Books
Tech History
(roughly in chronological order)
- The Innovators: How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses, and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution by Walter Isaacson
- The Attention Merchants: The Epic Scramble to Get Inside Our Heads by Tim Wu
- The Dream Machine by M. Mitchell Waldrop
- Troublemakers: Silicon Valley's Coming of Age by Leslie Berlin
- The Little Kingdom: The Private Story of Apple Computer by Michael Moritz
- Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson
- Hard Drive: Bill Gates and the Making of the Microsoft Empire by James Wallace
- How The Internet Happened by Brian McCullough
- The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon by Brad Stone
- That Will Never Work: The Birth of Netflix and the Amazing Life of an Idea by Marc Randolph
- The Founders: The Story of Paypal and the Entrepreneurs Who Shaped Silicon Valley by Jimmy Soni
- The Search: How Google and Its Rivals Rewrote the Rules of Business and Transformed Our Culture by John Batelle
- The One Device: The Secret History of the iPhone by Brian Merchant
- The Accidental Billionaires: The Founding of Facebook, a Tale of Sex, Money, Genius, and Betrayal by Ben Mezrich
- Hatching Twitter: A True Story of Money, Power, Friendship, and Betrayal by Nick Bilton
- Chaos Monkeys: Obscene Fortune and Random Failure in Silicon Valley by Antonio García Martínez
- The Upstarts: How Uber, Airbnb, and the Killer Companies of the New Silicon Valley Are Changing the World by Brad Stone
Biography
- Open: An Autobiography by Andre Agassi
- The Wright Brothers by David McCullough
- Napoleon: A Life by Andrew Roberts
- Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future by Ashlee Vance
- Adolf Hitler: The Definitive Biography by John Toland
- Mao: The Unknown Story by Jung Chang and Jon Halliday
- American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer by Kai Bird & Martin Sherwin
- Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson
- Buffett: The Making of an American Capitalist by Roger Lowenstein
- Gandhi Before India by Ramachandra Guha
- Gandhi: The Years that Changed the World, 1914-1948 by Ramachandra Guha
- Walt Disney: The Triumph of the American Imagination by Neal Gabler
- The Man Without a Face: The Unlikely Rise of Vladimir Putin by Masha Gessen
- Jackson Pollock: An American Saga
- A Certain Idea of France: The Life of Charles de Gaulle by Julian Jackson
Creativity & Craftsmanship
- Art and Fear: Observations on the Perils (and Rewards) of Artmaking by David Bayles & Ted Orland
- Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary by Anthony Bourdain
- If You Want to Write by Brenda Ueland
- Jony Ive: The Genius Behind Apple's Greatest Products by Leander Kahney
- The Craftsman by Richard Sennett
- Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values by Robert Pirsig
- Why We Make Things and Why It Matters: The Education of a Craftsman by Peter Korn
- The Writing Life by Annie Dillard
Finance
- Barbarians at the Gate: The Fall of RJR Nabisco by Bryan Burrough & John Helyar
- When Genius Failed: The Rise and Fall of Long-Term Capital Management by Roger Lowenstein
- The Power Law: Venture Capital and the Making of the New Future by Sebastian Mallaby
- Beggar Thy Neighbor: A History of Usury and Debt by Charles R. Geisst
- The Spider Network: The Wild Story of a Math Genius, a Gang of Backstabbing Bankers, and One of the Greatest Scams in Financial History by David Enrich
- Too Big to Fail: The Inside Story of How Wall Street and Washington Fought to Save the Financial System--and Themselves by Andrew Ross Sorkin
- Margin of Safety by Seth Klarman
- Investment Banks, Hedge Funds, and Private Equity by David Stowell
- Efficiently Inefficient: How Smart Money Invests and Market Prices Are Determined by Lasse Heje Pedersen
- Pioneering Portfolio Management: An Unconventional Approach to Institutional Investment by David Swensen
History
- Americana: A 400-Year History of American Capitalism by Bhu Srinivasan
- Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA by Tim Weiner
- Fire And Blood: A History Of Mexico by T. R. Fehrenbach
- Inferno: The World at War, 1939-1945 by Max Hastings
- Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945 by Tony Judt
- The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World by Niall Ferguson
- Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage by Alfred Lansing
- Democracy in America by Alexis de Tocqueville
- The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money & Power by Daniel Yergin
- Dreams of El Dorado: A History of the American West by H. W. Brands
- The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11 by Lawrence Wright
- In the Kingdom of Ice: The Grand and Terrible Polar Voyage of the USS Jeannette by Hampton Sides
- The Dope: The Real History of the Mexican Drug Trade by Benjamin T Smith
General Non-Fiction
- Moonwalking with Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything by Joshua Foer
- Risk Savvy: How to Make Good Decisions by Gerd Gigerenzer
- Zero To One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future by Peter Thiel
- The Design of Everyday Things by Don Norman
- The Elephant in the Brain: Hidden Motives in Everyday Life by Kevin Simler & Robin Hanson
- Loonshots: How to Nurture the Crazy Ideas That Win Wars, Cure Diseases, and Transform Industries by Safi Bahcall
- Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World by David Epstein
- Seeking Wisdom: From Darwin to Munger by Peter Bevelin
- Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
- Hackers & Painters: Big Ideas from the Computer Age by Paul Graham
- The Success Equation: Untangling Skill and Luck in Business, Sports, and Investing by Michael Mauboussin
- How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big: Kind of the Story of My Life by Scott Adams
- Decisive: How to Make Better Choices in Life and Work by Chip & Dan Heath
- McMafia: A Journey Through the Global Underworld by Misha Glenny
- String Theory: David Foster Wallace on Tennis by David Foster Wallace
- The Sweet Spot: The Pleasures of Suffering and the Search for Meaning by Paul Bloom