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- money/economics/finance
+ 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
* Free to Chooose by Milton Friedman
* Capital in the Twenty-First Century by Thomas Piketty
* The Chile Project by Sebastián Edwards
+ money
* Beyond Banks by Dan Awrey
* Lords of Finance by Liaquat Ahamed
* 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
* Hidden Repression, How the IMF and World Bank Sell Exploitation as Development by Alex Gladstein
* Chokepoints: American Power in the Age of Economic Warfare by Edward Fishman
+ 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
+ Too Big to Fail by Andrew Ross Sorkin
+ Who Gets What — and Why by Alvin Roth
+ On the Edge by Nate Silver
+ The Land Trap by Mike Bird
- 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
+ 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
* The Hobbit
* Unfinished Tales of Númenor & Middle Earth
+ David Foster Wallace
* Brief Interviews with Hideous Men
* Infinite Jest
* Oblivion
* Consider the Lobster (non-fiction)
* A supposedly fun thing i'll never do again (non-fiction)
+ George Saunders
* CivilWarLand in Bad Decline
* Pastoralia
* Tenth of December
* Liberation Day
* A Swim in a Pond in the Rain
+ Cormac McCarthy
* Stella Maris
* The Road
* The Passenger
+ Kurt Vonnegut
* Cat's Cradle
* Slaughterhouse-Five
* The Sirens of Titan
* Breakfast of Champions
* Welcome to the Monkey House
+ The Space Trilogy by C.S. Lewis
* Out of the Silent Planet
* Perelandra
* That Hideous Strength
+ Dune Series by Frank Herbert
* Dune
* Dune Messiah
* Children of Dune
* God Emperor of Dune
+ 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
+ Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
+ The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
+ Poor Folk and Other Stories by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
+ The Dispossessed by Ursula Le Guin
- 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
+ geopolitics
* World Order by Henry Kissinger
* Revolutionary Iran by Michael Axworthy
* America and Iran by John Ghazvinian
* Black Wave by Kim Ghattas
* All the Shah's Men by Stephen Kinzer
* Overthrow by Stephen Kinzer
+ Missoula by Jon Krakauer
+ The Worst Hard Time by Timothy Egan
+ The Sense of Style by Steven Pinker
+ The Anthropocene Reviewed by John Green
+ Bullshit Jobs by David Graeber
+ The Scaling Era: An Oral History of AI by Dwarkesh Patel
- 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
+ The Coddling of the American Mind by Greg Lukianoff and Jonathan Haidt
+ The Anxious Generation by Jonathan Haidt
+ Map and Territory by Eliezer Yudkowsky
- 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
+ The Prophet by Kahlil Gibran
- 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:
2026
→ The Dispossessed by Ursula Le Guin
→ The Chile Project by Sebastián Edwards
→ Overthrow by Stephen Kinzer
→ All the Shah's Men by Stephen Kinzer
→ Black Wave by Kim Ghattas
→ America and Iran by John Ghazvinian
→ Map and Territory by Eliezer Yudkowsky
→ Revolutionary Iran by Michael Axworthy
→ Oblivion by David Foster Wallace
→ God Emperor of Dune by Frank Herbert
→ Children of Dune by Frank Herbert
→ Dune Messiah by Frank Herbert
→ Dune by Frank Herbert
→ A Swim in a Pond in the Rain by George Saunders
→ Welcome to the Monkey House by Kurt Vonnegut
2025
→ The Prophet by Kahlil Gibran
→ The Scaling Era: An Oral History of AI by Dwarkesh Patel
→ The Anxious Generation by Jonathan Haidt
→ Poor Folk and Other Stories by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
→ The Land Trap by Mike Bird
→ Chokepoints: American Power in the Age of Economic Warfare by Edward Fishman
→ Hidden Repression, How the IMF and World Bank Sell Exploitation as Development by Alex Gladstein
→ Bull Shit Jobs by David Graeber
→ Beyond Banks by Dan Awrey
→ Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace
→ The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
→ Lords of Finance by Liaquat Ahamed
→ Unfinished Tales of Númenor & Middle Earth by J.R.R Tolkien
→ Capital in the Twenty-First Century by Thomas Piketty
→ Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
→ Free to Choose by Milton Friedman
→ The Hobbit by J.R.R. Toklien
→ Capital (Vol. 1) by Karl Marx
→ The Fall of Gondolin by J.R.R. Tolkien
→ Beren and Lúthien by J.R.R. Tolkien
→ The Children of Húrin by J.R.R. Tolkien
→ The Silmarillion by J.R.R. Tolkien
→ The Coddling of the American Mind by Greg Lukianoff and Jonathan Haidt
→ The Return of the King by J.R.R. Tolkien
→ The Two Towers by J.R.R. Tolkien
→ Breakfast of Champions by Kurt Vonnegut
→ The Fellowship of the Ring by J.R.R. Tolkien
→ The Sirens of Titan by Kurt Vonnegut
→ That Hideous Strength by C.S. Lewis
2024
→ Perelandra by C.S. Lewis
→ Out of the Silent Planet by C.S. Lewis
→ The Anthropocene Reviewed by John Green
→ World Order by Henry Kissinger
→ A Monetary History of the United States, 1867-1960 by Milton Friedman & Anna Jacobson Schwartz
→ Hackers and Painters by Paul Graham
→ On the Edge by Nate Silver
→ The Sense of Style by Steven Pinker
→ The Blocksize War by Jonathan Bier
→ Capitalism and Freedom by Milton Friedman
→ The Ascent of Money by Niall Ferguson
→ The General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money by John Maynard Keynes
→ The Deficit Myth by Stephanie Kelton
→ Chip War by Chris Miller
→ The Road to Serfdom by Friedrich A. Hayek
→ An Unquiet Mind by Kay Redfield Jamison
→ In this economy? by Kyla Scanlon
→ A Beautiful Mind by Sylvia Nasar
→ The Man Who Solved The Market by Gregory Zuckerman
→ The Worst Hard Time by Timothy Egan
→ Twenty Lectures on Algorithmic Game Theory by Tim Roughgarden
→ Liberation Day by George Saunders
→ Tenth of December by George Saunders
→ Pastoralia by George Saunders
→ Who Gets What — and Why by Alvin Roth
→ CivilWarLand in Bad Decline by George Saunders
→ My Family & Other Animals by Gerald Durrell
→ Brief Interviews with Hideous Men by David Foster Wallace
→ Four Thousand Weeks by Oliver Burkmen
→ East of Eden by John Steinbeck
→ Principles for Dealing with the Changing World Order by Ray Dalio
→ Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep by Philip K. Dick
→ The Innovator's Dilemma by Clayton M. Christensen
→ Read Write Own by Chris Dixon
→ A supposedly fun thing i'll never do again by David Foster Wallace
→ Although Of Course You End Up Becoming Yourself by David Lipsky
→ Letters from a Stoic by Seneca
→ Lolita by Vladamir Nabokov
→ The Character of Physical Law by Richard Feynman
→ Consider the Lobster by David Foster Wallace
→ Rivals by Lorraine Datson
→ Deep Work by Cal Newport
→ Debt, The first 5,000 years by David Graeber
→ Mere Christianity by C.S. Lewis
→ Broken Money by Lyn Alden
→ Skin in the Game by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
→ The Screwtape Letters by C.S. Lewis
→ Chop Wood Carry Water by Joshua Medcalf
2023
→ Re-architecting Trust by Omid Malekan
→ Antifragile by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
→ The Black Swan by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
→ Fooled By Randomness by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
→ The Quants by Scott Patterson
→ Nihilism and Technology by Nolen Gertz
→ Going Infinite by Michael Lewis
→ Notes from the Underground by Fyodor Dostoevsky
→ The Cryptopians by Laura Shin
→ The Big Short by Michael Lewis
→ Liar's Poker by Michael Lewis
→ Dark Pools by Scott Patterson
→ When Genius Failed by Roger Lowenstein
→ Kings of Crypto by Jeff John Roberts
→ The Creature from Jekyll Island by G. Edward Griffin
→ The Smartest Guys in the Room by Bethany McLean & Peter Elkind
→ Shoe Dog by Phil Knight
→ Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
→ Lord of the Flies by William Golding
→ Ideas That Created The Future by Harry R. Lewis
→ Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë
→ North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell
→ Anne of Green Gables by L. M. Montgomery
→ In Patagonia by Bruce Chatwin
→ Tess of the D'Ubervilles by Thomas Hardy
→ The Psychology of Money by Morgan Housel
→ The Return of the Native by Thomas Hardy
→ Far from the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy
→ Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy
→ Into the wild by Jon Krakauer
→ Missoula by Jon Krakauer
→ Into Thin Air by Jon Krakauer
→ Misbehaving by Richard H. Thaler
→ Nudge by Richard H. Thaler & Cass R. Sunstein
→ Thinking Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman
→ The Undoing Project by Michael Lewis
→ The Fifth Risk by Michael Lewis
→ The New New Thing by Michael Lewis
→ The Mythical Man-Month by Frederick P. Brooks, Jr.
→ Too Big to Fail by Andrew Ross Sorkin
→ Serious Cryptography by Jean-Phillipe Aumasson
→ Flash Boys by Michael Lewis
→ Stella Maris by Cormac McCarthy
→ Adrift by Scott Galloway
→ Chaos Monkeys by Antonio García Martínez
→ Proof of Stake by Vitalik Buterin
2022
→ The Code Book by Simon Singh
→ The Road by Cormac McCarthy
→ Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut
→ A Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawking
→ Made in America by Sam Walton
→ Permanent Record by Edward Snowden
→ The Short and Tragic Life of Robert Peace by Jeff Hobbs
→ Acid for the Children by Flea
→ The Four by Scott Galloway
→ The Lords of Easy Money by Christopher Leonard
→ The Passenger by Cormac McCarthy
→ Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut
→ The Good Lord Bird by James McBride
→ Go In Action by William Kennedy
→ Fermat's Enigma by Simon Singh
→ Down the Great Unknown by Edward Dolnick