ANTILIBRARY

"The library should contain as much of what you do not know as your financial means … allow you to put there. You will accumulate more knowledge and more books as you grow older, and the growing number of unread books on the shelves will look at you menacingly. Indeed, the more you know, the larger the rows of unread books. Let us call this collection of unread books an antilibrary".

Nassim Taleb, The Black Swan

100 Baggers: Stocks that Return 100-to-1 and How to Find Them by Chris Mayer, 2015

1984 by George Orwell, 1949

21 Lessons for the 21st Century by Yuval Noah Harari, 2018

50 economic ideas you really need to know by Edmund Conway, 2009

5AM Club: Own Your Morning. Elevate Your Life by Robin Sharma, 2018

7 Powers: The Foundations of Business Strategy by Hamilton Helmer, 2016

A Delicate Truth by John Le Carre, 2013

A Man at Arms: A Novel by Steven Pressfield, 2021

A Spy Among Friends by Ben Macintyre, 2014

AI 2041 by Kai-Fu Lee and Chen Qiufan, 2021

Alexander: The Virtues of War by Steven Pressfield, 2004

Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder by Nassim Nicholas Taleb, 2012

Awaken the Giant Within: How to Take Immediate Control of Your Mental, Emotional, Physical and Financial by Tony Robbins, 1991

Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup by John Carreyrou, 2018

Berkshire Hathaway Letters to Shareholders by Warren Buffett, Annual

Biohacking & Begging by Stephen Oram, 2019

Bird Box by Josh Malerman, 2014

Blink by Malcolm Gladwell, 2005

Blitzscaling: The Lightning-Fast Path to Building Massively Valuable Companies by Reid Hoffman and Chris Yeh, 2018

Bone of the Hills by Conn Iggulden, 2008

Bounce: The Myth of Talent and the Power of Practice by Matthew Syed, 2010

Brave New World by Aldous Huxley, 1932

Breaking Rockerfeller by Peter B. Doran, 2016

Charlie Munger: The Complete Investor by Tren Griffin, 2015

Children of Time by Adrian Tchaikovsky, 2015

Chip War by Chris Miller, 2022

Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell, 2004

Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software by Charles Petzold, 1999

Common Stocks and Uncommon Profits and Other Writings by Philip A. Fisher, 1958

Complexity: The Emerging Science at the Edge of Order and Chaos, Mitchell M Waldrop, 1992

Cosmopolis by Don Delilo, 2003

Critical Mass by Daniel Suarez, 2021

Dark Eden by Chris Beckett, 2012

Dark Matter by Blake Crouch, 2016

Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World by Cal Newport, 2016

Delta-V by Daniel Suarez, 2019

Dictator by Robert Harris, 2015

Digital Gold: Bitcoin and the Inside Story of the Misfits and Millionaires Trying to Reinvent Money by Nathaniel Popper, 2015

Discipline Equals Freedom: Field Manual by Jocko Willink, 2017

Discipline is Destiny by Ryan Holiday, 2022

Double Cross by Ben Macintyre, 2007

Dune by Frank Herbert, 1965

E-commerce Get It Right! by Ian Daniel, 2011

Eating Robots by Stephen Oram, 2017

Ego Is the Enemy by Ryan Holiday, 2016

Einstein by Walter Isaacson, 2007

Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future by Ashlee Vance, 2015

Emperor by Conn Iggulden, 2002

Evolution by Ted Chiang, 2019

Exponential: Order and Chaos in an Age of Accelerating Technology by Azeem Azhar, 2022

Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World – and Why Things Are Better Than You Think by Hans Rosling, Ola Rosling, Anna Rosling Rönnlund, 2018.

Flash Boys by Michael Lewis, 2014.

Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, 1990

Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes, 1959

Fooled by Randomness by Nassim Nicholas Taleb, 2001

Foundation Series, 1,2,3 by Isaac Asimov, 1951-1953

From Impossible to Inevitable by Aaron Ross, Jason Lemkin, 2016

Gates of Athens by Conn Iggulden, 2020

Gates of Fire by Steven Pressfield, 1998

Getting to Yes: Negotiating Agreement Without Giving In by Roger Fisher and William Ury, 1981

Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap...and Others Don't by Jim Collins, 2001

Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance by Angela Duckworth, 2016

Growth Map: Economic Opportunity in the BRICs and Beyond by Jim O'Neill, 2011

Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies by Jared Diamond, 1997

Headhunters by Jo Nesbo, 2008

Helgoland by Carlo Rovelli, 2021

Holy Machine by Chris Beckett, 2004

Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow by Yuval Noah Harari, 2015

How Google Works by Eric Schmidt and Jonathan Rosenberg, 2014

How the World Really Works by Vaclav Smil, 2020

How to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie, 1936

Imperium by Robert Harris, 2006

In the Plex: How Google Thinks, Works, and Shapes Our Lives by Steven Levy, 2011

Influence Empire: The Story of Tecent and China's Tech Ambition by Lulu Chen, 2022

Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion by Robert B. Cialdini, 1984

Investing for Growth: How to Make Money by Only Buying the Best Companies in the World by Terry Smith, 2012

Investment Banking: Valuation, Leveraged Buyouts and Mergers & Acquisitions by Joshua Rosenbaum and Joshua Pearl, 2009

Kane and Abel by Jeffrey Archer, 1979

Kettlebell: Simple & Sinister by Pavel Tsatsouline, 2013

Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro, 2021

Lean Startup: How Today's Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses by Eric Ries, 2011

Legacy by James Kerr, 2013

Life 3.0: Being Human in the Age of Artificial Intelligence by Max Tegmark, 2017

Limitless: Upgrade Your Brain, Learn Anything Faster, and Unlock Your Exceptional Life by Jim Kwik, 2020

Little Book of Common Sense Investing: The Only Way to Guarantee Your Fair Share of Stock Market Returns by John C. Bogle, 2007

Lord of the Bow by Conn Iggulden, 2008

Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor E. Frankl, 1946

Margin of Safety by Seth Klarman, 1991

Mastering the Market Cycle: Getting the Odds on Your Side by Howard Marks, 2018

Measure What Matters: How Google, Bono, and the Gates Foundation Rock the World with OKRs by John Doerr, 2018

Meditations by Marcus Aurelius, 180 AD

Mindsight: The New Science of Personal Transformation by Daniel J. Siegel, 2010

Modern Monopolies by Nicholas L. Johnson, Alex Moazed, 2016

Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game by Michael Lewis, 2003

Never Split the Difference: Negotiating As If Your Life Depended On It by Chris Voss with Tahl Raz, 2016

No Second Chance by Harlan Coben, 2003

One Click: Jeff Bezos and the Rise of Amazon by Richard L. Brandt, 2011

One Up On Wall Street: How To Use What You Already Know To Make Money In The Market by Peter Lynch, 1989

Order of Time by Carlo Rovelli, 2017

Outliers: The Story of Success by Malcolm Gladwell, 2008.

Papillon by Henri Charrière, 1969

Peak Performance: Elevate Your Game, Avoid Burnout, and Thrive with the New Science of Success, 2017

Poor Charlie's Almanack: The Wit and Wisdom of Charles T. Munger by Charles T. Munger, Peter D. Kaufman, 2005

Power to the People!: Russian Strength Training Secrets for Every American by Pavel Tsatsouline, 1999

Pre-Suasion by Robert B. Cialdini, 2016

Predatory Thinking by Dave Trott, 2013

Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions by Dan Ariely, 2008

Principles: Life and Work by Ray Dalio, 2017

Psychology of Winning by Denis Waitley, 1984

Purple Cow: Transform Your Business by Being Remarkable by Seth Godin, 2003

Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking by Susan Cain, 2012

Recursion by Blake Crouch, 2019

ReWork: Change the Way You Work Forever by Jason Fried and David Heinemeier Hansson, 2010

Richard Branson: The Man Behind the Mask by Tom Bower, 2014

Richer, Wiser, Happier: How the World's Greatest Investors Win in Markets and Life by William Green, 2021

Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari, 2011

SAS Rogue Heroes by Ben Macintyre, 2016

Scale: The Universal Laws of Life and Death in Organisms, Cities and Companies by Geoffrey West, 2017

Shoe Dog: A Memoir by the Creator of Nike by Phil Knight, 2016

Siddhartha by Herman Hesse, 1922

Six Easy Pieces: Essentials of Physics Explained by Its Most Brilliant Teacher, Helix Book by Richard P. Feynman, 1994

So Good They Can't Ignore You: Why Skills Trump Passion in the Quest for Work You Love by Cal Newport, 2012

Soft Skills: The Software Developer's Life Manual by John Sonmez, 2014

Song of Myself by Walt Whitman, 1855

Start with Why: How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone to Take Action by Simon Sinek, 2009

Stillness Is the Key by Ryan Holiday, 2019

Stories of Your Life and Others by Ted Chiang, 2002

Super Joints by Pavel Tsatsouline, 2001

Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies by Nick Bostrom, 2014

Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!: Adventures of a Curious Character by Richard P. Feynman, Ralph Leighton, 1985

Tales from the Loop by Simon Stalenhag, 2014

Technological Revolutions and Financial Capital: The Dynamics of Bubbles and Golden Ages by Carlota Perez, 2002

The 4-Hour Workweek: Escape 9-5, Live Anywhere, and Join the New Rich by Timothy Ferriss, 2007

The Alchemist: A Fable About Following Your Dream by Paulo Coelho, 1988

The Almanack of Naval Ravikant by Eric Jorgenson, 2020

The Art of Execution: How the world's best investors get it wrong and still make millions by Lee Freeman-Shor, 2015

The Art of Fielding by Chad Harbach, 2011

The Art of Strategy: A Game Theorist's Guide to Success in Business and Life by Avinash K. Dixit, Barry J. Nalebuff, 2008

The Art of Thinking Clearly by Rolf Dobelli, 2011

The Art of War by Sun Tzu

The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined by Steven Pinker, 2011

The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable by Nassim Nicholas Taleb, 2007

The Bone Clocks by David Mitchell, 2014

The Borgias: The Hidden History by G.J. Meyer, 2013

The Charisma Myth: How Anyone Can Master the Art and Science of Personal Magnetism by Olivia Fox Cabane, 2012

The City of Mirrors by Justin Cronin, 2016

The Code Breaker: Jennifer Doudna, Gene Editing, and the Future of the Human Race by Walter Isaacson, 2021

The Confident Mind: A Battle-Tested Guide to Unshakable Performance by Nathaniel Zinsser, 2021

The Courage to Be Disliked by Ichiro Kishiimi and Fumitake Koga, 2013

The Design of Everyday Things by Don Norman, 1988

The Dhando Investor: The Low-Risk Value Method to High Returns by Mohnish Pabrai, 2007

The Dip: A Little Book That Teaches You When to Quit, and When to Stick by Seth Godin, 2007

The E-Myth Revisited: Why Most Small Businesses Don't Work and What to Do About It by Michael E. Gerber, 1995

The Education of a Value Investor by Guy Spier, 2014

The Effective Executive: The Definitive Guide to Getting the Right Things Done by Peter F. Drucker, 1967

The Ego is the Enemy by Ryan Holiday, 2016

The Electric State by Simon Stalenhag, 2018

The Elements of Style by William Strunk Jr., E. B. White, 1959

The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon by Brad Stone, 2013

The Falcon of Sparta by Conn Iggulden, 2018

The Five Dysfunctions of a Team: A Leadership Fable by Patrick Lencioni, 2002

The Flashman Papers by George MacDonald Fraser, 1969-

The Four: The Hidden DNA of Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Google by Scott Galloway, 2017

The Great Mental Models V.1 by Rhiannonn Beaubien, Shane Parish, 2019

The Great Mental Models V.2 by Farnam Street, Shane Parish, and Rhiannonn Beaubien, 2020

The Great Mental Models V.3 by Rhiannonn Beaubien, Rosie Leizrowice, 2021

The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers by Ben Horowitz, 2014

The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood by James Gleick, 2011

The Innovator's Dilemma: When New Technologies Cause Great Firms to Fail by Clayton M. Christensen, 1997

The Innovators: How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses, and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution by Walter Isaacson, 2014

The Internet of Money by Andreas M. Antonopoulos, 2016

The Lean Startup: How Today's Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses by Eric Ries, 2011

The Life of Buddha and Its Lessons by H.S. Olcott, 1912

The Longer Long Tail by Chris Anderson, 2008

The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien, 1954

The Magic of Thinking Big by David J. Schwartz, 1959

The Man Who Solved the Market: How Jim Simons Launched the Quant Revolution by Gregory Zuckerman, 2019

The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov, 1967

The Master Switch: The Rise and Fall of Information Empires by Tim Wu, 2010

The Mental Toughness Handbook by Damon Zahariades, 2020

The Messy Middle: Finding Your Way Through the Hardest and Most Crucial Part of Any Bold Venture by Scott Belsky, 2018

The Most Important Thing: Uncommon Sense for the Thoughtful Investor by Howard Marks, 2011

The Napoleon of Crime by Ben Macintyre, 1997

The Nature of Technology: What It Is and How It Evolves by W. Brian Arthur, 2009

The Obstacle is the Way by Ryan Holiday, 2014

The Origin and Evolution of New Businesses, Amar Bhid, 2000

The Outsiders: Eight Unconventional CEOs and Their Radically Rational Blueprint for Success by William N. Thorndike, 2012

The Passage by Justin Cronin, 2010

The Personal MBA: Master the Art of Business by Josh Kaufman, 2010

The Pirate Inside by Adam Morgan, 2004

The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment by Eckhart Tolle, 1997

The Pragmatic Programmer: Your Journey to Mastery by Andrew Hunt and David Thomas, 1999

The Prince by Niccolò Machiavelli, 1532

The Quantum Universe: Everything that can happen does happen by Brian Cox, Jeff Forshaw, 2011

The Referral Engine: Teaching Your Business to Market Itself by John Jantsch, 2010

The Richest Man in Babylon by George S. Clason, 1926

The Ride of a Lifetime: Lessons Learned from 15 Years as CEO of the Walt Disney Company by Robert Iger, 2019

The Road to Character by David Brooks, 2015

The Score Takes Care of Itself: My Philosophy of Leadership by Bill Walsh, 2009

The Second Mountain: The Quest for a Moral Life by David Brooks, 2019

The Secret History by Donna Tartt, 1992

The Sisters Brothers by Patrick deWitt, 2011

The Snowball: Warren Buffett and the Business of Life by Alice Schroeder, 2008

The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller, 2011

The Spartans by Paul Cartledge, 2002

The Spy and the Traitor by Ben Macintyre, 2018

The Stranger by Albert Camus, 1942

The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck: A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life by Mark Manson, 2016

The Survivor by Gregg Hurwitz, 2012

The Third Man by Graham Greene, 1950

The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference by Malcolm Gladwell, 2000

The Trial by Franz Kafka, 1925

The Turing Test by Chris Beckett, 2008

The Twelve by Justin Cronin, 2012

The Upside of Irrationality: The Unexpected Benefits of Defying Logic at Work and at Home by Dan Ariely, 2010

The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks and Win Your Inner Creative Battles by Steven Pressfield, 2002

The War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells, 1898

The Warrior Ethos by Steven Pressfield, 2011

The Way of the Superior Man: A Spiritual Guide to Mastering the Challenges of Women, Work, and Sexual Desire by David Deida, 1997

The Wisdom of Crowds by James Surowiecki, 2004

The Woman in the Window by A. J. Finn, 2018

The World According to Xi, 2018

The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century by Thomas L. Friedman, 2005

Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill, 1937

Thinking in Bets: Making Smarter Decisions When You Don't Have All the Facts by Annie Duke, 2018

Thinking in Systems: A Primer by Donella H. Meadows, 2008

Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman, 2011

This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate by Naomi Klein, 2014

This is Going to Hurt: Secret Diaries of a Medical Resident by Adam Kay, 2017

Three Men in a Boat by Jerome K. Jerome, 1889

Three-Body Problem Series by Cixin Lu, 2006-2010

Titan: The Life of John D. Rockefeller, Sr. by Ron Chernow, 1998

To be Taught If Fortunate by Becky Chambers, 2019

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, 1960

To Sell Is Human: The Surprising Truth About Moving Others by Daniel H. Pink, 2012

Tools of Titans: The Tactics, Routines, and Habits of Billionaires, Icons, and World-Class Performers by Timothy Ferriss, 2016

Traction: Get a Grip on Your Business by Gino Wickman, 2007

Traction: How Any Startup Can Achieve Explosive Customer Growth by Gabriel Weinberg, Justin Mares, 2015

Tribe of Mentors: Short Life Advice from the Best in the World by Timothy Ferriss, 2017

Tribes: We Need You to Lead Us by Seth Godin, 2008

Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption by Laura Hillenbrand, 2010

Unlimited Power by Tony Robbins, 1987

Unshakeable: Your Financial Freedom Playbook by Tony Robbins, 2017

Utopia for Realists: How We Can Build the Ideal World by Rutger Bregman, 2017

Venture Deals: Be Smarter Than Your Lawyer and Venture Capitalist by Brad Feld, Jason Mendelson, 2011

Waiting for Sunrise by William Boyd, 2012

Walden by Henry David Thoreau, 1854

War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy, 1869

Warren Buffett Accounting Book: Reading Financial Statements for Value Investing by Stig Brodersen and Preston George Pysh, 2014

Warren Buffett and the Interpretation of Financial Statements: The Search for the Company with a Durable Competitive Advantage by Mary Buffett and David Clark, 2008

Warren Buffett’s Ground Rules: Words of Wisdom from the Partnership Letters of the World's Greatest Investor by Jeremy C. Miller, 2016

Way of the Peaceful Warrior by Dan Millman, 1980

Wayward Pines Trilogy by Blake Crouch, 2012-2014

Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy by Cathy O'Neil, 2016

What If? Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions by Randall Munroe, 2014

What They Teach You at Harvard Business School by Philip Delves Broughton, 2008

What You Do Is Who You Are: How to Create Your Business Culture by Ben Horowitz, 2019

When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi, 2016

When: The Scientific Secrets of Perfect Timing by Daniel H. Pink, 2018

Who: The A Method for Hiring by Geoff Smart, Randy Street, 2008

Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty by Daron Acemoglu, James A. Robinson, 2012

Why People Fail: The 16 Obstacles to Success and How You Can Overcome Them by Siimon Reynolds, 2010

Why We Buy: The Science of Shopping by Paco Underhill, 1999

Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams by Matthew Walker, 2017

Wolf of the Plains by Conn Iggulden, 2007

Work Rules!: Insights from Inside Google That Will Transform How You Live and Lead by Laszlo Bock, 2015

World War Z by Max Brooks, 2006

Worlds Hidden in Plain Sight: The Evolving Idea of Complexity at the Santa Fe Institute, 1984–2019, Compass by Various

Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry into Values by Robert M. Pirsig, 1974

Zen: The Art of Simple Living by Shunmyo Masuno, 2019

Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future by Peter Thiel, Blake Masters, 2014

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