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books

the shelf.

Inspired by Patrick Collison's bookshelf, here's my own — books I own and have read. The ones marked with a ★ are ones I found particularly interesting.

A work in progress — I still need to get round to updating this and adding the rest of the books I have.

103 books

Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion by Robert B. Cialdini★
Stubborn Attachments: A Vision for a Prosperous Society and a Free and Responsible Individual by Tyler Cowen★
Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies by Nick Bostrom★
The Future of Capitalism: Facing the New Anxieties by Paul Collier★
You Only Have To Be Right Once: The Rise of the Instant Billionaires Behind Spotify, Airbnb, WhatsApp, and 13 Other Amazing Startups by Randall Lane★
A Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawking
Algorithms to Live By: The Computer Science of Human Decisions by Brian Christian
American Kingpin: The Epic Hunt for the Criminal Mastermind Behind the Silk Road by Nick Bilton
Are You Smart Enough to Work at Google? by William Poundstone
Awaken the Giant Within by Anthony Robbins
Bill Gates: The Life and Business Lessons of Bill Gates by George Ilian
Black Box Thinking: The Surprising Truth About Success by Matthew Syed
Black Hat Python: Python Programming for Hackers and Pentesters by Justin Seitz
Blockchain Revolution: How the Technology Behind Bitcoin and Other Cryptocurrencies is Changing the World by Don Tapscott
Capitalism Without Capital: The Rise of the Intangible Economy by Jonathan Haskel
Chaos Monkeys: Obscene Fortune and Random Failure in Silicon Valley by Antonio García Martínez
Computational Fairy Tales by Jeremy Kubica
Computer Science Distilled: Learn the Art of Solving Computational Problems by Wladston Ferreira Filho
Computing with Quantum Cats: From Colossus to Qubits by John Gribbin
Crush It!: Why Now Is the Time to Cash In on Your Passion by Gary Vaynerchuk
Crushing It!: How Great Entrepreneurs Build Their Business and Influence—and How You Can, Too by Gary Vaynerchuk
Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World by Cal Newport
Einstein: His Life and Universe by Walter Isaacson
Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future by Ashlee Vance
Emotional Intelligence: Why It Can Matter More Than IQ by Daniel Goleman
Entrepreneur: Jack Ma, Alibaba and the 40 Thieves of Success by Think Maverick
Essential Calculus: Early Transcendentals by James Stewart
Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions by Edwin A. Abbott
Founders at Work: Stories of Startups' Early Days by Jessica Livingston
Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything by Steven D. Levitt
Getting to Yes: Negotiating Agreement Without Giving In by Roger Fisher
Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap... and Others Don't by James C. Collins
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies by Jared Diamond
Hackers & Painters: Big Ideas from the Computer Age by Paul Graham
Hatching Twitter: A True Story of Money, Power, Friendship, and Betrayal by Nick Bilton
Homo Deus: A History of Tomorrow by Yuval Noah Harari
How Google Works by Eric Schmidt
How to Lie with Statistics by Darrell Huff
How to Think Like a Mathematician by Kevin Houston
How to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie
Hyperspace: A Scientific Odyssey through Parallel Universes, Time Warps and the Tenth Dimension by Michio Kaku
In Search of Schrödinger's Cat: Quantum Physics and Reality by John Gribbin
Introduction to Algorithms by Thomas H. Cormen
Life 3.0: Being Human in the Age of Artificial Intelligence by Max Tegmark
Linear Algebra: A Modern Introduction 4th Edition by David Poole
Machine Learning by Ethem Alpaydin
Medieval Technology and Social ChangeLynn Townsend White Jr.
Moneyland: Why Thieves and Crooks Now Rule the World and How To Take It Back by Oliver Bullough
Never Split the Difference: Negotiating as if Your Life Depended on It by Chris Voss
Other People's Money: The Real Business of Finance by John Kay
Outliers: The Story of Success by Malcolm Gladwell
Physics of the Impossible: A Scientific Exploration of the World of Phasers, Force Fields, Teleportation and Time Travel by Michio Kaku
Relativity: The Special and the General Theory by Albert Einstein
Rich Dad's Cashflow Quadrant: Rich Dad's Guide to Financial Freedom by Robert T. Kiyosaki
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari
Sceptical Essays by Bertrand Russell
Seven Brief Lessons on Physics by Carlo Rovelli
Shoe Dog: A Memoir by the Creator of NIKE by Phil Knight
Start with Why: How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone to Take Action by Simon Sinek
Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson
SuperFreakonomics: Bigger, Better and Freakier Ideas from a Rogue Economist by Steven D. Levitt
Talking to Strangers: What We Should Know About the People We Don’t Know by Malcolm Gladwell
The Accidental Billionaires: Sex, Money, Betrayal and the Founding of Facebook by Ben Mezrich
The Airbnb Story: Inside the company disrupting the world by Leigh Gallagher
The Art of Startup Fundraising by Alejandro Cremades
The Art of War. Sun Tzu by Sun Tzu
The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon by Brad Stone
The Facebook Effect: The Inside Story of the Company That Is Connecting the World by David Kirkpatrick
The Finance Book: Understand the Numbers Even If You're Not a Finance Professional by Stuart Warner
The Gene: An Intimate History by Siddhartha Mukherjee
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers by Ben Horowitz
The Headspace Guide to Meditation & Mindfulness by Andy Puddicombe
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, #1) by Douglas Adams
The Industries of the Future by Alec J. Ross
The Innovator’s Dilemma: When New Technologies Cause Great Firms to Fail by Clayton M. Christensen
The Lean Startup: How Today's Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses by Eric Ries
The Lessons of History by Will Durant
The Master Algorithm: How the Quest for the Ultimate Learning Machine Will Remake Our World by Pedro Domingos
The New Turing Omnibus: 66 Excursions In Computer Science by A.K. Dewdney
The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do and How to Change by Charles Duhigg
The Secret Barrister: Stories of the Law and How It's Broken by The Secret Barrister
The Self-Made Billionaire Effect: How Extreme Producers Create Massive Value by John Sviokla
The Silk Roads: A New History of the World by Peter Frankopan
The Strangest Man: The Hidden Life of Paul Dirac, Quantum Genius by Graham Farmelo
The Ten-Day MBA : A Step-By-Step Guide To Mastering The Skills Taught In America's Top Business Schools by Steven Silbiger
The Wolf of Wall Street by Jordan Belfort
Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill
Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
Tools of Titans: The Tactics, Routines, and Habits of Billionaires, Icons, and World-Class Performers by Timothy Ferriss
Treasure Islands: Uncovering the Damage of Offshore Banking and Tax Havens by Nicholas Shaxson
Tribe of Mentors: Short Life Advice from the Best in the World by Timothy Ferriss
Turing's Cathedral: The Origins of the Digital Universe by George Dyson
Two Scoops of Django: Best Practices for Django 1.8 by Daniel roy Greenfeld
Ultralearning by Scott H. Young
Venture Deals: Be Smarter Than Your Lawyer and Venture Capitalist by Brad Feld
Warren Buffett: The Life and Business Lessons of Warren Buffett by George Ilian
Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy by Cathy O'Neil
What If? Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions by Randall Munroe
What You Do Is Who You Are: How to Create Your Business Culture by Ben Horowitz
Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty by Daron Acemoğlu
Zero to One: Notes on Start Ups, or How to Build the Future by Peter Thiel