Reading List

2025

Want To Read

• Power and Prediction: The Disruptive Economics of Artificial Intelligence - Ajay Agrawal, Joshua Gans, Avi Goldfarb
• The Soul of A New Machine - Tracy Kidder
• New Cold Wars: China’s Rise, Russia’s Invasion, and America’s Struggle to Defend the West - David E. Sanger
• Foundation - Isaac Asimov

Completed

• On the Hippie Trail: Istanbul to Kathmandu and the Making of a Travel Writer - Rick Steves
• Einstein: His Life and Universe - Walter Isaacson
• The Code Breaker: Jennifer Doudna, Gene Editing, and the Future of the Human Race - Walter Isaacson

2024

• F-35: The Inside Story of the Lightning II - Tom Burbage, Betsy Clark, Adrian Pitman, David Poyer
• Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty - Patrick Radden Keefe
• Band of Brothers: E Company, 506th Regiment, 101st Airborne, from Normandy to Hitler’s Eagle’s Nest - Stephen E. Ambrose
• The Savage Storm: The Battle for Italy 1943 - James Holland
• Napoleon: A Concise Biography - David A. Bell
• Masters of the Air: America’s Bomber Boys Who Fought the Air War Against Nazi Germany - Donald L. Miller
• To Catch a Spy: The Art of Counterintelligence - James M. Olson
• Code Name Blue Wren: The True Story of America’s Most Dangerous Female Spy—and the Sister She Betrayed - Jim Popkin

2023

• The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine - Michael Lewis
• Going Infinite: The Rise and Fall of a New Tycoon - Michael Lewis
• Elon Musk - Walter Isaacson
• The Psychology of Money: Timeless lessons on wealth, greed, and happiness - Morgan Housel
• Target Tehran: How Israel Is Using Sabotage, Cyberwarfare, Assassination – and Secret Diplomacy – to Stop a Nuclear Iran and Create a New Middle East - Yonah Jeremy Bob, Ilan Evyatar
• Rise and Kill First: The Secret History of Israel’s Targeted Assassinations - Ronen Bergman (reread)
• Mossad: The Greatest Missions of the Israeli Secret Service - Michael Bar-Zohar, Nissim Mishal
• Spies: The Epic Intelligence War Between East and West - Calder Walton
• The Dirty Tricks Department: Stanley Lovell, the OSS, and the Masterminds of World War II Secret Warfare - John Lisle
• The Long Reckoning: A Story of War, Peace, and Redemption in Vietnam - George Black
• Life Undercover: Coming of Age in the CIA - Amaryllis Fox

2022

• The Power Law: Venture Capital and the Making of the New Future - Sebastian Mallaby
• Surprise, Kill, Vanish: The Secret History of CIA Paramilitary Armies, Operators, and Assassins - Annie Jacobsen
• Black Ops: The Life of a CIA Shadow Warrior - Ric Prado
• Spymaster: My Thirty-two Years in Intelligence and Espionage Against the West - Oleg Kalugin
• Russians Among Us: Sleeper Cells, Ghost Stories, and the Hunt for Putin’s Spies - Gordon Corera

2021

• I Alone Can Fix It - Carol Leonnig, Philip Rucker
• The Recruiter - Douglas London
• Countdown to Zero Day: Stuxnet and the Launch of the World’s First Digital Weapon - Kim Zetter
• Dune Messiah - Frank Herbert
• Dune - Frank Herbert
• The Legend of Luke - Brian Jacques
• Mossflower - Brian Jacques
• Martin the Warior - Brian Jacques
• I Alone Can Fix It: Donald J. Trump’s Catastrophic Final Year - Carol Leonnig, Philip Rucker
• Prelandra - C.S. Lewis
• Out of the Silent Planet - C.S. Lewis
• Lord Brocktree - Brian Jacques
• Amazon Unbound - Brad Stone
• The Last Battle - C.S. Lewis
• The Voyage of the Dawn Treader - C.S. Lewis
• The Silver Chair - C.S. Lewis
• The Horse and His Boy - C.S. Lewis
• Billion Dollar Loser: The Epic Rise and Spectacular Fall of Adam Neumann and WeWork - Reeves Wiedeman
• War Beneath the Sea: Submarine conflict during World War II - Peter Padfield
• Sandworm - Andy Greenberg
• Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban - J. K. Rowling
• A Promised Land - Barack Obama

2020

• The Phoenix Project - Gene Kim
• The Archer - Paulo Coelho
• Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets - J. K. Rowling
• Call of the Wild - Jack London
• The Deal of the Century - Steve Coll
• The Quiet Americans - Scott Anderson
• The Room Where It Happened - John Bolton

2019

Incomplete

• Kissinger - Walter Isaacson

Completed

• Hot Zone - Richard Preston
• Bad Blood - John Carreyrou
• The Everything Store - Brad Stone
• Private Empire - Steve Coll

2018

• Rise and Kill First - Ronen Bergman
• Ghost Wars - Steve Coll
• Leonardo and the Last Supper - Ross King
• A Higher Loyalty - James Comey
• Directorate S - Steve Coll
• Michaelangelo and the Pope’s Ceiling - Ross King
• Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience and Redemption - Laura Hillenbrand
• Fire And Fury - Michael Wolff
• The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics - Daniel James Brown

2017

• Leonardo da Vinci - Walter Isaacson
• Brunelleschi’s Dome - Ross King
• What Happened - Hillary Rodham Clinton
• Capital Gaines - Chip Gaines
• Steve Jobs - Walter Isaacson