<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" version="2.0" xmlns:itunes="http://www.itunes.com/dtds/podcast-1.0.dtd" xmlns:googleplay="http://www.google.com/schemas/play-podcasts/1.0"><channel><title><![CDATA[TOMÁS X. VILLARREAL: Favorite Books]]></title><description><![CDATA[A list of the most impactful or interesting books I've read by year. ]]></description><link>https://www.tomasxvillarreal.com/s/favorite-books-by-year</link><image><url>https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!XrF2!,w_256,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F214fcadc-8683-45b6-8234-af8c5ad82af7_400x400.png</url><title>TOMÁS X. VILLARREAL: Favorite Books</title><link>https://www.tomasxvillarreal.com/s/favorite-books-by-year</link></image><generator>Substack</generator><lastBuildDate>Sat, 11 Apr 2026 08:16:37 GMT</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://www.tomasxvillarreal.com/feed" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><copyright><![CDATA[Tomas Xavier Villarreal]]></copyright><language><![CDATA[en]]></language><webMaster><![CDATA[tomasxvillarreal@substack.com]]></webMaster><itunes:owner><itunes:email><![CDATA[tomasxvillarreal@substack.com]]></itunes:email><itunes:name><![CDATA[TXV]]></itunes:name></itunes:owner><itunes:author><![CDATA[TXV]]></itunes:author><googleplay:owner><![CDATA[tomasxvillarreal@substack.com]]></googleplay:owner><googleplay:email><![CDATA[tomasxvillarreal@substack.com]]></googleplay:email><googleplay:author><![CDATA[TXV]]></googleplay:author><itunes:block><![CDATA[Yes]]></itunes:block><item><title><![CDATA[Favorite Books 2024]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Misbehavior of Markets by Benoit Mandelbrot]]></description><link>https://www.tomasxvillarreal.com/p/favorite-books-2024</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.tomasxvillarreal.com/p/favorite-books-2024</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[TXV]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 08 Jan 2025 08:38:42 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!XrF2!,w_256,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F214fcadc-8683-45b6-8234-af8c5ad82af7_400x400.png" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The Misbehavior of Markets by Benoit Mandelbrot</p><p>How to Decide by Annie Duke</p><p>Seven Brief Lessons on Physics by Carlo Rovelli</p><p>Zero to One by Peter Thiel</p><p>Poor Charlie&#8217;s Almanack by Charles T. Munger</p><p>This is Marketing by Seth Godin</p><p>Scaling People by. Claire Hughes Johnson</p><p>Mastery by Robert Greene</p><p>Breathe by Rickson Gracie</p><p>WAR by Sebastian Junger</p><p>Conscious by Annaka Harris</p><p>The Case Against Reality by Donald Hoffman</p><p>Expectations Investing by Michael J. Mauboussin</p><p>How States Think by John J. Mearsheimer</p><p>The Missing Billionaires by Victor Haghani, James White</p><p>Hell Yeah or No by Derek Sivers</p><p>Good to Great by Jim Collins</p><p>On Tyranny by Timothy Snyder</p><p>Liars Poker by Michael Lewis</p><p>In My Time of Dying by Sebastian Junger</p><p>Global Brain by Howard Bloom</p><p>Scale Geoffrey West</p><p>Complexity by M. Mitchell Waldrop</p><p>Why Nations Fail by Daron Acemoglu</p><p>Slow Productivity by Cal Newport</p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[Favorite Books 2023]]></title><description><![CDATA[Lying by Sam Harris]]></description><link>https://www.tomasxvillarreal.com/p/favorite-books-from-2023</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.tomasxvillarreal.com/p/favorite-books-from-2023</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[TXV]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 12 Sep 2024 21:03:01 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!XrF2!,w_256,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F214fcadc-8683-45b6-8234-af8c5ad82af7_400x400.png" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Lying by Sam Harris</p><p>Thinking in Systems by Donella H. Meadows</p><p>Playing to Win by Michael Lewis</p><p>12 Rules for Life by Jordan B. Peterson</p><p>The Paradox of Choice by Barry Schwartz</p><p>Richer, Wiser, Happier by William Green</p><p>The Laws of Human Nature by Robert Greene</p><p>Breath by James Nestor</p><p>The Creative Act by Rick Rubin</p><p>The Beginning of Infinity by David Deutsch</p><p>The 80/20 Principle by Richard Koch</p><p>The Art of Learning by Josh Waitzkin</p><p>The Price of Time by Edward Chancellor</p><p>The Lessons of History by Will &amp; Ariel Durant</p><p>Influence, the Psychology of Persuasion by Robert Cialdini</p><p>The Pleasure of Finding Things Out by Richard Feynman</p><p>The Joys of Compounding by Gautam Baid</p><p>Mastering the Market cycle by Howard Marks</p><p>Mushashi by Eiji Yoshikawa</p><p>Maps of Meaning by Jordan Peterson</p><p>Six Easy Pieces by Richard Feynman</p><p>Why Buddhism is True by Robert Wright</p><p>The Order of Time by Carlo Rovelli</p><p>Buffet by Roger Lowenstein</p><p>The Uncertainty Solution by John M. Jennings</p><p>The Gulag Archipelago 1918-1956 by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn</p><p>Fallen Leaves by Will Durant</p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[Favorite Books 2022]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Happiness Hypothesis by Jonathan Haidt]]></description><link>https://www.tomasxvillarreal.com/p/favorite-books-from-2022-160</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.tomasxvillarreal.com/p/favorite-books-from-2022-160</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[TXV]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 12 Sep 2024 21:00:54 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!XrF2!,w_256,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F214fcadc-8683-45b6-8234-af8c5ad82af7_400x400.png" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The Happiness Hypothesis by Jonathan Haidt</p><p>Man&#8217;s Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl</p><p>The Most Important Thing by Howard Marks</p><p>The Almanack of Naval Ravikant</p><p>The Coddling of the American Mind by Greg Lukianoff and Jonathan Haidt</p><p>Leadership: Six Studies in World Strategy by Henry Kissinger</p><p>Quit. by Annie Duke</p><p>Higher Love by Kit Deslauriers</p><p>In Order to Live by Yeonmi Park</p><p>Die with Zero by Bill Perkins</p><p>Principles by Ray Dalio</p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[Favorite Books 2021]]></title><description><![CDATA[Dune by Frank Herbert]]></description><link>https://www.tomasxvillarreal.com/p/favorite-books-2021</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.tomasxvillarreal.com/p/favorite-books-2021</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[TXV]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 04 Sep 2024 21:26:00 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!XrF2!,w_256,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F214fcadc-8683-45b6-8234-af8c5ad82af7_400x400.png" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Dune by Frank Herbert</p><p>Principles for Dealing with a Changing World by Ray Dalio</p><p>Layered Money by Nik Bhatia</p><p>World War Z by Max Brooks</p><p>2034 by Elliot Ackerman</p><p>Superforecasting by Philip Tetlock</p><p>Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro</p><p>Project Hail Mary by Andy Weier</p><p>The Exorcist by William Peter Blatty</p><p>Road to Jonestown by Jeff Guinn</p><p>Classic Krakauer by John Krakauer</p><p>Annihilation by Jeff VanderMeer</p><p>The Third Pole by Mark Synnott</p><p>Lone Survivor by Marcus Luttrell, Patrick Robinson</p><p>The Perfect Storm by Sebastian Junger</p><p>Super Pumped by Mike Isaac</p><p>Greenlights by Matthew McConauhey</p><p>How to Avoid a Climate Disaster by Bill Gates</p><p>Touching the Void by Joe Simpson</p><p>The Only Plane in the Sky by Garrett M. Graff</p><p>Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand</p><p>Meditations by Marcus Aurelius</p><p>Letters from a Stoic by Lucius Annaeus Seneca</p><p></p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[Favorite Books 2020]]></title><description><![CDATA[Eat a Peach by David Chang]]></description><link>https://www.tomasxvillarreal.com/p/favorite-books-2020</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.tomasxvillarreal.com/p/favorite-books-2020</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[TXV]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 03 Sep 2024 21:20:00 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!XrF2!,w_256,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F214fcadc-8683-45b6-8234-af8c5ad82af7_400x400.png" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Eat a Peach by David Chang</p><p>Atomic Habits by James Clear</p><p>Battlegrounds by H.R. McMaster</p><p>A Promised Land by Barack Obama</p><p>Skin in the Game by Nassim Nicholas Taleb</p><p>The Bed of Procrustes by Nassim Nicholas Taleb</p><p>Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman</p><p>Antifragile by Nassim Nicholas Taleb</p><p>The Psychology of Money by Morgan Housel</p><p>The Autobiography of Malcom X by Malcolm X</p><p>The Incredible Shrinking Alpha by Larry E. Swedroe</p><p>The Secret Race by Tyler Hamilton</p><p>American Heiress by Jeffrey Toobin</p><p>A Brief History of Seven Killings by Marlon James</p><p>Bossypants by Tina Fey</p><p>Circe by Madeline Miller</p><p>Stalling for Time by Gary Noesner</p><p>48 Laws of Power by Robert Greene</p><p>Exhalation by Ted Chiang</p><p>Eating Animals by Jonathan Safran Foer</p><p>Undisputed Truth by Mike Tyson</p><p>Five Days at Memorial by Sheri Fink</p><p>Moneyball by Michael Lewis</p><p>The Big Short by Michael Lewis</p><p>Why We Sleep by Matthew Walker</p><p>Caffeine by Michael Pollan</p><p>Your Money and Your Brain by Jason Zweig</p><p>In the Heart of the Sea by Nathaniel Philbrick</p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[Favorite Books 2019]]></title><description><![CDATA[Let My People Go Surfing by Yvon Chouinard, Naomi Klein]]></description><link>https://www.tomasxvillarreal.com/p/favorite-books-2018-e57</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.tomasxvillarreal.com/p/favorite-books-2018-e57</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[TXV]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 02 Sep 2024 21:15:00 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!XrF2!,w_256,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F214fcadc-8683-45b6-8234-af8c5ad82af7_400x400.png" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Let My People Go Surfing by Yvon Chouinard, Naomi Klein</p><p>Talking to Strangers by Malcolm Gladwell</p><p>Pachinko by Min Jin Lee</p><p>The River of Doubt by Candice Millard</p><p>The Shining by Stephen King</p><p>Pet Sematary by Stephen King</p><p>Artemis by Amndy Weir</p><p>The Desert and the Sea by Michael Scott Moore</p><p>Total Recall by Arnold Schwarzenegger</p><p>Fooled by Randomness by Nassim Nicholas Taleb</p><p>The Everything Store by Brad Stone</p><p>Alive by Piers Paul Read </p><p>Free Will by Sam Harris</p><p>The 4-Hour Workweek by Tim Ferris</p><p>Under the Banner of Heaven by John Krakaur</p><p>The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich by William L. Shirer</p><p>Kitchen Confidential by Anthony Bourdain</p><p>Eiger Dreams by John Krakauer</p><p>Red Notice by Bill Browder</p><p>The Wart of War by Sun Tzu</p><p>Shoe Dog by Phil Knight</p><p>Educated by Tara Westover</p><p>The Return by Hisham Matar</p><p>Never Split the Difference by Chris Voss</p><p>The Life Changing Magic of Tidying Up by Marie Kondo</p><p>Becoming by Michelle Obama</p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[Favorite Books 2018]]></title><description><![CDATA[Bad Blood by John Carreyrou]]></description><link>https://www.tomasxvillarreal.com/p/favorite-books-2018</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.tomasxvillarreal.com/p/favorite-books-2018</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[TXV]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 01 Sep 2024 21:08:00 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!XrF2!,w_256,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F214fcadc-8683-45b6-8234-af8c5ad82af7_400x400.png" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><em>Bad Blood</em> by John Carreyrou</p><p><em>Endurance</em> by Scott Kelly</p><p><em>David and Goliath</em> by Malcolm Gladwell</p><p><em>Desert Solitaire</em> by Edward Abbey</p><p><em>Outliers</em> by Malcolm Gladwell</p><p><em>The Martian</em> by Andy Weir</p><p><em>How to Change Your Mind</em> by Michael Pollan</p><p><em>Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat</em> by Samin Nosrat</p><p><em>Elon Musk</em> by Ashlee Vance</p><p><em>The Four Pillars of Investing</em> by William Bernstein</p><p><em>When Breath Becomes Air</em> by Paul Kalanithi</p><p><em>American Kingpin</em> by Nick Bilton</p><p><em>The Right Stuff</em> by Tom Wolfe</p><p><em>Born a Crime</em> by Trevor Noah</p><p><em>Endurance</em> by Alfred Lansing</p><p><em>Sapiens</em> by Yuval Noah Harari</p><p><em>The Three Body Problem Trilogy</em> by Cixin Liu</p><p><em>Ready Player One</em> by Ernest Cline</p><p><em>American Wolf</em> by Nate Blakeslee</p><p><em>Borne</em> by jeff VanderMeer</p><p><em>The Emerald Mile</em> by Kevin Fedarko</p>]]></content:encoded></item></channel></rss>