There’s something special about seeing what catches someone’s attention. This is a collection of books I’ve read or plan to read, listed in no particular order.

Highlighted books are my personal favorites.

Got a recommendation or your own list to share? Let me know — I’m always looking for my next read. 1

Current

  • Weapons of Math Destruction by Cathy O’Neil

Past

2025

  • The Venture Mindset by Ilya Strebulaev & Alex Dang
  • Ella Minnow Pea by Mark Dunn
  • Storyworthy by Matthew Dicks
  • Atomic Habits by James Clear
  • Influence by Robert Cialdini

2024

  • 1984 by George Orwell
  • What If? by Randall Munroe
  • The Art of Doing Science and Engineering by Richard Hamming
  • When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi
  • Steal Like an Artist by Austin Kleon

Antilibrary

My antilibrary, books that I got recommended, but didn’t have chance to read yet.

  • Вad Blood by John Carreyrou
  • Focus: The ASML Way by Marc Hijink
  • What is intelligence? by Blaise Agüera y Arcas
  • Self Assembling Brain by Peter Robin Hiesinger
  • A Thousand Brains by Jeff Hawkins
  • The Math Academy Way
  • Why Nations Fail by Daron Acemoglu & James A. Robinson
  • Steve Jobs
  • The Circle
  • Self Assembling Brain
  • The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat
  • Moonwalking with Einstein
  • Beyond Entrepreneurship
  • Principles of Marketing
  • Theory of Constraints Eliyahu M. Goldratt
  • When Coffee and Cabbage Compete Alan Clement
  • Blitzscaling by Reid Hoffman
  • The Cult of We by Eliot Brown & Maureen Farrell

Footnotes

  1. When I’m hunting for my next read, I check out bookshelves from Patrick, Bill, Calvin, Michal, Ömer and more.