Bookshelf
Inspired by Patrick Collison , Dan Wang , Bret Victor amongst others .
- The Master and Margherita — Mikhail Bulgakov
- The Remains of the Day — Kazuo Ishiguro
- The Return — Hisham Matar
- Siddhartha — Hermann Hesse
- In Praise of Shadows — Jun’ichirō Tanizaki
- Kaputt — Curzio Malaparte
- Hard Rain Falling — Don Carpenter
- The Baron in the Trees — Italo Calvino
- Shipwrecks — Akira Yoshimura
- Reductionism in Art and Brain Science — Eric R. Kandel
- Chess Story — Stefan Zweig
- A Velocity of Being: Letters to A Young Reader — Maria Popova and Claudia Bedrick
- From Eros to Gaia — Freeman Dyson
- Let My People Go Surfing — Yvon Chouinard
- On Food and Cooking — Harold McGee
- Margin of Safety — Seth Klarman
- Hackers & Painters — Paul Graham
- What does memory taste like? — Bo Bech
- The Siege of Krishnapur — J. G. Farrell
- La vie devant soi (The Life Before Us) — Romain Gary
- A Month in Siena — Hisham Matar
- Travels — Michael Crichton
- Syntax & Sage — Sep Kamvar
- Parkinson’s Law or The Pursuit of Progress — C. Northcote Parkinson
- Becoming Steve Jobs — Brent Schlender & Rick Tetzeli
- L’insoutenable légèreté de l’être (The Unbearable Lightness of Being) — Milan Kundera
- The Skin — Curzio Malaparte
- Slate Star Codex Essays: Volume II — Scott Alexander
- Temptations — János Székely
- A Biography of the Pixel — Alvy Ray Smith
- The Brothers Karamazov — Fyodor Dostoevsky
- The Power Law — Sebastian Mallaby
- To Pixar and Beyond — Lawrence Levy
- La Promesse de L’Aube (Promise at Dawn) — Romain Gary
- Limonov — Emmanuel Carrère
- The Betrothed — Alessandro Manzoni
- When we cease to understand the world — Benjamín Labatut
- Confessions of an Advertising Man — David Ogilvy
- Life Lived Wild: Adventures at the Edge of the Map — Rick Ridgeway
- Youth — Joseph Conrad