These are some books (both technical and nontechnical) I’ve read from ~2018 onwards that I think others might like as well.


  • Atomic Habits

  • Principles (Dalio)

  • Venture Deals (thanks to Matt Hayes for gifting this book to me!)

  • Wilson

  • The Idea of America: Reflections on the Birth of the United States

  • Zero to One

  • Poor Economics: A Radical Rethinking of the Way to Fight Global Poverty

  • Now: The Physics of Time

  • Sapiens

  • Thinking, Fast and Slow

  • Good Strategy/Bad Strategy: The Difference and Why It Matters

  • Irrational Exuberance

  • The Statistical Mechanics of Financial Markets

  • A Beautiful Mind

  • The Four: The Hidden DNA of Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Google

  • The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon

  • Differential Geometry (Kreyszig)

  • Applied Partial Differential Equations

  • The Elegant Universe

  • Surely You’re Joking, Mr. Feynman!

  • The Search: How Google and Its Rivals Rewrote the Rules of Business and Transformed Our Culture

  • Steve Jobs (Isaacson)

  • Creativity, Inc.: Overcoming the Unseen Forces That Stand in the Way of True Inspiration

  • The Owner’s Manual for the Brain

  • The Happiness Advantage

  • Essentialism

  • Small Giants: Companies That Choose to Be Great Instead of Big

  • After The Music Stopped

  • The Art of Choosing

  • A Guide to First-Passage Processes

  • Volcker: The Triumph of Persistence

  • Tribe of Mentors

  • FDR (Smith)

  • A Guide to Feynman Diagrams in the Many-Body Problem

  • Mere Christianity

  • High Output Management

  • Capitalism in America: A History

  • Why We Sleep

  • JFK in the Senate

  • A Brief History of Time

  • International Macroeconomics