Bookshelf

This is my digital reading trail and bookshelf. I mainly discover what books to read by studying interesting people and figuring out what books they have read and recommended. I thought it would be interesting to share. It’s also a way for me to see how my reading changes over time. About 90% of these books I read in full; the last 10% I abandoned because they underdelivered or something more interesting came up. Two things to note: this is not an exhaustive list of the books I’ve read, and since stacks and bookshelves are rarely in chronological order, this list isn’t either.

Markets, investing and energy

The Intelligent Investor by Benjamin Graham
Security Analysis by Benjamin Graham and David Dodd
Financial Shenanigans by Howard Schilit
Quality of Earnings by Thornton L. Oglove
Understanding Corporate Reports by Leopold A. Bernstein
The Outsiders by William N. Thorndike Jr.
A Fabulous Debt by Robin Wigglesworth
The Partnership by Charles D. Ellis
Main Street Millionaire by Codie Sanchez
The Everywhere Millionaire by Owen Zidar
Poor Charlie’s Almanack by Charles T. Munger
One Good Trade by Mike Bellafiore
The Laws of Trading by Agustin Lebron
Market Liquidity by Thierry Foucault, Marco Pagano and Ailsa Röell
Retail Options Trading by Andrew Mack and Euan Sinclair
Statistical Sports Models in Excel by Andrew Mack
Sports Analytics and Data Science by Thomas W. Miller
Superforecasting by Philip E. Tetlock and Dan Gardner
How to Get Lucky by Max Gunther
The Zurich Axioms by Max Gunther
Empirical Market Microstructure by Joel Hasbrouck
Trading and Exchanges by Larry Harris
The World for Sale by Javier Blas and Jack Farchy
Virtual Barrels by Ilia Bouchouev
Oil 101 by Morgan Downey
The World of Oil Derivatives

Business and leadership

High Output Management by Andrew S. Grove
The Hard Thing About Hard Things by Ben Horowitz
Trillion Dollar Coach by Eric Schmidt, Jonathan Rosenberg and Alan Eagle
The Score Takes Care of Itself by Bill Walsh
The Ideal Team Player by Patrick Lencioni
Getting Naked by Patrick Lencioni
Death by Meeting by Patrick Lencioni
The Fearless Organization by Amy C. Edmondson
Right Kind of Wrong by Amy C. Edmondson
The Leader Who Had No Title by Robin Sharma
The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership by John C. Maxwell
What the CEO Wants You to Know by Ram Charan
Great CEOs Are Lazy by Jim Schleckser
Creating Great Choices by Jennifer Riel and Roger L. Martin
Collaborating with the Enemy by Adam Kahane
Originals by Adam Grant
Life at the Speed of Play by Mark Pincus
The Indie Maker Handbook by Pieter Levels
The E-Myth Revisited by Michael E. Gerber
How to Make a Few Billion Dollars by Brad Jacobs
Buy Back Your Time by Dan Martell
Insanely Simple by Ken Segall
What They Don’t Teach You at Harvard Business School by Mark H. McCormack
Breakthrough Advertising by Eugene Schwartz
Scientific Advertising by Claude Hopkins

Tech, science and ideas

The Mythical Man-Month by Frederick P. Brooks Jr.
Experimentation for Engineers by David Sweet
The Scaling Era by Dwarkesh Patel and Gavin Leech
The Infinity Machine by Sebastian Mallaby
Algorithms to Live By by Brian Christian and Tom Griffiths
Learning to Think Mathematically
Chip War by Chris Miller
Maintenance: Of Everything, Part One by Stewart Brand
The Origins of Efficiency by Brian Potter
A Matter of Degrees by Gino Segrè
Ice Age by John Gribbin and Mary Gribbin
Deep Simplicity by John Gribbin
Things Hidden Since the Foundation of the World by René Girard
Impro by Keith Johnstone

History and people

Benjamin Franklin by Carl Van Doren
The Invisible Billionaire by Jerry Shields
Young Titan by Michael Shelden
Mao: The Unknown Story by Jung Chang and Jon Halliday
The Undoing Project by Michael Lewis
A First-Rate Madness by Nassir Ghaemi
Mastery by Robert Greene
The 48 Laws of Power by Robert Greene
No More Mr. Nice Guy by Robert A. Glover
Wanting by Luke Burgis
Consolations by David Whyte