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A curated collection of books that have shaped my thinking, categorized by theme.

We are simultaneously gods and worms. - Abraham Maslow

⭐ Favorite Books

• The Psychology of Money by Morgan Housel (August 9, 2025)
• Richer, Wiser, Happier By William Green (August 30, 2025)
• The Almanack of Naval Ravikant by Eric Jorgenson (August 30, 2025)
• 10x Is Easier Than 2x by Dan Sullivan (May 16, 2025)
• Outlive By Peter Attia (August 14, 2025)
• The Dhandho Investor: The Low-Risk Value Method to High Returns (August 21, 2025)
• Rule Breaker Investing by David Gardner (October 26, 2025)
• The Metaphysical World Of Isaac Newton By John Chambers (August 04, 2025)

📚 Biography & History

• AI-Superpowers (September 09, 2025)
• The Journey Of Maps And Images On The Silk Road (September 09, 2025)
• The Phantom Atlas (September 09, 2025)
• Around The World In 80 Ways (September 09, 2025)
• Chip War (September 09, 2025)
• Brilliant Maps For Curious Minds 100 New Ways To See the World (September 09, 2025)
• Advice For A Young Investigator (September 08, 2025)
• Asimov’s Guide To The Bible By Isaac Asimov (August 31, 2025)
• Kierkegaard and Socrates: A Study in Philosophy and Faith (August 31, 2025)
• 21st Century Capitalism By Robert L Heilbroner (August 30, 2025)
• The China Study (August 30, 2025)
• A Gift To My Children By Jim Rogers (August 21, 2025)
• How The World Really Works By Vaclav Smil (August 21, 2025)
• John Dee and the Empire of Angels (August 21, 2025)
• In Order To Live By Yeonmi Park (August 14, 2025)
• The Lacanian Teacher (August 14, 2025)
• Machiavelli’s Gaze by Sandro Landi (August 14, 2025)
• Muhammad Ali By Thomas Hauser (August 14, 2025)
• Roger Bacon: The First Scientist by Brian Clegg (August 10, 2025)
• James Watt: Making the World Anew By Ben Russell (August 10, 2025)
• Capitalism And Freedom By Milton Friedman (August 10, 2025)
• A Few Hares To Chase By Alan Bollard (August 10, 2025)
• Forgotten Peoples Of The Ancient World By Philip Matyszak (August 04, 2025)
• Benjamin Franklin By Walter Isaacson (August 04, 2025)
• Leonardo Da Vinci By Walter Isaacson (August 04, 2025)
• Violence And The Sacred By René Girard (August 04, 2025)
• The Perfect Dictatorship: China in the 21st Century (August 04, 2025)
• Dominion By Tom Holland (August 04, 2025)
• Lifted A Cultural History Of The Elevator (August 04, 2025)
• The Essential Mozi by Chris Fraser (August 04, 2025)
• The Logical Basis Of Metaphysics (August 04, 2025)
• The Reckoning: Financial Accountability and the Rise and Fall of Nations by Jacob Soll (August 03, 2025)
• Steve Jobs By Walter Isaacson (August 02, 2025)
• The Nvidia Way: Jensen Huang and the Making of a Tech Giant (August 02, 2025)
• My Life And Work By Henry Ford (May 16, 2025)
• The Fish That Ate The Whale (September 08, 2025)
• House Of Huawei (September 08, 2025)
• The Lessons of History (October 27, 2025)

💼 Business & Entrepreneurship

• Tools of Titans: The Tactics Routines and Habits of Billionaires Icons and World-Class Performers (October 08, 2025)
• The Moment Of Clarity (September 09, 2025)
• Business Analytics (September 09, 2025)
• The Personal Mba (September 09, 2025)
• The Abc’s Of Property Management (September 09, 2025)
• Loopholes Of Real Estate (September 09, 2025)
• Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals (September 09, 2025)
• 2k To 10k (September 09, 2025)
• Who Not How (September 09, 2025)
• Crucial Conversations (September 08, 2025)
• Exactly What To Say By Phil M Jones (August 30, 2025)
• In The Company Of Giants (August 30, 2025)
• Selling Europe to the World: The Rise of the Luxury Fashion Industry (August 21, 2025)
• Influence By Robert Cialdini (August 16, 2025)
• The Lean Startup by Eric Ries (August 15, 2025)
• Zero to One by Peter Thiel (August 15, 2025)
• The Emperor’s New Mind: Concerning Computers, Minds, and The Laws of Physics (August 15, 2025)
• Competing Against Luck By Clayton Christensen (August 11, 2025)
• The Minimalist Entrepreneur by Sahil Lavingia (August 10, 2025)
• The Art of SEO by Eric Enge (August 10, 2025)
• Shape Up by Ryan Singer (August 04, 2025)
• Monetizing Innovation (August 03, 2025)
• Business Model Generation By Alexander Osterwald (August 03, 2025)
• Contagious Why Things Catch On By Jonah Berger (August 03, 2025)
• Scaling Innovation (August 03, 2025)
• Good to Great (August 02, 2025)
• The Checklist Manifesto by Atul Gawande (August 02, 2025)
• Rework: Change the Way You Work Forever (July 08, 2025)

📖 Classics & Literature

• Neuromancer (October 09, 2025)
• A Scanner Darkly (September 09, 2025)
• Things Hidden Since The Foundation Of The World (August 30, 2025)
• Alice’s Adventures In Wonderland By Lewis Carrol (August 28, 2025)
• The Life And Adventures Of Robinson Crusoe (August 27, 2025)
• The Pilgrim’s Progress By John Bunyan (August 27, 2025)
• Fables By Aesop (translated By V S Vernon Jones) (August 27, 2025)
• Gulliver’s Travels By Jonathan Swift (August 27, 2025)
• Heart Of Darkness By Joseph Conrad (August 27, 2025)
• The Poetics Of Space By Gaston Bachelard (August 04, 2025)
• In Praise Of Shadows By Jun’ichirō Tanizaki (June 8, 2025)

💰 Economics & Finance

• Poor Economics (August 10, 2025)
• The Road To Serfdom By Friedrich A Von Hayek (August 10, 2025)

🏥 Health & Wellness

• Fast Food Genocide By Dr Joel Fuhrman (October 09, 2025)
• Dr Berg’s Healthy Substitute Pleasure Foods (September 08, 2025)
• On Becoming Baby Wise: Giving Your Infant the Gift of Nighttime Sleep (September 08, 2025)
• Dr Berg’s New Body Type Guide (September 08, 2025)
• What Happened To You (September 08, 2025)
• Fat, Stressed, And Sick (September 08, 2025)
• The Gift Of Therapy By Irvin D Yalom (August 30, 2025)
• Emotional Judo By Tim Higgs (August 30, 2025)
• Super Agers by Eric Topol (August 10, 2025)
• Patient Heal Thyself By Jordan S Rubin (August 10, 2025)
• Body By Breath Jill Miller (August 07, 2025)

📈 Investing

• Poor Charlie’s Almanack (October 08, 2025)
• Psychology of Human Misjudgment (October 8, 2025)
• The Coffee House Investor’s Ground Rules (September 09, 2025)
• Profit by Investing in Real Estate Tax Liens (September 09, 2025)
• The Investor’s Manifesto (September 09, 2025)
• Rich Dad Education On Tax Secrets (September 09, 2025)
• The Book on Investing in Real Estate with No (and Low) Money Down (September 09, 2025)
• Rich Dad Poor Dad By Robert T Kiyosaki (September 09, 2025)
• Tax Free Wealth (September 09, 2025)
• The Book On Rental Property Investing (September 09, 2025)
• Stock Market Cash Flow (September 09, 2025)
• Just Keep Buying (September 09, 2025)
• Increase Your Financial IQ (September 03, 2025)
• Rich AF: The Winning Money Mindset That Will Change Your Life (September 02, 2025)
• Die With Zero (September 1, 2025)
• The Warren Buffett Way (August 30, 2025)
• Investing The Last Liberal Art (August 30, 2025)
• Seeking Wisdom From Darwin To Munger (August 30, 2025)
• Market Wizards By Jack Schwager (August 30, 2025)
• The Dhandho Investor by Mohnish Pabrai (August 21, 2025)
• What I Learned About Investing from Darwin (August 21, 2025)
• The 22 Immutable Laws Of Marketing (August 14, 2025)
• Get Rich Carefully By Jim Cramer (August 14, 2025)
• Mastering The Market Cycle By Howard Marks (August 10, 2025)
• Make It Stick: The Science of Successful Learning (August 10, 2025)
• Purpose & Profit By Dan Koe (August 10, 2025)
• A Random Walk Down Wall Street (August 10, 2025)
• The Most Important Thing by Howard Marks (August 09, 2025)
• The Millionaire Mind (August 09, 2025)
• Secrets of the Millionaire Mind: Mastering the Inner Game of Wealth by T. Harv Eckerman (August 09, 2025)
• I Will Teach You To Be Rich By Ramit Sethi (August 08, 2025)
• The Millionaire Next Door (August 08, 2025)
• The Great Mental Models Vol. 1: General Thinking Concepts by Shane Parrish (August 03, 2025)
• The Intelligent Investor by Benjamin Graham (August 02, 2025)
• The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable by Nassim Nicholas Taleb (August 02, 2025)
• The Little Book of Common Sense Investing (August 02, 2025)
• The Four Pillars of Investing (August 02, 2025)
• Rich Habits: The Daily Success Habits of Wealthy Individuals by Tom Corley (May 16, 2025)
• Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder by Nassim Nicholas Taleb (November 5, 2025)

🔢 Mathematics

• Elementary Mathematics (September 09, 2025)

👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Parenting & Family

• Maximize Your Child’s Bilingual Ability (September 08, 2025)
• Positive Discipline The First Three Years (September 08, 2025)
• The Happiest Baby On The Block (September 08, 2025)
• What To Expect When You’re Expecting (September 08, 2025)
• Bringing Up Bébé (September 08, 2025)
• Raise A Genius! By László Polgár (August 31, 2025)
• The Baby Whisperer Solves All Your Problems (August 31, 2025)
• Good Inside: A Practical Guide (August 19, 2025)
• The Book You Wish Your Parents Had Read By Philippa Perry (August 14, 2025)
• Born For Love By Bruce D Perry And Maia Szalavit (August 10, 2025)

🧠 Psychology & Personal Development

• Stolen Focus (September 09, 2025)
• Fluent In Three Months (September 09, 2025)
• How To Take Smart Notes (September 09, 2025)
• Learning How To Learn (September 09, 2025)
• Man’s Search For Meaning (August 30, 2025)
• The Courage To Be Happy By Ichiro Kishimi (August 30, 2025)
• The Courage to Be Disliked By Ichiro Kishimi (August 30, 2025)
• Build The Life You Want By Arthur C Brooks (August 30, 2025)
• Why Greatness Cannot Be Planned (August 30, 2025)
• What Intelligence Tests Miss (August 30, 2025)
• How to Read a Book by Mortimer J. Adler and Charles Van Doren (August 30, 2025)
• How To Win Friends And Influence People By Dale Carnegie (August 15, 2025)
• Emotional Intelligence By Daniel Goleman (August 14, 2025)
• Building A Second Brain By Tiago Forte (August 10,2025)
• Early Retirement Extreme by Jacob Lund Fisker (August 8, 2025)
• The 4-Hour Workweek by Tim Ferriss (August 04, 2025)
• Just Fucking Ship By Amy Hoy (August 04, 2025)
• Thinking, Fast And Slow By Daniel Kahneman (August 02, 2025)
• Atomic Habits By James Clear (August 02, 2025)
• Better Than Before By Gretchen Rubin (August 02, 2025)
• The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change by Stephen R. Covey (August 02, 2025)
• How To Live On 24 Hours A Day by Arnold Bennett (July 08, 2025)
• Mindset: The New Psychology of Success (November 5, 2025)
• Million Dollar Habits: Proven Power Practices to Double and Triple Your Income (November 5, 2025)

🔬 Science & Technology

• Fundamentals Of Data Engineering By Joe Reis and Matt Housley (September 10, 2025)
• Statistical Rethinking (September 09, 2025)
• Growth From Microorganisms To Megacities (September 09, 2025)
• The Future Is Faster Than You Think (September 09, 2025)
• The Coming Wave (September 09, 2025)
• Garden Cities Of Tomorrow (September 09, 2025)
• Create An Oasis With Greywater (September 09, 2025)
• Reentry by Eric Berger (August 14, 2025)
• Shorting the Grid by Meredith Angwin (August 21, 2025)
• Building And Maintaining A Data Warehouse (August 15, 2025)
• Building The Data Warehouse By Bill Inmon (August 15, 2025)
• Unstoppable Growth by Ben Botes (August 14, 2025)
• The Order Of Time by Carlo Rovelli (August 14, 2025)
• The Worlds I See: Curiosity, Exploration, and Discovery at the Dawn of AI by Dr. Fei-Fei Li (August 13, 2025)
• Sapiens A Brief History Of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari (August 03, 2025)
• Guns, Germs, And Steel by Jared Diamond (August 03, 2025)
• Thinking In Systems A Primer By Donella H Meadow (August 02, 2025)

🎭 Other

• Excellent Sheep (September 09, 2025)
• Means Of Control By Byron Tau (August 30, 2025)
• Built To Innovate By Ben Bebsaou (August 30, 2025)
• The Logical Thinking Process (August 21, 2025)
• Extreme Privacy By Michael Bazzell (August 21, 2025)
• Alone Together By Sherry Turkle (August 10, 2025)
• Paths: Why is life filled with so many detours? (August 10, 2025)
• Workman Unashamed: The Testimony of a Christian Freemason (August 10, 2025)
• User Stories Applied (August 04, 2025)
• The Workshop Survival Guide (August 04, 2025)
• Write Useful Books by Rob Fitzpatrick (August 04, 2025)