These are my favorite books, in particular order. Have a recommendation? Tell me!
Philosophy and Culture
- Zen & The Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
- Lila: An Inquiry into Morals
- The Meeting of East and West: An Inquiry Concerning World Understanding
- The Tao of Physics: An Exploration of the Parallels between Modern Physics and Eastern Mysticism
- Way of the Peaceful Warrior
Computing
- The Making of Prince of Persia
- Masters of DOOM
- Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution
- The Humane Interface
- Game Over: How Nintendo Conquered the World
- A Small Matter of Programming
- Microserfs
- Crypto: How the Code Rebels Beat the Government - Saving Privacy in the Digital Age
- Netscape Time: The Making of the Billion-Dollar Start-Up That Took on Microsoft
- Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup
- Influence Empire: Inside the Story of Tencent and China’s Tech Ambition
Leadership, Entrepreneurship
- Turn the Ship Around! A True Story of Turning Followers into Leaders
- Slack: Getting Past Burnout, Busywork, and the Myth of Total Efficiency
- The Five Dysfunctions of a Team
- The Mom Test
- Crossing the Chasm
- High Output Management
- Orbiting the Giant Hairball: A Corporate Fool's Guide to Surviving with Grace
- Getting to Yes: Negotiating Agreement without Giving In
- Failure is not an Option: Mission Control From Mercury to Apollo 13 and Beyond
- The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers
History
- The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich
- The Greeks
- Russia and The West
- The Russian Revolution
- The Longest War: A History of the War on Terror and the Battles with Al Qaeda Since 9/11
- Blitzed: Drugs in Nazi Germany
- Red Notice: A True Story of High Finance, Murder, and One Man's Fight for Justice
Misc. Non Fiction
- Mindfulness in Plain English
- Surely You're Joking , Mr. Feynman!
- How an Economy Grows and Why it Crashes
- The Elegant Universe
- Guns, Germs, and Steel
- The Message of the Sphinx: A Quest for the Hidden Legacy of Mankind
Fiction
- The Three Body Problem
- The Ministry for the Future
- Seveneves
- We Are Legion (We Are Bob)
- Project Hail Mary
- The Martian
- Flowers for Algernon
- The Dark Tower Series
- Galatea 2.2
- Mr. Penumbra's 24-hour Bookstore
- Snow Crash
- Nexus
- Siddhartha
- American Gods
- Sekret Machines
- Nyxia
- To Sleep in a Sea of Stars
- A Gentleman in Moscow
- Children of Time
- The Cuckoo's Egg