This list represents a catalog of books I own either as physical copy, electronic copy, or audiobook. Ones that left a significant impression on me are marked with a "**".
This list isn't in any particular order. If you're interested in a more thematic grouping of books checkout my Syllabi
- After Virtue: A Study in Moral Theory **
- Seeing Like a State **
- From Third World to First: The Singapore Story **
- The Ascent of Money
- The Assassins: A Radical Sect in Islam
- Creating Minds: An Anatomy of Creativity Seen Through the Lives of Freud, Einstein, Picasso, Stravinsky, Eliot, Graham, and Ghandi
- The Wealth and Poverty of Nations
- A Theory of Justice
- Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II **
- The House of Medici
- The Sirens of Titan
- Kafka On the Shore
- House of Morgan: An American Banking Dynasty and the Rise of Modern Finance
- Autumn in the Heavenly Kingdom: China, the West, and the Epic Story of the Taiping Civil War **
- Violent Entrepreneurs:The Use of Force in the Making of Russian Capitalism **
- The Power Tactics of Jesus Christ
- The Making of Modern Japan
- King Leopold's Ghost **
- Dancing in the Glory of Monsters
- A Long Way Gone
- The Other Wes Moore **
- Exterminate All the Brutes **
- Wired for War
- Heart of Darkness
- Profiles in Courage **
- Decision in Philadelphia: The Constitutional Convention of 1787
- Zeitoun
- The Good Earth **
- The Kite Runner **
- Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
- Against the Grain: A Deep History of the Earliest States **
- The Net Delusion: The Dark Side of Internet Freedom
- Thus Spoke Zarathustra
- Beyond Good and Evil **
- On The Geneology of Morals
- The Republic of Plato
- The Undercover Economist
- Origins of Political Order **
- Political Order and Political Decay
- Power: The Essential Works of Foucault, 1954-1984, Vol. 3
- The Complete Works of Zhuangzi
- The Pillow Book
- On Killing
- Cosa Nostra: A History of The Sicillian Mafia
- The Checklist Manifesto
- The Hard Thing about Hard Things
- The Bodhicaryavatara **
- The Passion of the Western Mind
- Invent and Wander: The Collected Writings of Jeff Bezos
- A Promised Land
- The Fortunes of Africa: A 5000-Year History of Wealth, Greed, and Endeavor
- The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York
- Black Against Empire: The History and Politics of the Black Panther Party
- The Secret of Apollo: Systems Management in American and European Space Programs
- A Thousand Spledid Suns
- The Curse of Bigness: Antitrust in the New Gilded Age
- A History of the United States in Five Crashes: Stock Market Meltdowns That Defined a Nation
- Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World
- Debt: The First 5000 Years
- Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets
- Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
- Alibaba: The House that Jack Ma Built
- Misbehaving: The Making of Behavioral Economics
- Thinking Fast and Slow
- The Silk Roads
- That Will Never Work: The Birth of Netflix
- Big Business: Love Letter to an American Anti-Hero
- The Anarchy: The East India Company, Corporate Violence, and the Pillage of an Empire
- Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap and Others Don't
- The Lost Englightment: Central Asia's Golden Age from the Arab Conquest to Tamerlane
- Chaos Monkeys: Obscene Fortune and Random Failure in Silicon Valley
- Rich Dad Poor Dad **
- The Path to Power: The Years of Lyndon Johnson, Volume 1 **
- Blitzscaling
- Catch and Kill: Lies, Spies, and a Conspiracy to Protect Predators
- Super Pumped: The Battle for Uber
- The Book of Why: The New Science of Cause and Effect
- Walt Disney: The Triumph of the American Imagination
- Furious Hours: Murder, Fraud, and the Last Trial of Harper Lee
- On Power
- Working: Researching, Interviewing, Writing **
- Billion Dollar Whale: The Man Who Fooled Wall Street, Hollywood, and the World
- Crashed: How a Decade of Financial Crises Changed the World
- Liar's Poker
- Kill All Normies: Online Culture Wars From 4Chan And Tumblr To Trump And The Alt-Right
- The Upstarts: How Uber, Airbnb, and the Killer Companies of the New Silicon Valley Are Changing the World
- The Everything Store
- The Wind-Up Bird Chronicles
- Men Without Women
- Crossing the Chasm
- Grapes of Wrath **
- How to Win friends and Influence People
- The Passage of Power: The Years of Lyndon Johnson, Vol. IV**
- Master of the Senate: The Years of Lyndon Johnson, Vol III**
- Means of Ascent
- Flash Boys: A Wall Street Revolt
- The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine **
- The Problem from Hell: America in the Age of Genocide
- Catch-22
- The Invisible Man **
- Normal Accidents: Living With High Risk Technologies
- In the Plex: How Google Thinks, Works, and Shapes our Lives
- Steve Jobs
- Hackers and Painters
- Lolita
- East of Eden
- Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln
- The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America
- The Bluest Eye
- Things Fall Apart
- Essentials of Italian Cooking
- Readings in Classical Chinese Philosophy
- Leonardo Drawings
- The Elements of Style, Fourth Edition
- On Writing:A Memoir of the Craft
- The Complete Short Novels by Anton Chekhov
- Letters to a Young Poet
- The Brothers Karamazov
- Gravity's Rainbow
- Franz Kafka: The Complete Stories
- Symposium
- Plato: Five Dialogues
- Bridgman's Complete Guide to Drawing from Life
- A Kierkegaard Anthology
- Burma Superstar: Addictive Recipes from the Crossroads of Southeast Asia
- The Birth of Tragedy **
- The Gay Science
- The Wretched of the Earth
- The Practical Handbook of Color for Artists
- Interaction of Color **
- Color Theory: An Essential Guide to Color - from Basic Principles to Practical Applications
- Sources in Chinese History: Diverse Perspectives from 1644 to the Present
- Revolution and Its Past: Identities and Change in Modern Chinese History
- To Change China: Western Advisers in China, 1620-1960
- Egon Schiele and His Contemporaries: Austrian Painting and Drawing from 1900 to 1930
- Egon Schiele 1890-1918
- Egon Schiele: Drawings and Watercolors
- Perspective Made Easy
- The Masterworks of Van Gogh
- The Ultimate Picasso
- Peace Is Every Step: The Path of Mindfulness in Everyday Life
- The Life of the Mind: Volumes 1 & 2
- Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil
- The Lucifer Effect: Understanding How Good People Turn Evil
- Narrow Road to the Interior: And Other Writings
- Naomi
- 1984
- Brave New World
- Life of Pi
- Anabasis
- Homage to Catalonia **
- The Making of Modern Japan
- Everything Yearned For: Manhae's Poems of Love and Longing
- Just and Unjust Wars: A Moral Argument with Historical Illustrations **
- The Case against Perfection: Ethics in the Age of Genetic Engineering
- The Slave Ship **
- Peace: A History of Movements and Ideas
- Governing the World: The History of an Idea
- Micromotives and Macrobehavior
- Something New Under the Sun: An Environmental History of the Twentieth-Century World
- Beyond Engineering: How Society Shapes Technology
- The Politics by Aristotle
- On Liberty and Other Essays **
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