Library
Some of my favorite books and documentaries in rough order of preference.
Books ▼
Legends of the Fall
Jim Harrison
Men To Match My Mountains: The Opening of the Far West 1840-1900
Irving Stone
The Years of Lyndon Johnson
Robert A. Caro
The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York
Robert A. Caro
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Oscar Wilde
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values
Robert M. Pirsig
A Gentleman in Moscow
Amor Towles
The Alchemy of Air: A Jewish Genius, a Doomed Tycoon, and the Scientific Discovery That Fed the World but Fueled the Rise of Hitler
Thomas Hager
The Story of Civilization
Will Durant
The Bonanza King: John Mackay and the Battle over the Greatest Riches in the American West
Gregory Crouch
Tuxedo Park: A Wall Street Tycoon and the Secret Palace of Science That Changed the Course of World War II
Jennet Conant
The Wright Brothers
David McCullough
The Box: How the Shipping Container Made the World Smaller and the World Economy Bigger
Marc Levinson
The Last Lone Investor
John Wasik
The Fish That Ate the Whale: The Life and Times of America's Banana King
Rich Cohen
Born Standing Up: A Comic's Life
Steve Martin
Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly
Anthony Bourdain
McIlhenny's Gold: How a Louisiana Family Built the Tabasco Empire
Jeffrey Rothfeder
Becoming Trader Joe
Joe Coulombe
A Million Little Pieces
James Frey
Based on a True Story
Norm Macdonald
Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!: Adventures of a Curious Character
Richard Feynman
The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics
Daniel James Brown
Working: Researching, Interviewing, Writing
Robert A. Caro
Skin in the Game: The Hidden Asymmetries in Daily Life
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
The Intelligent Investor
Benjamin Graham
The Fountainhead
Ayn Rand
Documentaries ▼
The Vietnam War
Ken Burns & Lynn Novick
The Brooklyn Bridge
Ken Burns
Lewis & Clark: The Journey of the Corps of Discovery
Ken Burns
Operation Odessa
Tiller Russell
New York: A Documentary Film
Ric Burns
The War
Ken Burns & Lynn Novick
Empire of the Air: The Men Who Made Radio
Ken Burns