Bookshelf

My bookshelf, in no particular order. Some are entertaining, some are educational, the best are both. A few I vehemently disagree with. All are worth a look. Inspired by Patrick Collison's bookshelf.

Anything I should read not on this list? Let me know.

Business & Strategy

The War of Art — Steven Pressfield
Good Strategy, Bad Strategy — Richard Rumelt
7 Powers: The Foundations of Business Strategy — Hamilton Helmer
The Goal: A Process of Ongoing Improvement — Eliyahu M. Goldratt
Only the Paranoid Survive — Andrew Grove
Stubborn Attachments — Tyler Cowen
Poor Charlie's Almanack — Charles T. Munger
Debt: The First 5,000 Years — David Graeber
The Man Who Solved the Market — Gregory Zuckerman
Netflixed: The Battle for America's Eyeballs — Gina Keating
Parkinson's Law — C. Northcote Parkinson
The Tiny MBA — Alex Hillman
How Will You Measure Your Life? — Clayton M. Christensen
IT Strategy for Non-IT Managers: Becoming an Engaged Contributor to Corporate IT Decisions — Amrit Tiwana
Apple in China — Patrick McGee
Liar's Poker — Michael Lewis
Barbarians at the Gate — Bryan Burrough, John Helyar
Diary of a Very Bad Year: Confessions of an Anonymous Hedge Fund Manager — Keith Gessen
Expected Returns: An Investor's Guide to Harvesting Market Rewards — Antti Ilmanen
The Bond King — Mary Childs
Trading at the Speed of Light — Donald MacKenzie
Antifragile — Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Management & Leadership

High Output Management — Andrew Grove
The Hard Thing About Hard Things — Ben Horowitz
An Elegant Puzzle: Systems of Engineering Management — Will Larson
The 15 Commitments of Conscious Leadership — Jim Dethmer, Diana Chapman, Kaley Klemp
Nonviolent Communication — Marshall B. Rosenberg
Adventures of an IT Leader — Robert D. Austin, Richard L. Nolan, Shannon O'Donnell
Developing Talent in Young People — Benjamin S. Bloom

Product & Design

Inspired: How to Create Tech Products Customers Love — Marty Cagan
Don't Make Me Think — Steve Krug
The Design of Everyday Things — Don Norman
User Story Mapping — Jeff Patton
Do the Fucking Work: Lowbrow Advice for High-Level Creativity — Jason Bacher, Brian Buirge, Jason Richburg

Systems & Engineering

Thinking in Systems: A Primer — Donella H. Meadows
The Systems Bible — John Gall
The Phoenix Project — Gene Kim, Kevin Behr, George Spafford
The Algorithm Design Manual — Steven Skiena
The Art of Doing Science and Engineering — Richard Hamming
The Chip — T.R. Reid
Maintenance of Everything: Part One — Stewart Brand
The Origins of Efficiency — Brian Potter
Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid — Douglas R. Hofstadter
The Book of Why — Judea Pearl, Dana Mackenzie

Science Fiction

The Three Body Problem — Liu Cixin
Neuromancer — William Gibson
The Sprawl Trilogy — William Gibson
The Peripheral — William Gibson
Snow Crash — Neal Stephenson
The Diamond Age — Neal Stephenson
Seveneves — Neal Stephenson
The Stormlight Archive — Brandon Sanderson
The Mistborn Series — Brandon Sanderson
Excession — Iain M. Banks
The Culture Series — Iain M. Banks
Ra — qntm
If the Universe Is Teeming with Aliens... WHERE IS EVERYBODY? — Stephen Webb
There Is No Antimemetics Division — qntm
Mickey7 — Edward Ashton

Nonfiction & Narrative

Gates of Fire — Steven Pressfield
Masters of Doom — David Kushner
Skunk Works — Ben R. Rich
Homicide: A Year on the Killing Streets — David Simon
The Corner: A Year in the Life of an Inner-City Neighborhood — David Simon, Edward Burns
The Food Lab: Better Home Cooking Through Science — J. Kenji Lopez-Alt
The Scaling Era: An Oral History of AI, 2019–2025 — Dwarkesh Patel, Gavin Leech
If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies — Eliezer Yudkowsky, Nate Soares
The Worlds I See — Fei-Fei Li