I enjoy seeing other people's bookshelves. I think Patrick Collison and Bret Victor have particulary great ones.
Here is mine, in no particular order:
- Debt by David Graeber
- Orality and Literacy by Walter Ong
- Understanding Media by Marshal McLuhan
- The Cold Start Problem by Andrew Chen
- Origins of Human Communication by Michael Tomasello
- The Printing Press as an Agent of Change by Elizabeth Eisenstein
- Mindstorms by Seymour Papert
- The Elephant in the Brian by Kevin Simler and Robin Hanson
- The Dream Machine by M. Mitchell Waldrop
- The Molecule of More by Daniel Z. Lieberman and Mike Long
- The Courage to be Disliked by Fumitake Koga and Ichiro Kishimi
- Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson
- Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson
- Reamde by Neal Stephenson
- The Three-Body Problem by Liu Cixin
- The Dark Forest by Liu Cixin
- Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson
- Leonardo da Vinci by Walter Isaacson
- The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
- Lifespan by David Sinclair
- Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harari
- Homo Deus by Yuval Noah Harari
- 21 Lessons for the 21st Century by Yuval Noah Harari
- The Network State by Balaji Srinivasan
- The Sovereign Individual by James Dale Davidson and William Rees-Mogg Overview
- On the Genealogy of Morality by Friedrich Nietzsche
- Memories, Dreams, Reflections by Aniela Jaffé and Carl Jung
- Swann's Way by Marcel Proust
- Exploring the World of Lucid Dreaming by Howard Rheingold
- Blue Ocean Strategy by Renée Mauborgne and W. Chan Kim
- The Victorian Internet by Tom Standage
- Blitzscaling by Chris Yeh and Reid Hoffman
- Masters of Scale by Deron Triff, June Cohen, and Reid Hoffman
- Skin in the Game by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
- The Bed of Procrustes by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
- Antifragile by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
- The Black Swan by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
- I Am a Strange Loop by Douglas Hofstadter
- Principles by Ray Dalio
- Fooled by Randomness by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
- The Open Society and Its Enemies by Karl Popper
- A Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawking
- The Great CEO Within by Alex MacCaw, Matt Mochary, and Misha Talavera
- Invention by James Dyson
- Poor Charlie's Almanack by Charlie Munger
- I, Robot by Isaac Asimov
- Critical Path by Buckminster Fuller
- True Hallucinations by Terence McKenna
- Ball Lightning by Liu Cixin
- Foundation by Isaac Asimov
- The Meaning of It All by Richard Feynman
- The 48 Laws of Power Book by Robert Greene
- The Fabric of Reality by David Deutsch
- Guns, Germs and Steel by Jared Diamond
- Greenlights by Matthew McConaughey
- Sandworm by Andy Greenberg
- What Is Life? by Erwin Schrödinger
- Life 3.0 by Max Tegmark
- Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
- Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman! by Richard Feynman
- The Righteous Mind by Jonathan Haidt
- What Do You Care What Other People Think? by Richard Feynman
- Genome by Matt Ridley
- Ulysses by James Joyce
- Complexity by M. Mitchell Waldrop
- The Code Breaker by Walter Isaacson
- Behave by Robert Sapolsky
- An Astronaut's Guide to Life on Earth by Chris Hadfield
- Talking to Strangers by Malcolm Gladwell
- Deep Work by Cal Newport
- The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy
- The Founder's Dilemmas by Noam T. Wasserman
- Zero to One by Blake Masters and Peter Thiel
- The Human Use of Human Beings by Norbert Wiener
- An Elegant Defense by Matt Richtel
- The Tangled Web by Michał Zalewski
- The Bias of Communication by Harold Innis
- Here Comes Everybody by Clay Shirky
- The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
- Neurosphere by Donald P. Dulchinos
- Start-up Nation by Dan Senor and Saul Singer
- The Square and the Tower by Niall Ferguson
- The Bias of Communication by Harold Innes
- Here Comes Everybody by Clay Shirky
- The City In History by Lewis Mumford
- René Girard's Mimetic Theory by Wolfgang Palaver
- Life on the Edge by Jim Al-Khalili and Johnjoe McFadden
- Scale by Geoffrey West
- Hood by Luke Timmerman
- Unauthorized Bread by Cory Doctorow
- Thinking in Systems by Donella Meadows
- Understanding computers and cognition by Terry Winograd
- Age of Invisible Machines by Robb Wilson
- The Gutenberg Galaxy by Marshall McLuhan
- New Science by Giambattista Vico
- Design For Community by Derek Powazek
- The Second Self by Sherry Turkle
- Media: The Second God by Tony Schwartz
- The Wealth of Networks by Yochai Benkler
- The Virtual Community by Howard Rheingold
- On Intelligence by Jeff Hawkins and Sandra Blakeslee
- New New Media by Paul Levinson
- A History of Communications by Marshal Poe
- The Origins of Virtue by Matt Ridley
- Trust: A History by Geoffrey Hosking
- Cognition in the Wild by Edwin Hutchins
- Time Travel: A History by James Gleick
- Matchmakers by David S. Evans and Richard L. Schmalensee
- Noise by Cass R. Sunstein, Daniel Kahneman, and Olivier Sibony
- Nexus by Ramez Naam
- The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money by John Maynard Keynes
- Empire of the Summer Moon by S. C. Gwynne
- The Collapse of Complex Societies by Joseph Tainter
- Permutation City by Greg Egan
- Dune by Frank Herbert
- Six Easy Pieces by Richard Feynman
- Six Not-So-Easy Pieces by Richard Feynman
- The Art of Invisibility by Kevin Mitnick
- Permanent Record by Edward Snowden
- The Man from the Future by Ananyo Bhattacharya
- The Gene: An Intimate History by Siddhartha Mukherjee
- The Song of the Cell by Siddhartha Mukherjee
- The Double Helix by James D. Watson
- Wonderful Life by Stephen Jay Gould
- On the Origin of Species by Charles Darwin
- A Passage to India by E. M. Forster
- The Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins
- Why Nations Fail by Daron Acemoglu and James A. Robinson
- Finnegans Wake by James Joyce
- The Beginning of Infinity by David Deutsch
- Determined by Robert Sapolsky
- Surfaces and Essences by Douglas Hofstadter and Emmanuel Sander
- The Dawn of Everything by David Graeber and David Wengrow
- Influence by Robert Cialdini
- Future Shock by Alvin Toffler
- The Third Wave by Alvin Toffler
- Revolutionary Wealth by Alvin Toffler
- A Brief History of Everything by Ken Wilber
- Embodiments of Mind by Warren McCulloch
- Beyond AI by J. Storrs Hall