books

these are the books that I consider essentials. must-reads.

engineering & science

• The Art of Doing Science and Engineering — Richard Hamming
• Thinking in Systems — Donella H. Meadows
• Algorithms Unlocked — Thomas H. Cormen
• Concise Notes on Data Structures and Algorithms (Ruby Edition) — Christopher Fox
• Game Theory: A Very Short Introduction — Ken Binmore

novels

• El coronel no tiene quien le escriba — Gabriel García Márquez
• Pedro Páramo — Juan Rulfo
• Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas — Hunter S. Thompson
• La invención y la trama — Bioy Casares
• Hamlet — William Shakespeare
• Dorayaki — Durian Sukegawa
• Anna Karenina — Leo Tolstoy
• Ham on Rye — Charles Bukowski
• Cien años de soledad — Gabriel García Márquez
• The Great Gatsby — F. Scott Fitzgerald
• The Stranger — Albert Camus
• Crime and Punishment — Fyodor Dostoevsky
• Stoner — John Williams
• Notes from Underground — Fyodor Dostoevsky
• East of Eden — John Steinbeck

finance & markets

• Trade Like a Stock Market Wizard — Mark Minervini
• Soros on Soros — George Soros
• Principles for Dealing with the Changing World Order: Why Nations Succeed and Fail — Ray Dalio

short stories & poetry

• El Aleph — Jorge Luis Borges
• Ficciones — Jorge Luis Borges
• El oro de los tigres — Jorge Luis Borges
• Final del juego — Julio Cortázar
• Bestiario — Julio Cortázar
• How Much Land Does a Man Need? — Leo Tolstoy

philosophy & psychology

• Republic — Plato
• The Straussian Moment — Peter Thiel
• Violence and the Sacred — René Girard
• The Prince — Niccolò Machiavelli
• Enchiridion — Epictetus
• Retrain Your Brain: Cognitive Behavioral Therapy in 7 Weeks: A Workbook for Managing Depression and Anxiety — Seth J. Gillihan
• Beyond Good and Evil — Friedrich Nietzsche

business & startups

• Zero to One — Peter Thiel
• The Philosopher in the Valley — Michael Steinberger
• How to Do Great Work (essay) — Paul Graham
• The Innovator's Dilemma — Clayton M. Christensen

history, politics & memoir

• From Beirut to Jerusalem — Thomas L. Friedman
• Fear and Loathing: On the Campaign Trail '72 — Hunter S. Thompson
• Scar Tissue — Anthony Kiedis
• The Fourth State of Matter (essay) — Jo Ann Beard