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I have been asked more than once what my reading recommendations are. Slowly compiling them into a list form here. By no means exhaustive.

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All Time Favorites
  1. Lord of the Flies, by William Golding
  2. Frankenstein, by Mary Shelley
  3. Meditations, by Marcus Aurelius
  4. Beyond Good and Evil, by Friedrich Nietzsche
  5. Team of Rivals, by Doris Kearns Goodwin
  6. High Output Management, by Andy Grove
  7. Mornings on Horseback, by David McCullough
  8. The Boys in the Boat, by Daniel James Brown
  9. Fahrenheit 451, by Ray Bradbury
  10. What You Do is Who You Are, by Ben Horowitz
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By Genre
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Autobiography
  1. Will, by Will Smith
  2. Hit Refresh, by Satya Nadella
  3. What It Takes, by Stephen A. Schwarzman
  4. A Year of Magical Thinking, by Joan Didion
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Audiobooks
  1. Will, by Will Smith
  2. Greenlights, by Matthew McConaughey
  3. Born a Crime, by Trevor Noah
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Biography
  1. Steve Jobs, by Walter Issacson
  2. The Snowball, by Alice Schroeder
  3. Team of Rivals, by Doris Kearns Goodwin
  4. Mornings on Horseback, by David McCullough
  5. Elon Musk, by Ashlee Vance
  6. Titan, by Ron Chernow
  7. The Undoing Project, by Michael Lewis
  8. The Assassination of Fred Hampton, by Jeffrey Haas
  9. Twelve Against the Gods, by William Bolitho
  10. A Truck Full of Money, by Tracey Kidder
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Business
  1. The Goal, by Eliyahu Goldratt
  2. Moneyball, by Michael Lewis
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Business How-Tos
  1. Growing Pains, by Eric Flamholtz and Yvonne Randle
  2. Venture Deals, by Brad Feld
  3. Good Strategy, Bad Strategy, by Richard Rumelt
  4. The Automatic Customer, by John Warrillow
  5. The Startup Checklist, by David Rose
  6. The Messy Middle, by Scott Belsky
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Business Bios
  1. Shoe Dog, by Phil Knight
  2. The Everything Store, by Brad Stone
  3. Bad Blood, by John Carreyou
  4. Onward & Pour Your Heart Into It, by Howard Schultz
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Classics
  1. Beyond Good and Evil, by Friedrich Nietzsche
  2. Walden, by Henry David Thoreau
  3. The Prince, by Niccolo Machiavelli
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Company Culture
  1. Amp It Up, by Frank Slootman
  2. Radical Candor, by Kim Scott
  3. Good People, by Anthony Tjan
  4. Setting the Table, by Danny Meyer
  5. Reinventing Organizations, by Frederic Laloux
  6. Delivering Happiness, by Tony Hsieh
  7. The Alliance, by Reid Hoffman, Ben Casnocha, Chris Yeh
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Education
  1. Excellent Sheep, by William Deresiewicz
  2. Class Clowns, by Johnathan Knee
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Epics
  1. Principles, by Ray Dalio
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Fiction
  1. Lord of the Flies, by William Golding
  2. Frankenstein, by Mary Shelley
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Finance
  1. Valuation, by McKinsey & Company
  2. Accounting and Finance for Managers, by Matt Bamber & Simon Parry
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History
  1. Boys in the Boat, by Daniel James Brown
  2. Empire of the Summer Moon, by S.C. Gwinne
  3. The Gray Lady Winked, by Ashley Rindsberg
  4. The Great Game, by Peter Hopkirk
  5. The Mao’s Famine Trilogy, by Frank Dikkoter
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Historical Fiction
  1. Half a Yellow Sun, by Chimamanda Ngozi Adiche
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Just for Fun
  1. Bringing down the House, by Ben Mezrich
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Leadership
  1. Leadership and Self-Deception, by the Arbinger Institute
  2. Turn the Ship Around, by L. David Marquet
  3. The Great CEO Within, by Matt Mochary
  4. What You Do is Who YouAre, by Ben Horowitz
  5. The Hard Thing About Hard Things, by Ben Horowitz
  6. Start With Why, by Simon Sinek
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Management
  1. High Output Management, by Andy Grove
  2. Anything by Patrick Lencioni
  3. Excellence Wins, by Horst Schulze
  4. Anything by Ichak Kalderon Adizes
  5. The Game-Changer, by A.G. Lafley & Ram Charan
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Marketing
  1. Epic Content Marketing, by Joe Pulizzi
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Non-fiction
  1. A Year of Magical Thinking, by Joan Didion
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Plays
  1. Othello, by William Shakespeare
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Sci-Fi
  1. Fahrenheit 451, by Ray Bradbury
  2. The Three-Body Problem, by Cixin Liu
  3. The Martian Chronicles, by Ray Bradbury
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Science
  1. The Gene, by Siddhartha Mukherjee
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Self-Help
  1. Never Split the Difference, By Chris Voss
  2. The Almanack of Naval Ravikant, by Eric Jorgenson
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Shorts
  1. Caffeine, by Michael Pollan
  2. Lying, by Sam Harris
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Philosophy
  1. Zen and the Art of Archery, by Eugen Herrigel
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Popular Science/Psychology
  1. How to Change Your Mind, by Michael Pollan
  2. The Power of Habit, by Charles Duhigg
  3. Hooked, by Nir Eyal
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Religion
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Women’s Studies
  1. Half The Sky, by Nicholas Kristof + Sheryl WuDunn
  2. Men Explain Things to Me, by Rebecca Solnit

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Honorable Mentions

Ride of a Lifetime, By Bob Iger

Play Nice by Win, by Michael Dell

Red Notice, by Bill Browder

Lamb, by Christopher Moore

Awareness, by Anthony De Mello

The Great Work of Your Life, by Stephen Cope

Siddhartha, by Herman Hesse

The Road to Character, by David Brooks

The Radical King, by Cornel West

The Fourth Turning

Dune

(Last updated: 1/2022)