Book Rankings

Notes on startups and how to build the future. Silicon Valley essential.

Science as a candle in the dark. Definitive case for skepticism and critical thinking.

Inside the Theranos fraud. Best investigative nonfiction of the decade.

Mass incarceration in the age of colorblindness. Landmark social justice work.

How to heal from distant, rejecting, or self-involved parents. The definitive book on the subject.

Building a business when there are no easy answers. The most honest startup book ever written.

The impact of the highly improbable. Changed how people think about risk.

Inside the financial crisis. Lewis at his best.

Psychedelics and consciousness exploration.

Wall Street in the 1980s. The book that launched Lewis's career.

Important historical work on Japanese atrocities.

Trauma, illness, and healing in a toxic culture. Maté's most comprehensive work.

Biography of the ultimate Renaissance man. Isaacson at his best.

Comprehensive, authoritative history. Pulitzer Prize winner.

Popular history of America's victory over Japan in WWII.

Discovering the new faces of neurodiversity. Validating and thorough.

The fight for the world's most critical technology. FT Business Book of the Year.

Anti-religion polemic.

Kahneman and Tversky's partnership that changed how we think.

The final volume of Evans's landmark trilogy. Hailed a masterpiece by the NYT.

The hidden history of the billionaires behind the radical right.

Economics without jargon. The definitive introductory economics text.

189 programming questions and solutions. Essential prep for technical interviews.

Classic comprehensive Nazi Germany history.

Mass movements and fanaticism analysis.

Inside the 2008 financial crisis. Best account of how Wall Street nearly collapsed.

China, Silicon Valley, and the new world order. Still relevant.

History of settler colonialism and resistance, 1917–2017.

Masterful account of the pivotal WWII Pacific battle.

Dense philosophy classic.

Oppenheimer biography. Pulitzer Prize winner.

Dreams and nightmares inside Sam Altman's OpenAI. NYT Bestseller.

Political philosophy classic (1651).

Jensen Huang, NVIDIA, and the world's most coveted microchip. The definitive Huang biography.

The story of Orville and Wilbur Wright. Pulitzer Prize-winning historian.

Warren Buffett biography.

The new science of a lost art. Surprisingly compelling.

How geography shapes nations.

Strategic thinking guide.

What to do when everyone looks to you. Practical management guide.

Demis Hassabis, DeepMind, and the quest for superintelligence. Definitive AI biography.

Unconscious mind science.

The science of achieving greater things.

Opium, caffeine, mescaline: our relationship with psychoactive plants.

Taking your life back when someone you care about has borderline personality disorder.

A financial history of the world. 10th anniversary edition.

The unconventional strategies real college students use to score high while studying less.

The surprisingly simple way to launch a 7-figure business in 48 hours.

The world's greatest investors reveal their ultimate strategies.

Technology futures.

The untold story of NeXT and the remaking of an American visionary.

AI optimism and the case for abundance.

The history of the CIA. Pulitzer Prize winner.

Template for understanding debt cycles. Dalio's most rigorous work.

Ten visions for our future. Fiction-nonfiction hybrid on how AI will reshape the world.

Silicon Valley history and critique.

Peter Thiel and the rise of the Silicon Valley oligarchs.

AI, ChatGPT, and the race that will change the world.

Roger Ailes and the rise of Fox News.

Why everything suddenly got worse and what to do about it.

An education in power at Stanford University. The culture of ascendancy exposed.

Alex Karp, Palantir, and the rise of the surveillance state.

Digestive health and brain connection.

Behind the brick empire. Family drama and business reinvention.

How the epic fight to control the last great media dynasty broke a family and the world.

Neuroscience of emotions.

Adidas vs Puma family feud.

Foundational LOA text.

An MIT computer scientist shows why AI, quantum physics, and Eastern mystics agree we are in a video game.

Economic critique. Recent release (2024).

Cryptocurrency advocacy.

Business authenticity guide.

Self-help memoir.

Lessons from disruption and innovation strategy.

How the suppression of wages is destroying America.

Elon Musk's quest for power: from Tesla to Twitter to government.

The war over TikTok. Tech, politics, and national security collide.

How a startup rocketed to e-commerce giant by empowering millions of entrepreneurs.

Occult/esoteric history.

Basic business startup guide.