12 Rules for Life
An Antidote to Chaos
Jordan Peterson — 2018
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Library
I haven’t read all the books I own, nor do I own all the books I’ve read, and this list is incomplete.
Just because a book is on this list certainly does not mean I endorse it. This list is sorted lexicographically by title.
A Short Stay in Hell
Steven L. Peck — 2009
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Antifragile
Things That Gain from Disorder
Nassim Taleb — 2012
Atomic Habits
James Clear — 2018
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Cradle (12 books)
Will Wight — 2016–2023
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Das Parfum
Die Geschichte eines Mörders
Patrick Süskind — 1985
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Democracy: The God That Failed
Hans-Hermann Hoppe — 2001
Digital Minimalism
Choosing a Focused Life in a Noisy World
Calvin Newport — 2019
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Discipline and Punish
The Birth of the Prison
Michel Foucault — 1975
Distributed Systems, 4th ed.
Andrew S. Tanenbaum, Maarten van Steen — 2023
Dreyer’s English
An Utterly Correct Guide to Clarity and Style
Benjamin Dreyer — 2019
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Dungeon Crawler Carl (8 books, ongoing)
Matt Dinniman — 2020–present
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Gems of Theoretical Computer Science
Uwe Schöning, Randall Pruim — 1998
Getting Things Done
The Art of Stress-Free Productivity
David Allen — 2001
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In Search of Excellence
Lessons from America’s Best-Run Companies
Thomas J. Peters, Robert H. Waterman Jr. — 1982
Life at the Bottom
The Worldview That Makes the Underclass
Theodore Dalrymple — 2001
Mortality
Christopher Hitchens — 2012
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Outlive
The Science and Art of Longevity
Peter Attia — 2023
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Permanent Record
Edward Snowden — 2019
Practical Vim
Edit Text at the Speed of Thought
Drew Neil — 2012
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Randomized Algorithms
Rajeev Motwani, Prabhakar Raghavan — 1995
Rework
Jason Fried, David Heinemeier Hansson — 2010
Seeing Like a State
How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed
James C. Scott — 1998
The Devil’s Dictionary
Ambrose Bierce — 1911
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The Left Hand of Darkness
Ursula K. Le Guin — 1969
The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas
Ursula K. Le Guin — 1973
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The Tangled Web
A Guide to Securing Modern Web Applications
Michal Zalewski — 2011
To Have or To Be?
Erich Fromm — 1976
Why Fish Don’t Exist
Lulu Miller — 2020