Bookshelf

Here are some books that I've read and cared enough to catalog. I particularly enjoy bookstores, libraries and browsing other people's bookshelves.

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

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