# Shelf

Shray Jain-Surana's bookshelf: 740 books. Interactive version at [/shelf/](/shelf/).

## Picks

- [High Output Management](/shelf/high-output-management/), Andrew S. Grove, 1983
- [Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies](/shelf/guns-germs-and-steel-the-fates-of-human-societies/), Jared Diamond, 1997
- [The Pragmatic Programmer](/shelf/the-pragmatic-programmer/), David Thomas and Andrew Hunt, 1999
- [Designing Data-Intensive Applications](/shelf/designing-data-intensive-applications/), Martin Kleppmann, 2017
- [The Most Important Thing](/shelf/the-most-important-thing/), Howard Marks, 2011
- [The Essays of Warren Buffett: Lessons for Corporate America](/shelf/the-essays-of-warren-buffett-lessons-for-corporate-america/), Warren Buffett and Lawrence A. Cunningham, 1997
- [Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry into Values](/shelf/zen-and-the-art-of-motorcycle-maintenance-an-inquiry-into-va/), Robert M. Pirsig, 1974
- [Project Hail Mary](/shelf/project-hail-mary/), Andy Weir, 2021
- [Getting to Yes: Negotiating Agreement Without Giving In](/shelf/getting-to-yes-negotiating-agreement-without-giving-in/), Roger Fisher and William Ury, 1981
- [Algorithms to Live By](/shelf/algorithms-to-live-by/), Brian Christian and Tom Griffiths, 2016
- [Essentialism](/shelf/essentialism/), Greg McKeown, 2014
- [Skunk Works](/shelf/skunk-works/), Ben R. Rich and Leo Janos, 1994

## Everything

### Business & Strategy

- 7 Powers: The Foundations of Business Strategy, Hamilton Helmer (2016)
- Account-Based Marketing For Dummies, Sangram Vajre (2016)
- Behind the Cloud, Marc Benioff and Carlye Adler (2009)
- Best Practices for Operational Excellence, Luca Dellanna (2019)
- Blue Ocean Strategy, W. Chan Kim and Renée Mauborgne (2005)
- Building Successful Communities of Practice, Emily Webber (2016)
- Buy Then Build, Walker Deibel (2018)
- Click Here: The Art and Science of Digital Marketing and Advertising, Alex Schultz (2025)
- Coaching Salespeople into Sales Champions, Keith Rosen (2008)
- Company of One, Paul Jarvis (2019)
- Competition Demystified, Bruce Greenwald and Judd Kahn (2005)
- Competitive Strategy, Michael E. Porter (1980)
- Conscious Business: How to Build Value Through Values, Fred Kofman (2006)
- Consulting Frameworks, Peter Oliver (2016)
- Contract Drafting and Negotiation for Entrepreneurs and Business Professionals, Paul A. Swegle (2018)
- Corporations, Holger Spamann and others (2023)
- Creating Magic, Lee Cockerell (2008)
- Creating Value Through Corporate Restructuring: Case Studies in Bankruptcies, Buyouts, and Breakups, Stuart C. Gilson (2010)
- Demand-Side Sales 101, Bob Moesta (2020)
- Do Protect: Legal Advice for Startups, Johnathan Rees (2014)
- Driving Demand: Transforming B2B Marketing to Meet the Needs of the Modern Buyer, Carlos Hidalgo (2015)
- Fall in Love with the Problem, Not the Solution: A Handbook for Entrepreneurs, Uri Levine (2023)
- Fanatical Prospecting, Jeb Blount (2015)
- Founding Sales, Pete Kazanjy (2020)
- From Impossible to Inevitable, Aaron Ross and Jason Lemkin (2016)
- Gap Selling, Keenan (2018)
- Hacking Sales, Max Altschuler (2016)
- Hard Landing, Thomas Petzinger Jr. (1995)
- Hardball: Are You Playing to Play or Playing to Win?, George Stalk Jr. and Rob Lachenauer (2004)
- Harvard Business Review Family Business Handbook, Josh Baron and Rob Lachenauer (2021)
- High Growth Handbook, Elad Gil (2018)
- High Output Management, Andrew S. Grove (1983)
- How to Be a Founder, Alice Bentinck and Matt Clifford (2022)
- How to Make a Few Billion Dollars, Brad Jacobs (2024)
- Influence Empire, Lulu Yilun Chen (2022)
- Inside the Tornado, Geoffrey A. Moore (1995)
- Losing the Signal, Jacquie McNish and Sean Silcoff (2015)
- Measure What Matters, John Doerr (2018)
- MEDDICC, Andy Whyte (2020)
- National Power and the Structure of Foreign Trade, Albert O. Hirschman (1945)
- Obvious in Hindsight, Bradley Tusk (2023)
- Obviously Awesome, April Dunford (2019)
- Outbounding, Skip Miller (2020)
- Play Bigger, Al Ramadan and others (2016)
- Problem Hunting, Brian Long (2023)
- Reboot: Leadership and the Art of Growing Up, Jerry Colonna (2019)
- Reputation Rules, Daniel Diermeier (2011)
- Revenue Architecture, Jacco van der Kooij (2023)
- Sales Pitch, April Dunford (2023)
- Scientific Advertising, Claude C. Hopkins (1923)
- Selling the Cloud, Mark Petruzzi and Paul Melchiorre (2020)
- Selling Value, Mark Stiving (2022)
- Setting the Table, Danny Meyer (2006)
- SPIN Selling, Neil Rackham (1988)
- Startup Boards, Brad Feld and Mahendra Ramsinghani (2013)
- The 22 Immutable Laws of Marketing, Al Ries and Jack Trout (1993)
- The Boston Consulting Group on Strategy: Classic Concepts and New Perspectives, Carl W. Stern and Michael S. Deimler (2006)
- The Case Study Handbook, William Ellet (2007)
- The Challenger Sale, Matthew Dixon and Brent Adamson (2011)
- The Cold Start Problem, Andrew Chen (2021)
- The Copywriter's Handbook, Robert W. Bly (1985)
- The Corporation in the Twenty-First Century: Why (Almost) Everything We Are Told About Business Is Wrong, John Kay (2024)
- The Essential Drucker, Peter F. Drucker (2001)
- The Firm: The Story of McKinsey and Its Secret Influence on American Business, Duff McDonald (2013)
- The Golden Passport, Duff McDonald (2017)
- The Great CEO Within, Matt Mochary (2019)
- The Magic of Thinking Big, David J. Schwartz (1959)
- The McKinsey Edge, Shu Hattori (2015)
- The McKinsey Mind, Ethan M. Rasiel and Paul N. Friga (2001)
- The Power of Adaptation, Luca Dellanna (2024)
- The Power of Pull, Rob Snyder (2026)
- The Qualified Sales Leader, John McMahon (2021)
- The Revenue Acceleration Playbook, Brent Keltner (2022)
- The SaaS Sales Method, Jacco van der Kooij and Fernando Pizarro (2018)
- The SaaS Sales Method for Customer Success and Account Managers, Jacco van der Kooij and Dominique Levin (2018)
- The Sales Acceleration Formula, Mark Roberge (2015)
- The Secret Life of Groceries, Benjamin Lorr (2020)
- The Sweaty Startup, Nick Huber (2025)
- The Tech Contracts Handbook, David W. Tollen (2011)
- The Venture Mindset, Ilya Strebulaev and Alex Dang (2024)
- Thinking Strategically, Avinash K. Dixit and Barry J. Nalebuff (1991)
- Toyota Production System, Taiichi Ohno (1978)
- Traction: How Any Startup Can Achieve Explosive Customer Growth, Gabriel Weinberg and Justin Mares (2014)
- Turn the Ship Around!, L. David Marquet (2012)
- Unlocking Leadership Mindtraps, Jennifer Garvey Berger (2019)
- Unreasonable Hospitality, Will Guidara (2022)
- Who: The A Method for Hiring, Geoff Smart and Randy Street (2008)
- Why Startups Fail, Tom Eisenmann (2021)
- Working with Contracts, Charles M. Fox (2002)
- World Eaters, Catherine Bracy (2025)

### Career & Professional

- 101 Smart Questions to Ask on Your Interview, Ron Fry (1996)
- 3-D Negotiation: Powerful Tools to Change the Game in Your Most Important Deals, David A. Lax and James K. Sebenius (2006)
- 80,000 Hours, Benjamin Todd (2016)
- Acing the System Design Interview, Zhiyong Tan (2024)
- Admitted: The Missing Guide to Craft a Winning Application, Soundarya Balasubramani (2020)
- Be Slightly Evil, Venkatesh Rao (2013)
- Be the Greatest Product Manager Ever, Lewis C. Lin (2019)
- Be the Outlier: How to Ace Data Science Interviews, Shrilata Murthy (2018)
- Building AI-Powered Products, Marily Nika (2025)
- Case in Point, Marc P. Cosentino (1999)
- Case Interview Secrets, Victor Cheng (2012)
- Click: How to Make What People Want, Jake Knapp and John Zeratsky (2025)
- Compilers: Principles, Techniques, and Tools, Alfred V. Aho and others (2006)
- Computer Programming for Absolute Beginners, Joakim Wassberg (2020)
- Confident Career Conversations, Antoinette Oglethorpe (2023)
- Connect: Building Exceptional Relationships with Family, Friends, and Colleagues, David L. Bradford and Carole Robin (2021)
- Cracking Case Interviews, Max Serrano and Jonathon Yarde (2020)
- Culture Hacks, Richard Conrad (2019)
- De bermudadriehoek van talent, Simon van Teutem (2025)
- Decode and Conquer, Lewis C. Lin (2013)
- Deploy Empathy, Michele Hansen (2021)
- Docs for Developers, Jared Bhatti and others (2021)
- Double Your Dating, David DeAngelo (2001)
- Empowered: Ordinary People, Extraordinary Products, Marty Cagan and Chris Jones (2020)
- Fearless Salary Negotiation, Josh Doody (2015)
- Get Together, Bailey Richardson and others (2019)
- Getting to Yes: Negotiating Agreement Without Giving In, Roger Fisher and William Ury (1981)
- Good Arguments, Bo Seo (2022)
- Grokking Algorithms, Second Edition, Aditya Y. Bhargava (2024)
- Grokking Data Structures, Marcello La Rocca (2024)
- Growing as a Mobile Engineer, Gergely Orosz (2021)
- Growth Product Manager's Handbook, Eve Chen (2024)
- HBR's 10 Must Reads on Negotiation, Harvard Business Review (2019)
- Heard on the Street: Quantitative Questions from Wall Street Job Interviews, Timothy Falcon Crack (1995)
- How to Speak Tech, Vinay Trivedi (2014)
- I Seem to Be a Verb, R. Buckminster Fuller and others (1970)
- Impact-First Product Teams, Matt LeMay (2025)
- INSPIRED: How to Create Tech Products Customers Love, Marty Cagan (2008)
- Kissinger the Negotiator: Lessons from Dealmaking at the Highest Level, James K. Sebenius and others (2018)
- Leadership Presence, Harvard Business Review (2018)
- Mastering Behavioral Interviews, Austen McDonald (2023)
- Models: Attract Women Through Honesty, Mark Manson (2011)
- Negotiating Rationally, Max H. Bazerman and Margaret A. Neale (1992)
- Negotiating the Impossible: How to Break Deadlocks and Resolve Ugly Conflicts (Without Money or Muscle), Deepak Malhotra (2016)
- Negotiation Genius: How to Overcome Obstacles and Achieve Brilliant Results at the Bargaining Table and Beyond, Deepak Malhotra and Max H. Bazerman (2007)
- Never Eat Alone, Keith Ferrazzi and Tahl Raz (2005)
- Never Search Alone, Phyl Terry (2022)
- Product Leadership, Richard Banfield and others (2017)
- Read People Like a Book, Patrick King (2020)
- Runnin' Down a Dream, Bill Gurley (2026)
- Secrets of Speed Seduction Mastery, Ross Jeffries (1999)
- Speaking Up Without Freaking Out, Matt Abrahams (2010)
- Stop Asking Questions, Andrew Warner (2021)
- Storytelling with Data: A Data Visualization Guide for Business Professionals, Cole Nussbaumer Knaflic (2015)
- Strong Product People, Petra Wille (2020)
- Thank You for Arguing, Jay Heinrichs (2007)
- The 1%: Conquer Your Consulting Case Interview, Florian Smeritschnig (2023)
- The 2-Hour Cocktail Party, Nick Gray (2022)
- The 2-Hour Job Search, Steve Dalton (2012)
- The AI Product Manager's Handbook, Irene Bratsis (2023)
- The Art of Gathering: How We Meet and Why It Matters, Priya Parker (2018)
- The Debater's Guide, Jon M. Ericson and others (1961)
- The Defining Decade, Meg Jay (2012)
- The Exceptional Presenter, Timothy J. Koegel (2007)
- The Game, Neil Strauss (2005)
- The Mom Test: How to Talk to Customers and Learn If Your Business Is a Good Idea When Everyone Is Lying to You, Rob Fitzpatrick (2013)
- The Mystery Method, Mystery and Chris Odom (2007)
- The Pathless Path, Paul Millerd (2022)
- The Pocket Guide to Product Launches, Mary Sheehan (2023)
- The Product Manager Interview, Lewis C. Lin (2017)
- The Pyramid Principle, Barbara Minto (1987)
- The Tools of Argument, Joel P. Trachtman (2013)
- Think Faster, Talk Smarter, Matt Abrahams (2023)
- Transformed: Moving to the Product Operating Model, Marty Cagan (2024)
- What Color Is Your Parachute? 2022, Richard N. Bolles and Katharine Brooks (2021)
- What You're Really Meant to Do: A Road Map for Reaching Your Unique Potential, Robert Steven Kaplan (2013)
- Win Every Argument, Mehdi Hasan (2023)
- Writing for Developers: Blogs That Get Read, Piotr Sarna and Cynthia Dunlop (2024)
- Writing for Software Developers, Philip Kiely (2020)
- You Have a Choice, Eric Nehrlich (2023)

### Defense & Government

- AI for Digital Warfare, Niklas Hageback and Daniel Hedblom (2021)
- Covert Regime Change, Lindsey A. O'Rourke (2018)
- Economic Statecraft, David A. Baldwin (1985)
- How Sanctions Work, Narges Bajoghli and others (2024)
- How Spies Think, David Omand (2020)
- Kill Chain: The Rise of the High-Tech Assassins, Andrew Cockburn (2015)
- Operation Gladio, Paul L. Williams (2015)
- Psychology of Intelligence Analysis, Richards J. Heuer Jr. (1999)
- Recoding America, Jennifer Pahlka (2023)
- Routledge Handbook of Defence Studies, David J. Galbreath and John R. Deni (2018)
- Skunk Works, Ben R. Rich and Leo Janos (1994)
- Structured Analytic Techniques for Intelligence Analysis, Randolph H. Pherson and Richards J. Heuer Jr. (2020)
- Structured Analytic Techniques for Intelligence Analysis, Richards J. Heuer Jr. and Randolph H. Pherson (2010)
- The Arms of the Future, Jack Watling (2023)
- The Art of Intelligence, Henry A. Crumpton (2012)
- The Doomsday Machine, Daniel Ellsberg (2017)
- The Hundred-Year Marathon, Michael Pillsbury (2015)
- The Hunt for Zero Point, Nick Cook (2001)
- The Impossible Factory, Josh Dean (2026)
- The Kill Chain, Christian Brose (2020)
- The Origins of Victory, Andrew F. Krepinevich Jr. (2023)
- The Wires of War, Jacob Helberg (2021)
- Treasury's War, Juan C. Zarate (2013)
- Unit X, Raj M. Shah and Christopher Kirchhoff (2024)
- War by Other Means: Geoeconomics and Statecraft, Robert D. Blackwill and Jennifer M. Harris (2016)
- Who Is Government? The Untold Story of Public Service, Michael Lewis (2025)

### Finance & Markets

- 100 Baggers: Stocks That Return 100-to-1 and How to Find Them, Christopher W. Mayer (2015)
- 100 Property Investment Tips, Rob Dix and Rob Bence (2015)
- A Pragmatist's Guide to Leveraged Finance, Robert S. Kricheff (2012)
- Accounting for Fun and Profit: A Guide to Understanding Advanced Topics in Accounting, Lawrence A. Weiss (2017)
- Advising Ultra-Affluent Clients and Family Offices, Michael M. Pompian (2009)
- Against the Gods: The Remarkable Story of Risk, Peter L. Bernstein (1996)
- Applied Mergers and Acquisitions, Robert F. Bruner (2004)
- Asian Financial Statement Analysis, ChinHwee Tan and Thomas R. Robinson (2014)
- Basic Black-Scholes, Timothy Falcon Crack (2004)
- Bluff: The Game Central Banks Play and How It Leads to Crisis, Anjum Hoda (2016)
- Bull! A History of the Boom, 1982 to 1999, Maggie Mahar (2003)
- Capital Wars: The Rise of Global Liquidity, Michael J. Howell (2020)
- Central Banking 101, Joseph J. Wang (2021)
- Close the Deal: 120 Checklists for Sales Success, Sam Deep and Lyle Sussman (1999)
- Common Stocks and Uncommon Profits, Philip A. Fisher (1958)
- Complete Family Wealth, James E. Hughes Jr. and others (2017)
- Corporate Finance: A Valuation Approach, Simon Benninga and Oded H. Sarig (1997)
- Dealmaking: The New Strategy of Negotiauctions, Guhan Subramanian (2020)
- Deals: The Economic Structure of Business Transactions, Michael Klausner and Guhan Subramanian (2024)
- Digital Gold, Nathaniel Popper (2015)
- Dirt Cheap Real Estate, Beaux Blast (2020)
- Efficiently Inefficient, Lasse Heje Pedersen (2015)
- Essential Property Investment Calculations, Robert Heaton (2020)
- Excess Returns, Frederik Vanhaverbeke (2014)
- Expectations Investing, Michael J. Mauboussin and Alfred Rappaport (2001)
- Finance and Accounting for Nonfinancial Managers: All the Basics You Need to Know, William G. Droms and Jay O. Wright (2015)
- Financial Accounting for Fun and Profit: A Guide to Understanding Accounting, Lawrence A. Weiss (2017)
- Financial Derivatives: Pricing, Applications, and Mathematics, Jamil Baz and George Chacko (2004)
- Financial Hacking, Philip Maymin (2012)
- Financial Shenanigans: How to Detect Accounting Gimmicks and Fraud in Financial Reports, Howard M. Schilit and Jeremy Perler (2010)
- Financial Statement Analysis: A Practitioner's Guide, Martin S. Fridson and Fernando Alvarez (1991)
- Financial Statements: A Step-by-Step Guide to Understanding and Creating Financial Reports, Thomas R. Ittelson (2009)
- Fintech Wars: Tech Titans, Complex Crypto and the Future of Money, James da Costa (2024)
- Foundations for Scientific Investing, Timothy Falcon Crack (2014)
- Funds: Private Equity, Hedge and All Core Structures, Matthew Hudson (2014)
- Global Mergers and Acquisitions, Volume I: Combining Companies Across Borders, Abdol S. Soofi and Yuqin Zhang (2014)
- Global Mergers and Acquisitions, Volume II: Combining Companies Across Borders, Abdol S. Soofi and Yuqin Zhang (2018)
- Hedgehogging, Barton Biggs (2006)
- High Probability Trading, Marcel Link (2003)
- How Countries Go Broke: The Big Cycle, Ray Dalio (2025)
- How Finance Works, Mihir Desai (2019)
- How to Ace Your Business Finance Class, Timothy Falcon Crack (2017)
- How to Invest in Real Estate, Brandon Turner and Joshua Dorkin (2018)
- Inside the Black Box: A Simple Guide to Systematic Investing, Rishi K. Narang (2024)
- Investing: The Last Liberal Art, Robert G. Hagstrom (2000)
- Investing for Programmers, Stefan Papp (2025)
- Investment Banking: Valuation, LBOs, M&A, and IPOs, Joshua Rosenbaum and Joshua Pearl (2009)
- Investment Banking Workbook, Joshua Rosenbaum and Joshua Pearl (2013)
- IPO: A Global Guide, Philippe Espinasse (2011)
- King Dollar, Paul Blustein (2025)
- Last Man Standing: The Ascent of Jamie Dimon and JPMorgan Chase, Duff McDonald (2009)
- Lessons from Private Equity Any Company Can Use, Orit Gadiesh and Hugh MacArthur (2008)
- Lessons in Corporate Finance: A Case Studies Approach to Financial Tools, Financial Policies, and Valuation, Paul Asquith and Lawrence A. Weiss (2019)
- Lying for Money, Dan Davies (2018)
- Machine Trading, Ernest P. Chan (2017)
- Masterminding the Deal, Peter Clark and Roger Mills (2013)
- Medici Money, Tim Parks (2005)
- Mergers and Acquisitions from A to Z, Andrew J. Sherman (1998)
- Models.Behaving.Badly., Emanuel Derman (2011)
- Narrative and Numbers, Aswath Damodaran (2017)
- No Bull: My Life In and Out of Markets, Michael Steinhardt (2001)
- Options, Futures, and Other Derivatives, John C. Hull (2022)
- Principles of Financial Economics, Stephen F. LeRoy and Jan Werner (2014)
- Private Equity Operational Due Diligence, Jason A. Scharfman (2012)
- Property Investment Playbook, Volume 1, Ye Feng and Robert Heaton (2020)
- Python for Algorithmic Trading, Yves Hilpisch (2020)
- Quality of Earnings, Thornton L. O'Glove (1987)
- Quantitative Analytics in Debt Valuation and Management, Mark Guthner (2012)
- Raising Capital: Get the Money You Need to Grow Your Business, Andrew J. Sherman (2005)
- Real Estate Investment: Strategies, Structures, Decisions, Andrew Baum and David Hartzell (2021)
- Reminiscences of a Stock Operator, Edwin Lefèvre (1923)
- Rich AF, Vivian Tu (2023)
- Richer, Wiser, Happier, William Green (2021)
- Risky Business: Why Insurance Markets Fail and What to Do About It, Liran Einav and others (2023)
- Structuring Venture Capital, Private Equity, and Entrepreneurial Transactions, Jack S. Levin (1994)
- The Anatomy of the Swipe, Ahmed Siddiqui (2020)
- The Bankers' New Clothes, Anat Admati and Martin Hellwig (2013)
- The Book on Advanced Tax Strategies, Amanda Han and Matthew MacFarland (2020)
- The Book on Tax Strategies for the Savvy Real Estate Investor, Amanda Han and Matthew MacFarland (2016)
- The Cashless Revolution, Martin Chorzempa (2022)
- The CFO Advantage, Chris Festog (2026)
- The Complete Guide to Mergers and Acquisitions: Process Tools to Support M&A Integration at Every Level, Timothy J. Galpin and Mark Herndon (2014)
- The Complete Guide to Property Investment, Rob Dix (2016)
- The Dhandho Investor, Mohnish Pabrai (2007)
- The Elements of Investing: Easy Lessons for Every Investor, Burton G. Malkiel and Charles D. Ellis (2013)
- The Elements of Quantitative Investing, Giuseppe A. Paleologo (2024)
- The Essays of Warren Buffett: Lessons for Corporate America, Warren Buffett and Lawrence A. Cunningham (1997)
- The Field Guide to Global Payments, Sophia Goldberg (2022)
- The Financial Restructuring Tool Set, Michael Harmon (2024)
- The Infinite Machine, Camila Russo (2020)
- The Internet of Money, Andreas M. Antonopoulos (2016)
- The Internet of Money Volume Two, Andreas M. Antonopoulos (2017)
- The Investment Checklist, Michael Shearn (2011)
- The Key Man, Simon Clark and Will Louch (2021)
- The Land Trap, Mike Bird (2025)
- The Last Tycoons: The Secret History of Lazard Frères & Co., William D. Cohan (2007)
- The Laws of Trading: A Trader's Guide to Better Decision-Making for Everyone, Agustin Lebron (2019)
- The Missing Billionaires, Victor Haghani and James White (2023)
- The Money Wars: The Rise and Fall of the Great Buyout Boom of the 1980s, Roy C. Smith (1990)
- The Most Important Thing, Howard Marks (2011)
- The New CFO Financial Leadership Manual, Steven M. Bragg (2003)
- The New Financial Capitalists, George P. Baker and George David Smith (1998)
- The Physics of Wall Street, James Owen Weatherall (2013)
- The Private Equity Playbook, Adam Coffey (2019)
- The Simple Path to Wealth, J. L. Collins (2016)
- The Smart Money Method, Stephen Clapham (2020)
- The Synergy Trap, Mark L. Sirower (1997)
- The Tao Jones Averages: A Guide to Whole-Brained Investing, Bennett W. Goodspeed (1983)
- The Technology M&A Guidebook, Ed Paulson (2001)
- The Trading Game: A Confession, Gary Stevenson (2024)
- The Trust Mandate, Herman Brodie and Klaus Harnack (2018)
- Tower of Basel, Adam LeBor (2013)
- Trader Construction Kit, Joel Rubano (2020)
- Trading and Exchanges, Larry Harris (2002)
- Trading at the Speed of Light, Donald MacKenzie (2021)
- Using Accounting & Financial Information: Analyzing, Forecasting, and Decision Making, Mark S. Bettner (2015)
- Valuation Workbook, Tim Koller and others (2000)
- Value Investing in Asia, Stanley Lim (2017)
- Venture Capital and Private Equity: A Casebook, Josh Lerner and others (1999)
- Venture Capital, Private Equity, and the Financing of Entrepreneurship, Josh Lerner and others (2012)
- Venture Deals, Brad Feld and Jason Mendelson (2011)
- Volatility Trading, Euan Sinclair (2008)
- Wealth: The Ultra-High Net Worth Guide to Growing and Preserving Assets, Richard P. Rojeck (2019)
- Wealth, War and Wisdom, Barton Biggs (2008)
- What Everyone Needs to Know About Tax, James Hannam (2017)
- Winning the Loser's Game: Timeless Strategies for Successful Investing, Charles D. Ellis (2021)

### Humanities & Social Sciences

- A Handbook for New Stoics, Massimo Pigliucci and Gregory Lopez (2019)
- A Little History of Philosophy, Nigel Warburton (2011)
- A Manual for Living, Epictetus and Sharon Lebell (1994)
- A Treatise on Efficacy: Between Western and Chinese Thinking, François Jullien (2004)
- A World Safe for Democracy, G. John Ikenberry (2020)
- ABC of Reading, Ezra Pound (1934)
- Abundance, Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson (2025)
- After the Ivory Tower Falls, Will Bunch (2022)
- Animal Kingdoms: Hunting, the Environment, and Power in the Indian Princely States, Julie E. Hughes (2013)
- Anthropic Bias, Nick Bostrom (2002)
- Atoms and Ashes, Serhii Plokhy (2022)
- Autocracy, Inc., Anne Applebaum (2024)
- Beyond Self-Interest: Why the Market Rewards Those Who Reject It, Krzysztof J. Pelc (2022)
- Big Ideas for Curious Minds, The School of Life (2018)
- Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life, Anne Lamott (1994)
- Breakneck: China's Quest to Engineer the Future, Dan Wang (2025)
- Capital in the Twenty-First Century, Thomas Piketty (2013)
- Capital Without Borders, Brooke Harrington (2016)
- Conquistador, Buddy Levy (2008)
- Constructing the World, David J. Chalmers (2012)
- Corruptible, Brian Klaas (2021)
- Crassus: The First Tycoon, Peter Stothard (2022)
- Discourses and Selected Writings, Epictetus (2008)
- Doing Good Better, William MacAskill (2015)
- Eat the Buddha, Barbara Demick (2020)
- Emperor of the Seas, Jack Weatherford (2024)
- Empire of Booze: British History Through the Bottom of a Glass, Henry Jeffreys (2016)
- End Times, Peter Turchin (2023)
- Explaining Social Behavior, Jon Elster (2007)
- Finite and Infinite Games: A Vision of Life as Play and Possibility, James P. Carse (1986)
- From Gutenberg to Zuckerberg: Disruptive Innovation in the Age of the Internet, John Naughton (2012)
- Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World, Jack Weatherford (2004)
- Gods in Everyman: A New Psychology of Men's Lives and Loves, Jean Shinoda Bolen (1989)
- Good Inside, Becky Kennedy (2022)
- History Has Begun, Bruno Maçães (2020)
- How Prime Ministers Decide, Neerja Chowdhury (2023)
- How States Think, John J. Mearsheimer and Sebastian Rosato (2023)
- How the Scots Invented the Modern World, Arthur Herman (2001)
- How the World Thinks: A Global History of Philosophy, Julian Baggini (2018)
- How to Be a Stoic, Massimo Pigliucci (2017)
- How to Think Like an Anthropologist, Matthew Engelke (2018)
- How to Win an Argument, Cicero and James M. May (2016)
- I've Been Thinking, Daniel C. Dennett (2023)
- In This Economy? How Money and Markets Really Work, Kyla Scanlon (2024)
- Inflation: What It Is, Why It Matters, and How to Control It, Mark Blyth and Nicolò Fraccaroli (2025)
- Introduction to Internal Family Systems, Richard C. Schwartz (2001)
- Law 101, Jay M. Feinman (2000)
- Legal Systems Very Different from Ours, David D. Friedman and others (2019)
- Letters on Ethics: To Lucilius, Seneca (2015)
- Linear Algebra for Economists, Fuad Aleskerov and others (2011)
- Lost in Thought, Zena Hitz (2020)
- Making Sense of People, Samuel Barondes (2011)
- Microeconomics, Robert S. Pindyck and Daniel L. Rubinfeld (2017)
- Mindwise, Nicholas Epley (2014)
- Mostly Harmless Econometrics, Joshua D. Angrist and Jörn-Steffen Pischke (2009)
- My Secret Garden, Nancy Friday (1973)
- Neuroscience and Philosophy, Maxwell Bennett and others (2007)
- Noise: A Flaw in Human Judgment, Daniel Kahneman and others (2021)
- On Bullshit, Harry G. Frankfurt (1986)
- Political Philosophy: A Very Short Introduction, David Miller (2003)
- Poverty and Prosperity, Luca Dellanna (2025)
- Psychopolitics: Conversations with Trevor Cribben Merrill, Jean-Michel Oughourlian (2012)
- Real Superpowers That Will Change Your Life, The Math Sorcerer
- Rentier Capitalism, Brett Christophers (2020)
- Revenge of the Tipping Point, Malcolm Gladwell (2024)
- Rich World, Poor World: The Struggle to Escape Poverty, Ali A. Allawi (2021)
- Seven Pillars of Wisdom, T. E. Lawrence (1926)
- Symposium, Plato (-385)
- Talk Like TED: The 9 Public-Speaking Secrets of the World's Top Minds, Carmine Gallo (2014)
- Talking Prices, Olav Velthuis (2005)
- Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism, Yanis Varoufakis (2023)
- Thank You for Being Late: An Optimist's Guide to Thriving in the Age of Accelerations, Thomas L. Friedman (2016)
- The Aristocracy of Talent, Adrian Wooldridge (2021)
- The Art of Not Being Governed, James C. Scott (2009)
- The Book of Life: Daily Meditations with Krishnamurti, Jiddu Krishnamurti (1995)
- The Company: A Short History of a Revolutionary Idea, John Micklethwait and Adrian Wooldridge (2003)
- The Decadent Society, Ross Douthat (2020)
- The Elephant in the Brain, Kevin Simler and Robin Hanson (2018)
- The Enchiridion, Epictetus (125)
- The End of the World Is Just the Beginning: Mapping the Collapse of Globalization, Peter Zeihan (2022)
- The Everywhere Millionaire, Owen Zidar and Eric Zwick (2026)
- The Evolution of Cooperation, Robert Axelrod (1984)
- The Gatekeepers: Inside the Admissions Process of a Premier College, Jacques Steinberg (2002)
- The Gods of New York, Jonathan Mahler (2025)
- The Gutenberg Galaxy: The Making of Typographic Man, Marshall McLuhan (1962)
- The Haves and Have-Yachts, Evan Osnos (2024)
- The Managerial Revolution, James Burnham (1941)
- The Manual: A Philosopher's Guide to Life, Epictetus and Sam Torode (2017)
- The Master Switch: The Rise and Fall of Information Empires, Tim Wu (2010)
- The Mind Doesn't Work That Way, Jerry Fodor (2000)
- The New Confessions of an Economic Hit Man, John Perkins (2004)
- The New Dark Ages, James Marriott (2026)
- The New Enlightenment and the Fight to Free Knowledge, Peter B. Kaufman (2021)
- The Order of Things: The Realism of the Principle of Finality, Réginald Garrigou-Lagrange (2020)
- The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind, Julian Jaynes (1976)
- The Origin of Wealth, Eric D. Beinhocker (2006)
- The Other Half of Macroeconomics and the Fate of Globalization, Richard C. Koo (2018)
- The Oxford Essential Guide to Writing, Thomas S. Kane (1983)
- The Partnership: The Making of Goldman Sachs, Charles D. Ellis (2008)
- The Places in Between, Rory Stewart (2004)
- The Power of Now, Eckhart Tolle (1997)
- The Presentation Secrets of Steve Jobs: How to Be Insanely Great in Front of Any Audience, Carmine Gallo (2009)
- The Privatized State, Chiara Cordelli (2020)
- The Rise and Decline of Nations: Economic Growth, Stagflation, and Social Rigidities, Mancur Olson (1982)
- The Scientist in the Crib, Alison Gopnik and others (1999)
- The Score, C. Thi Nguyen (2026)
- The Second Estate, Ray D. Madoff (2025)
- The Secret History of the American Empire, John Perkins (2007)
- The Social Paradox, William von Hippel (2024)
- The Socratic Method: A Practitioner's Handbook, Ward Farnsworth (2021)
- The State Must Provide, Adam Harris (2021)
- The Tech Coup, Marietje Schaake (2024)
- The Technological Republic: Hard Power, Soft Belief, and the Future of the West, Alexander C. Karp and Nicholas W. Zamiska (2025)
- The Thinker's Guide to Fallacies, Richard Paul and Linda Elder (2004)
- The True Believer, Eric Hoffer (1951)
- The Tyranny of Experts, William Easterly (2014)
- The WEIRDest People in the World, Joseph Henrich (2020)
- The Work of the Future, David H. Autor and others (2022)
- Think: A Compelling Introduction to Philosophy, Simon Blackburn (1999)
- To Sell Is Human: The Surprising Truth About Moving Others, Daniel H. Pink (2012)
- Tom Stoppard's Arcadia, John Fleming (2008)
- Tomorrow Is Yesterday, Hussein Agha and Robert Malley (2025)
- What It Takes: The Way to the White House, Richard Ben Cramer (1992)
- Why Buddhism Is True, Robert Wright (2017)
- Why We Did It: A Travelogue from the Republican Road to Hell, Tim Miller (2022)
- Why We're Polarized, Ezra Klein (2020)
- Working, Studs Terkel (1974)
- Yuppies, Dylan Gottlieb (2026)
- Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry into Values, Robert M. Pirsig (1974)

### Media & Design

- 101 Things I Learned in Product Design School, Sung Jang and others (2020)
- Bonfire of the Murdochs, Gabriel Sherman (2026)
- Design Process: Olivetti 1908-1983, Renzo Zorzi (1983)
- Every Layout, Heydon Pickering and Andy Bell (2019)
- Impro: Improvisation and the Theatre, Keith Johnstone (1979)
- Laws of Media: The New Science, Marshall McLuhan and Eric McLuhan (1988)
- London: The Information Capital, James Cheshire and Oliver Uberti (2014)
- Making Numbers Count, Chip Heath and Karla Starr (2022)
- Permutation City, Greg Egan (1994)
- Project Hail Mary, Andy Weir (2021)
- Solving Product Design Exercises, Artiom Dashinsky (2017)
- Sparking Creativity: How Play and Humor Fuel Innovation and Design, Barry Kudrowitz (2023)
- Stranger in a Strange Land, Robert A. Heinlein (1961)
- Termination Shock, Neal Stephenson (2021)
- The City and the Stars, Arthur C. Clarke (1956)
- The Creative Act: A Way of Being, Rick Rubin (2023)
- The Gray Lady Winked, Ashley Rindsberg (2021)
- The Minority Report and Other Classic Stories, Philip K. Dick (2002)
- The Player of Games, Iain M. Banks (1988)
- User Friendly, Cliff Kuang and Robert Fabricant (2019)

### Personal Growth

- 100 Truths You Will Learn Too Late, Luca Dellanna (2019)
- A World Without Email, Cal Newport (2021)
- An Economist Goes to the Game: How to Throw Away $580 Million and Other Surprising Insights from the Economics of Sports, Paul Oyer (2022)
- Be Useful: Seven Tools for Life, Arnold Schwarzenegger (2023)
- Brain Teasers to Build Critical Thinking Skills, Kris Safarova (2022)
- Build Rapid Expertise, Peter Hollins (2019)
- Can't Hurt Me, David Goggins (2018)
- Don't Say Um, Michael Chad Hoeppner (2025)
- Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us, Daniel H. Pink (2009)
- Endure: Mind, Body, and the Curiously Elastic Limits of Human Performance, Alex Hutchinson (2018)
- Essentialism, Greg McKeown (2014)
- Excellent Advice for Living, Kevin Kelly (2023)
- How to Be a Poker Player, Haseeb Qureshi (2013)
- How to Not Know, Simone Stolzoff (2026)
- How to Take Smart Notes, Sönke Ahrens (2017)
- How to Win at Chess: The Ultimate Guide for Beginners and Beyond, Levy Rozman (2023)
- How to Win the Premier League, Ian Graham (2024)
- Inside the Box, David Epstein (2026)
- Learn Like a Polymath, Peter Hollins (2019)
- Make Time, Jake Knapp and John Zeratsky (2018)
- Mathematical Puzzles: A Connoisseur's Collection, Peter Winkler (2004)
- Michael Jordan: The Life, Roland Lazenby (2014)
- Peak: The New Science of Athletic Performance That Is Revolutionizing Sports, Marc Bubbs (2019)
- Pitch Perfect: How to Say It Right the First Time, Every Time, Bill McGowan and Alisa Bowman (2014)
- Psycho-Cybernetics, Maxwell Maltz (1960)
- Situated, Angela Duckworth (2026)
- Stolen Focus, Johann Hari (2022)
- Switch: How to Change Things When Change Is Hard, Chip Heath and Dan Heath (2010)
- The Adaptability Quotient, Alec Litowitz (2026)
- The Culture Code: The Secrets of Highly Successful Groups, Daniel Coyle (2018)
- The Jordan Rules, Sam Smith (1991)
- The Other Side of Change, Maya Shankar (2026)
- The Outsiders: Eight Unconventional CEOs and Their Radically Rational Blueprint for Success, William N. Thorndike Jr. (2012)
- The Score Takes Care of Itself, Bill Walsh and others (2009)
- The Serendipity Mindset: The Art and Science of Creating Good Luck, Christian Busch (2020)
- The Way of Excellence, Brad Stulberg (2025)
- Ultralearning: Master Hard Skills, Outsmart the Competition, and Accelerate Your Career, Scott H. Young (2019)
- Winning Long-Term Games, Luca Dellanna (2024)

### Reading & Reference

- Advanced Portfolio Management: A Quant's Guide for Fundamental Investors, Giuseppe A. Paleologo (2021)
- AI Engineering: Building Applications with Foundation Models, Chip Huyen (2025)
- Aiming High: Masayoshi Son, SoftBank, and Disrupting Silicon Valley, Atsuo Inoue (2021)
- Andrew Carnegie, David Nasaw (2006)
- Ask Iwata, Satoru Iwata (2019)
- Cable Cowboy: John Malone and the Rise of the Modern Cable Business, Mark Robichaux (2002)
- Careless People, Sarah Wynn-Williams (2025)
- Cracking the Tech Career: Insider Advice on Landing a Job at Google, Microsoft, Apple, or Any Top Tech Company, Gayle Laakmann McDowell (2014)
- Dirtbag Billionaire, David Gelles (2025)
- Exit Interview, Kristi Coulter (2023)
- Financial Data Engineering: Design and Build Data-Driven Financial Products, Tamer Khraisha (2024)
- Flowers for Algernon, Daniel Keyes (1966)
- From Third World to First: The Singapore Story, 1965-2000, Lee Kuan Yew (2000)
- Fundamentals of Data Engineering: Plan and Build Robust Data Systems, Joe Reis and Matt Housley (2022)
- Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity, David Allen (2001)
- Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies, Jared Diamond (1997)
- Henry J. Kaiser: Builder in the Modern American West, Mark S. Foster (1989)
- How I Became a Quant: Insights from 25 of Wall Street's Elite, Richard R. Lindsey and Barry Schachter (2007)
- How to Actually Change Your Mind, Eliezer Yudkowsky (2018)
- How to Read a Book, Mortimer J. Adler and Charles Van Doren (1940)
- I Regret Almost Everything, Keith McNally (2025)
- Junk to Gold, Willis Johnson (2014)
- Learn Kubernetes in a Month of Lunches, Elton Stoneman (2021)
- Map and Territory, Eliezer Yudkowsky (2018)
- Michael O'Leary: A Life in Full Flight, Alan Ruddock (2007)
- Mr Five Per Cent: The Many Lives of Calouste Gulbenkian, Jonathan Conlin (2019)
- Narcissus and Goldmund, Hermann Hesse (1930)
- Not Fade Away, Laurence Shames and Peter Barton (2003)
- Of Roughnecks and Riches, Dan Doyle (2026)
- Pachinko, Min Jin Lee (2017)
- Personal History, Katharine Graham (1997)
- Printing and the Mind of Man, John Carter and Percy H. Muir (1967)
- Routledge Companion to Intelligence Studies, Robert Dover and others (2014)
- Stochastic Finance with Python: Design Financial Models from Probabilistic Perspective, Avishek Nag (2024)
- Strangers: A Memoir of Marriage, Belle Burden (2026)
- Streetwise, Lloyd Blankfein (2026)
- Survival in Auschwitz, Primo Levi (1947)
- Swimming Across, Andrew S. Grove (2001)
- The Ancient City: A Study of the Religion, Laws, and Institutions of Greece and Rome, Numa Denis Fustel de Coulanges (1864)
- The Art of Execution: How the World's Best Investors Get It Wrong and Still Make Millions, Lee Freeman-Shor (2015)
- The Art of Learning: A Journey in the Pursuit of Excellence, Josh Waitzkin (2007)
- The Autobiography of Yukichi Fukuzawa, Yukichi Fukuzawa (1899)
- The Complete Idiot's Guide to Personal Finance in Your 20s and 30s, Sarah Young Fisher and Susan Shelly (2005)
- The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, Jean-Dominique Bauby (1997)
- The Dynamics of Military Revolution, 1300-2050, MacGregor Knox and Williamson Murray (2001)
- The Emergency, George Packer (2025)
- The Forty Rules of Love, Elif Shafak (2009)
- The Investigative Reporter's Handbook: A Guide to Documents, Databases, and Techniques, Brant Houston (2009)
- The Last Kings of Shanghai: The Rival Jewish Dynasties That Helped Create Modern China, Jonathan Kaufman (2020)
- The Lessons of History, Will Durant and Ariel Durant (1968)
- The Man from Zara, Covadonga O'Shea (2012)
- The MANIAC, Benjamín Labatut (2023)
- The Michelin Men: Driving an Empire, Herbert R. Lottman (2003)
- The Power of Full Engagement: Managing Energy, Not Time, Is the Key to High Performance and Personal Renewal, Jim Loehr and Tony Schwartz (2003)
- The Richest Man Who Ever Lived, Greg Steinmetz (2015)
- The Road Ahead, Bill Gates (1995)
- The Secret History of the Five Eyes: The Untold Story of the International Spy Network, Richard Kerbaj (2022)
- The Taste of Luxury: Bernard Arnault and the Moët-Hennessy Empire, Nadège Forestier and Nazanine Ravaï (1992)
- The Technical Interview Guide to Investment Banking, Paul Pignataro (2017)
- Tools of Titans: The Tactics, Routines, and Habits of Billionaires, Icons, and World-Class Performers, Timothy Ferriss (2016)
- Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus, Ludwig Wittgenstein (1921)
- Triathlon Training For Dummies, Deirdre Pitney and Donna Dourney (2003)
- Word Power Made Easy, Norman Lewis (1949)

### Science & Research

- A Basic Course in Probability Theory, Rabi Bhattacharya and Edward C. Waymire (2007)
- A History of the Mind, Nicholas Humphrey (1992)
- A Really Short History of Nearly Everything, Bill Bryson (2008)
- Advice for a Young Investigator, Santiago Ramón y Cajal (1897)
- Algorithms to Live By, Brian Christian and Tom Griffiths (2016)
- Biopunk: DIY Scientists Hack the Software of Life, Marcus Wohlsen (2011)
- Building Backwards to Biotech, Stephanie A. Wisner (2021)
- Causal Inference, Paul R. Rosenbaum (2023)
- Caveman Chemistry, Kevin M. Dunn (2003)
- Clearing the Air, Hannah Ritchie (2025)
- Complexity: The Emerging Science at the Edge of Order and Chaos, M. Mitchell Waldrop (1992)
- Complexity: A Guided Tour, Melanie Mitchell (2009)
- Computational Neuroscience: A First Course, Hanspeter A. Mallot (2013)
- Elements of Information Theory, Thomas M. Cover and Joy A. Thomas (1991)
- Ergodicity, Luca Dellanna (2020)
- Euclid's Elements, Euclid and Thomas L. Heath (-300)
- For Blood and Money, Nathan Vardi (2023)
- Funding Breakthrough Research, Pierre Azoulay and others (2019)
- Good Calories, Bad Calories, Gary Taubes (2007)
- Grace in All Simplicity, Robert N. Cahn and Chris Quigg (2023)
- Hacking Healthcare, Fred Trotter and David Uhlman (2011)
- Harrison's Principles of Internal Medicine, Twenty-First Edition, Joseph Loscalzo and others (2022)
- How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big: Kind of the Story of My Life, Scott Adams (2013)
- How to Prove It, Daniel J. Velleman (1994)
- Information Theory: From Coding to Learning, Yury Polyanskiy and Yihong Wu (2024)
- Interdisciplinary Conversations, Myra H. Strober (2010)
- Introduction to Probability, Dimitri P. Bertsekas and John N. Tsitsiklis (2002)
- Kuhn's The Structure of Scientific Revolutions at 60, K. Brad Wray (2024)
- Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die, Chip Heath and Dan Heath (2007)
- Material World, Ed Conway (2023)
- Money-Driven Medicine, Maggie Mahar (2006)
- Networks, Crowds, and Markets, David Easley and Jon Kleinberg (2010)
- Principles of Mathematical Analysis, Walter Rudin (1953)
- Probability-2, Albert N. Shiryaev (1980)
- Scientific Freedom: The Elixir of Civilization, Donald W. Braben (2008)
- Spring Chicken: Stay Young Forever (or Die Trying), Bill Gifford (2015)
- Statistical Models: Theory and Practice, David A. Freedman (2005)
- Ten Drugs, Thomas Hager (2019)
- The Alchemy of Air, Thomas Hager (2008)
- The Art of Doing Science and Engineering, Richard W. Hamming (1997)
- The Demon Under the Microscope, Thomas Hager (2006)
- The Explorer's Gene, Alex Hutchinson (2026)
- The PhD Grind, Philip J. Guo (2012)
- The Proof in the Code, Kevin Hartnett (2026)
- The Science of Conjecture, James Franklin (2001)
- The Third Culture, John Brockman (1995)
- The Vital Question, Nick Lane (2015)
- The Wisdom Paradox, Elkhonon Goldberg (2005)
- Unweaving the Rainbow, Richard Dawkins (1998)
- Vector: A Surprising Story of Space, Time, and Mathematical Transformation, Robyn Arianrhod (2024)
- Why We Sleep, Matthew Walker (2017)
- Why Woo-Woo Works, David R. Hamilton (2021)

### Technology & Engineering

- 97 Things Every Engineering Manager Should Know, Camille Fournier (2019)
- A Course in Machine Learning, Hal Daumé III (2017)
- A Philosophy of Software Design, John Ousterhout (2018)
- Accidental Empires, Robert X. Cringely (1992)
- AI: Unexplainable, Unpredictable, Uncontrollable, Roman V. Yampolskiy (2024)
- AI Agents in Action, Micheal Lanham (2025)
- AI Assistants, Roberto Pieraccini (2021)
- AI at the Edge: Solving Real-World Problems with Embedded Machine Learning, Daniel Situnayake and Jenny Plunkett (2023)
- AI Is Good for You, Eric Jang (2023)
- AI-Assisted Programming: Better Planning, Coding, Testing, and Deployment, Tom Taulli (2024)
- AI-Native LLM Security: Threats, Defenses, and Best Practices for Building Safe and Trustworthy AI, Vaibhav Malik and others (2025)
- Algorithms Unlocked, Thomas H. Cormen (2013)
- An Elegant Puzzle, Will Larson (2019)
- An Illustrated Guide to AI Agents, Maarten Grootendorst and Jay Alammar (2026)
- Artificial General Intelligence, Julian Togelius (2024)
- Artificial Intelligence for Cybersecurity, Bojan Kolosnjaji and others (2024)
- Building Low Latency Applications with C++, Sourav Ghosh (2023)
- Building Microservices: Designing Fine-Grained Systems, Sam Newman (2021)
- CISO Desk Reference Guide: A Practical Guide for CISOs, Bill Bonney and others (2016)
- CISO Desk Reference Guide: Executive Primer, Bill Bonney and others (2022)
- CISO Desk Reference Guide, Volume 2: A Practical Guide for CISOs, Bill Bonney and others (2018)
- Cloud Computing, Nayan B. Ruparelia (2023)
- Co-Intelligence, Ethan Mollick (2024)
- Coding Interview Patterns: Nail Your Next Coding Interview, Alex Xu and Shaun Gunawardane (2024)
- Computer Systems: A Programmer's Perspective, Randal E. Bryant and David R. O'Hallaron (2002)
- Computer Vision: Algorithms and Applications, Richard Szeliski (2022)
- Concepts, Techniques, and Models of Computer Programming, Peter Van Roy and Seif Haridi (2004)
- Cryptography, Panos Louridas (2024)
- Cryptography: The Key to Digital Security, Keith Martin (2020)
- Cryptography Engineering, Niels Ferguson and others (2010)
- Cybersecurity, Duane C. Wilson (2021)
- Cybersecurity for Business: Organization-Wide Strategies to Ensure Cyber Risk Is Not Just an IT Issue, Larry Clinton (2022)
- Data Center Handbook: Plan, Design, Build, and Operations of a Smart Data Center, Hwaiyu Geng (2021)
- Data-Oriented Design, Richard Fabian (2018)
- Dealers of Lightning, Michael A. Hiltzik (1999)
- Designing Data-Intensive Applications, Martin Kleppmann (2017)
- Designing Machine Learning Systems, Chip Huyen (2022)
- Domain-Driven Design, Eric Evans (2003)
- Enshittification, Cory Doctorow (2025)
- Enterprise AI For Dummies, Zachary Jarvinen (2020)
- Enterprise AI in the Cloud: A Practical Guide to Deploying End-to-End Machine Learning and ChatGPT Solutions, Rabi Jay (2024)
- Everybody Lies, Seth Stephens-Davidowitz (2017)
- Extreme Programming Explained, Kent Beck and Cynthia Andres (1999)
- Fluent Python: Clear, Concise, and Effective Programming, Luciano Ramalho (2022)
- Focus: The ASML Way, Marc Hijink (2023)
- Geek Heresy, Kentaro Toyama (2015)
- Generative AI in Action, Amit Bahree (2024)
- Genius Makers, Cade Metz (2021)
- Grokking Deep Reinforcement Learning, Miguel Morales (2020)
- Grow Your Business with AI: A First Principles Approach for Scaling Artificial Intelligence in the Enterprise, Francisco Javier Campos Zabala (2023)
- Hacking: The Art of Exploitation, Jon Erickson (2003)
- Hands-On Large Language Models: Language Understanding and Generation, Jay Alammar and Maarten Grootendorst (2024)
- Hands-On Machine Learning with Scikit-Learn, Keras, and TensorFlow, Aurélien Géron (2022)
- Hatching Twitter, Nick Bilton (2013)
- HBR Insights: Cybersecurity, Harvard Business Review (2019)
- How to Design Programs, Matthias Felleisen and others (2001)
- If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies, Eliezer Yudkowsky and Nate Soares (2025)
- Interpretable Machine Learning, Vincent Granville (2022)
- Introduction to Deep Learning, Eugene Charniak (2019)
- Killed by a Traffic Engineer, Wes Marshall (2024)
- Leading Snowflakes, Oren Ellenbogen (2013)
- Learn More Python 3 the Hard Way, Zed A. Shaw (2017)
- Learn Python the Hard Way, Zed A. Shaw (2010)
- Learning Python, Mark Lutz (2025)
- Machine Learning Engineering, Andriy Burkov (2020)
- Modern Web Development on the JAMstack, Mathias Biilmann and Phil Hawksworth (2019)
- Monolith to Microservices, Sam Newman (2019)
- Natural Language Processing with Transformers: Building Language Applications with Hugging Face, Lewis Tunstall and others (2022)
- Neural Network Methods for Natural Language Processing, Yoav Goldberg (2017)
- Observability Engineering, Charity Majors and others (2022)
- Operating Systems: Three Easy Pieces, Remzi H. Arpaci-Dusseau and Andrea C. Arpaci-Dusseau (2015)
- Pattern Recognition and Machine Learning, Christopher M. Bishop (2006)
- Peopleware, Tom DeMarco and Timothy Lister (1987)
- Platform Engineering: A Guide for Technical, Product, and People Leaders, Camille Fournier and Ian Nowland (2024)
- Prediction Machines: The Simple Economics of Artificial Intelligence, Ajay Agrawal and others (2018)
- Programming: Principles and Practice Using C++, Bjarne Stroustrup (2008)
- Programming Pearls, Jon Bentley (1986)
- Prompt Engineering for LLMs: The Art and Science of Building Large Language Model-Based Applications, John Berryman and Albert Ziegler (2024)
- Prophecy, Carissa Véliz (2026)
- Python Data Science Handbook: Essential Tools for Working with Data, Jake VanderPlas (2023)
- Readings in Database Systems, Peter Bailis and others (1988)
- Refactoring, Martin Fowler (1999)
- Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback, Nathan Lambert (2025)
- Resilient Management, Lara Hogan (2019)
- Schaum's Outline of Principles of Computer Science, Paul Tymann and Carl Reynolds (2008)
- Staff Engineer, Will Larson (2021)
- Superintelligence, Nick Bostrom (2014)
- Supremacy, Parmy Olson (2024)
- Sutskever's List, Richard Heimann (2026)
- Systems Performance, Brendan Gregg (2013)
- Taming Silicon Valley, Gary Marcus (2024)
- Teach Yourself Electricity and Electronics, Stan Gibilisco (1993)
- Team Topologies, Matthew Skelton and Manuel Pais (2019)
- Tech Monopoly, Herbert Hovenkamp (2024)
- Technology Matters, David E. Nye (2006)
- The Anthology of Balaji, Eric Jorgenson (2023)
- The Big Score, Michael S. Malone (1985)
- The Developer's Playbook for Large Language Model Security: Building Secure AI Applications, Steve Wilson (2024)
- The Engineering Executive's Primer, Will Larson (2024)
- The Eureka Machine, Richard Socher (2026)
- The Future of Fusion Energy, Jason Parisi and Justin Ball (2019)
- The History of the Future: Oculus, Facebook, and the Revolution That Swept Virtual Reality, Blake J. Harris (2019)
- The Hundred-Page Machine Learning Book, Andriy Burkov (2019)
- The Infinity Machine, Sebastian Mallaby (2026)
- The Intel Trinity, Michael S. Malone (2014)
- The Little Book of Deep Learning, François Fleuret (2023)
- The Pragmatic Programmer, David Thomas and Andrew Hunt (1999)
- The Singularity Is Near, Ray Kurzweil (2005)
- The Software Craftsman, Sandro Mancuso (2014)
- The Star Builders, Arthur Turrell (2021)
- The StatQuest Illustrated Guide to Machine Learning, Josh Starmer (2022)
- The Virtual Weapon and International Order, Lucas Kello (2017)
- There's a War Going On But No One Can See It, Huib Modderkolk (2019)
- Tribe of Hackers: Cybersecurity Advice from the Best Hackers in the World, Marcus J. Carey and Jennifer Jin (2019)
- Unit Testing Principles, Practices, and Patterns, Vladimir Khorikov (2020)
- Winning with Data, Tomasz Tunguz and Frank Bien (2016)