Brian Zeng

My Reading List

The ones in bold are books that I really enjoyed.

2017/2018

• The Republic by Plato
• The Complacent Class by Tyler Cowen
• The Beginning of Infinity by David Deutsch
• Tao Te Ching by Lao Tzu
• Groundwork on the Metaphysics of Morals by Kant
• The Snowball: Warren Buffett and the Business of Life by Alice Schroeder
• Essays of Warren Buffett by Lawrence Cunningham
• The Everything Store by Brad Stone
• Alibaba: The House That Jack Ma Built by Duncan Clark
• Symposium by Plato
• High Output Management by Andy Grove
• Hawaii by James Michener
• Three-Body Problem by Liu Cixin

2016

• The Dream Machine by M. Mitchell Waldrop
• The Death and Life of Great American Cities by Jane Jacobs
• When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi
• How the Mind Works by Steven Pinker
• Plato at the Googleplex by Rebecca Newberger Goldstein
• The Organized Mind by Daniel Levitin
• The Great Stagnation by Tyler Cowen
• The Great Divide by Joseph Stiglitz
• Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harari
• The Power of Now by Eckhart Tolle
• Creativity Inc by Ed Catmull
• Modern Romance by Aziz Ansari
• Grit by Angela Duckworth
• Elon Musk by Ashlee Vance

Fall 2015

• Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
• Zero to One by Peter Thiel
• The Facebook Effect by David Kirkpatrick
• Crossing the Chasm by Geoffrey Moore

Summer 2015

• Poor Charlie's Almanack compiled by Peter D. Kaufman
• Code Complete by Steve McConnell
• Surfaces and Essences by Douglas Hofstadter
• Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami
• Principles by Ray Dalio
• The Lean Startup by Eric Ries
• How Google Works by Eric Schmidt
• The Hard Thing About Hard Things by Ben Horowitz
• The Start-Up of You by Reid Hoffman

Spring 2015

• The Sense of Style: The Thinking Person's Guide to Writing in the 21st Century by Steven Pinker
• Waking Up: A Guide to Spirituality Without Religion by Sam Harris
• The Power of Habit by Charles Duhigg
• What I Talk About When I Talk About Running by Haruki Murakami
• On Writing by Stephen King
• Hackers and Painters by Paul Graham
• I am a Strange Loop by Douglas Hofstadter

Winter Break 2014-15

• Free Will by Sam Harris
• The Moral Landscape by Sam Harris
• Mortality by Christopher Hitchens
• Intuition Pumps and Other Thinking Tools by Daniel Dennett
• Consciousness Explained by Daniel Dennett
• Make it Stick: The Science of Successful Learning by Peter C. Brown, Henry L. Roediger III, Mark A. McDaniel