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A personal library shaped by business, science, history, philosophy, aviation and fiction.
01 / The habitA life in books
Curiosity,
in print.
Engaging with books has long been one of my cherished pastimes, fostering personal growth and intellectual enrichment. The act of immersing myself in the pages of a well-crafted narrative or an insightful piece of non-fiction is not just a leisure activity; it’s a voyage through imagination and knowledge. The world within the covers of a book is a realm where my curiosity takes flight, where I traverse historical epochs, explore distant galaxies, and delve into the intricacies of the human psyche.
This ardor for reading doesn’t just signify a mere hobby – it’s an enduring love affair with the written word, a commitment to lifelong learning, and a gateway to worlds waiting to be discovered.
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02 / A starting pointMy top picks
A few worth
starting with.
Eight titles and resources pulled forward from the full list — a quick route into the ideas that keep showing up.
100M Leads
✦100MM Offers
✦1984 (Fiction)
✦48 Laws of Power
✦5 Types of People Who Can Ruin Your Life
✦500 Podcasts(Twenty Channels Across All Disciplines)
✦7 Habits of Highly Effective People
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568 titles
#08
- 100 People Who Shaped The World
- 100M Leads
- 100MM Offers
- 1984 (Fiction)Fiction
- 48 Laws of Power
- 5 Types of People Who Can Ruin Your Life
- 500 Podcasts(Twenty Channels Across All Disciplines)
- 7 Habits of Highly Effective People
A53
- A Brief History in Time
- A Briefer History of Time
- A Chronology of Architecture
- A Chronology of Film
- A Crack in Creation
- A Hackers Mind
- A Little History of Art
- A Little History of Religion
- A Little History of Science
- A Little History of the World
- A Pattern Language
- Accessory to War
- Accidential Billionaires
- Adventures of Tom Sawyer
- Against the Gods
- Age of Ambition
- AI Engineering: Building Applications with Foundation Models
- AI Made Simple
- Airplane Flying Handbook (Federal Aviation Administration) Textbook
- Airplane Flying Handbook FAA
- Alexander Hamilton
- Alexander the Great
- Alfred Nobel
- All Quiet on the Western Front
- America Before: Key to Earths Lost Civilization
- American Caesar
- American Flyers Instrument Pilot Ground Textbook
- American Government 101
- American Psycho
- American Sickness
- Anatomy & Physiology For Dummies
- Anatomy and Physiology
- Ancient Greek Philosophers
- Andrew Carnegie
- Andy Warhol: Commercce Into Art
- Angels & Demons
- Antifragile
- Aphorisms and Thoughts by Napoleon
- Apocalypse Never
- Apollo 13
- Aquinas’s Shoter Summa
- Archimedes and the Door of Science
- Architecture: A Visual History
- Art of Clear Thinking: Stealth Fighter Pilot
- Art of War
- Astrophysics for people in a Hurry
- Atlas Shrugged (fiction)Fiction
- Atomic Habits
- Atomic Physics and Human Knowledge
- Attract Women Through Honesty
- Augustus
- Awaken The Giant Within
- Awareness: The Perils and Opportunities of Reality
B25
- Backable
- Bareboat Cruising
- Beginning of Infiniti
- Behave: The Biology of Humans
- Beyond Order Twelve More Rules For Life
- Big Debt Crisis
- Biggest Ideas in the Universe
- Biggest Ideas in the Universe: Quanta and Fields
- Bill Gates: Source Code
- Blade Runner
- Blockchain Revolution
- Blue Ocean Strategy
- Blue Zones of Happiness
- Blueprint: Evolutionary Origins of a Good Society
- Blueprint: How DNA Dictates Who We Are
- Book Of Joy
- Books of Enoch
- Bram Stoker’s Dracula
- Brief Answers to Big Questions
- Brief History of Black Holes
- Brigham Young: Pioneer Prophet
- Bugatti the Designer
- Build
- Built to Last
- Business Adventures
C39
- California Real Estate Salesperson Exam Guide Textbook
- Candide
- Case Against Education
- Cashvertising
- CBT Workbook For Perfectionism
- Century of the Self (Documentary)Documentary
- Changing How the World Does Business: FedEx
- Checklist Manifesto
- Chemistry for Dummies
- Chemistry Made Easy
- Cicero: The Life and Times of Rome’s Greatest Politician
- Claude Monet – Ever Changing Face of Reality
- Clear Art of Thinking
- Coastal Cruising Made Easy
- Coddling of the American Mind
- College Unbound
- Commerical Pilot Oral Exam Guide
- Communism: A Very Short Introduction
- Competing against Luck: Jobs to Be Done
- Complete Works for Rene Descartes
- Complete Works of William Shakespeare
- Complexity: Edge of Order and Chaos
- Complexity: Order and Chaos
- Computer and the Brain
- Confucius Lives Next Door
- Connected
- Conscious: A Brief Guide to the Fundamental Mystery of the Mind
- Contagious: Why Things Catch On
- Contract Drafting and Negotiation
- Conversations with Mike Milken: Volume 1
- Conversations with Mike Milken: Volume 2
- Cosmos (Documentary)Documentary
- Crazy Rich Asians
- Creativity, Inc.
- Cribsheet:Data Driven
- Crony Beliefs
- Crossing the Chasm
- Cruising Catamarans
- Crusades: History of the War for the Holy Land
D12
- Dali: The Paintings
- Data Driven Marketing
- Dauntless Instrument Pilot Oral Exam Prep
- Dauntless Private Pilot Oral Exam Prep
- Decline and Fall of Roman Empire: 1-6
- Deep Learning(Adaptive Computation and Machine Learning)
- Deep Simplicity
- Democracy in America
- Die With Zero
- Disciplined Entrepreneurship
- Discourse on Method and Meditations First Philosophy
- Dune
E14
- East of Eden
- Einstein
- Elements of Marie Curie
- Elon Musk
- Empire of the Sun
- EMyth Revisited
- Enclyclopedia of Military History
- Endurance: Shackletons Incredible Voyage
- Enzo Ferrari: The Man and the Machine
- Essentialism: The Art of Less
- Euclid: The Thirteen Books of the Elements
- Europes Top 100 Masterpieces
- Extreme Ownership
- Eyewitness to Power
F23
- Fahrenheit 451 (Fiction)Fiction
- FAR/AIM 2020: Federal Aviation Regulations/Aeronautical Information Manual (FAR/AIM Series)
- Faster Cures: Accelerating the Future Health
- Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
- Field of Dreams
- Fifteen Decisive Battles of the World
- Fight Club
- Financial Intelligence
- Fingerprint of the Gods
- Five Love Languages
- Florentines: From Dante to Galileo
- Food Fix
- Forward the Foundation
- Foundation
- Foundation and Edge
- Foundation and Empire
- Foundation’s Edge
- Four Thousand Weeks
- Francis Bacon: The New Organon
- Frankenstein
- French Revolution
- From Six to Seven Figures
- Full Metal Jacket
G29
- Gallic War: Seven Commentaries
- Garden of the Beasts
- General Pattons Principles for Life and Leadership
- Genesis: Artificial Intelligence and Human Spirit
- Genghis Khan: The Making of the Modern World
- Getting Past No
- Getting Things Done
- Getting to Yes
- Gifts of Imperfection
- Good to Great
- Great Expectations
- Great Mental Models: Economics and Art
- Great Mental Models: General Thinking Concepts
- Great Mental Models: Physics, Chemistry, Biology
- Great Mental Models: Systems and Mathematics
- Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes
- Grit
- Growing Up Guggenheim
- Guggenheim: Frank Lloyd Wright
- Gulfstream G500/600 Memory Flash Cards
- Gulfstream G500/600 Pilot Initial
- Gulfstream G500/600 Pilot Training Handbook Avionics
- Gulfstream G500/600 Pilot Training Handbook Systems
- Gulfstream G650ER Memory Flash Cards
- Gulfstream G650ER Pilot Initial
- Gulfstream G650ER Pilot Training Handbook Avionics
- Gulfstream G650ER Pilot Training Handbook Systems
- Guns of August
- Guns, Germs, and Steel
H51
- Hacking Growth
- Hard Landing: Epic Contest for Power and Profits
- Hard Thing about Hard Things
- Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
- Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1
- Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2
- Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
- Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
- Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
- Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
- Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone
- Helicopter Flying Handbook
- Henry Ford My Life and Work
- Henry J. Kaiser: Builder in the Modern American West
- Henry Kissinger On China
- High Growth Handbook
- High Output Management
- High Velocity Hiring
- Hitchhiker Guide to the Galaxy: Life, The Universe
- Hitchhiker Guide to the Galaxy: Mostly Harmless
- Hitchhiker Guide to the Galaxy: Restaurant at End of Universe
- Hitchhiker Guide to the Galaxy: Thanks for All the Fish
- Holes
- Holy Bible
- House of Morgan
- House of Rothschild
- House of Rothschild: Volume 2
- How Asia Works
- How Countries Go Broke: The Big Cycle
- How I Raised Myself from Failure to Success in Selling
- How Innovation Works
- How the Body Works Simply Explained
- How the Scots Invented the Modern World
- How the World Works & Republic of Science
- How to be Rich
- How to Biohack Your Intelligence
- How to Create Wealth Investing in Real Estate
- How to Get Rich in rising Asia (fiction)Fiction
- How to Hire the Best People You’ve Ever Worked With
- How to Invest In Real Estate: The Ultimate Beginners Guide
- How to Optimize Fertility in Males and Females
- How to Play Keyboard
- How to Stay in Love
- How to Think More About Sex
- How to Win at the Sport of Business
- How to Win Friends and Influence People
- How Washington Actually Works
- Howard Hughes
- Human Accomplishment: The Pursuit of Excellence
- Human Compatible: Artificial Intelligence and Problem of Control
- Human Diversity
I12
- Ice Age Meltdown(Documentary)Documentary
- IFR Quick Review Guide
- Ignition!: Informal History of Rocket Propellants
- Iliad and the Odyssey
- Imminent: Hunt for UFO’s
- Impatient Woman’s Guide to Getting Pregnant
- Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion
- Innovators Dilemma
- Insisting on the Impossible: Life of Edwin Land
- Instrument Flying Handbook Textbook
- Instrument Pilot Oral Exam Guide
- Interview with the Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles
J05
- James Dyson
- Jean-Michele Basquiat: The Explosive Force In The Streets
- Joan of Arc
- Johannes Kepler
- Jordan Peterson: 12 Rules for Life
L14
- Landmark Julius Caesar
- Leadership
- Leonardo Da Vinci
- Leonhard Euler: Mathematical Genius in the Enlightenment
- Letters from a Stoic (Penguin Classics)
- Letters from a Stoic by Seneca
- Level Up
- Life as No One Knows It
- Life Force
- Lifespan: Why We Age
- Lincoln
- Little History of Philosophy
- Logician and Engineer: George Boole and Claude Shannon
- Loonshots
M27
- Machine Learning for Beginners
- Machine Learning for Dummies
- Magicians of the Gods
- Making Millions with Your Ideas
- Man from the Future: Visionary Ideas of John Neumann
- Mans Search for Meaning
- Mao
- Marcus Aurelius – Meditations
- Master Algorithm
- Masters of Doom
- Mastery(Robert Greene)
- Mate What Women Want
- Mathematics and Its History: Concise Edition
- Mating in Captivity
- Mental Models: Secret Weapon for Problem Solving
- Messy Middle
- Michael Dell: Play Nice But Win
- Michael Milken: Wildest Wall Street Story Ever Told
- Mind, Matter, and the Search for Meaning
- Mindset
- Mistborn
- Models of my Life
- Money Master the Game
- Moneyball
- Mr. China
- Multi Engine Oral Exam Guide
- Mythical Man Month
N15
- Napoleon: A Life
- Negotiation Genius
- Neuroscience For Dummies
- Never at Rest: Biography of Isaac Newton
- Never Enough: From Barista to Billionaire
- Never Finished
- Never Split the Difference
- Next 100 Years
- Nietzsche – Beyond Good and Evil
- Nietzsche – Ecce Homo
- Nietzsche – Human, All Too Human
- Nietzsche – On the Genealogy of Morals
- Nietzsche – Thus Spake Zarathustra
- No Country For Old Men
- Nuclear War: A Scenario
O13
- Ocean of Life
- Of Mice and Men
- Old Yeller
- On The Revolutions of Heavenly Spheres
- On War
- Onassis: An Extravagent Life
- One Minute Manager
- Only the Paranoid Survive
- Origin of the Species
- Our Final Invention
- Outlive: The Science and Art of Longevity
- Overruled
- Own the AI Revolution
P32
- Parasitic Mind
- Patent Offense
- Patriot & Assassin (fiction)Fiction
- Peak
- Perennial Seller
- Perfect Storm
- Phantom of the Opera
- Physics 1 for Dummies
- Physics 2 for Dummies
- Physics and Philosophy
- Physics Essentials for Dummies
- Picasso: Masters of Art
- Pilots Cafe IFR Quick Review Guide Airplane
- Placebo Effects
- Plagues Upon the Earth
- Plato: A Very Short Introduction
- Poor Charlie’s Almanac
- Positioning: The Battle For Your Mind
- Power Broker: Robert Moses and the fall of New York
- Powers and Thrones: History of Middle Ages
- Prelude to Foundation
- Pride and Prejudice
- Prince of Mathematics: Carl Gauss
- Principles for Dealing with the Changing World Order
- Principles for Navigating Big Debt Crises
- Principles Personality Assessment
- Principles: Ray Dalio
- Private Pilot Oral Exam Guide
- Profiles in Courage
- Psycho-Cybernetics
- Purple Cow
- Pythagoras
Q03
- Quanta and Fields
- Quantum Physics for Beginners
- Quantum Physics for Beginners, Into the Light
R10
- Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World
- Rasputin
- Rasputin: Faith, Power
- Rationality
- Red Notice
- Revolutionary Road
- Rich Dad Poor Dad
- Richest Man in Babylon
- Rise and Fall of American Growth
- Road to Serfdom
S41
- Sailing Made Easy
- Sam Walton: Made in America
- San Fransicko
- Sapiens
- Scaling Up: How a Few Companies Make It
- Schlinders List
- Second Foundation
- Secrets of Power Negotiating
- Selected Poems and Prose
- Seven Powers
- Seven Powers: Foundations of Business Strategy
- Seveneves (Fiction)Fiction
- Shantaram (fiction)Fiction
- Sherlock Holmes
- Shoe Dog
- Short History of Nearly Everything
- Short History of Nearly Everything 2.0
- Silence of the Lambs
- Six Easy Pieces
- Skunk Works
- Sleep Smarter: 21 Essential Strategies
- Small Giants
- Something Deeply Hidden
- Something Incredibly Wonderful Happens
- Space and Time: Minoswki Paper on Relatvity
- Space: 10 Things You Should Know
- Stalin: The Court of Red Tsar
- Startup Owner’s Manual
- Startup: A Silicon Valley Adventure
- Stephen A.Schwarzman: Lessons in the Pursuit of Excellence
- Steve Jobs Way
- Steven Pinker: Enlightenment Now
- Steven Spielberg: The Iconic Filmmaker
- Stock Options for Dummies
- Story of Civilization
- Structures:Why Things Dont Fall Down
- Summa Theologica
- Super Founders
- Superfreakonomics
- Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies
- Sustainable Energy without the Hot Air
T115
- Team of Rivals
- Tesla v Edison: Captivating History
- That Will Never Work: The Birth of Netflix
- The 22 Immutable Laws of Marketing
- The 80/20 Principle
- The Age of AI
- The Alchemist
- The Almanack of Naval Ravikant
- The Analects
- The Architecture Reference and Specification
- The Audacity of Hope
- The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
- The Bible
- The Big Picture: Origins of Life
- The Big Rich: The Rise and Fall of Greatest Texas Oil
- The Billionaire Who Wasn’t
- The Blue Zones: 9 Lessons for Living Longer from People Who Have Lived the Longest
- The Brain that Changes Itself
- The Complete Works of Aristotle
- The Conscience of a Conservative
- The Da Vinci Code
- The Daily Stoic
- The Dawn of Modern Cosmology
- The Denial of Death
- The Dictators Handbook
- The Dip: When to Quit and When to Stick With It
- The Effective Executive
- The Elephant In The Brain
- The End of Everything
- The End of The World Is Just The Beginning
- The Enlightenment: Pursuit of Happiness
- The Fabric of Reality
- The Federalist Papers
- The Foundation (fiction)Fiction
- The Four Hour Workweek
- The Gallic War
- The Gene: An Inamite History
- The Gifts of Imperfection
- The Great CEO Within
- The Great Gatsby
- The Greatest Minds and Ideas of All Time
- The Hawke Method
- The Hero of Ages
- The Hobit
- The Hunt for Red October
- The Idea Factory: Bell Labs
- The Inner Game of Tennis
- The Innovation Stack
- The Innovators
- The Laser Fund
- The Last Lion: Winston Churchill
- The Lean Startup
- The Lessons of History
- The Lord of the Rings: Hobit, Fellowship of the Ring, Two Towers, Return of the King
- The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
- The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
- The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
- The Magic of Thinking Big
- The Man Who Changed Everything: James Maxwell
- The Medici: Godfathers of the Renaissance
- The Mystery oF Capital
- The Myth of Normal
- The Nicomachean Ethics
- The Nine: Inside the Secret World of the Supreme Court
- The Obstacle Is The Way
- The Operator: David Geffen
- The Pianist
- The Pilot’s Handbook of Aeronautical Knowledge Textbook
- The Power Of Myth
- The Power of Zero
- The Principia
- The Private Equity Playbook
- The Rational Optimist
- The Real Estate Game
- The Remains of the Day (fiction)Fiction
- The Republic
- The Republic and The Laws (Oxford World’s Classics)
- The Rise and Fall of Great Powers
- The Sales Acceleration Formula
- The Science of Consequences: How they Effect Genes
- The Second Mountain
- The Shawshank Redemption
- The Speed Reading Book
- The Subtle Art of Not Giving A Fuck
- The Surrender Experiment
- The Sympathizer (fiction)Fiction
- The Third Chimpanzee
- The Truth
- The Ultimate Fake Book
- The Untold Story of Jesus
- The Upstarts
- The Virgin Way
- The War on the West
- The Way to Design
- The Wealth and Poverty of Nations
- The Well of Ascencion
- The Whole Brain Child
- The Wizard of Oz
- The Wright Brothers
- Think and Grow Rich
- Thinking Fast and Slow
- Thirteen Days In September
- Thomas Aquinas: A Portrait
- Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power
- Three Critiques
- Titan: Life of Rockefeller
- To Kill a Mockingbird
- Tony Robbins Business Mastery
- Tools of Titans
- Total Recall: My Real Life Story
- Traction: Get a grip on your Business
- Tribe of Mentors
- Trillion Dollar Coach
- Turings Vision: Birth of Computer Science
- Twelve Against the Gods
U01
- Until the End of Time
V04
- Venture Deals
- Vincent Van Gogh: The Complete Paintings
- Vitruvius
- Voltaire
W19
- Wages of Destruction
- Walt Disney: The Triumph of American Imagination
- Washington: A Life
- Watchmen
- Wealth of Nations
- What a Unicorn Knows
- What is Life? Mind and Matter
- What we owe the future
- What Your Doctor May Not Tell You About Childrens Vaccinations
- When Coffee and Kale Compete
- When Reason Goes on Holiday
- When: The Scientific Secrets of Perfect Timing
- When: The Scientific Secrets of Power Negotiating
- Who was Alexander Graham Bell
- Why Greatness Cannot Be Planned
- Work Rules
- Works of Archimedes
- World History For Dummies
- World War 2 In Color (Documentary)Documentary
Y01
- Years of Lyndon Johnson
Z02
- Zero to One
- Zorba the Greek (fiction)Fiction
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