Bookshelf
These are most of the books and stories I've read in my adult life.
My favorite authors are Neal Stephenson for weaving together technology and Victorianism, Charles Dickens for his heroes, and Ayn Rand for her villains.
| The Sirens of Titan | Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. | 1959 | |
| Cat's Cradle | Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. | 1963 | |
| The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress | Robert Heinlein | 1965 | |
| Stranger in a Strange Land | Robert Heinlein | 1961 | |
| 13 Days in September | Lawrence Wright | 2014 | |
| From Beirut to Jerusalem | Thomas Friedman | 1988 | |
| The Goal | Eliyahu M. Goldratt | 1986 | |
| Andrew Carnegie | David Nasaw | 2006 | |
| Brave New World | Aldous Huxley | 1932 | |
| Plain Talk | Ken Iverson | 1997 | |
| The World for Sale | Javier Blas and Jack Farchy | 2021 | |
| The Box | Marc Levinson | 2006 | |
| Still the Iron Age: Iron and Steel in the Modern World | Vaclav Smil | 2016 | |
| American Steel | Richard Preston | 1992 | |
| Running Money | Andy Kessler | 2004 | |
| Rendezvous with Rama | Arthur C. Clarke | 1973 | |
| Angela's Ashes | Frank McCourt | 1996 | |
| Duty: Memoirs of a Secretary at War | Robert M. Gates | 2014 | |
| Freedom's Forge | Arthur Herman | 2012 | |
| Breaking History | Jared Kushner | 2023 | |
| The Diamond Age | Neal Stephenson | 1995 | |
| Understand | Ted Chiang | 1991 | |
| Slaughterhouse-Five | Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. | 1968 | |
| The Kill Chain | Christian Brose | 2020 | |
| A Gentleman in Moscow | Amor Towles | 2016 | |
| Exhalation | Ted Chiang | 2019 | |
| Elon Musk | Walter Isaacson | 2023 | |
| Neuromancer | William Gibson | 1984 | |
| Omon Ra | Viktor Pelevin | 1992 | |
| The Three-Body Problem | Liu Cixin | 2008 | |
| The Dark Forest | Liu Cixin | 2008 | |
| Death's End | Liu Cixin | 2010 | |
| New Atlantis | Francis Bacon | 1627 | |
| When Breath Becomes Air | Paul Kalanithi | 2016 | |
| Snow Crash | Neal Stephenson | 1992 | |
| The Great Gatsby | F. Scott Fitzgerald | 1925 | |
| Leadership | Henry Kissinger | 2022 | |
| Land and Sea | Carl Schmitt | 1997 | |
| Beneath a Scarlet Sky | Mark Sullivan | 2017 | |
| Giovanni's Room | James Baldwin | 1956 | |
| Catch-22 | Joseph Heller | 1961 | |
| Something Wicked This Way Comes | Ray Bradbury | 1962 | |
| Tuesdays with Morrie | Mitch Albom | 1997 | |
| South | Ernest Shackleton | 1919 | |
| All the Light We Cannot See | Anthony Doerr | 2014 | |
| Ready Player One | Ernest Cline | 2011 | |
| Man's Search for Meaning | Viktor Frankl | 1946 | |
| Barbarian Days | William Finnegan | 2015 | |
| Seveneves | Neal Stephenson | 2015 | |
| A Tale of Two Cities | Charles Dickens | 1859 | |
| Shoe Dog | Phil Knight | 2016 | |
| The Fountainhead | Ayn Rand | 1943 | |
| Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman! | Richard Feynman | 1984 | |
| Ugly Little Boy | Isaac Asimov | 1991 | |
| On China | Henry Kissinger | 2011 | |
| Delta V | Daniel Suarez | 2019 | |
| Red Notice | Bill Browder | 2015 | |
| The Agony and the Ecstasy | Irving Stone | 1958 | |
| Doctor Zhivago | Boris Pasternak | 1957 | |
| Blue Skin of the Sea | Graham Salisbury | 1992 | |
| Great Expectations | Charles Dickens | 1861 | |
| David Copperfield | Charles Dickens | 1850 | |
| A Christmas Carol | Charles Dickens | 1843 | |
| The Sea-Wolf | Jack London | 1904 | |
| Atlas Shrugged | Ayn Rand | 1957 | |
| The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin | Benjamin Franklin | 1791 | |
| Candide | Voltaire | 1759 | |
| Democracy in America | Alexis de Tocqueville | 1835 | |
| Skunk Works: A Personal Memoir of My Years at Lockheed | Ben Rich | 1994 | |
| Dune | Frank Herbert | 1965 | |
| The Stories of Ray Bradbury | Ray Bradbury | 1980 | |
| The Splendid and the Vile | Erik Larson | 2020 | |
| A Farewell to Arms | Ernest Hemingway | 1929 | |
| The Sun Also Rises | Ernest Hemingway | 1926 | |
| High Output Management | Andrew Grove | 1983 | |
| The Guns of August | Barbara W. Tuchman | 1962 | |
| The Far Side of Evil | Sylvia Engdahl | 1971 | |
| Stronger, Faster, and More Beautiful | Arwen Elys Dayton | 2018 | |
| Cryptonomicon | Neal Stephenson | 1999 |