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Books

A list of books (mostly in audio format) I've digested in recent memory, with the ones I particularly enjoyed in bold.

Of all the books on this list, my most favorite, and what I consider "required reading" is Nassim Nicholas Taleb's Antifragile. Once you get past his curmudgeonly tone, it is truly a masterpiece. I have read (listened) to it three times, and each time I come away with a new pearl of knowledge. It completely changed the way I think about human nature, medicine, investing, risk, and ethics.

  1. Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese
  2. After Anna by Lisa Scottoline
  3. Killers of the Flower Moon by David Grann
  4. A Man Called Ove by Fredrick Backman
  5. The Lost City of the Monkey God by Douglas Preston
  6. Shoe Dog by Phil Knight
  7. Astrophysics for People in a Hurry by Neil DeGrasse Tyson
  8. Let's Explore Diabetes with Owls by David Sedaris
  9. Uncommon Type by Tom Hanks
  10. Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand
  11. Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut
  12. The Woman in Cabin 10 by Ruth Ware
  13. Hillbilly Elegy by J.D. Vance
  14. Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng
  15. At Home by Bill Bryson
  16. A Wrinkle in Time by Madeline L'Engle
  17. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
  18. 10% Happier by Dan Harris
  19. The Power of Habit by Charles Duhigg
  20. The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck by Mark Manson
  21. Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens
  22. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
  23. The 4-hour Workweek by Tim Ferriss
  24. My Antonia by Willa Cather
  25. The Monkey Wrench Gang by Edward Abbey
  26. Homo Deus by Yuval Noah Harari
  27. The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman
  28. The Dichotomy of Leadership by Jocko Willink and Leif Babin
  29. The Art of Learning by Josh Waitzkin
  30. The Silent Patient by Alex Michaelides
  31. Deep Work by Cal Newport
  32. The Innovators by Walter Isaacson
  33. Bad Blood by John Carreyrou
  34. The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis
  35. Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell
  36. Make Your Bed by William McRaven
  37. Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor E. Frankl
  38. Unshakeable by Tony Robbins
  39. How to Change Your Mind by Michael Pollan
  40. Blink by Malcolm Gladwell
  41. I Will Teach You To Be Rich by Ramit Sethi
  42. The Stranger in the Woods by Michael Finkel
  43. Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman
  44. This Changes Everything by Naomi Klein
  45. How Not to Die by Michael Greger
  46. Grit by Angela Duckworth
  47. Gulp by Mary Roach
  48. East of Eden by John Steinbeck
  49. Moonwalking with Einstein by Joshua Foer
  50. Lifespan: Why We Age and Why We Don't Have To by David Sinclair
  51. The House of God by Samuel Shem
  52. Essentialism by Greg McKeown
  53. When by Stephen H. Pink
  54. Elon Musk by Ashlee Vance
  55. Mistakes Were Made (But Not By Me) by Elliot Aronson and Carol Tavris
  56. Words that Work by Frank Luntz
  57. Atomic Habits by James Clear
  58. American Gods by Neil Gaiman
  59. Principles by Ray Dalio
  60. Stillness is the Key by Ryan Holiday
  61. Leadership Strategy and Tactics by Jocko Willink
  62. Option B by Cheryl Sandberg and Adam Grant
  63. Until the End of Time by Brian Greene
  64. Range by David Epstein
  65. The Infinite Game by Simon Sinek
  66. Unleash the Power Within by Tony Robbins
  67. Trillion Dollar Coach by Eric Schmit, Alan Eagle, and Jonathan Rosenberg
  68. The Body by Bill Bryson
  69. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J.K. Rowling
  70. The Four-Hour Body by Tim Ferriss
  71. Daily Rituals by Mason Currey
  72. Tools of Titans by Tim Ferriss
  73. Antifragile by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  74. Tribe of Mentors by Tim Ferriss
  75. The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand
  76. The Emperor of All Maladies by Siddartha Mukherjee
  77. How to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie
  78. The Ocean at the End of the Lane by Neil Gaiman
  79. Sum by David Eagleman
  80. What Do You Care What Other People Think? by Richard Feynman
  81. Einstein's Dreams by Alan Lightman
  82. The Infinite Machine by Camila Russo
  83. A Promised Land by Barack Obama
  84. How To by Randall Munroe
  85. The Theory of Everything: The Quest to Explain All Reality by Don Lincoln
  86. The Courage to be Disliked by Fumitake Koga and Ichiro Kishimi
  87. How to Get Rich by Felix Dennis
  88. Thinking in Bets by Annie Duke
  89. This is Marketing by Seth Godin
  90. The Sovereign Individual by James Dale Davidson and Lord William Rees-Mogg
  91. The Willpower Instinct by Kelly McGonigal
  92. The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
  93. The Road by Cormac McCarthy
  94. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time by Mark Haddon
  95. Say Nothing by Patrick Radden Keefe
  96. Catch-22 by Joseph Heller (made it halfway through)
  97. The Future is Faster Than You Think by Peter Diamandis and Steven Kotler
  98. Numbers Don't Lie by Vaclav Smil
  99. A River Runs Through It by Norman Maclean
  100. The Art And Science of Low-Carbohydrate Living by Jeff Volek and Stephen Phinney
  101. Skin In The Game by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  102. The Age of AI: And Our Human Future by Henry Kissinger, Eric Schmidt, and Daniel Huttenlocher
  103. Total Recall: My Unbelievably True Life Story by Arnold Schwarzenegger with Peter Petre
  104. Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals by Oliver Burkeman
  105. The Comfort Crisis by Michael Easter
  106. No Domain by Mark Eglinton
  107. Sickening by John Abramson
  108. Your 15th Club by Bob Rotella
  109. Build: An Unorthodox Guide to Making Things Worth Making by Tony Fadell
  110. Die with Zero by Bill Perkins (only half, this book was mostly fluff and should have been a short essay)
  111. Idea Makers by Stephen Wolfram
  112. Outlive by Peter Attia
  113. Anything You Want by Derek Sivers
  114. I Don't Want To Talk About It by Terence Real
  115. The Hard Thing About Hard Things by Ben Horowitz
  116. Smoke and Mirrors by Neil Gaiman
  117. David and Goliath by Malcolm Gladwell
  118. The Covenant of Water by Abraham Verghese
  119. The Bond King by Mary Childs
  120. The Man Who Quit Money by Mark Sundeen
  121. The Lean Startup by Eric Ries
  122. The Culture Code by Daniel Coyle
  123. Be Useful: Seven Tools for Life by Arnold Schwarzenegger
  124. Fluke by Brian Klaas
  125. Million Dollar Weekend by Noah Kagan

I also love to listen to Podcasts, and my favorites include the following, although I love to hear recommendations:

  1. The Tim Ferriss Show
    I love the long-form interview, but this isn't for everyone. You should have at least an hour to spare to really dive in to these. I especially love the episodes with Cal Fussman, Seth Godin, Naval Ravikant, Derek Sivers, and Balaji Srinivasan.
  2. The Peter Attia Drive
    Peter is a physician who focuses on longevity and extending healthspan. He asks great questions and is one of my go-to sources for fasting and metabolism.
  3. The Curbsiders
    A quirky podcast that uses expert interviews to provide a practical review of all topics within internal medicine.

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