Mash's Musings

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Having shared booklists with a few people through the inconvenient method of copy-pasting from my to-do app, I figured it easiest to just dump everything I've read here for now. Feel free to reach out to discuss anything that you find interesting. Books are listed in roughly chronological order.

• Iliad. Homer.
• The Odyssey. Homer.
• Oresteia Trilogy. Aeschylus.
• Art of War. Sun Tzu.
• Oedipus Trilogy. Sophocles.
• The Trojan Women. Euripides.
• Old Testament. Various.
• Republic. Plato.
• Metamorphoses. Ovid.
• Treatise on the Laws. Cicero.
• Meditations. Marcus Aurelius.
• Divine Comedy. Dante.
• Utopia. Thomas More.
• The Prince. Niccolo Machiavelli.
• The Taming of the Shrew. William Shakespeare.
• Romeo and Juliet. William Shakespeare.
• King Lear. William Shakespeare.
• Macbeth. William Shakespeare.
• Don Quixote. Miguel de Cervantes.
• Gulliver's Travels. Jonathan Swift.
• Candide. Voltaire.
• The Wealth of Nations. Adam Smith.
• Frankenstein. Mary Shelley.
• A Christmas Carol. Charles Dickens.
• Wuthering Heights. Emily Bronte.
• Communist Manifesto. Karl Marx.
• Civil Disobedience. Henry David Thoreau.
• Walden. Henry David Thoreau.
• A Tale of Two Cities. Charles Dickens.
• Crime and Punishment. Fyodor Dostoevsky.
• Anna Karenina. Leo Tolstoy.
• Progress and Poverty. Henry George.
• The Brothers Karamazov. Fyodor Dostoevsky.
• Flatland. Edwin Abbott.
• The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
• Heart of Darkness. Joseph Conrad.
• The Call of the Wild. Jack London.
• Siddhartha. Hermann Hesse.
• The Great Gatsby. F. Scott Fitzgerald.
• The Trial. Franz Kafka.
• The Castle. Franz Kafka.
• All Quiet on the Western Front. Erich Maria Remarque.
• Brave New World. Aldous Huxley.
• War is a Racket. Smedley Butler.
• Of Mice and Men. John Steinbeck.
• How to Read a Book. Mortimer J. Adler, Charles Van Doren.
• The Fountainhead. Ayn Rand.
• Animal Farm. George Orwell.
• Nineteen Eighty-Four. George Orwell.
• The Second Sex. Simone de Beauvoir.
• Foundation. Isaac Asimov.
• The Catcher in the Rye. J. D. Salinger.
• The True Believer. Eric Hoffer.
• The Old Man and the Sea. Ernest Hemingway.
• Farenheit 451. Ray Bradbury.
• Lord of the Flies. William Golding.
• Lolita. Vladimir Nabokov.
• Atlas Shrugged. Ayn Rand.
• On the Road. Jack Kerouac.
• Flowers for Algernon. Daniel Keyes.
• Catch-22. Joseph Heller.
• Stranger in a Strange Land. Robert Heinlein.
• The Death and Life of Great American Cities. Jane Jacobs.
• Dune. Frank Herbert.
• The Moon is a Harsh Mistress. Robert Heinlein.
• Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?. Philip K. Dick.
• The Lion of Comarre. Arthur C. Clarke.
• Slaughterhouse-Five. Kurt Vonnegut.
• The Gulag Archipelago. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn.
• Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance. Robert M. Pirsig.
• The Selfish Gene. Richard Dawkins.
• Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. Douglas Adams.
• Restaurant at the End of the Universe. Douglas Adams.
• Midnight's Children. Salman Rushdie.
• V for Vendetta. Alan Moore.
• Neuromancer. William Gibson.
• The Hunt for Red October. Tom Clancy.
• "Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!". Richard P. Feynman.
• Ender's Game. Orson Scott Card.
• Love in the Time of Cholera. Gabriel Garcia Marquez.
• The Handmaid's Tale. Margaret Atwood.
• The Zimmermann Telegram. Barbara W. Tuchman.
• Norweigan Wood. Haruki Murakami.
• A Short History of San Francisco. Tom Cole.
• The Alchemist. Paolo Coelho.
• The Sandman. Neil Gaiman.
• Maus. Art Spiegelman.
• A Fine Balance. Rohinton Mistry.
• The Art of Doing Science and Engineering. Richard W. Hamming.
• The Innovator's Dilemma. Clayton Christensen.
• Tuesdays with Morrie. Mitch Albom.
• Nonviolent Communication. Marshall B. Rosenberg.
• Getting Things Done. David Allen.
• The Dream Machine. Mitchell Waldrop.
• Seeking Wisdom. Peter Bevelin.
• The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time. Mark Haddon.
• The Kite Runner. Khaled Hosseini.
• Poor Charlie's Almanack. Peter D. Kaufman.
• The Happiness Hypothesis. Jonathan Haidt.
• 4-Hour Workweek. Tim Ferriss.
• The Black Swan. Nassim Nicholas Taleb.
• Winston Churchill. John Keegan.
• The Three-Body Problem. Cixin Liu.
• Sum. David Eagleman.
• Committed. Elizabeth Gilbert.
• Payments Systems in the U.S.. Carol Coye Benson.
• Room. Emma Donoghue.
• The Life You Can Save. Peter Singer.
• Electronic Value Exchange. David L. Stearns.
• Good Strategy Bad Strategy. Richard P. Rumelt.
• Principles. Ray Dalio.
• Six Easy Pieces. Richard P. Feynman.
• The Lean Startup. Eric Ries.
• Thinking, Fast and Slow. Daniel Kahneman.
• The Phoenix Project. Gene Kim, Kevin Behr, George Spafford.
• Our Mathematical Universe. Max Tegmark.
• Sapiens. Yuval Noah Harari.
• Station Eleven. Emily St. John Mandel.
• What I Learned Losing a Million Dollars. Jim Paul.
• Zero to One. Peter Thiel.
• Deep Work. Cal Newport.
• Evicted. Matthew Desmond.
• Homo Deus. Yuval Noah Harari.
• Misbehaving. Richard Thaler.
• Never Split the Difference. Chris Voss.
• The Course of Love. Alain de Botton.
• An American Sickness. Elizabeth Rosenthal.
• Nomadland. Jessica Bruder.
• Pachinko. Min Jin Lee.
• Tender is the Flesh. Agustina Bazterrica.
• Why We Sleep. Matthew Walker.
• 12 Rules for Life. Jordan Peterson.
• Atomic Habits. James Clear.
• Measure What Matters. John Doerr.
• Stubborn Attachments. Tyler Cowen.
• Digital Minimalism. Cal Newport.
• Exhalation. Ted Chiang.
• Lifespan. David Sinclair.
• Shape Up. Ryan Singer.
• The Testaments. Margaret Atwood.
• The Unicorn Project. Gene Kim.
• The White Man's Burden. William Easterly.
• Almanack of Naval Ravikant. Eric Jorgensen.
• Breath. James Nestor.
• Leave the World Behind. Rumaan Alam.
• Psychology of Money. Morgan Housel.
• Tightrope. Nicholas D. Kristof, Sheryl WuDunn.
• A World Without Email. Cal Newport.
• Four Thousand Weeks. Oliver Burkeman.
• Goodbye, again. Jonny Sun.
• San Fransicko. Michael Shellenberger.
• The Field Guide to Global Payments. Sophia Goldberg.
• Poverty, by America. Matthew Desmond.
• Same Bed Different Dreams. Ed Park.
• Same as Ever. Morgan Housel.
• What's Our Problem?. Tim Urban.