Collections

Below is a collection of works I particularly like.
👍 = favorites.

Books

History of science & technology

• Empires of Light

• The Wright Brothers 👍

• Einstein: His Life and Universe 👍

• Steve Jobs

• Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future

Biographies & memoirs

• Just Kids 👍

• Benjamin Franklin: An American Life 👍

• Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 👍

• Shortest Way Home: One Mayor's Challenge and a Model for America's Future

• Educated: A Memoir

Business

• Zero to One

• High Output Management

• The Hard Thing About Hard Things

• The Innovator's Prescription

Cities

• The Death and Life of Great American Cities 👍

• Streetfight: Handbook for an Urban Revolution

Fiction

• Little Fires Everywhere

• The Kite Runner

• A Thousand Splendid Suns

Philosophy

• The Beginning of Infinity 👍

• Letters from a stoic

• The Prophet

• Siddhartha

• Sophie's World

Politics & Social Science

• Winners Take All 👍

• Are Prisons Obsolete?

• 21 Lessons for the 21st Century

• Age of Ambition: Chasing Fortune, Truth, and Faith in the New China 👍

• The Girl with Seven Names: A North Korean Defector’s Story

• The World: A Brief Introduction

• Americana

Science

• Deadliest Enemy: Our War Against Killer Germs 👍

• How to Avoid a Climate Disaster

Scifi

• The Black Cloud