Books

Economics

Economics in One Lesson by Henry Hazlitt
Man, Economy, and State by Murray Rothbard
The Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels

History/Biographies

The Lessons of History by Will and Ariel Durant
Principles for Dealing With the Changing World Order by Ray Dalio
Elon Musk by Walter Isaacson
Surely You’re Joking, Mr. Feynman! by Richard Feynman
The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin by Benjamin Franklin
Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harari

STEM (Accessible)

The Beginning of Infinity by David Deutsch
The Fabric of Reality by David Deutsch
The Rational Optimist by Matt Ridley
Deep Simplicity by John Gribbin
Thing Explainer by Randall Munroe

STEM (Technical)

The Elements of Computing Systems by Noam Nisan and Shimon Schocken
Physics for Scientists and Engineers by Douglas C. Giancoli
The Little Book of Deep Learning by François Fleuret
Modern Operating Systems by Andrew Tanenbaum and Herbert Bos
Crafting Interpreters by Robert Nystrom

Psychology

Man’s Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl
Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion by Robert Cialdini
The Elephant in the Brain by Kevin Simler and Robin Hanson
Impro by Keith Johnstone
How to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie
Getting to Yes by Roger Fisher and William Ury

Philosophy

Manual for Living by Epictetus
Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse

Art/Architecture

The Creative Act by Rick Rubin
The Timeless Way of Building by Christopher Alexander
A Pattern Language by Christopher Alexander, Sara Ishikawa, and Murray Silverstein

Politics

A Gentle Introduction to Unqualified Reservations by Mencius Moldbug

Business/Startups

Zero to One by Peter Thiel
Poor Charlie’s Almanack by Charlie Munger and Peter Kaufman
The Warren Buffett Way by Robert Hagstrom
Principles by Ray Dalio
Startup Playbook by Sam Altman
The Personal MBA by Josh Kaufman
The Almanack of Naval Ravikant by Eric Jorgenson
The Anthology of Balaji by Eric Jorgenson
Good to Great by Jim Collins
How to Get Rich by Felix Dennis
Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill
The Hard Thing About Hard Things by Ben Horowitz

Miscellaneous

The Elements of Style by Oliver Strunk and E.B. White
On Writing by Stephen King
The Tanakh

Fiction

Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand
The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien
The Silmarillion by J.R.R. Tolkien
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell
Inferno by Dante Alighieri
To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee
The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien
Harry Potter series by J.K. Rowling
Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
The Odyssey by Homer