Books

Last Updated on December 4, 2022

5 years ago was the first time someone told me that I should write a book, I smiled 😊

I thought about it and by the time the 5th person said it I replied, “if I spend 2 years looking for a book on a subject and I can’t find it, only then will I even think about starting a book”.

So far, not happened yet.

So no, this isn’t a list of ‘my books’ I’m sorry to disappoint you if that’s what you were looking for. But hey, my articles are almost the size of books so I doubt you’re disappointed.

Instead it’s books a a variety of topics I like I think people should read.

Note: Many of the books have contradicting ideas. Just because it’s in the list doesn’t mean that I agree with the message in the book. Read and understand ideas even if you don’t agree with them.

And a youtube summary =/ reading the book, neither is a blogpost. Stop having the attention span of a 5 year old. (Go off the internet for a week to reset your attention span if you need to)

However certain books are easier on Audiobook vs physical. I‘m okay with sci fiction/lite/newer books on Audiobook but literature & foundational books as physical or ebooks.

Side note: Buying on Amazon? Using my affiliate link if you want, I earn a few % and it costs the same for you. Amazon.com

Finance, Work & Macro

1. Rich dad poor dad – Robert Kiyosaki
2. 4 hour work week – Tim Ferris
3. Atomic Habits – James Clear
4. The Dao of Capital – Mark Spitznagel
5. Free Capital – Guy Thomas
6. The hard things about hard things – Ben Horowitz
7. Make Book – Levelsio
8. Incerto collection (4 books) – Nassim Nicholas Taleb
9. Perennial Seller – Ryan Holiday
10. Big Debt Crisis – Ray Dalio
11. When Money Dies – Adam Fergusson
12. Fed Up – Danielle DiMartino Booth
13. The Most Important Thing – Howard Marks
14. The Fourth Turning – Neil Howe and William Strauss
15. Human Action – Ludwig von Mises
16. Confessions of an Economic Hit Man – John Perkins

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.

It’s much easier to read a book a week if you have a “4 hour work week” vs if you have a 40+ hour work week running a rat race barely getting by.

Crypto

1. Price of Tomorrow- Jeff Booth
2. Sovereign Individual – James Dale Davison
3. Bitcoin Standard – Saifdean Ammous
4. The Blocksize War – Jonathan Bier
5. Layered Money – Nik Bhatia
6. The Infinite Machine – Camila Russo
7. Mastering Bitcoin – Andreas Antonopoulos
8. The Fiat Standard- Saifdean Ammous
9. Kings of Crypto – Jeff John Roberts
10. The Cryptopians – Laura Shin
11. The Nework State – Balaji Srinivasan
12. Everything by Allen Farrington (Start with Wittgenstein’s Money or listen to it)
13. Everything by Arthur Hayes (Start with Pumping Iron or Listen to it)

Peace

1. Siddhartha – Hermann Hesse
2. Enlightenment Trilogy (3 books) – Jed McKenna
3. The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius
4. Letters from a Stoic – Seneca
5. The Book of Life by J. Krishnamurti
6. Waking up, Making Sense – Sam Harris
7. The obstacle is the way & Ego is the enemy – Ryan Holiday
8. Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, Lila – Robert M. Pirsig
9. Man’s Search for Meaning – Viktor Frankl
10. The doors of perception – Aldous Huxley
11. Lost Connections – Johann Hari

War

1. The Accidental Superpower + The Absent Superpower + Disunited Nations – Peter Zeihan
2. Changing World Order – Ray Dalio
3. Jason Lowry on “what is money” podcast

Literature/Philosophy

1. Bulgakov, Mikhail: The Master and Margarita
2. Dostoevesky, Fyodor: Crime and Punishment
3. Dostoevesky, Fyodor: Notes from Underground
4. Dostoevesky, Fyodor: The Brothers Karamazov
5. Dostoevesky, Fyodor: The Idiot
6. Dostoevesky, Fyodor: Demons/The Devils
7. Dostoevesky, Fyodor: Poor Folk
8. Dostoevesky, Fyodor: The Eternal Husband
9. Huxley, Aldous: Brave New World
10. Lee, Harper: To Kill a Mockingbird
11. Nietzsche, Friedrich: Beyond Good and Evil
12. Orwell, George: 1984
13. Orwell, George: Animal Farm
14. Solzhenitsyn, Aleksandr: Cancer Ward
15. Solzhenitsyn, Aleksandr: One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
16. Solzhenitsyn, Aleksandr: The Gulag Archipelago
17. Steinbeck, John: The Grapes of Wrath
18. Steinbeck, John: Of Men and Mice
19. Tolstoy, Leo: Anna Karenina
20. Tolstoy, Leo: War and Peace

Travel

1. The Alchemist – Paulo Coelho
2. Into the Wild – Jon Krakauer
3. Vagabonding – Rolf Potts
4. A Walk in the Woods – Bill Bryson
5. On the Road – Jack Kerouac
6. Not a book, but one of my recommendation is reading history about a place/region when I’m visiting that area. Very slow travel helps here.

Mimesis, Society & Culture

1. Wanting – Luke Burgis
2. Everything by René Girard
3. Interviews of Peter Theil (‘Theil talks’ on Spotify)
4. Jonathan at Limbo
5. Finite and Infinite Games – James P. Carse
6. Epsilon Theory start with “Things fall apart”
7. Michel Foucault’s work on Power
8. Maps of Meaning – Jordan Peterson
9. The Prince – Niccolò Machiavelli
10. Everything by Kafka
11. The Fountainhead + Anthem + Atlas Shrugged – Ayn Rand
12. The Jungle – Upton Sinclair
13. The 48 Laws of Power – Robert Greene
14. Sapiens – Yuval Noah Harris
15. The Social Contract – Jean-Jacques Rousseau
16. The Almanack of Naval Ravikant – Eric Jorgenson
17. The Parasitic Mind – Gad Saad
18. The Madness of Crowds – Douglas Murray
19. The Anarchist Handbook – Michael Malice
20. Everything by Noam Chomsky
21. Everything by David Graeber
22. The Righteous Mind – Jonathan Haidt
23. The Gray Lady Winked – Ashley Rindsberg
24. The Journalist And The Murderer – Janet Malcolm, Ian Jack

Sci-fi & Gen Fiction

1. After on – Rob Reid
2. Remembrance of Earth’s Past (trilogy) – Liu Cixin
3. The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (series) – Douglas Adams
4. Year Zero – Robert Reid
5. Snow Crash, Termination Shock, Seven Eves – Neal Stephenson
6. Dune Series – Frank Herbert
7. Foundation Series – Isaac Asimov
8. Project Hail Mary – Andy Weir
9. Sandman Series, Graveyard book – by Neil Gaimen
10. Midnight’s Children – Salman Rushdie
11. Children of Time Series – Adrian Tchaikovsky

Misc

1. Surely you’re Joking, Mr. Feynman! – Richard Feynman
2. No place to hide – Glen Greenwald
3. Trust me I’m lying – Ryan Holiday
4. Extreme Ownership – Jocko Willink
5. 12 rules for life – Jordan Peterson
6. Principals – Ray Dalio
7. Thinking Fast and Slow – Daniel Kahneman
8. Unsettled – Steven Koonin
9. Mastery – Robert Greene
10. Emergency – Neil Strauss
11. A Hunter-Gatherer’s Guide to the 21st Century – Bret Weinstein and Heather Heying
12. The beginning of infinity – David Deutsch
13. The art of learning – Josh Waitzkin
14. The Rational Optimist – Matt Ridley
15. Factfulness – Hans Rosling
16. What I believe – Bertrand Russel
17. The art of war – Sun Tzu
18. This is how they tell me the world ends – Nicole Perlroth
19. Make Something Up – Chuck Palahniuk

Updated Whenever I think of/read something interesting.