Unordered. I update this periodically.
Important Books
- The Autobiography of Andrew Carngie
- The Carnegie Nobody Knew
- Benjamin Franklin: An American Life
- Ages of American Capitalism, Jonathan Levy
- Ithaka, C.P. Cavafy
Great Reads
- Pillars of Economics, Ideas and Traditions
- Plutarch, Lives
- The Prize, Daniel Yergin
- Pericles Funeral Oration
- First Principles, Thomas E. Ricks
- Capital, Thomas Piketty
- Father of Spin, Larry Tye
- Man, Economy, and State
- House of Morgan
- The Autobiography of Franklin
- Who is Michael Ovitz?
- Never Split the Difference
- Leonardo da Vinci, Walter Isaacson
- Range, David Epstein
- Giants of Enterprise
- Anything on / about Charlie Munger
- A Time for Choosing, Reagan
- Gettysburg Address
- Aristotle Onassis - An Extravagant Life
- Self-Reliance, Ralph Waldo Emerson
- A History of Education in Antiquity
- The Prince
- The Waste Land, T.S. Eliot
- Ariel, Sylvia Plath
- Heart of Darkness, Joseph Conrad
- Growth, Vaclav Smil
- Mastery, Robert Greene
- Lessons of History, Will and Ariel Durant
- Genealogy of Morality, Nietzsche
- Sons of Wichita (Koch Family), Schulman
Good Reads
- Human Action
- Carnegie Address to the Curry Commercial College in Pittsburgh (1885)
- Pale Fire, Nabokov
- Urban Street Design Guide
- The Outsiders
- An American Political Tradition, Hofstadter
- Propaganda, Edward Bernays
- Pillars of Economics, Factors and Markets
- The War Below, Scheyder
- Great Adaptations
- How to Get Rich, Felix Dennis
- Almanack of Naval Ravikant
- Theory of Structures, Spofford
- The World for Sale
- Mining Valuation Handbook, Rudenno
- How to Make Decisions, Annie Duke
- The Science of Success, Charles Koch
- The Hard Thing about Hard Things
- Zero to One
- The Art of Strategy
- The Edward Bernays Reader
- Ogilvy on Advertising
- The Power Broker, Robert Caro
- The Hermit King
- Dancing Cockatoos and the Dead Man Test
- Evolution Gone Wrong
- Options, Futures, and other Derivatives
- Spin Selling
- Kuby Immunology
- 21st Century Monetary Policy, Bernanke
- 100M Offers / Leads
- The Intelligent Woman's Guide to Socialism and Capitalism
- Presidents: All You Need to Know
- Distant Force (Teledyne)
Terrible Reads. Popular books that I did not enjoy.
- Atomic Habits