Favorite Books

75 of my favorite books, in no particular order.

• Vagabonding: An Uncommon Guide to the Art of Long-Term World Travel ＊
  Rolf Potts
• Talent Is Overrated: What Really Separates World-Class Performers from Everybody Else
  Geoff Colvin
• Einstein: His Life and Universe
  Walter Isaacson
• Meditations ＊
  Marcus Aurelius
• Educated: A Memoir ＊
  Tara Westover
• The Jakarta Method: Washington's Anticommunist Crusade and the Mass Murder Program that Shaped Our World ＊
  Vincent Bevins
• One Hundred Years of Solitude ＊
  Gabriel García Márquez
• How to Change Your Mind: What the New Science of Psychedelics Teaches Us About Consciousness, Dying, Addiction, Depression, and Transcendence
  Michael Pollan
• Robot Dreams (Remembering Tomorrow)
  Isaac Asimov
• The End is Always Near: Apocalyptic Moments from the Bronze Age Collapse to Nuclear Near Misses
  Dan Carlin
• Survival in the Killing Fields
  Mao Sim
• Stolen Focus: Why You Can't Pay Attention–and How to Think Deeply Again
  Johann Hari
• The Choice: Embrace the Possible
  Dr. Edith Eva Eger
• Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman! (Adventures of a Curious Character)
  Richard P. Feynman
• So Good They Can’t Ignore You: Why Skills Trump Passion in the Quest for Work You Love ＊
  Cal Newport
• Permanent Record
  Edward Snowden
• Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin
  Timothy Snyder
• The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures
  Anne Fadiman
• The Sympathizer
  Viet Thanh Nguyen
• Daily Rituals: How Artists Work
  Mason Currey
• Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking
  Susan Cain
• Mindless Eating: Why We Eat More Than We Think
  Brian Wansink
• The Atlas of Unusual Borders: Discover intriguing boundaries, territories and geographical curiosities
  Zoran Nikolic
• On the Shortness of Life: Life Is Long if You Know How to Use It ＊
  Lucius Annaeus Seneca
• When Breath Becomes Air ＊
  Paul Kalanithi
• Bengali Harlem and the Lost Histories of South Asian America
  Vivek Bald
• The Art of Worldly Wisdom: A Pocket Oracle ＊
  Baltasar Gracián
• Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams
  Matthew Walker
• The Power of Geography: Ten Maps that Reveal the Future of Our World
  Tim Marshall
• Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Explain Everything About the World
  Tim Marshall
• Lost Enlightenment: Central Asia's Golden Age from the Arab Conquest to Tamerlane
  S. Frederick Starr
• Ghost Wars
  Steve Coll
• Mountaineering: Freedom of the Hills ＊
  The Mountaineers
• The Silk Roads: A New History of the World ＊
  Peter Frankopan
• The New Silk Roads: The Present and Future of the World
  Peter Frankopan
• The Anarchy: The Relentless Rise of the East India Company
  William Dalrymple
• The Latehomecomer: A Hmong Family Memoir
  Kao Kalia Yang
• Full Tilt: Ireland to India with a Bicycle
  Dervla Murphy
• Start-Up Nation: The Story of Israel's Economic Miracle
  Dan Senor
• How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States
  Daniel Immerwahr
• Islamic Design: A Genius for Geometry ＊
  Daud Sutton
• Algorithms to Live By: The Computer Science of Human Decisions
  Brian Christian and Tom Griffiths
• A Brief History of Time
  Stephen Hawking
• Atlas of Unusual Borders: Discover Intriguing Boundaries, Territories and Geographical Curiosities ＊
  Zoran Nikolic
• Chip War: The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology
  Chris Miller
• King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa ＊
  Adam Hochschild
• Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives
  Siddharth Kara
• The Displaced: Refugee Writers on Refugee Lives
  Viet Thanh Nguyen
• Man's Search for Meaning
  Viktor E. Frankl
• Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
  Yuval Noah Harari
• In Order to Live: A North Korean Girl's Journey to Freedom
  Yeonmi Park
• Daughters of the Flower Fragrant Garden: Two Sisters Separated by China’s Civil War
  Zhuqing Li
• Journeys North: The Pacific Crest Trail
  Barney Scout Mann
• The Little Book of Common Sense Investing: The Only Way to Guarantee Your Fair Share of Stock Market Returns
  John C. Bogle
• Dune
  Frank Herbert
• The Distance of the Moon
  Italo Calvino
• The Selfish Gene
  Richard Dawkins
• Islamic Art in Cairo: From the 7th to the 18th Centuries
  E. Prisse d’Avennes
• Arabic Geometrical Pattern and Design
  J. Bourgoin
• Mastery ＊
  Robert Greene
• Moonwalking with Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything
  Joshua Foer
• Leonardo da Vinci
  Walter Isaacson
• Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World—and Why Things Are Better Than You Think ＊
  Hans Rosling
• Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage
  Alfred Lansing
• Bend In The River
  V. S. Naipaul
• Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World
  Cal Newport
• A History of the World in 6 Glasses ＊
  Tom Standage
• The Design of Everyday Things
  Donald A. Norman
• Thinking, Fast and Slow
  Daniel Kahneman
• What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions
  Randall Munroe
• Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
  Frederick Douglass
• Between the World and Me
  Ta-Nehisi Coates
• For Esme, With Love and Squalor
  J. D. Salinger
• The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business
  Charles Duhigg
• The Tao of Seneca: Practical Letters from a Stoic Master ＊
  Lucius Annaeus Seneca

＊ = Highly Recommend