books
by category:- + * ~ - economics/finance + trading * Michael Lewis ~ Flash Boys ~ Liar's Poker ~ The Big Short ~ Going Infinite * The Smartest Guys in the Room by Bethany McLean & Peter Elkind * When Genius Failed by Roger Lowenstein * Scott Patterson ~ Dark Pools ~ The Quants + 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 * The Blocksize War by Jonathan Bier + macro * Principles for Dealing with the Changing World Order by Ray Dalio * The Road to Serfdom by Friedrich A. Hayek * The Deficit Myth by Stephanie Kelton * The General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money by John Maynard Keynes * Capitalism and Freedom by Milton Friedman * Capital by Karl Marx + money * Debt, The first 5,000 years by David Graeber * The Lords of Easy Money by Christopher Leonard * The Creature from Jekyll Island by G. Edward Griffin * In this economy? by Kyla Scanlon * The Ascent of Money by Niall Ferguson * A Monetary History of the United States, 1867-1960 by Milton Friedman & Anna Jacobson Schwartz + Too Big to Fail by Andrew Ross Sorkin + Who Gets What — and Why by Alvin Roth + On the Edge by Nate Silver - fiction + british literature * Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë * Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë * North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell * Thomas Hardy ~ Tess of the D'Ubervilles ~ The Return of the Native ~ Far from the Madding Crowd ~ Jude the Obscure + 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 + George Saunders * CivilWarLand in Bad Decline * Pastoralia * Tenth of December * Liberation Day + Cormac McCarthy * Stella Maris * The Road * The Passenger + Kurt Vonnegut * Cat's Cradle * Slaughterhouse-Five * The Sirens of Titan * Breakfast of Champions + The Space Trilogy by C.S. Lewis * Out of the Silent Planet * Perelandra * That Hideous Strength + J.R.R. Tolkien * The Fellowship of the Ring * The Two Towers * The Return of the King * The Silmarillion * The Children of Húrin * Beren and Lúthien * The Fall of Gondolin - general non-fiction + Michael Lewis * The Undoing Project * The Fifth Risk * The New New Thing + 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 * Chip War by Chris Miller * Hackers and Painters by Paul Graham + 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 + The Worst Hard Time by Timothy Egan + The Sense of Style by Steven Pinker + World Order by Henry Kissinger + The Anthropocene Reviewed by John Green + The Coddling of the American Mind by Greg Lukianoff and Jonathan Haidt - 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 + The Man Who Solved The Market by Gregory Zuckerman + A Beautiful Mind by Sylvia Nasar + An Unquiet Mind by Kay Redfield Jamison - 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 + Twenty Lectures on Algorithmic Game Theory by Tim Roughgarden + 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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by year:2025
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→ Capital (Vol. 1) by Karl Marx
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→ The Fall of Gondolin by J.R.R. Tolkien
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→ Beren and Lúthien by J.R.R. Tolkien
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→ The Children of Húrin by J.R.R. Tolkien
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→ The Silmarillion by J.R.R. Tolkien
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→ The Coddling of the American Mind by Greg Lukianoff and Jonathan Haidt
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→ The Return of the King by J.R.R. Tolkien
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→ The Two Towers by J.R.R. Tolkien
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→ Breakfast of Champions by Kurt Vonnegut
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→ The Fellowship of the Ring by J.R.R. Tolkien
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→ The Sirens of Titan by Kurt Vonnegut
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→ That Hideous Strength by C.S. Lewis
2024
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→ Perelandra by C.S. Lewis
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→ Out of the Silent Planet by C.S. Lewis
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→ The Anthropocene Reviewed by John Green
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→ World Order by Henry Kissinger
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→ A Monetary History of the United States, 1867-1960 by Milton Friedman & Anna Jacobson Schwartz
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→ Hackers and Painters by Paul Graham
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→ On the Edge by Nate Silver
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→ The Sense of Style by Steven Pinker
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→ The Blocksize War by Jonathan Bier
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→ Capitalism and Freedom by Milton Friedman
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→ The Ascent of Money by Niall Ferguson
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→ The General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money by John Maynard Keynes
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→ The Deficit Myth by Stephanie Kelton
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→ Chip War by Chris Miller
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→ The Road to Serfdom by Friedrich A. Hayek
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→ An Unquiet Mind by Kay Redfield Jamison
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→ In this economy? by Kyla Scanlon
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→ A Beautiful Mind by Sylvia Nasar
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→ The Man Who Solved The Market by Gregory Zuckerman
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→ The Worst Hard Time by Timothy Egan
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→ Twenty Lectures on Algorithmic Game Theory by Tim Roughgarden
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→ Liberation Day by George Saunders
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→ Tenth of December by George Saunders
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→ Pastoralia by George Saunders
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→ Who Gets What — and Why by Alvin Roth
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→ CivilWarLand in Bad Decline by George Saunders
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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

→ 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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