| Book | Author | Read? |
| Models of My Life | Herbert Simon | |
| Man’s Search For Meaning | Viktor Frankl | x |
| Meditations | Marcus Aurelius | |
| The Obstacle is the Way | Ryan Holiday | |
| The Art of Worldly Wisdom | Balthasar Gracian | |
| The Complete Essays | Michael de Montaigne | |
| Letters From a Stoic | Seneca | |
| The Prince | Nicolo Machiavelli | |
| The Remains of the Day | Kazuo Ishiguro | |
| Moonwalking With Einstein | Joshua Foer | x |
| Fooling Houdini | Alex Stone | |
| Hannibal and Me | Andreas Kluth | |
| Mastermind: How to Think Like Sherlock Holmes | Maria Konnikova | |
| A Few Lessons From Sherlock Holmes | Peter Bevelin | |
| The Bed of Procrustes | Nassim Taleb | |
| Choose Yourself | James Altucher | x |
| Getting to Yes | Roger Fisher | |
| How to Win Friends and Influence People | Dale Carnegie | x |
| Zen Mind, Beginner’s Mind | Shunryu Suzuki | |
| Cutting Through Spiritual Materialism | Chogyam Trungpa | |
| When You Come to a Fork in the Road, Take It! | Yogi Berra | |
| Nudge | Richard Thaler | |
| One Small Step Can Change Your Life: The Kaizen Way | Robert Maurer | |
| Different: Escaping the Competitive Herd | Youngme Moon |