Range by David Epstein
- Stolen Focus by Johann Hari
- The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien
- The Courage to Be Disliked by Ichiro Kishimi
- Scattered Minds by Gabor Maté
- The Star by Arthur C. Clarke
- The Maniac by Benjamín Labatut
- A Psalm for the Wild-Built by Becky Chambers
Read in 2024
- Stranger Planet by Nathan W. Pyle
- How to Know a Person by David Brooks
- Orbital by Samantha Harvey
- White Nights by Fyodor Dostoevsky
- Unflattening by Nick Sousanis
- The Answer Is No by Fredrik Backman
- Inadequate Equilibria: Where and How Civilizations Get Stuck by Eliezer Yudkowsky
- Algorithms to Live By by Brian Christian
- You’re Not Listening by Kate Murphy
- Thinking In Systems by Donella H. Meadows
- All Systems Red by Martha Wells
- A Night in the Lonesome October by Roger Zelazny
- Chip War: The Fight for the World’s Most Critical Technology by Chris Miller
- Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes
- There Is No Antimemetics Division by qntm
- The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
- Zero to One by Peter Thiel
- Parasitic Mind by Gad Saad
- The Winners by Fredrik Backman
- Drunk by Edward Slingerland
- Guns, Germs, and Steel by Jared Diamond
- The Wandering Earth by Liu Cixin
- Dune Messiah by Frank Herbert
- 1984 by George Orwell
- Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
- The Metamorphosis of Prime Intellect by Roger Williams
- Friendly Ambitious Nerd by Visa
- Animal Farm by George Orwell
Read in 2023
- The Silent Patient by Alex Michaelides
- This Is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar
- Stories of Your Life and Others by Ted Chiang
- The Scout Mindset by Julia Galef
- A Little History of the World by E.H. Gombrich
- Essays in Love by Alain de Botton
- Predictably Irrational by Dan Ariely
- Men Without Women by Haruki Murakami
- The Beginning of Infinity by David Deutsch
- Letters to a Young Poet by Rainer Maria Rilke
- Maus by Art Spiegelman
- Plato and a Platypus Walk into a Bar by Thomas Cathcart
- Superintelligence by Nick Bostrom
- The Elephant in the Brain by Kevin Simler
- The Comfort Crisis by Michael Easter
- 4000 Weeks: Time Management for Mortals by Oliver Burkeman
- Born a Crime by Trevor Noah
Read in 2022
- The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
- The School of Life by Alain de Botton
- Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir
- Fire & Blood by George R.R. Martin
- Hear the Wind Sing by Haruki Murakami
- Chess Story by Stefan Zweig
- Attached by Amir Levine
- Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom
- When the Body Says No by Gabor Mate
- When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi
- Why We Get Sick by Benjamin Bikman
- Death’s End by Cixin Liu
- Your Head Is a Houseboat by Campbell Walker
- Breath by James Nestor
- The Dark Forest by Cixin Liu
- The Art of War by Sun Tzu
- The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas by Ursula K. Le Guin
- Bombay Balchao by Jane Borges
Read in 2021
- Immune by Philipp Dettmer
- Caffeine by Michael Pollan
- The Last Question by Isaac Asimov
- The Anthropocene Reviewed by John Green
- Piranesi by Susanna Clarke
- On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong
- Dopamine Nation by Anna Lembke
- Everyone You Hate Is Going to Die by Daniel Sloss
- Strange Planet by Nathan W. Pyle
- The Three-Body Problem by Cixin Liu
- The Almanack of Naval Ravikant by Eric Jorgenson
- Man’s Search for Meaning by Viktor E. Frankl
- A Wild Sheep Chase by Haruki Murakami
- Educated by Tara Westover
- Surely You’re Joking, Mr. Feynman! by Richard P. Feynman
- Pale Blue Dot by Carl Sagan
- The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka
- Exhalation by Ted Chiang
- Dune by Frank Herbert
- The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
- Hyperbole and a Half by Allie Brosh
- The Emperor’s Soul by Brandon Sanderson
- The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
- Think Again by Adam Grant
- The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared by Jonas Jonasson
- So Good They Can’t Ignore You by Cal Newport
- Deep Nutrition by Catherine Shanahan
- What I Talk About When I Talk About Running by Haruki Murakami
- Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami
- My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She’s Sorry by Fredrik Backman
- The Psychology of Money by Morgan Housel
- And Every Morning the Way Home Gets Longer and Longer by Fredrik Backman
- The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
- Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami
- Us Against You by Fredrik Backman
- Beartown by Fredrik Backman
- Anxious People by Fredrik Backman
Read in 2020 & Before
- The Midnight Library by Matt Haig
- Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell
- The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck by Mark Manson
- Atomic Habits by James Clear
- A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backman
- Deep Work by Cal Newport
- The Amber Spyglass by Philip Pullman
- The Subtle Knife by Philip Pullman
- The Golden Compass by Philip Pullman
- Ikigai by Héctor García
- Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harari
- Looking for Alaska by John Green
- A Game of Thrones by George R.R. Martin
- The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
- To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee