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An incomplete list of notable books I’ve read, in no particular order. My favorite novel is One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez, which I found in a hostel while hitchhiking in the Middle East. Rather, the book and I found each other as lovers do — that's when my love for reading began.
Last Updated: March 14, 2021
Currently Reading
The Art of Memoir — by Mary Karr
How to Write Well — by William Zinsser
Finite and Infinite Games — by James P. Carse
Man's Search for Meaning — by Victor Frankel
2021
The 15 Commitments of Conscious Leadership — by Jim Dethmer and Diana Chapman
The Psychology of Money - Morgan Housel
The Wealthy Gradener: Lessons on Prosperity between Father and Son - John Soforic
2020
How to Take Smart Notes — by Sönke Ahrens
Moonwalking with Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything — by Joshua Foer
Modern Iran: Roots and Results of Revolution — by Nikki R. Keddie
The Mom Test — by Rob Fitzpatrick
Atomic Habits — by James Clear
10 Days to Faster Reading — by Abby Marks-Beal and The Princeton Language Institute
How to Read a Book — by Mortimer J. Adler and Charles Van Doren
Men Explain Things to Me — by Rebecca Solnit
Sum: 40 Tales from the Afterlives — by David Eagleman
The White Tiger — by Aravind Adiga
Walden — by Henry David Thoreau
Shantaram — by Gregory David Roberts
Vagabonding: An Uncommon Guide to the Art of Long-Term World Travel — by Rolf Potts
How to Win Friends and Influence People — by Dale Carnegie
2019
The Remains of the Day — by Kazuo Ishiguro
The Great Mental Models — by Shane Parrish and Rhiannon Beaubien
Shoe Dog: A Memoir by the Creator of Nike — by Phil Knight
Tao of Charlie Munger — by Charlie Munger
High Growth Handbook: Scaling Startups from 10 to 10,000 People — by Elad Gill
Designing Your Life: How to Build a Well-Lived Joyful Life — by Bull Burnett and Dave Evans
Principles: Life and Work — by Ray Dalio
Tools of Titans — by Tim Ferris
Meditations — by Marcus Aurelius
Surely You're Joking Mr. Feynman!: Adventures of a Curious Character — by Richard Feynman
The Hard Thing About Hard Things — by Ben Horowitz
Love Yourself Like Your Life Depends on It — by Kamal Ravikant
2018 & Earlier
Siddartha — by Herman Hesse
Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future — by Peter Thiel and Blake Masters
One Hundred Years of Solitude — by Gabriel García Márquez
News of a Kidnapping — by Gabriel García Márquez
The 4 Hour Body — by Tim Ferriss
The Lean Product Playbook — by Dan Olsen
Play Bigger — by Al Ramadan and Sean Pratt
The Business of Sharing: Making it in the New Sharing Economy — by Alex Stephany
Venture Deals — by Brad Feld and Jason Mendelson
Who: The A Method for Hiring — by Geoff Smart and Randy Street
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind — by Yuval Harari
Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow — by Yuval Harari
1984 — by George Orwell
Outliers: The Story of Success — by Malcolm Gladwell
The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment — by Eckhart Tolle
Nonviolent Communication: A Language of Life — by by Marshall B. Rosenberg and Deepak Chopra
Radical Candor: Be a Kick-Ass Boss Without Losing Your Humanity — by Kim Scott
7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change — by Steven Covey
The Kite Runner — by Khaled Hosseini
The Selfish Gene — by Richard Dawkin
The Stranger — by Albert Camus
The Game — by Ken Dryden
Of Mice and Men — by John Steinbeck
A Thousand Splendid Suns — by Khaled Hosseini
The Alchemist — by Paulo Coelho
Start with Why: How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone to Take Action — by Simon Sinek
The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference — by Malcolm Gladwell
Choke — by Chuck Palahniuk
Into the Wild — by Jon Krakauer