Favorite books by subject. Most of these fit into more than one so I had to pick one.
Have a recommendation for one that should be on this list? Drop me a line!
Human Brain, Group Psychology, Networks | |
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Wisdom of Crowds, The | James Surowiecki |
Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst | Robert M. Sapolsky |
Brain that Changes Itself, The | Norman Doidge |
Man Who Mistook His Wife For A Hat, The | Oliver Sacks |
Nature Fix: Why Nature Makes Us Happier, Healthier, and More Creative, The | Florence Williams |
Global Brain: The Evolution of Mass Mind from the Big Bang to the 21st Century | Howard Bloom |
Musicophilia | Oliver Sacks |
Life, Philosophy, Religion, Spirituality | |
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When Breath Becomes Air | Paul Kalanithi |
Religion for Atheists: A Non-believer’s Guide to the Uses of Religion | Alain De Botton |
Wisdom of Insecurity, The | Alan Watts |
Course of Love: A Novel | Alain de Botton |
Modern Romance | Ariz Ansari |
Blue Like Jazz: Nonreligious Thoughts on Christian Spirituality | Donald Miller |
How to Win Friends & Influence People | Dale Carnegie |
Doors of Perception and Heaven and Hell | Aldous Huxley |
How to Change Your Mind | Michael Pollan |
Courage to be Disliked | Ichiro Kishimi |
Finite and Infinite Games | James Carse |
Politics & Social Sciences | |
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Utopia for Realists: How We Can Build the Ideal World | Rutger Bregman |
Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power | Shoshana Zuboff |
Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other | Sherry Turkle |
Amusing Ourselves to Death | Neil Postman |
Nothing Is True and Everything Is Possible | Peter Pomerantsev |
The Master Switch | Tim Wu |
Behavioral Economics | |
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Thinking, Fast and Slow | Daniel Kahneman |
Influence | Robert B. Cialdini |
Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions | Dan Ariely |
Fiction | |
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Diamond Age: Or, a Young Lady’s Illustrated Primer | Neal Stephenson |
Stories of Your Life and Others | Ted Chiang |
Dune | Frank Herbert |
A Gentleman in Moscow | Amor Towles |
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? | Philip K. Dick |
Catch-22: 50th Anniversary Edition | Joseph Heller |
Cryptonomicon | Neal Stephenson |
Brave New World | Aldous Huxley |
Devil in the White City | Erik Larson |
Nineteen Eighty Four | George Orwell |
Artificial Intelligence | |
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Singularity Is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology | Ray Kurzweil |
Master Algorithm: How the Quest for the Ultimate Learning Machine Will Remake Our World, The | Pedro Domingos |
Startups, Business, Career | |
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Zero to One | Peter Thiel |
Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World | David Epstein |
How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big | Scott Adams |
Phoenix Project: A Novel about IT, DevOps, and Helping Your Business Win | Gene Kim |
Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World | Cal Newport |
Finance and Economics | |
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Richest Man in Babylon | George Clason |
Rich Dad Poor Dad | Robert T. Kiyosaki |
Skin in the Game: Hidden Asymmetries in Daily Life | Nassim Nicholas Taleb |
Economics in One Lesson | Henry Hazlitt |
Memoris, Bibliographies, and Business History | |
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Educated: A Memoir | Tara Westover |
Skunk Works: A Personal Memoir of My Years at Lockheed | Ben R. Rich |
Remains of the Day | Kazuo Ishiguro |
Ghost in the Wires | Kevin Mitnick |
The Smartest Guys in the Room | Bethany McLean |
Andrew Carnegie | David Nasaw |
Countdown to Zero Day | Kim Zetter |
Surely You’re Joking, Mr Feynman | Richard Feynman |
The Hot Zone: The Terrifying True Story of the Origins of the Ebola Virus | Richard Preston |
One Click: Jeff Bezos and the Rise of Amazon.com | Richard L. Brandt |
Blind Man’s Bluff: The Untold Story of American Submarine Espionage | Sherry Sontag, Christopher Drew, Annette Lawrence Drew |
Masters of Doom | David Kushner |
Total Recall | Arnold Schwarzenegger |
Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future | Ashlee Vance |
Innovators | Walter Issacson |
Hillbilly Elegy | J. D. Vance |
Skygods: The Fall of Pan Am | Robert Gandt |
Space Barons, The | Christian Davenport |
On the Move: A Life | Oliver Sacks |