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by category:
- finance
  + the federal reserve
    * The Lords of Easy Money by Christopher Leonard
    * The Creature from Jekyll Island by G. Edward Griffin
    * Too Big to Fail by Andrew Ross Sorkin
  + trading
    * Flash Boys by Michael Lewis
    * The Smartest Guys in the Room by Bethany McLean & Peter Elkind
    * When Genius Failed by Roger Lowenstein
    * Dark Pools by Scott Patterson
    * Liar's Poker by Michael Lewis
    * The Big Short by Michael Lewis
    * The Quants by Scott Patterson
    * Going Infinite by Michael Lewis
  + crypto
    * Re-architecting Trust by Omid Malekan
    * The Cryptopians by Laura Shin
    * Kings of Crypto by Jeff John Roberts
    * Proof of Stake by Vitalik Buterin
    * Broken Money by Lyn Alden
    * Read Write Own by Chris Dixon
  + Debt, The first 5,000 years by David Graeber
  + Principles for Dealing with the Changing World Order by Ray Dalio

- fiction
  + british literature
    * Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
    * Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë
    * North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell
    * Tess of the D'Ubervilles by Thomas Hardy
    * The Return of the Native by Thomas Hardy
    * Far from the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy
    * Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy
  + The Good Lord Bird by James McBride
  + Lord of the Flies by William Golding
  + Anne of Green Gables by L. M. Montgomery
  + Lolita by Vladamir Nabokov
  + Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep by Philip K. Dick
  + East of Eden by John Steinbeck
  + Brief Interviews with Hideous Men by David Foster Wallace
  + cormac mccarthy
    * Stella Maris by Cormac McCarthy
    * The Road by Cormac McCarthy
    * The Passenger by Cormac McCarthy
  + kurt vonnegut
    * Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut
    * Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut

- general non-fiction
  + michael lewis
    * The Undoing Project by Michael Lewis
    * The Fifth Risk by Michael Lewis
    * The New New Thing by Michael Lewis
  + business/tech
    * Adrift by Scott Galloway
    * Chaos Monkeys by Antonio García Martínez
    * The Four by Scott Galloway
    * The Innovator's Dilemma by Clayton M. Christensen
  + adventure
    * Down the Great Unknown by Edward Dolnick
    * Into Thin Air by Jon Krakauer
    * Into the wild by Jon Krakauer
    * In Patagonia by Bruce Chatwin
  + Missoula by Jon Krakauer
  + Consider the Lobster by David Foster Wallace
  + A supposedly fun thing i'll never do again by David Foster Wallace
     
- behavior economics/psychology
  + nassim nicholas taleb
    * Fooled by Randomness
    * The Black Swan
    * Antifragile
    * Skin in the Game
  + Nudge by Richard H. Thaler & Cass R. Sunstein
  + Misbehaving by Richard H. Thaler
  + Thinking Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman
  + self help
    * The Psychology of Money by Morgan Housel
    * Deep Work by Cal Newport
    * Four Thousand Weeks by Oliver Burkmen

- memoir/biography
  + Shoe Dog by Phil Knight
  + Acid for the Children by Flea
  + Made in America by Sam Walton
  + Permanent Record by Edward Snowden
  + The Short and Tragic Life of Robert Peace by Jeff Hobbs
  + Although Of Course You End Up Becoming Yourself by David Lipsky
  + My Family & Other Animals by Gerald Durrell

- philosophy
  + The Screwtape Letters by C.S. Lewis
  + Mere Christianity by C.S. Lewis
  + Chop Wood Carry Water by Joshua Medcalff
  + Nihilism and Technology by Nolen Gertz
  + Notes from the Underground by Fyodor Dostoevsky
  + Letters from a Stoic by Seneca

- history of science/science
  + The Code Book by Simon Singh
  + A Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawking
  + Fermat's Enigma by Simon Singh
  + Rivals by Larraine Daston
  + The Character of Physical Law by Richard Feynman

- textbooks
  + The Mythical Man-Month by Frederick P. Brooks, Jr.
  + Ideas That Created The Future by Harry R. Lewis
  + programming languages
    * Go In Action by William Kennedy
    * Effective C++ by Scott Meyers
    * Effective Modern C++ by Scott Meyers
  + cryptography
    * Real-World Cryptography by David Wong
    * Serious Cryptography by Jean-Philippe Aumasson
    * An Introduction to Mathematical Cryptography by Hoffstein et al.
        

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My Family & Other Animals by Gerald Durrell

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Brief Interviews with Hideous Men by David Foster Wallace

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Four Thousand Weeks by Oliver Burkmen

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East of Eden by John Steinbeck

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Principles for Dealing with the Changing World Order by Ray Dalio

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Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep by Philip K. Dick

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The Innovator's Dilemma by Clayton M. Christensen

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Read Write Own by Chris Dixon

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A supposedly fun thing i'll never do again by David Foster Wallace

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Although Of Course You End Up Becoming Yourself by David Lipsky

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Letters from a Stoic by Seneca

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Lolita by Vladamir Nabokov

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The Character of Physical Law by Richard Feynman

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Consider the Lobster by David Foster Wallace

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Rivals by Lorraine Datson

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Deep Work by Cal Newport

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Debt, The first 5,000 years by David Graeber

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Mere Christianity by C.S. Lewis

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Broken Money by Lyn Alden

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Skin in the Game by Nassim Nicholas Taleb

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The Screwtape Letters by C.S. Lewis

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Chop Wood Carry Water by Joshua Medcalf

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2023

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Re-architecting Trust by Omid Malekan

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Antifragile by Nassim Nicholas Taleb

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The Black Swan by Nassim Nicholas Taleb

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Fooled By Randomness by Nassim Nicholas Taleb

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The Quants by Scott Patterson

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Nihilism and Technology by Nolen Gertz

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Going Infinite by Michael Lewis

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Notes from the Underground by Fyodor Dostoevsky

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The Cryptopians by Laura Shin

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The Big Short by Michael Lewis

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Liar's Poker by Michael Lewis

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Dark Pools by Scott Patterson

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When Genius Failed by Roger Lowenstein

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Kings of Crypto by Jeff John Roberts

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The Creature from Jekyll Island by G. Edward Griffin

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The Smartest Guys in the Room by Bethany McLean & Peter Elkind

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Shoe Dog by Phil Knight

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Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë

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Lord of the Flies by William Golding

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Ideas That Created The Future by Harry R. Lewis

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Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë

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North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell

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Anne of Green Gables by L. M. Montgomery

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In Patagonia by Bruce Chatwin

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Tess of the D'Ubervilles by Thomas Hardy

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The Psychology of Money by Morgan Housel

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The Return of the Native by Thomas Hardy

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Far from the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy

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Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy

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Into the wild by Jon Krakauer

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Missoula by Jon Krakauer

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Into Thin Air by Jon Krakauer

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Misbehaving by Richard H. Thaler

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Nudge by Richard H. Thaler & Cass R. Sunstein

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Thinking Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman

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The Undoing Project by Michael Lewis

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The Fifth Risk by Michael Lewis

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The New New Thing by Michael Lewis

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The Mythical Man-Month by Frederick P. Brooks, Jr.

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Too Big to Fail by Andrew Ross Sorkin

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Serious Cryptography by Jean-Phillipe Aumasson

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Flash Boys by Michael Lewis

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Stella Maris by Cormac McCarthy

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Adrift by Scott Galloway

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Chaos Monkeys by Antonio García Martínez

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Proof of Stake by Vitalik Buterin

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2022

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The Code Book by Simon Singh

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The Road by Cormac McCarthy

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Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut

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A Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawking

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Made in America by Sam Walton

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Permanent Record by Edward Snowden

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The Short and Tragic Life of Robert Peace by Jeff Hobbs

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Acid for the Children by Flea

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The Four by Scott Galloway

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The Lords of Easy Money by Christopher Leonard

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The Passenger by Cormac McCarthy

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Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut

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The Good Lord Bird by James McBride

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Go In Action by William Kennedy

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Fermat's Enigma by Simon Singh

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Down the Great Unknown by Edward Dolnick

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