Last Updated on August 12, 2022
It was 5 years ago when someone first told me that I should write a book, I smiled đ
I thought about it and by the time the 5th person said it I replied, âif I spend 2 years looking for a book on a subject and I canât find it, only then will I even think about starting a bookâ.
So far, not happened yet. So no, this isnât a list of âmy booksâ Iâm sorry to disappoint you if thatâs what you were looking for.
Instead itâs books a a variety of topics I like I think people should read.
Note: Many of the books have contradicting ideas. Just because itâs in the list doesnât mean that I agree with the message in the book. Read and understand ideas even if you donât agree with them.
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Table of Contents
Finance, Work & Macro
- Rich dad poor dad – Robert Kiyosaki
- 4 hour work week – Tim Ferris
- Atomic Habits – James Clear
- The Dao of Capital – Mark Spitznagel
- Free Capital – Guy Thomas
- The hard things about hard things – Ben Horowitz
- Make Book – Levelsio
- Incerto collection (4 books) – Nassim Nicholas Taleb
- Perennial Seller – Ryan Holiday
- Big Debt Crisis – Ray Dalio
- When Money Dies – Adam Fergusson
- Fed Up – Danielle DiMartino Booth
- The Most Important Thing – Howard Marks
- The Fourth Turning – Neil Howe and William Strauss
- Human Action – Ludwig von Mises
Why work & money #1? If you solve your money problems you can get yourself more freedom to then afford to spend all your time reading or exploring rabbit holes.
Itâs much easier to read a book a week if you have a â4 hour work weekâ vs if you have a 40+ hour work week running a rat race barely getting by.
Crypto
- Price of Tomorrow- Jeff Booth
- Sovereign Individual – James Dale Davison
- Bitcoin Standard – Saifdean Ammous
- The Blocksize War – Jonathan Bier
- Layered Money – Nik Bhatia
- The Infinite Machine – Camila Russo
- Mastering Bitcoin – Andreas Antonopoulos
- The Fiat Standard- Saifdean Ammous
- Everything by Allen Farrington (Start with Wittgensteinâs Money or listen to it)
- Everything by Arthur Hayes (Start with Pumping Iron or Listen to it)
Peace
- Siddhartha –Â Hermann Hesse
- Enlightenment Trilogy (3 books) – Jed McKenna
- The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius
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Letters from a Stoic –Â Seneca
- Making Sense – Sam Harris
- Waking up – Sam Harris
- The obstacle is the way & Ego is the enemy – Ryan Holiday
- Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance –Â Robert M. Pirsig
- Manâs Search for Meaning – Viktor Frankl
- The doors of perception – Aldous Huxley
War
- The Accidental Superpower +Â The Absent Superpower +Â Disunited Nations – Peter Zeihan
- Changing World Order – Ray Dalio
- Jason Lowry on âwhat is moneyâ podcast
Literature/Philosophy
- Bulgakov, Mikhail: The Master and Margarita
- Dostoevesky, Fyodor: Crime and Punishment
- Dostoevesky, Fyodor: Notes from Underground
- Dostoevesky, Fyodor: The Brothers Karamazov
- Dostoevesky, Fyodor: The Idiot
- Dostoevesky, Fyodor: Demons/The Devils
- Dostoevesky, Fyodor: Poor Folk
- Dostoevesky, Fyodor: The Eternal Husband
- Huxley, Aldous: Brave New World
- Lee, Harper: To Kill a Mockingbird
- Nietzsche, Friedrich: Beyond Good and Evil
- Orwell, George: 1984
- Orwell, George: Animal Farm
- Solzhenitsyn, Aleksandr: Cancer Ward
- Solzhenitsyn, Aleksandr:Â One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
- Solzhenitsyn, Aleksandr: The Gulag Archipelago
- Steinbeck, John: The Grapes of Wrath
- Steinbeck, John: Of Men and Mice
- Tolstoy, Leo: Anna Karenina
- Tolstoy, Leo: War and Peace
Travel
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The Alchemist –Â Paulo Coelho
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Into the Wild –Â Jon Krakauer
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Vagabonding –Â Rolf Potts
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A Walk in the Woods – Bill Bryson
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On the Road –Â Jack Kerouac
- Not a book, but one of my recommendation is reading history about a place/region when Iâm visiting that area. Very slow travel helps here.
Mimesis, Society & Culture
- Wanting – Luke Burgis
- Everything by RenĂŠ Girard
- Interviews of Peter Theil (âTheil talksâ on Spotify)
- Finite and Infinite Games –Â James P. Carse
- Epsilon Theory start with âThings fall apartâ
- Power –Â Michel Foucault
- Maps of Meaning – Jordan Peterson
- The Prince – Niccolò Machiavelli
- Everything by Kafka
- The Fountainhead +Â Anthem + Atlas Shrugged – Ayn Rand
- The Jungle –Â Upton Sinclair
- The 48 Laws of Power – Robert Greene
- Sapiens – Yuval Noah Harris
- The Social Contract – Jean-Jacques Rousseau
- The Almanack of Naval Ravikant –Â Eric Jorgenson
- The Parasitic Mind – Gad Saad
- The Madness of Crowds – Douglas Murray
- The Anarchist Handbook – Michael Malice
- Profit over people – Noam Chomsky
Science Fiction
- After on – Rob Reid
- Remembrance of Earth’s Past (trilogy) – Liu Cixin
- The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (series) – Douglas Adams
- Year Zero –Â Robert Reid
- Snow Crash, Termination Shock, Seven Eves – Neal Stephenson
- Dune Series – Frank Herbert
Misc
- Surely youâre Joking, Mr. Feynman! – Richard Feynman
- No place to hide – Glen Greenwald
- Trust me Iâm lying – Ryan Holiday
- Extreme Ownership – Jocko Willink
- 12 rules for life – Jordan Peterson
- Principals – Ray Dalio
- Thinking Fast and Slow – Daniel Kahneman
- Unsettled – Steven Koonin
- Mastery – Robert Greene
- Emergency – Neil Strauss
- A Hunter-Gatherer’s Guide to the 21st Century – Bret Weinstein and Heather Heying
- The beginning of infinity – David Deutsch
- The art of learning – Josh Waitzkin
- The Rational Optimist – Matt Ridley
- Factfulness – Hans Rosling
- What I believe – Bertrand Russel
- The art of war – Sun Tzu
Updated Whenever I think of/read something interesting.

Nice list of books. I have a read a few and will do some from this list. Thank you for the recommendation.