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Book recommendations

10 Mar, 2026

I update this list of books regularly
Last update: 17 Jul 2026

My recommended books and audiobooks:

Indistractable - Nir Eyal
Anything You Want - Derek Sivers
The Psychology of Money - Morgan Housel
Digital Minimalism - Cal Newport
The PARA Method - Tiago Forte
The E Myth - Michael E. Gerber
Out of Your Mind - Alan Watts
Sapiens - Yuval Noah Harari
Seven Brief Lessons On Physics - Carlo Rovelli
The Art of Spending Money - Morgan Housel
The Almanack of Naval Ravikant - Eric Jorgenson
Same as Ever - Morgan Housel
Slow Productivity - Cal Newport
Deep Work - Cal Newport
How Innovation Works: And Why It Flourishes in Freedom - Matt Ridley
The Sovereign Individual - James Dale Davidson and Lord William Rees-Mogg
The Anthology of Balaji - Eric Jorgenson
The Lessons Of History by Will & Ariel Durant\

My library of some recently read books:

Polymath - Peter Hollins
The Sweaty Startup - Nick Huber
$100 Startup - Chris Guillebeau
The 4-Hour Workweek - Tim Ferriss
Permanent Record - Edward Snowden
How To Get Rich - Felix Dennis
Blue Ocean Strategy - W. Chan Kim
The Untethered Soul - Michael A. Singer
So Good They Can't Ignore You - Cal Newport
The Courage To Be Disliked - Ichiro Kishimi
The Surrender Experiment - Michael A. Singer
The Almanack of Naval Ravikant - Eric Jorgensen
The Millionaire Fastlane - MJ DeMarco
Walden - Henry David Thoreau
Sketch Your Mind - Zsolt Viczian
The Score - C.Thi Nguyen
Thinking fast and slow - Daniel Kahneman
Just So - Alan Watts (Audiobook)
Still the mind - Alan Watts (Audiobook)
The Black Swan - Nassim Nicholas Taleb
The New Confessions of an Economic Hit Man - John Perkins
A world without Email - Cal Newport
Company of One - Paul Jarvis
The Pathless Path - Paul Millerd
$100M Offers - Alex Hormozi
What's Your Dream - Simon Squibb
How to Live - Derek Sivers
Thinking in Systems - Donella H. Meadows
How to get rich - Felix Dennis
Existential Kink - Carolyn Elliott
The Minimalist Entrepreneur - Sahil Lavingia
Getting Things Done - David Allen
Snow Crash - Neal Stephenson
Flow by Mihaly Csikzentmihalyi
The Mom Test - Rob Fitzpatrick

Books about Sovereignty I want to read

Imagined communities - Benedict
Invisible countries - Joshua Keating
Unqualified Reservations - Mencius Moldbug
The selfish gene - Richard Dawkins
War and Peace and War - Peter Turchin
Stalin's War - Sean Mc Meekin
Energy and Civilization - Vaclav Smil
The Ancient City - Numa Denis Fustel de Coulanges
The fourth turning - William Strauss & Neil Howe
How to hide an empire - Daniel Immerwahr
Seeing Like a State - James C. Scott
China's politic model - Daniel A. Bell
A new Idea of India - Harsh Madhusudan & Rajeev Mantri
From Third World to First - Lee Kuan Yew
When Money Dies - Adam Fergusson
Deng Xiaoping and the Transformation of China - Ezra F. Vogel
The Revolt of the Public - Martin Gurri
Where is my flying car? - J. Storrs Hall
AI Superpowers - Kai-Fu LEe
Broken Money - Lyn Alden
Tecnnological Revolutions and Financial Capital - Carlota Perez
Daemon - Daniel Suarez
The Knowledge: How to Rebuild Our World From Scratch - Lewis Dartnell
How to invent everything: A survival guide for the stranded - Ryan North
A connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court - Mark Twain

Books highlighted in Yellow are my next to read priority books

Technical books I want to read

The feynman lectures on physics - Richard Feynman
The Princeton Companion to Mathematics - Timothy Gowers
Schaum's Outlines - Joel Lerner and James Cashin
- Schaum's outlines of probability and statistics
- Schaum's outlines of accounting
One Thousand Exercises in Probability - Geoffrey Grimmett and David Stirzaker
The Nature of Mathematical Modeling - Neil Gershenfeld
Physics for Scientists and Engineers - Paul Tipler
VIsual Complex Analysis - Tristan Needham
Visual Complex Functions - Elias Wegert
Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences - John Allen Paulos
The Man Who Knew Infinity: A Life of the Genius Ramanujan by Robert Kanigel
Test-Driven Development with Python: Obey the Testing Goat: Using Django, Selenium, and JavaScript by Harry Percival

Books for CEO I want to read

Where Is My Flying Far? by Josh Sotrrs Hall
High Output Management by Andy Grove
Only the Paranoid Survive by Andry Grove
The Great CEO Within by Matt Mochary
Technological Revolutions and Financial Capital by Carlota Perez
The Cold Start Problem by Andrew Chen

Books on Truths, Media and History I want to read

The Gray Lady Winked by Ashley Rindsberg
Merchants of Truth by Jill Abramson
The Journalist and the Murderer by Janet Malcolm
AI Superpowers by Kai-Fu Lee
Catching Fire by Richard Wrangham
Who We Are and How We Got Here by David Reich
Reputation and Power: Organizational Image and Pharmaceutical Regulation at the FDA by Daniel Carpenter
The Truth Machine by Michael Casey and Paul Vigna
The Internet of Money Volume 1 by Andreas Antonopolous
Seeing Like a State by James C. Scott
From Third World to First by Lee Kuan Yew
History Has Begun by Bruno Maçães
The Craft by John Dickie
Three Felonies a Day: How the Feds Target the Innocent by Harvey Silverglate
Rules for Radicals by Saul Alinsky
Principles for Dealing with the Changing World Order by Ray Dalio
War and Peace and War: The Rise and Fall of Empires by Peter Turchin
The Fourth Turning: An American Prophecy by William Strauss and Neil Howe
How the Internet Happened: From Netscape to the iPhone by Brian McCullough
A Gentle Introduction to Unqualified Reservations by Mencius Moldbug
The Gulag Archipelago Volume 1 by Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn
The House of Government: A Saga of the Russian Revolution by Yuri Slezkine
Wall Street and the Bolshevik Revolution: The Remarkable True Story of the American Capitalists Who Financed the Russian Communists by Antony Sutton
Wall Street and the Rise of Hitler by Antony Sutton