My Bookshelf
Last updated: January 22, 2019
(Inspired by Patrick Collison’s bookshelf.)
I write posts every few months featuring some of my favorite books at the time and spend most of my leisure or travel time reading. I bought a Kindle merely for the convenience of not having to carry four books in my luggage and when the best workout I had in years was moving boxes of books into a moving truck, I realized I may buy too many book. My close friends can expect me to give them a book if they come over for dinner and we end up on some tangent about philosophy, psychology, economics, or some niche subject I was interested in for a few weeks.
Still, a “recommended books” page changes with my mood or what I am thinking about at that time. I can’t say I recommend every book on this list. But chances are I heard good or interesting things about it and figured to pick it up. Books are cheap. A good book can earn you 100x on what you spend on it or can save you 100x its cost.
So, instead of putting together a list of books I recommend, here’s a list of books I have purchased on Amazon (or Audible) since December 2016 (an arbitrary date I chose to limit this list). This does not include books purchased before December 2016, books purchased at brick-and-mortar bookstores, or books borrowed from friends.
- The Art of Gathering
- Million Dollar Consulting
- Maps of Meaning
- Secrets of Power Negotiating
- The Dan Sullivan Question
- Predictable Revenue
- When All Else Fails
- Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat
- The Farther Reaches of Human Nature
- Can You Outsmart and Economist?
- Deep Nutrition
- Atomic Habits
- The Road Less Stupid
- The Magic of Thinking Big
- Wine Folly
- Games People Play
- High Growth Handbook
- Dark Age Ahead
- Death and Life of Great American Cities
- Systems of Survival
- Never Lose a Customer Again
- Aristotle for Everybody
- Frank Lloyd Wright
- From Bauhaus to Our House
- Woe is I
- Self-Esteem at Work
- The Curmudgeon’s Guide to Getting Ahead
- Mastery (George Leonard)
- SPIN Selling
- Bird by Bird
- Swim With the Sharks Without Being Eaten Alive
- Psycho-Cybernetics
- Prisoner’s Dilemma
- Games and Decisions
- The Google Guys
- Getting Things Done
- My Life in Advertising & Scientific Advertising
- Elon Musk
- To Save Everything, Click Here
- Ready, Fire, Aim
- Getting Past No
- The Great Good Places
- Ogilvy on Advertising
- Skin in the Game
- PayPal Wars
- The Everything Store
- On Writing Well
- Getting Everything You Can Out of All You’ve Got
- Gods in Everyman
- The Ultimate Sales Letter
- The Diamond Age
- Fire in the Belly
- Under Saturn’s Shadow
- Don’t Shoot the Dog!
- Tribe of Mentors
- The 33 Strategies for War
- Principles
- Atomised
- The Gulag Archipelago
- Value-Focused Thinking
- The Art of Self-Discovery
- The Lessons of History
- The Power of Habit
- Nonviolent Communication
- King, Warrior, Magician, Lover
- Kids These Days
- Tribe
- How Not to Be Wrong
- Submission
- Pre-Suasion
- 12 Rules for Life
- The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People
- Till We Have Faces
- The Art of Seduction
- 48 Laws of Power
- The Case Against Sugar
- Mere Christianity
- The Signal and the Noise
- Primal Endurance
- The Richest Man in Babylon
- As a Man Thinketh
- The Complacent Class
- Man’s Search for Meaning
- Tools of Titans
- Superintelligence
- A Generation of Sociopaths
- Why Zebras Don’t Get Ulcers
- Sacrifice
- Mindset
- Raise Your Self-Esteem
- Teaching Johnny to Think
- The Inner Game of Tennis
- Timing the Real Estate Market
- Finite and Infinite Games
- Extreme Ownership
- The Art of Learning
- Deep Work
- Starting Strength
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