Some books that I loved or highly influenced me (“A+ list”):

• The Beginning of Infinity by David Deutsch
• Antifragile by Nassim Taleb
• The Ascent of Man by Jacob Bronowski
• Amusing Ourselves to Death by Neil Postman
• The End of Education by Neil Postman
• Teaching as a Subversive Activity by Neil Postman
• Surely You’re Joking, Mr. Feynman by Richard Feynman
• Sapiens: The Brief History of Mankind by Yuval Harrari
• Homo Deus by Yuval Harrari
• The Romantic Manifesto by Ayn Rand
• The Virtue of Selfishness by Ayn Rand
• Lessons of History by Will Durant
• The Laws of Human Nature by Robert Greene
• Mastery by Robert Greene
• Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
• The Foundation Trilogy by Isaac Asimov
• Several Short Sentences About Writing by Verlyn Klinkenborg
• The Almanack of Naval Ravikant
• Essays and Aphorisms, Arthur Schopenhauer
• Dumbing Us Down by John Taylor Gatto
• How to Raise a Genius by Laszlo Polgar
• Something Incredibly Wonderful Happens: Frank Oppenheimer and the World he made up by K.C. Cole
• One from Many: VISA and the Rise of Chaordic Organization by Dee Hock
• Working by Robert Caro

Books on my “A- list”:

• Science and Human Values by Jacob Bronowski
• Fooled by Randomness by Nassim Taleb
• The Order of Time by Carlo Rovelli
• Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
• Hiking with Nietzsche by John Kaag
• Impro by Keith Johnstone
• The Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins
• Poor Charlie’s Almanack: The Wit and Wisdom of Charlie Munger
• I, Robot by Isaac Asimov
• Perfectly Reasonable Deviations from the Beaten Track: Letters of Richard Feynman
• Caffeine: How Caffeine Created the Modern World by Michael Pollan
• The Doors of Perception by Aldous Huxley
• Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius by Jorge Luis Borges
• Shoe Dog: A Memoir by the Creator of Nike by Phil Knight
• The Goal: A Process of Ongoing Improvement by Eliyahu M. Goldratt
• How Proust Can Change Your Life by Alain de Botton
• Man’s Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl
• Iron Ambition by Mike Tyson
• The Bed of Procrustes by Nassim Taleb
• Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson
• Edison as I Know Him by Henry Ford
• Fallen Leaves: Last Words on Life, Love, War, and God by Will Durant

Some other Books:

• Age of Ambition: Chasing Fortune, Truth, and Faith in the New China by Evan Osnos
• Leonardo Da Vinci by Walter Isaacson
• The Code Breaker: Jennifer Doudna, Gene Editing, and the Future of the Human Race by Walter Isaacson
• Hackers and Painters by Paul Graham
• Founders at Work by Jessica Livingston
• The Launch Pad: Inside Y Combinator by Randall Stross
• Grinding It Out: The Making of McDonald’s by Ray Kroc
• The Founders: Elon Musk, Peter Thiel and the Company that Made the Modern Internet by Jimmy Soni
• Sam Walton: Made in America
• Becoming Steve Jobs by Brent Schlender and Rick Tetzeli
• The Man Who Solved the Market: How Jim Simons Launched the Quant Revolution by Gregory Zuckerman
• Scale: The Universal Laws of Life, Growth, and Death in Organisms, Cities, and Companies by Geoffrey West
• Thomas Edison: The Wizard of Menlo Park by Randall Stross
• The Meaning of It All by Richard Feynman
• What do you care what other people think by Richard Feynman
• Why We Sleep by Matthew Walker
• Free Will by Sam Harris
• Lying by Sam Harris
• Born a Crime by Trevor Noah
• Finding Chika by Mitch Albom
• The Problems of Philosophy by Bertrand Russell
• The Disappearance of Childhood by Neil Postman
• Waking Up by Sam Harris
• The Brain by David Eagleman
• Red Notice by Bill Browder
• Guns, Germs, and Steel by Jared Diamond
• A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
• The Art of Learning by Joshua Waitzkin
• Principles by Ray Dalio
• 21 Lessons for the 21st Century by Yuval Harrari
• The Hard Thing about Hard things by Ben Horowitz
• Liar’s Poker by Michael Lewis
• Elon Musk by Ashlee Vance
• Zero to One by Peter Thiel
• Quiet by Susan Cain
• The Education of a Value Investor by Guy Spier
• Lifespan by David Sinclair
• The Design of Everyday Things by Don Norman
• Hillbilly Elegy by J.D. Vance
• The Dhandho Investor by Monish Pobrai
• The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon by Brad Stone
• The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
• Moonwalking with Einstein by Joshua Foer
• Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
• Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom
• Margin of Safety by Seth Klarman
• The War on Normal People by Andrew Yang
• Thinking in Bets by Annie Duke
• For the New Intellectual by Ayn Rand
• The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
• How Innovation Works by Matt Ridley
• The Evolving Self: Problem and Process in Human Development by Robert Kegan
• The Molecule of More by Daniel Lieberman
• Build by Tony Fadell
• Finding the Next Steve Jobs by Nolan Bushnell
• Countdown by Shanna Swan
• Ravenous by Sam Apple
• How Schools Work by Arne Duncan
• David and Goliath by Malcolm Gladwell
• Blink by Malcolm Gladwell
• Excellent Sheep by William Deresiewicz
• Organizing Genius by Warren Bennis
• A New U: Cheaper and Faster Alternatives to College by Ryan Craig
• Paper Belt on Fire by Michael Gibson
• Outlive by Peter Attia