Library

A reference shelf of 87 books, series and resources across technology, literature, philosophy, economics, engineering, science and more. Entries are grouped by subject for browsing and discovery.

Technology

Zero to One by Peter Thiel
Hard things about hard things by Ben Horowitz
Our Final Invention: Artificial Intelligence and the End of the Human Era by James Barrat
Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies by Nick Bostrom
The Singularity Is Near by Ray Kurzweil

Literature

Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Notes from the Underground by Fyodor Dostoevsky
The Double by Fyodor Dostoevsky
The Plague by Albert Camus
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury

Non-Fiction

The Unabomber Manifesto by Ted Kaczynski
Antifragile by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
The Bed of Procrustes by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Skin in the Game by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harari
The Premonition by Michael Lewis

Economics

Freakonomics by Steven Levitt and Stephen Dubner
The Black Swan by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Debt: The First 5000 Years by David Graeber
Superfreakonomics by Steven Levitt and Stephen Dubner
Capitalist Realism by Mark Fisher

Fiction

1984 by George Orwell
Animal Farm by George Orwell
The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
Turtles all the way down by John Green
The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho
The Fault in our Stars by John Green
Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes
Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand
The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown

Philosophy

The Art of War by Sun Tzu
Meditations by Marcus Aurelius
Letters from a Stoic by Seneca
Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse
Culture and Value by Ludwig Wittgenstein
Justice: What's the Right Thing to Do? by Michael J. Sandel

Biographies

Elon Musk by Walter Isaacson
The autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman! by Richard Feynman
Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson

Political Science

The Prince by Niccolo Machiavelli
Anatomy of the State by Murray Rothbard
The Straussian Moment by Peter Thiel

History

Energy and Civilization by Vaclav Smil
Numbers Don't Lie by Vaclav Smil
The Story of Civilization by Will and Ariel Durant
Hardcore History (podcast) by Dan Carlin

General Science

Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman
A short history of nearly everything by Bill Bryson
Seven Brief Lessons on Physics by Carlo Rovelli
A Brief History of Intelligence by Max Bennett
Brief Answers to the Big Questions by Stephen Hawking
How to Invent Everything by Ryan North
Thing Explainer by Randall Munroe
What If? by Randall Munroe

Finance

The Laws of Trading by Agustin Lebron

Business & Entrepreneurship

The Diary of a CEO by Steven Bartlett
How to Sell Anything to Anybody by Joe Girard
The 48 Laws of Power by Robert Greene
Your Next Five Moves by Patrick Bet-David
The Four by Scott Galloway
Only the Paranoid Survive by Andrew S. Grove
The Science of Rapid Skill Acquisition by Peter Hollins
The Model Thinker by Scott E. Page

Science Fiction & Fantasy

The Culture series by Iain M. Banks
A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle
Foundation by Isaac Asimov
The Giver by Lois Lowry
Messenger by Lois Lowry
Dune by Frank Herbert
Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card
The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress by Robert A. Heinlein
The Lord of the Rings by J. R. R. Tolkien
The Silmarillion by J. R. R. Tolkien
The Hobbit by J. R. R. Tolkien

Engineering, Space & Rocketry

50 Model Rocket Projects by Gavin Harper
CubeSat Handbook: From Mission Design to Operations
DIY Rocket (1972) by Platonov
Experimental Rocketry: Build Your Rocket in 20 Hrs
Complete Project Rocket Design
High Power Rocket Design and Fabrication
Rocket Manual for Amateurs
Rockets and Missiles

Programming & Computer Science

The Pragmatic Programmer by Andrew Hunt and David Thomas
Designing Data-Intensive Applications by Martin Kleppmann
Code by Charles Petzold
The Feynman Lectures on Physics by Richard P. Feynman, Robert B. Leighton and Matthew Sands

Original 44 entries adapted from Divij Dawar's Library; additional titles supplied by the site owner. This is a reference collection, not a personal reading log.