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Much like the stacks around my apartment, these are in random order. Still have ~100 more books to add...

Opening Awareness........................................................................................................................................................................................................Charlie Awbery
Behold a Pale Horse........................................................................................................................................................................................................Milton William Cooper
Protocols for Postcapitalist Expression........................................................................................................................................................................................................Dick Bryan et al.
Runnin' Down a Dream........................................................................................................................................................................................................Bill Gurley
Average is Over........................................................................................................................................................................................................Tyler Cowen
Steve Jobs........................................................................................................................................................................................................Walter Isaacson
First Principles & First Values........................................................................................................................................................................................................Marc Gafni & Zak Stein
Alchemy........................................................................................................................................................................................................Rory Sutherland
10% Less Democracy........................................................................................................................................................................................................Garett Jones
The Stranger........................................................................................................................................................................................................Albert Camus
Flash Boys........................................................................................................................................................................................................Michael Lewis
The Present Age........................................................................................................................................................................................................Soren Kierkegaard
Economics in One Lesson........................................................................................................................................................................................................Henry Hazlitt
The Almanack of Naval Ravikant........................................................................................................................................................................................................Eric Jorgenson
Zero to One........................................................................................................................................................................................................Peter Thiel & Blake Masters
Why Greatness Cannot be Planned........................................................................................................................................................................................................Stanley & Joel Lehman
Lifespan........................................................................................................................................................................................................David Sinclair
The Great Stagnation........................................................................................................................................................................................................Tyler Cowen
Cypherpunks........................................................................................................................................................................................................Julian Assange et al.
How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia........................................................................................................................................................................................................Mohsin Hamid
The Elephant in the Brain........................................................................................................................................................................................................Robin Hanson & Kevin Simler
Not Fade Away........................................................................................................................................................................................................Rebecca Alexander
Skin in the Game........................................................................................................................................................................................................Nassim Taleb
The Lessons of History........................................................................................................................................................................................................Will & Ariel Durant
Why Does the World Exist?........................................................................................................................................................................................................Jim Holt
Stubborn Attachments........................................................................................................................................................................................................Tyler Cowen
Inadequate Equilibria........................................................................................................................................................................................................Eliezer Yudkowsky
The Selfish Gene........................................................................................................................................................................................................Richard Dawkins
Chaos Monkeys........................................................................................................................................................................................................Antonio Garcia Martinez
The Power of Now........................................................................................................................................................................................................Eckhart Tolle
The Little Prince........................................................................................................................................................................................................Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Anatomy of the State........................................................................................................................................................................................................Murray Rothbard
Get Out of Your Mind and Into Your Life........................................................................................................................................................................................................Steven C. Hayes
Getting Things Done........................................................................................................................................................................................................David Allen
Reasons and Persons........................................................................................................................................................................................................Derek Parfit
Siddhartha........................................................................................................................................................................................................Hermann Hesse
Sanity and Sainthood........................................................................................................................................................................................................Tucker Peck
The Great CEO Within........................................................................................................................................................................................................Matt Mochary
Anthem........................................................................................................................................................................................................Ayn Rand
Les Anaglyphes Géométriques........................................................................................................................................................................................................H. Vuibert
The Scholar's Arithmetic........................................................................................................................................................................................................Daniel Adams
Atlas Shrugged........................................................................................................................................................................................................Ayn Rand
The Fountainhead........................................................................................................................................................................................................Ayn Rand
The History of Money........................................................................................................................................................................................................Jack Weatherford
Fanged Noumena........................................................................................................................................................................................................Nick Land
The Cold Start Problem........................................................................................................................................................................................................Andrew Chen
Mere Christianity........................................................................................................................................................................................................C.S. Lewis
The Awakening Body........................................................................................................................................................................................................Reginald A. Ray
Born Lucky........................................................................................................................................................................................................Leland Vittert
The Merchant of Prato........................................................................................................................................................................................................Iris Origo
The Alchemist........................................................................................................................................................................................................Paulo Coelho
The Price of Tomorrow........................................................................................................................................................................................................Jeff Booth
Salt Fat Acid Heat........................................................................................................................................................................................................Samin Nosrat
The Road to Serfdom........................................................................................................................................................................................................Friedrich Hayek
A Modest Proposal........................................................................................................................................................................................................Jonathan Swift
The Quotable Mises........................................................................................................................................................................................................Ludwig von Mises
Dark Pools........................................................................................................................................................................................................Scott Patterson
The Rock Warrior's Way........................................................................................................................................................................................................Arno Ilgner
The Dream Machine........................................................................................................................................................................................................M. Mitchell Waldrop
Hacker's Delight........................................................................................................................................................................................................Henry S. Warren Jr.
Going Infinite........................................................................................................................................................................................................Michael Lewis
The Market Structure Crisis........................................................................................................................................................................................................Haim Bodek & Stanislav Dolgopolov
The Final Pagan Generation........................................................................................................................................................................................................Edward J. Watts
Jaws........................................................................................................................................................................................................Sandra Kahn & Paul R. Ehrlich
Sexual Personae........................................................................................................................................................................................................Camille Paglia
Preserving Minds, Saving Lives........................................................................................................................................................................................................Aschwin de Wolf
The Mind in the Machine........................................................................................................................................................................................................Matthew Dickerson
The Innovator's Dilemma........................................................................................................................................................................................................Clayton Christensen
Facing Reality........................................................................................................................................................................................................Charles Murray
Linear Algebra Done Right........................................................................................................................................................................................................Sheldon Axler
The God Delusion........................................................................................................................................................................................................Richard Dawkins
The Symbolic Species........................................................................................................................................................................................................Terrence Deacon
The Lean Startup........................................................................................................................................................................................................Eric Ries
How to Win Friends and Influence People........................................................................................................................................................................................................Dale Carnegie
The Eclogues and the Georgics........................................................................................................................................................................................................Virgil
Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!........................................................................................................................................................................................................Richard Feynman
The Singularity Is Near........................................................................................................................................................................................................Ray Kurzweil
Real-World Cryptography........................................................................................................................................................................................................David Wong
GreenPilled........................................................................................................................................................................................................Kevin Owocki