MY ALL-TIME RECOMMENDED READING LISTS

TO UNDERSTAND LIFE

 War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy

 The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
 The Road by Cormac McCarthy
 The Republic by Plato
 Meditations by Marcus Aurelius
 Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes
 An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding by David Hume
 Fundamental Principles of the Metaphysics of Morals by
Immanuel Kant
 The Structure of Scientific Revolutionsby Thomas Kuhn
 The Denial of Death and Escape from Evil by Ernest Becker
 Man’s Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl
 Fooled by Randomness, The Black Swan, and Antifragile by
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
 Why Information Grows by Cesar Hidalgo
TO UNDERSTAND THE WORLD

 The Origins of Political Order and Political Order and Decay by

Francis Fukuyama
 Lessons of History by William Durant and Ariel Durant
 Sapiens and Homo Deus by Yuval Noah Harari
 Guns, Germs and Steel by Jared Diamond
 Cows, Pigs, Wars and Witches by Marvin Harris
 Zealot by Reza Aslan
 Debt: The First 5000 Years by David Graeber
 On the Genealogy of Morals by Friedrich Nietzsche
 Civilization and Its Discontents by Sigmund Freud
 Marriage: A History by Stephanie Coontz
 The Swerve by Stephen Greenblatt
 The Better Angels of Our Nature by Steven Pinker
 The Dictator’s Handbook by Bruce Bueno de Mesquita and
Alastair Smith
 Race Against the Machines by Eric Brynjolfsson and Andrew
McAfee
 Democracy for Realists by Christopher Achen and Larry
Bartels
 Average is Over by Tyler Cowen
TO UNDERSTAND HUMAN NATURE

 The Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins

 The Red Queen by Matt Ridley
 The Blank Slate by Steven Pinker
 The Evolving Self by Robert Kegan
 The True Believer by Eric Hoffer
 Stumbling on Happiness by Daniel Gilbert
 Influence by Robert Cialdini
 Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman
 Mindset by Carol Dweck
 Predictably Irrational by Dan Ariely
 This is Water by David Foster Wallace