2026
01
2025
09
- 2ChinaTravel
Age of Ambition
- 2ChinaTravel
Oracle Bones
Not as good as River Town because it felt more like a collection of random events rather than having one clear storyline. The stories were mostly good and interesting but could have been more about regular life in there rather than some political events.
- 2Fiction
Death’s End
- 1Textbook
Hacking
The material felt outdated and not relevant at least for my needs.
- 3Business
The Fund
The author told the real story of Ray Dalio and Bridgewater, his hedge fund. He had interviewed a lot of former and current employees at the company which gave more realistic picture of Ray’s management style which weren’t always as he tried to make it seem. The book was eye opening for me because I didn’t realize how much this kind of funds can make profit and how much they afforded to waste to pointless projects/employees. I was also amazed by how the results weren’t even that unrealistic but apparently they used simple investments models and the main reason why they made so much money were because Ray were able to convince a lot of institutional investors to invest to the fund.
- 3Business
Option Volatility & Pricing
Dark Forest
Three Body Problem
- 3Cyber Security
Pegasus
Story about how reporters got access to a list of targets to the Pegasus spyware. The content wasn’t very technical and more from reporters’ point of view.
2024
12
- 4JapanArt
Lost Japan
Author’s story how he moved to Japan (Kyoto) and as an art collector talks about Japanese art and culture.
- 3ChinaTravel
China Road
- 3ChinaBusiness
CEO, China
- 3True StoryCrime
Killing Pablo
- ChinaTravel
Lost on Planet China
- 3True Story
Black Hawk Down
- 4ChinaTravel
River Town
- 3
Beijing Rules
- 4JapanBiography
Tokyo Vice
- 5FictionChina
Death’s End
- 5FictionChina
Dark Forest
- 5FictionChina
3 Body Problem
2023
07
Secrets of Sand Hill Road
- Fiction
Life of Pi
- Biography
Shoe Dog
- BiographyEngineering
Skunk Works
- Fiction
The Templars
- Fiction
Deception Point
- 0Fiction
Altar of Eden
2022
16
Shenzhen Superstars
Being You
Console Wars
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An Elegant Puzzle
- Productivity
Make Time
- Productivity
Show your work!
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Traction
- Productivity
Deep Work
- Poker
Every Hand Revealed
- Poker
Play Optimal Poker
- Fiction
Da Vinci Code
- Fiction
Angels & Demons
- Fiction
The Lost Symbol
- Fiction
Inferno
- Fiction
Origin
- No imageFiction
Full Circle
2021
30
The art of doing science and engineering
- No image
Handbook for Finnish start-ups for entering Chinese markets
AI Superpowers
- No image5
A Brief History of Time
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China’s Mobile Economy
Lean Startup
- 5
A Brief History of Time
- No image
Competitive Coding Handbook
Reinforcement Learning: An Introduction
Ethereum for Dummies
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Statistical Treatment of Findings
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Introduction to Statistical Inference
Blockchain for Dummies
- No image
Walt Disney
21 Lessons for the 21st Century
A Thousand Brains
Hackers and Painters
4 Hour Work Week
Leonardo da Vinci
Atomic Habits
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How to Create a Mind
- 5
American Kingpin
- 4
Greenlights
Radical Markets
Tech Titans of China
Innovation Ecosystem in India
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Investment & Advisory for Startups and Businesses
The man who knew the way to the moon
- 5
The science of Interstellar
- No image
Equity Compensations
2020
26
Hooked
Platform Revolution
- 4
Every tool’s a hammer
- 4
The Art of Game Design
- No image
Designing Great Data Products
- 5
Creativity Inc.
The war of art
- No image
Virtual & Augmented Reality for Dummies
- No image
Creating augmented and virtual realities
- 2
How to win friends and influence people
The Dip
- 5
Permanent Record
The Magic of Thinking Big
- 4
The Lean Startup
- 3
Lean Analytics
- 3
Edison
- 3
iWoz
- 4
Zero to One
- 3
The Singularity Is Near
- 4
Sapiens
- 3
Homo Deus
Infinite Retina
- No image5
American Kingpin
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Beginning ARKit for iPhone and iPad
The History of the Future
- No image
Accounting for dummies
2019
05
The New China Playbook
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Learning to Learn
Clean Code
- No image5
American Kingpin
- 4
Zero to One