My Bookshelf

“The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest minds of past centuries.” — René Descartes

Reading is a lifelong project. My goal is to read deeply across multiple dimensions—technology, philosophy, literature, science, and human dynamics. Here is my evolving library of books I have finished and those I am planning to tackle next.

🔍 Reading Legend

• [x] Completed — Books I have read, analyzed, and integrated into my thinking.
• [ ] Planned / Queue — Books I plan to read or am currently exploring.

📖 Classical Literature & Fiction

Fyodor Dostoevsky

• White Nights
• Notes from Underground
• Crime and Punishment
• The Brothers Karamazov
• The Idiot
• Demons

Leo Tolstoy

• The Death of Ivan Ilyich
• War and Peace
• Anna Karenina

Classics & Historical

• The Count of Monte Cristo — Alexandre Dumas
• The Divine Comedy — Dante Alighieri

Dystopian & Existential Fiction

• Animal Farm — George Orwell
• 1984 — George Orwell
• The Metamorphosis — Franz Kafka
• Farewell, My Lovely — Raymond Chandler
• Lord of the Flies — William Golding

🧭 Philosophy & Existential Thought

Existentialism & Human Condition

• Thus Spoke Zarathustra — Friedrich Nietzsche
• The Antichrist — Friedrich Nietzsche
• Twilight of the Idols — Friedrich Nietzsche
• The Gay Science — Friedrich Nietzsche
• Beyond Good and Evil — Friedrich Nietzsche
• The Stranger — Albert Camus
• The Myth of Sisyphus — Albert Camus
• Man’s Search for Meaning — Viktor Frankl

Ancient Philosophy & Stoicism

• The Republic — Plato
• Meditations — Marcus Aurelius
• Nicomachean Ethics — Aristotle
• The Metaphysics — Aristotle

Epistemology & Metaphysics

• The Ethics — Spinoza
• Critique of Pure Reason — Immanuel Kant
• On Perpetual Peace — Immanuel Kant
• Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus — Ludwig Wittgenstein
• The World as Will and Representation — Arthur Schopenhauer

Rhetoric & Logic

• The Art of Rhetoric — Aristotle
• The Power of Logic

Ethics & Animal Philosophy

• Animal Liberation — Peter Singer

👑 Strategy, Psychology & Human Dynamics

Psychology & Human Behavior

• Thinking, Fast and Slow — Daniel Kahneman
• The Social Animal — David Brooks
• Civilization and its Discontents — Sigmund Freud
• Quiet — Susan Cain
• Emotional Intelligence — Daniel Goleman

Influence & Strategy

• How to Win Friends and Influence People — Dale Carnegie
• Unmasking the Social Engineer — Christopher Hadnagy
• The Art of Deception — Kevin Mitnick
• Influence — Robert Cialdini
• The Laws of Human Nature — Robert Greene

Personal Effectiveness & Soft Skills

• The War of Art — Steven Pressfield
• The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People — Stephen Covey
• The Psychology of Money — Morgan Housel
• Tus Zonas Erróneas — Wayne Dyer
• The Lean Startup — Eric Ries
• How to Listen, Hear & Validate
• How to Read a Book

Communication & Leadership

• The Art of Communication — Judy Apps
• Essentials of Communication Skills and Skill Enhancement
• Communication Patterns — O’Reilly
• Learning Agile — Jennifer Greene
• Organizational Culture and Leadership (5th Edition)
• Leading with Strategy — Timothy Tiryaki

💻 Computer Science & Software Engineering

Software Engineering & Best Practices

• Clean Code — Robert C. Martin
• Clean Architecture — Robert C. Martin
• Software Engineering at Google — Titus Winters & Tom Manshreck
• Grokking Algorithms — Aditya Y. Bhargava
• Cracking the Coding Interview — Gayle Laakmann McDowell
• The Pragmatic Programmer — Dave Thomas & Andy Hunt
• Refactoring — Martin Fowler
• Fundamentals of Software Engineering — Richard Baskerville & Brent Baskerville
• Código Sostenible: Cómo Programar Código Fácil de Mantener — Carlos Blé

Architecture & Data Systems

• Designing Data-Intensive Applications 2nd Edition — Martin Kleppmann
• Software Architecture: The Hard Parts — Neal Ford, Mark Richards, Pramod Sadalage
• Building Microservices (2nd Edition) — Sam Newman
• Acing the System Design Interview — Zhiyong Tan

Artificial Intelligence & Future Tech

• Superintelligence — Paths, Dangers, Strategies — Nick Bostrom
• AI Engineering — Chip Huyen
• Hands-On Machine Learning with Scikit-Learn, TensorFlow & Keras — Aurélien Géron
• RAG with Python Cookbook — O’Reilly

Design Patterns

• API Design Patterns — Manning

📊 Business & Entrepreneurship

Entrepreneurship & Startups

• The Startup Checklist — David Rose & Michael P. Baxter

🔬 Scientific & Analytical Thinking

Cosmology & Physics

• Brief Answers to the Big Questions — Stephen Hawking
• The Elegant Universe — Brian Greene
• Cosmos — Carl Sagan

Information & Systems

• The Signal and the Noise — Nate Silver
• The Beginning of Infinity — David Deutsch
• The Information — James Gleick
• Data Science from Scratch (2nd Edition) — Joel Grus

Biology & Health

• Why We Sleep — Matthew Walker

Business & Economics

• How Business Works: The Facts Visually Explained

✅ Final Thoughts

This is a living list. I’ll update it as I discover new books and finish others.

If you have any recommendations aligned with my interests, I’d love to hear them! Contact me at my email: crisarandosyse@gmail.com