Books

These are the books I have read, sorted by category. I recommend all of them.

Ancient Philosophy

• Meditations — Marcus Aurelius
• Nicomachean Ethics — Aristotle
• Republic — Plato
• Timaeus and Critias — Plato
• On Living and Dying Well — Cicero

Modern Philosophy

• Phenomenology of Spirit — G. W. F. Hegel
• Essays and Aphorisms — Arthur Schopenhauer
• Thus Spoke Zarathustra — Friedrich Nietzsche
• The Gay Science — Friedrich Nietzsche
• Fear and Trembling — Søren Kierkegaard
• The Sickness Unto Death — Søren Kierkegaard
• The Lily of the Field and the Bird of the Air — Søren Kierkegaard
• The Rebel — Albert Camus
• The History of Sexuality — Michel Foucault
• Introduction to Objectivist Epistemology — Ayn Rand

Eastern Thought

• The Bhagavad Gita
• The Book of Five Rings — Miyamoto Musashi

Epic Poetry

• The Iliad — Homer
• The Odyssey — Homer
• The Aeneid — Virgil
• Inferno — Dante Alighieri

Poetry

• Stung with Love: Poems and Fragments — Sappho
• Selected Poetry — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
• The Complete Poems — Walt Whitman

Fiction and Drama

• The Stranger — Albert Camus
• Elective Affinities — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
• The Major Plays — Anton Chekhov
• Fahrenheit 451 — Ray Bradbury
• Catch-22 — Joseph Heller

Travel and History

• The Travels — Marco Polo

Technical

• The C Programming Language — Brian Kernighan and Dennis Ritchie
• Reinforcement Learning: An Introduction — Richard Sutton and Andrew Barto
• Calculus of Variations — Israel Gelfand and Sergei Fomin

Finance

• The Intelligent Investor — Benjamin Graham
• Options and Derivatives

Startups and Business

• The Hard Thing About Hard Things — Ben Horowitz
• Zero to One — Peter Thiel
• Venture Deals — Brad Feld and Jason Mendelson
• The Startup Owner's Manual — Steve Blank and Bob Dorf