π Reading
Books that I've read and am currently reading. Only started tracking properly recently as I switched to ebooks.
Currently reading: Resurrection by Lev Tolstoy π·πΊ
| Title | Author | Summary | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Children of Dune | Frank Herbert | Psychadelic science fiction. | π¬π§ |
| Dune Messiah | Frank Herbert | Psychadelic science fiction. | π¬π§ |
| The Drama of the Gifted Child | Alice Miller | Psychology book discussing parents' influence during early development. | π¬π§ |
| Season of Storms | Andrzej Sapkowski | Muscular man kills monsters. | π¬π§ |
| The Lady of the Lake | Andrzej Sapkowski | Muscular man kills monsters. | π¬π§ |
| The Tower of Swallows | Andrzej Sapkowski | Muscular man kills monsters. | π¬π§ |
| Baptism of Fire | Andrzej Sapkowski | Muscular man kills monsters. | π¬π§ |
| Sword of Destiny | Andrzej Sapkowski | Muscular man kills monsters. | π¬π§ |
| The Time of Contempt | Andrzej Sapkowski | Muscular man kills monsters. | π¬π§ |
| Blood of Elves | Andrzej Sapkowski | Muscular man kills monsters. | π¬π§ |
| The Last Wish | Andrzej Sapkowski | Muscular man kills monsters. | π¬π§ |
| The Sovereign Individual | James Dale Davidson & Lord William Rees-Mogg | Libertarian book written in 1997 predicting how the internet will change the world. | π¬π§ |
| The Republic of Pirates | Colin Woodard | History book describing the "Golden age of piracy", as well as some of the most prominent pirates of the time. | π¬π§ |
| Bronze Age Mindset | Bronze Age Pervert | A mentally handicapped schizophrenic popularizes Nietzschean ideas. | π¬π§ |
| Meditations | Marcus Aurelius | The Roman emperor shares his thoughts on how to live. | π¬π§ |
| Letters from a Stoic | Seneca | One of the most influencial people in Rome shares his candid advice. | π¬π§ |
| The Brothers Karamazov | Fyodor Dostoevsky | Novel exploring human psychology through a dysfunctional family. | π·πΊ |
| $100M Offers | Alex Hormozi | How to make offers so good people feel stupid saying no. | π¬π§ |
| $100M Leads | Alex Hormozi | How to get strangers to want to buy your stuff. | π¬π§ |
| Heart of a Dog | Mikhail Bulgakov | About a doctor that creates a dog-human hybrid that thrives in Soviet era society. | π·πΊ |
| Man's Search for Meaning | Viktor E. Frankl | Holocaust survivor talks about the importance of meaning in life. | π¬π§ |
| Bridge on the Drina | Ivo Andric | Novel covering the last four hundred years of Serbian history by focusing on the events surrounding a particular bridge. | π¬π§ |
| A Hero of Our Time | Mikhail Lermontov | Story about a 19th century playboy written by a Russian poet. | π·πΊ |
| Khrushchev | William Taubman | Biography about the Soviet leader that took over after Stalin. | π¬π§ |
| The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe | Daniel Defoe | About a stranded man. | π¬π§ |
| Dune | Frank Herbert | Psychadelic science fiction. | π¬π§ |
| The Goal | Eliyahu M. Goldratt | Studying how to make organizations more efficient through a fictive story about a factory manager. | π¬π§ |
| Lolita | Nabokov, Vladimir | A professor falls for a child and it destroys him. | π¬π§ |
| The Invisible Hook | Peter T. Leeson | About the economics of running a pirate ship. | π¬π§ |
| The Master and Margarita | Mikhail Bulgakov | The devil and his crew visit Soviet Russia and chaos ensues. | π·πΊ |
| The Body Keeps the Score | Bessel van der Kolk | Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma. | π¬π§ |
| Why We Sleep | Matthew Walker | Book describing all of the various health benefits of quality sleep. | π¬π§ |
| The Second World War | John Keegan | History book on the Second World War. | π¬π§ |
| Antifragile | Nassim Nicholas Taleb | Understanding why some things endure, and others fail. Helpful for predicting the future. | π¬π§ |
| The Black Swan | Nassim Nicholas Taleb | How the highly improbable events shape the world. Investing/life philosphy. | π¬π§ |
| The 4-Hour Workweek | Tim Ferriss | Escape 9β5, live anywhere, and join the new rich. | π¬π§ |
| El PrΓncipe de la Niebla | Carlos Ruiz ZafΓ³n | Ghost story about teenagers. | πͺπΈ |
| Be Here Now | Ram Dass | LSD opened the mind of Harward professo Richard Alpert, and he was reborn as Ram Dass. This book holds his teaching in text and illustrations. | π¬π§ |
| Don't Shoot the Dog! | Karen Pryor | The art of teaching and training. | π¬π§ |
| Zero to One | Peter Thiel | Lecture notes on how to build the next billion dollar company. | π¬π§ |
| Four Hour Body | Tim Ferris | Notes on health and fitness from an obsessive bio-hacker. | π¬π§ |
| Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman! | Richard Feynman | Autobiographical recounting of a Nobel Prize-winning prankster physicist. | π¬π§ |
| Zero to One | Peter Thiel | Lecture notes on how to build the next billion dollar company. | π¬π§ |
| The Evolution Of Desire | David Buss | An honest investigation of human mating behaviors. | π¬π§ |
| Anything You Want | Derek Sivers | 40 lessons for a new kind of entrepreneur. | π¬π§ |
| What the Dormouse Said | John Markoff | How the sixties counterculture shaped the personal computer industry. | π¬π§ |
| The Double Helix | Jim Watson | An autobiographical account of how the scientists raced to understand the structure of DNA. | π¬π§ |
| Principles | Ray Dalio | One of the best investors in history shares his principles for work and life. | π¬π§ |
| The Book of Five Rings | Miyamoto Musashi | A samurai from mid-17th century shares his advice on sword-fighting and life. | π¬π§ |
| Space Odyssey | Michael Benson | Book about the absolute insanity that was the making of 2001: A Space Odyssey. | π¬π§ |
| Sapiens | Yuval Noah Harari | A brief history of homo-sapiens up until today. | π¬π§ |
| The Count of Monte Cristo | Alexandre Dumas | The perfect revenge story. | π¬π§ |
| The Obstacle Is The Way | Ryan Holiday | Populrized stoicism. How to reframe hardships into something positive. | π¬π§ |
| Ego Is the Enemy | Ryan Holiday | About the successes of people who fought their egos at every turn. | π¬π§ |