Bookshelf

Some books that I've read and cared enough to catalog. I particularly enjoy libraries and browsing other peoples bookshelfs.

84, Charing Cross Road by Helene Hanff
A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backman
A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments by David Foster Wallace *
Red Card: FIFA and the Fall of the Most Powerful Men in Sports by Ken Bensinger
One Day by David Nicholls
Normal People by Sally Rooney
Taste: My Life Through Food by Stanley Tucci
The Nvidia Way: Jensen Huang and the Making of a Tech Giant by Tae Kim
The Maniac by Benjamin Labatut
Medium Raw: A Bloody Valentine to the World of Food and the People Who Cook by Anthony Bourdain
The Fund: Ray Dalio, Bridgewater Associates, and the Unraveling of a Wall Street Legend by Rob Copeland
The Money Trap: Lost Illusions Inside the Tech Bubble by Alok Sama
The Racket by Conor Niland
Educated by Tara Westover
The Bastard Brigade: The True Story of the Renegade Scientists and Spies Who Sabotaged the Nazi Atomic Bomb by Sam Kean
Rogues: True Stories of Grifters, Killers, Rebels and Crooks by Patrick Radden Keefe
Old Love by Jeffrey Archer
No Country for Old Men by Cormac McCarthy
Stay Hungry Stay Foolish by Rashmi Bansal
Here Is New York by E.B. White
Dead in the Water: A True Story of Hijacking, Murder, and a Global Maritime Conspiracy by Matthew Campbell
Shoe Dog: A Memoir by the Creator of Nike by Phil Knight
Excellent Advice for Living: Wisdom I Wish I'd Known Earlier by Kevin Kelly
Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly by Anthony Bourdain *
Strangers in Their Own Land: Anger and Mourning on the American Right by Arlie Russell Hochschild
Indian Icon: A Cult Called Royal Enfield by Amrit Raj
Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson by Mitch Albom
Dhoni Touch by Bharat Sundaresan
Troubled: A Memoir of Foster Care, Family, and Social Class by Rob Henderson
Breaking Through: My Life in Science by Katalin Karikó *
10 1/2 lessons from Experience: Perspectives on Fund Management by Paul Marshall
Nuclear War: A Scenario by Annie Jacobsen
Calvin and Hobbes 1: Thereby Hangs a Tale by Bill Watterson
The Tatas: How a Family Built a Business and a Nation by Girish Kuber
The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri
The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse by Charlie Mackesy *
The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
Barbarians at the Gate: The Fall of RJR Nabisco by Bryan Burrough
Setting the Table: The Transforming Power of Hospitality in Business by Danny Meyer
Number Go Up: Inside Crypto's Wild Rise and Staggering Fall by Zeke Faux
The Big Bull of Dalal Street: How Rakesh Jhunjhunwala Made His Fortune by Neil Borate
Same as Ever: A Guide to What Never Changes by Morgan Housel
Consider the Lobster and Other Essays by David Foster Wallace
String Theory: David Foster Wallace on Tennis by David Foster Wallace *
Going Infinite: The Rise and Fall of a New Tycoon by Michael Lewis
Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Tell You Everything You Need to Know About Global Politics (Politics of Place, #1) by Tim Marshall
Chip War: The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology by Chris Miller
Shipping Out: On the (Nearly Lethal) Comforts of a Luxury Cruise by David Foster Wallace
I Came Upon a Lighthouse: A Short Memoir Of Life With Ratan Tata by Shantanu Naidu
Algorithms to Live By: The Computer Science of Human Decisions by Brian Christian
The Greatest Trade Ever: The Behind-the-Scenes Story of How John Paulson Defied Wall Street and Made Financial History by Gregory Zuckerman
Big Billion Startup: The Untold Flipkart Story by Mihir Dalal
The New New Thing: A Silicon Valley Story by Michael Lewis
Darkest Hour: How Churchill Brought England Back from the Brink by Anthony McCarten
The Mosquito Bowl: A Game of Life and Death in World War II by Buzz Bissinger
Among the Thugs by Bill Buford
Invested: Changing Forever the Way Americans Invest by Charles Schwab
The Founders: The Story of Paypal and the Entrepreneurs Who Shaped Silicon Valley by Jimmy Soni
The Power Law: Venture Capital and the Making of the New Future by Sebastian Mallaby *
Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity by Katherine Boo
A Shot to Save the World: The Remarkable Race and Ground-Breaking Science Behind the Covid-19 Vaccines by Gregory Zuckerman
The Little Book of Common Sense Investing: The Only Way to Guarantee Your Fair Share of Stock Market Returns by John C. Bogle
The Class of 83: The Punishers of Mumbai Police by S. Hussain Zaidi
MONEY WISE: Timeless Lessons on Building Wealth by Deepak Shenoy
The Club: How the English Premier League Became the Wildest, Richest, Most Disruptive Force in Sports by Joshua Robinson
The Billionaire Raj: A Journey Through India's New Gilded Age by James Crabtree
Trillions: How a Band of Wall Street Renegades Invented the Index Fund and Changed Finance Forever by Robin Wigglesworth
Born a Crime: Stories From a South African Childhood by Trevor Noah
Flash Crash: A Trading Savant, a Global Manhunt, and the Most Mysterious Market Crash in History by Liam Vaughan
The Bomber Mafia: A Dream, a Temptation, and the Longest Night of the Second World War by Malcolm Gladwell
Let My People Go Surfing: The Education of a Reluctant Businessman by Yvon Chouinard
The Bridges of Madison County by Robert James Waller
Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less by Greg McKeown
Ask Your Developer: How to Harness the Power of Software Developers and Win in the 21st Century by Jeff Lawson
Blood and Oil: Mohammed bin Salman's Ruthless Quest for Global Power by Bradley Hope
Legacy: What the All Blacks Can Teach Us About the Business of Life by James Kerr
Working: Researching, Interviewing, Writing by Robert A. Caro
The Spy and the Traitor: The Greatest Espionage Story of the Cold War by Ben Macintyre
Enough: True Measures of Money, Business, and Life by John C. Bogle
Billion Dollar Loser: The Epic Rise and Spectacular Fall of Adam Neumann and WeWork by Reeves Wiedeman
Angels & Demons (Robert Langdon, #1) by Dan Brown
Red Notice: A True Story of High Finance, Murder, and One Man's Fight for Justice by Bill Browder
American Kingpin: The Epic Hunt for the Criminal Mastermind Behind the Silk Road by Nick Bilton *
The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga
No Filter: The Inside Story of Instagram by Sarah Frier
BLACK EDGE Korean Edition by Sheelah Kolhatkar
Travels with Charley: In Search of America by John Steinbeck
Greenlights by Matthew McConaughey
The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right by Atul Gawande *
The Psychology of Money by Morgan Housel *
That Will Never Work: The Birth of Netflix and the Amazing Life of an Idea by Marc Randolph
The Billionaire's Apprentice: The Rise of The Indian-American Elite and The Fall of The Galleon Hedge Fund by Anita Raghavan
Better: A Surgeon's Notes on Performance by Atul Gawande
Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World by David Epstein
Fortune's Formula: The Untold Story of the Scientific Betting System That Beat the Casinos and Wall Street by William Poundstone
Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets (Incerto) by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank
Stillness Is the Key by Ryan Holiday
Catch and Kill: Lies, Spies, and a Conspiracy to Protect Predators by Ronan Farrow
Dignity: Seeking Respect in Back Row America by Chris Arnade
Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens
The Blind Side by Michael Lewis
Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything by Steven D. Levitt
The Last Lecture by Randy Pausch
The Deficit Myth: Modern Monetary Theory and the Birth of the People's Economy by Stephanie Kelton
The Spider Network: The Wild Story of a Math Genius, a Gang of Backstabbing Bankers, and One of the Greatest Scams in Financial History by David Enrich
The Happiness Advantage: The Seven Principles of Positive Psychology That Fuel Success and Performance at Work by Shawn Achor
Thinking in Bets: Making Smarter Decisions When You Don't Have All the Facts by Annie Duke
This Is Water: Some Thoughts, Delivered on a Significant Occasion, about Living a Compassionate Life by David Foster Wallace *
The da Vinci Code (Robert Langdon, #2) by Dan Brown
All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr
Too Big to Fail: The Inside Story of How Wall Street and Washington Fought to Save the Financial System from Crisis — and Themselves by Andrew Ross Sorkin
Rafa by Rafael Nadal
The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon by Brad Stone
More Money Than God: Hedge Funds and the Making of a New Elite by Sebastian Mallaby *
Dead Companies Walking: How A Hedge Fund Manager Finds Opportunity in Unexpected Places by Scott Fearon
The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine by Michael Lewis
Friday Night Lights by H.G. Bissinger *
When Genius Failed: The Rise and Fall of Long-Term Capital Management by Roger Lowenstein
The Ride of a Lifetime: Lessons Learned from 15 Years as CEO of the Walt Disney Company by Robert Iger *
Black Edge: Inside Information, Dirty Money, and the Quest to Bring Down the Most Wanted Man on Wall Street by Sheelah Kolhatkar
Billion Dollar Whale: The Man Who Fooled Wall Street, Hollywood, and the World by Tom Wright
The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck: A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life by Mark Manson
SuperFreakonomics: Global Cooling, Patriotic Prostitutes And Why Suicide Bombers Should Buy Life Insurance by Steven D. Levitt
A Man for All Markets: From Las Vegas to Wall Street, How I Beat the Dealer and the Market by Edward O. Thorp
Outliers: The Story of Success by Malcolm Gladwell
Flash Boys: A Wall Street Revolt by Michael Lewis *
The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho
Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End by Atul Gawande
The Man Who Solved the Market: How Jim Simons Launched the Quant Revolution by Gregory Zuckerman
Superforecasting: The Art and Science of Prediction by Philip E. Tetlock *
Misbehaving: The Making of Behavioral Economics by Richard H. Thaler
Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman *
Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup by John Carreyrou *
Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson
The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer by Siddhartha Mukherjee
Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance by Angela Duckworth
Give and Take: A Revolutionary Approach to Success by Adam M. Grant *
When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi *
Moneyball by Michael Lewis
Open by Andre Agassi *

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