Log of books that I have read and my ratings.
2020
- How to Be an Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi (8/10)
- American Gods by Neil Gaiman (8/10)
- Disunited Nations: The Scramble for Power in an Ungoverned World by Peter Zeihan (10/10)
- The Refugees by Viet Thanh Nguyen (7/10)
- How Music Got Free: The End of an Industry, the Turn of the Century, and the Patient Zero of Piracy by Stephen Richard Witt (9/10)
- Kings of Crypto: One Startup’s Quest to Take Cryptocurrency Out of Silicon Valley and Onto Wall Street by Jeff John Roberts (8/10)
- Exhalation: Stories by Ted Chiang (8/10)
- The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World by Niall Ferguson (7/10)
- A Supposedly Fun Thing I’ll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments by David Foster Wallace (8/10)
- Never Split the Difference: Negotiating As If Your Life Depended On It by Chris Voss (8/10)
- Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens (8/10)
- Technological Revolutions and Financial Capital: The Dynamics of Bubbles and Golden Ages by Carlota Pérez (8/10)
- Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic by David Quammen (8/10)
- Bad for You: Exposing the War on Fun by Kevin C. Pyle, Scott Cunningham (7/10)
- The Denial of Death by Ernest Becker (4/10)
- Bitcoin Billionaires: A True Story of Genius, Betrayal, and Redemption by Ben Mezrich (7/10)
- Israel: A Concise History of a Nation Reborn by Daniel Gordis (8/10)
- The Elements of Eloquence: How to Turn the Perfect English Phrase by Mark Forsyth (9/10)
- The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion by Jonathan Haidt (6/10)
- Alibaba: The House That Jack Ma Built by Duncan Clark (8/10)
- Skunk Works: A Personal Memoir of My Years at Lockheed by Ben R. Rich, Leo Janos (10/10)
- The Code Book: The Science of Secrecy from Ancient Egypt to Quantum Cryptography by Simon Singh (10/10)
- Lifespan: Why We Age—and Why We Don’t Have To by David A. Sinclair (9/10)
- The Great Beanie Baby Bubble: Mass Delusion and the Dark Side of Cute by Zac Bissonnette (6/10)
- The Man Who Solved the Market by Gregory Zuckerman (9/10)
- Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City by Matthew Desmond (9/10)
- Super Pumped: The Battle for Uber by Mike Isaac (10/10)
2019
- The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements by Eric Hoffer (7/10)
- The Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins (8/10)
- Get Together: How to build a community with your people by Bailey Richardson, Kai Elmer Sotto, Kevin Huynh (8/10)
- A Crack in Creation: Gene Editing and the Unthinkable Power to Control Evolution by Jennifer A. Doudna, Samuel H. Sternberg (9/10)
- American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer by Kai Bird, Martin J. Sherwin (10/10)
- What You Do Is Who You Are: How to Create Your Business Culture by Ben Horowitz (8/10)
- A Mind at Play: How Claude Shannon Invented the Information Age by Jimmy Soni, Rob Goodman (9/10)
- The History of the Future: Oculus, Facebook, and the Revolution That Swept Virtual Reality by Blake J. Harris (7/10)
- Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder by Nassim Nicholas Taleb (8/10)
- The Space Barons: Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, and the Quest to Colonize the Cosmos by Christian Davenport (9/10)
- What Is Real?: The Unfinished Quest for the Meaning of Quantum Physics by Adam Becker (8/10)
- Fermat’s Enigma: The Epic Quest to Solve the World’s Greatest Mathematical Problem by Simon Singh (10/10)
- Superforecasting: The Art and Science of Prediction by Philip E. Tetlock, Dan Gardner (7/10)
- “Surely You’re Joking, Mr. Feynman!”: Adventures of a Curious Character by Richard P. Feynman (9/10)
- Crypto: How the Code Rebels Beat the Government–Saving Privacy in the Digital Age by Steven Levy (9/10)
- Secrets of Sand Hill Road: Venture Capital and How to Get It by Scott Kupor (9/10)
- The Cathedral & the Bazaar: Musings on Linux and Open Source by an Accidental Revolutionary by Eric S. Raymond (7/10)
- So You Want to Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo (7/10)
- Masters of Doom: How Two Guys Created an Empire and Transformed Pop Culture by David Kushner (10/10)
- Tribe: On Homecoming and Belonging by Sebastian Junger (7/10)
- Debt: The First 5,000 Years by David Graeber (8/10)
- The Sovereign Individual: Mastering the Transition to the Information Age by James Dale Davidson, William Rees-Mogg (8/10)
- Understanding Comics: The Invisible Art by Scott McCloud (8/10)
- The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho (7/10)
- Billion Dollar Whale: The Man Who Fooled Wall Street, Hollywood, and the World by Tom Wright, Bradley Hope (9/10)
- Play: How It Shapes the Brain, Opens the Imagination, and Invigorates the Soul by Stuart M. Brown Jr., Christopher Vaughan (7/10)
- The Courage to Be Disliked by Ichiro Kishimi, Fumitake Koga (9/10)
- How the Internet Happened: From Netscape to the iPhone by Brian McCullough (10/10)
- Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World by Anand Giridharadas (5/10)
- Educated by Tara Westover (10/10)
- Who is Michael Ovitz by Michael Ovitz (8/10)
