04 Aug 2017

Book Tracking & Recommendations

A curated list of the books I'd recommend.

Books I’ve Read

  • Antifragility - How to Live in a World We Don’t Understand
  • Benjamin Franklin’s Autobigoraphy
  • Born a Crime
  • Bossypants (Tina Fey’s Autobiography)
  • Defining Decade
  • Drive - The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us
  • Eat That Frog!
  • Ego is the Enemy
  • Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future
  • Excellent Sheep: The Miseducation of the American Elite and the Way to a Meaningful Life
  • First They Killed My Father
  • Flourish
  • Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets
  • Freakonomics
  • French Women Don’t Get Facelifts
  • Game of Thrones Series
  • Give and Take
  • Guns, Germs, & Steel
  • Harry Potter Series
  • Hillbilly Elegy
  • How Google Works
  • How Successful People Think (John Maxwell)
  • How to Be a High School Superstar
  • How to Talk to Anyone
  • Invisible Gorilla
  • Lean In
  • Made to Stick
  • Nice Girls Don’t Get the Corner Office
  • Personal Finance in Your 20s
  • Presentation Zen
  • Rich Dad Poor Dad
  • Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
  • Shoe Dog: A Memoir by the Creator of Nike
  • Six Pillars of Self-Esteem
  • So Good They Can’t Ignore You
  • Steve Jobs Autobiography
  • Super Freakonomics
  • The 100 Simple Secrets of Happy People
  • The 7 Habits of Highly Successful People
  • The Art of Happiness
  • The Charisma Myth
  • The Compound Effect
  • The Dip (Seth Godin)
  • The Invisible Gorilla
  • The Lean Startup
  • The Power of Habit
  • The Power of Now
  • The Shack
  • The Subtle Art of Not Giving a Fuck
  • The Virgin Way
  • The 4-Hour Workweek
  • Things I Wish My Mother Had Told Me
  • Think Like a Freak: The Authors of Freakonomics Retrain Your Brain
  • Unbroken
  • What Color is Your Parachute?
  • What Every BODY is Saying
  • Why Marriages Succeed and Fail
  • Why Nations Fail
  • Why We Get Fat
  • Willpower Instinct
  • Yes, Please

The Favorites

As you can tell, I read a ton of non-fiction. Of the list above, my favorites are:

  • Give and Take

  • Steve Jobs’ Autobiography

  • The Charisma Myth

  • Lean In

  • The Subtle Art of Not Giving a Fuck

  • Why Marriages Succeed and Fail