Bookshelf

Sometimes people ask me what books I'm reading or what they should read. I made this simple overview to help them pick their next book. It's tough as everyone's preferences are different. The order does not indicate preference.

• The windup bird Chronicles - Haruki Murakami (I love Haruki Murakami, and believe this is his best work)
• The hard thing about hard things - Ben Horowitz
• How to win friends & influence people - Dale Carnegie
• Man in the Dark - Paul Auster
• What I talk about when I talk about running - Haruki Murakami
• Into thin air - Jon Krakauer
• Walt Disney - Neal Gabler
• Losing my virginity - Richard Branson (I found a signed copy of this book on a Ryan Air flight, how ironic)
• The Pixar touch - David A. Price
• Shoe Dog - Phil Knight
• A Brief History of Time - Stephen Hawking
• Start with why - Simon Sinek
• Zen and the art of motorcycle maintenance - Robert M. Pirsig
• Le tour du monde en 80 jours - Jules Verne
• Delivering Happiness - Tony Hseih
• Flow - Mihaly Csikszntmihalyi
• The call of the wild - Jack London
• Bright lights, big city - Jay McInerney
• Thinking fast and slow - Daniel Kahneman
• Influence - Robert B. Cialdini
• The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People - Stephen R. Covey
• The Black Swan - Nassim Nicholas Taleb
• Man’s search for meaning - Viktor E. Frankl
• Made In America - Sam Walton
• Antifragile - Nassim Nicholas Taleb
• Principles - Ray Dalio
• Ender’s Game - Orson Scott Card
• The Three Body Problem - Liu Cixin
• Venture deals - Brad Feld & Jason Mendelson - Book on VC and how startup equity works. Recommend everyone considering working/already working at a startup to read this.
• A long walk to freedom - Nelson Mandela
• eBoys - Randall Stross
• Alibaba - Duncan Clark
• Longitude - Dava Sobel
• Homegoing - Yaa Gyasi
• Creative Selection - Ken Kocienda
• Becoming - Michelle Obama
• The score takes care of itself - Bill Walsh - Build systems, not goals.
• The Arsenal of Democracy - AJ Baime - how the Ford Motor Company went from building cars to producing a bomber a day during WW2
• Why We Sleep - Matthew Walker
• The Goal - Eli Goldratt - manufacturing!
• Empires of Light - Jill Jonnes - the battle between Edison, Westinghouse and Tesla at the end of the 19th century
• The Outsiders - SE Hinton - Very insightful book on how operator-capital managers can allocate cash in their business
• One up on Wall Street - Peter Lynch
• Never split the difference - Chris Voss
• How Google Works - Eric Schmidt
• Life 3.0 - Max Tegmark