Books
Welcome to my digital bookshelf
Here you'll find every book I've read, more or less, along with a rating of 1-10 how strongly I recommend each book. Some books might be missing from this list, since I only started it a few years back and had to rely on memory for past books I read. For the same reason, some books might be missing dates or ratings or other info. If you want, try sorting by: rating, latest, or alphabetical. Or try looking at these categories: any, biography, business, fiction, foreign, literature, non-fiction, and theory.
Raison d'être
Do you wonder why this page exists? A great treasure in my reading life has been thumbing through other digital bookshelves such as sivers/books, gatesnotes, as well as a few others, but primarily those. And ever since I was introduced to the concept I knew I'd someday want to build one myself. So consider this a way to pay it forward.
225 Results - sorted by latest
The Gulag Archipelago: An Experiment in Literary Investigation
Alexandr Solzhenitsyn
Nonfiction
9/10 - Dec 2021
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The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer
Siddhartha Mukherjee
Nonfiction
7/10 - Oct 2021
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The Diamond Age: A Young Lady's Illustrated Primer
Neal Stephenson
Fiction
Sep 2021
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Tristesse de la terre: Une histoire de Buffalo Bill Cody
Éric Vuillard
Foreign
2/10 - Jul 2021
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Stalin: Volume I: Paradoxes of Power, 1878–1928
Stephen Kotkin
Biography
6/10 - Apr 2021
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Revolutionary Russia: 1891-1991
Orlando Figes
Nonfiction
9/10 - May 2020
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The Gene: An Intimate History
Siddhartha Mukherjee
Nonfiction
9/10 - Apr 2020
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Life 3.0: Being Human in the Age of Artificial Intelligence
Max Tegmark
Nonfiction
9/10 - Feb 2020
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The Symposium
Plato (translated by Walter Hamilton)
Theory
6/10 - Oct 2019
A Room of One's Own
Virginia Woolf
Theory
9/10 - Oct 2019
The Glass Bead Game
Hermann Hesse
Literature
Sep 2019
Buddha at the Apocalypse: Awakening from a Culture of Destruction
Kurt Spellmeyer
Theory
Aug 2019
Leonardo da Vinci
Walter Isaacson
Biography
8/10 - Aug 2019
The Way of Zen
Alan Watts
Theory
9/10 - Aug 2019
The Inflamed Mind
Edward Bullmore
Nonfiction
5/10 - Jul 2019
Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind: Informal Talks on Zen Meditation and Practice
Shunryu Suzuki
Theory
8/10 - Jul 2019
Aroused: The History of Hormones and How They Control Just About Everything
Randi Hutter Epstein
Nonfiction
7/10 - Jun 2019
Conscious: A Brief Guide to the Fundamental Mystery of the Mind
Annaka Harris
Nonfiction
7/10 - Jun 2019
Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow
Yuval Noah Harari
Theory
9/10 - May 2019
The Remains of the Day
Kazuo Ishiguro
Literature
May 2019
Vineland
Thomas Pynchon
Literature
May 2019
12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos
Jordan Peterson
Theory
6/10 - Mar 2019
Cryptonomicon
Neal Stephenson
Literature
Mar 2019
Lincoln the Unknown
Dale Carnegie
Biography
10/10 - Mar 2019
Never Let Me Go
Kazuo Ishiguro
Literature
Mar 2019
Inherent Vice
Thomas Pynchon
Literature
Dec 2018
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
Robert Pirsig
Theory
8/10 - Oct 2018
The Subterraneans
Jack Kerouac
Literature
Sep 2018
Player Piano
Kurt Vonnegut
Literature
May 2018
Steppenwolf
Hermann Hesse
Literature
Apr 2018
A Moveable Feast
Ernest Hemingway
Literature
Feb 2018
Sorrows of Young Werther
Johann von Goethe
Literature
Feb 2018
Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power
Jon Meacham
Biography
8/10 - Feb 2018
A Wild Sheep Chase
Haruki Murakami
Literature
Feb 2018
Siddhartha
Hermann Hesse
Literature
Jan 2018
Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World
Cal Newport
Theory
8/10 - Dec 2017
Guns, Germs, Steel
Jared Diamond
Nonfiction
9/10 - Dec 2017
Ready, Player One
Ernest Cline
Fiction
Dec 2017
Sapiens
Yuval Noah Harari
Nonfiction
10/10 - Jul 2017
1Q84
Haruki Murakami
Literature
May 2017
The Dharma Bums
Jack Kerouac
Literature
Apr 2017
Farewell, My Lovely
Raymond Chandler
Fiction
Apr 2017
The High Window
Raymond Chandler
Fiction
Apr 2017
Seveneves
Neal Stephenson
Literature
Apr 2017
Stardust
Neil Gaiman
Fiction
Mar 2017
Benjamin Franklin: An American Life
Walter Isaacson
Biography
9/10 - Feb 2017
The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon
Brad Stone
Business
7/10 - Nov 2016
Kafka on the Shore
Haruki Murakami
Literature
Nov 2016
Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World
Haruki Murakami
Literature
Oct 2016
Hackers & Painters
Paul Graham
Theory
9/10 - Sep 2016
Norwegian Wood
Haruki Murakami
Literature
Sep 2016
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
Haruki Murakami
Literature
Jul 2016
The Personal MBA
Josh Kaufman
Business
10/10 - Apr 2016
In His Own Write
John Lennon
Fiction
Mar 2016
Look Homeward, Angel
Thomas Wolfe
Literature
Mar 2016
Clean Code: A Handbook of Agile Software Craftsmanship
Robert C. Martin
Nonfiction
8/10 - Jan 2016
Creativity, Inc: Overcoming the Unseen Forces That Stand in the Way of True Inspiration
Ed Catmull
Business
8/10 - Oct 2015
The Truth: An Uncomfortable Book About Relationships
Neil Strauss
Biography
8/10 - Oct 2015
Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die
Chip & Dan Heath
Nonfiction
9/10 - Sep 2015
Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future
Ashlee Vance
Biography
7/10 - Aug 2015
Venture Deals
Brad Feld
Business
7/10 - Jul 2015
Hero of Ages
Brandon Sanderson
Fiction
Jul 2015
The Lean Startup
Eric Ries
Business
6/10 - Jul 2015
Mistborn
Brandon Sanderson
Fiction
Jul 2015
Well of Ascension
Brandon Sanderson
Fiction
Jul 2015
Mastery
Robert Greene
Nonfiction
8/10 - May 2015
Zero to One
Peter Thiel
Business
9/10 - May 2015
Happier
Tal Ben-Shahar
Nonfiction
7/10 - Apr 2015
Post Office
Charles Bukowski
Literature
Mar 2015
So Good They Can't Ignore You
Cal Newport
Business
9/10 - Mar 2015
Women
Charles Bukowski
Literature
Feb 2015
To Have or To Be
Erich Fromm
Theory
7/10 - Jan 2015
Emotional Intelligence: Why It Can Matter More Than IQ
Daniel Goleman
Nonfiction
8/10 - Jan 2015
In the Plex
Steven Levy
Business
6/10 - Jan 2015
Radical Acceptance
Tara Brach
Theory
8/10 - Jan 2015
Sons and Lovers
D.H. Lawrence
Literature
Jan 2015
The Sun Also Rises
Ernest Hemingway
Literature
Jan 2015
Tribes
Seth Godin
Business
7/10 - Jan 2015
Crime and Punishment
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Literature
Oct 2014
John
Cynthia Lennon
Biography
7/10 - Oct 2014
The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference
Malcolm Gladwell
Nonfiction
6/10 - Oct 2014
The Trial
Frank Kafka
Literature
Oct 2014
Don Quixote
Miguel de Cervantes
Literature
Sep 2014
Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion
Robert Cialdini
Business
8/10 - Sep 2014
Man's Search for Meaning
Viktor E. Frankyl
Theory
8/10 - Sep 2014
Moby Dick
Herman Melville
Literature
Sep 2014
The Power of Habit
Charles Duhigg
Nonfiction
7/10 - Sep 2014
How to Win Friends and Influence People
Dale Carnegie
Business
7/10 - Aug 2014
Atlas Shrugged
Ayn Rand
Literature
Aug 2014
Choose Yourself: Be Happy, Make Millions, Live the Dream
James Altucher
Business
8/10 - Aug 2014
Daily Rituals: How Artists Work
Mason Currey
Nonfiction
7/10 - Aug 2014
Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us
Daniel Pink
Business
7/10 - Aug 2014
Dune
Frank Herbert
Fiction
Aug 2014
Einstein: His Life and Universe
Walter Isaacson
Biography
8/10 - Aug 2014
The Paradox of Choice
Barry Schwartz
Nonfiction
9/10 - Aug 2014
Steve Jobs
Walter Isaacson
Biography
9/10 - Aug 2014
Willpower: Rediscovering the Greatest Human Strength
Roy Baumeister
Nonfiction
8/10 - Aug 2014
Lolita
Vladimir Nabokov
Literature
Jun 2014
The Name of the Wind
Patrick Rothfuss
Fiction
Jun 2014
The Wise Man's Fear
Patrick Rothfuss
Fiction
Jun 2014
1984
George Orwell
Literature
9/10 - May 2014
The Art of Learning: A Journey in the Pursuit of Excellence
Josh Waitzkin
Biography
7/10 - May 2014
Catch 22
Joseph Heller
Literature
May 2014
The Charisma Myth: How Anyone Can Master the Art and Science of Personal Magnetism
Olivia Fox Cabane
Business
9/10 - May 2014
The Fine Art of Small Talk
Debra Fine
Business
4/10 - May 2014
The Happiness Hypothesis: Finding Modern Truth in Ancient Wisdom
Jonathan Haidt
Theory
10/10 - May 2014
Mindset
Carol Dweck
Nonfiction
7/10 - May 2014
Conversation: How Talk Can Change Our Lives
Theodore Zeldin
Business
4/10 - Apr 2014
A Clash of Kings
George R.R. Martin
Fiction
Mar 2014
A Dance with Dragons
George R.R. Martin
Fiction
Mar 2014
A Storm of Swords
George R.R. Martin
Fiction
Mar 2014
L'Etranger
Albert Camus
Foreign
Feb 2014
A Feast for Crows
George R.R. Martin
Fiction
Feb 2014
A Game of Thrones
George R.R. Martin
Fiction
Feb 2014
Buddhism Plain and Simple: The Practice of Being Aware Right Now, Every Day
Steve Hagen
Theory
9/10 - Dec 2013
Julius Caesar
William Shakespeare
Literature
Aug 2013
On the Road
Jack Kerouac
Literature
Aug 2013
Seneca: Letters from a Stoic
Robin Campbell (translator)
Theory
8/10 - Aug 2013
Your Memory: How It Works and How to Improve It
Kenneth Higbee
Nonfiction
9/10 - Aug 2013
Silk Parachute
John McPhee
Nonfiction
Aug 2012
Hamlet
William Shakespeare
Literature
May 2012
Othello
William Shakespeare
Literature
May 2012
A Tale of Two Cities
Charles Dickens
Literature
Aug 2011
Brave New World
Alduous Huxley
Literature
Aug 2011
A Streetcar Named Desire
Tennessee Williams
Literature
May 2011
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Mark Twain
Literature
May 2011
Art
Yasmina Reza
Foreign
May 2011
As I Lay Dying
William Faulkner
Literature
May 2011
Huis Clos
Jean-Paul Sartre
Foreign
May 2011
The Tempest
William Shakespeare
Literature
May 2011
The Great Gatsby
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Literature
Dec 2010
To Kill a Mockingbird
Harper Lee
Literature
Dec 2010
Breakfast of Champions
Kurt Vonnegut
Literature
Aug 2010
The Crucible
Arthur Miller
Literature
Aug 2010
The Divine Comedy
Dante Alighieri
Literature
Aug 2010
The Last Wish
Andpzej Sapkowski
Fiction
Aug 2010
Light in August
William Faulkner
Literature
Aug 2010
Night
Elie Wiesel
Literature
Aug 2010
The Scarlet Letter
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Literature
Aug 2010
The Sound and the Fury
William Faulkner
Literature
Aug 2010
Tropic of Cancer
Henry Miller
Literature
Aug 2010
The Big Short: inside the doomsday machine
Michael Lewis
Nonfiction
Aug 2010
Bottled & Sold: The Story Behind Our Obsession with Bottled Water
Peter H. Gleik
Nonfiction
Aug 2010
Beowulf
J.R.R. Tolkein (translator)
Literature
May 2010
Good Poems
Garrison Keillor (editor)
Literature
May 2010
Le Petit Prince
Antoine de St. Exupery
Foreign
May 2010
Macbeth
William Shakespeare
Literature
May 2010
Frankenstein
Mary Shelley
Literature
Dec 2009
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
J.R.R. Tolkien (translator)
Literature
Dec 2009
Wuthering Heights
Emily Bronte
Literature
Dec 2009
Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea
Charles Seife
Nonfiction
8/10 - Dec 2009
The Great Book of Amber
Roger Zelazny
Fiction
Aug 2009
Hyperion
Dan Simmons
Fiction
Aug 2009
The Lion in Winter
James Goldman
Literature
Aug 2009
Lord Valentine's Castle
Robert Silverberg
Fiction
Aug 2009
One Hundred Years of Solitude
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Literature
Aug 2009
Lord of the Flies
William Golding
Literature
May 2009
A Raisin in the Sun
Lorraine Hansberry
Literature
May 2009
Romeo and Juliet
William Shakespeare
Literature
May 2009
Their Eyes Were Watching God
Zora Neale Hurston
Literature
May 2009
The Catcher in the Rye
J.D. Salinger
Literature
Dec 2008
Cat's Cradle
Kurt Vonnegut
Literature
Aug 2008
The Da Vinci Code
Dan Brown
Fiction
Aug 2008
Ender's Shadow
Orson Scott Card
Fiction
Aug 2008
Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal
Eric Schlosser
Nonfiction
7/10 - Aug 2008
Hound of the Baskervilles
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Fiction
Aug 2008
On a Wave
Thad Ziolkowski
Biography
Aug 2008
Slaughterhouse-Five
Kurt Vonnegut
Literature
Aug 2008
The Last Wish
Andrzej Sapkowski
Fiction
Aug 2008
The House on Mango Street
Sandra Cisneros
Literature
May 2008
A Midsummer Night's Dream
William Shakespeare
Literature
May 2008
Much Ado About Nothing
William Shakespeare
Literature
May 2008
Elantris
Brandon Sanderson
Fiction
Dec 2007
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Robert Louis Stevenson
Literature
Dec 2007
Ender's Game
Orson Scott Card
Fiction
Aug 2007
Fahrenheit 451
Ray Bradbury
Literature
Aug 2007
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
J.K. Rowling
Fiction
Aug 2007
Mystic and Rider
Sharon Shinn
Fiction
Aug 2007
Pipe Dreams
Kelly Slater
Biography
Aug 2007
A Separate Peace
John Knowles
Literature
Aug 2007
Of Mice and Men
John Steinbeck
Literature
May 2007
The Old Man and the Sea
Ernest Hemingway
Literature
May 2007
The Pearl
John Steinbeck
Literature
May 2007
The Bell Ringers
Henry Porter
Fiction
Aug 2006
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
Mark Haddon
Fiction
Aug 2006
Death on the Nile
Agatha Christie
Fiction
Aug 2006
First Rider's Call
Kristen Britain
Fiction
Aug 2006
The Illustrated Man
Ray Bradbury
Literature
Aug 2006
The Giver
Lois Lowry
Fiction
May 2006
The Hobbit
J.R.R. Tolkein
Fiction
May 2006
The House of the Scorpion
Nancy Farmer
Fiction
May 2006
Ten Little Indians
Agatha Christie
Fiction
May 2006
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
J.K. Rowling
Fiction
Dec 2005
Hoot
Carl Hiaasen
Fiction
Aug 2005
The Dark Elf Trilogy
R.A. Salvatore
Fiction
May 2005
The Icewind Dale Trilogy
R.A. Salvatore
Fiction
May 2005
Mystic River
Dennis Lehane
Fiction
May 2005
The Magician's Guild
Trudi Canavan
Fiction
Aug 2004
The Novice
Trudi Canavan
Fiction
Aug 2004
The High Lord
Trudi Canavan
Fiction
May 2004
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
J.K. Rowling
Fiction
Aug 2003
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
J.K. Rowling
Fiction
Dec 2002
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
J.K. Rowling
Fiction
Aug 2002
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
J.K. Rowling
Fiction
May 2002
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
J.K. Rowling
Fiction
May 2001
Henry Hikes to Fitchburg
D.B. Johnson
Fiction
Sep 2000
Quotes
"Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen" - Samuel Johnson
"I cannot remember the books I've read any more than the meals I've eaten; even so, they have made me" - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Tat Tvam Asi" - Chandogya Upanishad