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Reading

As of Jan 2023, in addition to the books I read, I will save some of the most interesting, in-depth articles I read as well. If you have any recommendations, please reach out to me @michaelxbloch

2023

2022

  • Mastering the Market Cycle - Howard Marks
  • The Power Law: Venture Capital & the Making of the New Future - Sebastian Mallaby
  • Upgrade - Blake Crouch
  • The Bond King - Mary Childs
  • How Will You Measure Your Life? - Clayton Christensen
  • Atomic Awakening: New Look at the History & Future of Nuclear Power - James Mahaffey
  • The Name of the Wind - Patrick Rothfuss
  • The Wise Man’s Fear - Patrick Rothfuss
  • Gardens of the Moon - Steven Erikson
  • The Kill Chain: Defending America in the Future of High-Tech Warfare - Christian Brose
  • Deadhouse Gates - Steven Erikson

2021

  • Last Man Standing: The Ascent of Jamie Dimon and JPMorgan Chase - Duff McDonald
  • Daemon - Daniel Suarez
  • Working Backwards: Insights, Stories, and Secrets from Inside Amazon - Colin Bryar, Bill Carr
  • When Genius Failed: The Rise and Fall of Long-Term Capital Management - Roger Lowenstein
  • Kings of Crypto - Jeff John Roberts
  • The Undoing Project - Michael Lewis
  • Angel: How to invest in Technology Startups - Jason Calacanis
  • A Memory Called Empire - Arkady Martine
  • Dark Matter - Blake Crouch
  • Attention Factory: The Story of TikTok & ByteDance - Matthew Brennan
  • Project Hail Mary - Andy Weir
  • Fallen Leaves - Will Durant
  • Radical Candor - Kim Scott
  • Thinking in Bets - Annie Duke

2020

  • Surely You’re Joking, Mr. Feynman! - Richard Feynman
  • Annihilation - Jeff VanderMeer
  • Sapiens - Yuval Noah Harari
  • The Ride of a Lifetime - Bob Iger
  • Hillbilly Elegy - JD Vance
  • The Man Who Solved the Market - Gregory Zuckerman
  • What it Takes - Stephen Schwarzman
  • The Holdout - Graham Moore
  • The Diamond Age - Neal Stephenson
  • Polar Vortex - Matt Mather
  • Burn In - P. W. Singer
  • The Making of Prince of Persia - Jordan Mechner
  • The Algebra of Happiness - Scott Galloway
  • Enemy of All Mankind: A True Story of Piracy, Power, and History's First Global Manhunt - Steven Johnson
  • The Goldfinch - Donna Tartt
  • Tape Sucks: Inside Data Domain, A Silicon Valley Growth Story - Frank Slootman
  • The Psychology of Money - Morgan Housel

2019

  • Destined for War - Graham Allison
  • The Fixer - Bradley Tusk
  • Red Moon - Kim Stanley Robinson
  • Educated - Tara Westover
  • The Fifth Season - N.K. Jemisin
  • The Obelisk Gate - N.K. Jemisin
  • Made in America - Sam Walton
  • The Stone Sky - N.K. Jemisin
  • Leviathan Wakes (Expanse Book 1) - James Corey
  • Caliban’s War (Expanse Book 2) - James Corey
  • Abaddon’s Gate (Expanse Book 3) – James Corey
  • The Fountainhead - Ayn Rand
  • I am Pilgrim - Terry Hayes
  • Vicious - V.E. Schwab
  • The Rise and Fall of D.O.D.O. - Neal Stephenson and Nicole Galland
  • Six of Crows - Leigh Bardugo
  • Crooked Kingdom - Leigh Bardugo
  • Shadow and Bone Trilogy - Leigh Bardugo
  • The Demon Under the Microscope - Thomas Hager
  • City of Thieves - David Benioff
  • The Last Days of Night - Graham Moore
  • The Sherlockian - Graham Moore
  • Circe - Madeline Miller
  • The Alice Network - Kate Quinn
  • The Fish That Ate the Whale - Rich Cohen
  • Red Notice - Bill Browder
  • Amazon.com: Get Big Fast - Robert Spector
  • A Dozen Lessons for Entrepreneurs - Tren Griffin
  • Bitcoin Billionaires - Ben Mezrich
  • Dune - Frank Herbert
  • Nemesis Games - James Corey
  • The 25th Hour - David Benioff
  • Recursion - Blake Crouch
  • The Light Brigade - Kameron Hurley
  • The Song of Achilles - Madeline Miller
  • Ship of Gold in the Deep Blue Sea - Gary Kinder
  • The Hard Thing About Hard Things - Ben Horowitz
  • We Are Legion - Dennis Taylor
  • For We Are Many - Dennis Taylor
  • All These Worlds - Dennis Taylor
  • A Gentleman in Moscow - Amor Towles
  • The Book of Dust - Phillip Pullman
  • Exhalation - Ted Chiang
  • Secrets of Sand Hill Road - Scott Kupor
  • Trillion Dollar Coach - Eric Schmidt
  • What You Do Is Who You Are - Ben Horowitz
  • That Will Never Work - Marc Randolph
  • A Man For All Markets - Edward Thorp
  • Team of Teams - Stanley McChrystal

2018

  • Subscribed - Tien Tzuo
  • The Old Man and the Sea - Ernest Hemingway
  • CyberStorm - Matthew Mather
  • The Financial Diaries - Jonathan Morduch & Rachel Schneider
  • The Spider Network - David Enrich
  • All Systems Red - Martha Wells
  • Siddhartha - Hermann Hesse
  • The Messy Middle - Scott Belsky
  • Powerful - Patty McCord
  • Shackleton’s Way - Margot Morrell
  • Bad Blood - John Carreyou
  • Dollars and Sense - Dan Ariely
  • On Grand Strategy - John Lewis Gaddis
  • Artemis - Andy Weir
  • How the Other Half Banks - Mehrsa Baradaran
  • The Five Dysfunctions of a Team - Patrick Lencioni
  • Billion Dollar Whale - Bradley Hope, Tom Wright
  • Who is Michael Ovitz? - Michael Ovitz
  • Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
  • One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  • Predictably Irrational - Dan Ariely
  • When Breath Becomes Air - Paul Kalanithi
  • The House of Morgan - Ron Chernow
  • Leonardo da Vinci - Walter Isaacson
  • Walt Disney - Neal Gabler
  • Into Thin Air - Jon Krakauer
  • Executive Orders - Tom Clancy
  • Debt of Honor - Tom Clancy
  • Ghost Fleet - P.W. Singer & August Cole
  • Death’s End - Cixin Liu
  • The Dark Forest - Cixin Liu
  • Station Eleven - Emily St. John
  • Bandwidth - Eliot Peper

2017

  • Option B - Sheryl Sandberg
  • Atlas Shrugged - Ayn Rand
  • Lean In - Sheryl Sandberg
  • Stealing Fire - Steven Kotler
  • Ready Player One - Ernest Cline
  • The Mission, the Men, and Me - Pete Blaber
  • Grit - Angela Duckworth
  • The Great Bridge - David McCullough
  • The Power Broker - Robert Caro
  • The New Tycoons - Jason Kelly
  • Extreme Ownership - Jocko Willink
  • Never Split the Difference - Chris Voss
  • The Upstarts - Brad Stone
  • Sapiens - Yuval Noah Harari
  • Financially Fearless - Alexa von Tobel
  • The Three-Body Problem - Cixin Liu
  • The Score Takes Care of Itself - Bill Walsh
  • Hatching Twitter - Nick Bilton
  • Who Says Elephants Can’t Dance - Louis Gerstner

I didn't track the books I read before 2017

Books I'm currently reading:

  • Playing to Win: How Strategy Really Works - A.G. Lafley
  • Churchill: Walking with Destiny - Andrew Roberts
  • The Art of Doing Science & Engineering - Richard Hamming
  • Power Trip: The Story of Energy - Michael Webber
  • Who Will Care For Us? Long-Term Care and the Long-Term Workforce - Paul Osterman
  • Black Leopard, Red Wolf - Marlon James
  • The Obstacle is the Way - Ryan Holiday
  • Difficult Conversations - Douglas Stone
  • Never Let Me Go - Kazuo Ishiguro
  • Cryptonomicon - Neal Stephenson
  • The Money Hackers - Daniel Simon
  • Payments Systems in the U.S. - Carol Coye Benson
  • 7 Powers: The Foundations of Business Strategy - Hamilton Helmer
  • Atomic Habits - James Clear
  • The Mosquito - Timothy Winegard
  • The Case for Space - Robert Zubrin
  • An Elegant Puzzle: Systems of Engineering Management - Will Larson
  • For Whom the Bell Tolls - Ernest Hemingway
  • The Culture Code - Daniel Coyle