This page is to share the books I am currenlty reading and those that I've previously read.
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Books
2025 and Earlier
| Title | Author | Year | Genre | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Barbarians At The Gate | Bryan Burrough and John Heylar | 1989 | Non-Fiction | Strongly Recommend |
| Shantaram | Gregory David Roberts | 2003 | Fiction | Strongly Recommend |
| Against The Gods: The Remarkable Story About Risk | Peter L. Bernstein | 1996 | Non-Fiction | Strongly Recommend |
| Lincoln the Unknown | Dale Carnegie | 1932 | Non-Fiction | Worth Your Time |
| When Breath Becomes Air | Paul Kalanithi | 2016 | Non-Fiction | Strongly Recommend |
| A Wealth of Common Sense | Ben Carlson | 2015 | Non-Fiction | Strongly Recommend |
| This Time is Different | Carmen M. Reinhart and Kenneth S. Rogoff | 2009 | Non-Fiction | Worth Your Time |
| SuperFreakonomics | Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner | 2009 | Non-Fiction | Worth Your Time |
| Thinking, Fast and Slow | Daniel Kahneman | 2011 | Non-Fiction | Strongly Recommend |
| The Big Short | Michael Lewis | 2010 | Non-Fiction | Strongly Recommend |
| How I Invest My Money: Finance experts reveal how they save, spend and invest | Joshua Brown and Brian Portnoy | 2020 | Non-Fiction | Strongly Recommend |
| The Last Lecture | Randy Pausch with Jeffery Zaslow | 2008 | Non-Fiction | Strongly Recommend |
| The Body: A Guide for Occupants | Bill Bryson | 2019 | Non-Fiction | Strongly Recommend |
| The Invention of Nature: Alexander von Humboldt’s New World | Andrea Wulf | 2015 | Non-Fiction | Worth Your Time |
| Submission | Michel Houellebecq | 2015 | Fiction | Worth Your Time |
| Sapiens | Yuval Noah Harari | 2011 | Non-Fiction | Strongly Recommend |
| Insomniac City: New York, Oliver, and Me | Bill Hayes | 2017 | Non-Fiction | Strongly Recommend |
| The Sweetness At The Bottom of the Pies | Alan Bradley | 2009 | Fiction | Worth Your Time |
| Wanting: The Power of Mimetic Desire in Everyday Life | Luke Burgis | 2021 | Non-Fiction | Strongly Recommend |
| The New Paradign for Financial Markets | George Soros | 2008 | Non-Fiction | Worth Your Time |
| Too Big to Fail | Andrew Ross Sorkin | 2009 | Non-Fiction | Strongly Recommend |
| Stuff You Should Know: An Incomplete Compendium of Mostly Interesting Things | Josh Clark and Chuck Bryant | 2020 | Non-Fiction | Worth Your Time |
| Dopesick | Beth Macy | 2018 | Non-Fiction | Strongly Recommend |
| Be Water My Friend – Teachings of Bruce Lee | Shannon Lee | 2020 | Non-Fiction | Worth Your Time |
| The Premonition | Michael Lewis | 2021 | Non-Fiction | Strongly Recommend |
| To Kill a Mockingbird | Harper Lee | 1960 | Fiction | Strongly Recommend |
| The Fifth Risk | Michael Lewis | 2018 | Non-Fiction | Strongly Recommend |
| The Price of Peace | Zachary Carter | 2020 | Non-Fiction | Strongly Recommend |
| Recollections of My Nonexistence | Rebecca Solnit | 2021 | Non-Fiction | Worth Your Time |
| The End is Always Near | Dan Carlin | 2019 | Non-Fiction | Worth Your Time |
| Everything You Need To Know About Saving For Retirement | Ben Carlson | 2020 | Non-Fiction | Strongly Recommend |
| The Botany of Desire | Michael Pollen | 2001 | Non-Fiction | Strongly Recommend |
| Brain On Fire: My Month of Madness | Susannah Cahalan | 2012 | Non-Fiction | Strongly Recommend |
| April, 1865: The Month That Saved America | Jay Winik | 2001 | Non-Fiction | Worth Your Time |
| Say Yes to Life, In Spite of Everything | Victor Frankl | 2020 | Non-Fiction | Worth Your Time |
| Why Fish Don't Exist | Lulu Miller | 2020 | Non-Fiction | Strongly Recommend |
| Black Hole Survival Guide | Jenna Levin | 2022 | Non-Fiction | Worth Your Time |
| The End of Wall Street | Roger Lowenstein | 2010 | Non-Fiction | Strongly Recommend |
| Portrait of a Killer, Jack the Ripper, Case Closed | Patricia Cornwell | 2002 | Non-Fiction | Strongly Recommend |
| Red Notice | Bill Browder | 2015 | Non-Fiction | Worth Your Time |
| Useful Delusions: The Power and Paradox of the Self-Deceiving Brain | Shankar Vedantam and Bill Mesler | 2021 | Non-Fiction | Worth Your Time |
| How We Got To Now | Stephen Johnson | 2015 | Non-Fiction | Strongly Recommend |
| Die With Zero | Bill Perkins | 2020 | Non-Fiction | Strongly Recommend |
| Cadillac Desert | Marc Reinsner | 1986 | Non-Fiction | Strongly Recommend |
| The Silk Roads: A New History of the World | Peter Frankopan, Laurence Kennedy, et al. | 2015 | Non-Fiction | Strongly Recommend |
| Slouching Towards Utopia: An Economic History of the Twentieth Century | J. Bradford DeLong | 2022 | Non-Fiction | Strongly Recommend |
| Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents | Isabel Wilkerson | 2020 | Non-Fiction | Strongly Recommend |
| The Delusions of Crowds | William Bernstein | 2021 | Non-Fiction | Strongly Recommend |
| Crashing Through: The Extraordinary True Story of the Man Who Dared to See | Robert Kurson | 2008 | Non-Fiction | Worth Your Time |
| Meditations - Translated by Gregory Hays | Marcus Aurelius | 2025 | Non-Fiction | Strongly Recommend |
| The Odyssey | Homer | 1616 | Fiction | Strongly Recommend |