CURRENTLY READING
Elon Musk – Walter Isaacson
The 48 Laws of Power
Trash Talk – Rafi Kohan
FINISHED 2025
The Golden Gate – Amy Chua
Thinking in Bets – Annie Duke
FINISHED 2024
Going Infinite – Michael Lewis
The Making of a Manager – Julie Zhuo
The Name of The Wind – Patrick Rothfuss
The Wise Man’s Fear – Patrick Rothfuss
The Wager – David Grann
Crypto Confidential – Nathaniel Eliason
Mistborn – Brandon Sanderson
Mistborn: The Hero of Ages – Brandon Sanderson
Mistborn: The Well of Ascension – Brandon Sanderson
FINISHED 2023
Giannis – Mirin Fader
How to Get Rich: One of the World’s Greatest Entrepreneurs Shares His Secrets – Felix Dennis
Wool – Hugh Howey
The Obelisk Gate – N.K. Jemisin
The Stone Sky – N.K. Jemisin
The City We Became – N.K. Jemisin
American Kingpin – Nick Bilton
Hatching Twitter – Nick Bilton
The World We Make – N.K. Jemisin
The Cuckoo – Leo Carew
Light Bringer – Pierce Brown
Leviathan Wakes – James Corey
Caliban’s War – James Corey
Project Hail Mary – Andy Weir
FINISHED 2022
The Children of Dune – Frank Herbert
Principles – Ray Dalio
The Fish That Ate The Whale: The Life And Times of America’s Banana King – Rich Cohen
Super Pumped: The Battle for Uber – Mike Isaac
The New One – Mike Birbiglia
Covert Cows and Chick-fil-A: How Faith, Cows, and Chicken Built an Iconic Brand – Steve Robinson
Red Rising – Pierce Brown
Golden Son – Pierce Brown
Morning Star – Pierce Brown
Iron Gold – Pierce Brown
The Almanack of Naval Ravikant – Eric Jorgenson
Open – Andre Agassi
Dark Age – Pierce Brown
The Fifth Season – N. K. Jemisin
FINISHED 2021
The Overstory – Richard Powers
The Dark Forest – Cixin Liu
Death’s End – Cixin Liu
Play Bigger – Al Ramadan, Dave Peterson, Christopher Lochhead, Kevin Maney
The Infinite Game – Simon Sinek
Effortless – Greg McKeown
Inferno – Dan Brown
Dune – Frank Herbert
Deception Point – Dan Brown
Dune Messiah – Frank Herbert
Eating on The Wild Side – Jo Robinson
FINISHED 2020
Taijiquan: The Art of Nurturing, The Science of Power – Yang Yang
The World According to Garp – John Irving
Range – David Epstein
The Sixth Man – Andre Iguodala
The Fate of Food – Amanda Little
Positive Intelligence – Shirzad Chamine
The Big Short – Michael Lewis
Trust Me, I’m Lying – Ryan Holiday
Boomerang – Michael Lewis
Holes – Louis Sachar
The Rise of Superman – Steven Kotler
The Wolf – Leo Carew
Losers – Michael Lewis
The Spider – Leo Carew
Sacred Cow – Diana Rodgers and Robb Wolf
A New Earth – Eckhart Tolle
Secrets of Power Negotiating – Roger Dawson
The Three-Body Problem – Cixin Liu
Never Split the Difference – Chris Voss
Breath – James Nestor
FINISHED – 2019
Cool Gray City of Love: 49 View of San Francisco – Gary Kamiya
Great At Work – Morten T. Hansen
Onward – Howard Schultz
The Good Neighbor: The Life and Work of Fred Rodgers – Maxwell King
Indistractable – Nir Eyal
Stillness is the Key – Ryan Holiday
FINISHED – 2018
Shoe Dog – Phil Knight
The Dark Tower VI: Song of Susannah – Stephen King
Chaos Monkeys – Antonio Garcia Martinez
Conspiracy – Ryan Holiday
The Dark Tower VII: The Dark Tower – Stephen King
From Rags to Restaurants – Misty Young
Extreme Ownership – Jocko Willink and Leif Babin
American Gods – Neil Gaiman
Essentialism – Greg McKeown
Hyperfocus – Chris Bailey
Joy on Demand – Chade Meng-Tan
FINISHED – 2017
Restaurant Owners Uncorked – Wil Brawley
The E Myth Revisited – Michael E. Gerber
Restaurant Success by the Numbers – Roger Fields
The Dark Tower III: The Waste Lands – Stephen King
Deep Work – Cal Newport
Perennial Seller: The Art of Making and Marketing Work that Lasts – Ryan Holliday
Traction: How Any Startup Can Achieve Explosive Customer Growth – Gabriel Weinberg and Justin Mares
Kitchen Confidential – Anthony Bourdain
The Dark Tower IV: Wizard and Glass – Stephen King
The Dark Tower V: Wolves of the Calla – Stephen King
FINISHED – 2016
Fair Food – Oran B. Hesterman
Good Food Great Business – Susie Wyshak (partially finished)
The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up – Marie Kondo (partially finished)
The Mountain Shadow – Gregory David Roberts
Ego Is the Enemy – Ryan Holiday
The Dark Tower I: The Gunslinger – Stephen King
Rammer Jammer Yellow Hammer – Warren St. John
The Hard Thing About Hard Things – Ben Horowitz
The Dark Tower II: The Drawing of the Three – Stephen King
FINISHED – 2015
The Third Plate – Dan Barber
The Art of Fielding – Chad Harbach
Ready Player One – Ernest Cline
The Art of Work – Jeff Goins
The Obstacle is the Way – Ryan Holliday
SCRUM: The Art of Doing Twice the Work in Half the Time – Jeff Sutherland
Losing My Virginity – Richard Branson
FAVORITES
INSPIRATION
The Alchemist – Paulo Coelho
Man’s Search For Meaning – Viktor E. Frankl
PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT
Think and Grow Rich – Napoleon Hill
The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People – Stephen R. Covey
BUSINESS
Good to Great – Jim Collins
Build to Last – Jim Collins and Jerry I. Porras
Small Giants – Bo Burlingham
PRODUCT MANAGEMENT
Getting Real – 37signals, Jason Fried
Inspired – Marty Cagan
MINDFULNESS
Mindfulness in Plain English – Bhante Henepola Gunaratana
Peace Is Every Step – Thich Nhat Hanh
SPORTS
Friday Night Lights – H.G. Bissinger
BIOGRAPHIES
Benjamin Franklin: An American Life – Walter Isaacson
FICTION
Shantaram – Gregory David Roberts
FOOD
It Starts With Food – Dallas and Melissa Hartwig
The Omnivore’s Dilemma – Michael Pollan
The Vegetarian Myth – Lierre Keith
The Third Plate – Dan Barber
Fair Food – Oran B. Hesterman