​Although I wouldn’t categorize myself as a voracious reader, I do tend to read at least 4-5 books a year. This usually allows me time to focus on developing other skills I’ve been working on. I also try to list some of the books I’ve read here, marked in blue (Good) and green (Great).

There are no links attached since visitors are across geographies. ​

•  The Everything Store

• The Art of War

• A Course in Probability Theory - Kai Lai Chung

• The 48 Laws of Power

• Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software

• Zero to One

• Start with Why

• Outliers

• The Gene: An Intimate History

• Shoe Dog

• Competing Against Luck: The Story of Innovation and Customer Choice

• Thinking, Fast and Slow

• Good to Great

• Alexander Hamilton - Ron Chernow

• Clean Code: A Handbook of Agile Software Craftsmanship

• Hard Drive: Bill Gates and the Making of the Microsoft Empire

• The Innovator's Dilemma

• The Hard Thing About Hard Things

• Princes of the Yen: Japan's Central Bankers and the Transformation of the Economy

• Probability and Statistics - Morris H. DeGroot

• Robert Oppenheimer, Letters and Recollections

• Introduction to Algorithms - Thomas H. Cormen, Charles E. Leiserson, Ronald L. Rivest, Clifford Stein

• The Big Short

• The Intelligent Investor

• Rework

• The Guns of August - Barbara W. Tuchman

• Built to Last

• Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel: The Man Who Unified India

• The Bladerunner - Alan E. Nourse

• The Architecture of Computer Hardware and System Software - Irv Englander

• The Startup Owner's Manual - Steve Blank

• The Campaigns of Napoleon -  David Chandler

• Animal Farm - George Orwell

• Sam Walton - Made in America

• Corporate Finance: Theory and Practice – Pierre Vernimmen, Pascal Quiry, Maurizio Dallochio, Yann Le Fur, and Antonio Salvi

• Business Adventures

• The Man Who Mistook His Wife For A Hat

• The Spirit Level - Richard Wilkinson and Kate Pickett 

• Liar's Poker

• Titan - Ron Chernow

• To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee

• The Lord of the Rings - J.R.R. Tolkien

• The Black Swan

• The Nature of Mathematical Modeling - Neil Gershenfeld

• The History Of The Decline And Fall Of The Roman Empire - Edward Gibbon

• The Computer Science Book: A Complete Introduction - Thomas Johnson

• The Essays of Warren Buffett: Lessons for Corporate America, Fourth Edition - Lawrence A. Cunningham

• Why We Sleep - Matthew Walker

• The Brain That Changes Itself

• The Singularity Is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology

• The House of Morgan

• Moneyball

• Competition Demystified

• Uncanny Valley - Anna Wiener

• Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End 

• The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn - Mark Twain

• Fundamentals of Corporate Finance – Richard A. Brealey, Stewart C. Myers, and Alan J. Marcus

• Klara and the Sun

• The Lean Startup

• Hard Landing - Thomas Petzinger Jr.

• A Nation of Immigrants - John F. Kennedy

• Gödel, Escher, Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid

• Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln 

• Lights Out: Pride, Delusion, and the Fall of General Electric

• Whatever it takes - Stephen A. Schwarzman

• The Ride of a Lifetime - Robert Iger

• Good Economics for Hard Times

• A Short History of England - Simon Jenkins

• The Remains of the Day

• Winning - Jack Welch

• Measure What Matters

• Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup

• A Thousand Brains: A New Theory of Intelligence

• Steve Jobs - Walter Isaacson

• Quantum Computation and Quantum Information

• The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro

• Homo Deus - Yuval Noah Harari

• Capitalism Without Capital

• Poor Charlie's Almanack

• The Wealth of Nations - Adam Smith

• The Smartest Guys in the Room: The Amazing Rise and Scandalous Fall of Enron

• The Creature from Jekyll Island

• 1776 - David McCullough

• Hamlet - William Shakespeare

• Bank 4.0: Banking Everywhere, Never at a Bank

• Man’s Search for Meaning - Viktor E. Frankl

• War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy

• Dune - Frank Herbert

• Nineteen Eighty-Four - George Orwell

• Pioneering Portfolio Management: An Unconventional Approach to Institutional Investment

• A Brief History of Time - Stephen Hawking

• Diary of a Wimpy Kid

• Foundation - Isaac Asimov

• The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

• Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies

• Fahrenheit 451

• Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies

• Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

• Don Quixote

• The Dream Machine - M. Mitchell Waldrop

• From Russia with Love - Ian Fleming

• Cosmos - Carl Sagan

• Physics of the Impossible - Michio Kaku

• The Future of Capitalism

•  Hiroshima - John Hersey

• Black Boy: A Record of Childhood and Youth - Richard Wright

• The Diary of a Young Girl - Anne Frank

• Stranger in a Strange Land

• The Feynman Lectures on Physics

• The Economic Consequences of the Peace - John Maynard Keynes

• The Discovery of India - Jawaharlal Nehru

• The Beginning of Infinity

• The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin - Benjamin Franklin

• Common Sense - Tom Paine

• A Short History of Nearly Everything - Bill Bryson

• The Making of the Atomic Bomb - Richard Rhodes

• The Shortest History of China - Linda Jaivin

• The Snowball: Warren Buffett and the Business of Life

• The Partnership: The Making of Goldman Sachs

• Catch-22 - Joseph Heller

• Investment Valuation - Aswath Damodaran

• Corporate Finance: Theory and Practice - Aswath Damodaran

• When Genius Failed - Roger Lowenstein

• Lords of Finance - Liaquat Ahamed

• A Man Called Intrepid

• How the World Really Works - Vaclav Smil

• Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind

• When Breath Becomes Air

• Printed Circuits Handbook, Seventh Edition

• Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture

• Being Nixon

• Investment Banking: Valuation, Leveraged Buyouts, and Mergers and Acquisitions - Joshua Rosenbaum

• Infinite Jest

• Energy and Civilization: A History

• The Mythical Man-month - Frederick Brooks

• Code Complete (2 Edition): - Steve McConnell

• The Arabs: A History - Eugene Rogan

• Institutional Equities and the Broker Dealer - Michael J. Green

• In Search of Schrödinger's Cat - John Gribbin

• The Pragmatic Programmer

• Quantum Physics of Atoms, Molecules, Solids, Nuclei, and Particles

• Mendeleyev’s Dream - Paul Strathern

• The Code Breaker