Library

A selection of books that have influenced my thinking

Publications I admire: Daedalus · The Economist

Literary Fiction 67
  • Life of Pi Yann Martel
  • The Alchemist Paulo Coelho
  • Kafka on the Shore Haruki Murakami
  • The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared Jonas Jonasson
  • The Stranger Albert Camus
  • Heart of Darkness Joseph Conrad
  • Moby-Dick; or, The Whale Herman Melville
  • The Brothers Karamazov Fyodor Dostoevsky
  • Things Fall Apart Chinua Achebe
  • Persepolis Marjane Satrapi
  • The Great Gatsby F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • The Sun Also Rises Ernest Hemingway
  • To Kill a Mockingbird Harper Lee
  • The Book Thief Markus Zusak
  • One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest Ken Kesey
  • Slaughterhouse-Five Kurt Vonnegut
  • The Things They Carried Tim O'Brien
  • Frankenstein Mary Shelley
  • Dracula Bram Stoker
  • 'Salem's Lot Stephen King
  • The Parasite and Other Tales of Terror Arthur Conan Doyle
  • The Murder of Roger Ackroyd Agatha Christie
  • Murder on the Orient Express Agatha Christie
  • The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes Arthur Conan Doyle
  • The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes Arthur Conan Doyle
  • The Hound of the Baskervilles Arthur Conan Doyle
  • The Adventures of Tom Sawyer Mark Twain
  • Oliver Twist Charles Dickens
  • The Red Badge of Courage Stephen Crane
  • The Call of the Wild Jack London
  • White Fang Jack London
  • The Iliad Homer
  • The Odyssey Homer
  • Siddhartha Hermann Hesse
  • The Time Machine H.G. Wells
  • Dune Frank Herbert
  • Dune Messiah Frank Herbert
  • Children of Dune Frank Herbert
  • The Martian Andy Weir
  • Project Hail Mary Andy Weir
  • A Canticle for Leibowitz Walter M. Miller Jr.
  • 1984 George Orwell
  • Fahrenheit 451 Ray Bradbury
  • The Giver Lois Lowry
  • The Road Cormac McCarthy
  • The Hobbit J.R.R. Tolkien
  • The Fellowship of the Ring J.R.R. Tolkien
  • The Two Towers J.R.R. Tolkien
  • The Return of the King J.R.R. Tolkien
  • Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone J.K. Rowling
  • Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets J.K. Rowling
  • Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban J.K. Rowling
  • Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire J.K. Rowling
  • Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix J.K. Rowling
  • Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince J.K. Rowling
  • Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows J.K. Rowling
  • The Lightning Thief Rick Riordan
  • The Sea of Monsters Rick Riordan
  • The Titan's Curse Rick Riordan
  • The Battle of the Labyrinth Rick Riordan
  • The Last Olympian Rick Riordan
  • Watership Down Richard Adams
  • Atlas Shrugged Ayn Rand
  • Sula Toni Morrison
  • Their Eyes Were Watching God Zora Neale Hurston
  • The Name of the Wind Patrick Rothfuss
  • Cloud Atlas David Mitchell
Drama & Tragedy 3
  • Hamlet William Shakespeare
  • Macbeth William Shakespeare
  • King Lear William Shakespeare
Philosophy & Scripture 9
  • The Republic Plato
  • Meditations Marcus Aurelius
  • Discourses and Selected Writings Epictetus
  • The Bible
  • The Bhagavad Gita
  • Mere Christianity C.S. Lewis
  • Man's Search for Meaning Viktor E. Frankl
  • The Sunflower Simon Wiesenthal
  • The Duck That Won the Lottery Julian Baggini
Non-Fiction 24
  • Leonardo da Vinci Walter Isaacson
  • Steve Jobs Walter Isaacson
  • Benjamin Franklin Walter Isaacson
  • Unbroken Laura Hillenbrand
  • In Cold Blood Truman Capote
  • Night Elie Wiesel
  • The Cave and the Light Arthur Herman
  • Guns, Germs, and Steel Jared Diamond
  • Capitalism and Freedom Milton Friedman
  • The Road to Serfdom F.A. Hayek
  • Freakonomics Steven D. Levitt & Stephen J. Dubner
  • What If? Randall Munroe
  • Thing Explainer Randall Munroe
  • The Astronomy Bible Heather Couper & Nigel Henbest
  • 12 Rules for Life Jordan B. Peterson
  • Beyond Order: 12 More Rules for Life Jordan B. Peterson
  • Principles: Life and Work Ray Dalio
  • Deep Work Cal Newport
  • Atomic Habits James Clear
  • Extreme Programming Installed Ron Jeffries
  • Of Boys and Men Richard Reeves
  • The 48 Laws of Power Robert Greene
  • In the Footsteps of Jesus Jean-Pierre Isbouts
  • The Little Book of Bonsai Jonas Dupuich