Reading List - Investing | Research

My rankings and comments are in the table below. I know certain books meant more to me because of when I read them – your stage of life has a funny way of driving meaning from books.

I try not to be a snob about reading. I don’t finish every book. I read physical books and listen to audiobooks… and consider both “reading”.

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Year	Book	Genre	Author	Rating	Finished	Foundational Reading	Comments
2.016	100 Baggers	Business	Mayer	8	Yes		Subtly altered my personal investing strategy. Very valuable (for me) for what the data showed, BUT I don’t think it applies to institutional investing. Read this on honeymoon in 2016 and declared “own one 100 bagger” on my bucket list.
2.020	1980s Inflation Beaters Investment Guide	Business	Malkiel	1	Yes		I wanted to get into the mindset of the inflation era 70s. This book did not get into the weeds of history – very high level.
2.011	4 Hour Body	Life	Ferris	6	Yes		Read this at age 23 and it may have seeded my interest in thinking beyond conventional wisdom. Introduced me to Ferris and life-hackers. Honestly, I bet it holds up well.
2.022	A Curious Mind	Life	Grazer	4	Yes		Some great parts. Some idealistic parts. I prefer books written during the journey rather than retrospectives that may include hindsight bias.
2.017	A Man for All Markets	Business	Thorp	8	Yes		There are few people who seem to have succeeded BOTH in their business and personal life. Ed Thorp is one. Insightful ideas about spotting math opportunities in various corners of the market (of which there are plenty today).
2.026	A Swim in the Pond in the Rain	Writing	Saunders	9.3	Yes	Writing	A great analytical approach to writing. Basically case study style with short stories and exploring page-by-page.
2.025	Acceptance (Book 3)	Sci-Fi	VanderMeer	5	Yes		I started to tail off here. But don’t regret reading it.
2.024	Advanced Portfolio Management	Business	Paleologo	6	Yes	Investing	Great foundational education for portfolio management via quantitative analysis. Very niche for those in investment industry.
2.019	Against the Gods	Business	Bernstein	0	No		I know I started this at some point. Too risky to read 😉
2.010	Ahead of the Curve HBS	Business	Broughton	4	Yes		Read when I was considering MBA at age 22. I think that’s the only use case for reading it.
2.023	Airframe	Fiction	Crichton	8	Yes		Non traditional Crichton but a fun change-up. I don’t think it’s as dramatized as some many think.
2.021	Albert Einstein	Business	Isaacson	5	No		Good example of turning myth into man. Einstein sure did go on a research heater – and I wonder if we will ever have a similar person. All of that said, I had a hard time sticking with the book. It bounced between theory and personal life in a weird cadence.
2.020	Alchemy	Business	Sutherland	6	Yes		Very hyped book before I read it. I think listening to Sutherland so much took it down a notch for me. But great for those who aren’t familiar with Rory. More stodgy business types should read it.
2.021	Almanack of Naval	Life	Jorgenson	7	Yes	Life	Great tableside book. I find your perception of Naval is a great Rorschach test.
2.006	Alphabet of Manliness	Life	Maddox	4	Yes		Read in college. Probably offensive male humor but it got me to start appreciating spicy food. That counts for something.
2.017	Am I Being Too Subtle	Business	Zell	7	Yes	Investing/Business	Fun and authentic biography. Zell was a treasure. There are “feel good” business books that will give you a sense of independence – just don’t overlook the hustle.
2.026	American Assassin	Fiction	Flynn	7	Yes		Mitch Rapp is the Lebron of special ops prospects.
2.022	American Flannel	Business	Kurutz	7.8	Yes	Investing/Business	Great history of American Manufacturing and the challenges. Woolrich story should be studied.
2.021	American Kingpin	Business	Bilton	7	Yes		I am a sucker for these books – especially when I know less about the story. Notable that he is out of prison after… contracting to have people killed? I know it didn’t go to trial but the evidence here seems… pretty strong.
2.007	American Psycho	Fiction	Easton Ellis	3.5	Yes		Saw the movie first. Great satire. Book didn’t match up for me.
2.022	Ametora	History	Marx	8.6	Yes		Very informative read on Japanese impact on fashion but also broader Japanese/American dynamics. Easy to forget post WWII vibes that have gone away for current generations (me included).
2.024	Anathem	Sci-Fi	Stephenson	0	In Progress		Started this one but realized it will take a commitment. I had a hard time following the start.
2.023	Andromeda Strain	Sci-Fi	Crichton	9.2	Yes	Sci-Fi	Incredible Crichton. Perfect amount of character depth, science, and thrill.
2.025	Annihilation (Book 1)	Sci-Fi	VanderMeer	8.5	Yes		Loved the vividness from Vandermeer. Very different than the movie, but still the same uniqueness.
2.017	Antifragile	Life	Taleb	7	Yes		The book stuck with me. I can spot antifragile, but find it’s incredibly hard to build.
2.019	Art of Learning	Life	Waitzkin	8.5	Yes	Life	Very hyped but lives up to the billing. This book sticks with me because certain concepts click years later. It makes you appreciate how working on the small things show up subconsciously in the future.
2.021	Art of Science and Engineering	Business	Hamming	6	Yes		Honestly a great foundational book. It’s not an easy read but useful in a tactical way – and opens your brain up serendipity and systems.
2.019	Art of the Good Life	Life	Dobelli	1	No		Didn’t click
2.021	Artemis	Sci-Fi	Weir	3	No		I could never finish it. Always felt like a struggle versus Project Hail Mary
2.026	Artifact	Sci-Fi	Robinson	7	Yes		Fun thriller.
2.025	Artifact	Sci-Fi	Robinson	6	Yes		Good, mindless sci-fi thriller. The autism angle has a level of detail that really signals how the author feels about it.
2.017	AstroPhysics for People in a Hurry	Science	Tyson	2	Yes		Nothing stuck with me. Read it randomly
2.019	Atlas Shrugged	Fiction	Rand	6	Yes		I read this in scattered fashion. Preferred the Fountainhead but can understand why it influences so many young (moldable?) minds. Amazing how it holds up though.
2.020	Atomic Habits	Life	Clear	8.3	Yes	Life	I can be contrarian but there are many popular things that live up to their billing. It’s a healthy read with practical steps.
2.025	Authority (Book 2)	Sci-Fi	VanderMeer	6	Yes		Similarly vivid and dark. You want it to move faster but respect the author
2.025	Autopsy of a Merger	Business	Miller	9	Yes	Investing	Great case study on the in’s and out’s of a merger. The human element and how legal dynamics are not black and white. Great look at Jay Pritzker and early days of Jack Welch.
2.019	Bad Blood	Business	Carreyrou	8	Yes	Investing/Business	Sucker for these books. Theranos has a lot of lessons but most notably, don’t rely on pharmacies as credibility drivers. Hot Take: I think 99% of people who said they would have never fallen for this and invested….would have invested.
2.017	Barbarian Days	Life	Finnegan	7.1	Yes		Took me a while to read this one, years between me picking it up. But fun for those who appreciate surfing and a lifelong hobby that brings you around the world at different stages of life.
2.023	Battle of Ink and Ice	History	Harman	3	No		I couldn’t stick with it but may revisit
2.021	Ben Franklin	Business	Isaacson	8	Yes		It’s nice to read a book that converts myth into man. Plenty of wisdom, but how about Franklin being a low-key horndog. Didn’t expect that threadline.
2.022	Beneath the Scarlet Sky	Fiction	Sullivan	7	Yes		Great entertaining read. A little disappointing that the story isn’t as true as we thought. Gave me new perspective on Italy in WWII.
2.015	Beyond Buffett	Business	Lowenstein	0	In Progress		I still need to read it.
2.017	Big Brown	Business	Niemann	6	Yes		Very useful history of UPS. Not the cleanest writing.
2.021	BirdsEye	Business	Kurlansky	0	Not Started		I need to read about this guy. Inventor of frozen food!
2.017	Black Edge	Business	Kolhatkar	7.8	Yes	Investing	I know many investors thought this book was mediocre. I enjoyed it! Clearly the people who made Billions did too! Give me your conviction on a 1-10 scale!
2.023	Black Planet (Sonics)	Sports	Shields	2.1	Yes		Whoa boy. This book was an uncomfortable read. I loved those Sonic teams.
2.012	Black Swan	Business	Taleb	5	Yes		Good first few chapters and then incredibly repetitive. Still worthy of a read for basic foundation of risk.
2.021	Blockchain and the Law	Business	Wright	3.6	Yes		Dense book. But DAOs seem durable
2.023	Blood in the Garden	Sports	Herring	3	No		Great era of Knicks basketball but I couldn’t get into it
2.023	Bone in the Throat	Fiction	Bourdain	0	Not Started		On the bookshelf for a reason. Bourdain in his fiction days pre Kitchen Confidential!
2.022	Born a Crime	Life	Trevor Noah	2	Yes		Others may enjoy this more – I was expecting a bit more late life Noah so that threw me off.
2.022	Born Standing Up	Life	Steve Martin	3.1	No		I don’t know why I couldn’t stick with it.
2.020	Born to Run	Sports	McDougal	7.1	Yes		Entertaining with questionable science. A good running book.
2.016	Boys Among Men	Sports	Abrams	2	Yes		Loved the idea but the book didn’t land. Not enough “ah hah” insights.
2.022	Boys Will Be Boys (Cowboys)	Sports	Pearlman	7	Yes	Sports	Source material is endless here. My takeaway, this dynasty was talent based!
2.015	Breaks of the Game	Sports	Halberstein	6	Yes		Sports people love this one. It was a little tough for me but I did enjoy it. Not as iconic to me as others see it.
2.020	Breath	Life	Nestor	4	Yes		Innovative thinking but feels like the science didn’t quite match? Made me think about breathing more
2.012	Bright Lights, Big City	Fiction	McInerney	7	Yes		Fondly remember reading this on an iphone during a day trip to Boston for investor meetings around 2012. Finished it in less than 48 hours.
2.021	Bringing up Bebe	Life	Druckerman	7.6	Yes	Life	My favorite book on parenting. Based on logic which speaks my language.
2.025	Buffett and Munger Unscripted	Business	George	0	Not Started		I look forward to reading it.
2.017	Business Adventures	Business	Brooks	5	Yes		I know Buffett recommended it. Some good chapters in there but forgettable for me.
2.020	Cable Cowboy	Business	Robichaux	8	Yes	Investing	I don’t know how investors were so obsessed with investing alongside Malone after reading this one.
2.021	Caesar’s Palace Coup	Business	Frumes, Indap	9	Yes	Investing	My credit background made this hit home. It REALLY captures the pain and hustle and a world of zero sum investing – fighting for pennies in a pie that is there to divide. And the personality it takes to accomplish it. Also good reminder, many LBO’ed businesses are good company / bad balance sheet.
2.024	Cage of Souls (Tchaikovsky)	Sci-Fi	Tchaikovsky	0	Not Started		It’s on the list for some future winter next to a fireplace
2.020	Can’t Hurt Me	Life	Goggins	6	Yes		Makes you think what the body is capable of. I’ve got nothing but respect for Goggins.
2.026	Cancel Me if You Can	Non-Fiction	Portnoy	7.8	Yes		Fascinating read about the history of Barstool.
2.017	Capital Returns	Business	Chancellor	8.1	Yes	Investing	I appreciated the unique approach. I remember thinking it was easier said than done – but in hindsight, it was right in front of me with the sector I was researching. It might be better documented by now so not as enlightening to others.
2.020	Carolina Way	Sports	Smith	1	No		Gave up on this one fast
2.025	Change Agent	Sci-Fi	Suarez	6.8	Yes		Great ideas on where CRISPR gene editing is heading. Even if it doesn’t go full “Face Off” mode, there’s a lot hear to think about.
2.025	Change Agent	Sci-Fi	Suarez	5	In Progress		CRISPR dystopian. Suarez knows how to be dark.
2.017	Changing How The World Does Business (FDX)	Business	Frock	6	Yes		Useful history of FedEx.
2.016	Chasing Perfection	Sports	Glockner	8	Yes		Love the examination of talent vs development. Kerr shooting is crazy
2.024	Children of Time	Sci-Fi	Tchaikovsky	9.1	Yes	Sci-Fi	Great perspective on evolution. Makes you think about the human race…and AI (despite that not being the subject at all)
2.019	City of Thieves	Fiction	Benioff	10	Yes	Writers	This book resparked my love for Fiction. THIS is how you write a story. I still get bummed that Benioff left for TV. His books had urgency, dialogue, history, and fun. I can remember reading this in Vietnam and enjoying every second of it, being disappointed that it ended. He somehow humanizes Stalingrad while keeping all of the dehumanizing elements.
2.023	City on a Grid	History	Koeppel	8.7	Yes		I have a weird obsession with the grid system in NYC. This is for history + NYC lovers and probably few others. You will never look at NYC streets the same!
2.021	Cod	Business	Kurlansky	8	Yes		Opened my eyes up to historical importance of food, navy, etc.
2.023	Comfort Crisis	Life	Easter	5	Yes		Good read. Somewhat of a sales pitch for rucking.
2.019	Common Stocks and Common Sense	Business	Wachenheim	8	Yes	Investing	Author is a treasure. His framing for investing in the opening of the book is gold for any early career investor
2.019	Common Stocks and Uncommon Performance	Business	Fisher	5	Yes	Investing/Business	The foreword by Fisher’s son is scorching with angry son vibes. Very weird
2.006	Confederacy of Dunces	Fiction	Kennedy Toole	8	Yes	Writers	Read in college. First book that made me laugh out loud.
2.023	Congo	Sci-Fi	Crichton	9.2	Yes	Sci-Fi	In the peak Crichton category for me. I also want to work for something like ERTS
2.015	Court Vision	Sports	Berkow	1	No		I couldn’t get into it
2.020	Crashing Through	Life	Kurson	0	Not Started		Don’t remember buying this but interesting premise
2.019	Creating Shareholder Value	Business	Rappaport	5	Yes		Good textbook-like writing for investors. Foundational education.
2.019	Creation: Life and How to Make It	Business	Grand	9.9	Yes	AI	My favorite book that relates to AI. Complex systems evolve themselves. We can create the ingredients but rarely are systems truly controlled. Dense but worthy. Picked it up when I saw Bezos recommended to his early Amazon staff. Still applicable today.
2.023	Creative Selection	Business	Kocienda	0	Not Started		It will call for me from the bookshelf some day
2.020	Creativity Inc	Business	Catmull	4	Yes		The hype was so high about this one. It felt full of extrapolation. I DO respect Pixar but this one was a let down for me.
2.021	Cryptonomicon	Sci-Fi	Stephenson	0	No		Stephenson requires a commitment that I just can’t give him at the moment.
2.025	Daemon	Sci-Fi	Suarez	9.5	Yes	Sci-Fi	Incredible sci-fi thriller with good thought-provoking ideas about AI and cybersecurity potential. Style is similar to Crichton with modern science.
2.026	Damascus Station	Fiction	McCloskey	7	Yes		Humanizing special ops thriller.
2.023	Dark Matter	Sci-Fi	Crouch	8	Yes		Very good and scary multiverse epic. Read before TV show was released
2.020	Data Driven	Business	Dearborn	0	Not Started		Not sure I will ever get there
2.024	Decline and Fall of Roman Empire	History	Gibbon	0	Not Started		One day I will read this one… it was too cliche before.
2.019	Deep Survival	Life	Gonzales	7.5	Yes	Life	Some interesting takeaways for surviving a catastrophe.
2.021	Deep Work	Life	Newport	5.5	Yes		Useful book to read at the right moment in life. Good for solo entrepreneurs.
2.015	Defending Jacob	Fiction	Landay	6.7	Yes		Stole this from my wife’s book club. Glad I read this one before having kids
2.020	Delivering Happiness	Business	Hsieh	0	Not Started		Bought this before the awful Hsieh events. Haven’t felt energy to read it.
2.025	Delta-V	Sci-Fi	Suarez	5	Yes		Some interesting space ideas that I can’t validate but intrigued me. The characters feel awfully similar to the tech tycoons of today.
2.023	Destiny of Republic (Garfield)	History	Millard	7	Yes		I learned A LOT. She is excellent and covering these stories. Garfield the reluctant president!
2.024	Devolution (Sasquatch)	Sci-Fi	Brooks	6	Yes		Entertaining format. I enjoy books with prepper dynamics.
2.017	Dhandho Investor	Business	Pabrai	4	No		Some good pieces in but did not finish
2.021	Digital Minimalism	Life	Newport	2.2	No		Felt forced as a book.
2.023	Disclosure	Fiction	Crichton	6	Yes		More mystery novel than sci-fi, but interesting to see how it aligned with some bad workplace dynamics in the future. Crichton female characters have a hilarious stereotype (attractive, confident, high-achievers).
2.022	Draft No 4	Business	McPhee	4	Yes		Not my favorite writing book. But others love it.
2.023	Dragon Teeth	Fiction	Crichton	1	Yes		It didn’t do it for me. It required more character development or something.
2.019	Dream Team	Sports	McCallum	7	Yes		What a cast of characters. Fun book that captures the elite NBA players behind the game.
2.020	Drive (Larry Bird)	Sports	Ryan	4	No		Crazy to think of Larry Bird coming from nothing and hurting his back doing household work in the offseason. But I stalled out.
2.026	Drug of Choice	Non-Fiction	Crichton	5.5	Yes		Cool to see an author’s writing before they go big. Raw talent and typical thriller, but some messy aspects.
2.020	Dune	Sci-Fi	Herbert	2	No		I needed the movie.
2.025	Dungeon Crawler Carl I	Sci-Fi	Dinniman	2	No		People love it but not my style. Funny writing but storyline doesn’t tie to my interests.
2.025	Earthcore	Sci-Fi	Sigler	6.6	Yes		The mining angle was intriguing to me. Good mystery/suspense. It gets really sci-fi as the book goes on, but I was hooked by then.
2.023	Elegant Puzzle	Business	Larson	0	Not Started		Something I will read some day
2.023	Elements of Eloquence	Business	Forsyth	7	No	Writers	I should really finish this one…especially if I plan to write and do a podcast!
2.020	Eleven Rings	Sports	Jackson	1.7	Yes		Pearlman books were better
2.021	Elon Musk	Business	Vance	7	Yes		Good understanding of Elon’s backstory. Never feel like I get enough from Elon books, articles and anecdotes always feel more valuable.
2.023	Empire of the Summer Moon	History	Grann	8	Yes		Really great history of land seizing, oil, the FBI, and greed. Preferred the book to the movie
2.020	Endurance (Shackleton)	History	Lansing	10	Yes	Life	I will make sure my kids read this one. The incredible story of Ernest Shackleton. I enjoyed the history around this book and why it took so long to takeoff (because the expedition was considered a failure).
2.024	Eruption	Sci-Fi	Crichton	1.2	Yes		Lacked the same science and excitement of peak Crichton
2.021	Everyone Culture	Business	Kegan	1	No		Did not finish
2.019	Everything Store	Business	Stone	8.5	Yes	Investing/Business	Excellent deepdive on the Amazon story. Bezos was an animal that borrowed from Rockefeller. It’s easy to forget Amazon’s beginnings.
2.024	Exhalation Short Stories	Sci-Fi	Chiang	7	Yes		Entertaining but preferred the Stories of Your Life collection.
2.016	Expectations Investing	Business	Mauboussin	8	Yes	Investing	Foundational education for investors
2.023	Expeditionary Force 1	Sci-Fi	Alanson	6	Yes		Great audiobook narration. Pure entertainment and humor
2.023	Expeditionary Force 2	Sci-Fi	Alanson	2	No		Couldn’t stick with it despite great first book
2.016	Family Inc	Life	McCormick	8.5	Yes	Personal Finance	Must read for personal finance and managing household income/equity.
2.017	Financial Shenanigans	Business	Schilit	8.8	Yes	Investing	Very niche but an excellent resource for forensic accounting. I CTRL + F when I find questionable accounting things to see if it showed up here.
2.021	Finding Ultra	Life	Roll	5	Yes		Good book on overcoming addiction (or finding new addictions). I felt a bit jealous that the author was blessed with good genetics.
2.024	First Lie Wins	Fiction	Elston	1	No		I don’t know how I ended up starting this but not my genre.
2.025	Five Years After (Book 4)	Sci-Fi	Forstchen	3.3	Yes		Repetitive and predictable storylines at this point.
2.021	Fountainhead	Fiction	Rand	9	Yes		Took me a while to read but timeless characters that capture the world. Yes, characters are extreme stereotypes, but still lessons in there.
2.022	Four Thousand Weeks	Life	Burkeman	6	Yes		Felt like a great blog post that turned into a solid book
2.025	Freedom	Sci-Fi	Suarez	8.5	Yes		The 8 has to pair with Daemon. It’s a strong sequel to the original novel. One of my favorites in recent memory.
2.025	Freedom	Sci-Fi	Suarez	6	Yes		Good follow-up to Daemon. Less scientific and more philosophical, but enjoyable. Loved the line “Humans can’t create complex systems. We evolve them.”
2.023	Gentleman in Moscow	Fiction	Towles	8	Yes	Writers	Understandably epic novel. You will laugh, you might cry, but incredible work of art.
2.022	Genuine Authentic Ralph Lauren	Business	Gross	0	Not Started		There’s a small chance I read this and don’t remember it!
2.023	Get Out Screenplay	Business	Peele	8.8	Yes	Writers	If you want to read a screenplay to understand how director’s think… this is great. It’s not for everyone but opens your eyes into everything that goes into a GREAT movie.
2.015	Girl on the Train	Fiction	Hawkins	3	Yes		My wife’s (then girlfriend) book club was on a roll until this one.
2.025	Going Broke: Chrysler	Business	Moritz	6	Yes		DEEP dive on auto industry. Good if you are looking for that specifically. I was trying to get into the brain of Moritz pre-Sequoia.
2.015	Gone Girl	Fiction	Flynn	8	Yes		WHAT A TWIST. It was mildly disturbing when I realized my wife read this on our honeymoon. Recommended from her book club.
2.020	Good to Great	Business	Collins	4	Yes		Very hyped book before I read it. Some good case studies but left me wanting more
2.026	Grave Descend	Non-Fiction	Crichton	5.5	Yes		Fun entertaining and similarly neat to read Crichton before he went big.
2.021	Great Mental Models Vol 1	Business	Parish	5	Yes		Nice coffee table book
2.023	Great Train Robbery	History	Crichton	5.3	Yes		Honestly, great investigative work. The heist required an insane amount of effort. Makes you wonder if they just dedicated themselves to something valuable!
2.020	Greenlights	Life	McConaughey	6.8	Yes		Audiobook should make you think about talent. MM oozes charisma in a way I can’t fathom. Greenlight!
2.023	Heat 2	Fiction	Mann	7	Yes		If you enjoyed Heat, they do a nice job converting it to book form as a sequel
2.023	Hello Molly	Life	Shannon	2.5	No		Not sure how I picked it up, but heavier than I was looking for in the moment
2.023	High Growth Handbook	Business	Gil	0	In Progress		Let me be in a situation where this is what I need
2.023	Highway Men	Business	Auletta	8	Yes		Great business history on the media/tech evolution of the 1990s
2.017	Hillbilly Elegy	Life	Vance	7.5	Yes		Well…. reading this now has a different meaning! But I found it a good education for coastal elites when it was released – and many of the drug problems exist everywhere, my hometown experienced it firsthand (without the poverty that makes it exponentially worse).
2.020	How to Get Rich	Business	Dennis	8	Yes	Investing/Business	Genuine honesty in this book. Entertaining even if it doesn’t have major business lessons
2.017	How to Make Money in Stocks	Business	O’Neill	1	Yes		I don’t remember anything
2.019	How to Win Friends and Influence People	Life	Carnegie	4.5	Yes		Everyone should read it in high school or college.
2.025	I am Legend	Fiction	Matheson	4.1	Yes		I know people hated the movie, but the book was a little rough too. I didn’t make it through many other short stories included in the collection.
2.006	I Hope They Serve Beer in Hell	Life	Max	5	Yes		Entertaining when I as in college
2.025	I Want My MTV	Business	Marks and Tannenbaum	8	Yes	Media	Great insights (and nostalgia) about everything that made MTV special.
2.026	Infected	Sci-Fi	Stigler	5	Yes		Reading this during winter flu season impacted my rating.
2.024	Infinite	Sci-Fi	Robinson	3	No		Interesting concepts to start but lost me midway.
2.021	Infinite Jest	Fiction	Foster Wallace	0	In Progress		One day I will finish this book. Foster Wallace is a special person
2.019	Influence	Business	Cialdini	7	Yes	Life	Thought-provoking and worthy of a read. Some core principles that feel timeless. You can also pickup on how others may be trying to influence you – perhaps even more valuable.
2.020	Inner Game of Tennis	Life	Gallwey	5.2	Yes		Good but not groundbreaking (which others seem to find it)
2.021	Inventing Money LTCM	Business	Dunbar	5	Yes		I don’t remember much vs When Genius Failed (which I read first)
2.022	Is This Anything	Life	Seinfeld	1.8	Yes		The format didn’t work for me.
2.023	It’s Better to Be Feared (Patriots)	Sports	Wickersham	7	Yes	Sports	Great reminder that Brady was average for a long time (even after winning Super Bowls) before being great. Great investigative work.
2.025	ITT Wars	Business	Araskog	8.9	Yes	Investing	A nice pairing with Predator’s Ball. Captures the peak of corporate raiders and LBOs. Author is biased, but some good details on Jay Pritzker and Felix Rohatyn.
2.021	Journal of a Novel	Life	Steinbeck	4	No		Couldn’t stick with it, but love journals
2.023	Journals of John Cheever	Life	Cheever	9.6	Yes	Life	Brutal to read. One of the rawest personal accounts that you really never get from anyone (even those closest to you). I actually felt a bit of guilt reading this because I wondered if he really wanted them published.
2.020	Julian Robertson	Business	Strachman	3	Yes		There wasn’t much in the book. Pretty disappointing.
2.023	Jurassic Park	Sci-Fi	Crichton	9.9	Yes	Sci-Fi	It’s so good. Character development in the novel gives you so much more than a movie can offer
2.023	Kingdom of Prep (J Crew)	Business	Bullock	8.4	Yes	Investing/Business	Incredible nostalgia and business history. J Crew has a murderer’s row of alumni. The eras are fascinating. And great insight on the industry
2.021	Kitchen Confidential	Life	Bourdain	10	Yes	Writers	Incredibly raw and effective writing. That’s how you tell stories
2.019	Lake Success	Fiction	Shteyngart	3.2	Yes		Over-the-top novel that captures a finance person.
2.020	Last Train to Paradise (Flagler)	Business	Standiford	8.3	Yes	Investing/Business	Recommended by Wes Edens on a random conference call. Incredible story and detail on Henry Flagler (the OTHER Standard Oil guy)
2.020	Laughing at Wall Street	Business	Camillo	1	Yes		I did not laugh. I did not learn.
2.021	Leonardo da Vinci	Business	Isaacson	9	Yes	Life	Italy in the 1400s was a wild place. The undertones of that era are notable. Da Vinci is a 1 of 1 and a true polymath. This one stuck with me.
2.007	Less Than Zero	Fiction	Easton Ellis	8.8	Yes		Read in college. Admittedly messed up story but man Easton Ellis had some demons
2.022	Lessons from Titans	Business	Davis	7	Yes		Great case study book for industrials and cyclicals
2.019	Lessons of History	History	Durant	7	In Progress		I should really dedicate time to reading this with focus
2.020	Let My People Go Surfing	Business	Chouinard	6.8	Yes	Investing/Business	A worthy read for everyone
2.017	Letters to My Son	Life	Nerburn	5.1	Yes		I need to revisit this one. Read it years before being a parent
2.010	Liar’s Poker	Business	Lewis	8	Yes	Investing	Classic. I know Lewis said he did not expect this to shine a spotlight and attract talent, but that feels obvious
2.020	Life of Elbert H Gary	Business	Gary	0	Not Started		Old book sitting on my shelf waiting to be read.
2.022	Life on the Line	Business	Achatz / Kokonas	8	Yes	Investing/Business	If you enjoy the anxiety of The Bear, you will get it here. You will also get an incredible story of humans redefining things.
2.021	Liftoff (Space X)	Business	Vance	7	Yes	Investing/Business	Harsh reality of “what it takes” for capital intensive greatness
2.023	Lincoln Highway	Fiction	Towles	6	Yes		Least favorite of the Towles books but that’s a high bar. I like authors who have a throughline of characters. Also brilliant idea for finding opportunistic areas by tracing population growth.
2.017	Little Book That Beats the Market	Business	Greenblatt	8.5	Yes	Investing	Every investor should read for foundational education
2.026	Little Heaven	Fiction	Cutter	6	Yes		Hybrid of thriller and horror. The supernatural elements were grounded with vivid writing. Gripping storyline that was slow in spots but overall enjoyable.
2.022	Live from New York	Business	Miller	6	Yes	Media	SNL history is great. I did get bored given the crazy length
2.022	LL Bean American Icon	Business	Gorman	5	In Progress		Interesting history. I put it down as I lost momentum.
2.022	LL Bean The Man and His Company	Business	Witherel	0	In Progress		Need to start this one.
2.000	Loose Balls	Sports	Williams	5.2	Yes		There is a reality with this book. The stories about basketball are wildly entertaining – Williams shooting/killing his limo driver was a terrible tragedy/event.
2.020	Lords of the Realm	Business	Heylar	8.5	Yes		It’s a tomb and textbook like. But damn will you learn alot about unions and sports leagues.
2.017	Losing My Virginity	Business	Branson	6	Yes		Entertaining and gives you an idea of how billionaires are different
2.018	Luxury Strategy	Business	Bastien	7.7	Yes	Investing/Business	Reads like a textbook but very good distinction on something previously hard to define. Luxury vs premium
2.025	Madhouse at the End of the Earth	History	Sancton	6	Yes		Good shipwreck and survival story.
2.024	Madly Deeply	Life	Rickman	8	Yes		I wouldn’t recommend this to many because it’s a scratchy journal. But boy do I love this style of book. Rickman was a fascinating person and some great human insights here.
2.023	Make Noise	Business	Nuzum	7.6	Yes	Media	Great for podcasters that want to add more science.
2.020	Making of Prince of Persia	Business	Mechner	9	Yes		I might not recommend it to everyone but this captured the brain of a creator so well.
2.020	Man’s Search for Meaning	Life	Frankl	8	Yes	Life	Foundational reading on the importance of living for more than yourself. Not a comfortable read.
2.009	Margin of Safety	Business	Klarman	4	Yes		Opened interesting but I found this one and it’s scarcity to be more steak than sizzle.
2.016	Master Algorithm	Life	Domingos	1	No		It lost me, can’t remember it well
2.021	Master and His Emissary	Life	McGilchrist	0	Not Started		This book stares at me
2.023	Masterpiece in Progress	Life	Delaney	5	No		I think this would be valuable to many people. Didn’t click for me but that might be on me.
2.023	Masters of Doom	Business	Kushner	5	No		I need to finish it. Something always sidetracked me. Fascinating history of video games
2.023	MCU Reign of Marvel	Business	Robinson	8.1	Yes	Media	Great case study on Marvel. Kevin Feige goes down in history. IP requires great people.
2.020	Meat Market	Sports	Sandow	8.2	Yes	Sports	The NIL rules make this book about a different time. But great insight into the wild world of SEC football and recruiting.
2.021	Medium Raw	Life	Bourdain	6	Yes		Doesn’t hold a candle to Kitchen Confidential, but Bourdain can write
2.024	Men and Style	Life	Coggins	4	No		Easy to read
2.021	Midrange Theory	Sports	Partnow	2	No		Love Seth but couldn’t stick with this one
2.023	Mindbody Prescription	Life	Sarno	6	Yes		Interesting theories but I never did my own work to see how science does or does not validate
2.024	Money Games (Korea Deal)	Business	Shan	7.5	In Progress	Investing	Great insider look at a big time transaction. Bonderman featured heavily. It gives me PTSD reading about the negotiations and I never touched anything with this level of government complexity.
2.024	Money Masters of Our Time	Business	Train	8	Yes	Investing	The various personalities of the profiled (great) investors are all fascinating.
2.012	Moneyball	Sports	Lewis	9	Yes		What feels cliche now was not the case when this was released. There are opportunities on the margins everywhere. Baseball is a sport where one team is crowned champion, life has many winners and is not zero sum
2.026	Mountain Man	Sci-Fi
2.024	Mr. Classic	Life	Unknown	5	Yes		Coffee Table Book with some over-the-top gentleman stuff in there
2.023	Musk	Business	Isaacson	0	Not Started		Isaacsons podcast circuit after writing the book put this on the back burner.
2.020	MVP Machine	Sports	Lindbergh	8.6	Yes	Investing/Business	VERY interesting approach to breaking through athletic limitations. Makes me think of where else this could be applied.
2.026	Neuromancer	Non-Fiction	Gibson	9	Yes		I am in awe of him writing this in the 1980s. Such a unique writing style – grungy but world creating. It held up incredibly well reading it 40 years later.
2.020	Never Eat Alone	Life	Ferrazzi	1	Yes		Recommended to me, it didn’t click
2.020	Never Split the Difference	Business	Voss	5.5	Yes	Investing/Business	Good negotiation book. I might be contrarian for contrarian’s sake not ranking it higher, but it’s firmly in the “good” category for me. I am a believer negotiation is a muscle, which gets trained with repetition, and those that negotiate a lot, win more often. Yes “negotiate a lot” can mean within a single negotiation.
2.023	Next	Sci-Fi	Crichton	4	Yes		Right down the fairway Crichton
2.025	Nexus	Sci-Fi	Naam	6	Yes		I was intrigued by the concept “drug that links mind to mind”. The techno-thriller style started strong. But it became a bit “traditional story” after that strong start.
2.025	Night Fall (Book 3)	Fiction	Demille	4.5	Yes		Solid beach read. John Corey is a legend.
2.017	Ninety Percent of Everything	Business	George	5	Yes		Pairs with the Box. Didn’t stick with me
2.020	No Bull	Business	Steinhardt	1	Yes		Major letdown. That’s okay.
2.025	No Country for Old Men	Fiction	McCarthy	9.3	Yes		Insanely good, deep, dark. Unique in spots relative to the movie. There is a special class of books where great writers are essentially writing screenplays (see: Jurassic Park).
2.020	Nobody Wants to Read Your Shit	Business	Pressfield	9.2	Yes	Writers	My favorite book on writing. Something worthy of re-reading.
2.015	Not a Game (Iverson)	Sports	Babb	3	Yes		Love Iverson. I learned a bit
2.022	Novelist as a Vocation	Business	Murakami	7	Yes		I came for some thoughts on writing but Murakami’s own story took the show
2.025	Nowhere Man (Book 2)	Fiction	Hurwitz	5	Yes		Good but you know the drill at this point.
2.026	NPC	Sci-Fi	Robinson	8	Yes		Great thriller that hits on a symbolic topic.
2.024	Nuclear War	Science	Jacobsen	7	Yes		Harsh reality of nuclear threat.
2.021	Of Wolves and Man	Life	Lopez	0	No		Didn’t get far enough
2.018	On Garden Style	Life	Williams	9.5	Yes	Life	Laugh at me here. I always loved gardens and good landscaping but it took Bunny Williams to explain the design in simple ways. Very simple. Great coffee table book.
2.021	On Writing	Life	King	5	Yes		Not my favorite book on writing. Read it when I was younger, it stuck more the second time
2.025	One Second After	Sci-Fi	Forstchen	9.1	Yes	Sci-Fi	Great way to learn about EMPs in a realistic portrayal.
2.020	One Summer	History	Bryson	0	Not Started		I should read more Bryson
2.025	One Year After	Sci-Fi	Forstchen	6	Yes		Good follow-up to the first book.
2.021	Only the Paranoid Survive	Business	Grove	0	Not Started		I should probably read this one
2.017	Onward (Starbucks)	Business	Schultz	2	Yes		I learned some good history on Starbucks. Didn’t enjoy the rest.
2.020	Open Agassi	Sports	Agassi	7	Yes		Raw and hopefully honest. A good “this is what it takes” story.
2.025	Orphan X	Fiction	Hurwitz	6	Yes		Thrilling in a Jack Reacher/Gray Man way.
2.023	Outlive	Life	Attia	5.5	Yes		Good read but if you know Attia, you will know a good portion. (Editing update: I did not fully know Attia with that comment)
2.019	Path of Least Resistance	Life	Fritz	7	Yes	Life	Good book for the right time in life. Eliminate the hidden obstacles that are stopping you.
2.023	Path to Paradise (Coppola)	History	Wasson	1.7	No		I thought the documentary was easier to consume.
2.023	Pathless Path	Life	Millerd	5	Yes		Useful for the right person at the right point in their life.
2.023	Picasso’s War	History	Eakin	6	No		I couldn’t finish but man is art a fascinating industry. Good insight here.
2.023	Pieces of the Action	History	Bush	0	Not Started		I haven’t gotten to it but am very intrigued
2.025	Pines	Sci-Fi	Crouch	6	Yes		Page-turner and good mystery. It drags a bit but the mystery keeps you going.
2.025	Playworld	Fiction	Ross	4	In Progress		I like the Manhattan era it captured through the eyes of a teenager, but I faded midway. I will revisit in the future
2.025	Plum Island (Book 1)	Fiction	Demille	6.2	Yes		I’m partial to The Gold Coast, but Demille captures coastal town vibes insanely well.
2.025	Point Nemo	Sci-Fi	Robinson	7	Yes		Fun and gripping storyline around extraterrestrial invasion. I learned some things about mushrooms!
2.026	Point Nemo	Sci-Fi	Robinson	5.3	Yes		Reminded me of Annihilation but more playful.
2.017	Poor Charlies Almanac	Business	Munger	7	Yes		If you don’t know Munger, it’s a good read.
2.022	Power of Story	Life	Loehr	8	Yes	Life	I read this at the right time. Energy > Time was a major epiphany.
2.020	Pre	Sports	Jordan	6.3	Yes		Pre was a legend. Inspirational for anyone and everyone
2.020	Predators Ball	Business	Bruck	9.3	Yes		Incredible book. Crazy to think how Milken was atop the world. The LBO era was truly wild.
2.024	Prelude to Foundation	Sci-Fi	Isaac A	0	Not Started		Not sure I will ever get there
2.023	Prey	Sci-Fi	Crichton	5.3	Yes		Read this while my wife delivered our second baby (days before and after). Very weird thing to read at that moment!
2.021	Private Empire Exxon Mobil	Business	Coll	0	Not Started		I will read it some day
2.020	Project Hail Mary	Sci-Fi	Weir	9	Yes		Audiobook is pure entertainment
2.020	Psychology of Money	Business	Housel	7	Yes	Personal Finance	I will give this to my kids to read when they are ready for financial education. Everyone can take something away from it.
2.022	Quality of Earnings	Business	McKinsey	0	Not Started		Glaring hole in my reading
2.022	Ralph Lauren Man Behind the Mystique	Business	Trachtenberg	8.1	Yes		Good snapshot in time. RL was not always a success. Fragrance saved him. The man never stopped. Impressive
2.020	Range	Life	Epstein	5.1	Yes		Torn on this book. I agree with the premise but it feels very open-ended.
2.019	Rational Optimist	Life	Ridley	1	No		Didn’t click
2.023	Ready Player One	Sci-Fi	Cline	7	Yes		Great book for introductory sci-fi. A bit more spicy than I expected with the social commentary
2.023	Rebel Without a Crew	Business	Rodriguez	8.9	Yes	Investing/Business	Inspiration for any startup founder. Rodriguez knew how to do it. Great tale of a past time.
2.023	Recursion	Sci-Fi	Crouch	6	Yes		A step down from his other books, but fun in a Limitless way.
2.020	Red Notice	Business	Browder	4	Yes		Entertaining but I don’t have the same affinity others do.
2.023	Reflections on Art of Living	Life	Campbell	0	Not Started		Not sure when it will be the time. I am tired the genre at the moment.
2.026	Relic	Fiction	Preston and Childs	8	Yes		Very fun. Similar to Chrichton, the movie does the book no justice.
2.026	Reliquary	Fiction	Preston and Childs	4	Yes		Couldn’t hold a candle to Relic, a good effort though.
2.023	Reverence for Wood	History	Sloane	8	Yes		Woodworking but valuable to understand wood…if you are into knowing weird things
2.021	Ride of a Lifetime	Business	Iger	3.5	Yes		Some interesting history on Iger and his struggle to the top. Second half weaker than first
2.016	River of Doubt	History	Millard	10	Yes	Life	Incredible writing. Incredible story
2.023	River of Gods	History	Millard	0	In Progress		Need to revisit, forgot when I put this down.
2.007	Rules of Attraction	Fiction	Easton Ellis	7	Yes		Another college read. Enjoyed it at the time.
2.023	Rules of Civility	Fiction	Towles	8	Yes		My favorite of Towles books mostly due to its NYC focus. I can’t believe he was in the investment business before writing novels.
2.022	Running with a Purpose (Brooks Running)	Sports	Weber	4.8	Yes		Good not great business book. A bit vanilla and high-level.
2.020	Running with the Buffaloes	Sports	Lear	7	Yes	Sports	Season on the Brink style that teaches you a lot about running
2.016	Sailing Alone around the World	Life	Slocum	0	No		I started it but put it down quickly. Saving for retirement.
2.016	Sapiens	Life	Harari	8	Yes		It’s cool to hate on this book. It introduced some concepts which made me think deeply – what is real versus what is an accepted concept amongst people. The author was slanted on a lot, but I still found it a pleasure to read.
2.026	Savage Son	Fiction	Carr	7	Yes		Jack Carr is a damn good writer.
2.026	Savages	Fiction	Winslow	2.5	Yes		Really rough read for me. The attempt to capture the young beach-grown entrepreneurial mentality just felt off.
2.023	Scaling People	Business	Hughes Johnson	7	No		Good foundational resource for managing people. Find your own style but use this as a proxy.
2.017	Scar Tissue	Life	Kiedis	8	Yes		Over-the-top biography of a rockstar. Good to read in college
2.024	Science of Storytelling	Life	Will	0	No		Started but can’t remember it
2.024	Service Model (Tchaikovsky)	Sci-Fi	Tchaikovsky	3	No		Couldn’t get into it
2.015	Seven Seconds or Less	Sports	McCallum	5	Yes		Funny to look back at this one. A fun team
2.016	Shoe Dog	Business	Knight	7.1	Yes		Entertaining. A bit eye-opening in how founders break the rules
2.022	Shop as a Soulcraft	Business	Crawford	2	No		I couldn’t stick with it.
2.024	Shopkeeping	Life	Miller	6	Yes		Nice book to have on the table/desk
2.019	Short History of Nearly Everything	History	Bryson	5	No		Gave up but not sure why
2.021	Singularity is Near	Life	Kurzweil	0	In Progress		I should revisit
2.019	Six Easy Pieces	Science	Feynman	0	No		I haven’t read enough Feynman.
2.020	Sixth Man	Sports	Iguodala	2	Yes		I enjoy Iguodala but I was hoping to solve why he is so mysterious. I didn’t get much
2.018	Skin in the Game	Business	Taleb	3.7	No		Again, simple concept that did not require a book
2.021	Snow Crash	Sci-Fi	Stephenson	8	Yes		Took me a while – Stephenson is not one for brevity – but crazy how he sees the future
2.015	Snowball	Business	Schroeder	0	In Progress		I am embarrassed I have not finished this book.
2.020	Social Chemistry	Life	King	5	Yes		Interesting but it didn’t stick with me
2.023	Sphere	Sci-Fi	Crichton	8	Yes		I saw the movie first which was admittedly awful. Don’t let it stop you from this one.
2.019	Start-up Nation (Israel)	Business	Singer	0	Not Started		I am fascinated by Israel startups, yet I can’t find myself time to read it. That’s on me
2.023	State of Fear	Fiction	Crichton	8.7	Yes		Well written novel to prove the complexity of scientific arguments and the reality of money behind the scenes
2.023	Station Eleven	Sci-Fi	St. John Mandel	7	Yes		More philosophical than sci-fi. Good characters and storyline
2.022	Status and Culture	Life	Marx	9.4	Yes		Modern take on status which effectively separates timeless vs cyclical things
2.024	Stories of Your Life and Others	Sci-Fi	Chiang	8	Yes		Some really thought-provoking stories. More philosophical than science for me.
2.020	String Theory	Sports	Foster Wallace	0	Not Started		I pick it up but never take the plunge
2.017	Subtle Art of Not Giving a Fk	Life	Manson	5	Yes		I think many people would benefit from reading
2.022	Super Founders	Business	Tamaseb	5	Yes		Insights can be boiled down into a blog post, but it’s interesting. Basically “most conventional wisdom about founders is nonsense and not proven out by data”
2.020	Super Pumped	Business	Isaac	6	Yes		Entertaining but feels heavily biased by certain sources. The less you know about Uber history is likely better.
2.016	Superforecasting	Business	Tetlock	5.1	Yes		Very hyped book. Takeaways were not surprising to me?
2.020	Superthinking	Life	Weinberg	1.5	Yes		Another mental models book
2.024	Table for Two	Fiction	Towles	0	In Progress		Love Amor Towles so saving this one
2.020	Tanking to the Top	Sports	Weitzman	7	Yes		Good insights on The Process
2.023	Tender Bar	Life	Moehringer	4	No		The ghost writer of your favorite memoirs (e.g. Shoe Dog). I couldn’t stick with it.
2.025	Tender is the Flesh	Horror	Bazterrica	8.8	Yes		Don’t judge me for the rating. I wouldn’t recommend reading this unless you enjoy very dark stories. I’d love to know what goes on inside this author’s brain because this was as disturbing as it gets.
2.023	Terminal List	Fiction	Carr	8	Yes		Very entertaining and fun read
2.024	Terminal Man	Sci-Fi	Crichton	5.2	Yes		Solid Crichton
2.024	Termination Shock (Stephenson)	Sci-Fi	Stephenson	0	Not Started		Every Stephenson novel is a commitment
2.026	The 6:20 Man	Fiction	Baldacci	3.5	Yes		Perfectly fine beach read. Maybe no one has figured out the financial analyst thriller yet for a reason.
2.024	The Act of Creation	Life	Rubin	6.8	Yes		Good book for the desk. Inspiration.
2.015	The Art of a Beautiful Game	Sports	Ballard	6.3	Yes		Enjoyed this one.
2.022	The Beach	Fiction	Garland	8.4	Yes		I actually liked the movie which most people hate but truly shaped my life. There is no paradise without an agreeable community. Pain and sacrifice are required in life.
2.024	The Believer	Life	Coggins	8.8	Yes		Great book regardless of whether you care about fly fishing.
2.023	The Big Picture	Business	Fritz	6	Yes		Good details on the Sony hack and shift of power away from actors / the death of monoculture.
2.023	The Big Score	Business	Malone	0	Not Started		Something I will read some day
2.024	The Blade Itself	Sci-Fi	Abercrombie	0	Not Started		On the shelf for a future day
2.010	The Book of Basketball	Sports	Simmons	7	Yes		If you are a basketball freak, this is great. If you’re not, you need to be crazy to read it
2.022	The Boron Letters	Business	Halbert	4.5	Yes		Found the author insufferable. Yes, there are valuable insights but most border low-integrity sales process.
2.017	The Box	Business	Levinson	7.6	Yes	Investing/Business	It will open your eyes about what shipping did for the world. Poor Malcom Mclean walking away with so little. Also, standardization increases market TAM!!!
2.015	The Breaks of the Game	Sports	Halberstram	5	Yes		Good not iconic for me
2.026	The Cartel	Non-Fiction	Winslow	9	Yes		Building on the first part of the series and even more intense. I am sure there are inaccuracies but it feels like it captures the brutality properly
2.017	The Decision Book 50 Models	Life	Krogerus	1	No		Another model book, if you’ve read one, you’ve read them all.
2.024	The Diamond Age	Sci-Fi	Stephenson	7	Yes		Thought-provoking framing of LLM era
2.016	The Domino Effect	Business	Braziel	8	Yes	Energy	One of the better books on oil and gas
2.026	The Fifth to Die	Fiction	Barker	6	Yes		Might be the weakest of the three but still a page turner.
2.025	The Final Day	Sci-Fi	Forstchen	4	Yes		While stretching towards repetition, still thought-provoking about lingering problems that would exist.
2.021	The Founders	Business	Soni	0	In Progress		I like to pick this up and read through it from time to time. I should probably dedicate a sit down.
2.026	The Fourth Monkey	Fiction	Barker	7	Yes		Thriller mystery that I enjoyed enough to read the trilogy.
2.019	The Frackers	Business	Zuckerman	8.2	Yes	Energy	Oil and gas is a rare mix of really advanced science, really crazy personalities, and really serious implications. I thought this was a pretty darn good history lesson on the US shale evolution. Honestly, we take for granted what freedom that has given us. While investors may look at all of the capital that was destroyed, it got us really valuable independence. Is it so bad that Main Street won at the expense of Wall Street?
2.023	The Freaks Came out to Write (Village Voice)	History	Romano	7.3	Yes		Great history of a media business with tons of perspective.
2.005	The Game	Life	Strauss	0	Yes		I was a freshman in college. I am sure this didn’t age well. The sleep training was something I will always remember.
2.024	The Goal	Business	Goldratt	7.4	Yes	Investing/Business	It’s good foundational stuff for operations. A bit childish in the method it’s delivered?
2.024	The Gold Coast	Fiction	DeMille	9.1	Yes	Writers	Fun and easy read. Nothing groundbreaking but entertaining characters and social conversation
2.021	The Great A&P	Business	Levinson	0	Not Started		Popped open a few times but never got the urge to read. Will eventually
2.020	The Hard Thing About Hard Things	Business	Horowitz	8.3	Yes	Investing/Business	Raw and honest read about business culture
2.017	The Jordan Rules	Sports	Smith	9.3	Yes	Sports	Consider a world where Jordan was years into career and not considered a winner. This book is great for opening your mind on how narratives change
2.025	The Lions Game (Book 2)	Fiction	Demille	5	Yes		Solid beach read. John Corey evolves from man to legend.
2.024	The Lost World	Sci-Fi	Crichton	6	Yes		A fun follow-up to Jurassic Park but not much new
2.020	The Man Who Solved The Market (Simons)	Business	Zuckerman	2.5	Yes		I was hoping for so much more. If anything, I walked away with more skepticism and questions than I had before
2.020	The Money Game	Business	Smith	7.9	Yes	Investing	Amazing how this still feels as valuable today
2.023	The Odyssey	History	Homer	0	Not Started		Downloaded audio book which seems like the right approach.
2.020	The Operator	Business	King	9	Yes	Investing/Business	Heard Rich Paul had this as his bible. Geffen was a bad mf’er. Author lost access to him while writing book which made me want to read it even more.
2.023	The Optimist	Life	Coggins	9	Yes	Life	Great book regardless of whether you care about fly fishing.
2.021	The Order of Time	Life	Rovelli	6	Yes		I probably need to dedicate more time to Rovelli. Hard to read without a clear mind
2.016	The Outsiders	Business	Thorndike	7.8	Yes	Investing	Great case studies. I think more idiosyncratic takeaways but it can open up your eyes to capital allocation.
2.020	The Perfect Mile	Sports	Bascomb	7.1	Yes	Sports	We only remember Bannister. Incredible that he was in med school!!!
2.024	The Power Broker	Business	Caro	9	In Progress	Investing/Business	I haven’t even finished but believe this is the best book on power. Caro seemed to skate on thin ice at many periods of his life. In some ways, it seems like luck.
2.024	The Power of Fastenol People	Business	Kierlen	7.9	Yes	Investing/Business	Simple yet excellent book on business and culture.
2.026	The Power of the Dog	Non-Fiction	Winslow	8.4	Yes		First of three part series on Mexico/US drug trade – feels similar to The Wire in how it is captured.
2.015	The Prize	History	Yergin	6	Yes	Energy	Read this before joining Energy Credit role. It’s a tomb with the history of oil and gas. It’s a big book and is good for history and context. I can’t say it was that meaningful to me for investing purposes.
2.012	The Real Estate Game	Business	Poorvu	7	Yes	Investing	I was told this was “the book” for real estate investors. It won’t knock your socks off but good foundational material. And I did buy a real estate investment shortly after…and it worked well!
2.025	The Revolt of The Public and the Crisis of Authority in the New Millennium	Business	Gurri	8.4	Yes	Media	Predicted the evolution of media and the power shifting towards individuals. The most unique insights were around “swarms” attacking issues and the importance of authenticity. Also how takedowns/cancellations are easy but not the alternatives.
2.022	The Road	Fiction	McCarthy	8	Yes		Some deep stuff.
2.020	The Road Ahead	Business	Gates	0	Not Started		I will read Gates books someday
2.021	The Score Takes Care of Itself	Sports	Walsh	5	Yes		Very hyped book before I read it. It felt a bit surface level. Maybe I am missing it!
2.026	The Secret of Secrets	Fiction	Brown	6	No		I’m 75% through but straining to finish. I like the concept. The cliffhangers get tiresome.
2.020	The Shipping Man	Business	McCleery	6	Yes		Hilarious fiction that is 100% reality for people in shipping
2.026	The Sixth Wicked Child	Fiction	Barker	7	Yes		4MK is quite the villain.
2.024	The Snakehead	History	Radden Keefe	7.4	No		Very interesting history on the Chinese US evolution.
2.020	The Startup	Business	Kaplan	9.8	Yes	Investing/Business	Excellent history of a business from start to finish. It captures the hysteria of markets. Great stories with Gates and Bill Campbell. Old IBM. And Apple post Gates.
2.023	The Status Game	Life	Storr	4	Yes		I read Marx Status and Culture first and preferred that one. Many overlapping concepts.
2.023	The Stranger in the Woods	History	Finkel	8.6	Yes		My inner-skeptic was thinking “how can this be a true story?!”. It is. Imagine someone being able to stay off-the-grid for that long.
2.026	The Troop	Fiction	Cutter	8.3	Yes		Intense version of Lord of the Flies. Not overly supernatural. Really dark but if you can deal with horror, recommended.
2.021	The Upside of Stress	Life	McGonigal	7	Yes	Life	It partially reframed my view on stress. It’s not a magic pill that makes anxiety a good thing, but you have greater appreciation for the energy.
2.023	The Wager	History	Grann	8	Yes		Great shipwreck writing
2.024	The Work of Art	Life	Moss	7	Yes		Good coffee table book. Good for inspiration.
2.024	The World for Sale	Business	Blas	8.5	Yes	Investing/Business	GREAT history on the commodities trading houses.
2.026	There is No Antimemetics Division	Sci-Fi	qntm	8.3	Yes		Dense and intense. This felt very new and fresh,.
2.019	Think and Grow Rich	Business	Hill	1	Yes		I thought I was taking crazy pills when reading this book. Then I looked into Napoleon Hill.
2.017	Thinking Fast and Slow	Life	Kahneman	4.1	Yes		Very hyped before reading. I still love Kahneman
2.020	Thinking in Bets	Business	Duke	5	Yes		I would have liked to have read this when younger.
2.022	Those Guys Have All The Fun	Business	Miller	8	Yes		ESPN history is crazy with the lack of long-term founder.
2.023	Three Body Problem	Sci-Fi	Liu	3	No		This taught me my American brain had a hard time tracking international names.
2.021	Three Ring Circus (Lakers)	Sports	Pearlman	7	Yes		Good perspective on Kobe the teammate.
2.020	Tiger Woods	Sports	Benedict	9	Yes	Sports	Holy moly Tiger had an interesting life
2.020	Timeless: Classic American Architecture	Life	Ahern	7.9	Yes		Surprising insights from an architect and amazing coffee table book. But his look is what I love.
2.023	Timeline	Sci-Fi	Crichton	4	Yes		I didn’t get hooked despite it having the makings of a great Crichton story. Others may enjoy it more than me
2.022	TinderBox	Business	Miller	8	Yes	Media	HBO is a great case study for media
2.019	Titan	Business	Rockefeller	8.2	Yes	Investing/Business	It’s long and took me a long time (several revisits rather than one straight read). There is a lot to learn about JDR and you will see how he has influenced many after him.
2.022	To Catch and Kill	Business	Farrow	6	Yes		I asked myself “Do I want to be reading this?” throughout the book. Good documentation of bad people.
2.015	Toughness	Sports	Bilas	1	Yes		I respect and admire Jay Bilas, but this book didn’t click.
2.020	Tribe	Life	Junger	5	Yes		Good book on the importance of people.
2.017	Tribe of Mentors	Life	Ferris	5	Yes		Good tableside book for ideas
2.020	Trillion Dollar Coach	Business	Schmidt	2.2	No		Felt like the Campbell stories in The Startup really captured him well
2.020	Underdogs	Sports	Berman	7	Yes		Only for Eagles fans. Love ZB
2.017	Undoing Project	Life	Lewis	8	Yes		Lewis can write. Two incredible subjects. Great perspective on economic theory.
2.023	Unreasonable Hospitality	Business	Guidara	6	Yes		Others love this one. I definitely enjoyed certain pieces but felt it overlapped with Danny Meyer’s book
2.023	Victory Machine	Sports	Strauss	5	Yes		Good behind the scenes of the Warriors dynasty. I think I would have enjoyed reading this 10 years later – being so close to the event felt redundant which hurt the score.
2.023	Visual Display of Quantitative Information	Business	Tufte	9.8	Yes	Investing	Everyone would benefit from reading this and thinking about how they present data. Great book to keep on your desk. I laugh remembering my wife finding me reading this bed. Good presentation is not easy but can be so powerful to communicate information.
2.020	Vulture Investors	Business	Rosenberg	5	No		When I read this it felt very dated, but maybe viewing it as history of a different era would change my opinion
2.020	Wait Till Next Year	Sports	Goldman	5	Yes		Fun and entertaining for any fan. I am sure you’d enjoy it more as a Mets fan.
2.023	Walk in the Woods	Life	Bryson	6	In Progress		Hilariously entertaining
2.023	War of Art	Business	Pressfield	5	Yes		Good Pressfield
2.022	Warrior’s Creed	History	Sparks	2.5	Yes		Author is choppy but I’d expect military folks would enjoy this one
2.025	Wayward Pines (Part 2)	Sci-Fi	Crouch	3.5	Yes		Less of a page-turner but still entertaining. I couldn’t suspend disbelief as long in this one.
2.023	We Are Legion (We are Bob)	Sci-Fi	Taylor	3.9	Yes		Solid but didn’t hook me
2.018	What I learned Losing a Million Dollars	Business	Moynihan	1	Yes		Felt like the author just wanted to make some money with a mediocre story
2.023	What Makes Sammy Run	Business	Schulberg	7	Yes	Media	All encompassing fictional business story that captures life pretty well
2.021	What Technology Wants	Business	Gates	0	Not Started		Look forward to reading old Gates books someday
2.020	What You Do is Who You Are	Business	Horowitz	3	Yes		High expectations after The Hard Thing About Hard Things may have weighed on my experience
2.023	What’s Our Problem	Life	Urban	0	Not Started		Pre-ordered but never read. I enjoy Urban
2.010	When Genius Failed	Business	Lowenstein	7	Yes	Investing	Great foundational book for investors.
2.023	When I Stop Talking, You’ll Know I’m Dead	Business	Weintraub	5	Yes		Entertaining but not much stuck with me
2.022	When Pride Still Mattered (Lombardi)	Sports	Maraniss	5.1	Yes		A bit slow but another person who broke out after years of operating in the system.
2.019	When the Nines Roll Over	Fiction	Benioff	2	No		I need to revisit
2.020	Where the Money Was	Business	Sutton	6.5	Yes		Hilarious book. Impressive bank robbery details.
2.023	Who is Michael Ovitz	Business	Ovitz	7	Yes	Media	Some unintentional comedy but the perceptive reader will learn a lot about the industry and the evolution
2.020	Why We Sleep	Life	Walker	5	Yes		Another interesting health book but I never traced the science.
2.020	Winner Within	Sports	Reilly	1	No		I don’t know what Pat Reilly was going for…but no
2.020	Working	Life	Caro	6	Yes		Caro is a curious cat. I admire him.
2.023	World Travel	Life	Bourdain	0	Not Started		One day
2.024	World War Z	Sci-Fi	Brooks	8.9	Yes	Sci-Fi	Loved the format. The rich prepper that invited influencers sticks with me.
2.017	Writing That Works	Business	Roman and Raphaelson	9.9	Yes	Investing	Ogilvy recommended it and it’s a must read for anyone with a corporate role (or any professional communication). I should re-read this often. I am as guilty as anyone and letting these lessons slip my mind but damn is it effective when you stick to these principles..
2.017	You Can Be a Stock Market Genius	Business	Greenblatt	8	Yes	Investing	Book is good for an investor’s foundational education
2.024	You Don’t Know Jack or Jerry	Business	Babcock	9.5	Yes	Investing/Business	One of the best detailed accounts on building a software business that REALLY stood the test of time. Despite spanning decades, and skipping from year to year, you can still feel the ups and downs in this one.
2.023	Your Table is Ready	Business	Cecchi Azzolina	8	Yes		Excellent for NYC people. It’s over the top but captures the life of “front-of-house” restaurant folks pretty well
2.016	Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance	Life	Pirsig	9.1	Yes	Life	Hardest thing I’ve read become of density. I really had to take my time. A special piece of writing.
2.025	Zero Day	Sci-Fi	Heller	4	Yes		I was intrigued by the cybersecurity angle. It was fine, but didn’t hook me.
2.022	Zero to One	Business	Thiel	7.3	Yes	Investing/Business	Foundational reading for any entrepreneur with major aspirations.

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