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.
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- ✔️Slight Edge – Jeff Olson ❤️
- ✔️Eat That Frog – Brian Tracey ❤️
- ✔️Tipping Point – Malcolm Gladwell
- ✔️Predictably irrational – Dan Ariely
- ✔️80-20 – Marshall Perry
- ✔️Thinking Fast and Slow – Daniel Kahneman
- The Practicing Mind – Thomas M Sterner
- Rich Dad Poor Dad – Robert Kiyosaki
- ✔️Lean Start Up – Eric Reis
- ✔️The Art of Possibility – Benjamin Zanders
- What Should I Do With My Life – Po Bronson
- Intelligent Investor – Benjamin Graham
- Abundance – Peter Diamandis
- Radical Acceptance: Embracing Your Life with the Heart of a Buddha – Tara Brach
- Maslows Hierarchy of Needs
- ✔️How to win friends and influence people
- How Much is Enough? Money and the Good Life – Robert and Edward Skidelsky
- ✔️Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World – Cal Newport
- How we know what isn’t so – Thomas Gilovich
- ✔️The Power of Habit – Charles Dunhigg
- ✔️Principles – Ray Dalio
- ✔️Think & Grow Rich – Napoleon Hill
- ✔️Zero to One – Peter Thiel
- The Foundation (Series) – Isaac Asimov
- The Shockwave Rider – John Brunner
- Smart Cuts – How hackers, innovators and Icons accelerate success – Shane Snow
- 1000 True Fans – Kevin Kelly
- ✔️Built to Sell: Creating a Business That Can Thrive Without You – John Warrillow
- Doing Good Better: How Effective Altruism Can Help You Make a Difference – William MacAskill
- ✔️The Presentation Secrets of Steve Jobs – Carmine Gallo
- Shawn Achor – Big Potential: How Transforming the Pursuit of Success Raises Our Achievement, Happiness, and Well-Being
- The Hundred Year Marathon – Michael Pillsbury
- Cashvertising – Drew Eric Whitman
- ✔️The Richest Man in Babylon
- ✔️How to Lie with Statistics – Darrell Huff
- Onwards – Howard Schultz
- The Virgin Way – Richard Branson
- ✔️Narconomics: How to Run a Drug Cartel – Tom Wainwright
- The Structure of Magic 1
- ✔️The Hard Thing about Hard Things – Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers – Ben Horowitz
- ✔️Outliers – Malcolm Gladwell
- ✔️The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People – Stephen Covey
- Pitch anything – Oren Klaff
- ✔️Freakonomics
- ✔️Find Your Why: A Practical Guide for Discovering Purpose for You and Your Team – Simon Sinek
- ✔️The Law of the Garbage Truck: How to Stop People from Dumping on You – David J Pollay
- Radical Candor – Kim Scott (good for team management)
- ✔️The Art of War 孙子兵法 – Sun Tzu (孙子)
- 22 Immutable Laws of Marketing – Al Rise
- Anything You Want – Derek Sivers
- Positioning – Al Ries & Jack Trout
- Secrets Of Power Negotiating – Roger Dawson
- Instant Influence – Robert Cialdini
- ✔️Getting to YES – William Ury & Roger Fisher
- Bold – Peter Diamandis
- ✔️The Art of Public Speaking – Dale Carnegie
- The Shallows, What The Internet Is Doing To Our Brains – Nicholas Carr
- ✔️Anti-Fragile – Nassim Nicholas Taleb
- ✔️Skin in the Game – Nassim Nicholas Taleb
- ✔️Black Swan – Nassim Nicholas Taleb
- Meditations – Marcus Aurelius
- Sovereign Individual – James Dale Davidson & William Rees-Mogg
- 24 Assets: Create a digital, scalable, valuable and fun business that will thrive in a fast changing world – Daniel Priestley
- Rework – Jason Fried
- ✔️The Magic of Thinking Big – David Schwartz
- Revising Prose – Richard A Lanham
- Simple & Direct – Jacques Barzun
- Draft No. 4: On the Writing Process – John McPhee
- ✔️Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind – Yuval Noah Harari
- Rene Girard’s Mimetic Theory – Wolfgang Palaver
- Seven Brief Lessons on Physics – Carlo Rovelli
- Man’s Search for Meaning – Viktor E. Frankl
- The Undercover Economist – Tim Harford
- Life is So Good – George Dawson
- True Believer – Eric Hoffer
- Blue Highways – William Least Heat Moon
- War On The Boards: A Rebounding Manual – George Raveling
- Whiplash: How to Survive Our Faster Future – Joi Ito & Jeff Howe
- The Sorites Principle: How to harness the power of perseverance
- Verbal Judo: The Gentle Art of Persuasion – George J. Thompson, Jerry B. Jenkins
- Options, futures and other derivatives – John C. Hull
- The Feynman Lectures on Physics – Richard Feynman, Robert B. Leighton, Matthew L. Sands
- Don’t Make Me Think – Steve Krug
- ✔️The Design of Everyday Things
- Frogs Into Princes – Bandler and Grinder
- Trance-formations – Bandler and Grinder
- Change your Mind and Keep the Change – Steve and Connirae
- Speaking Up Without Freaking Out – Matt Abrahams
- Breakthrough Advertising – Eugene M. Schwartz
- The Gift of Fear – Gavin de Becker
- Poor Charlies Almanack – Charlie Munger (Mental Models)
- Deep Simplicity: Bringing Order to Chaos and Complexity – John Gribbin
- ✔️The Power of TED (The Empower Dynamic) – David Emerald
- ✔️Wealth of Nations – Adam Smith
- ✔️The upside of irrationality – Dan Ariely
- Algorithms to live by – Brian Christian
- ✔️Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets – Nassim Taleb
- Behave The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst – Robert Sapolsky.
- Six Billion Shoppers: The Companies Winning the Global E-Commerce Boom – Porter Erisman (case study on e-commerce)
- The Big Shot – Michael Lewis
- ✔️21 Lessons for the 21st Century – Yuval Noah Harari
- The Paradox of Choice Why More is Less – Barry Schwartz
- Attention and Effort – Daniel Kahneman
- The Untouched Key: Tracing Childhood Trauma in Creativity and Destructiveness – Alice Miller
- Emotional Intelligence: Why it Can Matter More Than IQ – Daniel Goleman
- Whoever Fights Monsters: My Twenty Years Tracking Serial Killers for the FBI – Robert K. Ressler
- Be More Pirate: Or How to Take On the World and Win – Sam Conniff Allende
- ✔️Essentialism – Greg McKeown
- ✔️Grit – Angela Duckworth
- ✔️Can’t hurt me – David Goggins
- Crush it – Gary Vaynerchuk
- ✔️When China Rules the World – Martin Jacques
- The Great Transformation – Karl Polanyi
- ✔️Super AI powers – Kai-Fu Lee
- Singapore, A modern History – Michael D Barr
- The Pursuit of Happyness – Chris Gardner
- Life 3.0: Being Human in the Age of Artificial Intelligence
- How Emotions Are Made: The Secret Life of the Brain
- The Economic Singularity: Artificial Intelligence and the Death of Capitalism
- Einstein: his life and universe – Walter Isaccson
- The Snowball: Warren Buffett and the Business of Life
- WTF? What’s the Future and Why It’s Up to Us – Tim O’Riley
- Elephant in the Brain – Kevin Simler
- Intellectual – Boris Johnson
- ✔️Animal Farm – George Orwell
- ✔️The Predictioneer’s Game – Bruce Bueno De Mesquita
- Awareness – Anthony De Mello
- Amusing ourselves to death – Neil Postman
- Reckoning With Risk : Learning to Live With Uncertainty – Gerd Gigerenzer
- Gut Feeling: the intelligence of the unconscious – Gerd Gigerenzer
- ✔️Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
- The Self-Driven Child – William Stixrud
- The New Rules of War – Sean McFate
- The Mastermind – Evan Ratliff
- The Big Nine – Amy Webb
- The Alter Ego Effect – Todd Herman
- Roman Empire and the Silk Routes – Raoul McLaughlin
- Lost in Math – Sabine Hossenfelder
- Financial Freedom – Grant Sabatier
- Disrupt Her – Miki Agrawal
- Coders – Clive Thompson
- Code Name Lise – Larry Loftis
- Reality Is Not What It Seems – Carlo Rovelli
- The Innovator’s Dilemma – Clayton Christensen
- Capitalism with Chinese Characteristics: Entrepreneurship and the State – Yasheng Huang
- ✔️My Voice Will Go With You – Sidney Rosen ❤️
- Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion – Robert B. Cialdini
- The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared – Jonas Jonasson
- The Great Convergence: Asia, the West, and the Logic of One World – Kishore Mahbubani
- Knowledge and Decisions – Thomas Sowell
- Conversations with God – Neale Donald
- The War of Art – Steven Pressfield
- ✔️The Time Keeper – Mitch Albom ❤️
- ✔️Tuesdays with Morrie – Mitch Albom
- Be Here Now – Ram Dass
- ✔️The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power – Shoshana Zuboff
- The Greatest Salesman in the World – Og Mandino
- Failing Forward – John C Maxwell
- Drive: The Surprising Truth about What Motivates Us – Daniel Pink
- Seven Strategies for Wealth and Happiness – John Rohn
- The Thank You Economy – Gary Vaynerchuk
- The Science of Getting Rich – Wallace D Wattles
- Disciplined Entrepreneurship: 24 Steps to a Successful Startup – Bill Aulet
- ✔️The Gene – Siddhartha Mukherjee
- Small is beautiful – Ernst Friedrich Schumacher
- ✔️Fierce Conversations – Susan Scott
- Reminiscences of a Stock Operator – Edwin Lefèvre
- The Four Agreements – Don Miguel Ruiz
- The Power of Intention – Wayne Dyer
- The Surrender Experiment – Michael Singer
- Younger Next Year – Chris Crowley & Harry Lodge
- Unfinished business – Anne Marie Slaughter
- The design of experiments – Ronald Fischer
- Governing the Commons – Elinor Ostrom
- Thinking in Systems – Meadows
- Why Dissent Matters: Because Some People See Things the Rest of Us Miss – William Kaplan
- Decide to play great poker – Annie Duke
- Confessions of an Economic Hitman
- Asia Reborn: A Continent Rises from the Ravages of Colonialism and War to a New Dynamism by Prasenjit K. Basu
- The Ocean of Churn: How the Indian Ocean Shaped Human History by Sanjeev Sanyal
- A History of the World in 6 Glasses by Tom Standage