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I wanted to be a reader since I was a kid, but the only books I managed to read through were the imaginative Harry Potter series. I was so bad at reading that—up until chapter seven of “Veinte mil lenguas* de viaje submarino”—I couldn’t understand why Jules Verne had not started covering the multitude of languages spoken under water. So I put it back on the shelf, and only months later did I realize my embarrasing mistake in reading the book’s title…
Audiobooks changed my life.
Well into my twenties, I discovered that I’m a listener, not a reader. I had been using Youtube without ads and consuming hours of content every day for years—mostly historical documentaries, interviews and podcasts—but somehow I didn’t realize at the time that what caught my attention was the audio, not the video. Only when I gave Audible a second try in 2016 did this become obvious, and I started binge-listening everything I had been wanting to read.
Here’s a list of what I’ve read/listened to ever since, what I’m currently reading and what I’d like to read next.
All Time Favorites
- On Trails: An Exploration (Robert Moor) [2020]
 - Index, A History of the (Dennis Duncan) [2022]
 - The Timeless Way of Building (Christopher Alexander) [2021]
 - The Creative Act: A Way of Being (Rick Rubin) [2023]
 
- Debt: The first 5000 Years (David Graeber) [2017]
 - The Art of Language Invention (David Peterson) [2018]
 - Algorithms to Live By (Brian Christian) [2019]
 
- Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life (William Finnegan)
 - Coders at Work (Peter Seibel)
 
Now Reading
- The Light of Asia (Christopher Harding)
 - Option Volatility and Pricing (Sheldon Natenberg)
 - Counting (Benjamin Wardhaugh)
 
Started / In Progress
- Thinking in Systems (Donella H. Meadows)
 - The Song of the Cell (Siddhartha Mukherjee)
 - The Gutenberg Parenthesis (Jeff Jarvis)
 
- Virtuous Bankers (Anne L. Murphy)
 
- An Elegant Puzzle (Will Larson)
 - Turing’s Cathedral (George Dyson)
 - Tools for Thought (Howard Rheingold)
 
- The Adweek Copywriting Handbook (Joseph Sugarman)
 - Writing Tools (Roy Peter Clark)
 - On Writing Well (William Zinsser)
 
- Two Wheels Good (Jody Rosen)
 - Maps of Meaning (Jordan Peterson)
 
Next in Line
- The Notebook (Roland Allen)
 - The Book-Makers (Adam Smyth)
 - How to Do the Work (Dr Nicole LePera)
 
- This Earthly Globe (Andrea di Robilant)
 - A History of the World in 47 Borders (Jonn Elledge)
 - Prisoners of Geography (Tim Marshall)
 
- Mapmatics (Paulina Rowinska)
 - Why Machines Learn (Anil Ananthaswamy)
 
- How to Think Like an Economist (Robbie Mochrie)
 - Bitcoin is Venice (Allen Farrington, Sacha Meyers)
 
- The Canceling of the American Mind (Greg Lukianoff, Rikki Schlott)
 
- The Frontiers of Knowledge (A. C. Grayling)
 
- Data-Oriented Programming (Yehonathan Sharvit)
 
Antilibrary
- The Story of Proof (John Stillwell)
 - The Joy of Abstraction (Eugenia Cheng)
 - The Secret Lives of Numbers (Kate Kitagawa, Timothy Revell)
 - Is Maths Real? (Eugenia Cheng)
 - The Art of Logic (Eugenia Cheng)
 - Infinite Powers (Steven Strogatz)
 - The Joy of X (Steven Strogatz)
 - Once Upon a Prime (Sarah Hart)
 - The Evolution of Knowledge (Jürgen Renn)
 - The Gene: An Intimate History (Siddhartha Mukherjee)
 
- Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs (Sussman, Abelson)
 - On Lisp (Paul Graham)
 - Let Over Lambda: 50 Years of Lisp (Doug Hoyte)
 - The Joy of Clojure (Chris Houser and Michael Fogus)
 - The Little Schemer (Daniel P. Friedman, Matthias Felleisen)
 - The Seasoned Schemer (Daniel P. Friedman, Matthias Felleisen)
 - The Reasoned Schemer (D.P. Friedman, W.E. Byrd, O. Kiselyov, J. Hemann)
 - The Little Learner (Daniel P. Friedman, Anurag Mendhekar)
 
- Metaprogramming Elixir (Chris McCord)
 - Testing Elixir (Andrea Leopardi, Jeffrey Matthias)
 - Exploring Graphs with Elixir (Tony Hammond)
 - Graph Algorithms (Mark Needham, Amy E. Hodler)
 - Mastering the Lightning Network (Antonopoulos, Osuntokun, Pickhardt)
 - Programming Bitcoin (Jimmy Song)
 
- Pieces of the Action (Vannevar Bush)
 - From Memex To Hypertext (James M. Nyce, Paul Kahn)
 - Memory Machines (Belinda Barnet)
 - Search User Interfaces (Marti A. Hearst)
 
- Money and Empire (Perry Mehrling)
 - History of the London Discount Market (W.T.C. King)
 - The Money Machine (Philip Coggan)
 
- Come non scrivere (Claudio Giunta)
 - La Grande Invenzione (Silvia Ferrara)
 - L’Italia dei secoli bui (Indro Montanelli)
 - Memórias Póstumas de Brás Cubas (Joaquim Machado de Assis)
 
- A History of Reading (Steven Roger Fischer)
 - Metaphors We Live By (George Lakoff, Mark Johnson)
 
Want to Read
- El infinito en un junco (Irene Vallejo)
 - The Polymath (Peter Burke)
 - Material World (Ed Conway)
 - Thinking in Numbers (Daniel Tammet)
 - The Dictionary People (Sarah Ogilvie)
 - Burning the Books (Richard Ovenden)
 - Portable Magic (Emma Smith)
 - Hidden Hands (Mary Wellesley)
 - Meetings with Remarkable Manuscripts (Christopher De Hamel)
 - Paper: Paging Through History (Mark Kurlansky)
 - Before Your Memory Fades (Toshikazu Kawaguchi)
 - Only the Paranoid Survive (Andrew Grove)
 - Woke Racism (John McWhorter)
 - How Life Works (Philip Ball)
 - Blue Machine (Helen Czerski)
 - Entangled Life (Merlin Sheldrake)
 - How They Broke Britain (James O’Brien)
 - Politics on the Edge (Rory Stewart)
 - Material Girls (Kathleen Stock)
 - Time to Think (Hannah Barnes)
 - Bad Therapy (Abigail Shrier)
 - Holding the Note (David Remnick)
 - The Jazz Standards (Ted Gioia)
 
- Stein On Writing (Sol Stein)
 - The Language Instinct (Steven Pinker)
 - The Revolt of the Masses (José Ortega y Gasset)
 - An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding (David Hume)
 - An Essay Concerning Human Understanding (John Locke)
 - The Art of Writing and the Gifts of Writers (C. S. Lewis)
 - Glucose Revolution (Jessie Inchauspe)
 - You’re Teaching My Child What? (Miriam Grossman M.D.)
 - A Small Matter of Programming (Bonnie A. Nardi)
 - Essays on Free Knowledge (Larry Sanger)
 - Endless Frontier (G. Pascal Zachary)
 
Want to Buy
- Money: Whence it Came, Where it Went (John Kenneth Galbraith)
 - Minsky (Daniel H. Neilson)
 - Invention: A Life of Learning through Failure (James Dyson)
 - A History of Writing (Steven Roger Fischer)
 - A History of Language (Steven Roger Fischer)
 - A Short History of London (Simon Jenkins)
 - Effective Haskell (Rebecca Skinner)
 - The New Turing Omnibus (A. K. Dewdney)
 
Sporadically Reading
- 48 Laws of Power (Robert Greene)
 
- Bach and the High Baroque (Robert Greenberg)
 - How to Listen and Understand Great Music (Robert Greenberg)
 
- The Entrepreneur’s Weekly Nietzsche (Dave Jilk, Brad Feld)
 - A Pattern Language (Christopher Alexander)
 
- 与运气竞争 [Competing Against Luck] (Clay Christensen)
 - 穷查理宝典 [Poor Charlie’s Almanack] (Peter D. Kaufman)
 
- Pandora’s Star (Peter F. Hamilton)
 
Finished
2025
- Hearing God (Dallas Willard)
 - The Little Elixir & OTP Guidebook (Benjamin Tan Wei Hao)
 - The Great Transformation (Odd Arne Westad, Chen Jian)
 - Gambling Man (Lionel Barber)
 - How to Pray (Pete Greig)
 - The Nvidia Way (Tae Kim)
 - House of Huawei (Eva Dou)
 - Practice of the Presence of God (Brother Lawrence)
 - Beijing Rules (Bethany Allen)
 - The New China Playbook (Keyu Jin)
 - God on Mute (Pete Greig)
 - Practicing the Way (John Mark Comer)
 - Counterfeit Gods (Timothy Keller)
 - The Blocksize War (Jonathan Bier)
 - Hijacking Bitcoin (Roger Ver)
 - Kim Ji-young, Born 1982 (Cho Nam-ju)
 - The Trunk (Kim Ryeo-ryeong)
 - Co-Intelligence (Ethan Mollick)
 - Brave New Words (Salman Khan)
 - The Courage to Be Disliked (Fumitake Koga, Ichiro Kishimi)
 
2024
- The Book at War (Andrew Pettegree)
 - We Who Wrestle with God (Jordan B. Peterson)
 - Good Work (Paul Millerd)
 - The Sense of Style (Steven Pinker)
 - Pachinko (Min Jin Lee)
 - House of Debt (Atif Mian, Amir Sufi)
 - In This Economy (Kyla Scanlon)
 - Slow Productivity (Cal Newport)
 - Playing with Reality (Kelly Clancy)
 - Effective Editing (Molly McCowan)
 - The End of Alchemy (Mervyn King)
 - Money: The Story of Civilization (David McWilliams)
 - Basic Economics (Thomas Sowell)
 - Money and Promises (Paolo Zannoni)
 - Signs of Civilisation (Bard Borch Michaelsen)
 - The Fund (Rob Copeland)
 - The Value of Others (Orion Taraban)
 - The Bookshop Woman (Nanako Hanada)
 - Ancient Writing and the History of the Alphabet (John McWhorter)
 - The End of Gender (Debra W. Soh)
 - Scattered Minds (Gabor Maté)
 - On Writing (Stephen King)
 - The Strange Death of Europe (Douglas Murray)
 - Stay True (Hua Hsu)
 - A Spell of Good Things (Ayọ̀bámi Adébáyọ̀)
 - Just Kids (Patti Smith)
 - Writing Down the Bones (Natalie Goldberg)
 - A Walk in the Woods (Bill Bryson)
 - The Most Important Thing (Howard Marks)
 - Between Debt and the Devil (Lord Adair Turner)
 - The Organized Mind (Daniel Levitin)
 - Autobiography of a Yogi (Paramahansa Yogananda)
 - Bullshit Jobs (David Graeber)
 - The Pathless Path (Paul Millerd)
 - Number Go Up (Zeke Faux)
 - When Genius Failed (Roger Lowenstein)
 - More Money than God (Sebastian Mallaby)
 - The Myth of Normal (Gabor Maté, Daniel Maté)
 - Feminism Against Progress (Mary Harrington)
 - The Case Against the Sexual Revolution (Louise Perry)
 - The Myth of Artificial Intelligence (Erik J. Larson)
 - Broken Money (Lyn Alden)
 - The Trading Game (Gary Stevenson)
 - Busting the Bankers’ Club (Gerald Epstein)
 - Humanly Possible (Sarah Bakewell)
 - Four Thousand Weeks (Oliver Burkeman)
 - Party of One (Chun Han Wong)
 - Red Memory (Tania Branigan)
 - Forgive (Timothy Keller)
 - Encounters with Jesus (Timothy Keller)
 - A New Earth (Eckhart Tolle)
 - Range (David Epstein)
 - Banking on It (Anne Boden)
 - Barbarians at the Gate (Bryan Burrough, John Helyar)
 - Burn Book (Kara Swisher)
 - Korea (Victor Cha, Ramon Pacheco Pardo)
 - Human Compatible (Stuart Russell)
 - The Lost Bookshop (Evie woods, Nick Biadon)
 - On Writers and Writing (Margaret Atwood)
 - DallerGut Dream Department Store
 - Write for Life (Julia Cameron)
 - Technofeudalism (Yanis Varoufakis)
 - Lost in Work: Escaping Capitalism (Amelia Horgan)
 - What You Are Looking for Is in the Library (Michiko Aoyama)
 - Days at the Morisaki Bookshop (Satoshi Yagisawa)
 - Quiet (Susan Cain)
 - Poor Charlie’s Almanack (Charles T. Munger)
 - Written (Chris Smith, Bec Evans)
 - Always Take Notes (Simon Akam, Rachel Lloyd)
 - Working (Robert A. Caro)
 
2023
- Elixir in Action (Saša Jurić)
 - Grokking Simplicity (Eric Normand)
 - Principles of Economics (Saifedean Ammous)
 - Inglesi (Beppe Severgnini)
 - Fathoms: the world in the whale (Rebecca Giggs)
 - Greenlights (Matthew McConaughey)
 - Music: A Subversive History (Ted Gioia)
 - Horizons (James Poskett)
 - Welcome to the Hyunam-dong Bookshop (Hwang Bo-reum)
 - An Immense World (Ed Yong)
 - Incredible Journeys (David Barrie)
 - Wanderlust (Rebecca Solnit)
 - Guns, Germs and Steel (Jared Diamond)
 - The Repo Market (Scott ED Skrym)
 - Makers and Takers (Rana Foroohar)
 - Other People’s Money (John Kay)
 - Dark and Magical Places (Christopher Kemp)
 - Knowing What We Know (Simon Winchester)
 - Willpower (Roy F. Baumeister, John Tierney)
 - Project Hail Mary (Andy Weir)
 - The Everything Blueprint
 - Prayer (A. W. Tozer)
 - Fischer Black and the Revolutionary Idea of Finance (Perry Mehrling)
 - The New Lombard Street (Perry Mehrling)
 - The Madness of Crowds (Douglas Murray)
 - Lost in Trans Nation (Miriam Grossman MD)
 - Irreversible Damage (Abigail Shrier)
 - The Coddling of the American Mind (G. Lukianoff, J. Haidt)
 - Company of One (Paul Jarvis)
 - Femina (Janina Ramirez)
 - SuperHubs (Sandra Navidi)
 - Permanent Distorsion (Nomi Prins)
 - Yellowface (Rebecca F. Kuang)
 - The Library (Andrew Pettegree, Arthur Der Weduwen)
 - The Crisis of Democratic Capitalism (Martin Wolf)
 - Conscious Uncoupling (Katherine Woodward Thomas)
 - Chip War (Chris Miller)
 - Principles for Navigating Big Debt Crises (Ray Dalio)
 - All the Knowledge in the World (Simon Garfield)
 - Scaling People (Claire Hughes Johnson)
 - The Power Law (Sebastian Mallaby)
 - Homo Ludens (Johan Huizinga)
 - Deep Work (Cal Newport)
 - Trans: When Ideology Meets Reality (Helen Joyce)
 - Bagehot (James Grant)
 - Write It All Down (Cathy Rentzenbrink)
 - Several Short Sentences about Writing (Verlyn Klinkenborg)
 - Artificial Intelligence (Melanie Mitchell)
 - The Power of Now (Eckhart Tolle)
 - Discipline is Destiny (Ryan Holiday)
 - The Creative Act: A Way of Being (Rick Rubin)
 - How to Listen o Jazz (Ted Gioia)
 - The Art of Writing and the Gifts of Writers (C.S. Lewis)
 - The Fourth Turning (Strauss, Howe)
 - The Psychology of Money (Morgan Housel)
 - El Olvido que Seremos (Héctor Abad Faciolince)
 
2022
- The Clean Coder (Robert C. Martin)
 - A Place for Everything (Judith Flanders)
 - Kingdom of Characters (Jing Tsu)
 - La Testa degli Italiani (Beppe Severgnini)
 - Manufacturing Consent (E. Herman, N. Chomsky)
 - Whole Earth [Stewart Brand] (John Markoff)
 - La Imitación de Cristo (Tomás de Kempis)
 - Start With No (Jim Camp)
 - Building Great Sentences (Brooks Landon)
 - The Man Who Made Lists (Joshua Kendall)
 - The Price of Time (Edward Chancellor)
 - Bird by Bird (Anne Lamott)
 - Becoming a Great Essayist (Jennifer Cognard-Black)
 - The Wikipedia Revolution (Andrew Lih)
 - The Revolt of the Public (Martin Gurri)
 - Modern Man (Anthony Flint)
 - The Man from the Future (Ananyo Bhattacharya)
 - Beyond Measure (James Vincent)
 - The Search (John Battelle)
 - A Praying Life (Paul Miller)
 - The Embedded Entrepreneur (Arvid Kahl)
 - The History of Jazz (Ted Gioia)
 - Index, A History of the (Dennis Duncan)
 - The Dark Forest (刘慈欣 Cixin Liu)
 - Every Good Endeavor (Tim Keller)
 - The Founders (Jimmy Soni)
 - Reflections on the Psalms (C. S. Lewis)
 - The Alignment Problem (Brian Christian)
 - Machines of Loving Grace (John Markoff)
 - The Future of Money (Eswar S. Prasad)
 - Learn ClojureScript (Andrew Meredith)
 - Getting Clojure (Russ Olsen)
 - Surely You’re Joking, Mr. Feynman! (Richard P. Feynman)
 - How the Internet Happened (Brian McCullough)
 - The Big Score (Michael S. Malone)
 
2021
- Heart of Buddha’s Teaching (Thich Nhat Hanh)
 - God’s Wisdom for Navigating Life (Tim Keller)
 - A Guide to the Good Life (William Irvine)
 - The Great CEO Within (Matt Mochary et al.)
 - Disciplined Entrepreneurship (Bill Autlet)
 - No Rules Rules (Reid Hasting, Erin Meyer)
 - Never Split the Difference (Chris Voss)
 - Teachings of the Buddha (Kornfield, Fronsdal)
 - Elements of Clojure (Zachary Tellman)
 - High Growth Handbook (Elad Gil)
 - Order Without Design (Alain Bertaud)
 - VC: An American History (Tom Nicholas)
 - Walking with God through Pain and Suffering
 - Working Backwards (Colin Bryar, Bill Carr)
 - Layered Money (Nik Bhatia)
 - Introduction to Graph Theory (Trudeau)
 - How to Take Smart Notes (Sönke Arens)
 - Billion Dollar Loser (Reeves Wiedeman)
 - The Meaning of Marriage (Tim Keller)
 - Prayer (Philip Yancey)
 - The Power of Your Subconscious Mind
 - Super Pumped (Mike Isaac)
 - Super Founders (Ali Tamaseb)
 - Hackers & Painters (Paul Graham)
 - Coders at Work (Peter Seibel)
 - Clean Architecture (Robert C. Martin)
 - Leonardo da Vinci (Walter Isaacson)
 - The Daily Stoic (Ryan Holiday, S. Hansem)
 - Snow Crash (Neal Stephenson)
 - Beyond Order (Jordan Peterson)
 - Atomic Habits (James Clear)
 - Creativity Inc. (Ed Catmull, Amy Wallace)
 - Mao’s Great Famine (Frank Dikötter)
 - Marco Polo (Laurence Bergreen)
 - Founders at Work (Jessica Livingston)
 - Mere Christianity (C. S. Lewis)
 - Praying with Paul (D. A. Carson)
 - The Search for God (C. S. Lewis)
 - The Screwtape Letters (C .S. Lewis)
 - The Selfish Gene (Richard Dawkins)
 - The Code Breaker (Walter Isaacson)
 - Scientific Freedom (Donald W. Braber)
 - The Obstacle is the Way (Ryan Holiday)
 - Lives of the Stoics (Ryan Holiday)
 - The Timeless Way of Building (C. Alexander)
 - Un Italiano in America (Beppe Severgnini)
 
2020
- Scandal of Money (George Gilder)
 - Valley of Genius (Adam Fisher)
 - Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution (Steven Levy)
 - Thinking, Fast and Slow (Daniel Kahneman)
 - The Black Swan (Nassim Nicholas Taleb)
 - Trillion Dollar Coach (Rosenberg, Eagle, Schmidt)
 - Secrets of Sand Hill Road (Ries, Kupor)
 - Permanent Record (Edward Snowden)
 - Brave New World (Aldous Huxley)
 - 1984 (George Orwell)
 - The Sovereign Individual (William Rees-Mogg)
 - Language Families of the World (John McWhorter)
 - The Three-Body Problem (刘慈欣 Cixin Liu)
 - The Manager’s Path (Camille Fournier)
 - How Asia Works (Joe Studwell)
 - Hatching Twitter (Nick Bilton)
 - High Output Management (Andy Grove)
 - Creative Schools (Ken Robinson)
 - Mastering the Market Cycle (Howard Marks)
 - The Dream Machine (M. Mitchell Waldrop)
 - Blood, Sweat and Pixels (Jason Schreier)
 - Marx, Capital, and the Madness of Economic Reason (David Harvey)
 - An Intro to Information Theory (John Pierce)
 - The Idea Factory (John Gertner)
 - Scale (Geoffrey West)
 - I Contain Multitudes (Ed Young)
 - The Rise and Fall of American Growth (Robert Gordon)
 - Grain Brain (David Perlmutter)
 - Wheat Belly (William Davis)
 - The Four (Scott Galloway)
 - How Google Works (Schmidt, Rosenberg)
 - That Will Never Work (Marc Randolph)
 - Start-up Nation (Saul Singer, Dan Senor)
 - The Launch Pad (Randall Stross)
 - The Lean Startup (Eric Ries)
 - Weapons of Math Destruction (Cathy O’Neil)
 - The Startup Owner’s Manual (Blank, Dorf)
 - How to Read a Book (Mortimer Adler)
 - On Trails: An Exploration (Robert Moor)
 - The Map of Knowledge (Violet Moller)
 - The Great Age of Discovery (Paul Herrmann)
 - The Pragmatic Programmer (Thomas, Hunt)
 - Working in Public (Nadia Eghbal)
 - Because Internet (Gretchen McCulloch)
 - Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life (William Finnegan)
 - The Dollar Trap (Eswar S. Prasad)
 - Ready Player Two (Ernest Cline)
 - Navalmanack (Eric Jorgenson)
 - The Reason for God (Timothy Keller)
 - Prayer (Timothy Keller)
 - Dinero, Crédito Bancario y Ciclos Económicos (Huerta de Soto)
 - ANSI Common Lisp (Paul Graham)
 
2019
- Significant Figures (Ian Stewart)
 - When Einstein Walked with Gödel (Jim Holt)
 - Rework (Jason Fried, Heinemeier)
 - One World School House (Salman Khan)
 - Disrupting Class (Clay Christensen)
 - Why We Sleep (Matthew Walker)
 - Sapiens: A Brief History of Mankind (Harari)
 - What Has Government Done to our Money? (Rothbard)
 - 23 Things They Don’t Tell You About Capitalism (Ha-Joon Chang)
 - Conspiracy (Ryan Holiday)
 - The E-Myth Revisited (Michael Gerber)
 - On Language (Noam Chomsky)
 - The Path: Chinese Philosophy (Michael Puett)
 - The Design of Everyday Things (Don Norman)
 - Vagabonding (Rolf Potts)
 - 12 Rules for Life (Jordan Peterson)
 - Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance (Robert Pirsig)
 - The Learning Brain (Thad Polk)
 - Monetary Central Planning (Richard Ebeling)
 - The Information (James Gleick)
 - The Inner Game of Tennis (Timothy Gallwey)
 - The Story of Human Language (John McWhorter)
 - Make It Stick (Peter Brown)
 - The Art of Learning (Josh Waitzkin)
 - Writing and Civilization (Marc Zender)
 - Man’s Search for Meaning (Viktor Frankl)
 - Structure of Scientific Revolutions (Thomas Kuhn)
 - Young China (Zak Dychtwald)
 - Labor of Love (Moira Weigel)
 - Double Entry (Jane Gleeson-White)
 - Cataloging the World (Alex Wright)
 - Weaving the Web (Tim Berners-Lee)
 - Change by Design (Tim Brown)
 - Story (Robert McKee)
 - Beggar Thy Neighbor (Charles Geisst)
 - The Bullet Journal Method (Ryder Carroll)
 - Algorithms to Live By (Brian Christian)
 - Measure What Matters (John Doerr)
 - Wild Ride (Adam Lashinsky)
 - Blitzscaling (Reid Hoffman, Chris Yeh)
 - What You Do Is Who You Are (Ben Horowitz)
 - Without Their Permission (Alexis Ohanian)
 
2018
- Onward (Howard Schultz)
 - The Virgin Way (Richard Branson)
 - Principles (Ray Dalio)
 - Influence (Robert Cialdini)
 - Reminiscences of a Stock Operator (Edwin Lefevre)
 - Steve Jobs (Walter Isaacson)
 - Walt Disney (Neal Gabler)
 - Reality is Broken (Jane McGonigal)
 - Game-Based Marketing (Gabe Zichermann)
 - Actionable Gamification (Yu-kai Chou)
 - Cien Años de Soledad (Gabo)
 - The Power of Habit (Charles Duhigg)
 - [The Snapchat Story] (Billy Gallagher)
 - The Airbnb Story (Leigh Gallagher)
 - The Upstarts (Brad Stone)
 - The Ascent of Money (Niall Ferguson)
 - Building a StoryBrand (Donald Miller)
 - Hooked: Habit-forming Products (Nir Eyal)
 - The Sharing Economy (Arun Sundararajan)
 - What’s Mine is Yours (Rachel Botsman)
 - Who Gets What, and Why (Alvin Roth)
 - Capitalism and Freedom (Milton Friedman)
 - Free to Choose (Milton Friedman)
 - Replay: The History of Video Games
 - The Bitcoin Standard (Saifedean Ammous)
 - Economics in One Lesson (Henry Hazlitt)
 - The Road to Serfdom (Friedrich Hayek)
 - The Innovators (Walter Isaacson)
 - For a New Liberty (Murray Rothbard)
 - The Art of Language Invention (David Peterson)
 - A Mind at Play (Jimmy Soni, Rob Goodman)
 - The Man Who Knew Infinity (Robert Kanigel)
 - Competing Against Luck (Clayton Christensen)
 - The Lessons of History (Will, Ariel Durant)
 - A Most Elegant Equation (David Stipp)
 - Lean in (Sheryl Sandberg, Nell Scovell)
 - El Alquimista (El Alquimista)
 - Momo (Michael Ende)
 
2017
- Debt: The first 5000 Years (David Graeber)
 - Money: The Unauthorized Biography (Felix Martin)
 - The Death of Money (James Rickards)
 - When China Rules the World (Martin Jacques)
 - Unshakeable (Tony Robbins)
 - Getting Things Done (David Allen)
 - The Effective Executive (Peter Drucker)
 - Elon Musk (Ashlee Vance)
 - Zero to One (Peter Thiel)
 - The Innovator’s Dilemma (Clayton Christensen)
 - Shoe Dog (Phil Knight)
 - Alibaba (Duncan Clark)
 - The Everything Store (Brad Stone)
 - The Facebook Effect (David Kirkpatrick)
 - Currency Wars (James Rickards)
 - The Undercover Economist (Tim Harford)
 - The Hard Thing About Hard Things (Ben Horowitz)
 - The 21st Century Case for Gold (George Gilder)
 - Troublemakers (Leslie Berlin)
 - Lombard Street (Walter Bagehot)
 - Knowledge and Power (George Gilder)
 - Start with Why (Simon Sinek)
 - Flow (Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi)
 - Ready Player One (Ernest Cline)
 
2016
- The Road to Ruin (James Rickards)