Bookshelf

2025:

• Golf’s Holy War: The Battle for the Soul of the Game in an Age of Science – Brett Cyrgalis
• 1929 – Andrew Ross Sorkin
• Too Big to Fail – Andrew Ross Sorkin
• More Than You Know – Michael Mauboussin
• The Match – Mark Frost
• Missing Links – Rick Reilly
• Apple in China – Patrick McGee
• Putting Out of Your Mind – Bob Rotella
• Golf is a Game of Confidence – Bob Rotella
• 1774: The Long Year of Revolution – Mary Beth Norton
• Paper Tiger – Tom Coyne
• Fortune’s Formula – William Poundstone
• The Pioneers – David McCollough
• The Scaling Era – Dwarkesh Patel
• The Age of Revolution (1789 – 1848) – Eric Hobsbawm
• On the Edge – Nate Silver

2024:

• 1776 – David McCollough
• Chip War – Chris Miller
• Boom: Bubbles and the End of Stagnation – Byrne Hobart
• Behave – Robert Sapolsky
• Spook Street – Mick Herron
• Real Tigers – Mick Herron
• Chaos Kings – Scott Patterson
• Dead Lions – Mick Herron
• Slow Horses – Mick Herron
• Dead Solid Perfect – Dan Jenkins
• Red Sky Mourning – Jack Carr
• Mornings on Horseback – David McCollough
• Golf is Not a Game of Perfect – Bob Rotella
• Market Wizards – Jack Schwager
• The Success Equation – Michael Mauboussin
• The Pleasure of Finding Things Out – Richard Feynman
• The Laws of Trading – Agustin Lebron
• Determined – Sapolsky
• The Bond King – Mary Childs
• The Secret Life of Groceries – Lorr
• Becoming Trader Joe – Joe Coulombe
• The Counting House – Gary Sernovitz
• The Fish That Ate the Whale – Rich Cohen
• The Fractal Geometry of Nature – Benoit Mandelbrot
• Tournament Golfer’s Playbook – Booker
• Golf Beneath the Surface – Prior
• Outlive – Peter Attia

2023:

• Same as Ever – Morgan Housel
• Elon Musk – Walter Isaacson
• Going Infinite – Michael Lewis
• American Prometheus – Kai Bird
• The Wager – David Grann
• Speed and Scale – John Doerr
• Only the Dead – Jack Carr
• Open – Andre Agasi
• The Elements of Scoring – Raymond Floyd
• The Money Game – ‘Adam Smith’
• The Four Foundations of Golf – Jon Sherman
• The Business of Venture Capital 3rd Edition – Mahendra Ramsinghani
• Venture Deals 4th edition – Brad Feld
• Invent & Wander – Walter Isaacson / Jeff Bezos
• The Creative Act – Rick Rubin
• Golf Architecture for Normal People – Geoff Shackleford
• A Moveable Feast – Ernest Hemmingway
• Phil – Alan Shipnuck
• The Beginning of Infinity – David Deutsch
• What’s Our Problem? – Tim Urban
• Station Eleven – Emily St. John Mandel
• Sea of Tranquility – Emily St. John Mandel

2022:

• The Order of Time – Carlo Rovelli
• The Mosquito Bowl: A Game of Life and Death in World War II – Buzz Bissinger
• eBoys – Randall Stross
• Blitzscaling – Reid Hoffman
• Super Founders – Ali Tamaseb
• Angel – Jason Calacanis
• Benjamin Franklin: An American Life – Walter Isaacson
• Snow Crash – Neal Stephenson
• The Startup Game – Bill Draper
• The Innovators: How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses, and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution – Walter Isaacson
• Leonardo da Vinci – Walter Isaacson
• Quench Your Own Thirst – Jim Koch
• In the Blood (Terminal List #5) – Jack Carr
• Steve Jobs – Walter Isaacson
• The Code Breaker: Jennifer Doudna, Gene Editing, and the Future of the Human Race – Walter Isaacson
• Medium Raw – Anthony Bourdain
• The Founders: The Story of Paypal and the Entrepreneurs Who Shaped Silicon Valley – Jimmy Soni
• The Power Law – Sebastian Mallaby
• Wanting: The Power of Mimetic Desire in Everyday Life – Luke Burgis
• Principles for Dealing With the Changing World Order – Ray Dalio

2021:

• Project Hail Mary – Andy Weir
• Trillions: How a Band of Wall Street Renegades Invented the Index Fund and Changed Finance Forever – Robin Wigglesworth
• A Course Called America – Tom Coyne
• Kitchen Confidential – Anthony Bourdain
• Thinking in Bets – Annie Duke
• The Spider Network – David Enrich
• The Book of Why – Judea Pearl
• The Bomber Mafia – Malcolm Gladwell
• Straight to Hell – John LeFevre
• Dark Matter – Blake Crouch
• The Devil’s Hand (Terminal List #4) – Jack Carr
• Noise: A Flaw in Human Judgement – Daniel Kahneman
• Savage Son (Terminal List #3) – Jack Carr
• True Believer (Terminal List # 2) – Jack Carr
• The Premonition – Michael Lewis
• The Terminal List (Terminal List #1) – Jack Carr
• The Friends of Eddie Coyle – George Higgins
• Big Money Thinks Small – Joel Tillinghast
• The Education of a Speculator – Victor Niederhoffer
• How I Built This – Guy Raz
• Against the Gods: The Remarkable Story of Risk – Peter Bernstein
• Ready Player One – Ernest Cline
• The (Mis)Behavior of Markets – Benoit Mandelbrot
• Skin in the Game (Incerto) – Nassim Nicholas Taleb
• Antifragile (Incerto) – Nassim Nicholas Taleb
• Post Office – Charles Bukowski
• The Black Swan (Incerto) – Nassim Nicholas Taleb
• Fooled by Randomness (Incerto) – Nassim Nicholas Taleb
• 1984 – George Orwell
• The Great American Drug Deal – Peter Kolchinsky
• Money – Jacob Goldstein
• Zero to One – Peter Thiel

2020:

• The Biggest Bluff – Maria Konnikova
• Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas – Hunter S. Thompson
• The Dynasty – Jeff Benedict
• Is This Anything? – Jerry Seinfeld
• Small Data – Martin Lindstrom
• Range – David Epstein
• Den of Thieves – James Stewart
• Greenlights – Matthew McConaughey
• The Bonfire of the Vanities – Tom Wolfe
• How Not to Be Wrong – Jordan Ellenberg
• American Desperado – Jon Roberts
• Les Miserables – Victor Hugo
• When – Daniel Pink
• The 1997 Masters: My Story – Tiger Woods
• Alibaba: The House That Jack Ma Built – Duncan Clark
• Disrupted – Dan Lyons
• VC: An American History – Tom Nicholas
• The Social Animal – David Brooks
• Hopping Over the Rabbit Hole – Anthony Scaramucci
• Billion Dollar Whale – Tom Wright

Pre-2020:

• The Richest Man in Babylon – George Clason
• The Hour Between Dog and Wolf – John Coates
• The Box – Marc Levinson
• A Charlie Brown Christmas: The Making of a Tradition – Charles Shultz
• Narrative Economics – Robert Shiler
• The Alchemist – Paulo Coelho
• Meditations – Marcus Aurelius
• Pioneering Portfolio Management – David Swensen
• The Man Who Solved the Market: How Jim Simons Launched the Quant Revolution – Gregory Zuckerman
• Talking to Strangers – Malcolm Gladwell
• Homo Deus – Yuval Noah Harari
• 21 Lessons for the 21st Century – Yuval Noah Harari
• What it Takes – Stephen Schwarzman
• The Game Makers: The Story of Parker Brothers – Philip Orbanes
• The Joy of x – Steven Strogatz
• The Grapes of Math – Alex Bellos
• A Man for All Markets – Edward O. Thorpe
• The Greatest Trade Ever – Gregory Zuckerman
• Where Good Ideas Come From – Steven Johnson
• King of Capital – David Carey
• Adaptive Markets – Andrew Lo
• The End of Alchemy: Money, Banking, and the Future of the Global Economy – Mervyn King
• Debt: The First 5,000 Years – David Graeber
• Keeping At It – Paul Volcker
• The Fifth Risk – Michael Lewis
• Principles – Ray Dalio
• Big Debt Crises – Ray Dalio
• Everybody Lies: Big Data – Seth Stephens-Davidowitz
• Thinking Fast and Slow – Daniel Kahneman
• Palimpsest: A History of the Written Word – Matthew Battles
• Shoe Dog – Phil Knight
• Grit – Angela Duckworth
• Monkey Business – John Rolfe
• The Big Short – Michael Lewis
• Outliers – Malcolm Gladwell
• Super Freakonomics – Stephen D. Levitt
• How to Lie With Statistics – Darrell Huff
• The Intelligent Investor – Benjamin Graham
• Dress for Success – John T. Molloy
• A Good Walk Spoiled: Days and Nights on the PGA Tour – John Feinstein
• Tuesdays with Morrie – Mitch Albom
• Dare – Scott Weiss
• One Second After – William Forstchen
• One Up on Wall Street – Peter Lynch
• Drive – Larry Bird
• Who’s Your Caddy? – Rick Reilly
• The Downhill Lie: A Hacker’s Return to a Ruinous Sport – Carl Hiaasen
• Don’t Choke – Gary Player
• The Sixth Man – David Baldacci
• Freakonomics – Steven D. Levitt
• The Great Gatsby – F. Scott Fitzgerald
• The Game for a Lifetime – Harvey Penick
• Now I can Die in Peace – Bill Simmons
• And If You Play Golf, You’re My Friend – Harvey Penick
• The Blind Side – Michael Lewis
• Liar’s Poker – Michael Lewis
• Blink – Malcolm Gladwell
• The Wisdom of Harvey Penick – Harvey Penick
• Farenheight 451 – Ray Bradbury
• Harvey Penick’s Little Green Book – Harvey Penick
• Freddie & Me – Tripp Bowden
• What the Dog Saw – Malcolm Gladwell
• When the Game Was Ours – Larry Bird
• Goodbye Gordon Gekko – Anthony Scaramucci
• The Little Book of Hedge Funds – Anthony Scaramucci
• Unbroken – Laura Hillenbrand
• American Sniper – Chris Kyle
• Value Investing – Bruce Greenwald
• Sapiens – Yuval Noah Harari
• David and Goliath – Malcolm Gladwell
• The Martian – Andy Weir
• The Boys in the Boat – Daniel James Brown
• Harry Potter Books 1-7 – JK Rowling
• The Bankers’ New Clothes – Anat Admati
• The Everything Store – Brad Stone
• Flash Boys – Michael Lewis
• Elon Musk – Ashlee Vance
• When to Rob a Bank – Stephen D. Levitt
• The Gene – Siddhartha Mukherjee
• Invisible Influence – Jonah Berger
• The Undoing Project – Michael Lewis
• The Captain Class – Sam Walker
• Black Edge – Sheelah Kolhatkar
• Tiger Woods – Jeff Benedict