Favorites marked with an asterisk (*).
City of Quartz: Excavating the Future in Los Angeles by Mike Davis
California Real Estate Principles by Walt Huber
The Case Against Education by Bryan Caplan
The Little Book of Deep Learning by François Fleuret
80,000 Hours by Benjamin Todd
Going Infinite by Michael Lewis
Barbarians at the Gate by Bryan Burrough and John Helyar
Space Invaders by Nona Fernández
The Motorcycle Diaries: Notes on a Latin American Journey by Che Guevara
Argentina - Culture Smart!: a quick guide to customs & culture by Robert Hamwee
The Rabbit House by Laura Alcoba
Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer
The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
*The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
On the Road by Jack Kerouac
The Man Who Solved the Market: How Jim Simons Launched the Quant Revolution by Gregory Zuckerman
Stubborn Attachments: A Vision for a Society of Free, Prosperous, and Responsible Individuals by Tyler Cowen
Dreamers in a Drift State by Bobby Housel
Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup by John Carreyrou
Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson
The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York by Robert A. Caro
Uncanny Valley: A Memoir by Anna Wiener
*The Crying of Lot 49 by Thomas Pynchon
Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality by Eliezer Yudkowsky
Flash Boys: A Wall Street Revolt by Michael Lewis
Mathematics for Human Flourishing by Francis Su
The Rust Programming Language by Steve Klabnik
*The Wisdom Of Finance: Discovering Humanity in the World of Risk and Return by Mihir Desai
Liar's Poker: Rising Through the Wreckage on Wall Street by Michael Lewis
Excellent Sheep: The Miseducation of the American Elite and the Way to a Meaningful Life by William Deresiewicz
*Chaos Monkeys: Obscene Fortune and Random Failure in Silicon Valley by Antonio García Martínez
Lady Windermere's Fan by Oscar Wilde
Payments Systems in the U.S.: A Guide for the Payments Professional by Carol Coye Benson
Zero To One by Peter Thiel
Dune by Frank Herbert
The Infinite Machine: How an Army of Crypto-hackers Is Building the Next Internet with Ethereum by Camila Russo
Reminiscences of a Stock Operator by Edwin Lefèvre
California: A History by Kevin Starr
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari
Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance by Angela Duckworth
What I Talk About When I Talk About Running by Haruki Murakami
Onward: How Starbucks Fought for Its Life without Losing Its Soul by Howard Schultz
The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting Up a Generation for Failure by Jonathan Haidt
American Pastoral by Philip Roth
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
*The Great CEO Within: The Tactical Guide to Company Building by Matt Mochary
Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy by Cathy O'Neil
Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption by Bryan Stevenson
The Ruins of Gorlan by John Flanagan
Advanced Marathoning by Pete Pfitzinger
How to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie
The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
*The Three-Body Problem by Cixin Liu
Secrets of Sand Hill Road: Venture Capital and How to Get It by Scott Kupor
The Lean Startup by Eric Ries
Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets by Nassim Nicholas Taleb