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
- Maintenance: Of Everything by Stewart Brand
Past
2025
- Weapons of Math Destruction by Cathy O’Neil
- 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.
- The Making of Prince of Persia by Jordan Mechner
- Poor Charlie’s Almanack
- The Origins of Efficiency by Brian Potter
- A Philosophy of Software Design by John Ousterhout
- Anna Karenina by Lev Tolstoy
- Deep Work by Cal Newport
- The Alignment Problem by Brian Christian
- 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
- Why Nations Fail by Daron Acemoglu & James A. Robinson
- Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson
- The Circle by Dave Eggers
- Self Assembling Brain by Peter Robin Hiesinger
- The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat by Oliver Sacks
- Moonwalking with Einstein by Joshua Foer
- Beyond Entrepreneurship by Jim Collins
- Principles of Marketing by Philip Kotler
- 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