Enea Xharja

Software Engineer

Bookshelf

Below is a complete catalog of the books I own. I always enjoy reading others' lists and browsing their bookshelves, so this intended to be a digital version of that.

21 Lessons for the 21st Century

Yuval Noah Harari

1984

George Orwell

A Brief History Of Time

Stephen Hawking

A Gentleman in Moscow

Amor Towles

A Universe from Nothing

Lawrence Krauss

Algorithms to Live By

Brian Christian and Tom Griffiths

All This Could Be Different

Sarah Thankam Mathews

Amusing Ourselves to Death

Neil Postman

Animal Farm

George Orwell

Antifragile

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

The Attention Merchants

Tim Wu

Bad Blood

John Carreyrou

Blink

Malcolm Gladwell

Blue Ocean Strategy

Renée Mauborgne and W. Chan Kim

Brave New World

Aldous Huxley

But What If We're Wrong?

Chuck Klosterman

Cloud Atlas

David Mitchell

Collapse

Jared Diamond

Creativity, Inc.

Ed Catmull

Death's End

Liu Cixin

Deep Work

Cal Newport

Digital Minimalism

Cal Newport

Don't Make Me Think

Steve Krug

Drunk Tank Pink

Adam Alter

Educated

Tara Westover

Einstein: His Life and Universe

Walter Isaacson

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

Ashlee Vance

Empires of Light

Jill Jonnes

Everything Happens for a Reason: And Other Lies I've Loved

Kate Bowler

Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World

Hans Rosling

Fooled by Randomness

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Foundation Trilogy (Foundation, Foundation and Empire, Second Foundation)

Isaac Asimov

Free: Coming of Age at the End of History

Lea Ypi

Get Rich Or Lie Trying

Symeon Brown

Guns, Germs, and Steel

Jared Diamond

Hillbilly Elegy

J.D. Vance

Hit Refresh

Satya Nadella

Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow

Yuval Noah Harari

Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products

Nir Eyal

How Google Works

Eric Schmidt and Jonathan Rosenberg

How The World Really Works

Vaclav Smil

How to Change Your Mind

Michael Pollan

How to Prevent the Next Pandemic

Bill Gates

How to Win Friends and Influence People

Dale Carnegie

How Will You Measure Your Life?

Clayton M. Christensen

I Am Malala

Malala Yousafzai

I, Robot

Isaac Asimov

Kindred: Neanderthal Life, Love, Death and Art

Rebecca Wragg Sykes

Leonardo Da Vinci

Walter Isaacson

Life 3.0

Max Tegmark

Lord of the Flies

William Golding

A Human's Guide to Machine Intelligence

Kartik Hosanagar

Man's Search for Meaning

Viktor Frankl

Manna: Two Visions of Humanity's Future

Marshall Brain

The Master Switch

Tim Wu

Weapons of Math Destruction

Cathy O'Neil

Merchants of Doubt

Naomi Oreskes and Erik M. Conway

Mindset

Carol S. Dweck

Moonwalking with Einstein

Joshua Foer

On the Shortness of Life

Seneca

On Tyranny

Timothy Snyder

Origin Story

David Christian

Originals

Adam Grant

Our Final Invention

James Barrat

Outliers

Malcolm Gladwell

Prepared

Diane Tavenner

Primates and Philosophers: How Morality Evolved

Frans de Waal

Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World

David Epstein

Reclaiming Conversation

Sherry Turkle

The Remains of the Day

Kazuo Ishiguro

Sam Walton: Made in America

Sam Walton

Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind

Yuval Noah Harari

Sea of Tranquility

Emily St. John Mandel

Shoe Dog

Phil Knight

So You've Been Publicly Shamed

Jon Ronson

Station Eleven

Emily St. John Mandel

Steve Jobs

Walter Isaacson

Stolen Focus

Johann Hari

Stop Reading the News

Rolf Dobelli

Superintelligence

Nick Bostrom

The Age of Surveillance Capitalism

Shoshana Zuboff

The Tartar Steppe

Dino Buzzati

The Age of AI

Henry Kissinger, Eric Schmidt and Daniel Huttenlocher

The Alchemist

Paulo Coelho

The Almanack of Naval Ravikant

Eric Jorgenson

The Art of Peace

Morihei Ueshiba

The Art of the Good Life

Rolf Dobelli

The Art of War

Sun Tzu

The Black Swan

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

The Caves of Steel

Isaac Asimov

The Choice

Edith Eger

The Courage to be Disliked

Ichiro Kishimi and Fumitake Koga

The Dark Forest

Liu Cixin

The Everything Store

Brad Stone

The Future We Choose

Christian Figueres and Tom Rivett-Carnac

The Great Gatsby

F. Scott Fitzgerald

The Great Influenza

John Barry

The Hard Thing About Hard Things

Ben Horowitz

The Inevitable

Kevin Kelly

The Lean Startup

Eric Ries

The Machine Stops

E.M. Forster

The Manual

Epictetus

The Martian

Andy Weir

The Meditations

Marcus Aurelius

The Metamorphosis

Franz Kafka

The Ministry for the Future

Kim Stanley Robinson

The Moon is a Harsh Mistress

Robert A. Heinlein

The Origin Of Species

Charles Darwin

The Prince

Niccolò Machiavelli

The Psychopath Test

Jon Ronson

The Ride Of A Lifetime

Robert Iger

The Shallows

Nicholas Carr

The Sixth Extinction

Elizabeth Kolbert

The Spy and the Traitor

Ben Macintyre

The Sympathizer

Viet Thanh Nguyen

The Three-Body Problem

Liu Cixin

The Time Machine

H.G. Wells

The World Until Yesterday

Jared Diamond

Thinking, Fast and Slow

Daniel Kahneman

Thinking in Bets

Annie Duke

The Third Chimpanzee

Jared Diamond

This Is How They Tell Me the World Ends

Nicole Perlroth

The Tipping Point

Malcolm Gladwell

Titan: The Life of John D. Rockefeller, Sr.

Ron Chernow

Tribe: On Homecoming and Belonging

Sebastian Junger

Trillion Dollar Coach

Alan Eagle, Eric Schmidt, and Jonathan Rosenberg

Turtles All the Way Down

John Green

Upheaval

Jared Diamond

When Breath Becomes Air

Paul Kalanithi

If the Universe Is Teeming with Aliens ... WHERE IS EVERYBODY?

Stephen Webb

Why Nations Fail

Daron Acemoglu and James A. Robinson

Why We Sleep

Matthew Walker

Zero to One

Peter Thiel

Got recommendations? Drop me a note: hi@eneaxharja.com.