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Book Recommendations

(listed in no particular order)

Nonfiction

  • Fooled by Randomness - Nassim Taleb
  • Kitchen Confidential - Anthony Bourdain
  • The Master Switch - Tim Wu
  • Superforecasting - Philip Tetlock/Dan Gardner
  • Code - Charles Petzold
  • The Devil in the White City - Erik Larson
  • Surely You’re Joking, Mr. Feynman! - Richard Feynman/Ralph Leighton
  • Sapiens - Yuval Harari
  • Zero to One - Peter Thiel
  • The Lessons of History - Will and Ariel Durant
  • Titan - Ron Chernow
  • The End is Always Near - Dan Carlin
  • What to Expect When No One’s Expecting - Jonathan Last
  • The Most Important Thing - Howard Marks

Fiction

  • The Sun Also Rises - Ernest Hemingway
  • A Gentleman in Moscow - Amor Towles
  • The Spy Who Came in From the Cold - John le Carré
  • The Kingkiller Chronicles - Patrick Rothfuss
  • The Godfather - Mario Puzo
  • Norwegian Wood - Haruki Murakami
  • Stranger in a Strange Land - Robert Heinlein
  • House of Leaves - Mark Danielewski
  • The Stranger - Albert Camus
  • Dune - Frank Herbert
  • Foundation - Isaac Asimov
  • Sirens of Titan - Kurt Vonnegut