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Viktor Frankl

Meditations

Marcus Aurelius

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John Crowley

Why We Sleep

Matthew Walker

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Don't Shoot the Dog

Karen Pryor (inferred)

Empire of the Summer Moon

S.C. Gwynne (inferred)

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Outlive

Peter Attia (inferred)

The War of Art

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How to Change Your Mind

Michael Pollan (inferred)

Fooled by Randomness

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Nonviolent Communication

Marshall Rosenberg (inferred)

Siddhartha

Hermann Hesse (inferred)

Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind

Yuval Noah Harari

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Essentialism

Greg McKeown

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Trauma: The Invisible Epidemic

Paul Conti (inferred)

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Ben Goldacre

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Dale Carnegie

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Dale Carnegie

More Money Than God

Sebastian Mallaby

The 22 Immutable Laws of Marketing

Al Ries and Jack Trout (inferred)

The Brothers Karamazov

Fyodor Dostoevsky

The Overstory

Richard Powers (inferred)

The 15 Commitments of Conscious Leadership

Diana Chapman, Jim Dethmer, Kaley Klemp (inferred)

Bird by Bird

Anne Lamott (inferred)

The Coddling of the American Mind

Jonathan Haidt

Mastery

Robert Greene

Getting Past No

William Ury (inferred)

The Beginning of Infinity

David Deutsch

The Comfort Crisis

Michael Easter

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Rolf Potts

Arctic Dreams

Barry Lopez

Best Evidence

David S. Lifton

Built to Sell

John Warrillow

Conscious Loving

Gay Hendricks, Kathlyn Hendricks (inferred)

Coyote America

Dan Flores

Cryptonomicon

Neal Stephenson

Draft No. 4

John McPhee

Exploring the World of Lucid Dreaming

Stephen LaBerge

Four Thousand Weeks

Oliver Burkeman (inferred)

Gold

Rumi, translated by Haleh Liza Gafori

Influence

Robert Cialdini

On Grief and Grieving

David Kessler and Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

Open

Andre Agassi (inferred)

Shoe Dog

Phil Knight

Snow Crash

Neal Stephenson

Stranger in a Strange Land

Robert Heinlein

The Last Lion

William Manchester

The Lessons of History

Will and Ariel Durant

The Molecule of More

Daniel Z. Lieberman and Michael E. Long (inferred)

The Power Law

Sebastian Mallaby

The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich

William Shirer

Trickster Makes This World

Lewis Hyde

Dissolving Illusions

Suzanne Humphries and Roman Bystrianyk (inferred)

The Art of Learning

Josh Waitzkin

Fingerprints of the Gods

Graham Hancock

The Anxious Generation

Jonathan Haidt

Altered Traits

Daniel Goleman and Richard Davidson

Antifragile

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Breath: The New Science of a Lost Art

James Nestor

From Strength to Strength

Arthur Brooks

Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World

Jack Weatherford

The Black Swan

Nassim Nicholas Taleb (inferred)

The Body Keeps the Score

Bessel van der Kolk

The Graveyard Book

Neil Gaiman

Already Free

Bruce Tift

An Immense World

Ed Yong

Born Standing Up

Steve Martin (inferred)

Brave New World

Aldous Huxley

Complexity: The Emerging Science at the Edge of Order and Chaos

M. Mitchell Waldrop (inferred)

Crime and Punishment

Fyodor Dostoevsky

Dune

Frank Herbert

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

Hunter S. Thompson

Finite and Infinite Games

James Carse

Flow

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

Getting Things Done

David Allen

High Output Management

Andy Grove

Levels of the Game

John McPhee

Longitude

Dava Sobel (inferred)

Master of the Senate

Robert Caro

On Writing

Stephen King

One Hundred Years of Solitude

Gabriel García Márquez

Poor Charlie's Almanack

Charlie Munger (inferred)

Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!

Richard Feynman

Tao Te Ching (Stephen Mitchell translation)

Lao Tzu, trans. Stephen Mitchell (inferred)

The Blade Itself

Joe Abercrombie

The Book of Five Rings

Miyamoto Musashi

The Culture series

Iain M. Banks

The DC Comics Guide to Writing Comics

Dennis O'Neil

The Effective Executive

Peter Drucker

The Great Nerve

Kevin Tracey

The Hard Thing About Hard Things

Ben Horowitz

The Healing Journey

Claudio Naranjo

The Immortality Key

Brian Muraresku

The Neverending Story

Michael Ende

The Prophet

Kahlil Gibran

The Structure of Scientific Revolutions

Thomas Kuhn (inferred)

The Work

Byron Katie (inferred)

This Is Water

David Foster Wallace

What Happened to You?

Oprah Winfrey and Bruce Perry

Wherever You Go, There You Are

Jon Kabat-Zinn

Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance

Robert Pirsig

Deep Work

Cal Newport

Effortless: Make It Easier to Do What Matters Most

Greg McKeown

Atomic Habits

James Clear

Good to Great

Jim Collins (inferred)

Excellent Advice for Living

Kevin Kelly

Extreme Ownership

Jocko Willink (inferred)

I Don't Want to Talk About It

Terry Real

Leonardo da Vinci

Walter Isaacson

Steve Jobs

Walter Isaacson

The Lion Tracker's Guide to Life

Boyd Varty

The Undoing Project

Michael Lewis (inferred)

American Buffalo

Steven Rinella (inferred)

Blitzed: Drugs in the Third Reich

Norman Ohler

Built to Move

Kelly Starrett

Fierce Intimacy

Terry Real

Jungle Keeper

Paul Rosolie

Life Ascending: The Ten Great Inventions of Evolution

Nick Lane

Lying

Sam Harris (inferred)

Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World

David Epstein

The Changing World Order

Ray Dalio

The Terminal List

Jack Carr

The Vital Question

Nick Lane

1984

George Orwell

A Fighter's Heart

Sam Sheridan (inferred)

A Guide to the Good Life

William B. Irvine (inferred)

Atlas Shrugged

Ayn Rand (inferred)

Black Box Thinking

Matthew Syed (inferred)

Blink

Malcolm Gladwell

Blood Meridian

Cormac McCarthy

Bloodlands

Timothy Snyder

Blue Ocean Strategy

W. Chan Kim and Renee Mauborgne (inferred)

Body for Life

Bill Phillips

Cat's Cradle

Kurt Vonnegut (inferred)

Competitive Strategy

Michael Porter

Crossing the Chasm

Geoffrey Moore

Crucial Conversations

Destined for War (the Thucydides Trap)

Graham Allison (inferred)

Diana, Herself

Martha Beck

Die with Zero

Bill Perkins (inferred)

Dominion

Tom Holland

East Coker (Four Quartets)

T.S. Eliot

Ego Is the Enemy

Ryan Holiday (inferred)

Ender's Game

Orson Scott Card (inferred)

Falling Upward

Richard Rohr

Frames of Mind: The Theory of Multiple Intelligences

Howard Gardner

Generations

Jean Twenge

Good Strategy Bad Strategy

Richard Rumelt

Here Is New York

E.B. White

I Am That

Nisargadatta Maharaj

Japanese Death Poems

Yoel Hoffmann (inferred)

Jaws: The Story of a Hidden Epidemic

Paul Ehrlich and Sandra Kahn

Let My People Go Surfing

Yvon Chouinard

Letters from a Stoic

Seneca (inferred)

Life and Fate

Vasily Grossman

Losing My Virginity

Richard Branson

Love in the Time of Cholera

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Mr. China

Tim Clissold (inferred)

Neuromancer

William Gibson

Never Let Me Go

Kazuo Ishiguro

On the Road

Jack Kerouac

On the Shortness of Life

Seneca

Pachinko

Min Jin Lee

Parable of the Sower

Octavia Butler (inferred)

Parable of the Talents

Octavia Butler (inferred)

Perspectives on Strategy

Carl Stern and George Stalk

PiHKAL

Alexander Shulgin

Playing Off the Rail

David McCumber

Radical Candor

Kim Scott

Rediscovering Life

Anthony De Mello

Rich Dad Poor Dad

Robert Kiyosaki

Save the Cat

Blake Snyder

Season of the Witch

David Talbot (inferred)

Self-Renewal

John Gardner

Six Thinking Hats

Edward de Bono

Steppenwolf

Hermann Hesse

Stolen Focus

Johann Hari

Stories of Your Life and Others

Ted Chiang

Stumbling on Happiness

Daniel Gilbert

Tao Te Ching

Lao Tzu (inferred)

The Alchemist

Paulo Coelho

The Ancient City

Numa Denis Fustel de Coulanges

The Artist's Way

Julia Cameron

The Artist's Way Morning Pages Journal

Julia Cameron

The Baron in the Trees

Italo Calvino

The Bear

Andrew Krivak

The Big Leap

Gay Hendricks

The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse

Charlie Mackesy (inferred)

The Case for God

Karen Armstrong (inferred)

The Checklist Manifesto

Atul Gawande

The Coming Wave

Mustafa Suleyman

The Courage to Be Disliked

Ichiro Kishimi & Fumitake Koga (inferred)

The Denial of Death

Ernest Becker

The Doors of Perception

Aldous Huxley

The Emotion Machine

Marvin Minsky (inferred)

The Glass Bead Game

Hermann Hesse

The Great Depression: A Diary

Benjamin Roth

The Greatest Salesman in the World

Og Mandino

The Gulag Archipelago

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

The Hero with a Thousand Faces

Joseph Campbell

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

Douglas Adams

The Hundred-Year Marathon

Michael Pillsbury

The Idiot

Fyodor Dostoevsky

The Intelligent Investor

Benjamin Graham

The Lincoln Highway

Amor Towles (inferred)

The Man Who Solved the Market

Gregory Zuckerman (inferred)

The MANIAC

Benjamin Labatut

The Master and Margarita

Mikhail Bulgakov

The Mind of a Mnemonist: A Little Book About a Vast Memory

A. R. Luria

The Name of the Wind

Patrick Rothfuss

The Paper Menagerie

Ken Liu

The Power Broker

Robert Caro

The Power of Now

Eckhart Tolle (inferred)

The Purpose Driven Life

Rick Warren (inferred)

The Rational Optimist

Matt Ridley

The Road

Cormac McCarthy

The Scout Mindset

Julia Galef

The Secret Pulse of Time

Stefan Klein (inferred)

The Well of Being

Jean-Pierre Weill

The Wolf at the Door

Ian Shapiro

This Is How You Lose the Time War

Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone (inferred)

Three Simple Lines

Natalie Goldberg

TiHKAL

Alexander Shulgin

Time Enough for Love

Robert Heinlein (inferred)

Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow

Gabrielle Zevin

Travels with Charley

John Steinbeck

Trust Me, I'm Lying

Ryan Holiday

Ulysses

Alfred, Lord Tennyson

Understanding Comics

Scott McCloud

War and Peace

Leo Tolstoy

War Is a Racket

Smedley Butler

When Reason Goes on Holiday

Neven Sesardic (inferred)

Why Greatness Cannot Be Planned

Kenneth O. Stanley (inferred)

Wolf Hall trilogy

Hilary Mantel

Wonderful Life: The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History

Stephen Jay Gould

Writing Down the Bones

Natalie Goldberg

Zorba the Greek

Nikos Kazantzakis (inferred)

The 4-Hour Body

Tim Ferriss

Fight Club

Chuck Palahniuk

The 48 Laws of Power

Robert Greene

The Creative Act: A Way of Being

Rick Rubin

This Is Marketing

Seth Godin

A Path with Heart

Jack Kornfield

Anything You Want

Derek Sivers

Hold Me Tight

Dr. Sue Johnson (inferred)

Rebel Without a Crew

Robert Rodriguez

Tales of a Shaman's Apprentice

Mark Plotkin

Becoming a Supple Leopard

Kelly Starrett (inferred)

In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts

Gabor Maté

Liar's Poker

Michael Lewis (inferred)

Moneyball

Michael Lewis (inferred)

One Blade of Grass

Henry Shukman (inferred)

The 4-Hour Work Week

Tim Ferriss

The Art of Memoir

Mary Karr

The Code Breaker

Walter Isaacson

The Wayfinders: Why Ancient Wisdom Matters in the Modern World

Wade Davis

This Is Your Mind on Plants

Michael Pollan

Tribe: On Homecoming and Belonging

Sebastian Junger

10% Happier

Dan Harris

A Lamp in the Darkness

Jack Kornfield

Affect Regulation and the Origin of the Self (Allan Schore)

Allan Schore (inferred)

After: A Doctor Explores What Near-Death Experiences Reveal About Life and Beyond

Bruce Greyson

Awaken the Giant Within

Tony Robbins

Awe

Dacher Keltner

Beyond Entrepreneurship

Jim Collins

Build

Tony Fadell

Conscious

Annaka Harris

Consider This

Chuck Palahniuk

Diagnosis and Treatment of Movement Impairment Syndromes

Shirley A. Sahrmann

Direct from Dell

Michael Dell (inferred)

Everything Is F*cked: A Book About Hope

Mark Manson (inferred)

Getting to Yes

Roger Fisher and William Ury (inferred)

Gulag

Anne Applebaum

Leaders Eat Last

Simon Sinek

Medicine Quest

Mark Plotkin

Mental Toughness Training for Sports

Jim Loehr

Original Love

Henry Shukman

Red Famine: Stalin's War on Ukraine

Anne Applebaum

Relax into Stretch

Pavel Tsatsouline

Remote

Jason Fried and David Heinemeier Hansson

Skin in the Game

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

So Good They Can't Ignore You

Cal Newport

Speed & Scale: An Action Plan for Solving Our Climate Crisis

John Doerr

Start with Why

Simon Sinek

Sum: Forty Tales from the Afterlives

David Eagleman

The Case Against Reality

Donald Hoffman (inferred)

The Creative Habit

Twyla Tharp

The Fabric of Reality

David Deutsch

The Gift of Fear

Gavin de Becker

The Great CEO Within

Matt Mochary

The Hormone Cure

Sarah Gottfried

The House of Rothschild

Niall Ferguson

The Infinite Game

Simon Sinek

The Naked Warrior

Pavel Tsatsouline

The Price of Everything

Russ Roberts

The Russo-Ukrainian War

Serhii Plokhy

The Secret Chief

MAPS (inferred)

The Sports Gene: Inside the Science of Extraordinary Athletic Performance

David Epstein

The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck

Mark Manson

The Way of the Warrior Kid

Jocko Willink

Waking Up

Sam Harris

Why We're Polarized

Ezra Klein

Wool

Hugh Howey

1,000 True Fans (essay)

Kevin Kelly

1001 Ways to Market Your Books

John Kremer (inferred)

1948: A History of the First Arab-Israeli War

Benny Morris

32 Principles

Henry Gracie

4,000 Weeks: Time Management for Mortals

Oliver Burkeman (inferred)

A Billion Wicked Thoughts

Ogi Ogas and Sai Gaddam (inferred)

A Billion Years: My Escape From a Life in the Highest Ranks of Scientology

Mike Rinder

A Brief History of Time

Stephen Hawking (inferred)

A Casino Odyssey in Cyberspace

Roger Williams (inferred)

A Christian's Guide to Psychedelics

Wendi Reese

A Complaint Free World (21-day no complaint experiment)

Will Bowen

A Failure of Nerve

Edwin Friedman

A Gentleman in Moscow

Amor Towles (inferred)

A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius

Dave Eggers (inferred)

A Hunger Artist

Franz Kafka

A Letter of Consolation

Henri Nouwen

A Little Life

Hanya Yanagihara

A Million Miles in a Thousand Years

Donald Miller

A Mind at Play

Jimmy Soni and Rob Goodman

A Moral Man (Amoral Man)

Derek DelGaudio

A Mortal Man

Derek DelGaudio

A Pickpocket's Tale: The Spectacular Thefts of Apollo Robbins

Adam Green (inferred)

A Poison Like No Other: How Microplastics Corrupted Our Planet and Our Bodies

Matt Simon

A Pretext for War: 9/11, Iraq, and the Abuse of America's Intelligence Agencies

James Bamford

A Sense of Where You Are

John McPhee

A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again

David Foster Wallace

A Table for Two

Amor Towles (inferred)

A Theory of Fun for Game Design

Raph Koster

A Thousand Days: John F. Kennedy in the White House

Arthur Schlesinger

A Thousand Splendid Suns

Khaled Hosseini

A Walk in the Woods

Bill Bryson (inferred)

A Whack on the Side of the Head

Roger von Oech (inferred)

ABC Warriors

Simon Bisley (inferred)

Abduction: Human Encounters with Aliens

John E. Mack

About Face

Colonel David Hackworth

Adaptation and Natural Selection

George C. Williams (inferred)

Addiction by Design: Machine Gambling in Las Vegas

Natasha Dow Schull

Affective Computing

Rosalind Picard

Against the Gods: The Remarkable Story of Risk

Peter Bernstein

Aikido in the Dynamic Sphere

A. Westbrook and O. Ratti

Alan Watts books

Alan Watts

Alcoholics Anonymous (The Big Book)

Alcoholics Anonymous (inferred)

Alice in Wonderland

Lewis Carroll

All Fours

Miranda July (inferred)

All the Light We Cannot See

Anthony Doerr (inferred)

All Things Shining: Reading the Western Classics to Find Meaning in a Secular Age

Hubert Dreyfus and Sean Dorrance Kelly (inferred)

Amazon Shareholder Letters (1997-2020)

Jeff Bezos

America's Cultural Revolution

Christopher Rufo

Andy Goldsworthy: A Collaboration with Nature

Andy Goldsworthy

Angela's Ashes

Frank McCourt

Arabian Sands

Wilfred Thesiger

Art & Arcana: A Visual History (Dungeons & Dragons)

Art Is the Highest Form of Hope & Other Quotes from Artists

Phaidon (inferred)

As a Man Thinketh

James Allen

Asimov on Numbers

Isaac Asimov

Ask the Dust

John Fante

At Play in the Fields of the Lord

Peter Matthiessen

Aurora

Kim Stanley Robinson

Autobiography of a Face

Lucy Grealy

Barbarians at the Gate

Bryan Burrough and John Helyar (inferred)

Beautiful Trouble

Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst

Robert Sapolsky

Beloved

Toni Morrison

Between the World and Me

Ta-Nehisi Coates

Beyond Good and Evil

Friedrich Nietzsche

Beyond Winning: Negotiating to Create Value in Deals and Disputes

Robert Mnookin

Bhagavad Gita (Stephen Mitchell translation)

Stephen Mitchell

Bicycle Day

Brian Blomerth

Biocentrism

Robert Lanza (inferred)

Bionomics: Economy as Ecosystem

Michael Rothschild

Bison Ecology and Bison Diplomacy

Dan Flores

Black Gangster

Donald Goines

Black Swan Green

David Mitchell (inferred)

Blind Man's Bluff: The Untold Story of American Submarine Espionage

Sherry Sontag and Christopher Drew (inferred)

Bone Games

Rob Schultheis (inferred)

book on the wisdom of Dharma by Sanjay Gupta

Sanjay Gupta (inferred)

Books by Thomas Sowell

Thomas Sowell

Boone: A Biography

Robert Morgan

Born Fighting: How the Scots-Irish Shaped America

Jim Webb

Born to Rebel: Birth Order, Family Dynamics, and Creative Lives

Frank J. Sulloway

Boys & Sex

Peggy Orenstein

Breakfast of Champions

Kurt Vonnegut

Breathing for Warriors

Belisa Vranich (inferred)

Brotherhood of the Rose

David Morrell

Buddhism Without Beliefs

Stephen Batchelor

Buffett: The Making of an American Capitalist

Roger Lowenstein (inferred)

Build a Large Language Model from Scratch

Sebastian Raschka

Build a Reasoning Model from Scratch

Sebastian Raschka

Building on Bedrock

Derek Lidow

Bullshit Jobs

David Graeber

Bury the Chains

Adam Hochschild (inferred)

Bwiti: An Ethnography of the Religious Imagination in Africa

James W. Fernandez

By Water Beneath the Walls

Benjamin Milligan

Caffeine: How Coffee and Tea Created the Modern World

Michael Pollan

Calvin and Hobbes

Bill Watterson (inferred)

Capital Ideas

Peter Bernstein

Catch-22

Joseph Heller (inferred)

Censored: Distraction and Diversion Inside China's Great Firewall

Margaret Roberts

Children Who Remember Previous Lives

Ian Stevenson

Chimpanzee Culture Wars (Langlitz primatology book)

Nicolas Langlitz

Chimpanzee Politics

Frans de Waal (inferred)

China's World View

David Daokui Li

Chip War

Chris Miller

Chiyo-ni: Woman Haiku Master

Patricia Donegan and Yoshie Ishibashi (inferred)

Christopher Dunn's work (The Giza Power Plant)

Christopher Dunn

Churchill, Hitler, and the Unnecessary War

Pat Buchanan

Churchill: Walking with Destiny

Andrew Roberts

Cinema Speculation

Quentin Tarantino

City of Gold

Collapse: The Fall of the Soviet Union

Vladislav Zubok

Coming Apart

Charles Murray

Coming into the Country

John McPhee

Coming Through Slaughter

Michael Ondaatje

Coming to Palestine

Sheldon Richman

Communion

Whitley Strieber

Complexity

Mitchell Waldrop

Complexity: A Guided Tour

Melanie Mitchell

Conan the Barbarian (Robert E. Howard books)

Robert E. Howard

Confessions of the Pricing Man

Hermann Simon (inferred)

Confrontations

Jacques Vallée

Conscious Business

Fred Kofman

Conscious Uncoupling

Katherine Woodward Thomas

Consider the Lobster

David Foster Wallace

Constructive Anatomy / The Complete Guide to Drawing from Life

George Bridgman

Conversations with Friends

Sally Rooney

Conversations with God

Neale Donald Walsch

Counsels and Maxims

Arthur Schopenhauer

Count Down

Dr. Shanna Swan (inferred)

Creating Shareholder Value

Alfred Rappaport

Crucial Confrontations

Dancing in the Streets: A History of Collective Joy

Barbara Ehrenreich

Darkness at Noon

Arthur Koestler

Dave Barry collections

Dave Barry (inferred)

David Whyte poetry books

David Whyte

Death

Todd May

December 1941

Craig Shirley (inferred)

Deception in the Digital Age

Cameron Malin

Decisive

Chip Heath and Dan Heath

Deep Down Dark

Hector Tobar

Deep Survival

Laurence Gonzalez

Deluxe: How Luxury Lost Its Luster

Dana Thomas

Demian

Herman Hesse

Democracy and the Market

Adam Przeworski

Descartes' Error

Antonio Damasio

Devil's Game: How the United States Helped Unleash Fundamentalist Islam

Robert Dreyfuss

Dig Your Well Before You're Thirsty

Harvey Mackay

Direct Truth

Kapil Gupta

Discourses (collected works of Epictetus)

Epictetus

Discovery of the Unconscious

Henri Ellenberger

Discworld novels

Terry Pratchett

Disunited Nations

Peter Zeihan (inferred)

Do Nothing: How to Break Away from Overworking, Overdoing, and Underliving

Celeste Headlee (inferred)

Doctor Zhivago

Boris Pasternak

Don Quixote

Miguel de Cervantes (inferred)

Dopefiend

Donald Goines

Dragonsbane

Barbara Hambly

Drawdown

Paul Hawken (inferred)

Dreaming Yourself Awake

B. Alan Wallace (inferred)

Dreyer's English

Benjamin Dreyer

Earth Abides

George R. Stewart (inferred)

Easy Strength

Dan John and Pavel Tsatsouline

eBoys

Randall E. Stross (inferred)

Economics in One Lesson

Henry Hazlitt

Economix: How Our Economy Works (and Doesn't Work)

Michael Goodwin (inferred)

Ed Coan: The Man, The Myth, The Method

Ed Coan (inferred)

Educating Intuition

Robin Hogarth (inferred)

Empires of Light

Jill Jonnes (inferred)

Empty Mansions

Bill Dedman (inferred)

Empty Planet

Darrell Bricker and John Ibbitson (inferred)

Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage

Alfred Lansing

Entangled Life

Merlin Sheldrake

Eon

Greg Bear

ESPD 50 box set (Ethnopharmacologic Search for Psychoactive Drugs)

Dennis McKenna (inferred)

Essentials of Classic Italian Cooking

Marcella Hazan

Everything Is Its Own Reward

Paul Madonna

Everything You Know Is Wrong

Lloyd Pye

Exploration Fawcett

Percy Fawcett

Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds

Charles Mackay

Eyeless in Gaza

Aldous Huxley

Factfulness

Hans Rosling (inferred)

Fair Play

Eve Rodsky

Fallen Leaves

Will Durant

Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail '72

Hunter S. Thompson

Fearless

Eric Blehm

Fifth Business

Robertson Davies

Five Dysfunctions of a Team

Patrick Lencioni

Forcing God's Hand

Grace Halsell (inferred)

Fortune's Children

Arthur T. Vanderbilt II (inferred)

Fraternity of the Stone

David Morrell

Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom

David Blight

Free Speech for Me But Not for Thee

Nat Hentoff

Free-Range Kids

Lenore Skenazy

Freedom From Fear

David M. Kennedy

From Eternity to Here

Sean Carroll

Game Engine Black Book: Wolfenstein 3D

Fabien Sanglard

Game of Shadows: Barry Bonds, BALCO, and the Steroids Scandal That Rocked Professional Sports

Mark Fainaru-Wada and Lance Williams (inferred)

Gay Hendricks new zone of genius follow-up book

Gay Hendricks

Genentech: The Beginnings of Biotech

Sally Smith Hughes (inferred)

Generation X

Douglas Coupland

Genome

Matt Ridley

Getting the Love You Want

Harville Hendrix (inferred)

Girls & Sex

Peggy Orenstein

Give and Take

Adam Grant

Godel, Escher, Bach

Douglas Hofstadter (inferred)

Going to Pieces Without Falling Apart

Mark Epstein

Good Calories, Bad Calories

Gary Taubes

Goodbye, Darkness

William Manchester

Gravity's Rainbow

Thomas Pynchon

Guerilla Financing

Guerrilla Financing

Guns Up

Johnnie Clark (inferred)

Guns, Germs, and Steel

Jared Diamond (inferred)

Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution

Steven Levy

Half a Life

Darin Strauss

Hallucinations

Oliver Sacks

Happy Money: The Science of Smarter Spending

Elizabeth Dunn and Michael Norton (inferred)

Hard Drive: Bill Gates and the Making of the Microsoft Empire

James Wallace and Jim Erickson (inferred)

Hate Inc.

Matt Taibbi

Havana Nocturne: How the Mob Owned Cuba and Then Lost It to the Revolution

T.J. English

HBR's 10 Must Reads on Mental Toughness

Harvard Business Review

Healing Back Pain

John Sarno

Hell's Angels

Hunter S. Thompson

Hey, Whipple, Squeeze This

Luke Sullivan

Hiding the Elephant

Jim Steinmeyer

High Fidelity

Nick Hornby

His Very Best: Jimmy Carter, a Life

Jonathan Alter

Hitler (biography)

Ian Kershaw

Homegrown

Jeffrey Toobin

How Buildings Learn

Stewart Brand

How Innovation Works

Matt Ridley

How Minds Are Changed

David McRaney (inferred)

How the Hippies Saved Physics

David Kaiser (inferred)

How to Do Great Work

Paul Graham

How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy

Jenny Odell (inferred)

How to Get Rich

Felix Dennis

How to Grow More Vegetables

John Jeavons

How to Keep Your Cool: An Ancient Guide to Anger Management

Seneca

How to Lie With Statistics

Darrell Huff (inferred)

How to Write Funny and Make Money Being Funny

unknown (inferred)

Human Action

Ludwig von Mises

Hyperion / Hyperion Cantos

Dan Simmons

I Feel Love

Rachel Nuwer (inferred)

I Wanna Be a Producer: How to Make a Killing on Broadway... or Get Killed

John Breglio

If

Rudyard Kipling

If This Is a Man

Primo Levi

Immunity to Change

Robert Kegan

In the Body of the World

Eve Ensler

In the Penal Colony

Franz Kafka

Inadequate Equilibria

Eliezer Yudkowsky

Infidel

Ayaan Hirsi Ali

Infinite Jest

David Foster Wallace

Insisting on the Impossible

Victor McElheny (inferred)

Invictus

William Ernest Henley (inferred)

Invisible Cities

Italo Calvino

Invisible Women

Caroline Criado Perez

Iran's Perilous Pursuit of Nuclear Weapons

David Albright

Iron John: A Book About Men

Robert Bly

Irrational Man

William Barrett (inferred)

It Takes What It Takes

Trevor Moawad (inferred)

JFK and the Unspeakable: Why He Died and Why It Matters

James W. Douglass

John D.: The Founding Father of the Rockefellers

David Freeman Hawke

Joseph P. Farrell (books on the Nazi Bell / plasma physics)

Joseph P. Farrell

Joy on Demand

Chade-Meng Tan

Ka

John Crowley

Kennedy

Ted Sorensen

KL: A History of the Nazi Concentration Camps

Nikolaus Wachsmann (inferred)

Know My Name

Chanel Miller

L.A. Confidential (novel)

James Ellroy

Labyrinths

Jorge Luis Borges

Land's Polaroid

Peter Wensberg (inferred)

Last and First Men

Olaf Stapledon

Lateral Thinking

Edward de Bono

Laziness Does Not Exist

Devon Price (inferred)

Leadership and Self-Deception

The Arbinger Institute (inferred)

Learned Optimism

Martin Seligman (inferred)

Lenin: The Man, the Dictator, and the Master of Terror

Victor Sebestyen

Let Only Red Flowers Bloom: Identity and Belonging in Xi Jinping's China

Emily Feng

Let the Right One In

John Ajvide Lindqvist (inferred)

Let's Get Real or Let's Not Play

Mahan Khalsa

Letters to a Young Contrarian

Christopher Hitchens

Lights Out: A Cyberattack, A Nation Unprepared, Surviving the Aftermath

Ted Koppel (inferred)

Lone Survivor

Marcus Luttrell (inferred)

Lonesome Dove

Larry McMurtry

Loonshots

Safi Bahcall

Lost Connections

Johann Hari

Louis L'Amour westerns

Louis L'Amour

Love Warrior

Glennon Doyle

Made to Stick

Chip Heath and Dan Heath

Magic by Misdirection

Dariel Fitzkee

Magic Glasses

Frank Harris (inferred)

Make It Stick

Harvard University Press (inferred)

Making Movies

Sidney Lumet

Manufactured Crisis: The Untold Story of the Iran Nuclear Scare

Gareth Porter

Many Lives, Many Masters

Brian Weiss

Marx in Contradiction

Roslyn Wallach Bologh (inferred)

Masterpieces of Fantasy Art

Mathemagics

Arthur Benjamin

Meditations for Mortals

Oliver Burkeman

Meditations on Moloch

Scott Alexander

Memoirs of a Geisha

Arthur Golden (inferred)

Middlemarch

George Eliot

Midnight's Children

Salman Rushdie (inferred)

Mike Caro's Book of Poker Tells

Mike Caro

Mindset

Carol Dweck (inferred)

Ministry for the Future

Kim Stanley Robinson

Mistakes Were Made (But Not by Me)

Carol Tavris and Elliot Aronson

Modern Poker Theory

Michael Acevedo

Money and Time

Roger Garrison (inferred)

More Heat Than Light: Economics as Social Physics

Philip Mirowski

Movement, Muscles and Meridians

Philip Beach

Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore

Robin Sloan (inferred)

Munich

Robert Harris

Musashi

Eiji Yoshikawa (inferred)

Muscles and Meridians

Philip Beach

My Big TOE (Theory of Everything)

Thomas Campbell

My Early Life

Winston Churchill

My Family and Other Animals

Gerald Durrell

Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass (autobiographies of Frederick Douglass)

Frederick Douglass

Nature

Ralph Waldo Emerson (inferred)

Neuropsychedelia

Nicolas Langlitz

Night Sky with Exit Wounds

Ocean Vuong

No Bad Parts

Richard Schwartz

No Ordinary Time

Doris Kearns Goodwin

No Rules Rules

Reed Hastings and Erin Meyer (inferred)

Not by Genes Alone: How Culture Transformed Human Evolution

Peter J. Richerson and Robert Boyd (inferred)

Novacene

James Lovelock

Obama's Wars

Bob Woodward

Obstacle to Peace: The US Role in the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict

Jeremy R. Hammond

Oliver Sacks' autobiography (On the Move)

Oliver Sacks

On Anger (De Ira)

Seneca

On Human Nature

E. O. Wilson

On Liberty

John Stuart Mill

On the Move

Oliver Sacks

On the Origin of Species

Charles Darwin

On War

Carl von Clausewitz

On Writing Well

William Zinsser

One Nation Under Blackmail

Whitney Webb

One of Us

Asne Seierstad (inferred)

One Piece

Eiichiro Oda (inferred)

One Simple Idea: Turn Your Dreams into a Licensing Goldmine While Letting Others Do the Work

Stephen Key

One Up on Wall Street

Peter Lynch

Onward

Howard Schultz

Open Socrates

Agnes Callard (inferred)

Opening Up by Writing It Down

James Pennebaker (inferred)

Operation Gladio: The CIA, the Vatican, and the Mob

Paul L. Williams

Originals

Adam Grant

Outliers

Malcolm Gladwell

Oxford English Dictionary

Oxford University Press (inferred)

Palace Walk

Naguib Mahfouz

Parent Effectiveness Training

Thomas Gordon (inferred)

Passages

Gail Sheehy

Passport to the Cosmos

John E. Mack

Pattern Breakers

Mike Maples Jr.

Pattern Recognition

William Gibson

Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture

Martin Fowler

Peace Is Every Step

Thich Nhat Hanh

Pere Goriot

Honore de Balzac

Persepolis

Marjane Satrapi (inferred)

Philosophy in the Real World

Brian Magee

Picnic, Lightning

Lawrence Scott (inferred)

Pilgrim at Tinker Creek

Annie Dillard

Placebo Effects: Understanding the Other Side of Medical Care

Fabrizio Benedetti

Plato's Dialogues

Plato

Play It Away

Charlie Hoehn

Pnin

Vladimir Nabokov

Poison Ivy: How Elite Colleges Divide Us

Evan Mandery

Polar Bears: Ecology and Behavior

Ian Stirling

Political Order and Political Decay

Francis Fukuyama

Polostan

Neal Stephenson

Polyvagal Theory

Stephen Porges

Positioning

Al Ries and Jack Trout

Pour Your Heart Into It

Howard Schultz

Practical Shooting: Beyond Fundamentals

Brian Enos

Principles for a Changing World Order

Ray Dalio (inferred)

Principles for Dealing with the Changing World Order

Ray Dalio

Principles of Economics

Carl Menger

Principles of Neural Science

Eric Kandel (inferred)

Prisoners of Geography

Tim Marshall

Private Truths, Public Lies

Timur Kuran

Probable Impossibilities / The Accidental Universe

Alan Lightman

Project Hail Mary

Andy Weir

Projections

Karl Deisseroth (inferred)

Propaganda

Edward Bernays

Psilocybin: Magic Mushroom Grower's Guide

O.T. Oss and O.N. Oeric (Dennis and Terence McKenna) (inferred)

Psychology of Intelligence Analysis

Richards J. Heuer Jr.

Pyramid of Success

John Wooden

Quit: The Power of Knowing When to Walk Away

Annie Duke (inferred)

Radical Hope: Ethics in the Face of Cultural Devastation

Jonathan Lear

Raymond Chandler / Philip Marlowe novels

Raymond Chandler

Ready Player One

Ernest Cline (inferred)

Ready, Fire, Aim

Michael Masterson

Real American

Julie Lythcott-Haims

Real Happiness

Sharon Salzberg

Real Life Korean Conversations for Beginners

Talk To Me In Korean

Realms of the Human Unconscious

Stanislav Grof (inferred)

Reasons and Persons

Derek Parfit

Reframe Your Brain

Scott Adams

Rejection

Tony Tulathimutte

Reminiscences of a Stock Operator

Edwin Lefevre (inferred)

Reputation and Power: Organizational Image and Pharmaceutical Regulation at the FDA

Daniel Carpenter

Resonance

Hartmut Rosa

Rethinking Food Reward (Annual Review of Psychology, 2019)

Ivan de Araujo, Mark Schiller, Dana Small

Revolution 1989: The Fall of the Soviet Empire

Victor Sebestyen

River Out of Eden

Richard Dawkins

Running Lean

Ash Maurya (inferred)

Sacred Knowledge: Psychedelics and Religious Experiences

William Richards

Save the Cat Goes to the Movies

Blake Snyder (inferred)

Scale

Geoffrey West

Scarcity

Sendhil Mullainathan and Eldar Shafir (inferred)

Schaum's Outline of Statistics

Schaum (inferred)

Scientific Advertising

Claude C. Hopkins

Screenplay: The Foundations of Screenwriting

Syd Field

Sculpting in Time

Andrei Tarkovsky

Secrets of Closing the Sale

Zig Ziglar

Secrets of Power Negotiating

Roger Dawson (inferred)

Secrets: A Memoir of Vietnam and the Pentagon Papers

Daniel Ellsberg

See You at the Top

Zig Ziglar

Seeing Like a State

James C. Scott (inferred)

Self-Reliance

Ralph Waldo Emerson (inferred)

Self-Therapy

Jay Earley

Selling to the Affluent

Thomas J. Stanley

Seriously Funny

Gerald Nachman (inferred)

Seven Powers

Hamilton Helmer

Seveneves

Neal Stephenson

Sex, Lies, and Videotape (book about the making of)

Steven Soderbergh

Shambhala: The Sacred Path of the Warrior

Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche (inferred)

Shantaram

Gregory David Roberts (inferred)

Sherlock Holmes

Arthur Conan Doyle (inferred)

Shogun

James Clavell (inferred)

Showmanship for Magicians

Dariel Fitzkee

Simon Bisley Bible (Old and New Testament illustrations)

Simon Bisley (inferred)

Situational Awareness: The Decade Ahead

Leopold Aschenbrenner

Six Pillars of Self-Esteem

Nathaniel Branden

Slaine the Horned God

Simon Bisley (inferred)

Sleep Wrecked Kids

Sharon Moore

Small Giants: Companies That Choose to Be Great Instead of Big

Bo Burlingham

Socrates in 90 Minutes

Paul Strathern (inferred)

Solaris

Stanislaw Lem

Son of the Morning Star

Evan S. Connell

Song of Myself (Leaves of Grass)

Walt Whitman

Sophie's World

Jostein Gaarder

Sources of the Self

Charles Taylor

Spark: The Revolutionary New Science of Exercise and the Brain

John J. Ratey (inferred)

Speak Like Churchill, Stand Like Lincoln

James C. Humes

Square Foot Gardening

Mel Bartholomew (inferred)

Starting Strength

Mark Rippetoe

Startup: A Silicon Valley Adventure

Jerry Kaplan

Stop Fixing Yourself: Wake Up, All Is Well

Anthony de Mello

Stories of Your Life and Others / Exhalation

Ted Chiang

Story of Human Language (lecture series)

John McWhorter

Striking Thoughts

Bruce Lee

Suggestible You: The Curious Science of Your Brain's Ability to Deceive, Transform, and Heal

Erik Vance

Super Connectors

Charles Duhigg

Superconnect

Richard Koch and Greg Lockwood

Superforecasting: The Art and Science of Prediction

Philip Tetlock and Dan Gardner

Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies

Nick Bostrom

Swarm

Mark Moffett

Tales of the San Francisco Cacophony Society

Carrie Galbraith and John Law (inferred)

Talk to Me in Korean Level 1

Talk To Me In Korean

Tara Brach's books

Tara Brach

Team of Rivals

Doris Kearns Goodwin

Tell Me Who You Are

Winona Guo and Priya Vulchi

The 5 Types of Wealth

Sahil Bloom (inferred)

The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People

Stephen Covey

The Advantage

Patrick Lencioni

The Adventures of Johnny Bunko

Daniel Pink

The Age of Acrimony

Jon Grinspan (inferred)

The Age of Entitlement

Christopher Caldwell

The Aleph

Jorge Luis Borges

The Alexandria Quartet

Lawrence Durrell

The Alignment Problem

Brian Christian

The All-or-Nothing Marriage

Eli Finkel

The Apology

Eve Ensler

The Art of Asking

Amanda Palmer

The Art of Power

Thich Nhat Hanh

The Art of Seeing

The Art of War

Sun Tzu (inferred)

The Assyrian Dictionary of the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago

University of Chicago Oriental Institute (inferred)

The Autobiography of Malcolm X

Malcolm X and Alex Haley (inferred)

The Bell Curve: Intelligence and Class Structure in American Life

Richard Herrnstein and Charles Murray

The Best American Science and Nature Writing

The Better Angels of Our Nature

Steven Pinker

The Bible

The Body Electric

Robert O. Becker (inferred)

The Bogleheads' Guide to Investing

Taylor Larimore, Mel Lindauer, Michael LeBoeuf (inferred)

The Book of Awakening

Mark Nepo

The Book of Delights

Ross Gay

The Book of Joy

Dalai Lama and Desmond Tutu (inferred)

The Book of Life

Jiddu Krishnamurti

The Book of Two Ways

Jodi Picoult

The C Programming Language (K&R)

Brian Kernighan and Dennis Ritchie (inferred)

The Case Against Perfection

Michael Sandel

The Castle

Franz Kafka

The Cathedral and the Bazaar

Eric S. Raymond (inferred)

The Cell (Molecular Biology of the Cell)

Bruce Alberts et al. (inferred)

The Choice

Edith Eger

The Cider House Rules

John Irving

The Collapse of Complex Societies

Joseph Tainter

The Collected Essays of George Orwell

George Orwell

The Collected Poems of Hafez

Hafez (inferred)

The Company: A Short History of a Revolutionary Idea

John Micklethwait and Adrian Wooldridge (inferred)

The Creature from Jekyll Island

G. Edward Griffin (inferred)

The Culture Code

Daniel Coyle

The Culture novels

Iain Banks

The Daily Stoic

Ryan Holiday

The Dance of Connection (book on apology)

Harriet Lerner

The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity

David Graeber

The Desert Smells Like Rain

Gary Nabhan

The Diary of a CEO

Steven Bartlett

The Difference: How the Power of Diversity Creates Better Groups, Firms, Schools, and Societies

Scott E. Page

The Diversity Bonus

Scott E. Page

The Doomsday Machine: Confessions of a Nuclear War Planner

Daniel Ellsberg

The Double Helix

James D. Watson

The Drama of the Gifted Child

Alice Miller (inferred)

The Drawdown Review

Project Drawdown (inferred)

The Dude and the Zen Master

Jeff Bridges and Bernie Glassman

The E-Myth

Michael Gerber

The Easy Way to Quit Caffeine

Allen Carr (inferred)

The Easy Way to Quit Smoking

Allen Carr

The Effective Executive (Ozymandias note)

Percy Shelley

The Elements of Style

Strunk and White

The Emperor of All Maladies

Siddhartha Mukherjee (inferred)

The End of Alzheimer's

Dale Bredesen

The End of Craving

Mark Schatzker

The End of October

Lawrence Wright

The End of the World Is Just the Beginning

Peter Zeihan

The Enneads

Plotinus

The Essence of Decision: Explaining the Cuban Missile Crisis

Graham Allison

The Ethnopharmacologic Search for Psychoactive Drugs

Dennis McKenna (inferred)

The Every