Marcus's Reading ListTue Jul 25 2023

This page is a history of books I've read and maybe some I'd recommend. Too often I consume books and forget both that I read them and what I learned.

Guide

🏃‍♂️ for the book I am currently reading

🥱 for books I didn't finish

🔊 for audiobooks

2023

🏃‍♂️ Fast Fiction, VOL 2 Man vs. Machine by Scotty Cornfield

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon

🏃‍♂️🔊 The Snowball by Alice Schroeder

Black Edge by @sheelahk

🔊 How to Turn Down a Billion Dollars by @GallagherBilly

🔊 How to Get Rich by Felix Dennis

Gang Leader for a Day by Sudhir Venkatesh

🔊 Trillion Dollar Coach by Eric Schmidt, Jonathan Rosenberg, Alan Eagle

🥱 Leaving the Atocha Station by Ben Lerner

🔊 Casino Royal by Ian Fleming

Status and Culture by @wdavidmarx

🔊 Liar's Poker by Michael Lewis

Endurance by Alfred Lansing

2022

Everything I Need I Get from You by Kaitlyn Tiffany

Action Park by Andy Mulvihill

🔊 How to Decide by @AnnieDuke

🔊 Who: The A Method for Hiring by Geoff Smart

🔊 The Manager's Path by @skamille

🔊 Setting the Table by @dhmeyer

The Tiger by @JohnVaillant

🔊Titan by Ron Chernow

🔊 Set for Life by @STrenchBP

🥱 🔊 Musashi by Eiji Yoshikawa

🔊 The Craft by John Dickie

Ghost in the Wires by @kevinmitnick

🔊 Marine Sniper by Charles Henderson

🔊 Pimp by Iceberg Slim

2021

🥱 The Making of a Manager by @joulee

The Passionate Programmer by @chadfowler

Working Backwards by @cbryar & @BillCarr89

🥱 The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand

Kitchen Confidential by Anthony Bourdain

The Alchemist by @PauloCoehlo

The Spy and the Traitor by @BenMacintyre1

Red Notice by @Billbrowder

Skunk Works by Ben R. Rich

Creativity, Inc. by @edcatmull

Breath by @MrJamesNestor

Clean Code by @UncleBobMartin

Nudge by @R_Thaler & @CassSunstein

Working Backwards by @cbryar & @BillCarr89

2020

Lives of the Stoics by @RyanHoliday

Greenlights by @McConaughey

Clean by @jameshamblin

Exploding the Phone by Phil Lapsley

Never Split the Difference by @VossNegotiation

I Hope They Serve Beer In Hell by @TuckerMax

The Mole People by Jennifer Toth

Factory Girls by Leslie T. Chang

American Kingpin by @NickBilton

The Future We Choose by @CFigueres & @TomCarnac

The Machine That Changed the World by James P. Womack

The Wedge by @SGCarney

Purple Cow by @ThisIsSethsBlog

The Pragmatic Programmer - 20th Anniversary Edition by @pragdave & @PragmaticAndy

The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt

Remote by @JasonFried

Shoe Dog by Phil Knight

The Dichotomy of Leadership by @JockoWillink

Talking to Strangers by @Gladwell

City of Thieves: A Novel by David Benioff

Annelies Hartmann Hampel Memoirs by Annelies Hartmann Hampel

The Path Between the Seas: The Creation of the Panama Canal, 1870-1914 by David McCullough

Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future by @PeterThiel

Fight Club by @ChuckPalahniuk

The Operator: David Geffen Builds, Buys, and Sells the New Hollywood by Thomas R. King

2019

It Doesn't Have to Be Crazy at Work by @JasonFried

Total Recall: My Unbelievably True Life Story by @Schwarzenegger

The Richest Man in Babylon by George S. Clason

The Manual: A Philosopher's Guide to Life by Epictetus

Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams by @SleepDiplomat

2018

Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products by @Nireyal

Algorithms to Live By by Brian Christian

This Is How You Lose Her by Junot Díaz

Linchpin by @ThisIsSethsBlog

Surely You're Joking Mr. Feyman by Richard P. Feynman

Mate: Become the Man Women Want by @TuckerMax

Letters from a Self-Made Merchant to his Son by

Ishmael by Daniel Quinn

2017

Ego Is the Enemy by @RyanHoliday

Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman

2016

The Power Of Habit by @cduhigg

2015

Paper Towns by @JohnGreen

The Zen of Steve Jobs by Caleb Melby

Vagabonding by @RolfPotts

2014

Life of Pi by Yann Martel

The Kite Runner by @KhaledHosseini

As A Man Thinketh by James Allen

The Obstacle Is the Way: The Timeless Art of Turning Trials into Triumph by @RyanHoliday

Angels & Demons by Dan Brown

Meditations by Marcus Aurelius

Lone Survivor by @MarcusLuttrell

A Dog in a Hat by Joe Parkin

Losing My Virginity by @RichardBranson

2013

The 4-Hour Chef by @tferriss

The 4-Hour Workweek by @tferriss

Ender's Game by @OrsonScottCard

The Box: How the Shipping Container Made the World Smaller and the World Economy Bigger by Marc Levinson

1999

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