I absolutely LOVE to read and usually am reading about 4 books at any point in time. These are mostly non-fiction, primarily about business or technology or psychology (or all!). If you’re looking for books to read on any of these subjects, here’s a list of my recommendations – I update this whenever I read anything I love. I’ve also listed out books that I’ve been meaning to read and hope to get to those soon.
Biographies
- Shoe Dog: A Memoir by the Creator of Nike by Phil Knight
- Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson
- Leonardo da Vinci by Walter Isaacson
- Becoming by Michelle Obama
- Escape from Camp 14 by Blaine Harden
- Educated by Tara Westover
- The Undoing Project: A Friendship That Changed Our Minds by Michael Lewis
Science, Psychology, and Self-improvement
- The Brain: The Story of You by David Eagleman
- The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business by Charles Duhigg
- Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions by Dan Ariely
- Thinking Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman
- The Art of Thinking Clearly by Rolf Dobelli
- The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck: A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life by Mark Manson
- Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari
- Option B: Facing Adversity, Building Resilience, and Finding Joy by Sheryl Sandberg
- 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos by Jordan Peterson
- Crucial Conversations: Tools for Talking When Stakes Are High by Kerry Patterson
- Never Split the Difference: Negotiating As If Your Life Depended On It by Chris Voss
- 21 Lessons for the 21st Century by Yuval Noah Harari
- How to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie
Product Development, Growth, and Management
- Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products by Nir Eyal
- Purple Cow: Transform Your Business by Being Remarkable by Seth Godin
- Traction: How Any Startup Can Achieve Explosive Customer Growth by Gabriel Weinberg and Justin Mares
- The Lean Product Playbook: How to Innovate with Minimum Viable Products and Rapid Customer Feedback by Dan A. Olsen
- The Design of Everyday Things by Don Norman
Technology and Trends
- Without Their Permission: How the 21st Century Will Be Made, Not Managed by Alexis Ohanian
- Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future by Peter Thiel
- The Master Switch: The Rise and Fall of Information Empires by Tim Wu
- The Google Story: Inside the Hottest Business, Media, and Technology Success of Our Time by David A. Vise
- Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup by John Carreyrou
Leadership
- Product Leadership: How Top Product Managers Launch Awesome Products and Build Successful Teams by Richard Banfield, Martin Eriksson & Nate Walkingshaw
- The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers by Ben Horowitz
- Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead by Sheryl Sandberg
- Start With Why: How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone to Take Action by Simon Sinek
- Extreme Ownership: How U.S. Navy SEALs Lead and Win by Jocko Willink and Leif Babin
History, Historical Fiction
- Killing the Rising Sun by Bill O’Reilly and Martin Dugard
- Empire of the Moghuls: Raiders from the North – by Alex Rutherford
To Read
- The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
- Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
- Stay Hungry Stay Foolish by Rashmi Bansal
- Tools of Titans by Tim Ferriss
- Principles by Ray Dalio
- The Four by Scott Galloway
- The Innovator’s Dilemma by Clayton M. Christensen
- Originals by Adam M. Grant
- Crossing the Chasm by Geoffrey A. Moore
- The 48 Laws of Power by Robert Greene
- Empress: The Astonishing Reign of Nur Jahan by Ruby Lal
- Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can’t Stop Talking by Susan Cain
- Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones by James Clear
- The Making of a Manager: What to Do When Everyone Looks to You by Julie Zhuo
- Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow by Yuval Noah Harari
- The Tattooist of Auschwitz by Heather Morris
- Inglorious Empire: What the British did to India by Shashi Tharoor
- Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty by Daron Acemoglu, James A. Robinson, et al.
If you have any other book recommendations for me, please leave a comment below or tweet it to me here.