My only measure for books is “does it stick with me?”. They happen to also be the books that I like to re-read. The following are books that have stuck with me for some reason (which are sometimes very random).
- A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles
- The Accidental Superpower by Peter Zeihan
- Albert Einstein: Creator and Rebel by Banesh Hoffmann with Helen Dukas
- The Last Lion, Volume 2 by William Manchester
- Altered Carbon by Richard K. Morgan
- Amp It Up by Frank Slootman
- Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand
- Bad Science by Ben Goldacre
- Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life by William Finnegan
- Blindsight by Peter Watts
- The Bone Clocks by David Mitchell
- Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson
- Draft No. 4 by John McPhee
- Elon Musk by Walter Isaacson
- Fall; or, Dodge in Hell by Neal Stephenson
- The Fish That Ate the Whale by Rich Cohen
- House of Suns by Alastair Reynolds
- Hyperion by Dan Simmons
- There is No Antimemetics Division by qntm
- 1984 by George Orwell
- Now It Can Be Told by General Leslie R. Groves
- Only Forward by Michael Marshall Smith
- The Overstory by Richard Powers
- The Power of One by Bryce Courtenay
- Rainbows End by Vernor Vinge
- Ra by qntm
- Reamde by Neal Stephenson
- Redemption Ark by Alastair Reynolds
- Revelation Space by Alastair Reynolds
- The Score Takes Care of Itself by Bill Walsh
- Seveneves by Neal Stephenson
- The Secret Life of Oaks by Peter Wohlleben
- Shantaram by Gregory David Roberts
- Shoe Dog by Phil Knight
- Shogun by James Clavell
- Skunk Works by Ben R. Rich and Leo Janos
- Spin by Robert Charles Wilson
- The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
- Swimming Across by Andrew S. Grove
- Termination Shock by Neal Stephenson
- The Wright Brothers by David McCullough
- Zero to One by Peter Thiel with Blake Masters