This page contains a list of recently completed books, as well as books I plan to read in the near future.

Reading Queue (not yet read)

• Algorithms to Live By: The Computer Science of Human Decisions

• Click Here to Kill Everybody: Security and Survival in a Hyper-connected World

• Crypto: How the Code Rebels Beat the Government Saving Privacy in the Digital Age

• Data and Goliath: The Hidden Battles to Collect Your Data and Control Your World

• Erwin Schrodinger and the Quantum Revolution

• No Place to Hide: Edward Snowden, the NSA, and the U.S. Surveillance State

• Planck: Driven by Vision, Broken by War

• Radioactive: Marie & Pierre Curie: A Tale of Love and Fallout

• Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind

• Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies

• The Cuckoo’s Egg: Tracking a Spy Through the Maze of Computer Espionage

• The End of the Certain World: The Life and Science of Max Born

• The Last Man Who Knew Everything: The Life and Times of Enrico Fermi, Father of the Nuclear Age

• Troublemakers: Silicon Valley’s Coming of Age

• Valley of Genius: The Uncensored History of Silicon Valley

• What is Life?: With Mind and Matter and Autobiographical Sketches

• Zapped: From Infrared to X-rays, the Curious History of Invisible Light

Completed Books

• A Beautiful Question: Finding Nature’s Deep Design

• A Mind at Play: How Claude Shannon Invented the Information Age

• A Truck Full of Money

• After On: A Novel of Silicon Valley

• Chaos: Making a New Science

• Chaos Monkeys: Obscene Fortune and Random Failure in Silicon Valley

• Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software

• Code Warriors: NSA’s Codebreakers and the Secret Intelligence War Against the Soviet Union

• Dark Sun: The Making of the Hydrogen Bomb

• Dark Territory: The Secret History of Cyber War

• David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants

• Dealers of Lightning: Xerox PARC and the Dawn of the Computer Age

• Disrupted: My Misadventure in the Start-Up Bubble

• Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us

• Einstein: His Life and Universe

• Exodus: A Novel of Israel

• Faraday, Maxwell, and the Electromagnetic Field: How Two Men Revolutionized Physics

• Fear and Trembling

• Free as in Freedom: Richard Stallman’s Crusade for Free Software

• Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets

• Genius: The Life and Science of Richard Feynman

• Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution

• Hit Refresh: The Quest to Rediscover Microsoft’s Soul and Imagine a Better Future for Everyone

• How Google Works

• In Pursuit of the Unknown: 17 Equations That Changed the World

• In The Plex: How Google Thinks, Works, and Shapes Our Lives

• Isaac Newton

• Lab Rats: How Silicon Valley Made Work Miserable for the Rest of Us

• Life in Code: A Personal History of Technology

• Naked Statistics: Stripping the Dread from the Data

• Pensees

• Robert Oppenheimer: A Life Inside the Center

• Seeing What Others Don’t: The Remarkable Ways We Gain Insights

• Six Not-So-Easy Pieces: Einstein’s Relativity, Symmetry, and Space-Time

• Smarter Faster Better: The Transformative Power of Real Productivity

• Steve Jobs

• Superforecasting: The Art and Science of Prediction

• “Surely You’re Joking, Mr. Feynman!”: Adventures of a Curious Character

• The Black Box Society

• The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable

• The Code Book: The Science of Secrecy from Ancient Egypt to Quantum Cryptography

• The Grid: The Fraying Wires Between Americans and Our Energy Future

• The Imagineers of War: The Untold Story of DARPA, the Pentagon Agency That Changed the World

• The Information: A History, A Theory, A Flood

• The Innovators: How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses, and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution

• The Intel Trinity: How Robert Noyce, Gordon Moore, and Andy Grove Built the World’s Most Important Company

• The Last Lecture

• The Little Book of String Theory

• The Making of the Atomic Bomb

• The Man Who Changed Everything: The Life of James Clerk Maxwell

• The Master Algorithm: How the Quest for the Ultimate Learning Machine Will Remake Our World

• The Master Switch: The Rise and Fall of Information Empires

• The Mythical Man-Month: Essays on Software Engineering

• The Person and the Situation

• The Pope of Physics: Enrico Fermi and the Birth of the Atomic Age

• The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business

• The Right Stuff

• The Singularity Is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology

• The Soul of A New Machine

• The Strangest Man: The Hidden Life of Paul Dirac, Mystic of the Atom

• The Theory That Would Not Die: How Bayes’ Rule Cracked the Enigma Code, Hunted Down Russian Submarines, and Emerged Triumphant from Two Centuries of Controversy

• Thinking, Fast and Slow

• Time Travel: A History

• Trinity

• Turing’s Cathedral: The Origins of the Digital Universe

• Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy

• When: The Scientific Secrets of Perfect Timing

• Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future