Bookshelf
Below is a catalog of the physical, digital, and audio books I own. I always enjoy reading others' lists and browsing their bookshelves, so this intended to be a digital version of that.
Some of these books have given me a priceless education: A good book gets better on the second reading, a great book on the third. Any book not worth rereading isn’t worth reading but I still include them.
"What is your alma mater?""Books."
Multi-disciplinary
- Michel de Montaigne: The Complete Works (Montaigne, Frame translation)
- Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chase in Life and in the Markets (Nassim Nicholas Taleb)
- The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable (Nassim Nicholas Taleb)
- Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder (Nassim Nicholas Taleb)
- The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical Aphorisms (Nassim Nicholas Taleb)
- Skin in the Game: Hidden Asymmetries in Daily Life (Nassim Nicholas Taleb)
- Ecce Homo: How One Becomes What One Is (Friedrich Nietzsche)
- Beyond Good and Evil (Friedrich Nietzsche)
- The Birth of Tragedy (Friedrich Nietzsche)
- On the Geneology of Morals (Friedrich Nietzsche)
- Thus Spoke Zarathustra (Friedrich Nietzsche)
- The Gay Science (Friedrich Nietzsche)
- Boyd: The Fighter Pilot Who Changed the Art of War (Robert Coram)
- The Art of War (Sun Tzu, Cleary translation)
- The Art of War (Sun Tzu, Griffith translation)
- The Art of War (Sun Tzu, Trapp translation)
- The Japanese Art of War (Thomas Cleary)
- Mastering the Art of War (Zhuge Liang and Liu Ji, Cleary translation)
- The Tao of War (Peace): A Military Interpretation of the Tao Te Ching (Ralph D. Sawyer)
- The Book of Five Rings: A Classic Text on the Japanese Way of the Sword (Miyamoto Musashi, Cleary translation)
- The Book of Five Rings (Miyamoto Musashi, unknown translation)
- Writings on the Five Spheres (Miyamoto Musashi, Groff translation)
- Thirty-five Articles on Strategy (Miyamoto Musashi, Groff translation)
- The Path Walked Alone (Miyamoto Musashi, Groff translation)
- The Way of Chuang Tzu (Thomas Merton)
- Zen in the Art of Archery (Eugene Herrigel)
- Memories, Dreams, Reflections (C.G. Jung)
- On Power (Robert A. Caro)
- Certain to Win: The Strategy of John Boyd, Applied to Business (Chet Richards)
- The Hero with a Thousand Faces (The Collected Works of Joseph Campbell) (Joseph Campbell)
- The Power of Myth (Joseph Campbell)
- The Way of Zen (Alan Watts)
- The Republic of Plato (Plato, Bloom translation)
- The Origin of Species (Charles Darwin)
- The Prince (Machiavelli)
- Meditations (Marcus Aurelius, Hayes translation)
- Letters from a Stoic (Seneca)
- Bruce Lee Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living (Bruce Lee, Littles translation)
- Mastery (Robert Greene)
- The 48 Laws of Power (Robert Greene)
- The 33 Strategies of War (Robert Greene)
- The Art of Seduction (Robert Greene)
- The Laws of Human Nature (Robert Greene)
- Code of the Samurai — Bushido: The Soul of Japan (Inazo Nitobe)
- The Art of Learning: An Inner Journey to Optimal Performance (Josh Waitzkin)
- The Art of Action (Stephen Bungay)
- The Wisdom of the Stoics: Selections from Seneca, Epictetus, and Marcus Aurelius (Frances and Henry Hazlitt) — Notes
- 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos (Jordan Peterson)
Epics, Mythologies, and Legends
- The Odyssey (Homer, Fagles translation)
- The Iliad (Homer, Fagles translation)
- The Odyssey (Homer, Wilson translation)
- Musashi (Eiji Yoshikawa)
- The Aeneid (Virgil)
- The Nature of Things (Lucretius)
- The Greek Plays: Sixteen Plays by Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides (Lefkowitz and Romm translations)
- Aesop's Fables (Aesop)
- Gates of Fire (Steven Pressfield)
- Norse Mythology (Neil Gaiman)
- The Indians’ Book (Natalie Curtis)
Biographies and Autobiographies
- Leonardo da Vinci (Walter Isaacson)
- Steve Jobs (Walter Isaacson)
- Benjamin Franklin: An American Life (Walter Isaacson)
- Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power (Jon Meacham)
- Soros: The Life and Times of a Messianic Billionaire (Michael T. Kaufman)
- 1776 (David McCullough)
- The Lives of the Most Excellent Painters, Sculptors, and Architects (Giorgio Vasari, de Vere translation)
- The Accidental President (A.J. Baime)
- The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci (George Braziller)
- Memories of a Theoretical Physicist (Joseph Polchinski)
History
- Berlin Diary: The Journal of a Foreign Correspondent 1934-1941 (William L. Shirer)
- Perilous Interventions (Hardeep Singh Puri)
- Why Don’t We Learn from History (B.H. Liddel Hart)
- Thousand Years of Nonlinear History
Mathematics and Science
- The Statistical Consequences of Fat Tails (Nassim Nicholas Taleb)
- Who We Are And How We Got Here (David Reich)
- Calculus Made Easy (Silvana Thompson)
- Regenesis: How Synthetic Biology Will Reinvent Nature and Ourselves (George Church)
- The Beginning of Infinity: Explanations That Transform the World (David Deutsch)
- Simple Sabotage Field Manual (Office of Strategic Services)
Stories
- Siddhartha (Herman Hesse)
- The River of Doubt: Theodore Roosevelt's Darkest Journey (Candice Millard)
- Hero of the Empire: The Making of Winston Churchill (Candice Millard)
- The Landmark Thucydides: A Comprehensive Guide to the Poloponnesian War (Thucydides, Edited by Robert B Strassler)
- A History of Private Life: From Pagan Rome to Byzantium (Paul Veyne, Arthur Goldhammer)
- Tribe: On Homecoming and Belonging (Sebastian Junger)
- How to Travel with a Salmon (Umberto Eco)
- The Swerve: How the World Became Modern (Stephen Greenblatt)
- Where Men Win Glory: The Odyssey of Pat Tillman (Jon Krakauer)
- War (Sebastian Junger)
- The Clay Pigeons of St. Lo (Glover S. Johns)
- Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin (Snyder)
- To Hell and Back: Europe 1914 - 1949 (Ian Kershaw)
- The Perfect Storm: A True Story of Men Against the Sea (Sebastian Junger)
- The Lessons of History (Will & Ariel Durant)
- Heroes of History (Will Durant)
- The Great Minds and Ideas of All Time (Will Durant)
- Fallen Leaves (Will Durant)
- The Story of Philosophy (Will Durant)
- The Echos of Greece (Edith Hamilton)
- The Roman Way (Edith Hamilton)
- On Sparta (Plutarch)
- A Brief History of the Samurai (Jonathan Clements)
- Ninja: 1,000 Years of the Shadow Warrior (John Man)
- The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt (Edmund Morris)
- Athletics in the Ancient World (E. Normal Gardiner)
- The Naked Olympics (Tony Perrottet)
- Leisure: The Basis of Culture
- Man and His Symbols (Carl Jung)
- Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (Yuval Noah Harari)
- The Grand Strategy of Classical Sparta (Paul A. Rahe)
- The Wisdom Books: Jobs, Proverbs, and Ecclesiastes (Robert Alter)
Magazines
Leadership
- Sherman: Soldier, Realist, American (B.H. Liddel Hart)
- About Face: The Odyssey of an American Warrior (Col. David H Hackworth)
- Conversations with Major Dick Winters (Col. Cole Kingseed)
- The Armed Forces Officer: Edition of 1950 (United States Department of Defense)
- Zen Lessons: The Art of Leadership (Thomas Cleary)
- Maurice's Strategikon: Handbook of Byzantine Military Strategy (Dennis translation)
- Extreme Ownership: How U.S. Navy SEALs Lead and Win (Jocko Willink)
- Discipline Equals Freedom: Field Manual (Jocko Willink)
- The Score Takes Care of Itself: My Philosophy of Leadership (Bill Walsh)
Novels
- Dune (Frank Herbert)
- For Whom the Bell Tolls (Ernest Hemingway)
- The Old Man and the Sea (Ernest Hemingway)
- The Sun Also Rises (Ernest Hemingway)
- A Farewell to Arms (Ernest Hemingway)
- Crime and Punishment (Fyodor Dostoevsky)
- Notes from the Underground (Fyodor Dostoevsky)
- The Brothers Karamazov (Fyodor Dostoevsky)
- The Catcher in the Rye (JD Salinger)
- A Clockwork Orange (Anthony Burgess)
- Fahrenheit 451 (Ray Bradbury)
- The Great Gatsby (F Scott Fitzgerald)
- The Alchemist (Paulo Coelho)
- Breakfast at Tiffany’s (Truman Capote)
- Foucault's Pendulum (Umberto Eco)
- The Road (Cormac McCarthy)
- Blood Meridian: Or the Evening Redness in the West (Cormac McCarthy)
- No Country for Old Men (Cormac McCarthy)
- Life of Pi (Yann Martel)
- The Idiot (Fyodor Dostoevsky)
- On the Road (Jack Kerouac)
- War and Peace (Leo Tolstoy)
Everything Else
- Principles: Life and Work (Ray Dalio)
- Ego is the Enemy (Ryan Holiday)
- How to Win Friends & Influence People (Dale Carnegie)
- All Men Are Brothers (Gandhi)
- Sex and Culture (J.D. Unwin)
Antilibrary
- Stanislaw Lem. (Exploring the consequences of computationally simulating humans)
- Vagabond (Takehiko Inoue)
- Ultra-violence: Tales from Venus (Fabius Maximus)
Pile
- Homo Dues: A Brief History of Tomorrow (Yuval Noah Harari)
- Thank You For Being Late (Thomas Friedman)