Reading List
A collection of books I've read over the last decade.
7 Days in the Art World
Sarah Thornton
A Behavioral Approach to Asset Pricing
Shefrin
A Random Walk Down Wall Street
Burton G. Malkiel
Advanced Compiler Design & Implementation
Steven S. Muchnick
Agents of Innocence: A Novel
David Ignatius
Algorithmic Trading & DMA
Jean-Philippe Johnson
Algorithms in Structural Molecular Biology
Donald
Albion's Seed: Four British Folkways in America, Vol. 1
David Hackett Fischer
Amp It Up: Leading for Hypergrowth by Raising Expectations, Increasing Urgency, and Eliminating Bureaucracy
Frank Slootman
Analysing & Interpreting the Yield Curve
Moorad Choudhry
Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Apocalypse Never: Why Environmental Alarmism Hurts Us All
Michael Shellenberger
Bare-Metal Embedded C Programming
Israel Gbati
Beautiful Losers: Essays on the Failure of American Conservatism
Samuel Francis
Beginning x64 Assembly Programming
Van Hoey
Biologically Inspired Algorithms for Financial Modelling
Brabazon & O'Neill
Black Edge: Inside Information, Dirty Money, and the Quest to Bring Down the Most Feared Hedge Fund on Wall Street
Sheelah Kolhatkar
Black Hat Rust
Sylvain Kerkour
Blind Man's Bluff: The Untold Story of American Submarine Espionage
Sherry Sontag & Christopher Drew
Bobos in Paradise: The New Upper Class and How They Got There
David Brooks
The Book of Honor: The Secret Lives and Deaths of CIA Operatives
Ted Gup
The Business of America is Lobbying
Ken P. Drtman
The Business of Expertise: How Entrepreneurial Experts Convert Knowledge into Income
David C. Baker
Capital Market Instruments
Palgrave
Capitol Punishment
Bramoff
The Catch & Spy Net: The Art of Counterintelligence
Peter Schweitzer
Cellular Genetic Algorithms
Alba & Dorronsoro
The Ceil-Strategy Playbook: The Definitive Guide to Competitive Intelligence
Benjamin P. Gilad & Mark Chussil
The Climate Book: The 1.5-Degree Celsius Target That Defines the Path To a Sustainable Future
Greta Thunberg
Cognition and Multi-Agent Interaction
Sun, Conte, Gilbert
Cold Zero: Inside the FBI Hostage Rescue Team
Christopher Whitcomb
Collateralized Debt Obligations & Structured Finance
Choudhry, Moskovic, Wong
Covert Crew: The Tragedy and Corruption of SEAL Team Six
Matthew Cole
Cradle Into the Jungle
Cameron Stewart
Credit Derivatives: A Guide to Instruments and Applications
Janet M. Tavakoli
Crystal Mesh
Alicia Mundy
Cyber Security Kill Chain - Tactics and Strategies
Gourav Nagar, Shreyas Kumar
The Dance of Legislation
Redman
Data Mining for Business Intelligence
Shmueli, Patel, Bruce
Designing Data-Intensive Applications
Martin Kleppmann
The Devil's Chessboard
David Talbot
The Devil's Delusion: Atheism and Its Scientific Pretensions
David Berlinski
Dictators Without Borders: Power and Money in Central Asia
Alexander Cooley and John Heathershaw
Digital Forensics and Incident Response
Gerard Johansen
The End of Science
John Horgan
The End of the World Is Just the Beginning: Mapping the Great Power Conflict of Tomorrow
Peter Zeihan
Electronic Life
Michael Crichton
Electronic Nightmare: The New Communications and Freedom
John Wicklein
Engineering a Compiler
Keith D. Cooper & Linda Torczon
Enhanced Interrogation
N/A
Evading EDR: Defeating Endpoint Detection Systems
Hand
Evasive Malware: A Field Guide to Detecting, Analyzing, and Defeating Advanced Threats
Leary
Evil Geniuses: The Unmaking of America
Kurt Andersen
Fair Play: The Moral Dilemmas of Spying
Ethan S. Burger
Federal Rules of Civil Procedure
N/A
The Five Dysfunctions of a Team: A Leadership Fable
Patrick Lencioni
Fixed Income Markets
Choudhry
Foundations: The Business Design of a 21st-Century Firm
N/A
Four Arguments for the Elimination of Television
Jerry Mander
Frenemies: The Epic Disruption of the Ad Business (And Everything Else)
Ken Auletta
From Eternity to Here: The Quest for the Ultimate Theory of Time
Sean Carroll
Get the Truth: Former CIA Officers Teach You How to Persuade Anyone, Anytime, Anywhere
Philip Houston, Michael Floyd, Susan Carnicero, Don Tennant
Ghost War: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan, and Bin Laden, from the Soviet Invasion to September 10, 2001
Steve Coll
Gray Work: Confessions of an American Paramilitary Spy
John K. Kiriakou
Guidelines for Drafting and Editing Legislation
Rodengen
Hacking SaaS
Eric Mersch
Hacking: The Art of Exploitation
Jon Erickson
The Happiness Advantage: The Seven Principles of Positive Psychology That Fuel Success and Performance at Work
Shawn Achor
How to Argue & Win Every Time
Gerry Spence
How to Get Rich: A Collection of the World's Best Advice on Money, Investing, Wealth and Happiness
Felix Dennis
The Human Element: Overcoming the Resistance to Change
Craig Wortmann
I Love You, Delete: Doing Time at Amazon.com
J. K. Franko
The Image: 50th Anniversary Edition: A Guide to Pseudo-Events in America
Daniel J. Boorstin
Infinite Jest
David Foster Wallace
The Influence Game: How to Get What You Want From the Washington D.C. Lobbying World That Will Get You to Yes
Craig Crawford
Insiders Talk Winning with Lobbyists
Robert L. Guyer
Inside the House of Money
Steven Drobny
Intelligent Agents for Data Mining and Information Retrieval
Mohammadian
Interest-Rate Option Models: Understanding, Analysing and Using Models for Exotic Interest-Rate Options
Riccardo Rebonato
The Interrogator: An Education
Glenn L. Carle
Invisible Hands: The Business of Undercover Life in Global Narcotics Terrorism
Andrew K. Goldenberg
Invisible Women: Exposing Data Bias in a World Designed for Men
Caroline Criado Perez
It Takes a Tribe: How to Build and Leverage Your Competitive Advantage
Will Guidara
Jawbreaker: The Attack on Bin Laden and Al Qaeda: A Personal Account by the CIA's Former Commander of the Afghan Campaign
Gary Berntsen
Killer Elite: Completely Revised and Updated: The Inside Story of America's Most Secret Special Operations Command
Michael J. R. Coombe
Legislative Drafter's Deskbook: A Practical Guide
Tobias A. Dorsey
Legislative Drafting Step-by-Step
Rynearson
Lobbying
Lionel Zetter
Lobbying: How Washington Works
William V. Thomas
Lobbying Congress
Wolpe & Levine
The Looming Tower
Lawrence Wright
Loserthink: How Untrained Brains Are Ruining America
Scott Adams
Love & Math: The Heart of Hidden Reality
Edward Frenkel
The Lobbyists
Karl Schriftgiesser
Manias, Panics, and Crashes
Robert Z. Aliber & Charles P. Kindleberger
Market Wizards
Jack D. Schwager
Mathematical Finance
Fries
MCAT Organic Chemistry Review 2023-2024
Kaplan
Militant Normals: How Regular Americans Are Rebelling Against the Elite to Reclaim Our Democracy
Kurt Schlichter
Million Dollar Influence
Alan Weiss & Gene Moran
Mind Manipulation: How Politicians, Pundits and Popular Media Are Using Mind Control, Propaganda and The Subconscious to Manipulate You (and what you can do about it!)
N/A
Multi-Agent Systems
Jacques Ferber
The Natural
Joe Klein
The New Market Wizards
Jack D. Schwager
Never Split the Difference: Negotiating as if Your Life Depended On It
Chris Voss
Numerical Methods in Finance and Economics
Brandimarte
The OSINT Handbook
Dale Meredith
Only the Paranoid Survive: How to Exploit the Crisis Points That Challenge Every Business
Andrew S. Grove
Outliers
Malcolm Gladwell
The Pentagon's Brain: An Uncensored History of DARPA, America's Top Secret Military Research Agency
Annie Jacobsen
Persuading Congress
Joseph Gibson
Physics for Non-Physicists: A Tour of the Microcosmos
Richard Wolfson
Politico's Guide to Political Lobbying
Charles Miller
Politics Lost
Joe Klein
The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York
Robert Caro
PowerShell for Penetration Testing
Dr. Andrew Blyth
Predictive Analytics: The Power to Predict Who Will Click, Buy, Lie, or Die
Eric Siegel
Programming with 64-Bit AKM Assembly
Smith
Q is for Quantum
Gribbin
Rarely Do We Find Many Talented Individuals in a Specialized World
Jeffrey A. Krames
Reasoning About Rational Agents
Wooldridge
Reminiscences of a Stock Operator
Edwin Lefèvre
Reversing: Secrets of Reverse Engineering
Elkon
Rise and Kill First: The Secret History of Israel's Targeted Assassinations
Ronen Bergman
The Rust Programming Language
Klabnik & Nichols
San Fransicko: Why Progressives Ruin Cities
Michael Shellenberger
Save the Cat!
Snyder
The SaaS Playbook
Rob Walling
The Secret Art of Lobbying
Darcy Nicolle
The Secret History of the CIA's Final Showdown With the KGB
Walter Pincus
The Secret History of the Joint Special Operations Command
Sean Naylor
The Secret History of Modern War in the Age of Identity Dominance
Sharon Weinberger
Selective Breeding and the Birth of Philosophy
Costin Alamariu
The Shape of Space
Weeks
The Shellcoder's Handbook
Anley, Heasman, Linder, Richard, Schiflett
The Smartest Guys in the Room
Bethany McLean
So You Want to Be a Lobbyist?
Corinne Souza
Speed Reading
Kam Knight
Statuary Vape
Jennifer Banmiller and Wilson Tsai
The Storm of War: A New History of the Second World War
Andrew Roberts
Surprise, Kill, Vanish: The Secret History of CIA Paramilitary Armies, Operators, and Assassins
Annie Jacobsen
Taboo
Jon Entine
Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln
Doris Kearns Goodwin
Technopoly
Neil Postman
Thinking, Fast and Slow
Daniel Kahneman
Think Again: The Power of Knowing What You Don't Know
Adam Grant
The Two-Income Trap
Elizabeth Warren and Amelia Warren Tyagi
The Ultimate Sniper: An Advanced Training Manual for Military and Police Snipers
Major John L. Plaster
The Undoing Project: A Friendship That Changed Our Minds
Michael Lewis
U.S. Marshals: Inside America's Most Storied Law Enforcement Agency
Mike Earp
The Victory Lab: The Secret Science of Winning Campaigns
Sasha Issenberg
The Western Way of War
Victor Davis Hanson
When You Come to a Fork in the Road, Take It!: Inspiration and Wisdom from One of America's Great Coaches
Yogi Berra
Win Bigly: Persuasion in a World Where Facts Don't Matter
Scott Adams
The Wisdom of Finance: Discovering Humanity in the World of Money and Markets
Mihir A. Desai
Wolfram: A New Kind of Science
Stephen Wolfram
Wolfram The Second Law
Stephen Wolfram
The World for Sale: Money, Power and the Traders Who Barter the Earth's Resources
Javier Blas and Jack Farchy
Your Children: The Truth About Marijuana, Mental Illness and Violence
Alex Berenson
Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future
Peter Thiel