Below are all the books I’ve read since middle school, roughly in order. Those highlighted in blue were those I particularly enjoyed :)
2026 (Age 23)#
The Anatomy of Fascism - Robert O. Paxton
2025 (Age 22)#
Willpower - Roy F. Baumeister & John Tierney
Deng Xiaoping and the Transformation of China - Ezra F. Vogel
The Metamorphosis - Franz Kafka
Super Pumped - Mike Isaac
The Soul of a New Machine - Tracy Kidder
The World For Sale - Javier Blas & Jack Farchy
The Innovator's Dilemma - Clayton M. Christensen
All Systems Red - Martha Wells
No Rules Rules - Reed Hastings & Erin Meyer
The Nvidia Way - Tae Kim
2024 (Age 21)#
Poor Charlie's Almanack - Peter D. Kaufman
Nexus - Yuval Noah Harari
An Introduction to Linear Algebra - Gilbert Strang
When Einstein Walked with Gödel - Jim Holt
The C Programming Language - Brian W. Kernighan & Dennis M. Ritchie
Competitive Programmer's Handbook - Antti Laaksonen
Going Infinite - Michael Lewis
Seeing Like A State - James C. Scott
The Innovators - Walter Isaacson
Industrial Society And Its Future - Ted Kaczynski
The Founders - Jimmy Soni
The Cathedral & The Bazaar - Eric S. Raymond
The Man Who Solved The Market - John Steele Gordon
An Empire of Wealth - John Steele Gordon
Writing a Compiler In Go - Thorsten Ball
Killers of the Flower Moon - David Grann
Computer Architecture: A Quantitative Approach - John L. Hennessy & David A. Patterson
Alexander Hamilton - Ron Chernow
Titan: The Life of John D. Rockefeller - Ron Chernow
2023 (Age 20)#
Napoleon - Andrew Roberts
A Tour of C++ - Bjarne Stroustrup
Efficient Go - Bartiomiej Plotka
Writing an Interpreter In Go - Thorsten Ball
The Contrarian: Peter Thiel and Silicon Valley's Pursuit of Power - Max Chafkin
Elon Musk - Walter Isaacson
The House of Morgan - Ron Chernow
The Rust Programming Language - Steve Klabnik & Carol Nichols
The Odyssey - Translated by Emily Wilson
Physics for Engineers and Scientists, Vol. 1 - Hans C. Ohanian & John T. Markert
Six Easy Pieces - Richard P. Feynman
Rome: An Empire's Story - Greg Woolf
The Man From The Future - Ananyo Bhattacharya
American Prometheus - Kai Bird & Martin J. Sherwin
Einstein - Walter Isaacson
Algorithms to Live By - Brian Christian & Tom Griffiths
Gödel's Proof - Ernest Nagel & James R. Newman
The Joy of X - Steven Strogatz
The Creature from Jekyll Island - G. Edward Griffin
How Google Works - Eric Schmidt & Jonathan Rosenberg
A Mind at Play - Rob Goodman & Jimmy Soni
The Poincaré Conjecture - Donal O'Shea
The Everthing Store - Brad Stone
All the Math You Missed - Thomas A. Garrity
Cracking The Coding Interview - Gayle Laakmann Mcdowell
Chip War - Chris Miller
Empire of Pain - Patrick Radden Keefe
No Longer Human - Osamu Dazai
The Roman Empire - Gregory S. Aldrete
The Rise of Rome - Gregory S. Aldrete
The Smartest Guys In The Room - Bethany McLean
The Firm - Duff McDonald
The United States and the Middle East - Salim Yaqub
2022 (Age 19)#
A Beautiful Mind - Sylvia Nasar
How Markets Fail - John Cassidy
The Lost Bank - Kristen Grind
Masters of DOOM - David Kushner
Blitzed: Drugs in the Third Reich - Norman Ohler
Flash Boys - Michael Lewis
The Machiavellians - James Burnham
Human Nature - Robert Greene
The Lessons Of History - Will & Ariel Durant
Atlas Shrugged - Ayn Rand
The Road To Serfdom - F. A. Hayek
Zero To One - Peter Thiel
The Fountain Head - Ayn Rand
The New Right - Michael Malice
A People's History Of The United States - Howard Zinn
2021 (Age 18)#
The Sovereign Individual - James Dale Davidson & William Rees-Mogg
The Origin Of Virtue - Matt Ridley
The Infinite Machine - Camila Russo
The Bitcoin Standard - Saifedean Ammous
Beyond Order - Jordan B. Peterson
Colonel Roosevelt - Edmund Morris
21 Lessons For The 21st Century - Yuval Noah Harari
Homo Deus - Yuval Noah Harari
Life 3.0 - Max Tegmark
The Nuremberg Trials - Paul Roland
Give Me Tomorrow - Patrick K. O'Donnel
In The Shadows Of The American Century - Alfred W. McCoy
How The Internet Happened - Brian McCullough
Up From Slavery - Booker T. Washington
Bury My Heart At Wounded Knee - Dee Brown
Super Intelligence - Nick Bostrom
About Face - David H. Hackworth
All Quiet On The Western Front - Erich Maria Remarque
Sapiens - Yuval Noah Harari
American Ulysses - Ronald C. White
Theodore Rex - Edmund Morris
Haroun And The Sea Of Stories - Salman Rushdie
The Power Broker - Robert Caro
Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage - Alfred Lansing
Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman - Richard Feynman
The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Rise Of Theodore Roosevelt - Edmund Morris
Atomic Habits - James Clear
Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
Alice In Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
The Rise And Fall Of The Third Reich - William L. Shirer
2020 (Age 17)#
Memories, Dreams, Reflections - Carl Jung
Ecce Homo - Fridrich Nietsche
Benjamin Franklin - Walter Isaacson
The Alchemist - Paulo Coelho
Crime And Punishment - Fyodor Dostoevsky
The Things They Carried - Tim O'Brian
Notes From The Underground - Fyodor Dostoevsky
A Short History Of Nearly Everything - Bill Bryson
The Compound Effect - Darren Hardy
Beowulf - Ancient Tale
Animal Farm - George Orwell
The Coddling Of The American Mind - Greg Lukianoff & Jonathan Haidt
The Boys In The Boat - Daniel James Brown
Bad Blood - John Carreyrou
The 50th Law - Robert Greene & 50 Cent
AI Superpowers - Kai-Fu Lee
The Autobiography Of Ben Franklin - Ben Franklin
Can't Hurt Me - David Goggins
The Denial Of Death - Ernest Becker
2019 (Age 16)#
The Tipping Point - Malcom Gladwell
Talking To Strangers - Malcom Gladwell
Elon Musk - Ashlee Vance
Man's Search For Meaning - Viktor E. Frankl
The River Of Doubt - Candice Millard
Rich Dad Poor Dad - Robert Kiyosaki
Be Obsessed Or Be Average - Grant Cardone
The Art Of War - Sun Tzu
Steve Jobs - Walter Isaacson
The Snowball - Alice Schroeder
The Art Of Seduction - Robert Greene
E-Myth Revisited - Michael Gerber
Andrew Carnegie - David Nasaw
The Selfish Gene - Richard Dawkins
Alexander Hamilton's Guide To Life - Jeff Wilser
Managing One's Self - Peter Drucker
The Curious Incident Of The Dog In The Night - Mark Haddon
Mango Street - Sandra Cisneros
Explosive Growth - Cliff Lerner
Smarter, Faster, Better - Charles Duhigg
12 Rules For Life - Jordan B. Peterson
2018 (Age 15)#
The Richest Man In Babylon - George S. Clason
How To Win Friends And Influence People - Dale Carnegie
Blink - Malcom Gladwell
Drop Out And Get Schooled - Patrick Bet-David
Exactly What To Say - Phil M. Jones
Unlimited Memory - Kevin Horsley
The 1 Page Marketing Plan - Allan Dib
Flowers for Algernon - Daniel Keyes
Sell Or Be Sold - Grant Cardone
The Power Of Habit - Charles Duhigg
2017 (Age 14)#
To Kill A Mockingbird - Harper Lee
Unbroken - Laura Hillenbrand
1984 - George Orwell
Mastery - Robert Greene
Excellent Sheep - William Deresiewicz
Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
The Giver - Lois Lowry
2016 (Age 13)#
The 48 Laws Of Power - Robert Greene