These are the best books I’ve read in the past 48 months.
Last updated: October 2020
- Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams – Matthew Walker
- Lifespan: Why We Age – and Why We Don’t Have To – David Sinclair
- The Desire for Infinite Growth – Daniel Cohen
- Between the World and Me – Ta-Nehisi Coates
- Cool: How the Brain’s Hidden Quest for Cool Drives Our Economy and Shapes Our World – Steven Quartz, Annette Asp
- Possible Minds: 25 Ways of Looking at AI – John Brockman
- Machine, Platform, Crowd: Harnessing Our Digital Future – Andrew McAfee, Erik Brynjolfsson
- Thank You for Being Late: An Optimist’s Guide to Thriving in the Age of Accelerations – Thomas Friedman
- Seven Brief Lessons on Physics – Carlo Rovelli
- Freakonomics– Stephen J. Dubner, Steven Levitt
- Think Like a Freak: The Authors of Freakonomics Offer to Retrain Your Brain – Stephen J. Dubner, Steven Levitt
- When to Rob a Bank…And 131 More Warped Suggestions and Well-Intended Rants – Stephen J. Dubner, Steven Levitt
- Red Notice: A True Story of High Finance, Murder, and One Man’s Fight for Justice – Bill Browder
- Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future – Ashlee Vance
- Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future – Peter Thiel, Blake Masters
- Shoe Dog – Phil Knight
- The Upstarts: How Uber, Airbnb, and the Killer Companies of the New Silicon Valley Are Changing the World – Brad Stone
- Delivering Happiness: A Path to Profits, Passion, and Purpose – Tony Hsieh
- Valley of the Gods: A Silicon Valley Story – Alexandra Wolfe
- Chaos Monkeys: Obscene Fortune and Random Failure in Silicon Valley – Antonio García Martínez
- Digital Gold: Bitcoin and the Inside Story of the Misfits and Millionaires Trying to Reinvent Money – Nathaniel Popper
- Know This: Today’s Most Interesting and Important Scientific Ideas, Discoveries, and Developments – John Brockman
- Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies – Jared Diamond
- The Givers: Wealth, Power, and Philanthropy in a New Gilded Age – David Callahan
- King Lear – William Shakespeare
- What I Talk About When I Talk About Running – Haruki Murakami
- The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle – Haruki Murakami
- Blood Meridian – Cormac McCarthy
- The Sunset Limited – Cormac McCarthy
- All the Pretty Horses – Cormac McCarthy
- The Road – Cormac McCarthy
- Medea– Euripides
- The Inferno of Dante – Dante Alighieri
- The Sun Also Rises – Ernest Hemingway
- The Undoing Project: A Friendship That Changed Our Minds – Michael Lewis
- Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity – Katherine Boo
- Paradise Lost (Books I,II,IX) – John Milton
- The Turn of the Screw – Henry James
- The Space Barons: Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, and the Quest to Colonize the Cosmos – Christian Davenport
- The Four: The Hidden DNA of Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Google – Scott Galloway
- The Algebra of Happiness – Scott Galloway
- Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies – Nick Bostrom
- Do Not Say We Have Nothing – Madeleine Thien
- The Inevitable – Kevin Kelly
- Honeybee – Naomi Shihab Nye
- Purgatorio– Dante Alighieri
- The Portal to the Mystery of Hope – Charles Péguy
- The Seventh Day – Yu Hua
- The Abundance – Annie Dillard
- On The Future – Martin Rees
- AI Superpowers: China, Silicon Valley, and the New World Order – Kai-Fu Lee
- Happiness and Contemplation – Josef Pieper
- The Soil – Nagatsuka Takashi
- Naomi – Junichiro Tanizaki
- China in Ten Words – Yu Hua