Bookshelf
I find libraries quite peaceful due to their insightful discipline. That's why I'm trying to have a small version of it at home. It seems like the brain shifts gears to a better, more focused state when surrounded by books. Bookshelfs are also great conversation starters. People light up when they talk about their books—sharing what a book meant to them or what they learned from it. So, I thought I’d share my own bookshelf.
There's plently of books here that I haven't read yet. I flagged the best in green (same as in Patrick Collison's bookshelf - great inspiration). I have a Goodreads account - if you're there, feel free to follow. I'm happy to talk about books and encourage more people to read!
Non-Fiction
- The Intelligent Investor, Benjamin Graham (1949)
- Steve Jobs, Walter Isaacson (2011)
- The Invisible Hand, Adam Smith (1759)
- Build: An Unorthodox Guide to Making Things Worth Making, Tony Fadell (2022)
- The Communist Manifesto, Karl Marx (1848)
- On Writing Well: The Classic Guide to Writing Nonfiction, William Zinsser (1976)
- 21 Lessons for the 21st Century, Yuval Noah Harari (2018)
- A Brief History of Time, Stephen Hawking (1988)
- Homo Deus: A History of Tomorrow, Yuval Noah Harari (2015)
- Never Split the Difference: Negotiating As If Your Life Depended On It, Chris Voss (2016)
- Seneca's Letters from a Stoic, Seneca (64)
- The Year of Magical Thinking, Joan Didion (2005)
- Year of the Monkey, Patti Smith (2019)
- A Promised Land, Barack Obama (2020)
- The Gene: An Intimate History, Siddhartha Mukherjee (2016)
- Rich Dad Poor Dad: What the Rich Teach Their Kids About Money That the Poor and Middle Class Do Not!, Robert T. Kiyosaki (1997)
- Hello World: How to Be Human in the Age of the Machine, Hannah Fry (2018)
- Inspired: How to Create Tech Products Customers Love, Marty Cagan (2008)
- Shape Up: Stop Running in Circles and Ship Work that Matters, Ryan Singer (2019)
- Leaders Eat Last, Simon Sinek (2013)
- 7 Powers: The Foundations of Business Strategy, Hamilton Wright Helmer (2016)
- Escaping the Build Trap: How Effective Product Management Creates Real Value, Melissa Perri (2018)
- Super Thinking: The Big Book of Mental Models, Gabriel Weinberg (2019)
- Zag: The #1 Strategy of High-Performance Brands, Marty Neumeier (2006)
- Permission to Screw Up: How I Learned to Lead by Doing (Almost) Everything Wrong, Kristen Hadeed (2017)
- The Daily Stoic: 366 Meditations for Clarity, Effectiveness, and Serenity, Ryan Holiday (2016)
- Now We Have Your Attention: Inside Britain’s Radical New Politics, Jack Shenker (2019)
- Straw Dogs: Thoughts on Humans and Other Animals, John N. Gray (2002)
- Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future, Peter Thiel (2014)
- The Book of Why: The New Science of Cause and Effect, Judea Pearl (2018)
- It Doesn't Have to Be Crazy at Work, Jason Fried (2018)
- Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die, Chip Heath (2006)
- The Decision Book: Fifty Models for Strategic Thinking, Mikael Krogerus (2011)
- Dreams From My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance, Barack Obama (1995)
- User Story Mapping: Discover the Whole Story, Build the Right Product, Jeff Patton (2012)
- When: The Scientific Secrets of Perfect Timing, Daniel H. Pink (2018)
- The Beginning of Infinity: Explanations That Transform the World, David Deutsch (2011)
- When We Cease to Understand the World, Benjamín Labatut (2020)
- Capital in the Twenty-First Century, Thomas Piketty (2013)
- Capital and Ideology, Thomas Piketty (2019)
- As Bênçãos da Civilização (pt edition), Mark Twain (2019)
- Políticas da Inimizade (pt edition), Achille Mbembe (2017)
- Esquerda e Direita: Guia Histórico Para o Século XXI (pt edition), Rui Tavares (2015)
- The Rebel, Albert Camus (1951)
- Civilization and Its Discontents, Sigmund Freud (1930)
- This Business of Living: Diaries, 1935-1950, Cesare Pavese (1952)
- Educated, Tara Westover (2018)
- The Myth of Sisyphus, Albert Camus (1942)
- Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones, James Clear (2018)
- The Almanack of Naval Ravikant: A Guide to Wealth and Happiness, Eric Jorgenson (2020)
- The Five Dysfunctions of a Team: A Leadership Fable, Patrick Lencioni (2002)
- Revising Prose, Richard A. Lanham (1979)
- The Society of the Spectacle, Guy Debord (1967)
- Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty, Daron Acemoğlu (2012)
- Nausea, Jean-Paul Sartre (1938)
- In the Swarm, Byung-Chul Han (2013)
- The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers, Ben Horowitz (2014)
- The Prince, Niccolò Machiavelli (1532)
- On the Shortness of Life, Seneca (49)
- Life Without Principles, Henry David Thoreau (1863)
- The Expulsion of the Other: Society, Perception and Communication Today, Byung-Chul Han (2016)
- Another Life: On Memory, Language, Love, and the Passage of Time, Theodor Kallifatides (2016)
- Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress, Steven Pinker (2018)
- Thinking in Bets: Making Smarter Decisions When You Don't Have All the Facts, Annie Duke (2018)
- Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men, Caroline Criado Pérez (2019)
- The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming, David Wallace-Wells (2019)
- Range: How Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World (pt edition), David Epstein (2019)
- Good Economics for Hard Times: Better Answers to Our Biggest Problems, Abhijit V. Banerjee (2019)
- The Charisma Myth: How Anyone Can Master the Art and Science of Personal Magnetism, Olivia Fox Cabane (2012)
- Rework, Jason Fried (2010)
- Thinking, Fast and Slow, Daniel Kahneman (2011)
- O Avesso e o Direito (pt edition), Albert Camus (1937)
- The Undiscovered Self, C.G. Jung (1961)
- Demand-Side Sales 101: Stop Selling and Help Your Customers Make Progress, Bob Moesta (2020)
- Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind, Yuval Noah Harari (2011)
- The Brand Gap, Marty Neumeier (2003)
- A Estranha Ordem das Coisas: A Vida, os Sentimentos e as Culturas Humanas, António R. Damásio (2017)
- On the Abolition of All Political Parties, Simone Weil (1950)
- Man's Search for Meaning, Viktor E. Frankl (1946)
- Start with Why: How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone to Take Action, Simon Sinek (2009)
- The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business, Charles Duhigg (2012)
- The Burnout Society, Byung-Chul Han (2010)
- The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined, Steven Pinker (2010)
- The Transparency Society, Byung-Chul Han (2012)
- Oppression and Liberty, Simone Weil (1934)
- The Agony of Eros, Byung-Chul Han (2017)
- Remote: Office Not Required, Jason Fried (2013)
- The Organized Mind: Thinking Straight in the Age of Information Overload, Daniel J. Levitin (2014)
- Critique of Black Reason, Achille Mbembe (2013)
- Trigger Warning: Is the Fear of Being Offensive Killing Free Speech?, Mick Hume (2015)
- Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World (pt edition), Cal Newport (2016)
- The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power, Shoshana Zuboff (2018)
- The Coaching Habit: Say Less, Ask More Change the Way You Lead Forever, Michael Bungay Stanier (2016)
- The Manager's Path: A Guide for Tech Leaders Navigating Growth and Change, Camille Fournier (2017)
- Factfulness, Hans Rosling (2018)
- Everything Happens For A Reason And Other Lies I've Loved, Kate Bowler (2018)
- The Master Algorithm: How the Quest for the Ultimate Learning Machine Will Remake Our World, Pedro Domingos (2015)
- Team Topologies: Organizing Business and Technology Teams for Fast Flow, Matthew Skelton (2019)
- Speeches, Mark Twain (1923)
- Memories, Dreams, Reflections, C.G. Jung (1961)
- The Innovator’s Dilemma: When New Technologies Cause Great Firms to Fail, Clayton M. Christensen (1997)
- The Changing World Order: Why Nations Succeed and Fail, Ray Dalio (2021)
- 24/7: Late Capitalism and the Ends of Sleep, Jonathan Crary (2013)
- The Art of Action: How Leaders Close the Gaps Between Plans, Actions and Results, Stephen Bungay (2010)
- The Power Law: Inside Silicon Valley's Venture Capital Machine, Sebastian Mallaby (2022)
- Levels of Life, Julian Barnes (2013)
- Six Not-So-Easy Pieces: Einstein's Relativity, Symmetry, and Space-Time, Richard P. Feynman (1963)
- Six Easy Pieces: Essentials of Physics Explained by Its Most Brilliant Teacher, Richard P. Feynman (1994)
- Consciousness Explained, Daniel C. Dennett (1991)
- Empowered: Ordinary People, Extraordinary Products, Marty Cagan (2020)
- Afropean: Notes from Black Europe, Johny Pitts (2019)
- Greenlights, Matthew McConaughey (2020)
- The Great Divide: Unequal Societies and What We Can Do About Them, Joseph E. Stiglitz (2015)
- No Rules Rules: Netflix and the Culture of Reinvention, Reed Hastings (2020)
- Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents, Isabel Wilkerson (2020)
- Ethics, Baruch Spinoza (1677)
- River Out of Eden: A Darwinian View of Life, Richard Dawkins (1995)
- The Educated Mind: How Cognitive Tools Shape Our Understanding, Kieran Egan (1997)
- Collected Essays of George Orwell, George Orwell (1953)
- Principles: Life and Work, Ray Dalio (2017)
- How to Travel with a Salmon and Other Essays, Umberto Eco (1995)
- A Religião dos Livros - Alfarrabistas, Livrarias e Livreiros (pt edition), Carlos Bobone (2022)
- Learning to Build: The 5 Bedrock Skills of Innovators and Entrepreneurs, Bob Moesta (2022)
- Lifespan: Why We Age—and Why We Don't Have To, David A. Sinclair (2019)
- Lifespan: Why We Age—and Why We Don't Have To, David A. Sinclair (2019)
- An Elegant Puzzle: Systems of Engineering Management, Will Larson (2019)
- High Growth Playbook, Elad Gil (2018)
- A Writer's Diary, Elad Gil (1881)
- Hackers & Painters: Big Ideas from the Computer Age, Paul Graham (2004)
- Crashed: How a Decade of Financial Crises Changed the World, Adam Tooze (2018)
- Como perder uma eleição (pt edition), Luís Paixão Martins (2023)
- The History of Philosophy, A.C. Grayling (2019)
- The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma, Bessel van der Kolk (2014)
- The Creative Act: A Way of Being, Rick Rubin (2023)
- Contemplative Life, Byung-Chul Han (2023)
- Leonardo Da Vinci, The Biography, Walter Isaacson (2017)
- Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life, William Finnegan (2015)
- How the World Really Works: A Scientist's Guide to Our Past, Present and Future, Vaclav Smil (2022)
- Faith, Hope and Carnage, Nick Cave, Sean O'Hagan (2022)
- História do Repouso (pt edition), Alain Corbin (2023)
- The Last Days of Roger Federer: And Other Endings, Geoff Dyer (2022)
- The Eternal Decline and Fall of Rome: The History of a Dangerous Idea, Geoff Dyer (2021)
- Elon Musk, Walter Isaacson (2023)
- Letters from the Earth: Uncensored Writings, Mark Twain (1962)
- History Has Begun: The Birth of a New America, Bruno Maçães (2022)
- Belt and Road: A Chinese World Order, Bruno Maçães (2018)
- Clear Thinking, Shane Perrish (2023)
- Liberty: Incorporating Four Essays on Liberty, Isaiah Berlin (1969)
- Against the Current: Essays in the History of Ideas, Isaiah Berlin (1979)
- The Closing of the American Mind, Allan Bloom (1988)
- "La Religion Woke", Jean-François Braunstein (2022)
- As Causas do Atraso Português: Repensar o passado para reinventar o presente (pt edition), Nuno Palma (2023)
- Thousand Cranes, Yasunari Kawabata (1952)
- Como Mentem as Sondagens (pt edition), Luís Paixão Martins (2023)
- The Big Score: The Billion Dollar Story of Silicon Valley, Michael S. Malone (1985)
- The crisis of narration, Byung-Chul Han (2024)
- Scaling People: Tactics for Management and Company Building, Claire Hughes Johnson (2023)
- Poor Charlie’s Almanack: The Essential Wit and Wisdom of Charles T. Munger, Charles T. Munger (2005)
- Política a 45 Graus (pt edition), José Maria Pimentel (2022)
- On old Age, Marcus Tullius Cicero (45)
- Propaganda, Edward L. Bernays (1928)
- Outlive: The Science & Art of Longevity, Peter Atita (2023)
- Einstein: His Life and Universe, Walter Isaacson (2007)
- The Man Who Solved the Market: How Jim Simons Launched the Quant Revolution, Gregory Zuckerman (2019)
- The 4-Hour Workweek, Timothy Ferriss (2007)
- The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin, Benjamin Franklin (1791)
- The Outsiders: Eight Unconventional CEOs and Their Radically Rational Blueprint for Success, William N. Thorndike Jr. (2012)
- The Wealth and Poverty of Nations: Why Some Are So Rich and Some So Poor, David S. Landes. (1999)
- Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies, Jared Diamond (1997)
- Packing My Library: An Elegy and Ten Digressions, Alberto Manguel (2018)
- Como Escrever (pt edition), Miguel Esteves Cardoso (2024)
- Economic Facts and Fallacies, Thomas Sowell (2007)
- The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare, G.K. Chesterton (2016)
- The Symposium, Plato (381)
- Against Empathy: The Case for Rational Compassion, Paul Bloom (2016)
- The Human Mind: A Brief Tour of Everything We Know, Paul Bloom (2023)
- Liderança - Seis Estudos sobre Estratégia Mundial, Henry Kissinger (2022)
- Same as Ever: A Guide to What Never Changes, Cesare Pavese (2023)
- Utopia, Thomas More (1516)
- A Liberdade dos Antigos Comparada com a dos Modernos, Benjamin Constant (1819)
- Energy and Civilization: A History, Vaclav Smil (2017)
Fiction
- Raised from the Ground, José Saramago (1980)
- The Housekeeper and the Professor, Yōko Ogawa (2003)
- The Education of the Stoic: The Only Manuscript of the Baron of Teive, Fernando Pessoa (1999)
- The Fall, Albert Camus (1956)
- The Gambler, Fyodor Dostoevsky (1866)
- Memória de Elefante (pt edition), António Lobo Antunes (1979)
- A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, James Joyce (1916)
- The Buried Giant, Kazuo Ishiguro (2015)
- Berta Isla, Javier Marías (2017)
- Uma Menina Está Perdida no Seu Século à Procura do Pai (pt edition), Gonçalo M. Tavares (2014)
- O Senhor Walser e a Floresta (pt edition), Gonçalo M. Tavares (2006)
- The Tale of the Unknown Island, José Saramago (1997)
- Voyage to India, Gonçalo M. Tavares (2010)
- The Trial, Franz Kafka (1925)
- A Presidential Candidate, Mark Twain (1879)
- The Adolescent, Fyodor Dostoevsky (1875)
- O Senhor Brecht e o Sucesso (pt edition), Gonçalo M. Tavares (2004)
- Demons, Fyodor Dostoevsky (1871)
- Us, Yevgeny Zamyatin (1924)
- A Happy Death, Albert Camus (1971)
- For Bread Alone, Mohamed Choukri (1973)
- Orfeu de Bicicleta (pt edition), Francisco Bosco (2015)
- The Moon and the Bonfire, Cesare Pavese (1950)
- O Osso do Meio (pt edition), Gonçalo M. Tavares (2020)
- Histórias Falsas (pt edition), Gonçalo M. Tavares (2005)
- The Memory Police, Yōko Ogawa (1994)
- Concrete, Thomas Bernhard (1982)
- The Double, José Saramago (2002)
- The Stranger, Albert Camus (1942)
- Anna Karenina, Leo Tolstoy (1877)
- Blindness, José Saramago (1995)
- Crime and Punishment, Fyodor Dostoevsky (1866)
- The Cave, José Saramago (2000)
- 1984, George Orwell (1949)
- All the Names, José Saramago (1997)
- The Old Man and the Sea, Ernest Hemingway (1952)
- The Death of Ivan Ilych, Leo Tolstoy (1886)
- Learning to Pray in the Age of Technique, Gonçalo M. Tavares (2007)
- The Posthumous Memoirs of Brás Cubas, Machado de Assis (1881)
- Seeing, José Saramago (2004)
- The Land at the End of the World, António Lobo Antunes (1979)
- Flights, Olga Tokarczuk (2007)
- The Grapes of Wrath, John Steinbeck (1939)
- They, Kay Dick (1977)
- Life For Sale, Yukio Mishima (1968)
- Notes from the Underground, Fyodor Dostoevsky (1864)
- Girl, Woman, Other, Bernardine Evaristo (2019)
- A Personal Matter, Kenzaburō Ōe (1964)
- Sleep, Haruki Murakami (1987)
- Chronicle of a Death Foretold, Gabriel García Márquez (1981)
- The Great Gatbsy, F. Scott Fitzgerald (1925)
- Death with Interruptions, José Saramago (2005)
- The First Man, Albert Camus (1994)
- The Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis, José Saramago (1984)
- The Anarchist Banker, Fernando Pessoa (1922)
- Too Loud a Solitude, Bohumil Hrabal (1976)
- The Metamorphosis, Franz Kafka (1915)
- A Man: Klaus Klump, Gonçalo M. Tavares (2003)
- The Plage, Albert Camus (1947)
- The Gospel According to Jesus Christ, José Saramago (1991)
- Ensaio Sobre o Dia Conseguido (pt edition), Peter Handke (1991)
- Joseph Walser’s Machine, Gonçalo M. Tavares (2004)
- The Double, Fyodor Dostoevsky (1846)
- One Hundred Years of Solitude, Gabriel García Márquez (1967)
- Apresentação do Rosto (pt edition), Herberto Helder (1968)
- Jerusalem, Gonçalo M. Tavares (2005)
- Breves Notas sobre o Medo (pt edition), Gonçalo M. Tavares (2007)
- Breves Notas sobre o Oriente (pt edition), Gonçalo M. Tavares (2023)
- The Remains of the Day, Kazuo Ishiguro (1989)
- The Hate U Give, Angie Thomas (2017)
- Normal People, Sally Rooney (2018)
- Fathers and Sons, Ivan Turgenev (1862)
- Exile and the Kingdom, Albert Camus (1957)
- The Castle, Franz Kafka (1926)
- The Waves, Virginia Woolf (1931)
- Independent People, Halldór Laxness (1934)
- The Time Regulation Institute, Ahmet Hamdi Tanpınar (1954)
- Os Passos em Volta (pt edition), Herberto Helder (1963)
- The Insulted and Humiliated, Fyodor Dostoevsky (1861)
- The Gentle Spirit, Fyodor Dostoevsky (1876)
- Brave New World, Aldous Huxley (1932)
- The Brothers Karamazov, Fyodor Dostoevsky (1879)
- Belladona, Daša Drndić (2012)
- The Adventures of China Iron, Gabriela Cabezón Cámara (2017)
- The Return, Dulce Maria Cardoso (2012)
- First Love, Ivan Turgenev (1860)
- The Master and Margarita, Mikhail Bulgakov (1967)
- Death by Water, Kenzaburō Ōe (2009)
- Klara and the Sun, Kazuo Ishiguro (2021)
- As Convidadas (pt edition), Silvina Ocampo (1961)
- The Pastoral Symphony, André Gide (1911)
- One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (1962)
- Still Born, Guadalupe Nettel (2020)
- The Years, Annie Ernaux (2008)
- The Elementary Particles, Michel Houellebecq (1998)
- In Memory of Memory, Maria Stepanova (2017)
- The Possibility of an Island, Michel Houellebecq (2005)
- Collected Short Stories of Tchékhov - Vol I, Tchékhov (2001)
- Collected Short Stories of Tchékhov - Vol II, Tchékhov (2001)
- Collected Short Stories of Tchékhov - Vol II, Dante Alighieri (2002)
- The Passenger, Cormac McCarthy (2022)
- Stella Maris, Cormac McCarthy (2022)
- Burgueses somos nós todos ou ainda menos (pt edition), Mário de Carvalho (2018)
- Misericórdia (pt edition), Lídia Jorge (2022)
- Hunger, Knut Hamsun (1890)
- Somos o esquecimento que seremos (pt edition), Héctor Abad Faciolince (2023)
- Doctor Faustus, Thomas Mann (1947)
- The Divine Comedy, Dante Alighieri (1320)
- Lincoln in the Bardo, George Saunders (2017)
- Pachinko, Min Jin Lee (2017)
- War, Louis-Ferdinand Céline (2022)
- The Beautiful Summer, Cesare Pavese (1949)
- Mortal e Rosa, Francisco Umbral (1975)
Poetry, Travel, Education, and Others
- Diário da Peste: O Ano de 2020 (pt edition), Gonçalo M. Tavares (2021)
- The Flame, Leonard Cohen (2018)
- Averno, Louise Glück (2006)
- To Duration, Peter Handke (1986)
- Stranger on a Train, Jenny Diski (2002)
- Histórias da Terra e do Mar (pt edition), Sophia (1984)
- Poesia (pt edition), Daniel Faria (2003)
- The Prophet, Kahlil Gibran (1923)
- Oedipus Rex, Sophocles (430)
- As Outras Crónicas (pt edition), António Lobo Antunes (2023)
If you have a book to recommend, feel free to reach out.