Library

2023 Books
  • WIP - On Writing by Stephen King
  • WIP - Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin
  • WIP - The Creative Act by Rick Rubin
  • WIP - Discworld 1 by Terry Pratchet
  • Kingkiller Chronicles 1 by Patrick Rothfuss
  • The Blade Itself by Joe Abercrombie
  • Cradle Series by Will Wight: Unsouled
  • The Intelligent Quality Investor by Long Equity
  • Make Something Wonderful by Steve Jobs
  • Save the Cat! 
  • Cradle Series by Will Wight: Waybound
  • Discworld 1 by Terry Pratchet
2022 Books
  • The Fabric of Reality by David Deutsch 
  • Building a Second Brain by Tiago Forte
  • Your Story, Well Told by Corey Rosen
  • Cradle Series by Will Wight: Dreadgod
  • The Fabric of Reality by David Deutsch
  • The Beginning of Infinity by David Deutsch
  • The Power of Myth by Joseph Campbell
  • How Children Learn by John Holt
  • Witcher Series Book 1 by Andrzej Sapkowski 
  • Witcher Series Book 2 by Andrzej Sapkowski 
  • Witcher Series Book 3 by Andrzej Sapkowski
  • Witcher Series Book 4 by Andrzej Sapkowski
  • Witcher Series Book 5 by Andrzej Sapkowski
  • Witcher Series Book 6 by Andrzej Sapkowski
  • Witcher Series Book 7 by Andrzej Sapkowski
  • Witcher Series Book 8 by Andrzej Sapkowski 
  • Reading in the Brain by Stanislas Dehaene
  • A Master's Secret Whispers by Kapil Gupta
  • The Almanack of Naval Ravikant by Eric Jorgenson
  • Atomic Habits by James Clear
  • The End is Always Near by Dan Carlin
  • Tribe by Sebastien Junger
  • Crashing Through by Robert Kurson
  • Aphorisms for Thirsty Fish by Wu Hsin translated by Roy Melvyn
2021 Books
  • The Third Plate by Dan Barber (Reread)
  • Psychology of Money by Morgan Housel
  • The Great Mental Models Volume 1 by Shane Parrish
  • Cradle Series by Will Wight: Wintersteel
  • Cradle Series by Will Wight: Bloodline
  • Cradle Series by Will Wight: Reaper
  • The Great Mental Models Volume 2 by Shane Parrish
  • Expanse Series by James S.A. Corey Book 1
  • Expanse Series by James S.A. Corey Book 2
  • Expanse Series by James S.A. Corey Book 3
  • Expanse Series by James S.A. Corey Book 4
  • Inward by Yung Pueblo
  • Lifespan by David Sinclair
  • Yearbook by Seth Rogen
  • This is Your Mind on Plants by Michael Pollan
  • The Wisdom of Insecurity by Alan Watts
  • How do you know? A Guide to Clear Thinking by Christopher Mayer
  • Meditations for Life: The Way to Love by Anthony De Mello
  • Anaerobics: Destruction & Reconstruction by Mark Baker
  • Jaws by Sandra Kahn and Paul R. Ehrlich
  • Indistractable by Nir Eyal
  • Bhagavad Gita translated by Stephen Mitchell
  • The Molecule of More by Daniel Lieberman and Michael Long
2020 Books
  • Dune by Robert Herbert
  • On Trails by Robert Moor
  • River of Consciousness by Oliver Sacks
  • Liar's Poker by Michael Lewis
  • Healing Mushrooms by Tero Isokauppila
  • What I learned losing a million dollars by Jim Paul and Brendan Moynihan
  • Cradle Series by Will Wight: Unsouled 
  • Cradle Series by Will Wight: Soulsmith
  • Cradle Series by Will Wight: Blackflame
  • Cradle Series by Will Wight: Skysworn
  • Cradle Series by Will Wight: Ghostwater
  • Cradle Series by Will Wight: Underlord
  • Cradle Series by Will Wight: Uncrowned
  • End of Policing by Alex Vitale
  • 100 Baggers by Chris Mayer
  • Letters from a Stoic by Seneca
  • Fooled by Randomness by Nassim Taleb
  • Skin in the Game by Nassim Taleb
  • Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone by J.K. Rowling
  • Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets by J.K. Rowling
  • Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban by J.K. Rowling
  • Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by J.K. Rowling
  • How to Support a Loved One in Depression by Mathew Baker
  • Striking Thoughts by Bruce Lee
  • The Bed of Procrustes by Nassim Taleb
  • Kingkiller Chronicles: Wise Man’s Far by Patrick Rothfuss
  • Misbehavior of Markets by Benoit Mandelbrot
  • Tao Te Ching by Laozi (Stephen Mitchell's version)
2020 Audiobooks
  • Evil has a name by Peter McDonnell and Paul Holes
  • Designing your Life by Bill Burnett and Dave Evans
2019 Books
  • Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut
  • Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
  • The Misbehavior of Markets by Benoit Mandelbrot
  • Musicophilia by Oliver Sacks
  • Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
  • Pour Your Heart into It by Howard Schultz
  • The Black Sheep Formula by The Black Sheep
  • One Hour Content by Meera Kothand
  • Optimism Essay by Helen Keller
  • Catch a Fire The Life of Bob Marley by Timothy White
  • Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss
  • Jellyfish by Juli Berwald
  • The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller
  • The Blade Itself by Joe Abercrombie
  • Body by the River by Joe Abercrombie
  • Last argument of the king's by Joe Abercrombie
  • The Fate of Food by Amanda Little
  • Senlin Ascends by Josiah Bancroft
  • Arm of the Sphinx by Josiah Bancroft
  • The Hod King by Josiah Bancroft
  • It doesn't have to be crazy at work by Basecamp
  • Three Body Problem by Cixin Liu
  • High Achiever by Tiffany Jenkins
  • When You Are Engulfed in Flames by David Sedaris
  • How to win friends and influence people by Dale Carnegie
  • Antifragile by Naseem Taleb
  • Can't Hurt Me by David Goggins
2019 Audiobooks
  • American Kingpin by Nick Bilton
  • The Push by Tommy Caldwell
  • Why We Sleep by Matthew Walker
  • Billion Dollar Whale by Tom Wright and Bradley Hope
  • When: The Scientific Secrets of Perfect Timing by Daniel Pink
  • Maybe you should talk to someone by Lori Gottlieb
  • Alone at Dawn: Medal of Honor Recipient John Chapman and the Untold Story of the World's Deadliest Special Operations Force by Dan Schilling, Lori Longfritz
2018 Books
  • Third Plate by Dan Barber
  • The End of Plenty by Joel K Bourne Jr.
  • The Water Will Come by Jeff Goodell
  • The One-Straw Revolution by Masanobu Fukuoka
  • Sand County Almanac by Aldo Leopold
  • Cadillac Desert by Marc Reisner
  • Orbiting the Giant Hairball by Gordon Mackenzie
  • High Output Management
  • How to Change Your Mind by Michael Pollan
  • Ben Franklin by Walter Isaacson
  • An Ocean Garden by Josie Iselin
  • Stung! by Lisa-ann Gershwin
  • Autonomy by Lawrence D. Burns
  • Antifragile by Nasseem Taleb 
  • The Class by Heather Won Tesoriero
  • Being Mortal by Atul Gawande
  • The Lost City of the Monkey God by Douglas Preston
  • The Mushroom at the End of the World by Anna Tsing
  • Cradle to Cradle by William McDonough and Michael Braungart
  • Zurich Axioms by Max Gunther
2018 Audiobooks
  • Clean Meat by Paul Shapiro
  • Song for Blue Ocean by Carl Safina
  • The Wizard and the Prophet by Charles C. Mann
  • The Upside of Stress by Kelly McGonigal
  • Grit by Angela Duckworth
  • The Anatomy of Peace by Oliver Wyman
  • The Score Takes Care of Itself by Bill Walsh
  • Autobiography of Frederick Douglass
  • Exactly What to Say by Phil M. Jones
  • On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the 20th Century by Timothy Snyder
  • The Invention of Nature: Alexander von Humboldt by Andrew Wulf 
  • Calypso by David Sedaris
  • Unbroken: A WWII Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption by Laura Hillenbrand
  • Narconomics: How to Run a Drug Cartel by Tom Wainwright
  • Food: A Cultural Culinary History 
  • The Coming Storm by Michael Lewis
  • Subtle Art of Not Giving a Fuck by Mark Manson
  • How to American by Jimmy O. Yang
  • Coach Wooden and Me by Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
  • The Outsiders: 8 Unconventional CEOs by William Thorndike
  • Play Bigger by Al Ramadam, Dave Peterson, Christopher Lochhead, Kevin Maney
2017 Books 
  • Only the Paranoid Survive by Andy Grove: About Chairman/CEO Andy Grove’s maneuvers during his tenure at Intel. 
  • Into Thin Air by Jon Krakauer: First hand account of the 1997 Mount Everest disaster.
  • Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
  • Born on 3rd Base by Chuck Collins
  • The Structure of Scientific Revolutions by Thomas Kuhn
  • White People by Allan Gurganus
  • The Audacity of Hope by Barack Obama: Autobiography of Barack Obama
  • Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson: Biography of Steve Jobs
  • Bread Wine Chocolate by Simran Sethi
  • Progress and Poverty by Henry George: Long essay written in the 1800s based on San Francisco’s trajectory with radical ideas (effectively removing private property), however eerily predicts many of the problems we see today around inequality of wages, gentrification, lack of class mobility, and homelessness. 
  • Zero to One by Peter Thiel: On how to do startups. 
  • Creativity, Inc. by Ed Catmull: About Pixar and it’s colorful history with some great business / company lessons sprinkled in, especially entertaining to read next to the Steve Jobs biography. 
  • Shoe Dog by Phil Knight: About Nike from 0 to the juggernaut it is today by it’s recluse founder. 
  • Hackers and Painters by Paul Graham
  • Good Calories, Bad Calories by Gary Taubes: Long, technical, but digestible book on the science behind why highly refined carbohydrates and sugars are bad for us. 
  • The 2nd Machine Age by Erik and Andrew
  • Ready Player 1 by Ernest Cline
  • Poor Charlie’s Almanack by Peter Kaufman
  • True Power by Vincente Falconi
  • The Power of Habit by Charles Duhigg: About how habits are formed or broken. 
  • How the Scots Invented the Modern World by Arthur Herman: Cover the enlightenment and how it came to be.
  • The Brief History of Everything by William Bryson: Exactly as the title says, entertaining read covering a wide span of topics across history, evolution, astronomy, and earth science.
  • The Third Chimpanzee by Jared Diamond: About the evolution of humans.
  • The Box by Marc Levinson: Historical account of the shipping container industry, how it came to be and thrived.
  • Digital Gold by Nathaniel Popper: About the history and prospects of cryptocurrency.
  • Collapse by Jared Diamond: Great read about the most infamous collapses of civilizations in recent history. 
  • 1984 by George Orwell: Short and famous dystopian novel, highly relevant to today’s world of an all-seeing surveillance state.
  • Guns Germs and Steel by Jared Diamond
  • Boomerang: Lessons in the New Third World by Michael Lewis: Short essay format about the scary prospects of our current municipal bond crisis.
  • What if? By Randall Munroe
  • Countdown to Zero Day by Kim Zetter: Detailed account of the Stuxnet hack and the implications for our increasingly digital world.
  • Black Swan by Nassim Taleb: A book about outliers, but not about outliers. 
  • Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman: Great book by Nobel Prize winner on how we think and how to make better decisions. 
  • Barbarians at the Gate: About the infamous leveraged buyout of RJR Nabisco as well as the highest levels of corporate America boardroom politics. 
  • Checklist Manifesto by Atul Gawande: Short read by an oncologist about the virtues of a simple checklist in extremely complex and fast-paced environments such as emergency room, commercial cockpits, etc. 
  • Sustainable Materials without the Hot Air: Cheeky but easy to absorb textbook about the contribution of building materials (mostly Steel, Aluminum, Paper, Plastic) to carbon emissions along with how we can control it. 
  • Beginner’s Mind by Shunryu Suzuki
  • Botany of Desire by Michael Pollan: Short book written from the plant’s perspective with philosophical commentary sprinkled in. 
  • Ice Age by John and Mary Gribbin: Short and concise essay about the gradual formation of the Ice Age theory.
  • Biting the Hand that Feeds us by Baylen Linnekin: About how food laws can restrict sustainability without providing additional safety. 
  • Storm in a Teacup by Helen Czerski
  • The Innovator’s Dilemma by Clayton Christensen
  • Betting on Famine by Jean Ziegler
  • Drawdown Project by Paul Hawken
  • Models of my Life by Herbert A. Simon
  • I Was Told to Come Alone: My journey behind the lines of Jihad by Souad Mekhennet
  • The Sixth Extinction by Elizabeth Kolbert
  • The Sympathizer by Viet Thanh Nguyen
  • Albert Einstein by Walter Isaacson
  • Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World that Can't Stop Talking by Susan Cain
  • Merchants of Doubt by Naomi Oreskes & Erik M. Conway: About how a handful of scientists obscured the truth on issues from tobacco smoke, acid rain, pesticide use, ozone holes, and climate change. 
  • Flow by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
2017 Audiobooks
  • Born a Crime by Trevor Noah
  • The Hidden Life of Trees by Peter Wohlleben
  • Never Split the Difference by Chris Voss
  • American Catch: The Fight for Our Local Seafood by Paul Greenberg
  • The Like Switch by Jack Schafer
  • How Not to Die by Michael Greger and Gene Stone
  • The Way of the Shepherd by Kevin Leman and William Pentak
  • Hillbilly Elegy by J.D. Vance
  • A Walk in the Woods by Bill Bryson
  • Option B by Sheryl Sandberg
2016 Books
  • How to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie 
  • Delivering Happiness by Tony Hsieh
  • Modern Romance by Aziz Ansari
  • Everything is bullshit by Priceconomics
  • WASTE by Tristan Stuart
  • Irrational Exuberance by Robert Schiller
2016 Audiobooks
  • Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX and the Quest for a Fantastic Future
  • The Emperor of All Maladies - Siddhartha Mukherjee
  • Third Plate by Dan Barber
  • When Breath becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi
  • Why We Get Fat by Gary Taubes
  • The Spy who couldn’t Spell by Yudhijit Bhattacharjee
  • The Hard Things about Hard Things by Ben Horowitz
  • Amy Schumer
  • Crisis of Character by Gary Byrne
  • Leadership BS by Jeffrey Pfeffer
  • Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn
Work in Progress Books, which probably won't be finished
  • WIP - Expanse Series by James S.A. Corey Book 5
  • WIP - Clarity & Connection by Yung Pueblo
  • WIP - Meditations by Marcus Aurelius
  • WIP - Harry Potter by J.K. Rowling
  • WIP - Six Easy Pieces by Richard Feynman 
  • WIP - Mycelium Running by Paul Stamets
  • WIP - Deadliest Enemy by Mark Olshaker Enemy by Mark Olshaker
  • WIP - The Effective Executive by Peter Drucker
  • WIP - The World I Live In by Helen Keller
  • WIP - Natural Capitalism by Paul Hawken
  • WIP - Principles by Ray Dalio
  • WIP - The Sovereign Individual by James Dale Davidson
  • WIP - An Agricultural Testament by Sir Albert Howard
  • WIP - The Messy Middle by Scott Belsky
  • WIP - Untethered Soul - by Michael Singer
  • WIP - Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
  • WIP - Structures by E.B Gordon
  • WIP - Kevin Hart Lessons Learned
  • WIP - Hold Me Tight by Dr. Sue Johnson
  • WIP - The Book of Life by J. Krishnamurti
  • WIP - The Science of Storytelling by Will Storr
  • WIP - The Philosophy of Childhood by Gareth Matthews