tyler tarsi
2025 july

books

Here are some books that have impacted my world view.

Science Fiction

  • A Deepness in the Sky and A Fire Upon the Deep by Vernor Vinge
  • Three Body Problem and Dark Forest by Cixin Liu
  • Daemon and Freedom by Daniel Suarez
  • Cryptonomicon and Diamond Age by Neal Stephenson
  • Dune, Dune Messiah, Children of Dune by Frank Herbert
  • Pandora's Star by Peter Hamilton
  • Stories of Your Life and Others by Ted Chiang
  • Vorkosigan Saga by Lois McMaster Bujold

Non-Fiction

  • Chip War by Chris Miller
  • Elon Musk by Walter Isaacson
  • The Hard Thing About Hard Things by Ben Horowitz
  • Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life by William Finnegan

Life & Philosophy

  • Courage to Be Disliked by Fumitake Koga and Ichiro Kishimi
  • Meditations by Marcus Aurelius
  • The Book by Alan Watts
  • Not Fade Away by Peter Barton

Fiction

  • The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky
  • The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand
  • The Stranger by Albert Camus