A non-exhaustive list of books I've read. \* Worth reading \*\* Essential reading # Non-fiction \*\* [Darwin's Dangerous Idea by Daniel Dennett](https://www.amazon.com/Darwins-Dangerous-Idea-Evolution-Meanings/dp/0684802902) \*\* [The Beginning of Infinity by David Deutsch](https://www.amazon.com/Beginning-Infinity-Explanations-Transform-World/dp/0143121359) \* [Objective Knowledge by Karl Popper](https://www.amazon.com/Objective-Knowledge-Routledge-Classics-Popper/dp/1041139225) \* [Tao of Charlie Munger by David Clark](https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01E4AMR70?) \* [Zero to One by Peter Thiel](https://www.amazon.com/Peter-Thiel-Zero-One-Paperback/dp/B00SCST3AK) \* [Surely You're Joking Mr. Feynman! by Richard Feynman](https://www.amazon.com/Surely-Youre-Joking-Mr-Feynman/dp/0393355624) \* [Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson](https://www.amazon.com/Steve-Jobs-Walter-Isaacson/dp/1982176865) [Range by David Epstein](https://www.amazon.com/Range-Generalists-Triumph-Specialized-World/dp/0735214506) [Facebook by Stephen Levy](https://www.amazon.com/Facebook-Inside-Story-Steven-Levy/dp/0735213178) [Liftoff by Eric Berger](https://www.amazon.com/Liftoff-Desperate-Early-Launched-SpaceX/dp/0062979981) [How Not to Be Wrong by Jordan Ellenberg](https://www.amazon.com/How-Not-Be-Wrong-Mathematical/dp/0143127535) [A Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawking](https://www.amazon.com/Brief-History-Time-Stephen-Hawking/dp/0553380168) [Shoe Dog by Phil Knight](https://www.amazon.com/Shoe-Dog-Memoir-Creator-NIKE/dp/1471146723) [Thinking Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman](https://www.amazon.com/Thinking-Fast-Slow-Daniel-Kahneman/dp/0374533555) [Ninth Street Women by Mary Gabriel](https://www.amazon.com/Ninth-Street-Women-Hartigan-Frankenthaler) # Fiction \* [Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir](https://www.amazon.com/dp/0593395565) \* [Recursion by Blake Crouch](https://www.amazon.com/Recursion-Novel-Blake-Crouch/dp/1524759791) \* [The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald](https://www.amazon.com/Great-Gatsby-Readers-Library-Classic/dp/1954839243) \* [The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand](https://www.amazon.com/FOUNTAINHEAD-25th-Anniversary-Ayn-Rand/dp/B006AVOB2G) - The first 200 pages or so will suffice \* [The Hitchiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams](https://www.amazon.com/dp/0345391802) \* [Bluebeard by Kurt Vonnegut](https://www.amazon.com/Bluebeard-Novel-Fiction-Kurt-Vonnegut/dp/038533351X) \* [Great Expectations by Charles Dickens](https://www.amazon.com/Great-Expectations-Penguin-Classics-Deluxe/dp/0143106279) [Dark Matter by Blake Crouch](https://www.amazon.com/dp/1447297563) [Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury](https://www.amazon.com/Fahrenheit-451-Ray-Bradbury/dp/1451673310) [Flatland by Edwin Abbott](https://www.amazon.com/Flatland-Romance-Dimensions-Edwin-Abbott/dp/B0875SRH84) [Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck](https://www.amazon.com/Mice-Penguin-Great-Books-Century/dp/0140186425/) [The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas](https://www.amazon.com/dp/0140449264) [1984 by George Orwell](https://www.amazon.com/1984-George-Orwell/dp/9394941150) [Animal Farm by George Orwell](https://www.amazon.com/Animal-Farm-George-Orwell/dp/0452284244) [Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut](https://www.amazon.com/Cats-Cradle-Novel-Kurt-Vonnegut/dp/038533348X) [The Stranger by Albert Camus](https://www.amazon.com/dp/0679720200) [The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger](https://www.amazon.com/Catcher-Rye-J-D-Salinger/dp/0316769177)