Books

Some of my favorites in very rough order. I read far less fiction than non. Film seems to fulfill my need for stories.

Fiction

• A River Runs Through It and Other Stories
• Kitchen
• Cathedral and What We Talk About When We Talk About Love
• Labyrinths
• The Stories of John Cheever
• Ray Bradbury Classic Stories 1 and 2
• Stories of Your Life and Others and Exhalation
• The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and Tom Sawyer
• The Moon is a Harsh Mistress
• The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
• Pale Fire
• The Bridge of San Luis Rey
• The Crossing
• The Adventures of Kavalier and Clay
• Crime and Punishment
• Flaubert's Parrot
• Gargantua and Pantagruel
• Where the Sidewalk Ends and everything by Shel Silverstein

Non-fiction

• Flow, the Evolving Self, and Creativity
• Impro: Improvisation and the Theatre
• The Inner Game of Tennis and The Inner Game of Work
• Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain
• The Artist's Way
• The Art of Learning
• Finite and Infinite Games
• The Happiness Hypothesis (my favorite Haidt)
• A General Theory of Love
• The Creative Act: A Way of Being
• The Hero with a Thousand Faces
• Man and His Symbols
• The 48 Laws of Power
• Robert Caro biographies of LBJ (see my review)
• Power: Why Some People Have It — and Others Don't
• Violence and Social Orders
• Development as Freedom
• On Liberty
• The Constitution of Liberty, The Road to Serfdom, and The Sensory Order
• The Firm, The Market, and the Law
• Problems of Jurisprudence and Law, Pragmatism and Democracy
• Legal Reasoning and Political Conflict
• Order without Law: How Neighbors Settle Disputes
• The Strategy of Conflict and Micromotives and Macrobehavior
• The Economic Naturalist and The Darwin Economy
• The Timeless Way of Building and A Pattern Language
• Quine: From a Logical Point of View
• Invariances: The Structure of the Objective World
• Michel de Montaigne's essays
• Meditations
• A Guide to the Good Life: The Ancient Art of Stoic Joy
• Musonius Rufus
• On the Shortness of Life
• Advice Not Given
• A Simpler Life
• Mothers and Others: The Evolutionary Origins of Mutual Understanding
• The Nurture Assumption and No Two Alike
• The Evolution of God
• The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind
• Behave
• Satisfaction
• On the origin of species
• What is Life?
• The Vital Question
• Into the Cool: Energy Flow, Thermodynamics, and Life
• Why We Get Fat
• Starting Strength
• Atomic Habits
• The Checklist Manifesto
• Three Steps to Yes and The Millionaire in the Mirror (especially the last two chapters)
• Principles: Life and Work
• The Food Lab
• The Wok
• How to Win Friends and Influence People
• Influence and Pre-Suasion
• The Zen of Listening
• The Promise that Changes Everything: I Won't Interrupt You
• Never Split the Difference: Negotiate As If Your Life Depended On It
• Seeing Yourself as Others Do
• High Output Management
• The HP Way
• An Elegant Puzzle
• The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers
• It's Your Ship: Management Techniques from the Best Damn Ship in the Navy
• The Captain Class: A New Theory of Leadership
• Tempo: timing, tactics and strategy in narrative-driven decision-making
• Open (Source) for Business
• Rebirth of American Industry
• Trying Cases to Win
• Resonate
• The Lessons of History
• The Rise of Christianity
• For Good and Evil: The Impact of Taxes on the Course of Civilization
• How the Scots Invented the Modern World
• The Memory Palace of Matteo Ricci
• Team of Rivals
• The Idea Factory
• Gentleman Revolutionary: Gouverneur Morris, the Rake Who Wrote the Constitution
• Hamilton, Washington, Grant, Titan, The House of Morgan, The Warburgs — everything by Ron Chernow I've read thus far.
• Historians' Fallacies, Albion's Seed, Paul Revere's Ride — everything by David Hackett Fischer I've read thus far.
• The Snowball
• The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin and the Isaacson biography
• On the Move: A Life (Olivers Sacks memoir)
• A Man for All Markets (Edward O. Thorp memoir)
• From Third World to First (Lee Kwan Yew memoir)
• Risk Only Money (Jack DeBoer memoir)
• Newton and the Counterfeiter
• The Garden of Invention: Luther Burbank and the Business of Breeding Plants
• Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, a Man Who Would Cure the World
• The Farmer from Merna: A Biography of George J. Mecherle and a History of the State Farm Insurance Companies of Bloomington, Illinois
• Maintenance: Of Everything by Stewart Brand
• How Buildings Learn
• Introduction to Mathematical Thinking
• Against the Gods: The Remarkable Story of Risk
• Probability: for the Enthusiastic Beginner
• Geometric Algebra for Physicists
• The Book of Why: The New Science of Cause and Effect
• How the World Really Works (my favorite Smil?)
• Factfulness
• The Economy as an Evolving Complex System
• Synch (my favorite Strogatz?)
• 1491, 1493, and the Wizard and the Prophet
• Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life
• Passionate Marriage
• The Self-Driven Child
• Raising Human Beings
• The Intelligent Investor
• Buffett's Letters to Shareholders
• Style : The Basics of Clarity and Grace
• And too many Rick Steves guidebooks and O'Reilly handbooks to mention by name

Other

• Paul's Letter to the Galatians
• Civilization and its Discontents
• Thus Spake Zarathustra
• Every Man for Himself and God Against All
• Poor Charlie's Almanack
• The Training of the Human Plant
• The Red Book
• And too many of the poems of Robert Frost to mention by name