Highlighting the few that stood out to me for various reasons. Don’t have a particular method of picking books.
List below:
- Americana: A 400-Year History of American Capitalism by Bhu Srinivasan
- The Meaning of Human Existence by Edward O. Wilson*
- Crossing the Chasm by Geoffery Moore
- Invent and Wander by Jeff Bezos and Walter Isaacson
- A Promised Land by Barack Obama
- The Buddhist on Death Row: How one Man Found Light in the Darkest Place by David Sheff
- Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power by Jon Meacham
- How to Change your Mind by Michael Pollan
- Hidden Valley Road: Inside the Mind of the American Family by Robert Kolker
- Coming Apart: The State of White America, 1960-2010 by Charles Murray
- Seeing Whats Next by Clay Christensen
- Irrational Exuberance by Robert Shiller
- The Origin of Wealth by Eric D. Beinhocker
- A Grief Observed by C.S. Lewis
- Deep Simplicity by John Gribbin
- Black Wave by Kim Ghattas
- A Guide to the Good Life {the ancient art of stoic joy} by William B. Irvine
- Poor Charlies Almanck by Charles T. Munger
- The Essentials of Rumi
- God by Reza Aslan
- Thinking in Bets by Annie Duke
- That Will Never Work: The Birth of Netflix and the Amazing Life of an Idea by Marc Randolph
- Talking to Strangers by Malcolm Gladwell
- *Educated by Tara Westover
- The Man Who Solved the Market: How Jim Simons Launched the Quant Revolution by Gregory Zuckerman
- White Fragility by Robin DiAngelo
- The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt
- The Berlin Wall: A World Divided, 1961-1989 by Frederick Tayor
- *The Innovator’s Solution by Clay Christensen
- *Dreams from My Father by Barack Obama
- How Not To Die by Michael Greger, M.D., FACLM
- What you Do is Who you Are by Ben Horowitz
- No-one Cares About Crazy People: The Chaos and Heartbreak of Mental Health in America by Ron Powers
- Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom
- *The Lessons of History by Will Durant*
- Autumn Light by Pico Iyer
- The Antidote: Happiness for People Who Can’t Stand Positive Thinking by Oliver Burkeman
- Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal by Eric Schlosser
- An American Family: A Memoir of Hope and Sacrifice by Khizr Khan
- Secrets of Sandhill Road by Scott Kupor
- Measure What Matters by John Doerr
- Blitzscaling by Ried Hoffman
- Homosapiens by Yuval Noah Harai
- High Output Management by Andy Grove
- Meditations by Marcus Aurelius
- The Innovator’s Dilemma by Clay Christensen
- *Thinking Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman
- *Why We Sleep by Matthew Walker
- When by Daniel H. Pink
- Radical Candor by Kim Scott
- How will you measure your life? By Clayton Christensen
- *Seneca Letters from a Stoic
- No time to Say Goodbye by Carla Fine
- H is for Hawk by Helen Macdonald
- Chasing the Scream by Johann Hari
- *Lost Connections by Johann Hari
- The Subtle Art of Not Giving an F*CK by Mark Manson
- How to Be a Stoic by Massimo Pigliucci
- The Power of Now by Eckhart Tolle
- The Black Swan by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
- Born a Crime by Trevor Noah
- Zealot by Reza Aslan
- Originals by Adam Grant
- Good to Great by Jim Collins
- Leaders Eat Last by Simon Sinek
- Letters to a Young Muslim by Omar Saif Ghobash
- Skin in the game by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
- Antifragile by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
- Grit by Angela Duckworth
- Extreme Ownership by Jocko Willink and Leif Babin
- Fear by Thich Nhat Hanh
- Venture Deals by Jason Medelson and Brad Feld
- Ego is the Enemy by Ryan Holiday
- Four by Scott Galloway
- The Intelligent Investor
- Shadow Divers by Robert Kurson
- The Hard things about Hard Things by Ben Horowitz
- How to win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie
- Hit Refresh by Satya Nadella
- Flash Boys by Michael Lewis
- Zero to One by Peter Thiel
- Power by Jeffer Pfiefer
- Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harari
- 21 Lessons for the 21st Century by Yuval Noah Harari
- The Boys in the Boat by Daniel James Brown
- Factfulness by Hans Rosling
- *A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles
- Nudge by Richard H. Thaler
- *To whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway
- Homodeus by Yuval Noah Harari
- Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell
- Being Mortal by Atul Gawande
- The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
- When Breath becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi
- The Tipping Point by Malcolm Gladwell
- *The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho
- Becoming by Michelle Obama
- Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates