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.
70 Results - sorted by rating
The Happiness Hypothesis: Finding Modern Truth in Ancient Wisdom
Jonathan Haidt
Theory
10/10 - May 2014
Lincoln the Unknown
Dale Carnegie
Biography
10/10 - Mar 2019
The Personal MBA
Josh Kaufman
Business
10/10 - Apr 2016
Sapiens
Yuval Noah Harari
Nonfiction
10/10 - Jul 2017
1984
George Orwell
Literature
9/10 - May 2014
Benjamin Franklin: An American Life
Walter Isaacson
Biography
9/10 - Feb 2017
Buddhism Plain and Simple: The Practice of Being Aware Right Now, Every Day
Steve Hagen
Theory
9/10 - Dec 2013
The Charisma Myth: How Anyone Can Master the Art and Science of Personal Magnetism
Olivia Fox Cabane
Business
9/10 - May 2014
Guns, Germs, Steel
Jared Diamond
Nonfiction
9/10 - Dec 2017
Hackers & Painters
Paul Graham
Theory
9/10 - Sep 2016
Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow
Yuval Noah Harari
Theory
9/10 - May 2019
Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die
Chip & Dan Heath
Nonfiction
9/10 - Sep 2015
The Paradox of Choice
Barry Schwartz
Nonfiction
9/10 - Aug 2014
A Room of One's Own
Virginia Woolf
Theory
9/10 - Oct 2019
So Good They Can't Ignore You
Cal Newport
Business
9/10 - Mar 2015
Steve Jobs
Walter Isaacson
Biography
9/10 - Aug 2014
The Way of Zen
Alan Watts
Theory
9/10 - Aug 2019
Your Memory: How It Works and How to Improve It
Kenneth Higbee
Nonfiction
9/10 - Aug 2013
Zero to One
Peter Thiel
Business
9/10 - May 2015
Life 3.0: Being Human in the Age of Artificial Intelligence
Max Tegmark
Nonfiction
9/10 - Feb 2020
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The Gene: An Intimate History
Siddhartha Mukherjee
Nonfiction
9/10 - Apr 2020
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Revolutionary Russia: 1891-1991
Orlando Figes
Nonfiction
9/10 - May 2020
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The Gulag Archipelago: An Experiment in Literary Investigation
Alexandr Solzhenitsyn
Nonfiction
9/10 - Dec 2021
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Choose Yourself: Be Happy, Make Millions, Live the Dream
James Altucher
Business
8/10 - Aug 2014
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
Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World
Cal Newport
Theory
8/10 - Dec 2017
Einstein: His Life and Universe
Walter Isaacson
Biography
8/10 - Aug 2014
Emotional Intelligence: Why It Can Matter More Than IQ
Daniel Goleman
Nonfiction
8/10 - Jan 2015
Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion
Robert Cialdini
Business
8/10 - Sep 2014
Leonardo da Vinci
Walter Isaacson
Biography
8/10 - Aug 2019
Man's Search for Meaning
Viktor E. Frankyl
Theory
8/10 - Sep 2014
Mastery
Robert Greene
Nonfiction
8/10 - May 2015
Radical Acceptance
Tara Brach
Theory
8/10 - Jan 2015
Seneca: Letters from a Stoic
Robin Campbell (translator)
Theory
8/10 - Aug 2013
Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power
Jon Meacham
Biography
8/10 - Feb 2018
The Truth: An Uncomfortable Book About Relationships
Neil Strauss
Biography
8/10 - Oct 2015
Willpower: Rediscovering the Greatest Human Strength
Roy Baumeister
Nonfiction
8/10 - Aug 2014
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
Robert Pirsig
Theory
8/10 - Oct 2018
Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind: Informal Talks on Zen Meditation and Practice
Shunryu Suzuki
Theory
8/10 - Jul 2019
Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea
Charles Seife
Nonfiction
8/10 - Dec 2009
Aroused: The History of Hormones and How They Control Just About Everything
Randi Hutter Epstein
Nonfiction
7/10 - Jun 2019
The Art of Learning: A Journey in the Pursuit of Excellence
Josh Waitzkin
Biography
7/10 - May 2014
Conscious: A Brief Guide to the Fundamental Mystery of the Mind
Annaka Harris
Nonfiction
7/10 - Jun 2019
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
Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future
Ashlee Vance
Biography
7/10 - Aug 2015
The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon
Brad Stone
Business
7/10 - Nov 2016
Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal
Eric Schlosser
Nonfiction
7/10 - Aug 2008
Happier
Tal Ben-Shahar
Nonfiction
7/10 - Apr 2015
How to Win Friends and Influence People
Dale Carnegie
Business
7/10 - Aug 2014
John
Cynthia Lennon
Biography
7/10 - Oct 2014
Mindset
Carol Dweck
Nonfiction
7/10 - May 2014
The Power of Habit
Charles Duhigg
Nonfiction
7/10 - Sep 2014
To Have or To Be
Erich Fromm
Theory
7/10 - Jan 2015
Tribes
Seth Godin
Business
7/10 - Jan 2015
Venture Deals
Brad Feld
Business
7/10 - Jul 2015
The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer
Siddhartha Mukherjee
Nonfiction
7/10 - Oct 2021
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12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos
Jordan Peterson
Theory
6/10 - Mar 2019
In the Plex
Steven Levy
Business
6/10 - Jan 2015
The Lean Startup
Eric Ries
Business
6/10 - Jul 2015
The Symposium
Plato (translated by Walter Hamilton)
Theory
6/10 - Oct 2019
The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference
Malcolm Gladwell
Nonfiction
6/10 - Oct 2014
Stalin: Volume I: Paradoxes of Power, 1878–1928
Stephen Kotkin
Biography
6/10 - Apr 2021
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The Inflamed Mind
Edward Bullmore
Nonfiction
5/10 - Jul 2019
Conversation: How Talk Can Change Our Lives
Theodore Zeldin
Business
4/10 - Apr 2014
The Fine Art of Small Talk
Debra Fine
Business
4/10 - May 2014
Tristesse de la terre: Une histoire de Buffalo Bill Cody
Éric Vuillard
Foreign
2/10 - Jul 2021
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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