Below is a fairly complete catalog of the physical books I own. I find it enjoyable to read others' lists and browse their bookshelves, so this is intended to be a digital version of that.​ It's difficult to recommend books in the abstract, especially without knowing the individual, and I've no doubt missed some. Since the stacks and shelves in my study lack any particular order, so too does this list.
Three pieces of reading I recommend to everyone, regardless of their interests, are:
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1. Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance (Robert Pirsig)
2. The Beginning of Infinity (David Deutsch)
3. Poor Charlie's Almanac (Charlie Munger)
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These works of art have had a profound impact on the way I think and go about life, and I believe that anyone can benefit tremendously from the teachings within.
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Philosophy:
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Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance (Robert Pirsig)
Guidebook to Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance (Ronald DiSanto and Thomas Steele)
Lila: An Inquiry into Morals (Robert Pirsig)
On Quality: An Inquiry Into Excellence (Robert Pirsig)
Power vs. Force (David Hawkins)
A New Earth (Eckhart Tolle)
The Power of Now (Eckhart Tolle)
Happy: Why More or Less Everything is Absolutely Fine (Derren Brown)
Wanting: The Power of Mimetic Desire in Everyday Life (Luke Burgis)
The Ego is the Enemy (Ryan Holiday)
Wherever You Go, There You Are: Mindfulness Meditation in Everyday Life (Jon Kabat-Zinn)
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Psychology:
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Thinking, Fast, and Slow (Daniel Kahneman)
Influence (Robert Cialdini)
The Genie Within – Your Subconscious Mind: How it Works and How to Use It (Harry Carpenter)
The Diffusion of Innovations (Everett Rogers)
Mistakes Were Made (but not by me) (Carol Travis and Elliot Aronson)
Your Money & Your Brain (Jason Zweig)
The Psychology of Money (Morgan Housel)
The Wisdom of Crowds (James Surowiecki)
Scientific Advertising (Claude Hopkins)
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Systems Thinking:
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The Great Mental Models Volume 1: General Thinking Concepts (Shane Parrish)
Seeking Wisdom: From Darwin to Munger (Peter Bevelin)
Principles (Ray Dalio)
Counterintuitive Behaviors of Complex Social Systems (Jay Forrester)
A Few Lessons from Sherlock Holmes (Peter Bevelin)
The Systems Thinker (Albert Rutherford)
Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge (Edward O. Wilson)
Physics, Chemistry, and Biology:
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Six Easy Pieces: Essentials of Physics Explained by Its Most Brilliant Teacher (Richard Feynman)
The Physics of Wall Street (James Owen Weatherall)
The Great Mental Models Volume 2: Physics, Biology, and Chemistry (Shane Parrish)
The Selfish Gene (Richard Dawkins)
Guns Germs and Steel (Jared Diamond)
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (Yuval Noah Harari)
A Short History of Nearly Everything (Bill Bryson)
How the World Really Works: The Science Behind How We Got Here and Where We're Going (Vaclav Smil)
The Beginning of Infinity (David Deutsch)
The Lessons of History (Will and Ariel Durant)
Statistics, Probability, Mathematics, Game Theory, and Decision Making:
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The Success Equation (Michael Mauboussin)
A Man for all Markets (Ed Thorpe)
Thinking in Bets (Annie Duke)
How to Decide: Simple Tools for Making Better Decisions (Annie Duke)
Superforecasting: The Art and Science of Prediction (Philip Tetlock)
The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right (Atul Gawande)
Wild Problems: A Guide to Decisions That Define Us (Russ Roberts)
Noise: A Flaw in Human Judgment (Daniel Kahneman)
The Art of Strategy (Avinash Dixit)
The Art of War (Sun Tzu)
The Golden Ratio: The Story of Phi, the World's Most Astonishing Number (Mario Livio)
The Great Mental Models Volume 3: Mathematics and Systems (Shane Parrish)
Biographies (Personal and Business):
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The Outsiders (William Thorndike)
Benjamin Franklin: An American Life (Walter Isaacson)
Titan: The Life of John D. Rockefeller (Ron Chernow)
Katharine Graham: A Personal History (Washington Post) (Katharine Graham)
Snowball: Warren Buffett and the Business of Life (Alice Schroeder)
Shoe Dog (Nike) (Phil Knight)
The Everything Store (Amazon) (Brad Stone)
Bezonomics (Amazon) (Brian Dumane)
Invent and Wander: The Collected Writings of Jeff Bezos (Amazon) (Walter Isaacson)
Last Man Standing: Jamie Dimon (Duff McDonald)
Hard Drive: The Making of the Microsoft Empire (James Wallace & Jim Erickson)
What it Takes (Blackstone) (Stephen Schwartzman)
Barbarians at the Gate (RJR Nabisco) (Bryan Burrough)
Behind the Cloud (Salesforce) (Marc Benioff)
The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin (Benjamin Franklin)
In Their Own Words: Benjamin Franklin (Peter Roop)
Bad Blood (Theranos) (John Carreyrou)
When Genius Failed (Long Term Capital Management) (Roger Lowenstein)
The Man Who Solved the Market (Renaissance Technology) (Gregory Zuckerman)
Delivering Happiness: Zappos (Tony Hsieh)
Tap Dancing to Work (Warren Buffett biography) (Carol Loomis)
Buffett: The Making of an American Capitalist (Roger Lowenstein)
Steve Jobs: A Biography (Walter Isaacson)
Creativity Inc. (Pixar) (Ed Catmull)
Stress Test (Tim Geithner)
The Ride of a Lifetime (Disney) (Bob Iger)
In The Plex: How Google Thinks, Works, and Shapes Our Lives (Steven Levy)
Elon Musk (Ashlee Vance)
In-N-Out Burger (Stacy Perman)
Powerhouse CAA (Creative Artists Agency) (James Andrew Miller)
In Their Time: The Great Business Leaders of the 20th Century (Anthony Mayo)
Irresistible: The Rise of Addictive Technology and the Business of Keeping Us Hooked (Adam Alter)
Eleven Rings: The Soul of Success (Phil Jackson)
Sam Walton: Made in America (Wal-Mart) (Sam Walton)
Only the Paranoid Survive (Intel) (Andy Grove)
The Accidental Billionaires: The Founding of Facebook (Ben Mezrich)
Onward: How Starbucks Fought for Its Life without Losing Its Soul (Howard Schultz)
Black Edge (Steve Cohen - SAC Capital) (Sheelah Kolhatkar)
Soros: The Life and Times of a Messianic Billionaire (Michael Kaufman)
The Fish that Ate the Whale: The Life and Times of America's Banana King (Rich Cohen)
The Education of a Coach (Bill Belichick) (David Halberstam)
Baruch: My Own Story (Bernard M. Baruch)
Straight to Hell: True Tales of Deviance, Debauchery, and Billion-Dollar Deals (John LeFevre)
No Filter: The Inside Story of Instagram (Sarah Frier)
Idea Man: A Memoir by the Cofounder of Microsoft (Paul Allen)
Den of Thieves (Drexel Burnham) (James Stewart)
Peter Thiel and Silicon Valley's Pursuit of Power (Max Chafkin)
The Accidental Investment Banker: Inside the Decade that Transformed Wall Street (Jonathan Knee)
The Idea Factory: Bell Labs and the Great Age of American Innovation (IBM) (Jon Gertner)
Ma Huateng & Tencent: A Business and Life Biography (Leng Hu)
The Digital War: How China's Tech Power Shapes the Future of AI, Blockchain, and Cyberspace (Winston Ma)
The Many Lives of Michael Bloomberg (Eleanor Randolph)
The King of Capital: The Remarkable Rise, Fall, and Rise Again of Stephen Schwarzman and Blackstone (David Carey)
Two and Twenty: How the Masters of Private Equity Always Win (Sachin Khajuria)
More Money Than God (Sebastian Mallaby)
The Power Law: Venture Capital and the Making of the Future (Sebastian Mallaby)
Sol Price: Retail Revolutionary and Social Innovator (Price Club) (Robert Price)
Michael Jordan: The Life (Roland Lazenby)
Ogilvy on Advertising (David Ogilvy)
Confessions of an Advertising Man (David Ogilvy)
Showboat: The Life of Kobe Bryant (Roland Lazenby)
Distant Force: A Memoir of the Teledyne Corporation and the Man Who Created It (Henry Singleton) (George Roberts)
Napolean: A Concise Biography (David A. Bell)
Anna: The Biography (Anna Wintour) (Amy Odell)
The King of Madison Avenue: David Ogilvy and the Making of Modern Advertising (Kenneth Roman)
Michael Jordan: Life Lessons from His Airness (David H. Lewis)
Jony Ive: The Genius Behind Apple's Greatest Products (Leander Kahney)
James Dyson: Invention (James Dyson)
Elon Musk (Walter Isaacson)
The Four: The Hidden DNA of Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Google (Scott Galloway)
Walt Disney: An American Original (Bob Thomas)
The Man Who Sold America: Albert Lasker and the Creation of the Advertising Century (Jeffrey L. Cruikshank)
Land's Polaroid: A Company and the Man Who Invented It (Peter C. Wensberg)
The House that Cheese Built (Mexican Cheese Producers) (Miguel A. Leal)
Kochland: The Secret History of Koch Industries and Corporate Power in America (Christopher Leonard)
Power Failure: The Rise and Fall of an American Icon (General Electric) (William D. Cohan)
Wallenberg: The Family That Shaped Sweden's Economy (Gunnar Wetterberg)
Wall Street People: True Stories of Today's Masters and Moguls (Charles D. Ellis and James R. Vertin)
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Economics:
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The Wealth of Nations (Adam Smith)
Capitalism in America: An Economic History of the United States (Alan Greenspan)
What Would Keynes Do? (Tejvan Pettinger)
Misbehaving: The Making of Behavioral Economics (Richard Thaler)
Nudge (Richard Thaler)
Predictably Irrational (Dan Ariely)
The Alchemists: Three Central Bankers and a World on Fire (Neil Irwin)
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Finance & Investing:
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Poor Charlie's Almanac (Peter Bevelin)
The Tao of Warren Buffett (Mary Buffett)
The Tao of Charlie Munger (David Clark)
The Essays of Warren Buffett (Warren Buffett)
The Black Swan, Fooled by Randomness, Antifragile, Skin in the Game, and The Bed of Procrustes (Nassim Taleb)
Common Stocks and Uncommon Profits (Philip Fisher)
You Can Be a Stock Market Genius (Joel Greenblatt)
The Little Book that Beats the Market (Joel Greenblatt)
Security Analysis (Benjamin Graham)
The Intelligent Investor (Benjamin Graham)
Margin of Safety (Seth Klarman)
The Money Game (Adam Smith)
Value Investing: From Graham to Buffett and Beyond (Bruce Greenwald)
What Works on Wall Street (Jim O'Shaughnessy)
Market Wizards (whole series) (Jack Schwager)
Random Walk Down Wall Street (Burton Malkiel)
A Few Lessons for Investors and Managers from Warren Buffett (Peter Bevelin)
The Most Important Thing (whole series) (Howard Marks)
Mastering the Market Cycle (Howard Marks)
One Up on Wall Street (Peter Lynch)
Beating the Street (Peter Lynch)
Millenial Money: How Young Investors Can Build a Fortune (Patrick O'Shaughnessy)
Zero to One (Peter Thiel)
The Acquirer's Multiple (Tobias Carlisle)
Charlie Munger: The Complete Investor (Tren Griffin)
Intelligent Fanatics: How Great Leaders Build Sustainable Businesses (Ian Cassel)
Intelligent Fanatics: Standing on the Shoulders of Giants (Ian Cassel)
The Little Book That Builds Wealth (Pat Dorsey)
Templeton's Way with Money (Alasdair Nairn and Jonathan Davis)
Damn Right! Behind the Scenes with Berkshire Hathaway Billionaire Charlie Munger (Janet Lowe)
The Warren Buffet Portfolio (Robert Hagstrom)
The Dhando Investor: The Low Risk Value Method to High Returns (Mohnish Pabrai)
Liar's Poker (Michael Lewis)
The Big Short (Michael Lewis)
Flash Boys (Michael Lewis)
The Education of a Value Investor (Guy Spier)
HBR Guide to Buying a Small Business (Richard Ruback and Royce Yudkoff)
Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Jump and Others Don't (Jim Collins)
Competition Demystified (Bruce Greenwald)
Unknown Market Wizards (Jack Schwager)
Creating Shareholder Value (Alfred Rappaport)
Quality of Earnings (Thornton L. Grove)
Richer, Wiser, Happier (William Green)
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Music:
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This is Your Brain on Music (Daniel Levitin)
Chronicles: Volume I (Bob Dylan)
The Philosophy of Modern Song (Bob Dylan)
This Is What It Sounds Like: What The Music You Love Says About You (Susan Rodgers)
Maximum Volume: The Life of Beatles Producer George Martin (Kenneth Womack)
Switched On: Bob Moog and the Synthesizer Revolution (Albert Glinsky)
Story Engineering (Larry Brooks)
The Soaring Twenties (Thomas J. Bevan)
Eminem: The Way I Am (Eminem)
Rolling Stones: The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time (Rolling Stone)
The Come Up (Jonathan Abrams)
Hendrix: The Illustrated Story (Gillian Garr)
First Avenue: Minnesota's Mainroom (Chris Riemenschneider)
Minnesota in the 70's (Dave Kenney and Thomas Saylor)
Prince A to Z (Steve Wide)
Empire State of Mind: How Jay-Z Went from Street Corner to Corner Office (Zack O'Malley Greenburg)
Rick Rubin: In the Studio (Jake Brown)
The Creative Act: A Way of Being (Rick Rubin)
The Soundcloud Bible (Budi Voogt)
All You Need to Know About the Music Business (Donald Passman)
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Miscellaneous & Other:
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Outliers: The Stories of Success (Malcolm Gladwell)
Poor Richard's Almanac (Benjamin Franklin)
The Compound Effect (Darren Hardy)
The 5 AM Club (Robin Sharma)
How to Win Friends and Influence People (Dale Carnegie)
The Mamba Mentality (Kobe Bryant)
Think and Grow Rich (Napolean Hill)
The Defining Decade: Why Your 20's Matter (Meg Jay)
The Art of Learning: An Inner Journey to Optimal Performance (Josh Waitzkin)
In Pursuit of Elegance: Why the Best Ideas Have Something Missing (Matthew May)
The Hidden Habits of Genius (Craig Wright)
Give and Take (Adam Grant)
The Millionaire Next Door (Thomas Stanley and William Danko)
Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World (David Epstein)
Stories that Stick: How Storytelling Can Captivate Customers, Influence Audiences, and Transform Business (Kindra Hall)
The MAF Method (Phil Maffetone)
Originals: How Non-Comformists Move the World (Adam Grant)
How to Air Condition a Hot Rod (Jack Chisenhall)
Outlive: The Science & Art of Longevity (Dr. Peter Attia)
