*i don't vouch for these, but have at some point taken note of them as a book I might like to read.* ## Fiction - *Life and Fate* by Vasily Grossman - *A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man* by James Joyce - *The Subterraneans* by Jack Kerouac - *Ulysses* by James Joyce - *A Tale of Two Cities* by Charles Dickens ## History (Non-Fiction) * *The Splendid and the Vile* by Erik Larson * *Leningrad: State of Siege* by Michael Jones - *Confessions of a Yakuza: A Life in Japan's Underworld* by Junichi Saga - *Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty* by Patrick Radden Keefe - *Red Notice: A True Story of High Finance, Murder, and One Man's Fight for Justice* by Bill Browder - *From the River to the Sea: The Untold Story of the Railroad War That Made the West* by John Sedgwick - *Anabasis* by Xenophon https://www.amazon.com/Anabasis-Xenophon/dp/0140440070 - *Nothing is True and Everything is Possible* by Peter Pomarantsev - *The Last Million* by David Nasaw - *The Beginning of Infinity* by David Deutsch ## Biography and Memoir - *A Man of Iron: The Turbulent Life and Improbable Presidency of Grover Cleveland* by Troy Senik ## Books about the Banking Industry *Note: this is a list that I generated from the Maxfield on Banks account on X/Twitter. They had [posted a picture of a stack of books](https://x.com/MaxfieldOnBanks/status/1864291092142936158) and then [four more books](https://x.com/MaxfieldOnBanks/status/1864396687974039601), and I used ChatGPT to create the list from those pictures.* - _Last Man Standing: The Ascent of Jamie Dimon and JPMorgan Chase_ by Duff McDonald - https://www.amazon.com/Last-Man-Standing-Ascent-JPMorgan/dp/1416599541 - _A History of the Bank of Boston_ by Ben Ames Williams Jr. - https://www.amazon.com/History-Bank-Boston-Ames-Williams/dp/0316926500 - _Dead Bank Walking_ by Robert Smith - https://www.amazon.com/Dead-Bank-Walking-Robert-Smith/dp/0471577080 - _The Chase: The Chase Manhattan Bank, N.A., 1945–1985_ by John Donald Wilson - https://www.amazon.com/Chase-Manhattan-Bank-1945-1985/dp/0875841471 - _Fragile by Design: The Political Origins of Banking Crises and Scarce Credit_ by Charles W. Calomiris and Stephen H. Haber - https://www.amazon.com/Fragile-Design-Political-Origins-Banking/dp/0691155240 - _Citibank, 1812-1970_ by Harold van B. Cleveland and Thomas F. Huertas - https://www.amazon.com/Citibank-1812-1970-Harold-Cleveland/dp/0674132251 - _McColl: The Man with America’s Money_ by Rob Christensen - https://www.amazon.com/McColl-Man-Americas-Money-Christensen/dp/1570035560 - _The Continental Affair: The Rise and Fall of the Continental Illinois Bank_ by James E. Bere - https://www.amazon.com/Continental-Affair-Illinois-Bank/dp/0070045270 - _The Story of NationsBank: Changing the Face of American Banking_ by Howard E. Covington Jr. and Marion A. Ellis - https://www.amazon.com/Story-NationsBank-Changing-American-Banking/dp/0807823650 - _Money and Mind: The Mortgage Crisis and the Future of Banking_ by David P. Calleo - https://www.amazon.com/Money-Mind-Mortgage-Future-Banking/dp/0691145384 - _S & L Hell: The People and the Politics Behind the $1 Trillion Savings and Loan Scandal_ by Kathleen Day - https://www.amazon.com/Hell-Politics-Trillion-Savings-Scandal/dp/0393337227 - _Wriston: Walter Wriston, Citibank, and the Rise of Modern Finance_ by Phillip L. Zweig - https://www.amazon.com/Wriston-Walter-Citibank-Modern-Finance/dp/0517566122 - _Daisy Chain: How Borrowed Billions Sank a Texas S&L_ by James O’Shea - https://www.amazon.com/Daisy-Chain-Borrowed-Billions-Texas/dp/0671673331 - _House of Cards: A Tale of Hubris and Wretched Excess on Wall Street_ by William D. Cohan - https://www.amazon.com/House-Cards-Hubris-Wretched-Excess/dp/0385528264 - _Too Big to Fail: The Inside Story of How Wall Street and Washington Fought to Save the Financial System—and Themselves_ by Andrew Ross Sorkin - https://www.amazon.com/Too-Big-Fail-Washington-Themselves/dp/0670021253 - _The Lost Bank: The Story of Washington Mutual—The Biggest Bank Failure in American History_ by Kirsten Grind - https://www.amazon.com/Lost-Bank-Washington-Mutual-American/dp/1451617920 - _Nothing Is Too Big to Fail: How the Last Financial Crisis Informs Today_ by Kerry Killinger and Linda Killinger - https://www.amazon.com/Nothing-Too-Big-Fail-Financial/dp/1948122762 - _Belly Up: The Collapse of the Penn Square Bank_ by Phillip L. Zweig - https://www.amazon.com/Belly-Up-Collapse-Penn-Square/dp/0517556453 - _The Ambassador from Wall Street: The Story of Thomas W. Lamont, J.P. Morgan’s Chief Diplomat_ by Edward M. Lamont - https://www.amazon.com/Ambassador-Wall-Street-Morgans-Diplomat/dp/0814750800 - _Henry P. Davison: The Record of a Useful Life_ by Thomas W. Lamont - https://www.amazon.com/Henry-P-Davison-Record-Useful/dp/125811920X - _Biddle’s Bank_ by Thomas P. Govan - https://www.amazon.com/Biddles-Bank-Thomas-P-Govan/dp/B0007E4PYA - _The Money Lords: The Great Finance Capitalists, 1925–1950_ by Matthew Josephson - https://www.amazon.com/Money-Lords-Matthew-Josephson/dp/B000OKB8QA - _The First Billion: The Stillmans and the National City Bank_ by John K. Winkler - https://www.amazon.com/First-Billion-Stillmans-National-City/dp/B00085JD8E - _Lombard Street: A Description of the Money Market_ by Walter Bagehot - https://www.amazon.com/Lombard-Street-Description-Money-Market/dp/0486431703 ## Economics * *The Road to Serfdom* by F. A. Hayek - https://www.amazon.com/Road-Serfdom-Documents-Definitive-Collected/dp/0226320553 ## Technology ## Science ## Health ## Education - *The Well-Educated Mind: A Guide to the Classical Education You Never Had* by Susan Wise Bauer ## LDS/Mormon ## General (Unsorted) - - Duveen by S. N. Behrman https://www.amazon.com/Duveen-Story-Most-Spectacular-Art/dp/1681375041 - My Life and Work by Henry Ford https://www.amazon.com/My-Life-Work-Henry-Ford/dp/160459887X - The Gift of Fear by Gavin de Becker https://www.amazon.com/Gift-Fear-Survival-Signals-Violence/dp/0440508835 - Marine Maxims by Thomas J. Gordon https://www.amazon.com/Marine-Maxims-Leadership-Paths-Excellence/dp/1682475534 - How to Make a Few Billion Dollars by Brad Jacobs https://www.amazon.com/How-Make-Few-Billion-Dollars/dp/195859017X - Working Backwards by Colin Bryar and Bill Carr https://www.amazon.com/Working-Backwards-Insights-Stories-Secrets/dp/1250267595 - Play Bigger by Al Ramadan, Dave Peterson, Christopher Lochhead, and Kevin Maney https://www.amazon.com/Play-Bigger-Pirates-Dreamers-Innovators/dp/0062407619 - Jay Gould: His Business Career 1867-1892 by Julius Grodinsky https://www.amazon.com/Jay-Gould-His-Business-1867-1892/dp/B00085D9U - Cargill: Trading the World’s Grain by Wayne G. Broehl Jr. https://www.amazon.com/Cargill-Trading-Worlds-Wayne-Broehl/dp/0874512303 - Morgan: American Financier by Jean Strouse https://www.amazon.com/Morgan-American-Financier-Jean-Strouse/dp/0375754686 - Maxims of Napoleon https://www.amazon.com/Maxims-Napoleon-NAPOLEON/dp/0857065399 - Bringing Out the Best in People by Alan Loy McGinnis https://www.amazon.com/Bringing-Out-Best-People-Updated/dp/0806635718 - Black Wave by Kim Ghattas https://www.amazon.com/Black-Wave-Saudi-Iran-Rivalry-Unraveling/dp/1250131203 - John D.: The Founding Father of the Rockefellers by David Freeman Hawke https://www.amazon.com/John-Founding-Father-Rockefellers/dp/0060153866 - Zero to One by Peter Thiel https://www.amazon.com/Zero-One-Notes-Startups-Future/dp/0804139296 - The Sovereign Individual by James Dale Davidson and Lord William Rees-Mogg https://www.amazon.com/Sovereign-Individual-Mastering-Transition-Information/dp/0684832720 - The Maniac by Benjamin Labatut https://www.amazon.com/Maniac-Novel-Benjamin-Labatut/dp/0593654493 - American Rascal by Greg Steinmetz https://www.amazon.com/American-Rascal-Built-Streets-Biggest/dp/1982107404 - Dark Genius of Wall Street: The Misunderstood Life of Jay Gould by Edward J. Renehan Jr. https://www.amazon.com/Dark-Genius-Wall-Street-Misunderstood/dp/0465018299 - The 22 Laws of Category Design by Category Pirates https://www.amazon.com/22-Laws-Category-Design/dp/1958950037 - The Founders by Jimmy Soni https://www.amazon.com/Founders-Story-PayPal-Entrepreneurs-Silicon/dp/150119726X - The Six-Month Fix by Gary Sutton https://www.amazon.com/Six-Month-Fix-Adventures-Rescuing-Companies/dp/0471656261 - Skyscraper Dreams by Tom Shachtman https://www.amazon.com/Skyscraper-Dreams-Estate-Dynasties-York/dp/0316778232 - Edison by Edmund Morris https://www.amazon.com/Edison-Edmund-Morris/dp/081299311X - *The Secret Life of Lobsters* by Trevor Corson - [*Hunting Eichmann*](https://www.amazon.com/Hunting-Eichmann-Survivors-Agency-Notorious/dp/0547248024?dplnkId=46950a4b-9a9f-4ff3-ae0d-795095c38a30&nodl=1) by Paul Hecht - *Understanding AI* by Timothy B. Lee - *Offshore* by Brooke Harrington - *Moneyland* by Oliver Bullough - - Faust by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - The Long Walk: The True Story of a Trek to Freedom by Slavomir Rawicz - The Color of Everything: A Journey to Quiet the Chaos Within by Cory Richards - Silicon Valley Bank by Xuan-Thao N. Nguyen - Dead Bank Walking: One Gutsy Bank's Struggle for Survival and the Merger That Changed Banking Forever by Robert H. Smith - Red Prophet: The Tales of Alvin Maker, Volume 1 by Orson Scott Card - The Whistling Season (Morrie Morgan #1, Two Medicine Country #7) by Ivan Doig - Bakhtin: Essays and Dialogues on His Work (A Critical Inquiry Book) by Gary Saul Morson - Boundaries of Genre: Dostoevsky's Diary of a Writer and the Traditions of Literary Utopia by Gary Saul Morson - Rethinking Bakhtin: Extensions and Challenges (Studies in Russian Literature and Theory) by Gary Saul Morson - The Words of Others: From Quotations to Culture by Gary Saul Morson - Prosaics and Other Provocations: Empathy, Open Time, and the Novel (Ars Rossica) by Gary Saul Morson - The Fabulous Future?: America and the World in 2040 by Gary Saul Morson - Narrative and Freedom: The Shadows of Time by Gary Saul Morson - Wonder Confronts Certainty: Russian Writers on the Timeless Questions and Why Their Answers Matter by Gary Saul Morson - Mikhail Bakhtin: Creation of a Prosaics by Gary Saul Morson - Minds Wide Shut: How the New Fundamentalisms Divide Us by Gary Saul Morson - Cents and Sensibility: What Economics Can Learn from the Humanities by Gary Saul Morson - Anna Karenina in our time by Gary Saul Morson - Breath: The New Science of a Lost Art by James Nestor - The Surrender Experiment: My Journey into Life's Perfection by Michael A. Singer - The Untethered Soul: The Journey Beyond Yourself by Michael A. Singer - 10x Is Easier Than 2x: How World-Class Entrepreneurs Achieve More by Doing Less by Dan Sullivan - Soviet Bus Stops by Christopher Herwig - The Wright Brothers by David McCullough - Thinking for a Living: How to Get Better Performances And Results from Knowledge Workers by Thomas H. Davenport - Draft No. 4: On the Writing Process by John McPhee - The Kid Stays in the Picture by Robert Evans - A Primate's Memoir: A Neuroscientist's Unconventional Life Among the Baboons by Robert M. Sapolsky - Roosevelt and Stalin: The Failed Courtship by Robert A. Nisbet - The Screaming Staircase (Lockwood & Co., #1) by Jonathan Stroud - The Opera Sisters by Marianne Monson - A Place to Come To by Robert Penn Warren - Richard M. Nixon: A Life in Full by Conrad Black - Playing to Win by Michael Lewis - Seiobo There Below by L√°szl√≥ Krasznahorkai - Design Flaws: A Grayson Dyle Mystery by Joe Golemo - The One Thing: The Surprisingly Simple Truth Behind Extraordinary Results by Gary Keller - The Long Haul: A Trucker's Tales of Life on the Road by Finn Murphy - The Soul of Money: Transforming Your Relationship with Money and Life by Lynne Twist - Grant by Ron Chernow - The Prestige by Christopher Priest - The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics by Daniel James Brown - Number Go Up: Inside Crypto's Wild Rise and Staggering Fall by Zeke Faux - Beneath a Scarlet Sky by Mark T. Sullivan - The Madness of Crowds: Gender, Race and Identity by Douglas Murray - Greed and Glory on Wall Street: The Fall of the House of Lehman by Ken Auletta - The Road to Reality: A Complete Guide to the Laws of the Universe by Roger Penrose - Pandora's Gamble: Lab Leaks, Pandemics, And A World At Risk by Alison Young - George Harrison: The Reluctant Beatle by Philip Norman - Laziness Does Not Exist by Devon Price - Maestros & Monsters: Days & Nights with Susan Sontag & George Steiner by Robert Boyers - Peak: Secrets from the New Science of Expertise by K. Anders Ericsson - Power and the Presidency by Stanley Marcus - Extraordinary Lives: The Art and Craft of American Biography by Robert A. Caro - On Power by Robert A. Caro - Never Finished by David Goggins - Good for a Girl: A Woman Running in a Man's World by Lauren Fleshman - Outlive: The Science & Art of Longevity by Peter Attia - The Theory and Practice of Selling the AGA Cooker by David Ogilvy - Escape from Jupiter by David Ogilvy - The Eternal Pursuit of Unhappyness by David Ogilvy - David Ogilvy: An Autobiography (Trailblazers) by David Ogilvy - The Unpublished David Ogilvy by David Ogilvy - Confessions of an Advertising Man by David Ogilvy - Ogilvy on Advertising by David Ogilvy - The Economic Naturalist: In Search of Explanations for Everyday Enigmas by Robert H. Frank - Mere Christianity by C.S. Lewis - The Last Lecture by Randy Pausch - The Cleanest Race: How North Koreans See Themselves and Why It Matters by B.R. Myers - The Will to Change: Men, Masculinity, and Love by bell hooks - Quantum Criminals: Ramblers, Wild Gamblers, and Other Sole Survivors from the Songs of Steely Dan (American Music Series) by Alex Pappademas - Silence by Sh≈´saku End≈ç - The Postman Always Rings Twice by James M. Cain - Double Indemnity by James M. Cain - The Only Harmless Great Thing by Brooke Bolander - All Systems Red (The Murderbot Diaries, #1) by Martha Wells - Original Grace by Adam S. Miller - The Sunset Limited by Cormac McCarthy - The Machine Stops by E.M. Forster - Tattoos on the Heart: The Power of Boundless Compassion by Gregory Boyle - The Tao of Pooh by Benjamin Hoff - The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho - Peace Like a River by Leif Enger - Tribe: On Homecoming and Belonging by Sebastian Junger - The Lessons of History by Will Durant - The Stranger by Albert Camus - A Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawking - The Giver (The Giver, #1) by Lois Lowry - The Brief and Frightening Reign of Phil by George Saunders - The Sweet Spot: The Pleasures of Suffering and the Search for Meaning by Paul Bloom - The Pleasure of My Company by Steve Martin - Shopgirl by Steve Martin - Train Dreams by Denis Johnson - Waiting for the Barbarians by J.M. Coetzee - Winning on Purpose: The Unbeatable Strategy of Loving Customers by Fred Reichheld - Insanely Simple: The Obsession That Drives Apple's Success by Ken Segall - Master of the Game: Steve Ross and the Creation of Time Warner by Connie Bruck - Moral Mazes: The World of Corporate Managers by Robert Jackall - This Is How They Tell Me the World Ends: The Cyberweapons Arms Race by Nicole Perlroth - Becoming Supernatural: How Common People are Doing the Uncommon by Joe Dispenza - The Name of the Wind (The Kingkiller Chronicle, #1) by Patrick Rothfuss - Scarcity: Why Having Too Little Means So Much by Sendhil Mullainathan - Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City by Matthew Desmond - The New New Journalism: Conversations with America's Best Nonfiction Writers on Their Craft by Robert S. Boynton - The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer - The Return of the Native by Thomas Hardy - Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy - Tess of the D‚ÄôUrbervilles by Thomas Hardy - Monetizing Innovation: How Smart Companies Design the Product Around the Price by Madhavan Ramanujam - The Filing Cabinet: A Vertical History of Information by Craig Robertson - Street Types Of Great American Cities by Sigmund Krausz - Made in Japan: Akio Morita and Sony by Akio Morita - The Europeans: Three Lives and the Making of a Cosmopolitan Culture by Orlando Figes - The Comfort Crisis: Embrace Discomfort To Reclaim Your Wild, Happy, Healthy Self by Michael Easter - Smart Card Handbook (Blackwell Companions in Cultural Studies) by Wolfgang Rankl - It's a Long Story: My Life by Willie Nelson - Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions by Dan Ariely - Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion by Robert B. Cialdini - More Money Than God: Hedge Funds and the Making of a New Elite by Sebastian Mallaby - Just Like That by Gary D. Schmidt - Okay for Now by Gary D. Schmidt - The Wednesday Wars: A Newbery Honor Award Winner by Gary D. Schmidt - The Joy of X: A Guided Tour of Math, from One to Infinity by Steven H. Strogatz - Infinite Powers: How Calculus Reveals the Secrets of the Universe by Steven H. Strogatz - Sync: The Emerging Science of Spontaneous Order by Steven H. Strogatz - Upstream: Selected Essays by Mary Oliver - A Thousand Mornings: Poems by Mary Oliver - Personal Kanban: Mapping Work | Navigating Life by Jim Benson - This Life: Secular Faith and Spiritual Freedom by Martin H√§gglund - The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt by Edmund Morris - The Lonely American: Drifting Apart in the Twenty-first Century by Jacqueline Olds - City of Thieves by David Benioff - The Book of Longings by Sue Monk Kidd - 10% Happier by Dan Harris - A Hall of Mirrors by Robert Stone - How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America by Clint Smith - Unchopping a Tree by W.S. Merwin - Bird by Bird by Anne Lamott - The Nature and Aesthetics of Design by David Pye - The Creative Habit: Learn It and Use It for Life by Twyla Tharp - An Entrance to the Woods by Wendell Berry - How to Write One Song: Loving the Things We Create and How They Love Us Back by Jeff Tweedy - Suttree by Cormac McCarthy - Cities of the Plain (The Border Trilogy, #3) by Cormac McCarthy - The Crossing (The Border Trilogy, #2) by Cormac McCarthy - Child of God by Cormac McCarthy - All the Pretty Horses (The Border Trilogy, #1) by Cormac McCarthy - Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West by Cormac McCarthy - No Country for Old Men by Cormac McCarthy - The Unteachables by Gordon Korman - Cr√¶ft: An Inquiry Into the Origins and True Meaning of Traditional Crafts by Alex Langlands - How We Got to Now: Six Innovations That Made the Modern World by Steven Johnson - The Complete Financial History of Berkshire Hathaway: A Chronological Analysis of Warren Buffett and Charlie Munger's Conglomerate Masterpiece by Adam J. Mead - Deep Survival: Who Lives, Who Dies, and Why by Laurence Gonzales - Limitless: Upgrade Your Brain, Learn Anything Faster, and Unlock Your Exceptional Life by Jim Kwik - 740 Park: The Story of the World's Richest Apartment Building by Michael Gross - Selected Poems (Penguin Classics) by John Clare - A Shropshire Lad by A.E. Housman - Let Us Now Praise Famous Gardens by Vita Sackville-West - English Journeys English Folk Songs by Ralph Vaughan Williams - Some Country Houses and Their Owners by James Lee Milne - English Journeys the Beauties of a Cottage Garden by Gertrude Jekyll - A Wiltshire Diary (English Journeys) by Francis Kilvert - Walks In The Wheat Fields by Richard Jefferies - The Pleasures of English Food by Alan Davidson - English Journeys The Clouded Mirror by L.T.C. Rolt - Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard and Other Poems by Thomas Gray - English Journeys One Green Field by Edward Thomas - Country Lore and Legends by Jacqueline Simpson - Life at Grasmere by Dorothy Wordsworth - Country Churches by Simon Jenkins - Cathedrals and Castles by Henry James - Through England on a Side Saddle (English Journeys) by Celia Fiennes - Voices Of Akenfield (English Journeys) by Ronald Blythe - The Wood by John Stewart Collis - From Dover To The Wen (English Journeys) by William Cobbett - Birds of Selborne by Gilbert White - Wild Life in a Southern County (Nature Classics Library) by Richard Jefferies - Neil Young: Long May You Run: The Illustrated History by Daniel Durchholz - The Dead Hand: The Untold Story of the Cold War Arms Race and its Dangerous Legacy by David E. Hoffman - A World Without Email: Reimagining Work in an Age of Communication Overload by Cal Newport - Seveneves by Neal Stephenson - The Diamond Age: Or, a Young Lady's Illustrated Primer by Neal Stephenson - Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson - Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson - Working Backwards: Insights, Stories, and Secrets from Inside Amazon by Colin Bryar - Washington: A Life by Ron Chernow - The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco - The Grace to Race: The Wisdom and Inspiration of the 80-Year-Old World Champion Triathlete Known as the Iron Nun by Madonna Buder - When You Reach Me by Rebecca Stead - The Pillow Book by Sei Sh≈çnagon - The Fall of Public Man by Richard Sennett - Touch and Go: A Memoir by Studs Terkel - American Dreams: Lost and Found by Studs Terkel - Coming of Age: The Story of Our Century by Those Who've Lived It by Studs Terkel - Hope Dies Last: Keeping the Faith in Difficult Times by Studs Terkel - Will the Circle Be Unbroken? Reflections on Death, Rebirth and Hunger for a Faith by Studs Terkel - Race: How Blacks And Whites Think And Feel About The American Obsession by Studs Terkel - Division Street: America by Studs Terkel - The Good War: An Oral History of World War II by Studs Terkel - Hard Times: An Oral History of the Great Depression by Studs Terkel - The Great Mental Models Volume 2: Physics, Chemistry and Biology by Shane Parrish - The Great Mental Models: General Thinking Concepts by Shane Parrish - Ready Player One (Ready Player One, #1) by Ernest Cline - Birth of the Chaordic Age: VISA and the Rise of Chaordic Organization by Dee Hock - The Final Days by Bob Woodward - 2312 by Kim Stanley Robinson - Aurora by Kim Stanley Robinson - TAPE SUCKS: Inside Data Domain, A Silicon Valley Growth Story by Frank Slootman - Dune (Dune, #1) by Frank Herbert - One Billion Americans: The Case for Thinking Bigger by Matthew Yglesias - Theory of Games and Economic Behavior by John von Neumann - The Three-Body Problem (Remembrance of Earth‚Äôs Past, #1) by Liu Cixin - Inventing FedEx: The Cruel Ordeal by Vance H. Trimble - 80/20 Running: Run Stronger and Race Faster By Training Slower by Matt Fitzgerald - Finding Ultra: Rejecting Middle Age, Becoming One of the World's Fittest Men, and Discovering Myself by Rich Roll - Daniels' Running Formula by Jack Daniels - Running with the Buffaloes: A Season Inside with Mark Wetmore, Adam Goucher, and the University of Colorado Men's Cross-Country Team by Chris Lear - Running with the Kenyans: Passion, Adventure, and the Secrets of the Fastest People on Earth by Adharanand Finn - Let Your Mind Run: A Memoir of Thinking My Way to Victory by Deena Kastor - Training Essentials for Ultrarunning: How to Train Smarter, Race Faster, and Maximize Your Ultramarathon Performance by Jason Koop - Training for the Uphill Athlete: A Manual for Mountain Runners and Ski Mountaineers by Steve House - Creativity, Inc.: Overcoming the Unseen Forces That Stand in the Way of True Inspiration by Ed Catmull - Jim Henson: The Biography by Brian Jay Jones - To Sleep in a Sea of Stars (Fractalverse, #1) by Christopher Paolini - Start with Why: How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone to Take Action by Simon Sinek - Those Angry Days: Roosevelt, Lindbergh, and America's Fight Over World War II, 1939-1941 by Lynne Olson - The Feather Thief: Beauty, Obsession, and the Natural History Heist of the Century by Kirk Wallace Johnson - Junkyard Planet: Travels in the Billion-Dollar Trash Trade by Adam Minter - Leaving Cheyenne by Larry McMurtry - Horseman, Pass By by Larry McMurtry - The Precipice by Toby Ord - Human Compatible: Artificial Intelligence and the Problem of Control by Stuart Russell - Bhagavat Gita by Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa - The Villa: Form and Ideology of Country Houses (The A. W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts) by James S. Ackerman - The Bully Pulpit: Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and the Golden Age of Journalism by Doris Kearns Goodwin - Small Is Beautiful: Economics as if People Mattered by Ernst F. Schumacher - Whose Names Are Unknown by Sanora Babb - Fear of Falling: The Inner Life of the Middle Class by Barbara Ehrenreich - Terms of Endearment by Larry McMurtry - The Pillars of the Earth (Kingsbridge, #1) by Ken Follett - Mason & Dixon by Thomas Pynchon - The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami - Wolf Hall (Thomas Cromwell, #1) by Hilary Mantel - All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr - Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell - The Fifth Season (The Broken Earth, #1) by N.K. Jemisin - The Life of Samuel Johnson by James Boswell - Gulliver‚Äôs Travels by Jonathan Swift - Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra - Inferno by Dante Alighieri - The Odyssey and The Iliad by Robert Fitzgerald - The Dialogues of Plato by Plato - The Year Without Summer: 1816 and the Volcano That Darkened the World and Changed History by William K. Klingaman - World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War by Max Brooks - The Language of Flowers by Vanessa Diffenbaugh - This Tender Land by William Kent Krueger - Very Important People: Status and Beauty in the Global Party Circuit by Ashley Mears - The Complacent Class: The Self-Defeating Quest for the American Dream by Tyler Cowen - Average Is Over: Powering America Beyond the Age of the Great Stagnation by Tyler Cowen - The Great Reversal: How America Gave Up on Free Markets by Thomas Philippon - The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America by Richard Rothstein - The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable by Nassim Nicholas Taleb - What Philosophy Can Teach You About Being a Better Leader by Alison Reynolds - The Road Less Traveled: A New Psychology of Love, Traditional Values and Spiritual Growth by M. Scott Peck - What Money Can't Buy: The Moral Limits of Markets by Michael J. Sandel - Know My Name by Chanel Miller - Willful: How We Choose What We Do by Richard Robb - Leadership Without Easy Answers by Ronald A. Heifetz - The Practice of Adaptive Leadership: Tools and Tactics for Changing Your Organization and the World by Ronald A. Heifetz - Leadership on the Line: Staying Alive through the Dangers of Leading by Ronald A. Heifetz - The War on Normal People: The Truth About America's Disappearing Jobs and Why Universal Basic Income Is Our Future by Andrew Yang - The Yellow House by Patricia Falvey - The Topeka School by Ben Lerner - Strangers and Cousins by Leah Hager Cohen - Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland by Patrick Radden Keefe - On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong - A Good Provider Is One Who Leaves: One Family and Migration in the 21st Century by Jason DeParle - Girl, Woman, Other by Bernardine Evaristo - Falter: Has the Human Game Begun to Play Itself Out? by Bill McKibben - Black Leopard, Red Wolf (The Dark Star Trilogy, #1) by Marlon James - Founders at Work: Stories of Startups' Early Days by Jessica Livingston - Open by Andre Agassi - Loonshots: How to Nurture the Crazy Ideas That Win Wars, Cure Diseases, and Transform Industries by Safi Bahcall - On War by Carl von Clausewitz - Behavior, Society, and Nuclear War by Philip E. Tetlock - Behavior, Society, and Nuclear War by Philip E. Tetlock - What's Wrong with Expert Predictions? (Cato Unbound Book 72011) by Robin Hanson - Counterfactual Thought Experiments in World Politics: Logical, Methodological, and Psychological Perspectives by Philip E. Tetlock - Unmaking the West: "What-If?" Scenarios That Rewrite World History by Philip E. Tetlock - Expert Political Judgment: How Good Is It? How Can We Know? by Philip E. Tetlock - Superforecasting: The Art and Science of Prediction by Philip E. Tetlock - The Travelling Cat Chronicles by Hiro Arikawa - The Servant Leader by Kenneth H. Blanchard - Leaders Eat Last: Why Some Teams Pull Together and Others Don't by Simon Sinek - Servant Leadership: A Journey Into the Nature of Legitimate Power and Greatness by Robert K. Greenleaf - Good Enough: The Tolerance for Mediocrity in Nature and Society by Daniel S. Milo - Radical Candor: Be a Kickass Boss Without Losing Your Humanity by Kim Malone Scott - The Go-Giver: A Little Story About a Powerful Business Idea by Bob Burg - Peopleware: Productive Projects and Teams by Tom DeMarco - IBM: The Rise and Fall and Reinvention of a Global Icon (History of Computing) by James W. Cortada - The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion by Jonathan Haidt - Reclaiming Conversation: The Power of Talk in a Digital Age by Sherry Turkle - Solitude: A Singular Life in a Crowded World by Michael Harris - Solitude: A Return to the Self by Anthony Storr - Lead Yourself First: Inspiring Leadership Through Solitude by Raymond M. Kethledge - The Moral Consequences of Economic Growth by Benjamin M. Friedman - The Art of Eating by M.F.K. Fisher - Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945 by Tony Judt - The Evolution of Cooperation by Robert Axelrod - Handbook of Principles of Organizational Behavior: Indispensable Knowledge for Evidence-Based Management by Edwin A. Locke - How to Measure Anything: Finding the Value of "Intangibles" in Business by Douglas W. Hubbard - Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies by Nick Bostrom - 80,000 Hours: Find a fulfilling career that does good by Benjamin Todd - Reasons and Persons by Derek Parfit - Practical Ethics by Peter Singer - Herzog by Saul Bellow - How the Internet Happened: From Netscape to the iPhone by Brian McCullough - Scale: The Universal Laws of Growth, Innovation, Sustainability, and the Pace of Life in Organisms, Cities, Economies, and Companies by Geoffrey B. West - Magic Box Paradigm: A framework for startup acquisitions (First Edition - Second Edition Has Been Released) by Ezra Roizen - The Revolt of the Public and the Crisis of Authority by Martin Gurri - Nothing but a Circus: Misadventures Among the Powerful by Daniel Levin - The Most Human Human: What Talking with Computers Teaches Us About What It Means to Be Alive by Brian Christian - Algorithms to Live By: The Computer Science of Human Decisions by Brian Christian - The Art of Computer Programming: Volume 3: Sorting and Searching by Donald Ervin Knuth - The Art of Computer Programming, Volume 2: Seminumerical Algorithms by Donald Ervin Knuth - The Art of Computer Programming, Volume 1: Fundamental Algorithms by Donald Ervin Knuth - The Success Equation by Michael J. Mauboussin - The Book of Why: The New Science of Cause and Effect by Judea Pearl - Let the Great World Spin by Colum McCann - Ghost Rider: Travels on the Healing Road by Neil Peart - The Manual of Insight and The Noble Eightfold Path and Its Factors Explained by Ven. Ledi Sayadaw - Leadership and Self-Deception: Getting Out of the Box by Arbinger Institute - Creative Quest by Ahmir "Questlove" Thompson - The Honest Truth About Dishonesty: How We Lie to Everyone - Especially Ourselves by Dan Ariely - Chasing the Scream: The First and Last Days of the War on Drugs by Johann Hari - The Right Stuff by Tom Wolfe - Endure: Mind, Body, and the Curiously Elastic Limits of Human Performance by Alex Hutchinson - Great Streets (Mit Press) by Allan B. Jacobs - The Startup Owner's Manual Strategy Guide by Steve Blank - A More Beautiful Question: The Power of Inquiry to Spark Breakthrough Ideas by Warren Berger - Hit Refresh by Satya Nadella - Hard Landing: The Epic Contest for Power and Profits That Plunged the Airlines into Chaos by Thomas Petzinger Jr. - The Feminine Mystique by Betty Friedan - Something Incredibly Wonderful Happens: Frank Oppenheimer and the world he made up by K.C. Cole - Whole Earth Discipline: An Ecopragmatist Manifesto by Stewart Brand - Poor Charlie's Almanack: The Wit and Wisdom of Charles T. Munger by Charles T. Munger - The Journalist and the Murderer by Janet Malcolm - The Cowshed: Memories of the Chinese Cultural Revolution by Ji Xianlin - Alibaba: The House That Jack Ma Built by Duncan Clark - Nixonland: The Rise of a President and the Fracturing of America by Rick Perlstein - The Mind-Body Problem by Rebecca Goldstein - Orality and Literacy: The Technologizing of the Word by Walter J. Ong - Men, Machines, and Modern Times by Elting E. Morison - The Rise and Fall of American Growth: The U.S. Standard of Living since the Civil War (The Princeton Economic History of the Western World) by Robert J. Gordon - The Obstacle Is the Way: The Timeless Art of Turning Trials into Triumph by Ryan Holiday - A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole - The Origins of Totalitarianism by Hannah Arendt - Public Philosophy: Essays on Morality in Politics by Michael J. Sandel - Gilda Trillim: Shepherdess of Rats by Steven L. Peck - Evolving Faith - Wanderings of a Mormon Biologist by Steven L. Peck - The Scholar of Moab by Steven L. Peck - The God Who Weeps: How Mormonism Makes Sense of Life by Terryl L. Givens - Wrestling the Angel: The Foundations of Mormon Thought: Cosmos, God, Humanity by Terryl L. Givens - Rube Goldberg Machines: Essays in Mormon Theology by Adam S. Miller - Lila (Gilead, #3) by Marilynne Robinson - Gilead (Gilead, #1) by Marilynne Robinson - Home (Gilead, #2) by Marilynne Robinson - Dare to Serve: How to Drive Superior Results by Serving Others by Cheryl A. Bachelder - The China Study: The Most Comprehensive Study of Nutrition Ever Conducted and the Startling Implications for Diet, Weight Loss, and Long-term Health by T. Colin Campbell - *What the World Needs Now: A Resource Book for Daydreamers, Frustrated Inventors, Cranks, Efficiency Experts, Utopians, Gadgeteers, Tinkerers and Just about Everybody Else* by Steven M. Johnson - Making It All Work: Winning at the Game of Work and Business of Life by David Allen - The Gulag Archipelago by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn - *Family Unfriendly* by Timothy P. Carney -