Books are vital resources on the path to becoming who you are meant to be.

As long as you are reading the right ones.

My Current Library

History

  • Alexander To Actium: The Historical Evolution of The Hellenistic Age - Green

  • Ancient Mediterranean Civilizations: From Prehistory to 640 CE - Mathisen

  • Medieval & Early Renaissance Medicine - Siraisi

  • The Secrets of Alchemy - Principe

  • The Art and Architecture of The Ancient Orient - Frankfort

  • Readings In Ancient History: Thought & Experience from Gilgamesh to St. Augustine - Bailkey

  • The Hellenistic World from Alexander to the Roman Conquest - Austin

  • The Dwellers On The Nile - Budge

  • History of The Peloponnesian War - Thucydides

  • The Histories - Herodotus

  • The Life of Alexander The Great - Folio Society

  • The Iliad & The Odyssey - Homer

  • The Aeneid - Virgil

  • Mythology - Wilkinson

  • Mythology - Hamilton

  • Sophocles The Complete Plays - Roche

  • The Essential Homer - Lombardo

  • Greek Lyric - Miller

  • Philoctetes - Sophocles

  • Greek Tragedies I - Grene & Lattimore

  • Plato On Love - Reeve

  • On Justice, Power, and Human Nature - Thucydides

  • Frogs and Other Plays - Aristophanes

  • The Early History of Rome - Livy

  • Medieval Romances - Loomis

  • King Arthur - Goodrich

  • Merlin - Goodrich

  • The Travels - Marco Polo

  • Beowulf - Heaney

  • Gilgamesh - Ferry

  • The Russian Revolution - McMeekin

  • The Gulag Archipelago - Solzhenitsyn

  • The Nuremberg Trials - Roland

  • Tyrants - Cawthorne

  • Ordinary Men - Browning

  • Guns, Germs, and Steel - Diamond

  • China: A History - Keay

  • Secrets of The Samurai - Westbrook

  • Mao: The Unknown Story - Chang

  • Empire of The Summer Moon - Gwynne

  • World War I - Marshall

  • Mein Kampf - Hitler

  • Independence - Ferling

  • Patriots - Langguth

  • Mayflower - Philbrick

  • Normandy 44 - Quellien

  • The Beginnings of Western Science - Lindberg

  • The 9/11 Commission - May

  • The Triangle Fire - Stein

  • The Last Mass Lynching In The United States - Wexler

  • Watergate - Olson

  • These United States - Gilmore

  • Taking Sides - Mitchell

Philosophy

  • Great Dialogues of Plato - Rouse

  • Republic - Plato

  • The Nicomachean Ethics - Aristotle

  • Introduction To Aristotle - McKeon

  • The Prince - Machiavelli

  • The Prince & Other Writings - Machiavelli

  • Plato, Epictetus, & Marcus Aurelius - Harvard Library

  • Plutarch - Harvard Library

  • The Inferno - Dante

  • The Purgatorio - Dante

  • The Paradiso - Dante

  • Philosophical Writings of Peirce - Peirce

  • The Philosophy of Nietzsche - Clive

  • Beyond Good and Evil - Nietzsche

  • Nietzsche Volumes 1 & 2 - Heidegger

  • Utopia - Moore

  • The Art of War - Sun Tzu

  • Utilitarianism - Mill

  • Up From Slavery - Washington

  • Paradise Lost - Milton

  • Candide- Voltaire

  • Tao Te Ching - Lao Tzu

  • A Brief History of Thought - Ferry

  • Critique of Pure Reason - Kant

  • Zen & The Art Of Happiness - Prentiss

  • Living Fiercely - Yogananda

Business & Finance

  • The Innovator's Solution - Raynor

  • Discrimination & Disparities - Sowell

  • Basic Economics - Sowell

  • Stock Market 101 - Cagan

  • The Great Leveler - Schiedel

  • Real Estate Titans - Cohen

Self-Help

  • The Alchemist - Coelho

  • Talk Like Ted - Gallo

  • As A Man Thinketh - Allen

  • Sovereignty - Michler

  • Wild At Heart - Eldredge

  • Zen And The Art Of Motorcycle Maintenance - Pirsig

  • Extreme Ownership - Willink

  • 12 Rules for Life - Peterson

  • Beyond Order - Peterson

  • Cant Hurt Me - Goggins

  • Quiet - Cain

  • Soar - T.D. Jakes

  • Smarter Faster Better - Duhigg

  • 21 Lessons For The 21st Century

  • You Can Manage Your Time Better - MacDonald

  • Traveling Light - Lucado

  • The Pathwork of Self-Transformation - Pierrakos

Political Thought & Current Events

  • The Right Side of History - Shapiro

  • How To Destroy America In Three Easy Steps - Shapiro

  • United States of Socialism - D’Souza

  • White Fragility - DiAngelo

  • On Tyranny - Snyder

  • The Birth of a Republic, 1763-89 - Morgan

  • The Ideological Origins of The American Revolution - Bailyn

  • The Federalist Papers - Kesler

  • The Radicalism of The American Revolution - Wood

  • The Boy Crisis - Farrell

  • The War Against Boys - Sommers

  • Blackout - Owens

  • The Parasitic Mind - Saad

  • Marx’s Das Kapital For beginners - Wayne

  • The Communist Manifesto - Marx

  • The End of Gender - Soh

  • Cynical Theories - Pluckrose

  • The Green New Deal - Rifkin

Science

  • Relativity - Einstein

  • The Origin of Species - Darwin

  • Astrophysics For People In A Hurry - Tyson

  • Anatomy - Grey

  • Dictionary of Theories - Bothamley

  • The Demon Haunted World - Sagan

  • Breath - Nestor

  • How Everything Works - Bloomfield

  • MCAT Study - Kaplan

  • The Human Body - Brook

  • Human Anatomy & Physiology - Marich

  • Chemistry & Life - Hill

  • Chemistry: The Central Science - Brown

  • Clinical Psychology - Unknown

  • The Intention Experiment - Lynne

  • The Biology of Belief - Lipton

  • The Shallows - Carr

  • Human Anatomy & Physiology Lab Manual - Marieb

  • Chemistry Carbonless Notebook - Bluedoor

  • Nutrition For A Changing World - Pope

  • Anatomy - Clemente

General Literature

  • War and Peace - Tolstoy

  • Notes From The Underground - Dostoevsky

  • One Day In The Life In Ivan Denisovich - Solzhenitsyn

  • Don Quixote - Cervantes

  • Readers Digest 1995 & 1999 - Readers Digest Condensed Books

  • Atlas Shrugged - Rand

  • Animal Farm - Orwell

  • Enlightenment Now - Pinker

  • The Better Angels Of Our Nature - Pinker

  • The Coddling of The American Mind - Lukianoff

  • The Righteous Mind - Haidt

  • Be Water My Friend - Lee

  • The Complete Father Brown Stories - Chesterton

  • Les Miserable - Hugo

  • The Hunchback of Notre Dame - Hugo

  • The Count Of Monte Cristo - Dumas

  • Wuthering Heights - Bronte

  • A Tale Of Two Cities - Dickens

  • David Copperfield - Dickens

  • The Sun Also Rises - Hemingway

  • Green Hills Of Africa - Hemingway

  • For Whom The Bell Tolls - Hemingway

  • The Old Man & The Sea - Hemingway

  • Catcher In The Rye - Salinger

  • Israel Potter - Melville

  • Moby Dick - Mellville

  • Typhee - Mellville

  • Robert Frost’s Poems - Frost

  • The 47 Ronin Story - Allyn

  • The Last Of The Mohicans - Cooper

  • Lord Jim - Conrad

  • Nostromo - Conrad

  • Treasure Island - Stevenson

  • Mansfield Park - Austen

  • Northanger Abbey - Austen

  • The Three Musketeers - Dumas

  • War of The Worlds - Wells

  • God Calling - Russell

  • The Godfather - Puzo

  • The Invisible Man - Wells

  • The Lonely - Gallico

  • Thackeray - Esmond

  • The Guns of August - Tuchman

  • Jock of The Bushveld - Fitzpatrick

  • Murder On The Orient Express - Christie

  • The Essential Tales and Poems Of Edgar Allen Poe - Poe

  • The Adventures of Tom Sawyer - Twain

  • Frankenstein - Shelley

  • The House of Seven Gables - Hawthorne

  • Jude The Obscure - Hardy

  • The Great Gatsby - Fitzgerald

  • Life of Pi - Martel

  • Madame Bovary’s Ovaries - Barash

  • Ready Player One - Cline

  • The Boy Who Harnessed The Wind - Kamkwamba

  • Long Walk To Freedom - Mandela

  • Leonardo Davinci - Isaacson

  • Steve Jobs - Isaacson

  • William Shakespeare: The Complete Plays - Shakespeare

  • Songs of Innocence and of Experience

  • Les Travailleurs De La Mer I & II - Hugo

  • Midnight In The Garden Of Good And Evil - Berenot

  • The Flying Tigers - Toland

Miscellaneous

  • Swahili - Spoken World

  • Associated Architects - Meissl

  • Drawing & Painting - Martin

  • Thrive Fitness - Brazier

  • Dorm Room Feng Shui - Olaksen

  • Fork Over Knives - Stone

  • The American Pitbull Terrier - Gallagher

  • South African Cooking In The USA - Farquharson

  • The Complete South African Cookbook - Van Wyk

  • Dawn To Dark - National Geographic

  • Historic Preservation - Tyler

  • Built For Change: Neighborhood Architecture In San Francisco - Moudon

  • Happy City - Montgomery

  • Eyes On The Street - Kanigel

  • Places For The People - Klineberg

  • Triumph Of The City - Glaeser

  • Metropolis - Wilson

  • Place Makers - Herb

  • Engineering The City - Levy

  • Urban Planning and The Pursuit of Happiness - Bartetzky

  • Making Healthy Places - Dannenberg

  • The Well Tempered City - Rose

  • The New Better Off - Martin

  • How Architecture Works - Rybczynski

  • Understanding Architecture - Bridge

  • Guide Michelin 1900 - Michelin

  • Afrikaans Dictionary - Unknown

  • Srimad Bhagavatam - Prabhupada

  • The Science of Self-Realization - Prabhupada

  • Bhagavad Gita - Prabhupada

  • The Qur’An - Ali

  • How To Love - Livingston

  • Be Happy - Lindsay

  • Diana F+ Guide - Unknown

  • The Basics of Public Budgeting and Financial Management - Menifield

  • Public Personnel Management - Riccucci

  • Personnel Management In Government - Naff

  • Strategic Planning - Bryson

  • GRE Prep - Kaplan