Reading

Below, alphabetical by title, are the books that have most shaped how I think. A running list, not a complete one.

• Alibaba, Duncan Clark
• Amusing Ourselves to Death, Neil Postman
• Antifragile, Nassim Nicholas Taleb
• Battle for the Big Top, Les Standiford
• Billion Dollar Whale, Tom Wright & Bradley Hope
• The Black Swan, Nassim Nicholas Taleb
• Brave New World, Aldous Huxley
• The Brothers, Stephen Kinzer
• Bubble in the Sun, Christopher Knowlton
• The Checklist Manifesto, Atul Gawande
• Contagious, Jonah Berger
• Creativity, Inc., Ed Catmull
• A Dream About Lightning Bugs, Ben Folds
• An Economist Walks into a Brothel, Allison Schrager
• Finite and Infinite Games, James P. Carse
• Fooled by Randomness, Nassim Nicholas Taleb
• Fortune's Formula, William Poundstone
• From Third World to First, Lee Kuan Yew
• The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald
• Guns, Germs, and Steel, Jared Diamond
• Heart of Darkness, Joseph Conrad
• The Hour Between Dog and Wolf, John Coates
• How Big Things Get Done, Bent Flyvbjerg & Dan Gardner
• Kitchen Confidential, Anthony Bourdain
• Letters from a Stoic, Seneca
• Loonshots, Safi Bahcall
• A Man for All Markets, Edward O. Thorp
• Mayflower, Nathaniel Philbrick
• The Moral Animal, Robert Wright
• Negotiating the Impossible, Deepak Malhotra
• Never Split the Difference, Chris Voss
• The Obstacle Is the Way, Ryan Holiday
• Open, Andre Agassi
• Parkinson's Law, C. Northcote Parkinson
• Paul Revere's Ride, David Hackett Fischer
• Petty: The Biography, Warren Zanes
• Pieces of the Action, Vannevar Bush
• Play Nice but Win, Michael Dell
• Poor Charlie's Almanack, Charles T. Munger
• Prisoners of Geography, Tim Marshall
• Range, David Epstein
• The Revolt of the Public, Martin Gurri
• The River of Doubt, Candice Millard
• River Town, Peter Hessler
• The Road to Serfdom, F. A. Hayek
• Runnin' Down a Dream, Bill Gurley
• Safe Haven, Mark Spitznagel
• The Selfish Gene, Richard Dawkins
• Setting the Table, Danny Meyer
• Shoe Dog, Phil Knight
• Skin in the Game, Nassim Nicholas Taleb
• The Sociopath Next Door, Martha Stout
• The Sun Also Rises, Ernest Hemingway
• Thinking, Fast and Slow, Daniel Kahneman
• Why Most Things Fail, Paul Ormerod
• The World for Sale, Javier Blas & Jack Farchy
• The Wright Brothers, David McCullough