Reading List

"A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies. The man who never reads lives only one.”

— Jojen Reed to Bran Stark in George R.R. Martin's novel, A Dance with Dragons

This project is simply a collection of books and material that have had a significant impact on the way I view the world. They are grouped loosley by subject and organized alphabetically within each category.

Philosophy

Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
Fahrenheit 451 - Ray Bradbury
The Fountainhead - Ayn Rand
Meditations on First Philosophy - Rene Descartes
Nicomachean Ethics – Aristotle
The Road to Serfdom - Friedrich A. Hayek, Milton Friedman
The Structure of Scientific Revolutions - Thomas S. Kuhn
1984 - George Orwell

Critical Thinking

Calling Bullshit - Carl T. Bergstrom
Complexity: A Guided Tour - Melanie Mitchell
The Incerto Series – Nassim Taleb
- Fooled by Randomness
- The Black Swan
- Antifragile
- The Bed of Procrustes
- Skin in the Game
Thinking Fast and Slow - Daniel Kahneman

Human Belief and Action

The Coddling of the American Mind - Jonathan Haidt, Greg Lukianoff
Crowds and Power - Elias Canetti
Dezinformatsia - Richard H. Shultz Jr.
Going Clear - Lawrence Wright
Hate Inc. - Matt Taibbi
Impro - Keith Johnstone
Manufacturing Consent - Edward S. Herman, Noam Chomsky
Never Split the Difference - Chris Voss

Health

Built to Move - Kelly Starrett, Juliet Starrett
Deep Nutrition - Catherine Shanahan, Luke Shanahan

Economics and Money

The Bitcoin Standard - Saifedean Ammous
Central Banking 101 - Joseph Wang
The Creature from Jekyll Island - G. Edward Griffin
The DAO of Capital - Mark Spitznagel
The Fiat Standard - Saifedean Ammous
Layered Money - Nik Bhatia

History

The Gulag Archipelago – Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Legacy of Ashes - Tim Weiner
Ordinary Men - Christopher R. Browning
The Rape of Nanking – Iris Chang
With the Old Breed - Eugene B. Sledge

People

Fearless - Eric Blehm
Marine! The Life of Chesty Puller - Burke Davis

Miscellaneous

Baseless - Nicholson Baker
Taking Your Time - Eknath Easwaran