Bookshelf

"I always enjoy reading others' lists and browsing their bookshelves, so this intended to be a digital version of that. I've only read about half of the books here. (I guess I fall somewhere in the middle in the Umberto Eco theory of the library.)" — Patrick Collison

• Of Mice and Men — John Steinbeck
• To Live — Yu Hua
• The Obstacle Is the Way — Ryan Holiday
• The Second World War — Antony Beevor
• Intern: A Doctor's Initiation — Sandeep Jauhar
• Slaughterhouse-Five — Kurt Vonnegut
• Prozac Nation — Elizabeth Wurtzel
• An Unquiet Mind — Kay Redfield Jamison
• Water Margin — Shi Nai'an
• The Age of AI — Henry Kissinger, Eric Schmidt, and Daniel Huttenlocher
• Mind Over Mood — Dennis Greenberger and Christine Padesky
• The Brain That Changes Itself — Norman Doidge
• Unaccountable: What Hospitals Won't Tell You and How Transparency Can Revolutionize Health Care — Marty Makary
• This Changes Everything — Naomi Klein
• The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People — Stephen Covey
• A New Earth — Eckhart Tolle
• Musashi — Eiji Yoshikawa
• The Art of Thinking Clearly — Rolf Dobelli
• Insanely Simple — Ken Segall
• The Myth of Sisyphus — Albert Camus
• Digital Minimalism — Cal Newport
• Predictably Irrational — Dan Ariely
• How to Avoid a Climate Disaster — Bill Gates
• The Book of Joy — Dalai Lama and Desmond Tutu
• Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945 — Tony Judt
• The Innovation Secrets of Steve Jobs — Carmine Gallo
• The How of Happiness — Sonja Lyubomirsky
• The Male Brain: A Breakthrough Understanding of How Men and Boys Think — Louann Brizendine
• Bloodlands — Timothy Snyder
• The Scholars — Wu Jingzi
• The Internet Con — Cory Doctorow
• The Undercover Economist — Tim Harford
• The Untethered Soul — Michael Singer
• Siddhartha — Hermann Hesse
• Getting Things Done — David Allen
• Under the Skin: The Hidden Toll of Racism on American Lives and on the Health of Our Nation — Linda Villarosa
• Band of Brothers — Stephen Ambrose
• Doctored: The Disillusionment of an American Physician — Sandeep Jauhar
• The Foundation Trilogy (Foundation, #1-3) — Isaac Asimov
• Diary of a Madman — Lu Xun
• Guns, Germs, and Steel — Jared Diamond
• The Master Algorithm — Pedro Domingos
• The Happiness Hypothesis — Jonathan Haidt
• Journey to the West — Wu Cheng'en
• Superintelligence — Nick Bostrom
• 1984 — George Orwell
• The Odyssey — Homer
• The Future of Medicine: How We Will Enjoy Longer, Healthier Lives — James Temperton
• The Bomber Mafia — Malcolm Gladwell
• The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity — David Graeber
• Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future — Peter Thiel
• Chip War — Chris Miller
• Flow — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
• Algorithms to Live By: The Computer Science of Human Decisions — Brian Christian
• The Uninhabitable Earth — David Wallace-Wells
• Autobiography of a Yogi — Paramahansa Yogananda
• Thinking, Fast and Slow — Daniel Kahneman
• The Patient Will See You Now — Eric Topol
• The Plum in the Golden Vase — Lanling Xiaoxiao Sheng
• Human Compatible — Stuart Russell
• Authentic Happiness — Martin Seligman
• Lifespan: Why We Age — David Sinclair
• Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less — Greg McKeown
• Feeling Good — David Burns
• The Great Gatsby — F. Scott Fitzgerald
• Things Hidden Since the Foundation of the World — René Girard
• The Emperor of All Maladies — Siddhartha Mukherjee
• The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right — Atul Gawande
• When the Body Says No — Gabor Maté
• Fahrenheit 451 — Ray Bradbury
• The Aquariums of Pyongyang: Ten Years in the North Korean Gulag — Kang Chol-hwan
• Silent Spring — Rachel Carson
• The Wealth of Nations — Adam Smith
• How People Change — Allen Wheelis
• Elastic: Flexible Thinking in a Time of Change — Leonard Mlodinow
• Ordinary Men — Christopher Browning
• Why We Sleep — Matthew Walker
• The Digital Doctor: Hope, Hype, and Harm at the Dawn of Medicine's Computer Age — Robert M. Wachter
• Every Patient Tells a Story — Lisa Sanders
• Mountains Beyond Mountains — Tracy Kidder
• Daring Greatly — Brené Brown
• Life 3.0 — Max Tegmark
• Alone Together — Sherry Turkle
• Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio — Pu Songling
• Origins of the Modern Mind: Three Stages in the Evolution of Culture and Cognition — Merlin Donald
• Lost Connections — Johann Hari
• Counting Backward — Henry Jay Przybylo
• Red Flags — George Magnus
• Creative Selection — Ken Kocienda
• The Worm at the Core — Sheldon Solomon
• The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down — Anne Fadiman
• The Center Cannot Hold — Elyn Saks
• The Alignment Problem — Brian Christian
• Mortality — Christopher Hitchens
• Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind — Yuval Noah Harari
• How Doctors Think — Jerome Groopman
• A Guide to the Good Life — William B. Irvine
• The Innovator's Prescription — Clayton Christensen
• The Dispossessed — Ursula K. Le Guin
• The ONE Thing — Gary Keller
• The Design of Everyday Things — Don Norman
• Thus Spoke Zarathustra — Friedrich Nietzsche
• The Denial of Death — Ernest Becker
• When Things Fall Apart — Pema Chödrön
• The China Questions — Jennifer Rudolph and Michael Szonyi
• Complications: A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science — Atul Gawande
• The Investiture of the Gods — Xu Zhonglin
• Age of Ambition — Evan Osnos
• Make Time — Jake Knapp and John Zeratsky
• Attached — Amir Levine and Rachel Heller
• In the Garden of Beasts — Erik Larson
• Ikigai: The Japanese Secret to a Long and Happy Life — Héctor García and Francesc Miralles
• The Picture of Dorian Gray — Oscar Wilde
• In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts — Gabor Maté
• On China — Henry Kissinger
• The Holocaust: A New History — Laurence Rees
• The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying — Sogyal Rinpoche
• The Long Game — Rush Doshi
• Capital in the Twenty-First Century — Thomas Piketty
• Machines of Loving Grace — John Markoff
• Tao Te Ching — Laozi
• On the Shortness of Life — Seneca
• The Alchemist — Paulo Coelho
• An American Sickness: How Healthcare Became Big Business and How You Can Take It Back — Elisabeth Rosenthal
• The Rise and Fall of American Growth: The U.S. Standard of Living since the Civil War — Robert J. Gordon
• The Power of Habit — Charles Duhigg
• Galenism: Rise and decline of a medical philosophy — Owsei Temkin
• The Power of Now — Eckhart Tolle
• The Book of Symbols: Reflections on Archetypal Images — Ami Ronnberg
• Bad Blood — John Carreyrou
• Never Split the Difference: Negotiating As If Your Life Depended On It — Chris Voss
• The Art of War — Sun Tzu
• The Ministry for the Future — Kim Stanley Robinson
• The Molecule of More — Daniel Z. Lieberman
• Atomic Habits — James Clear
• If the Universe Is Teeming with Aliens ... WHERE IS EVERYBODY?: Fifty Solutions to the Fermi Paradox and the Problem of Extraterrestrial Life — Stephen Webb
• When: The Scientific Secrets of Perfect Timing — Daniel Pink
• The Story of the Stone, or The Dream of the Red Chamber, Vol. 1: The Golden Days — Cao Xueqin
• Steppenwolf — Hermann Hesse
• Die Wise — Stephen Jenkinson
• The Book of Songs — Various
• Done Deals: Venture Capitalists Tell Their Stories — Udayan Gupta
• What Doctors Feel — Danielle Ofri
• Romance of the Three Kingdoms — Luo Guanzhong
• The Hot Zone: The Terrifying True Story of the Origins of the Ebola Virus — Richard Preston
• Maybe You Should Talk to Someone — Lori Gottlieb
• The Paradox of Choice — Barry Schwartz
• The Noonday Demon — Andrew Solomon
• The Party — Richard McGregor
• The Man Who Mistook his Wife For A Hat — Oliver Sacks
• Meditations — Marcus Aurelius
• Steve Jobs — Walter Isaacson
• Empowered: Ordinary People, Extraordinary Products — Marty Cagan
• Man's Search for Meaning — Viktor Frankl
• Justice: What's the Right Thing to Do? — Michael J. Sandel
• The Creative Destruction of Medicine — Eric Topol
• The Death of Ivan Ilyich — Leo Tolstoy
• Indistractable — Nir Eyal
• The Selfish Gene — Richard Dawkins
• Spark: The Revolutionary New Science of Exercise and the Brain — John Ratey
• Why Information Grows: The Evolution of Order, from Atoms to Economies — Cesar A. Hidalgo
• Lives of the Stoics — Ryan Holiday and Stephen Hanselman
• Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World — Cal Newport
• The Gifts of Imperfection — Brené Brown
• The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up — Marie Kondo
• The Laws of Medicine — Siddhartha Mukherjee
• Misbehaving: The Making of Behavioral Economics — Richard Thaler
• The Stranger — Albert Camus
• The Inner Citadel — Pierre Hadot
• Why Buddhism Is True: The Science and Philosophy of Meditation and Enlightenment — Robert Wright
• The 4-Hour Workweek — Tim Ferriss
• Nudge — Richard Thaler and Cass Sunstein
• Outlive: The Science and Art of Longevity — Peter Attia
• How Not to Die — Michael Greger
• When Breath Becomes Air — Paul Kalanithi
• Jony Ive — Leander Kahney
• Staring at the Sun: Overcoming the Terror of Death — Irvin Yalom
• A World Without Email — Cal Newport
• Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End — Atul Gawande
• The Metamorphosis — Franz Kafka
• On Intelligence — Jeff Hawkins
• Weapons of Math Destruction — Cathy O'Neil
• A Brief History of Thought — Luc Ferry
• The Third Revolution — Elizabeth Economy
• Stumbling on Happiness — Daniel Gilbert
• The Divided Self — R.D. Laing
• The Body Keeps the Score — Bessel van der Kolk
• The Red Book: Liber Novus — Carl Jung
• Destined for War — Graham Allison
• The Organized Mind — Daniel Levitin
• Asia's Reckoning — Richard McGregor
• Leviathan and Its Enemies: Mass Organization and Managerial Power in Twentieth-Century America — Samuel T. Francis
• The Daily Stoic — Ryan Holiday
• The Price We Pay — Marty Makary
• Industrial Society and Its Future — Theodore John Kaczynski
• The Avoidable War — Kevin Rudd
• The Sixth Extinction — Elizabeth Kolbert
• Better: A Surgeon's Notes on Performance — Atul Gawande
• Outliers: The Story of Success — Malcolm Gladwell
• The House of God — Samuel Shem
• Zhuangzi — Zhuang Zhou
• Remembering Wholeness: A Personal Handbook for Thriving in the 21st Century — Carol Tuttle
• The Nurture Assumption: Why Children Turn Out the Way They Do — Judith Rich Harris
• All Tomorrows: The Myriad Species and Mixed Fortunes of Man — Nemo Ramjet
• Animal Farm — George Orwell
• You Are Not a Gadget — Jaron Lanier
• Final Exam: A Surgeon's Reflections on Mortality — Pauline Chen
• Brave New World — Aldous Huxley
• The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich — William L. Shirer
• The Second Machine Age — Erik Brynjolfsson and Andrew McAfee
• The Old Man and the Sea — Ernest Hemingway
• In Shock — Rana Awdish
• Angel Investing: The Gust Guide to Making Money & Having Fun Investing in Startups — David S. Rose
• How Judges Think — Richard A. Posner
• Redefining Health Care — Michael Porter and Elizabeth Teisberg
• The Four Agreements — Don Miguel Ruiz
• All the Light We Cannot See — Anthony Doerr
• How We Die — Sherwin Nuland
• The Song of the Cell — Siddhartha Mukherjee
• Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything — Steven D. Levitt
• Poor Economics — Abhijit Banerjee and Esther Duflo
• Case in Point 5: Complete Case Interview Preparation — Marc P. Cosentino
• Dictator's Handbook: A Practical Manual for the Aspiring Tyrant — Randall Wood
• The Bullet Journal Method — Ryder Carroll
• Atlas Shrugged — Ayn Rand
• AI Superpowers — Kai-Fu Lee