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.
15 Results - Biography - sorted by latest
The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt
Edmund Morris
Biography
9/10 - Sep 2024
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Stalin: Volume I: Paradoxes of Power, 1878–1928
Stephen Kotkin
Biography
6/10 - Apr 2021
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Leonardo da Vinci
Walter Isaacson
Biography
8/10 - Aug 2019
Lincoln the Unknown
Dale Carnegie
Biography
10/10 - Mar 2019
Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power
Jon Meacham
Biography
8/10 - Feb 2018
Benjamin Franklin: An American Life
Walter Isaacson
Biography
9/10 - Feb 2017
The Truth: An Uncomfortable Book About Relationships
Neil Strauss
Biography
8/10 - Oct 2015
Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future
Ashlee Vance
Biography
7/10 - Aug 2015
John
Cynthia Lennon
Biography
7/10 - Oct 2014
Einstein: His Life and Universe
Walter Isaacson
Biography
8/10 - Aug 2014
Steve Jobs
Walter Isaacson
Biography
9/10 - Aug 2014
The Art of Learning: A Journey in the Pursuit of Excellence
Josh Waitzkin
Biography
7/10 - May 2014
On a Wave
Thad Ziolkowski
Biography
Aug 2008
Pipe Dreams
Kelly Slater
Biography
Aug 2007
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