booklist

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favorites

• the count of monte cristo by alexandre dumas
  • imo its the perfect story
• napoleon by andrew roberts
  • the most interesting man of destiny
• return to the little kingdom by michael moritz
  • raw ambition and brilliant obsession in a garage

other books i've enjoyed

• master and commander series by patrick o'brian
  • friendship, competence, and the age of sail
• all creatures great and small by james herriot
  • incredibly funny, and heartfelt
• mere christianity by c.s. lewis
  • belief without abandoning intellectual honesty
• salt fat acid heat by samin nosrat
  • master the fundamentals and improvisation follows
• sharpe's rifles series by bernard cornwell
  • honor and grit in impossible circumstances
• tai-pan by james clavell
  • power and commerce
• nine algorithms that changed the world by john maccormick
  • a great understanding of the mathematics that runs our lives
• musashi by eiji yoshikawa
  • mastery requires solitude and sacrifice
• foundation series by isaac asimov
  • individuals matter, even in the face of historical inevitability
• the rising sun by john toland
  • culture drives strategy more than strategy drives culture
• the decline and fall of the roman empire by edward gibbon
  • essential once you finish 'the history of rome' by mike duncan
• i, claudius by robert graves
  • survive by being underestimated
• spqr by mary beard
  • rome's lessons echo through every modern institution