As of Jan 2023, in addition to the books I read, Iâm going to save the most interesting, in-depth articles I read as well. If you have any recommendations, please reach out to me @michaelxbloch
2023
- Changing Fortunes - Paul Volcker, Toyoo Gyohten
- Memories of Ice - Steven Erikson
- Nuclear energy: past, present, and future - Julia DeWahl
- The Three-Body Problem: Finding the New Stable Points in VC - Frank Rotman
- 2034 - Elliot Ackerman, Admiral James Stavridis
- Geopolitics are Changing. Venture Capital Must, Too - Hemant Tenaja & Fareed Zakaria
- Inflection Points - Michael Dempsey
- The Mistborn Trilogy - Brandon Sanderson
- Startup Decoupling & Reckoning - Elad Gil
- Why Technology Will Define the Future of Geopolitics - Eric Schmidt
- The U.S. Is Not Yet Ready for the Era of âGreat Powerâ Conflict - Michael Gordon
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 Manâs 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 Youâre 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
- Calibanâs War (Expanse Book 2) - James Corey
- Abaddonâs Gate (Expanse Book 3) â 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
- Shackletonâs 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
- Aliceâs 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
- Deathâs 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 Canât 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