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

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