Bookshelf
Most of the books I've read come from recommendations, from friends or individuals on the internet.
Below is a non-exhaustive list of books I'd like to read again. So in a sense, this is also a list of book recommendations to myself.
I always love receiving book recommendations. If you've read a good one recently, please let me know!
🇫🇷 Antigone Jean Anouilh
🇬🇧 Awareness Anthony de Mello
🇫🇷 Belle du Seigneur Albert Cohen
🇬🇧 City of Thieves David Benioff
🇬🇧 Exhalations Ted Chiang
🇫🇷 Fouché Stefan Zweig
🇬🇧 Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World Jack Weatherford
🇬🇧 Hajji Baba of Ispahan James Justinian Morier
🇬🇧 Harry Potter and the methods of rationality Eliezer Yudkowsky
The first 30 chapters or so
🇫🇷 Hhhh Laurent Binet
🇬🇧 How Asia works Joe Studwell
Scott Alexander wrote a good summary here.
🇬🇧 How the Internet Happened Brian McCullough
🇫🇷 L'insoutenable Légereté de l'etre Milan Kundera
🇫🇷 L'étranger Albert Camus
🇫🇷 La promesse de l'aube Romain Gary
🇫🇷 Le Comte de Monte-Cristo Alexandre Dumas
🇫🇷 Le Monde d'hier Stefan Zweig
🇫🇷 Leon L'africain Amin Maalouf
🇫🇷 Les Mains du miracle Joseph Kessel
🇫🇷 Les Trois Mousquetaires Alexandre Dumas
Surtout l'audiobook lu par Guillaume Gallienne.
🇫🇷 Malevil Robert Merle
🇫🇷 Marie-Antoinette Stefan Zweig
🇬🇧 Masters of Doom David Kushner
🇫🇷 Mermoz Joseph Kessel
🇬🇧 Mind body problem: a novel Rebecca Goldstein
🇬🇧 Mother of Learning Domagoj Kurmaic
🇬🇧 On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft Stephen King
🇬🇧 Pachinko Min Jin Lee
🇬🇧 Sale Of The Century: The Inside Story of the Second Russian Revolution Chrystia Freeland
🇫🇷 Siddartha Hermann Hesse
🇬🇧 Surely you’re joking mr Feynman Richard Feynman
🇬🇧 The Fifth Science Exurb1a
🇬🇧 The Lessons of History Will Durant and Ariel Durant
🇬🇧 The Selfish Gene Richard Dawkins
🇬🇧 The Spinoza problem Irvin Yaloom
🇬🇧 The man who solved the market Gregory Zuckerman
🇫🇷 Tous n'etaient pas des anges Joseph Kessel
🇫🇷 Un fauteuil sur la seine: quatre siecles d'histoire de France Amin Maalouf
There are other books I found useful before or while running a company. In no particular order:
CS183: Startup's notes Blake Masters
CS184: Startup Engineering's pdfs Balaji Srinivasan
The mooc has been offline for years. At the time of this writing the pdfs were available in this git repo. Note that while the concepts remain relevant, some of the tech parts may now be outdated.
Creative Selection Ken Kocienda
High Growth Handbook Elad Gil
High Output Management Andrew Grove
Shoe Dog Phil Knight
The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers Ben Horowitz
The Mom Test Rob Fitzpatrick
The Pyramid Principle: Logic in Writing and Thinking Barbara Minto
What You Do Is Who You Are: How to Create Your Business Culture Ben Horowitz
Who is Michael Ovitz? Michael Ovitz
And lastly, here's a selection of book I enjoyed in audiobook format. I probably won't read them again but I liked listening to them.
American Prometheus Kai Bird, Martin J. Sherwin
Digital Gold Nathaniel Popper
The Ride of a Lifetime Robert Iger
The World for Sale Javier Blas and Jack Farchy
The Dealmaker Guy Hands
The Man from the Future Ananyo Bhattacharya
Elon Musk Walter Isaacson
Becoming Trader Joe Joe Coulombe and Patty Civalleri
Chip War Chris Miller
Invention James Dyson