Books

Last Updated on June 13, 2022

I’ve a habit of going on a purge. Every couple of months/weeks I purge different aspects of my life.

Deleting all my notes, contacts, email accounts, bookmarks, social media accounts, conversations between friends and even reseting my devices.

In the purging of my bookmarks over the past years, only 1 survived the multiple purges.

Jordan Peterson’s List of Great Books

The above fact is why decided to make the below list along with sharing Jordan’s list.

1. Think of my subcategories like Finance and Travel as “popcorn” books to reading Solzhenitsyn, Huxley and Dostoevsky for when you need a relatively “lighter” read.
2. 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.

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

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. Everything by Allen Farrington (Start with Wittgenstein’s Money or listen to it)
10. 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. Making Sense – Sam Harris
6. Waking up – Sam Harris
7. The obstacle is the way & Ego is the enemy – Ryan Holiday
8. Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance – Robert M. Pirsig
9. Man’s Search for Meaning – Viktor Frankl
10. The doors of perception – Aldous Huxley

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. Finite and Infinite Games – James P. Carse
5. Epsilon Theory start with “Things fall apart”
6. Power – Michel Foucault
7. Maps of Meaning – Jordan Peterson
8. The Prince – Niccolò Machiavelli
9. Everything by Kafka
10. The Fountainhead + Anthem + Atlas Shrugged – Ayn Rand
11. The Jungle – Upton Sinclair
12. The 48 Laws of Power – Robert Greene
13. Sapiens – Yuval Noah Harris
14. The Social Contract – Jean-Jacques Rousseau
15. The Almanack of Naval Ravikant – Eric Jorgenson
16. The Parasitic Mind – Gad Saad
17. The Madness of Crowds – Douglas Murray
18. The Anarchist Handbook – Michael Malice
19. Profit over people – Noam Chomsky

Science 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 – Neal Stephenson

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

Updated Whenever I think of/read something interesting.