Media & Culture
Authors
Writers whose work has entertained, educated, and inspired me.
120+ authors from books I've read
Favorite Authors (A-D)
- Alex Hormozi — $100M Offers
- Alex Michaelides — The Silent Patient
- Alexandre Dumas — The Count of Monte Cristo
- Alfred Lansing — Endurance
- Andrew S. Grove — High Output Management
- Andy Goldsworthy — A Collaboration with Nature
- Andy Weir — Project Hail Mary, The Martian
- Anthony Bourdain — Kitchen Confidential
- Ayn Rand — Atlas Shrugged, The Fountainhead
- Barbara Kingsolver — The Poisonwood Bible
- Bessel van der Kolk — The Body Keeps the Score
- Bill Bryson — A Short History of Nearly Everything
- Blake Crouch — Dark Matter, Recursion
- Bonnie Garmus — Lessons in Chemistry
- Brandon Mull — Fablehaven Series
- Cal Newport — Deep Work
- Carl Sagan — Cosmos
- Charles Duhigg — The Power of Habit
- Charles T. Munger — Poor Charlie's Almanack
- Christopher Paolini — Eragon
- Claire Hughes Johnson — Scaling People
- Colleen Hoover — Verity, It Ends with Us
- Colum McCann — Let the Great World Spin
- Dale Carnegie — How to Win Friends & Influence People
- David Attenborough — A Life on Our Planet
- David Grann — The Wager, Killers of the Flower Moon
- Delia Owens — Where the Crawdads Sing
- Donald A. Norman — The Design of Everyday Things
- Douglas Adams — The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
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- Eckhart Tolle — A New Earth
- Ed Yong — I Contain Multitudes
- Eric Berger — Liftoff
- Eric Jorgenson — The Almanack of Naval Ravikant
- Ernest Cline — Ready Player One
- Ernest Hemingway — The Old Man and the Sea
- Erik Larson — The Devil in the White City
- F. Scott Fitzgerald — The Great Gatsby
- Frank Herbert — Dune
- Fredrik Backman — Anxious People
- Gary Paulsen — Hatchet, The River
- Garth Stein — The Art of Racing in the Rain
- George Orwell — Animal Farm, 1984
- Gillian Flynn — Gone Girl, Sharp Objects
- Greg McKeown — Essentialism
- H.P. Lovecraft — At the Mountains of Madness
- Hermann Hesse — Siddhartha
- Isaac Asimov — Foundation Series
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- J.K. Rowling — Harry Potter Series
- J.R.R. Tolkien — The Hobbit
- James Clear — Atomic Habits
- James Nestor — Breath
- Jared Diamond — Guns, Germs, and Steel
- Jim Dethmer — 15 Commitments of Conscious Leadership
- Jocko Willink — Extreme Ownership
- Johann Hari — Stolen Focus
- John Irving — The World According to Garp
- John Steinbeck — The Grapes of Wrath, Of Mice and Men
- Jon Krakauer — Into the Wild
- Jordan B. Peterson — 12 Rules for Life
- Kurt Vonnegut Jr. — Slaughterhouse-Five
- L. David Marquet — Turn the Ship Around!
- Lao Tzu — Tao Te Ching
- Lois Lowry — The Giver
- Madeline Miller — The Song of Achilles
- Malcolm Gladwell — The Tipping Point, Outliers
- Marcus Aurelius — Meditations
- Mark Manson — The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck
- Matt Haig — The Midnight Library
- Michael Greger — How Not to Die
- Michael Pollan — Food Rules, How to Change Your Mind
- Miguel Ruiz — The Four Agreements
- Morgan Housel — The Psychology of Money
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- Neil Gaiman — The Ocean at the End of the Lane
- Nick Cutter — The Troop
- Norman Maclean — A River Runs Through It
- Patrick Rothfuss — The Name of the Wind
- Paul Kalanithi — When Breath Becomes Air
- Paulo Coelho — The Alchemist
- Peter Thiel — Zero to One
- Peter Wohlleben — The Hidden Life of Trees
- Phil Knight — Shoe Dog
- Pierce Brown — Red Rising Series
- Ram Dass — Be Here Now
- Randall Munroe — What If?
- Ray Dalio — Principles
- Richard Matheson — I Am Legend
- Robert Greene — Mastery, The 48 Laws of Power
- Robert H. Lustig — Metabolical
- Rolf Dobelli — The Art of Thinking Clearly
- Ryan Holiday — The Obstacle Is the Way
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- Sam Harris — Waking Up
- Sarah J. Maas — A Court of Thorns and Roses
- Scott Galloway — The Algebra of Wealth
- Shane Parrish — The Great Mental Models
- Stieg Larsson — The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo
- Stephen Hawking — A Brief History of Time
- Stephen King — The Shining, It, Pet Sematary
- Stephen R. Covey — The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People
- Steven Pressfield — Turning Pro, The War of Art
- Tara Westover — Educated
- Taylor Jenkins Reid — The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
- Ted Chiang — Stories of Your Life and Others
- Thich Nhat Hanh — Living Buddha, Living Christ
- Timothy Ferriss — Tools of Titans
- V.E. Schwab — Vicious, The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue
- Viktor E. Frankl — Man's Search for Meaning
- W. Somerset Maugham — The Razor's Edge
- Walter Isaacson — Steve Jobs, The Innovators
- Yuval Noah Harari — Sapiens, Homo Deus