Reading List

“My alma mater was books, a good library… I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity” – Malcolm X

Currently reading

Peter the Great, by Robert K. Massie

2024

A Passion for Leadership, by Robert M. Gates
In a Flight of Starlings, by Giorgio Parisi
One Up, by Joost van Dreunen
Right Kind of Wrong, by Amy Edmondson
The Fifth Discipline, by Peter M. Senge
The Gifts of Imperfection, by Brené Brown
The Phoenix Project, by Gene Kim, Kevin Behr, and George Spafford

2023

101 Essays That Will Change the Way You Think, by Brianna Wiest
A Modern Man, by George Carlin
American Icon, by Bryce G. Hoffman
American Prometheus, by Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin
Attached, by Amir Levine and Rachel S. F. Heller
Can You Learn to Be Lucky?, by Karla Starr
Clear Thinking, by Shane Parrish
Dangerous Personalities, by Joe Navarro
Don’t Think of an Elephant, by George Lakoff
I, Claudius, by Robert Graves
Making Hope Happen, by Shane J. Lopez
Making Work Visible, by Dominica DeGrandis
Range, by David Epstein
Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen
Start With Why, by Simon Sinek
Team of Teams, by Stanley McChrystal
The 15 Commitments of Conscious Leadership, by Jim Dethmer, Diana Chapman, and Kaley Klemp
The Choice Factory, by Richard Shotton
The Doorstep Mile, by Alastair Humphreys
The Greatest Invention, by Silvia Ferrara
The Infinite Game, by Simon Sinek
The Longest Way Home, by Andrew McCarthy
The Medium is the Massage, by Marshall McLuhan and Quentin Fiore
The Name of the Rose, by Umberto Eco
The Rise of Superman, by Steven Kohler
The Untethered Soul, by Michael A. Singer
The Wisdom of the Bullfrog, by William H. McRaven
The World at Night, by Alan Furst
Time and How to Spend It, by James Wallman
Toyota Production System, by Taiichi Ohno
What Got You Here Won’t Get You There, by Marshall Goldsmith
Yes Man, by Danny Wallace
大道至拙, 宮玉振著
絕世名將的榮耀與哀歌, 薛易著
善戰者說, 宮玉振著
王陽明的心學, 廖春紅著
武林正史, 古人很潮編著

2022

All Systems Red, by Martha Wells
Almost Everything, by Anne Lamott
Anxious People, by Fredrik Backman
Babel No More, by Michael Erard
Be Exceptional, by Joe Navarro
Blood, Sweat, and Pixels, by Jason Schreier
Boyd, by Robert Coram
Building a Second Brain, by Tiago Forte
Certain to Win, by Chet Richards
Cochrane the Dauntless, by David Cordingly
Ego, Authority, Failure, by Derek Gaunt
Eisenhower in War and Peace, by Jean Edward Smith
Every Tool’s a Hammer, by Adam Savage
How Ike Led, by Susan Eisenhower
Inner Engineering, by Sadhguru
Nonviolent Communication, by Marshall B. Rosenberg
Press Reset, by Jason Schreier
Shackleton, by Ranulph Fiennes
Shibumi, by Trevanian
Switch, by Chip Heath and Dan Heath
Take More Vacations, by Scott Keyes
Ten Caesars, by Barry Strauss
The Art of Innovation, by Tom Kelley and Jonathan Littman
The Creative Gene, by Hideo Kojima
The Effective Executive, by Peter F. Drucker
The FBI Way, by Frank Figliuzzi
The Hero Code, by William H. McRaven
The Long Ships, by Frans G. Bengtsson
The Making of a Manager, by Julie Zhuo
The Making of Prince of Persia, by Jordan Mechner
The Man Without a Face, by Masha Gessen
The Psychology of Money, by Morgan Housel
The Runaway Species, by David Eagleman and Anthony Brandt
The Score Takes Care of Itself, by Bill Walsh, Steve Jamison, and Craig Walsh
Think Again, by Adam Grant
When We Cease to Understand the World, by Benjamín Labatut
Who Gets What — and Why, by Alvin E. Roth
明朝那些事兒第貳部：萬國來朝, 當年明月著
明朝那些事兒第參部：妖孽宮廷, 當年明月著

2021

A Gentleman in Moscow, by Amor Towles
A Mathematician’s Apology, by G. H. Hardy
A Mathematician’s Lament, by Paul Lockhart
Before the Coffee Gets Cold, by Toshikazu Kawaguchi
Cold Mountain, by Charles Frazier
Crying in H Mart, by Michelle Zauner
Cyrano de Bergerac, by Edmond Rostand (Author) and Carol Clark (Translator)
Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency, by Douglas Adams
Dune, by Frank Herbert
Flirtology, by Jean Smith
Foundation and Empire, by Isaac Asimov
How to Not Die Alone, by Logan Ury
Kindred, by Octavia E. Butler
Masters of Doom, by David Kushner
Operation Mincemeat, by Ben MacIntyre
Rainy Brain, Sunny Brain, by Elaine Fox
Rebel Buddha, by Dzogchen Ponlop Rinpoche
Second Foundation, by Isaac Asimov
The Algebra of Happiness, by Scott Galloway
The Basic Laws of Human Stupidity, by Carlo M. Cipolla
The Book of Merlyn, by T. H. White
The Dark Side of the Light Chasers, by Debbie Ford
The Elements of Eloquence, by Mark Forsyth
The Inner Game of Tennis, by W. Timothy Gallwey
The Ministry for the Future, by Kim Stanley Robinson
The Once and Future King, by T. H. White
The Only Woman in the Room, by Marie Benedict
The Science of Breaking Bad, by Dave Trumbore and Donna J. Nelson
The Swerve, by Stephen Greenblatt
This Year You Write Your Novel, by Walter Mosley
Why Fish Don’t Exist, by Lulu Miller
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, by Robert M. Pirsig

2020

A Hero of France, by Alan Furst
Atomic Habits, by James Clear
Between the World and Me, by Ta-Nehisi Coates
Circe, by Madeline Miller
Coach, by Michael Lewis
Creativity, Inc., by Ed Catmull and Amy Wallace
Everything is F*cked, by Mark Manson
Extreme Ownership, by Jocko Willink and Leif Babin
Fahrenheit 451, by Ray Bradbury
Fifty Inventions That Shaped the Modern Economy, Tim Harford
Football Hackers, by Christoph Biermann
Get Together, by Bailey Richardson, Kevin Huynh, and Kai Elmer Sotto
In the Garden of Beasts, by Erik Larson
Jurgen Klopp, by Elmar Neveling
Life of Pi, Yann Martel
Love Yourself Like Your Life Depends on It, by Kamal Ravikant
Master and Commander, by Patrick O’Brian
Modern Love, by Daniel Jones (Editor)
On Writing, by Stephen King
Piranesi, by Susanna Clarke
Poor Charlie’s Almanack, by Peter D. Kaufman (Editor)
Principles, by Ray Dalio
Ready Player One, by Ernest Cline
Sapiens, by Yuval Noah Harari
Stillness is the Key, by Ryan Holiday
Sword of Destiny, by Andrzej Sapkowski
The Alchemist, by Paulo Coelho
The Biggest Bluff, by Maria Konnikova
The Blind Side, by Michael Lewis
The Count of Monte Cristo, by Alexandre Dumas (Author) and Robin Buss (Translator)
The Courage to Be Disliked, by Ichiro Kishimi and Fumitake Koga
The Death of Truth, Michiko Kakutani
The Design of Everyday Things, by Donald A. Norman
The First 90 Days, by Michael Watkins
The Four, by Scott Galloway
The Goal, by Eliyahu M. Goldratt and Jeff Cox
The Golden Compass, Philip Pullman
The Last Wish, by Andrzej Sapkowski
The Liberator, by Alex Kershaw
The Read Aloud Cloud, by Forrest Brazeal
The Remains of the Day, by Kazuo Ishiguro
The Revolt of the Public, by Martin Gurri
The Splendid and the Vile, by Erik Larson
What Would Jurgen Klopp Do?, by Tom Victor
Wolf Hall, by Hilary Mantel
Zen in the Art of Writing, by Ray Bradbury

2019

A Collection of Essays, by George Orwell
Anything You Want, by Derek Sivers
Battle Leadership, by Adolf von Schell
Can’t Hurt Me, by David Goggins
Chaos Monkeys, by Antonio Garcia Martinez
Decisive, by Chip Heath and Dan Heath
Doing Justice, by Preet Bharara
Endurance, by Alfred Lansing
Filters Against Folly, by Garrett Hardin
Friend of a Friend…, by David Burkus
Get Smart!, by Brian Tracy
Growth Hacker Marketing, by Ryan Holiday
How Proust Can Change Your Life, by Alain de Botton
How to Fight a Hydra, by Josh Kaufman
How to Find Love, by The School of Life
Hyperfocus, by Chris Bailey
Indistractable, by Nir Eyal
In the Beginning… Was the Command Line, by Neal Stephenson
It’s Not All About “Me”, by Robin K. Dreeke
Nudge, by Richard H. Thaler and Cass R. Sunstein
Ogilvy on Advertising, by David Ogilvy
Ogilvy on Advertising in the Digital Age, by Miles Young
On Being Nice, by The School of Life
On Confidence, by The School of Life
Pebbles of Perception, by Laurence Endersen
Pygmalion in Management, by J. Sterling Livingston
Resilience, by Eric Greitens
Rules for Radicals, by Saul Alinsky
Shackleton’s Way, by Margot Morrell and Stephanie Capparell
Shantaram, by Gregory David Roberts
Six Thinking Hats, by Edward de Bono
Stronger, by George Everly Jr., Douglas Strouse, and Dennis McCormack
The Big Sleep, by Raymond Chandler
The Captain Class, by Sam Walker
The Coaching Habit, by Michael Bungay Stanier
The Consolations of Philosophy, by Alain de Botton
The Culture Code, by Daniel Coyle
The Fish That Ate the Whale, by Rich Cohen
The Formula, by Albert-László Barabási
The Grid, by Gretchen Bakke
The Little Book of Talent, by Daniel Coyle
The Mathematics of Love, by Hannah Fry
The Mind of War, by Grant Hammond
The Most Important Thing Illuminated, by Howard Marks
The Productivity Project, by Chris Bailey
The Spies of Warsaw, by Alan Furst
The Talent Code, by Daniel Coyle
The Three Musketeers, by Alexandre Dumas (Author) and Jacques Le Clercq (Translator)
The Tiger, by John Vaillant
The War of Art, by Steven Pressfield
The Warrior Ethos, by Steven Pressfield
Ultralearning, by Scott Young
Weapons of Math Destruction, by Cathy O’Neil
We Need to Talk, by Celeste Headlee
When Strangers Meet, by Kio Stark
Xenophon’s Cyrus the Great, by Xenophon (Author) and Larry Hedrick (Editor)
道濟天下諸葛亮, 秦濤著
老子．莊子．孫子, 陳文德著
歷史上的不倒翁, 秦濤著

2018

An Illustrated Book of Bad Arguments, by Ali Almossawi (Author) and Alejandro Giraldo (Illustrator)
Astrophysics for People in a Hurry, by Neil deGrasse Tyson
Bad Blood, John Carreyrou
Blueprint for Revolution, by Srdja Popovic and Matthew Miller
Churchill and Orwell, by Thomas E. Ricks
Drive, by Daniel H. Pink
Eichmann in Jerusalem, by Hannah Arendt
Fascism, by Madeline Albright
For Whom the Bell Tolls, by Ernest Hemingway
How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big, by Scott Adams
Lays of Ancient Rome, by Thomas Babington Macaulay
Linchpin, by Seth Godin
Little Bets, by Peter Sims
Longitude, by Dava Sobel
Made to Stick, by Chip Heath and Dan Heath
Make Your Bed, by William H. McRaven
Mastering Fear, by Brandon Webb and John David Mann
Messy, by Tim Harford
On Love, by Alain de Botton
Patriot Games, by Tom Clancy
Purple Cow, by Seth Godin
Relentless, by Tim S. Grover
Seven Brief Lessons on Physics, by Carlo Rovelli
Solaris, by Stanislaw Lem (Author) and Bill Johnston (Translator)
Spies of the Balkans, by Alan Furst
The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, by Stephen R. Covey
The Art of Learning, by Josh Waitzkin
The Charisma Myth, by Olivia Fox Cabane
The Course of Love, by Alain de Botton
The Fifth Risk, by Michael Lewis
The Fire Next Time, by James Baldwin
The Handmaid’s Tale, by Margaret Atwood
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (Abridged), by Edward Gibbon (Author) and David Womersley (Editor)
The Lathe of Heaven, by Ursula K. Le Guin
The Like Switch, by Jack Schafer and Marvin Karlins
The Luck Factor, by Richard Wiseman
The Power of Habit, by Charles Duhigg
The Power of Moments, by Chip Heath and Dan Heath
The Time Traveler’s Wife, by Audrey Niffenegger
Thinking in Bets, by Annie Duke
Visual Intelligence, Amy E. Herman
Watership Down, by Richard Adams
What Do You Care What Other People Think?, by Richard P. Feynman
When, by Daniel H. Pink
成大事者不糾結, 羅振宇著
關於跑步，我說的其實是……, 村上春樹著, 賴明珠譯
明朝那些事兒第壹部：洪武大帝, 當年明月著
權謀至尊司馬懿, 秦濤著
西潮, 蔣夢麟著

2017

A Guide to the Good Life, by William B. Irvine
Barking Up the Wrong Tree, by Eric Barker
Blockchain Basics, by Daniel Drescher
Brunelleschi’s Dome, by Ross King
Daring Greatly, by Brené Brown
Deep Work, by Cal Newport
Digital Gold, by Nathaniel Popper
Flash Boys, by Michael Lewis
Foundation, by Isaac Asimov
Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World, by Jack Weatherford
Hackers & Painters, by Paul Graham
How to Live, by Sarah Bakewell
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell, by Susanna Clarke
Leonardo da Vinci, by Walter Isaacson
Man’s Search for Meaning, by Viktor E. Frankl
Meditations, by Marcus Aurelius (Author) and Gregory Hays (Translator)
Modern Romance, by Aziz Ansari
Moneyball, by Michael Lewis
Never Split the Difference, by Chris Voss and Tahl Raz
Only the Paranoid Survive, by Andrew S. Grove
Pastoralia, by George Saunders
Predictably Irrational, by Dan Ariely
Rogue Heroes, by Ben MacIntyre
‘Salem’s Lot, by Stephen King
Siddhartha, by Herman Hesse
So Good They Can’t Ignore You, by Cal Newport
Stories of Your Life and Others, by Ted Chiang
Surely You’re Joking, Mr. Feynman!, by Richard P. Feynman
The Age of Wonder, by Richard Holmes
The Attention Merchants, by Tim Wu
The Big Short, by Michael Lewis
The Cathedral & the Bazaar, by Eric S. Raymond
The Checklist Manifesto, by Atul Gawande
The Everything Store, by Brad Stone
The Little Prince, by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (Author) and Richard Howard (Translator)
The Logic of Life, by Tim Harford
The Martian, by Andy Weir
The Prophet, by Kahlil Gibran
The Right Stuff, by Tom Wolfe
The Sense of Style, by Steven Pinker
The True Believer, by Eric Hoffer
The Ultimate Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, by Douglas Adams
The Undoing Project, by Michael Lewis
The Visual Display of Quantitative Information, by Edward Tufte
Tiny Beautiful Things, by Cheryl Strayed
Where Good Ideas Come From, by Steven Johnson
Whose Freedom?, by George Lakoff
Writing on the Wall, by Tom Standage
霸王之夢, 呂世浩著
塞外奇俠傳, 梁羽生著
三體, 劉慈欣著
俠客行, 金庸著

2016

Alibaba, by Duncan Clark
Dreaming in Code, by Scott Rosenberg
Ego Is the Enemy, by Ryan Holiday
Originals, by Adam Grant
Presence, by Amy Cuddy
Smarter Faster Better, by Charles Duhigg
Superforecasting, by Philip E. Tetlock and Dan Gardner
The Churchill Factor, by Boris Johnson
The Lean Startup, by Eric Ries
The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck, by Mark Manson
北京法源寺, 李敖著
道士下山, 徐皓峰著
國父 ‘們’, 金哲毅著
連城訣, 金庸著
書劍恩仇錄, 金庸著
孫子兵法：不朽的戰爭藝術, 徐瑜著

2015

Elon Musk, by Ashlee Vance
Work Rules, by Laszlo Bock
盜墓筆記第一季卷一, 南派三叔著
帝國崛起, 呂世浩著
敵我之間, 呂世浩著
飛狐外傳, 金庸著
秦始皇, 呂世浩著
天龍八部, 金庸著