# Favorite Books

By Ryan Shea · 2026

### Philosophy & Spirituality

- **Finite and Infinite Games** — James Carse
- **Man's Search for Meaning** — Viktor E. Frankl
- **Tao Te Ching** — Lao Tzu
- **Meditations** — Marcus Aurelius
- **The Power of Now** — Eckhart Tolle
- **The Way to Love** — Anthony de Mello
- **Spiritual Enlightenment: The Damnedest Thing** — Jed McKenna
- **The Power of Myth** — Joseph Campbell

### Science Fiction

- **Project Hail Mary** — Andy Weir
- **The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress** — Robert Heinlein
- **Leviathan Wakes (The Expanse, #1)** — James Corey
- **Dune** — Frank Herbert
- **Altered Carbon** — Richard Morgan
- **Neuromancer** — William Gibson
- **Snow Crash** — Neal Stephenson
- **Prey** — Michael Crichton
- **Foundation Trilogy:** Foundation, Foundation and Empire, Second Foundation — Isaac Asimov
- **Remembrance of Earth's Past Trilogy:** The Three-Body Problem, The Dark Forest, Death's End — Liu Cixin

### Science & Systems

- **QED: The Strange Theory of Light and Matter** — Richard Feynman
- **The Structure of Scientific Revolutions** — Thomas S. Kuhn
- **The Book of Why** — Judea Pearl
- **The Beginning of Infinity** — David Deutsch
- **Thinking in Systems** — Donella Meadows

### Business & Entrepreneurship

- **The Four Steps to the Epiphany** — Steve Blank
- **Founders at Work** — Jessica Livingston
- **The Hard Thing About Hard Things** — Ben Horowitz
- **Crossing the Chasm** — Geoffrey A. Moore
- **Zero to One** — Peter Thiel
- **The Design of Everyday Things** — Donald A. Norman

### Politics, Economics & Society

- **On Liberty** — John Stuart Mill
- **Antifragile** — Nassim Taleb
- **The Myth of the Rational Voter** — Bryan Caplan

### Biography & History

- **Sapiens** — Yuval Noah Harari
- **The Better Angels of Our Nature** — Steven Pinker
- **The Idea Factory** — Jon Gertner
- **Steve Jobs** — Walter Isaacson
- **Elon Musk** — Ashlee Vance

### Psychology & Personal Development

- **The Way of the Superior Man** — David Deida
- **King, Warrior, Magician, Lover** — Robert Moore
- **Iron John** — Robert Bly

### Literary Fiction

- **Patriotism** — Yukio Mishima
- **The Alchemist** — Paulo Coelho
- **The Stranger** — Albert Camus
- **Siddhartha** — Hermann Hesse
- **The Kite Runner** — Khaled Hosseini
- **The Hobbit** — J.R.R. Tolkien
- **The Lord of the Rings Trilogy:** The Fellowship of the Ring, The Two Towers, The Return of the King — J.R.R. Tolkien