Readings

Since reading occupies a big chunk of my free and work time, here are some (general-interest) books that kept me busy.

What I am currently reading

• Guns, Germs and Steel, Jared Diamond

• The Gulag Archipelago, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

• Two Essays on Analytical Psychology, Carl Jung

• Modern Man in Search for Soul, Carl Jung

• The Origins of Political Order, Francis Fukuyama

Past readings that I recommend to anyone with an interest in the subject

History and (geo) Politics:

• Why Nations fail, Daron Acemoglu and James Robinson

• Prisoners of Geography, Tim Marshall

• World Order, Henry Kissinger

• Identity, Francis Fukuyama

• Sapiens, Yuval Noah Harari

• Homo Deus, Yuval Noah Harari

• Lessons of History, Will and Ariel Durant

Psychology and behavioral sciences:

• The Selfish Gene, Richard Dawkins

• The Craving Mind, Judson Brewer

• On becoming a person, Carl R. Rogers

• Thinking Fast and Slow, Daniel Kahneman

• Fooled by randomness, Nassim Nicholas Taleb

• Man search for Meaning, Victor Frankl

• Understanding human nature, Alfred Adler

• Influence, Robert B. Cialdini

• An Outline of Psychoanalysis, Sigmund Freud

• Crime and Punishment, Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Self-development:

• Principles, Ray Dalio

• The power of Habit, Charles Duhigg

• 12 Rules for Life, Jordan Peterson

• How to win friends and Influence People, Dale Carnegie

Investments:

• The Intelligent Investor, Benjamin Graham

• Stocks for the Long Run, Jeremy Siegel

• A Random Walk down Wall Street, Burton Malkiel

• Irrational Exuberance, Robert Shiller

Others:

• The Sixth Extinction, Elisabeth Kolbert

• Zero to One, Peter Thiel