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