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Economics & Institutions

Average is Over
Tyler Cowen
The Great Stagnation
Tyler Cowen
Stubborn Attachments
Tyler Cowen
Talent
Tyler Cowen & Daniel Gross
Economics in One Lesson
Henry Hazlitt
The Road to Serfdom
Friedrich Hayek
The Quotable Mises
Ludwig von Mises (ed. Mark Thornton)
The Theory of Money and Credit
Ludwig von Mises
Capitalism and Freedom
Milton Friedman
The Law
Frédéric Bastiat
Anatomy of the State
Murray Rothbard
The Selected Works of Gordon Tullock
Gordon Tullock (ed. Charles K. Rowley)
End the Fed
Ron Paul
Democracy: The God That Failed
Hans-Hermann Hoppe
The Myth of the Rational Voter
Bryan Caplan
10% Less Democracy
Garett Jones
Radical Markets
Eric Posner & E. Glen Weyl
The Elephant in the Brain
Robin Hanson & Kevin Simler
Skin in the Game
Nassim Taleb
The Bed of Procrustes
Nassim Taleb
The Sovereign Individual
James Dale Davidson & William Rees-Mogg
The Revolt of the Public
Martin Gurri
Facing Reality
Charles Murray
Losing Ground
Charles Murray
Liberalism and Its Discontents
Francis Fukuyama
The System
Robert Reich
The History of Money
Jack Weatherford
Broken Money
Lyn Alden
The Price of Tomorrow
Jeff Booth
Private Money and Public Currencies
Marie-Therese Boyer-Xambeu et al.
Debt: The First 5000 Years
David Graeber
The Market Structure Crisis
Haim Bodek & Stanislav Dolgopolov
Entrepreneurial Economics
Alexander Tabarrok
Protocols for Postcapitalist Expression
Dick Bryan et al.
The Transnational Capitalist Class
Leslie Sklair
Proof of Stake
Vitalik Buterin
GreenPilled
Kevin Owocki
Read Write Own
Chris Dixon
Cypherpunks
Julian Assange et al.
Where Is My Flying Car?
J. Storrs Hall
Gaming the Future
Allison Duettmann et al.
Lombard Street
Walter Bagehot
Boom
Byrne Hobart & Tobias Huber
The Natural Economic Order
Silvio Gesell
Competitive Sensemaking
John Nerst
The Age of Em
Robin Hanson

Startups

Zero to One
Peter Thiel & Blake Masters
The Lean Startup
Eric Ries
The Innovator's Dilemma
Clayton Christensen
The Hard Thing About Hard Things
Ben Horowitz
High Growth Handbook
Elad Gil
The Great CEO Within
Matt Mochary
Runnin' Down a Dream
Bill Gurley
An Elegant Puzzle
Will Larson
The Cold Start Problem
Andrew Chen
Founders at Work
Jessica Livingston
Working in Public
Nadia Eghbal
Fundraising
Ryan Breslow
Poor Charlie's Almanack
Charlie Munger (ed. Peter Kaufman)
Alchemy
Rory Sutherland
The Almanack of Naval Ravikant
Eric Jorgenson
Measure What Matters
John Doerr

The Fringe

Behold a Pale Horse
Milton William Cooper
One Nation Under Blackmail
Whitney Webb
Wonders in the Sky
Jacques Vallée
Trinity: The Best-Kept Secret
Jacques Vallée
Imminent
Luis Elizondo
Time Loops
Eric Wargo
Phenomena
Annie Jacobsen
Communion
Whitley Strieber
Authors of the Impossible
Jeffrey J. Kripal
The Politics of Ecstasy
Timothy Leary
Occult Ether Physics
William Lyne
The Creature from Jekyll Island
G. Edward Griffin

Philosophy

The Stranger
Albert Camus
The Present Age
Søren Kierkegaard
Reasons and Persons
Derek Parfit
Why Does the World Exist?
Jim Holt
Meditations
Marcus Aurelius
Finite and Infinite Games
James P. Carse
The Beginning of Infinity
David Deutsch
Gödel, Escher, Bach
Douglas Hofstadter
Inadequate Equilibria
Eliezer Yudkowsky
Rationality: From AI to Zombies
Eliezer Yudkowsky
The Selfish Gene
Richard Dawkins
The God Delusion
Richard Dawkins
The Symbolic Species
Terrence W. Deacon
Fanged Noumena
Nick Land
First Principles & First Values
Marc Gafni & Zak Stein
Why Greatness Cannot be Planned
Kenneth O. Stanley & Joel Lehman
Superintelligence
Nick Bostrom
Thinking in Bets
Annie Duke
Sexual Personae
Camille Paglia
Mere Christianity
C.S. Lewis
The Quotable Lewis
C.S. Lewis (ed. Martindale & Root)
Man's Search for Meaning
Viktor Frankl
The Mathematical Experience
Philip J. Davis & Reuben Hersh
For the New Intellectual
Ayn Rand
The Singularity Is Near
Ray Kurzweil
On the Genealogy of Morals
Friedrich Nietzsche
The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind
Julian Jaynes
Science Since Babylon
Derek de Solla Price
The Origin of Language
Eric Gans
Deceit, Desire, and the Novel
René Girard
A New Way of Thinking
Eric Gans
Anthropomorphics
Dennis Bouvard

Technical

Deep Learning
Ian Goodfellow et al.
The Elements of Statistical Learning
Trevor Hastie et al.
Learning from Data: A Short Course
Yaser Abu-Mostafa et al.
Universal Artificial Intelligence
Marcus Hutter
Linear Algebra Done Right
Sheldon Axler
An Introduction to Mathematical Cryptography
Jeffrey Hoffstein et al.
Real-World Cryptography
David Wong
Steganography in Digital Media
Jessica Fridrich
Quantum Computing Since Democritus
Scott Aaronson
Molecular Biology of the Cell
Bruce Alberts et al.
Hacker's Delight
Henry S. Warren Jr.
Graph Theory
J.A. Bondy & U.S.R. Murty
Introduction to Graph Theory
Richard J. Trudeau
An Introduction to Lie Groups and Lie Algebras
Alexander Kirillov Jr.
The Princeton Companion to Mathematics
ed. Timothy Gowers
105 Algebra Problems
Titu Andreescu
106 Geometry Problems
Titu Andreescu et al.
Les Anaglyphes Géométriques
H. Vuibert
The Scholar's Arithmetic
Daniel Adams
Corporations
Alan R. Palmiter
Securities Regulation
Alan R. Palmiter
Option Volatility and Pricing
Sheldon Natenberg
Algorithmic Trading and Quantitative Strategies
Raja Velu et al.

Dharma & Psychology

Opening Awareness
Charlie Awbery
The Power of Now
Eckhart Tolle
Waking Up
Sam Harris
Right Concentration
Leigh Brasington
Sanity and Sainthood
Tucker Peck
The Awakening Body
Reginald A. Ray
The Surrender Experiment
Michael A. Singer
Siddhartha
Hermann Hesse
Get Out of Your Mind and Into Your Life
Steven C. Hayes
Core Transformation
Connirae & Tamara Andreas
No Bad Parts
Richard Schwartz
Body-Centered Psychotherapy
Ron Kurtz
Existential Kink
Carolyn Elliott
How to Win Friends and Influence People
Dale Carnegie
The Inner Game of Tennis
W. Timothy Gallwey
The Creative Act: A Way of Being
Rick Rubin
Getting Things Done
David Allen
Experiencing and the Creation of Meaning
Eugene Gendlin
The Untethered Soul
Michael A. Singer
The Book of Not Knowing
Peter Ralston
The 5 Personality Patterns
Steven Kessler
Streams of Wisdom
Dustin DiPerna
Esalen
Jeffrey J. Kripal
Essentials of Mahamudra
Khenchen Thrangu Rinpoche
A Trackless Path
Ken McLeod
The Path of Love
Tasshin Fogleman
Boundless Heart
Christina Feldman
Mastering the Core Teachings of the Buddha
Daniel Ingram
Focused and Fearless
Shaila Catherine
I Am That
Nisargadatta Maharaj
Healing Back Pain
John E. Sarno
The Mind Illuminated
Culadasa
Opening the Heart of Compassion
Martin Lowenthal & Lar Short
Practical Insight Meditation
Mahasi Sayadaw
Seeing That Frees
Rob Burbea
The Function of the Orgasm
Wilhelm Reich
Waking the Tiger
Peter A. Levine
The Way of Effortless Mindfulness
Loch Kelly
Replacing Guilt
Nate Soares
Painting Enlightenment
Paula Arai
The Path to Nibbana
David C. Johnson
Alchemy of the Soul
Martin Lowenthal
The Way of Radiance
Lar C. Short

History & Biography

Steve Jobs
Walter Isaacson
The Code Breaker
Walter Isaacson
Flash Boys
Michael Lewis
Going Infinite
Michael Lewis
Elon Musk
Ashlee Vance
The Book of Elon
Eric Jorgenson
The Man Who Solved the Market
Gregory Zuckerman
The Lessons of History
Will & Ariel Durant
Sapiens
Yuval Noah Harari
The Final Pagan Generation
Edward J. Watts
The Merchant of Prato
Iris Origo
Masters of Deception
Michelle Slatalla & Joshua Quittner
Prairie Fire
Weather Underground
Not Fade Away
Laurence Shames & Peter Barton
Great Short Works of Henry David Thoreau
Thoreau (ed. Wendell Glick)
Born Lucky
Leland Vittert
Chaos Monkeys
Antonio García Martínez
Diary of a Very Bad Year
Keith Gessen & n+1
The Dream Machine
M. Mitchell Waldrop
Weaving the Web
Tim Berners-Lee
Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!
Richard Feynman
Dark Pools
Scott Patterson
From Third World to First
Lee Kuan Yew
Protestant—Catholic—Jew
Will Herberg
The Rites of Passage
Arnold van Gennep

Fiction

Anthem
Ayn Rand
Atlas Shrugged
Ayn Rand
The Fountainhead
Ayn Rand
Brave New World
Aldous Huxley
Island
Aldous Huxley
The Master and Margarita
Mikhail Bulgakov
Big Sur
Jack Kerouac
On the Road
Jack Kerouac
The Remains of the Day
Kazuo Ishiguro
The Little Prince
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
The Alchemist
Paulo Coelho
Stoner
John Williams
How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia
Mohsin Hamid
The Eclogues and the Georgics
Virgil
At Vesuvio
Joanna Blanche Lioce
A Modest Proposal
Jonathan Swift
Notes from Underground
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Blue Miles
Thomas Esposito
Snow Crash
Neal Stephenson

Rock Climbing

Beastmaking
Ned Feehally
Rock Climbing the San Francisco Bay Area
Tresa Black
Climbing Anchors
John Long & Bob Gaines
On the Line: Top Rope Solo Manual
Andy Kirkpatrick
The Rock Warrior's Way
Arno Ilgner

Miscellaneous

Salt Fat Acid Heat
Samin Nosrat
Chess Strategy for Club Players
Herman Grooten
Envisioning Information
Edward Tufte
Abloh-isms
Virgil Abloh
Flaps Up!
Ruth Brunn
Historic Walks in San Francisco
Rand Richards
Managing America's Cities
Roger L. Kemp
Lifespan
David Sinclair
Ending Aging
Aubrey de Grey
Preserving Minds, Saving Lives
Aschwin de Wolf
Jaws
Sandra Kahn & Paul R. Ehrlich
Metacreation: Art and Artificial Life
Mitchell Whitelaw
Generative Energy
Raymond Peat