Here are the books I've read or listened to recently. Most books were good. Some were great. Few were exceptional. 

Please send me recommendations; my antilibrary is too small. 

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2025

1. Addiction by Design: Machine Gambling in Las Vegas by Natasha Schüll (kindle)

2. The Works of Julius Caesar: The Gallic Wars by Julius Caesar (audible)

3. Creativity: The Psychology of Discovery and Invention by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi (audible)

4. Thinking in Systems by Donella Meadows (physical)

5. Trump: The Art of the Deal by Donald Trump and Tony Schwartz (audible)

6. The Art of Learning by Josh Waitzkin (audible)

7. Hillbilly Elegy by JD Vance (audible)

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2024

1. The Life of Greece: A History of Greek Civilization from the Beginnings, and of Civilization in the Near East from the Death of Alexander, to the Roman Conquest by Will Durant (physical)

2. Deep Work: Rules for Focussed Success in a Distracted World by Cal Newport (physical)

3. Saudi, Inc.: The Arabian Kingdom's Pursuit of Profit and Power by Ellen R Ward (physical)

4. Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi (audible)

5. The Facebook Effect by David Kirkpatrick (physical)

6. More Money Than God: Hedge Funds and the Making of a New Elite by Sebastian Mallaby (physical)

7. Choose Your Enemies Wisely by Patrick Bet-David (audible)

8. Hatching Twitter: A True Story of Money, Power, Friendship, and Betrayal by Nick Bilton (physical)

9. A Short History of Financial Euphoria by John Kenneth Galbraith (physical)

10. Going Infinite by Michael Lewis (kindle)

11. Hit Refresh: The Quest to Rediscover Microsoft’s Soul and Imagine a Better Future for Everyone by Satya Nadella (physical)

12. The Four Agreements by Don Miguel Ruiz (audiobook)

13. Liar's Poker by Michael Lewis (audiobook)

14. How to Use Your Enemies by Baltasar Gracián (physical)

15. Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance by Angela Duckworth (audiobook)

16. Mastery by Robert Greene (physical)

17. The 48 Laws of Power by Robert Greene (physical)

18. The Evolution of Civilizations: An Introduction to Historical Analysis by Carroll Quigley (physical)

19. The Search: How Google and Its Rivals Rewrote the Rules of Business and Transformed Our Culture by John Battelle (audiobook)

20. The Score Takes Care of Itself: My Philosophy on Leadership by Bill Walsh (physical)

21. The Creative Act: A Way of Being by Rick Rubin (audiobook)

22. Believe in People: Bottom-Up Solutions for a Top-Down World by Brian Hooks and Charles Koch

23. Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business by Neil Postman (physical)

24. Anything You Want by Derek Sivers  (physical)

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2023

1. The Upside of Stress by Kelly McGonigal (physical)

2. Empire: The Rise and Demise of the British World Order and the Lessons for Global Power by Niall Ferguson (audiobook)

3. Viral Loop by Adam L. Penenberg (physical)

4. Merchant Kings by Stephen R. Brown (kindle)

5. Boron Letters by Bond Halbert and Gary Halbert (kindle)

6. Breakthrough Copywriting by David Garfinkel (kindle)

7. Super Founders by Ali Tamaseb (audiobook)

8. George Washington by Paul Johnson (physical)

9. Churchill by Paul Johnson (kindle)

10. Elon Musk by Walter Isaacson (physical)

11. On Writing by Stephen King (physical)

12. The Mythical Man-Month by Fred Brooks (physical)

13. I See Satan Fall Like Lightning by René Girard (physical)

14. The 50th Law by Robert Greene (physical)

15. Psycho-Cybernetics by Maxwell Maltz (physical)

16. Napoleon: A Concise Biography by David Bell (audiobook)

17. Power vs Force by David Hawkins (physical)

18. Inbound Marketing by Brian Halligan and Dharmesh Shah, Co Founders of Hubspot (physical)

19. The Undercover Economist by Tim Hartford (audiobook)

20. Web3 Marketing by Amanda Cassatt (audiobook)

21. It Doesn’t Have to Be Crazy at Work by David Heinemeier Hansson and Jason Fried (kindle)

22. Remote: Office Not Required by Jason Fried and David Heinemeier Hansson (kindle)

23. High Output Management by Andy Grove (physical)

24. What Every Body is saying by Joe Navarro and Marvin Karlins (physical)

25. Feeling is the Secret by Neville Goddard (audiobook)

26. Influence by Robert Cialdini (audiobook)

27. Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die by Chip Heath and Dan Heath (audiobook)

28. Hooked by Nir Eyal (physical)

29. Bloomberg by Michael Bloomberg (kindle)

30. The Power of Habit by Charles Duhigg (audiobook)

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2022

1. Invested by Charles Schwab (physical)

2. Mastery by Robert Greene (audiobook)

3. Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World by David Epstein (audiobook)

4. Proof of Stake: The Making of Ethereum and the Philosophy of Blockchains by Nathan Schneider and Vitalik Buterin (physical)

5. Debt: The First 5000 years by David Graeber (physical)

6. The Mom Test: How to talk to customers by Robert Fitzpatrick (physical)

7. How to Own Your Own Mind by Napoleon Hill (audiobook)

8. Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap...And Others Don't by Jim Collins (physical)

9. Open: An Autobiography by Andre Agassi (audiobook)

10. Becoming Supernatural by Joe Dispenza (physical)

11. The Laws of Human Nature by Robert Greene (audiobook)

12. How to Turn Down a Billion Dollars: The Snapchat Story by Billy Gallagher (physical)

13. Build: An Unorthodox Guide to Making Things Worth Making by Tony Fadell (physical)

14. The Visual Display of Quantitative Information by Edward Tufte (physical)

15. Dune by Frank Herbert (audiobook)

16. The Innovator's Dilemma by Clayton M. Christensen (physical)

17. The Defining Decade: Why Your Twenties Matter and How to Make the Most of Them Now by Meg Jay (kindle)

18. Allen Carr's Quit Drinking Without Willpower (kindle)

19. The Bitcoin Standard: The Decentralized Alternative to Central Banking by Saifidean Ammous (physical)

20. The Infinite Game by Simon Sinek (physical)

21. The Medici: Power, Money, and Ambition in the Italian Renaissance by Paul Strathern (audiobook)

22. The Mystery of Capital: Why Capitalism Triumphs in the West and Fails Everywhere Else by Hernando De Soto (kindle)

23. The Virgin Way by Richard Branson (audiobook)

24. A Guide to the Good Life: The Ancient Art of Stoic Joy by William B. Irvine (audiobook)

25. The Founders: The Story of Paypal and the Entrepreneurs Who Shaped Silicon Valley by Jimmy Soni (kindle)

26. Invention:  A life by James Dyson (audiobook)

27. 100m Offers by Alex Hormozi (kindle)

28. The Bullish Case for Bitcoin by Vijay Boyapati

29. Envisioning Information by Edward Tufte (physical)

30. The Cold Start Problem: How to Start and Scale Network Effects by Andrew Chen (audiobook)

31. Early Austrian Economics by Louis Rukeyser (audiobook)

32. Principles for Dealing with the Changing World Order: Why Nations Succeed and Fail by Ray Dalio (audiobook)

33. Flash Boys: A Wall Street Revolt by Michael Lewis (kindle)

34. Wanting: The Power of Mimetic Desire in Everyday Life by Luke Burgis (kindle)                                 

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2021

1. The Art of Thinking Clearly by Rolf Dobelli

2. The Ascent of Money by Niall Ferguson

3. Recruiting by Ryan Breslow

4. The Master Switch: The Rise and Fall of Information Empires by Tim Wu

5. Caesar and Christ: The Story of Civilization, Volume 3 by Will Durant

6. Courage to be Disliked by Fumitake Koga and Ichiro Kishimi

7. The Square and the Tower: Networks and Power, from the Freemasons to Facebook by Niall Ferguson

8. Fundraising by Ryan Breslow

9. Blitzscaling: The Lightning-Fast Path to Building Massively Valuable Companies by Reid Hoffman

10. Before the Industrial Revolution: European Society and Economy, 1000-1700 Part II by Carlo M. Cipolla

11. Liberty and Property by Ludwig Von Mises

12. The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin

13. Life After Google: The Fall of Big Data and the Rise of the Blockchain Economy by George Gilder

14. River Out of Eden: A Darwinian View of Life by Richard Dawkins

15. Principles: Life and Work by Ray Dalio

16. Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare

17. Originals: How Non-Conformists Move the World by Adam Grant

18. What It Takes: Lessons in the Pursuit of Excellence by Stephen A. Schwarzman

19. The Man Who Solved the Market: How Jim Simons Launched the Quant Revolution by Gregory Zuckerman

20. Power Moves: Lessons from Davos by Adam Grant

21. The Story of Civilization VII: The Age of Reason by Will Durant 

22. The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka

23. The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand

24. Fallen Leaves: Last Words on Life, Love, War, and God by Will Durant

25. The Dip by Seth Godin

26. The Way to Wealth by Benjamin Franklin

27. Technological Revolutions and Financial Capital by Carlota Perez

28. The House of Morgan: An American Banking Dynasty and the Rise of Modern Finance by Ron Chernow

29. The Psychology of Money by Morgan Housel

30. TAPE SUCKS: Inside Data Domain, A Silicon Valley Growth Story by Frank Slootman

31. The Greatest Minds and Ideas of All Time by Will Durant

32. Julius Caesar by Philip Freeman 

33. How Innovation Works: And Why It Flourishes in Freedom by Matt Ridley

34. #BreakIntoVC by Bradley Miles

35. Seven Brief Lessons on Physics by Carlo Rovelli

36. The Outsiders: Eight Unconventional CEOs and Their Radically Rational Blueprint for Success by William N. Thorndike

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2020

1. How the Internet Happened by Brian McCullough

2. The Lessons of History by Will and Ariel Durant

3. Bitcoin Billionaires by Ben Mezrich

4. As a Man Thinketh by James Allen

5. Who is Michael Ovitz? By Michael Ovitz

6. Leading by Sir Alex Ferguson and Michael Moritz

7. Napoleon by Vincent Cronin

8. Startupland by Mikkel Svane and Carlyle Adler

9. The Sovereign Individual by James Dale Davidson and Lord William Rees-Mogg

10. Becoming Steve Jobs: The Evolution of a Reckless Upstart into a Visionary Leader by Brent Schlender and Rick Tetzeli

11. The New New Thing by Michael Lewis

12. Founders at Work by Jessica Livngston

13. The Third Door by Alex Banayan

14. Genghiz Khan and the Making of the Modern World by Jack Weatherford

15. 4 Hour Work Week by Timothy Ferriss

16. Screw It Let's Do It by Richard Branson

17. Tools of Titans by Timothy Ferriss

18. Unlimited Power by Tony Robbins

19. Awaken the Giant Within by Tony Robbins

20. How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia by Mohsen Hamid

21. Rich Dad Poor Dad by Robert Kiyosaki 

22. Zen Mind: Beginner's Mind by Shunryu Suzuki

23. The Narrow Road by Felix Dennis

24. The Origins of Virtue by Matt Ridley

25. Decode and Conquer by Lewis C. Lin

26. Alibaba The House That Jack Ma Built by Duncan Clark

27. How to Win at the Sport of Business by Mark Cuban

28. Sam Walton by John Huey and Sam Walton

29. How Google Works by Eric Schmidt and Jonathan Rosenberg

30. Cracking the PM Intevrview by Gayle Laakman McDowell and Jackie Bravo

31. The Most Important Thing by Howard Marks

32. Secrets of Sandhill Road by Scott Kupor

33. Chaos Monkeys - Revised Edition: Obscene Fortune and Random Failure in Silicon Valley by Antonio Garcia Martinez

34. Fooled By Randomness by Nassim Nicholas Taleb

35. Good Profit by Charles Koch

36. An Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie and the Gospel of Wealth by Andrew Carnegie

37. Skin in the Game by Nassim Nicholas Taleb

38. The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon by Brad Stone

39. Anti Fragile by Nassim Nicholas Taleb

40. Autobiography of Nicola Tesla by Nicola Tesla

41. How to Get Rich by Felix Dennis

42. Black Swan by Nassim Nicholas Taleb

43. The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho

44. Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand
     

2019​​

1. The Design of Everyday Things by Donald A Normal

2. The Last Days of Night: A Novel by Graham Moore

3. Lee Kuan Yew: the grandmasters insights in China, the United States, and the world by Graham Allison

4. Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor E. Frankl

5. Einstein: His Life and Universe  by Sir Walter Isaacson

6. Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies by Nick Bostrom

7. The Hard Thing About Hard Things by Ben Horowitz

8. Surely You Are Joking Mr Feynman by Richard Feynman

9. The Evolution of Everything by Matt Ridley

10. Sex At Dawn: The Prehistoric Origins of Modern Sexuality by Christopher Ryan

11. Reboot: The Art of Leadership and Growing Up by Jerry Colonna 

12. Creativity, Inc by Ed Catmull

13. Meditations by Marcus Aurelius

14. Tao of Charlie Munger by David Clark

15. The Power of Now by Eckhart Tolle

16. Mindset: The new Psychology of Success by Carol S. Dweck

17. Mozart by Peter Gay

18. The Future is Asian by Parag Khanna

19. Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill

20. 7 Habits of Highly Effective People by Stephen R. Covey

21. Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacon

22. Rework by Jason Fried, David Heinemeier Hansson

​2018

1. Fear Part 1 by Bob Woodward

2. Leonardo Da Vinci by Sir Walter Isaacson

3. Benjamin Franklin: an American Life by Sir Walter Isaacson

4. Homo Deus by Yuval Noah Harrari

5. Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harrari

6. Shoe Dog: A Memoir by the Creator of NIKE by Phil Knight

7. Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future by Ashleey Vance

8. 12 Rules of Life by Jordan Peterson

9. You Only Have to Be Right Once: The Unprecedented Rise of the Instant Tech Billionaires Kindle Edition by Randall Lane

10. Becoming Ageless: The Four Secrets To Looking and Feeling Younger Than Ever by Strauss Zelnick

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