Ammar Shaqeel

2026

• Feynman's Rainbow, Leonard Mlodinow
• How Not to Be a Politician, Rory Stewart
• Enshittification, Cory Doctorow
• Second Foundation, Isaac Asimov
• The Anxious Generation, Jonathan Haidt
• Foundation and Empire, Isaac Asimov

2025

• Foundation, Isaac Asimov
• Made in America, Sam Walton
• Montaigne, Stephan Zweig
• Starship Titanic, Terry Jones
• The Art of Spending Money, Morgan Housel
• The Brothers Karamazov, Fyodor Dostoevsky
• The End is Always Near, Dan Carlin
• Perseverance, Stephan Kesting
• Not Till We Are Lost, Dennis E. Taylor
• How to Get Rich, Felix Dennis
• The Art of Risking Everything, Nate Silver
• The Honourable Schoolboy, John le Carré
• Arrival, Ted Chiang
• Gambler, Billy Walters
• Occupational Hazards, Rory Stewart
• From Beirut to Jerusalem, Thomas Friedman
• The Logic of Sports Betting, Ed Miller and Matthew Davidow
• Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room, Bethany McLean and Peter Elkind

2024

• The Man Who Quit Money, Mark Sundeen
• The Comfort Crisis, Michael Easter
• Means of Ascent*, Robert A. Caro
• The Path to Power*, Robert A. Caro
• Poor Charlie's Almanac*, Charlie Munger
• In My Time of Dying, Sebastian Junger
• My Brilliant Friend, Elena Ferrante
• The Places in Between, Rory Stewart
• Ali: A Life, Jonathan Eig
• The Death of Ivan Ilyich, Leo Tolstoy
• Being Mortal*, Atul Gawande
• Slow Productivity, Cal Newport
• Elon Musk, Walter Isaacson
• Quit, Anne Duke
• The Boglehead's Guide to Investing, Mel Lindauer Et al.
• Barbarian Days*, Walter Finnegan
• The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul, Douglas Adams

2023

• Same as Ever, Morgan Housel
• Buffet: The Making of an American Capitalist, Roger Lowenstein
• The Song of the Cell*, Siddhartha Mukherjee
• Sourcery, Terry Pratchett
• Suttree, Cormac McCarthy
• Outlive, Peter Attia
• Let My People Go Surfing*, Yvon Chouinard
• Death Be Not Proud, John Gunther
• Die With Zero, Bill Perkins

2022

• The Gene*, Siddhartha Mukherjee
• No Longer Human*, Osamu Dazal
• The Psychology of Money*, Morgan Housel
• To Live, Yu Hua
• Silicon Valley Pornstar, Jason Portnoy
• A Man for All Markets*, Edward O. Thorp
• Blood Meridian*, Cormac McCarthy
• Jurassic Park, Michael Crichton
• Outer Dark, Cormac McCarthy
• Crooked, Cathryn Ramin
• The Book, Alan Watts
• The Firm, Duff McDonald
• Four Thousand Weeks*, Oliver Burkeman

2021

• A Calendar of Wisdom, Leo Tolstoy
• The Richest Man in Babylon, George S. Clason
• The Road, Cormac McCarthy
• Siddhartha, Hermann Hesse
• Mort, Terry Pratchett
• Equal Rites, Terry Pratchett
• Remote, Jason Fried and David Heinemeier Hansson
• It Doesn't Have to Be Crazy at Work, Jason Fried and David Heinemeier Hansson
• Altered Traits, Daniel Goleman and Richard J. Davidson
• What Is Zen?, Norman Fischer and Susan Moon
• A Path with Heart, Jack Kornfield
• Dopamine Nation, Anna Lembke
• One Blade of Grass, Henry Shukman
• Money Mavericks, Lars Kroijer
• This Is Your Mind on Plants, Michael Pollan
• Piranesi, Susanna Clarke
• Slapstick, Kurt Vonnegut
• Educated, Tara Westover
• Project Hail Mary, Andy Weir
• The Snowball, Alice Schroeder
• The Art of Solitude, Stephen Batchelor
• Boyd, Robert Coram
• Freedom, Jonathan Franzen
• Green Hills of Africa, Ernest Hemingway
• Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency, Douglas Adams
• Wizard of the Upper Amazon, F. Bruce Lamb
• Confession of a Buddhist Atheist, Stephen Batchelor
• She Comes First, Ian Kerner
• A World Without Email, Cal Newport
• The Emperor of All Maladies, Siddhartha Mukherjee
• The Secret Chief Revealed, Myron J. Stolaroff
• I Saw Ramallah, Mourid Barghouti
• Thinking in Bets, Annie Duke
• Ten Arguments for Deleting Your Social Media Accounts Right Now, Jaron Lanier
• Endure, Alex Hutchinson
• Range, David Epstein
• Hackers and Painters, Paul Graham
• Catching the Big Fish, David Lynch
• The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald
• Siddhartha, Hermann Hesse
• Radical Acceptance, Tara Brach
• Samarkand, Amin Maalouf
• Love Yourself Like Your Life Depends on It, Kamal Ravikant
• Shōgun, James Clavell
• Buddhism Without Beliefs, Stephen Batchelor

2020

• Extraordinary Tennis for the Ordinary Player, Simon Ramo
• Benjamin Franklin, Walter Isaacson
• Palace of Desire, Naguib Mahfouz
• The Red Queen, Matt Ridley
• Business Adventures, John Brooks
• Musashi, Eiji Yoshikawa
• The Reluctant Mr. Darwin, David Quammen
• Season of Migration to the North, Tayeb Salih
• The Sandman, Neil Gaiman
• The Tigers of Mompracem, Emilio Salgari
• Into the Wild, Jon Krakauer
• Breakfast of Champions, Kurt Vonnegut
• Choke, Chuck Palahniuk
• Bruce Lee, Matthew Polly
• Waking Up, Sam Harris
• Heaven's River, Dennis E. Taylor
• A Thousand Splendid Suns, Khaled Hosseini
• Where Men Win Glory, Jon Krakauer
• The Things They Carried, Tim O’Brien
• Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind, Shunryu Suzuki
• The Edgar Allan Poe Audio Collection, Edgar Allan Poe
• The Truth, Terry Pratchett
• Good Habits, Bad Habits, Wendy Wood
• The Porn Trap, Wendy Maltz and Larry Maltz
• Stranger in a Strange Land, Robert A. Heinlein
• Coach, Michael Lewis
• Blood Meridian, Cormac McCarthy
• Recovery 2.0, Tommy Rosen
• Rework, Jason Fried and David Heinemeier Hansson
• Anna Karenina, Leo Tolstoy
• The Craving Mind, Judson Brewer
• You Are Not a Gadget, Jaron Lanier
• Cat's Cradle, Kurt Vonnegut
• Conscious, Annaka Harris
• The Tennis Partner, Abraham Verghese
• Mother Night, Kurt Vonnegut
• A Mind at Play, Jimmy Soni and Rob Goodman
• The Innocent Anthropologist, Nigel Barley
• The Secret Commonwealth, Philip Pullman
• On Identity, Amin Maalouf
• This Is Water, David Foster Wallace
• Sick Souls, Healthy Minds, John Kaag
• Ghostmaker, Dan Abnett
• First and Only, Dan Abnett
• Caffeine, Michael Pollan
• Iron John, Robert Bly
• Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, Robert M. Pirsig
• On Having No Head, Douglas Harding
• Tiny Habits, B. J. Fogg
• 10% Happier, Dan Harris
• Mindfulness in Plain English, Bhante Henepola Gunaratana
• Memoirs of Hadrian, Marguerite Yourcenar
• We Learn Nothing, Tim Kreider
• Blood of Elves, Andrzej Sapkowski
• Mechanicum, Graham McNeill
• Know No Fear, Dan Abnett
• Battle for the Abyss, Ben Counter
• The McKinsey Mind, Ethan M. Rasiel and Paul N. Friga
• Ready Player One, Ernest Cline
• All Systems Red, Martha Wells

2019

• The Samurai's Tale, Erik Christian Haugaard
• Hocus Pocus, Kurt Vonnegut
• The Durrells of Corfu, Michael Haag
• Anything You Want, Derek Sivers
• Istanbul, Orhan Pamuk
• Bottle of Lies, Katherine Eban
• The Transformed Cell, Steven Rosenberg
• Loner, Teddy Wayne
• Nutshell, Ian McEwan
• The India House, Sarah Levitt
• The Book of Dust, Philip Pullman
• Talking to Strangers, Malcolm Gladwell
• And Then There Were None, Agatha Christie
• Skin in the Game, Nassim Nicholas Taleb
• The Beekeeper of Aleppo, Christy Lefteri
• Atomic Habits, James Clear
• Say It Again, Derek Sivers
• Chess, Stefan Zweig
• The Light Fantastic, Terry Pratchett
• Into Thin Air, Jon Krakauer
• Ultralearning, Scott Young
• The Colour of Magic, Terry Pratchett
• Dune, Frank Herbert
• The Bridges at Toko-Ri, James A. Michener
• How to Change Your Mind, Michael Pollan
• Legion, Dan Abnett
• Mode One, Alan Roger Currie
• The Power Broker, Robert A. Caro
• Sex for One, Betty Dodson
• I Will Teach You to Be Rich, Ramit Sethi
• Stoner, John Williams
• Working, Robert A. Caro
• The Gift of Fear, Gavin de Becker
• Good Omens, Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman
• Alone on the Wall, Alex Honnold and David Roberts
• Fulgrim, Graham McNeill
• The Amber Spyglass, Philip Pullman
• The Subtle Knife, Philip Pullman
• The Ocean at the End of the Lane, Neil Gaiman
• The Flight of the Eisenstein, James Swallow
• Work Clean, Dan Charnas
• Men Without Women, Haruki Murakami
• Ultralight, Nate Green
• Northern Lights, Philip Pullman
• Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, John le Carré
• Digital Minimalism, Cal Newport
• Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World, Jack Weatherford
• The Magos, Dan Abnett
• Galaxy in Flames, Ben Counter
• False Gods, Graham McNeill
• The Better Angels of Our Nature, Steven Pinker
• Ravenor Returned, Dan Abnett
• Ravenor Rogue, Dan Abnett

2018

• Ravenor, Dan Abnett
• Rebecca, Daphne du Maurier
• Anansi Boys, Neil Gaiman
• The Sisters Brothers, Patrick deWitt
• The Godfather, Mario Puzo
• Why We Sleep, Matthew Walker
• The Simple Path to Wealth, J. L. Collins
• Hereticus, Dan Abnett
• The Singularity Trap, Dennis E. Taylor
• Malleus, Dan Abnett
• Xenos, Dan Abnett
• The Elements of Eloquence, Mark Forsyth
• I Can't Make This Up, Kevin Hart and Neil Strauss
• A Small Town in Germany, John le Carré
• AWOL on the Appalachian Trail, David Miller
• The Omnivore's Dilemma, Michael Pollan
• Cities of the Plain, Cormac McCarthy
• Kublai Khan, John Man
• The Crossing, Cormac McCarthy
• The Looking Glass War, John le Carré
• The Obesity Code, Jason Fung
• The Spy Who Came in from the Cold, John le Carré
• You Need a Budget, Jesse Mecham
• Slaughterhouse-Five, Kurt Vonnegut
• With the Old Breed, E. B. Sledge
• What Doesn't Kill Us, Scott Carney
• Children of Time, Adrian Tchaikovsky
• What I Talk About When I Talk About Running, Haruki Murakami
• The Glass Cage, Nicholas Carr
• The Return of the King, J. R. R. Tolkien
• The Moviegoer, Walker Percy
• The Two Towers, J. R. R. Tolkien
• The Fellowship of the Ring, J. R. R. Tolkien
• The Professor in the Cage, Jonathan Gottschall
• Solaris, Stanisław Lem
• Tides of War, Steven Pressfield
• Man's Search for Meaning, Viktor E. Frankl
• A Murder of Quality, John le Carré
• Colonel Roosevelt, Edmund Morris
• All These Worlds, Dennis E. Taylor
• For We Are Many, Dennis E. Taylor
• We Are Legion (We Are Bob), Dennis E. Taylor
• 12 Rules for Life, Jordan B. Peterson
• Managing Oneself, Peter F. Drucker
• Theodore Rex, Edmund Morris
• The Alchemist, Paulo Coelho
• Junky, William S. Burroughs
• The View from the Cheap Seats, Neil Gaiman
• Never Let Me Go, Kazuo Ishiguro
• Child of God, Cormac McCarthy

2017

• Neverwhere, Neil Gaiman
• Spy the Lie, Philip Houston, Michael Floyd, and Susan Carnicero
• You Need a Budget, Jesse Mecham
• No One Writes to the Colonel, Gabriel García Márquez
• Of Love and Other Demons, Gabriel García Márquez
• The Fight, Norman Mailer
• No More Champagne, David Lough
• The Arabs: A History, Eugene Rogan
• Antifragile, Nassim Nicholas Taleb
• Becoming a Barbarian, Jack Donovan
• Elon Musk, Ashlee Vance
• Mode One, Alan Roger Currie
• The Art of Learning, Josh Waitzkin
• A Wrestling Life, Dan Gable
• No Country for Old Men, Cormac McCarthy
• Blood Meridian, Cormac McCarthy
• Call for the Dead, John le Carré
• Negotiating with the Dead, Margaret Atwood
• Fooled by Randomness, Nassim Nicholas Taleb
• Sleep, Nick Littlehales
• Norse Mythology, Neil Gaiman
• All the Pretty Horses, Cormac McCarthy
• Born to Run, Christopher McDougall
• Solitude, Michael Harris
• War and Peace, Leo Tolstoy
• In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts, Gabor Maté
• Close Quarters, Larry Heinemann
• The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Milan Kundera
• Chapterhouse: Dune, Frank Herbert
• Essentialism, Greg McKeown
• Heretics of Dune, Frank Herbert
• Darkness Visible, William Styron
• Your Move, Ramit Sethi
• Lolita, Vladimir Nabokov
• How I Lost $170 Million, Noah Kagan
• War, Sebastian Junger
• Tribe, Sebastian Junger
• A Delicate Truth, John le Carré
• Extreme Ownership, Jocko Willink and Leif Babin
• Solving the Procrastination Puzzle, Timothy A. Pychyl
• The Demise of Guys, Philip Zimbardo and Nikita D. Coulombe
• Your Brain on Porn, Gary Wilson
• The Marvelous Misadventures of Ingrid Winter, J. S. Drangsholt
• Hooked, Nir Eyal
• Sex and the Citadel, Shereen El Feki
• All Quiet on the Western Front, Erich Maria Remarque
• Notorious, Allison Brennan
• On the Road, Jack Kerouac
• Time at War, Nicholas Mosley
• Asylum, Patrick McGrath
• String Theory, David Foster Wallace
• The Graveyard Book, Neil Gaiman
• King of the Gypsies, Peter Maas
• Searching for Bobby Fischer, Fred Waitzkin
• The Gastronomical Me, M. F. K. Fisher
• A Clockwork Orange, Anthony Burgess
• The Missing Ink, Philip Hensher
• American Gods, Neil Gaiman
• Fight Club, Chuck Palahniuk
• Sapiens, Yuval Noah Harari
• Levels of the Game, John McPhee
• The Rosie Project, Graeme Simsion
• Sleep, Nick Littlehales
• The Mystery of the Blue Train, Agatha Christie
• The Money Culture, Michael Lewis
• The Memory Code, Lynne Kelly
• The Checklist Manifesto, Atul Gawande
• An Appetite for Wonder, Richard Dawkins
• The Art of Discarding, Nagisa Tatsumi
• Make Love Like a Porn Star, Jenna Jameson and Neil Strauss
• Time of White Horses, Ibrahim Nasrallah
• Life on Hold, David K. Reynolds
• No Knives in the Kitchens of This City, Khaled Khalifa
• The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt, Edmund Morris
• Bird by Bird, Anne Lamott
• Carlos Gracie, Reila Gracie
• Thy Neighbor's Wife, Gay Talese
• Stardust, Neil Gaiman
• The End of Dieting, Joel Fuhrman
• Watch My Back, Geoff Thompson
• The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up, Marie Kondō
• Liar's Poker, Michael Lewis
• Boomerang, Michael Lewis
• The Blind Side, Michael Lewis
• Home Game, Michael Lewis
• Coach, Michael Lewis
• Moneyball, Michael Lewis
• The Big Short, Michael Lewis
• Flash Boys, Michael Lewis
• The Game Is Not Over, Krauser
• The Rational Male, Rollo Tomassi

2016

• A Fighter's Mind, Sam Sheridan
• Pimp, Iceberg Slim
• God Emperor of Dune, Frank Herbert
• The Autobiography of Malcolm X, Malcolm X and Alex Haley
• Win or Learn, John Kavanagh
• The Tiger, John Vaillant
• When Breath Becomes Air, Paul Kalanithi
• Shoe Dog, Phil Knight
• Children of Dune, Frank Herbert
• Dune Messiah, Frank Herbert
• Gates of Fire, Steven Pressfield
• The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck, Mark Manson
• One Hundred Years of Solitude, Gabriel García Márquez
• Chronicle of a Death Foretold, Gabriel García Márquez
• Innocent Eréndira and Other Stories, Gabriel García Márquez
• The Gallic Wars, Julius Caesar
• Strong Enough?, Mark Rippetoe
• The Extended Phenotype, Richard Dawkins
• Deep Work, Cal Newport
• Foundation, Isaac Asimov
• Dune, Frank Herbert
• The Dancing Girls of Lahore, Louise Brown
• Smarter Faster Better, Charles Duhigg
• A Farewell to Arms, Ernest Hemingway
• Ranger's Apprentice: The Royal Ranger, John Flanagan
• Ranger's Apprentice: The Lost Stories, John Flanagan
• Lord of Arabia, H. V. F. Winstone
• The Selfish Gene, Richard Dawkins
• Sex at Dawn, Christopher Ryan and Cacilda Jethá
• Waking Up, Sam Harris
• A Fall of Moondust, Arthur C. Clarke
• Vagabonding, Rolf Potts
• Catch-22, Joseph Heller