Reading List

I read quite a bit. This is an arbitrary subset of some of the best works I’ve come across.

• Essays by Michel de Montaigne
• The Iliad by Homer
• Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes
• The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin by Benjamin Franklin
• Self-Reliance by Ralph Waldo Emerson
• Middlemarch by George Eliot
• Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
• The Death of Ivan Ilyich by Leo Tolstoy
• Civilization and Its Discontents by Sigmund Freud
• Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
• East of Eden by John Steinbeck
• The Lessons of History by Will and Ariel Durant
• The Denial of Death by Ernest Becker
• Gödel, Escher, Bach by Douglas Hofstadter
• Surely You’re Joking, Mr. Feynman! by Richard P. Feynman
• Chaos by James Gleick
• The War of Art by Steven Pressfield
• Deep Work by Cal Newport
• Principles by Ray Dalio
• Four Thousand Weeks by Oliver Burkeman