Lisa JY Tan

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Legend:
✔️ = I’ve read them
❤️ = I re-read them once every 12-18 months, religiously. They pretty much define my value-sets.

Top 100 Books I’d Recommend

There are too many books that I would like to read, but not all of them are good. So I will delete them as I finish each book, and keep only the top 100 books here.

    1. ✔️Slight Edge – Jeff Olson ❤️
    2. ✔️Eat That Frog – Brian Tracey ❤️
    3. ✔️Tipping Point – Malcolm Gladwell
    4. ✔️Predictably irrational – Dan Ariely
    5. ✔️80-20 – Marshall Perry
    6. ✔️Thinking Fast and Slow  – Daniel Kahneman
    7. The Practicing Mind – Thomas M Sterner
    8. Rich Dad Poor Dad – Robert Kiyosaki
    9. ✔️Lean Start Up – Eric Reis
    10. ✔️The Art of Possibility – Benjamin Zanders
    11. What Should I Do With My Life – Po Bronson
    12. Intelligent Investor – Benjamin Graham
    13. Abundance – Peter Diamandis
    14. Radical Acceptance: Embracing Your Life with the Heart of a Buddha – Tara Brach
    15. Maslows Hierarchy of Needs
    16. ✔️How to win friends and influence people
    17. How Much is Enough? Money and the Good Life – Robert and Edward Skidelsky
    18. ✔️Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World – Cal Newport
    19. How we know what isn’t so – Thomas Gilovich
    20. ✔️The Power of Habit – Charles Dunhigg
    21. ✔️Principles – Ray Dalio
    22. ✔️Think & Grow Rich – Napoleon Hill
    23. ✔️Zero to One – Peter Thiel
    24. The Foundation (Series) – Isaac Asimov
    25. The Shockwave Rider – John Brunner
    26. Smart Cuts – How hackers, innovators and Icons accelerate success – Shane Snow
    27. 1000 True Fans – Kevin Kelly
    28. ✔️Built to Sell: Creating a Business That Can Thrive Without You – John Warrillow
    29. Doing Good Better: How Effective Altruism Can Help You Make a Difference – William MacAskill
    30. ✔️The Presentation Secrets of Steve Jobs – Carmine Gallo
    31. Shawn Achor – Big Potential: How Transforming the Pursuit of Success Raises Our Achievement, Happiness, and Well-Being
    32. The Hundred Year Marathon – Michael Pillsbury
    33. Cashvertising – Drew Eric Whitman
    34. ✔️The Richest Man in Babylon
    35. ✔️How to Lie with Statistics – Darrell Huff
    36. ✔️Narconomics: How to Run a Drug Cartel – Tom Wainwright
    37. The Structure of Magic 1
    38. ✔️The Hard Thing about Hard Things – Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers – Ben Horowitz
    39. ✔️Outliers – Malcolm Gladwell
    40. ✔️The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People – Stephen Covey
    41. Pitch anything – Oren Klaff
    42. ✔️Freakonomics
    43. ✔️Find Your Why: A Practical Guide for Discovering Purpose for You and Your Team – Simon Sinek
    44. ✔️The Law of the Garbage Truck: How to Stop People from Dumping on You – David J Pollay
    45. Radical Candor – Kim Scott (good for team management)
    46. ✔️The Art of War 孙子兵法 – Sun Tzu (孙子)
    47. 22 Immutable Laws of Marketing – Al Rise
    48. Anything You Want –  Derek Sivers
    49. Positioning – Al Ries & Jack Trout
    50. Secrets Of Power Negotiating – Roger Dawson
    51. Instant Influence – Robert Cialdini
    52. ✔️Getting to YES – William Ury & Roger Fisher
    53. Bold – Peter Diamandis
    54. ✔️The Art of Public Speaking – Dale Carnegie
    55. The Shallows, What The Internet Is Doing To Our Brains – Nicholas Carr
    56. ✔️Anti-Fragile – Nassim Nicholas Taleb
    57. ✔️Skin in the Game – Nassim Nicholas Taleb
    58. ✔️Black Swan – Nassim Nicholas Taleb
    59. Meditations – Marcus Aurelius
    60. Sovereign Individual – James Dale Davidson & William Rees-Mogg
    61. 24 Assets: Create a digital, scalable, valuable and fun business that will thrive in a fast changing world – Daniel Priestley
    62. Rework – Jason Fried
    63. ✔️The Magic of Thinking Big – David Schwartz
    64. Revising Prose – Richard A Lanham
    65. Simple & Direct – Jacques Barzun
    66. Draft No. 4: On the Writing Process – John McPhee
    67. Rene Girard’s Mimetic Theory – Wolfgang Palaver
    68. Seven Brief Lessons on Physics – Carlo Rovelli
    69. Man’s Search for Meaning – Viktor E. Frankl
    70. The Undercover Economist – Tim Harford
    71. Life is So Good – George Dawson
    72. True Believer – Eric Hoffer
    73. Blue Highways – William Least Heat Moon
    74. War On The Boards: A Rebounding Manual – George Raveling
    75. Whiplash: How to Survive Our Faster Future – Joi Ito & Jeff Howe
    76. The Sorites Principle: How to harness the power of perseverance
    77. Verbal Judo: The Gentle Art of Persuasion – George J. Thompson, Jerry B. Jenkins
    78. Options, futures and other derivatives – John C. Hull
    79. The Feynman Lectures on Physics – Richard Feynman, Robert B. Leighton, Matthew L. Sands
    80. Don’t Make Me Think – Steve Krug
    81. ✔️The Design of Everyday Things
    82. Frogs Into Princes – Bandler and Grinder
    83. Trance-formations – Bandler and Grinder
    84. The Gift of Fear – Gavin de Becker
    85. Poor Charlies Almanack – Charlie Munger (Mental Models)
    86. Deep Simplicity: Bringing Order to Chaos and Complexity – John Gribbin
    87. ✔️The Power of TED (The Empower Dynamic) – David Emerald
    88. ✔️The upside of irrationality – Dan Ariely
    89. Algorithms to live by – Brian Christian
    90. ✔️Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets – Nassim Taleb
    91. ✔️21 Lessons for the 21st Century – Yuval Noah Harari
    92. ✔️Essentialism – Greg McKeown
    93. Crush it – Gary Vaynerchuk
    94. ✔️When China Rules the World – Martin Jacques
    95. The Great Transformation – Karl Polanyi
    96. Life 3.0: Being Human in the Age of Artificial Intelligence
    97. How Emotions Are Made: The Secret Life of the Brain
    98. The Economic Singularity: Artificial Intelligence and the Death of Capitalism
    99. Einstein: his life and universe – Walter Isaccson
    100. The Snowball: Warren Buffett and the Business of Life
    101. WTF? What’s the Future and Why It’s Up to Us – Tim O’Riley
    102. Intellectual – Boris Johnson
    103. ✔️Animal Farm – George Orwell
    104. ✔️The Predictioneer’s Game – Bruce Bueno De Mesquita
    105. Awareness – Anthony De Mello
    106. Amusing ourselves to death – Neil Postman
    107. Reckoning With Risk : Learning to Live With Uncertainty – Gerd Gigerenzer
    108. Gut Feeling: the intelligence of the unconscious – Gerd Gigerenzer
    109. The Innovator’s Dilemma – Clayton Christensen
    110. Capitalism with Chinese Characteristics: Entrepreneurship and the State – Yasheng Huang
    111. ✔️My Voice Will Go With You – Sidney Rosen ❤️
    112. Knowledge and Decisions – Thomas Sowell
    113. ✔️The Time Keeper – Mitch Albom ❤️
    114. ✔️Tuesdays with Morrie – Mitch Albom
    115. Be Here Now – Ram Dass
    116. ✔️The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power – Shoshana Zuboff
    117. The Greatest Salesman in the World – Og Mandino
    118. Failing Forward – John C Maxwell
    119. Drive: The Surprising Truth about What Motivates Us – Daniel Pink
    120. ✔️Fierce Conversations – Susan Scott
    121. Reminiscences of a Stock Operator – Edwin Lefèvre
    122. The Four Agreements – Don Miguel Ruiz
    123. The Power of Intention – Wayne Dyer
    124. The Surrender Experiment – Michael Singer
    125. Younger Next Year – Chris Crowley & Harry Lodge
    126. Unfinished business – Anne Marie Slaughter
    127. The design of experiments – Ronald Fischer
    128. Governing the Commons – Elinor Ostrom
    129. Thinking in Systems – Meadows
    130. Why Dissent Matters: Because Some People See Things the Rest of Us Miss – William Kaplan
    131. Confessions of an Economic Hitman
    132. The Ocean of Churn: How the Indian Ocean Shaped Human History by Sanjeev Sanyal
    133. A History of the World in 6 Glasses by Tom Standage