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

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