Marcus's Reading List
This page is a history of books I've read and maybe some I'd recommend. Too often I consume books and forget both that I read them and what I learned.
Guide
🏃♂️ for the book I am currently reading
🥱 for books I didn't finish
🔊 for audiobooks
2024
🏃♂️ The Castle on Sunset by Shawn Levy
🏃♂️ Outside the Box by Marc Levinson
Into the Raging Sea by Rachel Slade
Megayacht True Stories of Adventure, Drama, and Tragedy at Sea by Doug Hoogs
Running Against the Tide by Captain Lee
Superyacht Captain by Brendan O’Shannassy
Deep Work by Cal Newport
2023
Fast Fiction, VOL 2 Man vs. Machine by Scotty Cornfield
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon
🔊 The Snowball by Alice Schroeder
🔊 How to Turn Down a Billion Dollars by @GallagherBilly
🔊 How to Get Rich by Felix Dennis
Gang Leader for a Day by Sudhir Venkatesh
🔊 Trillion Dollar Coach by Eric Schmidt, Jonathan Rosenberg, Alan Eagle
🥱 Leaving the Atocha Station by Ben Lerner
🔊 Casino Royal by Ian Fleming
Status and Culture by @wdavidmarx
🔊 Liar's Poker by Michael Lewis
Endurance by Alfred Lansing
2022
Everything I Need I Get from You by Kaitlyn Tiffany
Action Park by Andy Mulvihill
🔊 How to Decide by @AnnieDuke
🔊 Who: The A Method for Hiring by Geoff Smart
🔊 The Manager's Path by @skamille
🔊 Setting the Table by @dhmeyer
🔊Titan by Ron Chernow
🔊 Set for Life by @STrenchBP
🥱 🔊 Musashi by Eiji Yoshikawa
🔊 The Craft by John Dickie
Ghost in the Wires by @kevinmitnick
🔊 Marine Sniper by Charles Henderson
🔊 Pimp by Iceberg Slim
2021
🥱 The Making of a Manager by @joulee
The Passionate Programmer by @chadfowler
Working Backwards by @cbryar & @BillCarr89
🥱 The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand
Kitchen Confidential by Anthony Bourdain
The Spy and the Traitor by @BenMacintyre1
Skunk Works by Ben R. Rich
Creativity, Inc. by @edcatmull
Nudge by @R_Thaler & @CassSunstein
Working Backwards by @cbryar & @BillCarr89
2020
Lives of the Stoics by @RyanHoliday
Exploding the Phone by Phil Lapsley
Never Split the Difference by @VossNegotiation
I Hope They Serve Beer In Hell by @TuckerMax
The Mole People by Jennifer Toth
Factory Girls by Leslie T. Chang
American Kingpin by @NickBilton
The Future We Choose by @CFigueres & @TomCarnac
The Machine That Changed the World by James P. Womack
Purple Cow by @ThisIsSethsBlog
The Pragmatic Programmer - 20th Anniversary Edition by @pragdave & @PragmaticAndy
The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt
Shoe Dog by Phil Knight
The Dichotomy of Leadership by @JockoWillink
Talking to Strangers by @Gladwell
City of Thieves: A Novel by David Benioff
Annelies Hartmann Hampel Memoirs by Annelies Hartmann Hampel
The Path Between the Seas: The Creation of the Panama Canal, 1870-1914 by David McCullough
Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future by @PeterThiel
The Operator: David Geffen Builds, Buys, and Sells the New Hollywood by Thomas R. King
2019
It Doesn't Have to Be Crazy at Work by @JasonFried
Total Recall: My Unbelievably True Life Story by @Schwarzenegger
The Richest Man in Babylon by George S. Clason
The Manual: A Philosopher's Guide to Life by Epictetus
Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams by @SleepDiplomat
2018
Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products by @Nireyal
Algorithms to Live By by Brian Christian
This Is How You Lose Her by Junot Díaz
Surely You're Joking Mr. Feyman by Richard P. Feynman
Mate: Become the Man Women Want by @TuckerMax
Letters from a Self-Made Merchant to his Son by
Ishmael by Daniel Quinn
2017
Ego Is the Enemy by @RyanHoliday
Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman
2016
The Power Of Habit by @cduhigg
2015
The Zen of Steve Jobs by Caleb Melby
2014
Life of Pi by Yann Martel
The Kite Runner by @KhaledHosseini
As A Man Thinketh by James Allen
The Obstacle Is the Way: The Timeless Art of Turning Trials into Triumph by @RyanHoliday
Angels & Demons by Dan Brown
Meditations by Marcus Aurelius
Lone Survivor by @MarcusLuttrell
A Dog in a Hat by Joe Parkin
Losing My Virginity by @RichardBranson
2013
The 4-Hour Workweek by @tferriss
Ender's Game by @OrsonScottCard
The Box: How the Shipping Container Made the World Smaller and the World Economy Bigger by Marc Levinson
1999
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