Bookshelf

"I always enjoy reading others' lists and browsing their bookshelves, so this intended to be a digital version of that. I've only read about half of the books here. (I guess I fall somewhere in the middle in the Umberto Eco theory of the library.)" - Patrick Collison

• Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
• To Live - Yu Hua
• The Obstacle Is the Way - Ryan Holiday
• The Second World War - Antony Beevor
• Intern: A Doctor's Initiation - Sandeep Jauhar
• Slaughterhouse-Five - Kurt Vonnegut
• Prozac Nation - Elizabeth Wurtzel
• An Unquiet Mind - Kay Redfield Jamison
• Water Margin - Shi Nai'an
• The Age of AI - Henry Kissinger, Eric Schmidt, and Daniel Huttenlocher
• Mind Over Mood - Dennis Greenberger and Christine Padesky
• The Brain That Changes Itself - Norman Doidge
• Unaccountable: What Hospitals Won't Tell You and How Transparency Can Revolutionize Health Care - Marty Makary
• This Changes Everything - Naomi Klein
• The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People - Stephen Covey
• A New Earth - Eckhart Tolle
• Musashi - Eiji Yoshikawa
• The Art of Thinking Clearly - Rolf Dobelli
• Insanely Simple - Ken Segall
• The Myth of Sisyphus - Albert Camus
• Digital Minimalism - Cal Newport
• Predictably Irrational - Dan Ariely
• How to Avoid a Climate Disaster - Bill Gates
• The Book of Joy - Dalai Lama and Desmond Tutu
• Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945 - Tony Judt
• The Innovation Secrets of Steve Jobs - Carmine Gallo
• The How of Happiness - Sonja Lyubomirsky
• The Male Brain: A Breakthrough Understanding of How Men and Boys Think - Louann Brizendine
• Bloodlands - Timothy Snyder
• The Scholars - Wu Jingzi
• The Internet Con - Cory Doctorow
• The Undercover Economist - Tim Harford
• The Untethered Soul - Michael Singer
• Siddhartha - Hermann Hesse
• Getting Things Done - David Allen
• Under the Skin: The Hidden Toll of Racism on American Lives and on the Health of Our Nation - Linda Villarosa
• Band of Brothers - Stephen Ambrose
• Doctored: The Disillusionment of an American Physician - Sandeep Jauhar
• The Foundation Trilogy (Foundation, #1-3) - Isaac Asimov
• Diary of a Madman - Lu Xun
• Guns, Germs, and Steel - Jared Diamond
• The Master Algorithm - Pedro Domingos
• The Happiness Hypothesis - Jonathan Haidt
• Journey to the West - Wu Cheng'en
• Superintelligence - Nick Bostrom
• 1984 - George Orwell
• The Odyssey - Homer
• The Future of Medicine: How We Will Enjoy Longer, Healthier Lives - James Temperton
• The Bomber Mafia - Malcolm Gladwell
• The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity - David Graeber
• Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future - Peter Thiel
• Chip War - Chris Miller
• Flow - Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
• Algorithms to Live By: The Computer Science of Human Decisions - Brian Christian
• The Uninhabitable Earth - David Wallace-Wells
• Autobiography of a Yogi - Paramahansa Yogananda
• Thinking, Fast and Slow - Daniel Kahneman
• The Patient Will See You Now - Eric Topol
• The Plum in the Golden Vase - Lanling Xiaoxiao Sheng
• Human Compatible - Stuart Russell
• Authentic Happiness - Martin Seligman
• Lifespan: Why We Age - David Sinclair
• Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less - Greg McKeown
• Feeling Good - David Burns
• The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald
• Things Hidden Since the Foundation of the World - René Girard
• The Emperor of All Maladies - Siddhartha Mukherjee
• The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right - Atul Gawande
• When the Body Says No - Gabor Maté
• Fahrenheit 451 - Ray Bradbury
• The Aquariums of Pyongyang: Ten Years in the North Korean Gulag - Kang Chol-hwan
• Silent Spring - Rachel Carson
• The Wealth of Nations - Adam Smith
• How People Change - Allen Wheelis
• Elastic: Flexible Thinking in a Time of Change - Leonard Mlodinow
• Ordinary Men - Christopher Browning
• Why We Sleep - Matthew Walker
• The Digital Doctor: Hope, Hype, and Harm at the Dawn of Medicine's Computer Age - Robert M. Wachter
• Every Patient Tells a Story - Lisa Sanders
• Mountains Beyond Mountains - Tracy Kidder
• Daring Greatly - Brené Brown
• Life 3.0 - Max Tegmark
• Alone Together - Sherry Turkle
• Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio - Pu Songling
• Origins of the Modern Mind: Three Stages in the Evolution of Culture and Cognition - Merlin Donald
• Lost Connections - Johann Hari
• Counting Backward - Henry Jay Przybylo
• Red Flags - George Magnus
• Creative Selection - Ken Kocienda
• The Worm at the Core - Sheldon Solomon
• The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down - Anne Fadiman
• The Center Cannot Hold - Elyn Saks
• The Alignment Problem - Brian Christian
• Mortality - Christopher Hitchens
• Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind - Yuval Noah Harari
• How Doctors Think - Jerome Groopman
• A Guide to the Good Life - William B. Irvine
• The Innovator's Prescription - Clayton Christensen
• The Dispossessed - Ursula K. Le Guin
• The ONE Thing - Gary Keller
• The Design of Everyday Things - Don Norman
• Thus Spoke Zarathustra - Friedrich Nietzsche
• The Denial of Death - Ernest Becker
• When Things Fall Apart - Pema Chödrön
• The China Questions - Jennifer Rudolph and Michael Szonyi
• Complications: A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science - Atul Gawande
• The Investiture of the Gods - Xu Zhonglin
• Age of Ambition - Evan Osnos
• Make Time - Jake Knapp and John Zeratsky
• Attached - Amir Levine and Rachel Heller
• In the Garden of Beasts - Erik Larson
• Ikigai: The Japanese Secret to a Long and Happy Life - Héctor García and Francesc Miralles
• The Picture of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde
• In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts - Gabor Maté
• On China - Henry Kissinger
• The Holocaust: A New History - Laurence Rees
• The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying - Sogyal Rinpoche
• The Long Game - Rush Doshi
• Capital in the Twenty-First Century - Thomas Piketty
• Machines of Loving Grace - John Markoff
• Tao Te Ching - Laozi
• On the Shortness of Life - Seneca
• The Alchemist - Paulo Coelho
• An American Sickness: How Healthcare Became Big Business and How You Can Take It Back - Elisabeth Rosenthal
• The Rise and Fall of American Growth: The U.S. Standard of Living since the Civil War - Robert J. Gordon
• The Power of Habit - Charles Duhigg
• Galenism: Rise and decline of a medical philosophy - Owsei Temkin
• The Power of Now - Eckhart Tolle
• The Book of Symbols: Reflections on Archetypal Images - Ami Ronnberg
• Bad Blood - John Carreyrou
• Never Split the Difference: Negotiating As If Your Life Depended On It - Chris Voss
• The Art of War - Sun Tzu
• The Ministry for the Future - Kim Stanley Robinson
• The Molecule of More - Daniel Z. Lieberman
• Atomic Habits - James Clear
• If the Universe Is Teeming with Aliens ... WHERE IS EVERYBODY?: Fifty Solutions to the Fermi Paradox and the Problem of Extraterrestrial Life - Stephen Webb
• When: The Scientific Secrets of Perfect Timing - Daniel Pink
• The Story of the Stone, or The Dream of the Red Chamber, Vol. 1: The Golden Days - Cao Xueqin
• Steppenwolf - Hermann Hesse
• Die Wise - Stephen Jenkinson
• The Book of Songs - Various
• Done Deals: Venture Capitalists Tell Their Stories - Udayan Gupta
• What Doctors Feel - Danielle Ofri
• Romance of the Three Kingdoms - Luo Guanzhong
• The Hot Zone: The Terrifying True Story of the Origins of the Ebola Virus - Richard Preston
• Maybe You Should Talk to Someone - Lori Gottlieb
• The Paradox of Choice - Barry Schwartz
• The Noonday Demon - Andrew Solomon
• The Party - Richard McGregor
• The Man Who Mistook his Wife For A Hat - Oliver Sacks
• Meditations - Marcus Aurelius
• Steve Jobs - Walter Isaacson
• Empowered: Ordinary People, Extraordinary Products - Marty Cagan
• Man's Search for Meaning - Viktor Frankl
• Justice: What's the Right Thing to Do? - Michael J. Sandel
• The Creative Destruction of Medicine - Eric Topol
• The Death of Ivan Ilyich - Leo Tolstoy
• Indistractable - Nir Eyal
• The Selfish Gene - Richard Dawkins
• Spark: The Revolutionary New Science of Exercise and the Brain - John Ratey
• Why Information Grows: The Evolution of Order, from Atoms to Economies - Cesar A. Hidalgo
• Lives of the Stoics - Ryan Holiday and Stephen Hanselman
• Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World - Cal Newport
• The Gifts of Imperfection - Brené Brown
• The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up - Marie Kondo
• The Laws of Medicine - Siddhartha Mukherjee
• Misbehaving: The Making of Behavioral Economics - Richard Thaler
• The Stranger - Albert Camus
• The Inner Citadel - Pierre Hadot
• Why Buddhism Is True: The Science and Philosophy of Meditation and Enlightenment - Robert Wright
• The 4-Hour Workweek - Tim Ferriss
• Nudge - Richard Thaler and Cass Sunstein
• Outlive: The Science and Art of Longevity - Peter Attia
• How Not to Die - Michael Greger
• When Breath Becomes Air - Paul Kalanithi
• Jony Ive - Leander Kahney
• Staring at the Sun: Overcoming the Terror of Death - Irvin Yalom
• A World Without Email - Cal Newport
• Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End - Atul Gawande
• The Metamorphosis - Franz Kafka
• On Intelligence - Jeff Hawkins
• Weapons of Math Destruction - Cathy O'Neil
• A Brief History of Thought - Luc Ferry
• The Third Revolution - Elizabeth Economy
• Stumbling on Happiness - Daniel Gilbert
• The Divided Self - R.D. Laing
• The Body Keeps the Score - Bessel van der Kolk
• The Red Book: Liber Novus - Carl Jung
• Destined for War - Graham Allison
• The Organized Mind - Daniel Levitin
• Asia's Reckoning - Richard McGregor
• Leviathan and Its Enemies: Mass Organization and Managerial Power in Twentieth-Century America - Samuel T. Francis
• The Daily Stoic - Ryan Holiday
• The Price We Pay - Marty Makary
• Industrial Society and Its Future - Theodore John Kaczynski
• The Avoidable War - Kevin Rudd
• The Sixth Extinction - Elizabeth Kolbert
• Better: A Surgeon's Notes on Performance - Atul Gawande
• Outliers: The Story of Success - Malcolm Gladwell
• The House of God - Samuel Shem
• Zhuangzi - Zhuang Zhou
• Remembering Wholeness: A Personal Handbook for Thriving in the 21st Century - Carol Tuttle
• The Nurture Assumption: Why Children Turn Out the Way They Do - Judith Rich Harris
• All Tomorrows: The Myriad Species and Mixed Fortunes of Man - Nemo Ramjet
• Animal Farm - George Orwell
• You Are Not a Gadget - Jaron Lanier
• Final Exam: A Surgeon's Reflections on Mortality - Pauline Chen
• Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
• The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich - William L. Shirer
• The Second Machine Age - Erik Brynjolfsson and Andrew McAfee
• The Old Man and the Sea - Ernest Hemingway
• In Shock - Rana Awdish
• Angel Investing: The Gust Guide to Making Money & Having Fun Investing in Startups - David S. Rose
• How Judges Think - Richard A. Posner
• Redefining Health Care - Michael Porter and Elizabeth Teisberg
• The Four Agreements - Don Miguel Ruiz
• All the Light We Cannot See - Anthony Doerr
• How We Die - Sherwin Nuland
• The Song of the Cell - Siddhartha Mukherjee
• Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything - Steven D. Levitt
• Poor Economics - Abhijit Banerjee and Esther Duflo
• Case in Point 5: Complete Case Interview Preparation - Marc P. Cosentino
• Dictator's Handbook: A Practical Manual for the Aspiring Tyrant - Randall Wood
• The Bullet Journal Method - Ryder Carroll
• Atlas Shrugged - Ayn Rand
• AI Superpowers - Kai-Fu Lee