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Books

Books I have read

Although I wouldn’t categorise myself as a voracious reader, I tend to read at least four or five books a year. This leaves time to focus on developing other skills I am working on.

I keep a record of some of the books I have read here. A dot next to a title indicates a Good or Great read.

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142 of 142 titles
  • The Everything Storegreat
  • The Art of War·
  • A Course in Probability Theory·
  • The 48 Laws of Power·
  • Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software·
  • Zero to Onegreat
  • Start with Whygood
  • Outliersgood
  • The Gene: An Intimate History·
  • Shoe Doggreat
  • Competing Against Luck: The Story of Innovation and Customer Choice·
  • Thinking, Fast and Slowgreat
  • Good to Greatgood
  • Alexander Hamiltongreat
  • Clean Code: A Handbook of Agile Software Craftsmanship·
  • Hard Drive: Bill Gates and the Making of the Microsoft Empire·
  • The Innovator's Dilemmagreat
  • The Hard Thing About Hard Thingsgood
  • Princes of the Yen: Japan's Central Bankers and the Transformation of the Economy·
  • Probability and Statistics·
  • Robert Oppenheimer, Letters and Recollections·
  • Introduction to Algorithms·
  • The Big Shortgood
  • The Intelligent Investorgreat
  • Rework·
  • The Guns of August·
  • Built to Lastgood
  • Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel: The Man Who Unified India·
  • The Bladerunner·
  • The Architecture of Computer Hardware and System Software·
  • The Startup Owner's Manual·
  • The Campaigns of Napoleon·
  • Animal Farm·
  • Sam Walton - Made in Americagood
  • Corporate Finance: Theory and Practice·
  • Business Adventures·
  • The Man Who Mistook His Wife For A Hat·
  • The Spirit Level·
  • Liar's Pokergood
  • Titangreat
  • To Kill a Mockingbird·
  • The Lord of the Rings·
  • The Black Swan·
  • The Nature of Mathematical Modeling·
  • The History Of The Decline And Fall Of The Roman Empire·
  • The Computer Science Book: A Complete Introduction·
  • The Essays of Warren Buffett: Lessons for Corporate Americagreat
  • Why We Sleepgood
  • The Brain That Changes Itself·
  • The Singularity Is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology·
  • The House of Morgan·
  • Moneyballgood
  • Competition Demystified·
  • Uncanny Valley·
  • Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the Endgood
  • The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn·
  • Fundamentals of Corporate Finance·
  • Klara and the Sun·
  • The Lean Startupgood
  • Hard Landing·
  • A Nation of Immigrants·
  • Gödel, Escher, Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid·
  • Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincolngreat
  • Lights Out: Pride, Delusion, and the Fall of General Electric·
  • Whatever it takes·
  • The Ride of a Lifetimegood
  • Good Economics for Hard Times·
  • A Short History of England·
  • The Remains of the Day·
  • Winning·
  • Measure What Mattersgood
  • Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startupgood
  • A Thousand Brains: A New Theory of Intelligence·
  • Steve Jobsgreat
  • Quantum Computation and Quantum Information·
  • Homo Deus·
  • Capitalism Without Capital·
  • Poor Charlie's Almanackgreat
  • The Wealth of Nations·
  • The Smartest Guys in the Room: The Amazing Rise and Scandalous Fall of Enrongood
  • The Creature from Jekyll Island·
  • 1776·
  • Hamlet·
  • Bank 4.0: Banking Everywhere, Never at a Bank·
  • Man's Search for Meaninggreat
  • War and Peace·
  • Dune·
  • Nineteen Eighty-Fourgood
  • Pioneering Portfolio Management: An Unconventional Approach to Institutional Investment·
  • A Brief History of Timegood
  • Diary of a Wimpy Kid·
  • Foundation·
  • The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy·
  • Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies·
  • Fahrenheit 451·
  • Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societiesgood
  • Charlie and the Chocolate Factory·
  • Don Quixote·
  • The Dream Machine·
  • From Russia with Love·
  • Cosmosgreat
  • Physics of the Impossible·
  • The Future of Capitalism·
  • Hiroshima·
  • Black Boy: A Record of Childhood and Youth·
  • The Diary of a Young Girl·
  • Stranger in a Strange Land·
  • The Feynman Lectures on Physicsgreat
  • The Economic Consequences of the Peace·
  • The Discovery of India·
  • The Beginning of Infinity·
  • The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklingood
  • Common Sense·
  • A Short History of Nearly Everythinggood
  • The Making of the Atomic Bombgreat
  • The Shortest History of China·
  • The Snowball: Warren Buffett and the Business of Lifegreat
  • The Partnership: The Making of Goldman Sachs·
  • Catch-22·
  • Investment Valuation·
  • Corporate Finance: Theory and Practice·
  • When Genius Failedgood
  • Lords of Finance·
  • A Man Called Intrepid·
  • How the World Really Works·
  • Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankindgreat
  • When Breath Becomes Airgood
  • Printed Circuits Handbook, Seventh Edition·
  • Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture·
  • Being Nixon·
  • Investment Banking: Valuation, Leveraged Buyouts, and Mergers and Acquisitions·
  • Infinite Jest·
  • Energy and Civilization: A History·
  • The Mythical Man-month·
  • Code Complete (2nd Edition)·
  • The Arabs: A History·
  • Institutional Equities and the Broker Dealer·
  • In Search of Schrödinger's Cat·
  • The Pragmatic Programmergood
  • Quantum Physics of Atoms, Molecules, Solids, Nuclei, and Particles·
  • Mendeleyev's Dream·
  • The Code Breaker·