Bookshelf

When someone asks me for book recommendation, I feel a bit uneasy in recommending something without knowing what they are looking for. At the same time I like knowing about other people’s booklist. Here is my list of the books that I own; Most of them I have read, some are currently reading. It is no particular order.

1. An Astronaut's Guide to Life on Earth: What Going to Space Taught Me about Ingenuity, Determination, and Being Prepared for Anything - Chris Hadfield

2. Einstein: His Life and Universe - Walter Issacson

3. Steve Jobs - Walter Issacson

4. Meditations - Marcus Aurelius

5. Creativity, Inc.: Overcoming the Unseen Forces That Stand in the Way of True Inspiration - Ed Catmull

6. Shoe Dog: A Memoir by the Creator of Nike - Phil Knight

7. Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder - Nassim Nicholas Taleb

8. Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets - Nassim Nicholas Taleb

9. The Cold Start Problem: How to Start and Scale Network Effects - Andrew Chen

10. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind - Yuval Noah Harari

11. Lessons of History - Will & Ariel Durant

12. Prepared: What Kids Need for a Fulfilled Life - Diane Tavenner

13. Surely You’re Joking Mr Feynman! - Richard P. Feynman

14. Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World - Jack Weatherford

15. The Intelligent Investor - Benjamin Graham

16. Upheaval: Turning Points for Nations in Crisis - Jared Diamond

17. AI Superpowers: China, Silicon Valley, and the New World Order - Kai-Fu Lee

18. The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right - Atul Gawande

19. The Forty Rules of Love - Elif Shafak

20. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams

21. Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead - Brené Bown

22. Breath: The New Science of a Lost Art - James Nestor

23. Amp It Up: Leading for Hypergrowth by Raising Expectations, Increasing Urgency, and Elevating Intensity - Frank Slootman

24. Idea Makers: Personal Perspectives on the Lives & Ideas of Some Notable People - Stephan Wolfram

25. Predictably Irrational, Revised and Expanded Edition: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions - Dan Ariely

26. A Little History of the World - E. H. Gombrich

27. The Black Swan: Second Edition: The Impact of the Highly Improbable: With a new section: "On Robustness and Fragility - Nassim Nicholas Taleb

28. The Psychology of Money: Timeless lessons on wealth, greed, and happiness - Morgan Housel

29. The Pyshopath Test - Jon Ronson

30. The Headspace Guide to Meditation and Mindfulness: How Mindfulness Can Change Your Life in Ten Minutes a Day - Andy Puddicombe

31. Thinking In Bets: Making Smarter Decisions When You Don't Have All the Facts - Annie Duke

32. How Brands Grow - Byron Sharp

33. The man who solved the market - Gregory Zuckerman

34. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood - Trevor Noah

35. The Bitcoin Standard: The Decentralized Alternative to Central Banking - Saifedean Ammous

36. Measure What Matters: How Google, Bono, and the Gates Foundation Rock the World with OKRs - John Doerr

37. Extreme Ownership: How U.S. Navy Seals Lead and Win - Jocko Willink

38. The Hard Think About Hard Things - Ben Horowitz

39. Superintelligence - Nick Bostrom

40. The Obstacle Is the Way: The Timeless Art of Turning Trials into Triumph - Ryan Holiday

41. Seven Brief Lessons on Physics - Carlo Rovelli

42. Man's Search for Meaning - Viktor Frankl

43. Breakfast with Seneca: A Stoic Guide to the Art of Living - David Fideler

44. The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People - Stephen Covey

45. A little history of Art - Charlotte Mullins

46. Ego is the Enemy - Ryan Holiday

47. Portfolios of the Poor: How the World's Poor Live on $2 a Day - Daryl Collins, Jonathan Morduch, Stuart Rutherford, Orlanda Ruthven

48. Principles: Life and Work - Ray Dalio

49. The Organized Mind: Thinking Straight in the Age of Information Overload - Daniel J. Levitin

50. The Alchemist - Paulo Coelho

51. The Innovators: How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses, and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution - Walter Issacson

52. From Third World to First: Singapore and the Asian Economic Boom - Lee Kuan Yew

53. Why we sleep - Matthew Walker

54. What You Do Is Who You Are: How to Create Your Business Culture - Ben Horowitz

55. Narconomics: How to Run a Drug Cartel - Tom Wainwright

56. 21 Lessons for the 21st Century - Yuval Noah Harari

57. How to Be Your Own Therapist: Boost your mood and reduce your anxiety in 10 minutes a day - Owen O’Kane

58. Delivering Happiness: A Path to Profits, Passion and Purpose - Tony Hsieh

59. Winning the Story Wars - Jonah Sachs

60. How Judges Think - Richard Posner