- Meditations by Marcus Aurelius
- Moral letters to Lucilius by Seneca
- Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl
- Finite and Infinite Games: A Vision of Life as Play and Possibility by James P. Carse
- Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari
- The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion by Jonathan Haidt
- The Elephant in the Brain by Robin Hanson and Kevin Simler
- Behave by Robert Sapolsky
- Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion by Robert Cialdini
- Poor Charlie's Almanack by Charles Munger
- Incerto by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
- Anything You Want by Derek Sivers
- Rework by Jason Fried and David Heinemeier Hansson
- Zero to One by Peter Thiel
- The Antidote: Happiness for People Who Can't Stand Positive Thinking by Oliver Burkeman (my notes).
- Titan: The Life of John D. Rockefeller, Sr. Book by Ron Chernow
- Benjamin Franklin: An American Life by Walter Isaacson
- Talleyrand: Betrayer And Saviour Of France by Robin Harris
- The Autobiography of Charles Darwin by Charles Darwin
- Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman! by Richard Feynman
- What I Learned Losing a Million Dollars by Jim Paul
- My Life in Advertising and Scientific Advertising by Claude C. Hopkins
- Sam Walton: Made in America by Sam Walton
- The Power Broker by Robert Caro
- Shoe Dog: A Memoir by the Creator of Nike by Phil Knight
- Total Recall: My Unbelievably True Life Story by Arnold Schwarzenegger
- Open by Andre Agassi
- Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea by Barbara Demick
- American Kingpin: The Epic Hunt for the Criminal Mastermind Behind the Silk Road by Nick Bilton
- Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup by John Carreyrou
- Wealth of Nations and The Theory of Moral Sentiments by Adam Smith
- That Which Is Seen and That Which Is Not Seen by Frédéric Bastiat
- Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds by Charles Mackay
- Economics in One Lesson by Henry Hazlitt
- What Has Government Done to Our Money? and Anatomy of the State by Murray Rothbard
- The Evolution of Cooperation by Robert Axelrod
- The Rational Optimist: How Prosperity Evolves by Matt Ridley
- The Art of Strategy: A Game Theorist's Guide to Success in Business and Life by Avinash K. Dixit and Barry J. Nalebuff
- Makers: The New Industrial Revolution by Chris Anderson
- Race Against The Machine by Erik Brynjolfsson and Andrew McAfee
- Ficciones by Jorge Luis Borges
- The Way of Kings and Perfect State by Brandon Sanderson
- The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss
- The Lies of Locke Lamora by Scott Lynch
- Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality by Eliezer Yudkowsky
- anything by Terry Pratchett
- Daytripper by Fábio Moon and Gabriel Bá
- Fleep by Jason Shiga
- The Arrival by Shaun Tan
- The Lessons of History by Will Durant
- The History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides
- Plutarch's Lives by Plutarch
- Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World by Jack Weatherford
- The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World by Niall Ferguson
- The History of Money by Jack Weatherford
- Debt: The First 5,000 Years by David Graeber
- Guns, Germs, and Steel by Jared Diamond
- How We Got to Now: Six Innovations That Made the Modern World by Steven Johnson
- The Code Book: The Science of Secrecy from Ancient Egypt to Quantum Cryptography by Simon Singh
- The Ultimate Sales Machine: Turbocharge Your Business by Chet Holmes
- Stealth Marketing by Jay Abraham
- The Boron Letters Book by Gary Halbert
- Breakthrough Advertising by Eugene M. Schwartz
- The Ultimate Sales Letter: Attract New Customers. Boost Your Sales by Dan S. Kennedy
- The 22 Immutable Laws of Marketing: Violate Them at Your Own Risk by Al Ries
- Ca$hvertising: How to Use More Than 100 Secrets of Ad-Agency Psychology to Make BIG MONEY Selling Anything to Anyone by
- Badass: Making Users Awesome by Kathy Sierra
- Traction: A Startup Guide to Getting Customers by Gabriel Weinberg
- Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products by Nir Eyal
- 80/20 Sales and Marketing: The Definitive Guide to Working Less and Making More by Perry Marshall
- SPIN Selling by Neil Rackham
- The Law by Frédéric Bastiat
- The Dictator's Handbook: Why Bad Behavior is Almost Always Good Politics by Bruce Bueno de Mesquita and Alastair Smith
- Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media by Noam Chomsky
- The Origins of Totalitarianism by Hannah Arendt
- On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century by Timothy Snyder
- Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed by James Scott
- Democracy in America Book by Alexis de Tocqueville
- Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business by Neil Postman
- The Social Contract by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
- Professor Frisby's Mostly Adequate Guide to Functional Programming by Brian Lonsdorf (read online)
- You Don't Know JS series by Kyle Simpson (read online)
- JavaScript Allongé by Reginald Braithwaite (read online)
- Speaking JavaScript by Axel Rauschmayer (read online)
- Functional JavaScript by Michael Fogus
- The Principles of Object-Oriented JavaScript by Nicholas Zakas
- Ruby on Rails Tutorial: Learn Web Development with Rails by Michael Hartl (read online)
- Practical Object Oriented Design in Ruby by Sandi Metz
- 99 Bottles of OOP by Sandi Metz and Katrina Owen
- Eloquent Ruby by Russ Olsen
- The Well-Grounded Rubyist by David Black
- Why's (Poignant) Guide to Ruby by Why The Lucky Stiff (read online)
- Pro Git by Scott Chacon (read online)
- The Linux Command Line by William E. Shotts (read online)
- Don't Make Me Think!: a Common Sense Approach to Web Usability by Steve Krug
- But How Do It Know? - The Basic Principles of Computers for Everyone by J. Clark Scott
- Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions by Dan Ariely
- Kluge: The Haphazard Construction of the Human Mind by Gary Marcus
- Waking Up: A Guide to Spirituality Without Religion by Sam Harris
- The Art of Taking Action: Lessons from Japanese Psychology by Gregg Krech
- Mistakes Were Made (But Not by Me): Why We Justify Foolish Beliefs, Bad Decisions, and Hurtful Acts by Carol Tavris
- Stumbling on Happiness by Daniel Gilbert
- Mindset: The New Psychology of Success by Carol Dweck
- The Willpower Instinct: How Self-Control Works, Why It Matters, and What You Can Do to Get More of It by Kelly McGonigal
- The Feynman Lectures on Physics by Richard Feynman
- A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson
- Seven Brief Lessons on Physics, The Order of Time and Reality Is Not What It Seems Book by Carlo Rovelli Carlo Rovelli
- A Mind for Numbers: How to Excel at Math and Science (Even If You Flunked Algebra) by Barbara Oakley
- The Beginning of Infinity: Explanations That Transform the World by David Deutsch
- Why We Believe in God(s): A Concise Guide to the Science of Faith by J. Anderson Thomson and Clare Aukofer
- The Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins
- The Red Queen: Sex and the Evolution of Human Nature by Matt Ridley
- Superforecasting: The Art and Science of Prediction by Philip Tetlock
- Good and Real: Demystifying Paradoxes from Physics to Ethics by Gary Drescher
- How to Lie with Statistics by Darrell Huff
- Stories of Your Life and Others by Ted Chiang
- The Player of Games by Iain Banks
- Foundation by Isaac Asimov
- The Futurological Congress by Stanisław Lem
- Paradyzja by Janusz Zajdel
- Replay by Ken Grimwood
- 1984 by George Orwell
- Little Brother by Cory Doctorow (free download)
- Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution by Steven Levy
- Digital Gold: Bitcoin and the Inside Story of the Misfits and Millionaires Trying to Reinvent Money by Nathaniel Popper
- The Internet of Money by Andreas Antonopoulos
- The Attention Merchants: The Epic Scramble to Get Inside Our Heads by Tim Wu
- The Innovator's Dilemma: The Revolutionary Book that Will Change the Way You Do Business by Clayton Christensen
- Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies by Nick Bostrom
- Clock of the Long Now: Time and Responsibility: The Ideas Behind the World's Slowest Computer by Stewart Brand
- Abundance: The Future Is Better Than You Think by Peter Diamandis
- Life 3.0: Being Human in the Age of Artificial Intelligence by Max Tegmark