Yoni’s Reading List 2020
“One glance at a book and you hear the voice of another person, perhaps someone dead for 1,000 years. To read is to voyage through time.” – Carl Sagan
Rework by Jason Fried
The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers by Ben Horowitz
Boyd: The Fighter Pilot Who Changed the Art of War by Robert Coram
Practical Augmented Reality: A Guide to the Technologies, Applications, and Human Factors for AR and VR by Steve Aukstakalnis
H Is for Hawk by Helen Macdonald
Infinite Powers: How Calculus Reveals the Secrets of the Universe by Steven Strogatz
Inheritance: A Memoir of Genealogy, Paternity, and Love by Dani Shapiro
Anathem by Neal Stephenson
Agency by William Gibson
Enemy of All Mankind: A True Story of Piracy, Power, and History’s First Global Manhunt
by Steven Johnson
The Dark Forest by Cixin Liu
The Moth Presents All These Wonders: True Stories About Facing the Unknown by Catherine Burns
Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup by John Carreyrou
Lincoln in the Bardo: A Novel George Saunders
The Examined Life: How We Lose and Find Ourselves by Stephen Grosz
Becoming by Michelle Obama
Star Wars: The Last Jedi: Cobalt Squadron by Elizabeth Wein
Journey to Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker Force Collector by Kevin Shinick
Tiny Habits: The Small Changes That Change Everything by BJ Fogg Ph.D
The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming by David Wallace-Wells
A Fire Upon The Deep by Vernor Vinge
The Elephant’s Journey by Jose Saramago
Life in Code: A Personal History of Technology by Ellen Ullman
Transcendence: How Humans Evolved through Fire, Language, Beauty, and Time by Gaia Vince
Mental Models: Aligning Design Strategy with Human Behavior by Indi Young
The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers Hardcover by Ben Horowitz
Food Rules: An Eater’s Manual by Michael Pollan
Create Or Hate: Successful People Make Things by Dan Norris
The Strategemata by Sextus Julius Frontinus
Tom Clancy Firing Point by Mike Maden
How to Be Free: An Ancient Guide to the Stoic Life by Epictetus
Tough Jews: Fathers, Sons, and Gangster Dreams by Rich Cohen
A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson
Star Wars: Thrawn Ascendancy by Timothy Zahn
Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
Shadow Fall (Star Wars): An Alphabet Squadron Novel by Alexander Freed
The Sovereign Individual: Mastering the Transition to the Information Age by James Dale Davidson and Lord William Rees-Mogg
Rivers of Power: How a Natural Force Raised Kingdoms, Destroyed Civilizations, and Shapes Our World by Laurence C. Smith
How to Be Invisible: Protect Your Home, Your Children, Your Assets, and Your Life by J. J. Luna
Legionary: The Roman Soldier’s Unofficial Guide by Philip Matyszak
Letters from a Self-Made Merchant to His Son by George Horace Lorimer
The Robots of Gotham by Todd McAnulty
A Calendar of Wisdom by Leo Tolstoy
Blind Man’s Bluff: The Untold Story Of American Submarine Espionage by Sherry Sontag and Christopher Drew
Off to Be the Wizard by Scott Meyer
Walking the Americas: 1,800 Miles, Eight Countries, and One Incredible Journey from Mexico to Colombia by Levison Wood
The Enemy at the Gate: Habsburgs, Ottomans, and the Battle for Europe by Andrew Wheatcroft
Walking the Nile by Levison Wood
Deep Learning with JavaScript: Neural networks in TensorFlow.js by Shanqing Cai, Stan Bileschi, Eric Nielsen
Rules of Thumb: A Life Manual by Tom Parker
One Bullet Away: The Making of a Marine Officer by Nathaniel C. Fick
Beneath a Scarlet Sky: A Novel by Mark Sullivan
A History of the World in 100 Objects by Neil MacGregor
Xenophon’s Cyrus the Great: The Arts of Leadership and War by Xenophon
The Infinite Retina: Spatial Computing, Augmented Reality, and how a collision of new technologies are bringing about the next tech revolution by Irena Cronin and Robert Scoble
True Names and the Opening of the Cyberspace Frontier by Vernor Vinge
Touching the Void by Joe Simpson
High Magick: A Guide to the Spiritual Practices That Saved My Life on Death Row by Damien Echols
Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
Scipio Africanus: Greater Than Napoleon by Sir Basil Henry Liddell Hart
The Collapse of Western Civilization: A View from the Future by Naomi Oreskes and Erik Conway
The Enchiridion by Epictetus
Some Fruits of Solitude by William Penn
The Moral Sayings Of Publius Syrus: A Roman Slave by Publius Syrus
Too Soon Old, Too Late Smart: Thirty True Things You Need to Know Now by Gordon Livingston
Post Office: A Novel by Charles Bukowski
Tom Clancy Shadow of the Dragon by Marc Cameron
The Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins
Getting Everything You Can Out of All You’ve Got: 21 Ways You Can Out-Think, Out-Perform, and Out-Earn the Competition by Jay Abraham
Answers to Questions You’ve Never Asked: Explaining the ‘What If’ in Science, Geography and the Absurd by Joseph Pisenti
From Dude to Dad: The Diaper Dude Guide to Pregnancy by Chris Pegula and Frank Meyer
The Windup Girl by Paolo Bacigalupi
Marketing New Realities: An Introduction to Virtual Reality & Augmented Reality Marketing, Branding, & Communications by Cathy Hackl and Samantha G. Wolfe
Remote Collaboration & Virtual Conferencing: The Future Of Work by Charlie Fink and Mark Billinghurst
Memory of the World: The treasures that record our history from 1700 BC to the present day by UNESCO
Mastery: The Keys to Success and Long-Term Fulfillment by George Leonard
Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software by Petzold Charles
MAUS by Art Spiegelman
Blacksad: The Collected Stories by Juan Diaz Canales and Juanjo Guarnido
Storytelling for Virtual Reality: Methods and Principles for Crafting Immersive Narratives by John Bucher
Watchmen by Alan Moore
Star Wars: The Rebel Files by Daniel Wallace
The Imagineering Workout by The Disney Imagineers
The Lean Product Playbook: How to Innovate with Minimum Viable Products and Rapid Customer Feedback by Dan Olsen
Ready Player Two: A Novel by Ernest Cline
Recomendo: 500 brief reviews of cool stuff by Kevin Kelly
Oxymoronica: Paradoxical Wit and Wisdom from History’s Greatest Wordsmiths by Dr. Mardy Grothe
The First Conspiracy: The Secret Plot to Kill George Washington by Brad Meltzer
The Best We Could Do: An Illustrated Memoir by Thi Bui
The Happiest Baby on the Block: The New Way to Calm Crying and Help Your Newborn Baby Sleep Longer by Harvey Karp
Napoleon: A Life by Paul Johnson
Logicomix: An epic search for truth by Apostolos Doxiadis and Christos Papadimitriou
