Bookshelf

This is my running book list, organized by topic. I'm always looking for recommendations, so please feel welcome to send any my way. @ap3co

Business & Strategy

Books on business strategy, management, entrepreneurship, and organizational development.

$100M Offers: How to Make Offers So Good People Feel Stupid Saying No, Alex Hormozi
The 15 Commitments of Conscious Leadership, Jim Dethmer, Diana Chapman, Kaley Klemp
48 Laws of Power, Robert Greene
7 Powers: The Foundations of Business Strategy (pdf), Hamilton Helmer
7 Rules of Power, Jeffrey Pfeffer
Accelerate: Building and Scaling High Performing Technology Organizations, Nicole Forsgren
The Anatomy of the Swipe, Ahmed Siddiqui, Nicholas Straight
Amp It Up: Leading for Hypergrowth by Raising Expectations, Increasing Urgency, and Elevating Intensity, Frank Slootman
The Art of Gathering, Priya Parker
The Art of the Start: The Time-Tested, Battle-Hardened Guide for Anyone Starting Anything, Guy Kawasaki
Build: An Unorthodox Guide to Making Things Worth Making, Tony Fadell
Continuous Discovery Habits, Teresa Torres
Crossing the Chasm: Marketing and Selling High-Tech Products to Mainstream Customers, Geoffrey A. Moore
DisneyWar, James B. Stewart
Do the Work, Steven Pressfield
Double Your Profits, Bob Fifer
An Elegant Puzzle: Systems of Engineering Management, Will Larson
Empowered: Ordinary People, Extraordinary Products, Marty Cagan, Chris Jones
Extreme Ownership, Jocko Willink, Leif Babin
Getting Things Done, David Allen
Good Strategy Bad Strategy: The Difference and Why It Matters, Richard P. Rumelt
The Great CEO Within, Matt Mochary
Great by Choice: Uncertainty, Chaos, and Luck—Why Some Thrive Despite Them All, Jim Collins
Helping: How to Offer, Give, and Receive Help, Edgar Schein
The Heretic: Daily Therapeutics for Entrepreneurs, Pascal Finette
High Growth Handbook: Scaling Startups From 10 to 10,000 People, Elad Gil
Inspired: How to Create Tech Products Customers Love, Marty Cagan
The JOLT Effect, Matthew Dixon, Ted McKenna
Leadership and Self-Deception: Getting Out of the Box, Arbinger Institute
Leadership Strategy and Tactics, Jocko Willink
Legacy, James Kerr
Loved: How to Rethink Marketing for Tech Products, Martina Lauchengco
Monetizing Innovation, Madhavan Ramanujam, Georg Tacke
No Rules Rules: Netflix and the Culture of Reinvention, Reed Hastings, Erin Meyer
One Up: Creativity, Competition, and the Global Business of Video Games, Joost van Dreunen
Playing to Win: How Strategy Really Works, Roger L. Martin, A.G. Lafley
Play Nice but Win: A CEO's Journey from Founder to Leader, Michael Dell, James Kaplan
Purple Cow: Transform Your Business by Being Remarkable, Seth Godin
Reboot: Leadership and the Art of Growing Up, Jerry Colonna
Relentless: From Good to Great to Unstoppable, Tim S. Grover
The Score Takes Care of Itself: My Philosophy of Leadership, Bill Walsh, Craig Walsh, Steve Jamison
Supercommunicators, Charles Duhigg
Team of Teams, Stanley McChrystal, Tantum Collins
Traction: How Any Startup Can Achieve Explosive Customer Growth, Gabriel Weinberg, Justin Mares
Trillion Dollar Coach: The Leadership Playbook of Silicon Valley's Bill Campbell, Eric Schmidt, Jonathan Rosenberg, Alan Eagle
What You Do Is Who You Are: How to Create Your Business Culture, Ben Horowitz
Working Backwards: Insights, Stories, and Secrets from Inside Amazon, Colin Bryar, Bill Carr

Technology & Computing

Books on software development, technology history, digital innovation, and computing.

Algorithms to Live By: The Computer Science of Human Decisions, Brian Christian
The Beginning of Infinity: Explanations That Transform the World, David Deutsch
Business at the Speed of Thought, Bill Gates
Clean Code: A Handbook of Agile Software Craftsmanship, Robert C. Martin
Coders at Work: Reflections on the Craft of Programming, Peter Seibel
Cognitive Surplus: Creativity and Generosity in a Connected Age, Clay Shirky
The Content Trap, Bharat Anand
Creative Selection: Inside Apple's Design Process During the Golden Age of Steve Jobs, Ken Kocienda
Creativity, Inc.: Overcoming the Unseen Forces That Stand in the Way of True Inspiration, Ed Catmull
The Design of Everyday Things, Don Norman
The Dream Machine, M. Mitchell Waldrop
Exploring the World of Software Engineers: An Introduction to Software Development, Robert C. Martin
The Facebook Effect: The Inside Story of the Company That Is Connecting the World, David Kirkpatrick
The Founders: The Story of Paypal and the Entrepreneurs Who Shaped Silicon Valley, Jimmy Soni
Ghost in the Wires: My Adventures as the World's Most Wanted Hacker, Kevin Mitnick, William L. Simon
Googled: The End of the World As We Know It, Ken Auletta
Hackers & Painters: Big Ideas from the Computer Age, Paul Graham
How Google Works, Eric Schmidt, Jonathan Rosenberg
How the Internet Happened: From Netscape to the iPhone, Brian McCullough
How to Speak Machine: Computational Thinking for the Rest of Us, John Maeda
Indexing It All: The Subject in the Age of Documentation, Information, and Data, Ronald E. Day
The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood, James Gleick
Introduction to Algorithms, Thomas H. Cormen, Charles E. Leiserson
Joel on Software, Joel Spolsky
Make It So: Interaction Design Lessons From Science Fiction, Nathan Shedroff
The Master Switch: The Rise and Fall of Information Empires, Tim Wu
The Metaverse: And How It Will Revolutionize Everything, Matthew Ball
Mindstorms: Children, Computers, And Powerful Ideas, Seymour Papert
Notes on the Synthesis of Form, Christopher W. Alexander
A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction, Christopher Alexander, Sara Ishikawa
Peopleware: Productive Projects and Teams, Tom DeMarco
The Pocket Universal Principles of Design, William Lidwell
Read Write Own: Building the Next Era of the Internet, Chris Dixon
The Search: How Google and Its Rivals Rewrote the Rules of Business and Transformed Our Culture, John Battelle
Six Thinking Hats, Edward de Bono
Super Thinking: The Big Book of Mental Models, Gabriel Weinberg
The Timeless Way of Building, Christopher W. Alexander
To Pixar and Beyond: My Unlikely Journey with Steve Jobs to Make Entertainment History, Lawrence Levy
Why Information Grows: The Evolution of Order, from Atoms to Economies, Cesar A. Hidalgo

Biographies & Memoirs

Life stories and personal accounts from entrepreneurs, leaders, and influential figures.

American Kingpin: The Epic Hunt for the Criminal Mastermind Behind the Silk Road, Nick Bilton
American Ulysses, Ronald C. White, Arthur Morey
Beastie Boys Book, Michael Diamond
Becoming, Michelle Obama
Bloomberg by Bloomberg, Michael R. Bloomberg
Born Standing Up: A Comic's Life, Steve Martin
Boyd: The Fighter Pilot Who Changed the Art of War, Robert Coram
Cable Cowboy: John Malone and the Rise of the Modern Cable Business, Mark Robichaux
Can't Hurt Me: Master Your Mind and Defy the Odds, David Goggins
Churchill: Walking with Destiny, Andrew Roberts
Dark Genius of Wall Street: The Misunderstood Life of Jay Gould, King of the Robber Barons, Edward J. Renehan Jr.
Educated, Tara Westover
Elon Musk, Walter Isaacson
Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future, Ashlee Vance
Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage, Alfred Lansing
Grant, Ron Chernow
Greenlights, Matthew McConaughey
Howard Stern Comes Again, Howard Stern
Idea Man: A Memoir by the Cofounder of Microsoft, Paul Allen
Leonardo da Vinci, Walter Isaacson
Let Your Mind Run: A Memoir of Thinking My Way to Victory, Deena Kastor
A Man for All Markets: From Las Vegas to Wall Street, How I Beat the Dealer and the Market, Edward O. Thorp
Not Fade Away: A Short Life Well Lived, Laurence Shames
Open, Andre Agassi
Otis Redding: An Unfinished Life, Jonathan Gould
Poor Charlie's Almanack: The Wit and Wisdom of Charles T. Munger, Charles T. Munger
The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York, Robert A. Caro
The Ride of a Lifetime: Lessons Learned from 15 Years as CEO of the Walt Disney Company, Robert Iger
The Rules Do Not Apply: A Memoir, Ariel Levy
Shoe Dog: A Memoir by the Creator of Nike, Phil Knight
Skunk Works: A Personal Memoir of My Years at Lockheed, Ben R. Rich
The Storyteller: Tales of Life and Music, Dave Grohl
Steve Jobs, Walter Isaacson
Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!: Adventures of a Curious Character, Richard Feynman
Titan: The Life of John D. Rockefeller, Sr., Ron Chernow
Working: Researching, Interviewing, Writing, Robert A. Caro
The Wright Brothers, David McCullough

Economics & Finance

Books on financial markets, economic theory, investing, and business finance.

The Affluent Society, John Kenneth Galbraith
The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World, Niall Ferguson
Bank 4.0: Banking everywhere, never at a bank, Brett King
Banker to the Poor: Micro-Lending and the Battle Against World Poverty, Muhammad Yunus
Basic Economics: A Citizen's Guide to the Economy, Thomas Sowell
Big Debt Crises, Ray Dalio
The Big Score: Robert Friedland, INCO, And The Voisey's Bay Hustle, Jacquie McNish
Billion Dollar Whale, Tom Wright
Black Edge: Inside Information, Dirty Money, and the Quest to Bring Down the Most Wanted Man on Wall Street, Sheelah Kolhatkar
The Black Swan, Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Broadbandits: Inside the $750 Billion Telecom Heist, Om Malik
Capital in the Twenty-First Century, Thomas Piketty
Capitalism and Freedom, Milton Friedman
Capitalism Without Capital: The Rise of the Intangible Economy, Jonathan Haskel, Stian Westlake
Charlie Munger: The Complete Investor, Tren Griffin
Dark Pools: The Rise of the Machine Traders and the Rigging of the U.S. Stock Market, Scott Patterson
Debt: The First 5,000 Years, David Graeber
The Dhandho Investor, Mohnish Pabrai
Electronic Value Exchange: Origins of the VISA Electronic Payment System, David L. Stearns
The Fish That Ate the Whale: The Life and Times of America's Banana King, Rich Cohen
Flash Boys: A Wall Street Revolt, Michael Lewis
Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets, Nassim Nicholas Taleb
The Frackers, Gregory Zuckerman
Going Infinite: The Rise and Fall of a New Tycoon, Michael Lewis
The House of Morgan: An American Banking Dynasty and the Rise of Modern Finance, Ron Chernow
The Intelligent Investor, Benjamin Graham
Kochland: The Secret History of Koch Industries and Corporate Power in America, Christopher Leonard
The Man Who Solved the Market: How Jim Simons Launched the Quant Revolution, Gregory Zuckerman
Margin of Trust: The Berkshire Business Model, Lawrence Cunningham
The Maverick and His Machine, Kevin Maney
The Misbehavior of Markets by Benoit Mandelbrot, Richard L Hudson
The money masters, John Train
Mr. China: A Memoir, Tim Clissold
The Myth of Capitalism: Monopolies and the Death of Competition, Jonathan Tepper
New Ideas from Dead Economists, Todd G. Buchholz
The Number, Alex Berenson
The Origin of Wealth: Evolution, Complexity, and the Radical Remaking of Economics, Eric D. Beinhocker
Payments Systems in the U.S., Carol Benson
Principles for Dealing with the Changing World Order, Ray Dalio
Principles: Life and Work, Ray Dalio
The Prize, Daniel Yergin
Seeing Tomorrow: Rewriting the Rules of Risk, Ron S. Dembo, Andrew Freeman
Technological Revolutions and Financial Capital: The Dynamics of Bubbles and Golden Ages, Carlota Perez
Visa: the Power of an Idea, Paul Chutkow
The World for Sale: Money, Power and the Traders Who Barter the Earth's Resources, Javier Blas
The World Of Digital Payments: Practical Course, Pavlo Sidelov

History & Politics

Historical accounts, political analysis, and examinations of social movements.

The Absent Superpower: The Shale Revolution and a World Without America, Peter Zeihan
The Accidental Superpower: The Next Generation of American Preeminence and the Coming Global Disorder, Peter Zeihan
The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, Shoshana Zuboff
The Battle of Midway, Craig L. Symonds, James Lurie
The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined, Steven Pinker
The Box: How the Shipping Container Made the World Smaller and the World Economy Bigger, Marc Levinson
A Brief History of Everyone Who Ever Lived: The Stories in Our Genes, Adam Rutherford
Cadillac Desert: The American West and Its Disappearing Water, Marc Reisner
Captured: The Corporate Infiltration of American Democracy, Sheldon Whitehouse
China Dream: Great Power Thinking and Strategic Posture in the Post-American Era, Liu Mingfu
Chip War: The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology, Chris Miller
Civilization: The West and the Rest, Niall Ferguson
The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order, Samuel P. Huntington
Crabgrass Frontier: The Suburbanization of the United States, Kenneth T. Jackson
Crisis and Leviathan: Critical Episodes in the Growth of American Government, Robert Higgs
Dancing in the Glory of Monsters, Jason K. Stearns
Dark Money, Jane Mayer
The Day of Battle, Rick Atkinson
Democracy in America, Alexis de Tocqueville, Henry Reeve
The Dictator's Handbook, Bruce Bueno de Mesquita, Alastair Smith
The Divide: A Brief Guide to Global Inequality and its Solutions, Jason Hickel
Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World, Naomi Klein
The Falklands War, Martin Middlebrook
Fascism: A Warning, Madeleine Albright
The Fifth Risk: Undoing Democracy, Michael Lewis
The First Conspiracy: The Secret Plot to Kill George Washington, Brad Meltzer
Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation, Joseph J. Ellis
From Third World to First: The Singapore Story - 1965-2000, Lee Kuan Yew
The Grid, Gretchen Bakke
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies, Jared Diamond
A History of Future Cities, Daniel Brook
Infamous Scribblers, Eric Burns
The Japanese Art of War, Thomas Cleary
The Killer Angels, Michael Shaara
Kochland: The Secret History of Koch Industries and Corporate Power in America, Christopher Leonard
The Last Whole Earth Catalog, Portola Institute
The Lost City of the Monkey God, Douglas Preston
Maneuver Warfare Handbook, William S Lind
Moltke on the Art of War, Helmuth von Moltke, Daniel Hughes
Netherlands Annual Review of Military Studies 2017: Winning Without Killing, Paul A.L. Ducheine
Necessary Secrets, Gabriel Schoenfeld
Out of Mao's Shadow: The Struggle for the Soul of a New China, Philip P. Pan
Paris by Design: An Inspired Guide to the City's Creative Side, Eva Jorgensen
The Path to Power (The Years of Lyndon Johnson, #1), Robert A. Caro
Patterns of Conflict, John R. Boyd
The Perfect Weapon: How the Cyber Arms Race Set the World Afire, David E. Sanger
The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York, Robert A. Caro
Power and Market: Government and the Economy, Murray N. Rothbard
Prisoners of Geography, Tim Marshall
Progress and Poverty: An Inquiry into the Cause of Industrial Depressions, Henry George
Rise and Kill First: The Secret History of Israel's Targeted Assassinations, Ronen Bergman
Saudi America, Bethany McLean
Season of the Witch: Enchantment, Terror and Deliverance in the City of Love, David Talbot
Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed, James C. Scott
The Silk Roads: A New History of the World, Peter Frankopan
Skyscraper Dreams: The Great Real Estate Dynasties of New York, Tom Shachtman
Small Unit Leadership: A Commonsense Approach, Dandridge M. Malone
Sons of Wichita: How the Koch Brothers Became America's Most Powerful and Private Dynasty, Daniel Schulman
The Sovereign Individual: Mastering the Transition to the Information Age, James Dale Davidson
Targeting: The Challenges of Modern Warfare, Paul A L Ducheine
Ten Global Trends Every Smart Person Should Know, Ronald Bailey Reason, Marian L. Tupy
The Travels Of A T-Shirt In The Global Economy, Pietra Rivoli
Triumph of the City: How Our Greatest Invention Makes Us Richer, Smarter, Greener, Healthier and Happier, Edward L. Glaeser
Undaunted Courage: Meriwether Lewis, Thomas Jefferson, and the Opening of the American West, Stephen Ambrose
Walkable City: How Downtown Can Save America, One Step at a Time, Jeff Speck
The Wal-Mart Effect: How the World's Most Powerful Company Really Works - and How It's Transforming the American Economy, Charles Fishman
Xenophon's Cyrus the Great, Xenophon, Larry Hedrick

Psychology & Philosophy

Books on human behavior, cognitive science, philosophical concepts, and mental models.

The 15 Commitments of Conscious Leadership: A New Paradigm for Sustainable Success, Jim Dethmer, Diana Chapman, Kaley Klemp
Adventures in Memory: The Science and Secrets of Remembering and Forgetting, Hilde Østby, Ylva Østby
Alchemy: The Dark Art and Curious Science of Creating Magic in Brands, Business, and Life, Rory Sutherland
The Art of Learning: An Inner Journey to Optimal Performance, Josh Waitzkin
The Art of Thinking Clearly, Rolf Dobelli
Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones, James Clear
Before You Say Anything: The Untold Stories and Failproof Strategies of a Very Discreet Speechwriter, Victoria Wellman
Beyond Good and Evil, Friedrich Nietzsche
Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life, Anne Lamott
The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma, Bessel van der Kolk M.D.
The Book You Wish Your Parents Had Read, Philippa Perry
Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen, Christopher McDougall
Bringing Up Bébé: One American Mother Discovers the Wisdom of French Parenting, Pamela Druckerman
A Calendar of Wisdom: Daily Thoughts to Nourish the Soul, Leo Tolstoy
The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right, Atul Gawande
Cherish the First Six Weeks, Helen Moon
Connect: Building Exceptional Relationships with Family, Friends, and Colleagues, David Bradford Ph.D., Carole Robin Ph.D.
Creative Quest, Questlove
Cribsheet: A Data-Driven Guide to Better, More Relaxed Parenting, from Birth to Preschool, Emily Oster
Delivered From Distraction, Edward M. Hallowell M.D., John J. Ratey M.D.
Diary of Thoughts: The Courage To Be Disliked, Ichiro Kishimi
Elastic: Flexible Thinking in a Time of Change, Leonard Mlodinow
The Ethics of Ambiguity, Simone de Beauvoir
Factfulness, Hans Rosling, Anna Rosling Rönnlund
Fallen Leaves: Last Words on Life, Love, War & God, Will Durant
Falling Upward: A Spirituality for the Two Halves of Life, Richard Rohr
Finding Flow: The Psychology of Engagement with Everyday Life, Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
Finite and Infinite Games: A Vision of Life as Play and Possibility, James P. Carse
Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience, Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
For the Love of a Dog: Understanding Emotion in You and Your Best Friend, Patricia B McConnell
Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity, David Allen
The Great Mental Models: General Thinking Concepts, Shane Parrish
Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance, Angela Duckworth
The Hero With a Thousand Faces, Joseph Campbell
How to Be Perfect: The Correct Answer to Every Moral Question, Michael Schur
How to Change Your Mind, Michael Pollan
How to Take Smart Notes: One Simple Technique to Boost Writing, Learning and Thinking, Sönke Ahrens
How to Tell a Story: The Essential Guide to Memorable Storytelling from The Moth, The Moth, Meg Bowles, et al.
How Will You Measure Your Life?, Clayton M. Christensen, James Allworth
Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion, Robert B. Cialdini
The Inner Game of Tennis, W. Timothy Gallwey
Irrationally Yours, Dan Ariely
kids are worth it! Revised Edition: Giving Your Child the Gift of Inner Discipline, Barbara Coloroso
Leaving Isn't the Hardest Thing: Essays, Lauren Hough
The Lessons of History, Will Durant
Lifemanship, Stephen Potter
Manage Your Day-to-Day, Jocelyn K. Glei
Man's Search for Meaning, Viktor E. Frankl
Mindful Birthing, Nancy Bardacke
The Myths of Happiness: What Should Make You Happy, but Doesn't, What Shouldn't Make You Happy, but Does, Sonja Lyubomirsky
Noise: A Flaw in Human Judgment, Daniel Kahneman, Olivier Sibony, Cass R. Sunstein
Nonviolent Communication: A Language of Life, Marshall Rosenberg PhD
Origin Story: A Big History of Everything, David Christian
The Other End of the Leash, Patricia McConnell PhD
Outlive: The Science and Art of Longevity, Peter Attia MD, Bill Gifford
Peak: Secrets from the New Science of Expertise, Robert Pool, Anders Ericsson
Peak Performance, Brad Stulberg, Steve Magness
Philosophy: Who Needs It, Ayn Rand
A Place of My Own: The Architecture of Daydreams, Michael Pollan
Power: Surviving & Thriving After Narcissistic Abuse, Shahida Arabi
Radical Acceptance, Tara Brach
Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World, David Epstein
Resonate: Present Visual Stories that Transform Audiences, Nancy Duarte
The Right to Useful Unemployment, Ivan Illich
Same as Ever: A Guide to What Never Changes, Morgan Housel
Start Where You Are, Pema Chodron
Start with Why, Simon Sinek
Stumbling on Happiness, Daniel Todd Gilbert
Super Thinking: The Big Book of Mental Models, Gabriel Weinberg
Superforecasting: The Art and Science of Prediction, Philip Tetlock, Dan Gardner
Talking to Strangers: What We Should Know About the People We Don't Know, Malcolm Gladwell
Talent, Tyler Cowen, Daniel Gross
Thinking, Fast and Slow, Daniel Kahneman
Thinking in Systems: A Primer, Donella H. Meadows, Diana Wright
To Have and to Hold, Molly Millwood
The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements, Eric Hoffer
Unthinkable: What the World's Most Extraordinary Brains Can Teach Us About Our Own, Helen Thomson
Wanting: The Power of Mimetic Desire in Everyday Life, Luke Burgis
The Way to Love: The Last Meditations of Anthony de Mello, Anthony de Mello
We Need to Talk, Celeste Headlee
Widen the Window, Elizabeth A. Stanley PhD
On Writing Well: The Classic Guide to Writing Nonfiction, William Zinsser
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values, Robert M. Pirsig

Science & Nature

Books on scientific discovery, natural phenomena, and technological advancement.

The Beginning of Infinity: Explanations That Transform the World, David Deutsch
The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined, Steven Pinker
The Book of Why: The New Science of Cause and Effect, Judea Pearl
The Box: How the Shipping Container Made the World Smaller and the World Economy Bigger, Marc Levinson
A Brief History of Everyone Who Ever Lived: The Stories in Our Genes, Adam Rutherford
Caffeine: How Caffeine Created the Modern World, Michael Pollan
The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right, Atul Gawande
Chip War: The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology, Chris Miller
The Coming Wave: Technology, Power, and the Twenty-First Century's Greatest Dilemma, Mustafa Suleyman, Michael Bhaskar
Dataclysm: Love, Sex, Race, and Identity--What Our Online Lives Tell Us about Our Offline Selves, Christian Rudder
The Evolution of Everything: How New Ideas Emerge, Matt Ridley
The Fourth Industrial Revolution, Klaus Schwab
Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything, Steven D. Levitt, Stephen J. Dubner
Free: The Future of a Radical Price, Chris Anderson
The Grid, Gretchen Bakke
Hit Makers: How to Succeed in an Age of Distraction, Derek Thompson
How To Build A Car, Adrian Newey
How to Invent Everything: A Survival Guide for the Stranded Time Traveler, Ryan North
The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood, James Gleick
Making the Modern World: Materials and Dematerialization, Vaclav Smil
The Most Powerful Idea in the World: A Story of Steam, Industry, and Invention, William Rosen
The Omnivore's Dilemma, Michael Pollan
Origin Story: A Big History of Everything, David Christian
Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World, David Epstein
Science, Strategy and War, Frans P.B. Osinga
The Secret Life of Groceries, Benjamin Lorr
The Selfish Gene, Richard Dawkins
A Study of the Toyota Production System, Shigeo Shingo, Andrew P. Dillon
Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies, Nick Bostrom
The Tinkerers: The Amateurs, DIYers, and Inventors Who Make America Great, Alec Foege
The Toyota Way: 14 Management Principles From the World's Greatest Manufacturer, Jeffrey K. Liker

Fiction & Literature

Novels, short stories, and literary works that inspire or entertain.