Books
Here are some of my all-time favorite books; the ones I have read and re-read, and would highly recommend.
The Design of Everyday Things Don Norman 
Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World Jack Weatherford 
The Lord of the Rings J.R.R. Tolkien 
1984 George Orwell 
Leonardo da Vinci Walter Isaacson 
How to Win Friends and Influence People Dale Carnegie
Since 2018, I have listed the interesting ones I read each year: 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025, 2026.
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10x Is Easier Than 2x Dan Sullivan and Benjamin Hardy 
21 Lessons for the 21st Century Yuval Noah Harari 
The 5 Elements of Effective Thinking Edward B. Burger & Michael Starbird
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Absolute and None Dinker Charak 
The Accidental Masterpiece Michael Kimmelman 
The Almanack of Naval Ravikant Eric Jorgenson Anthropause Stan Cox 
Antifragile Nassim Nicholas Taleb 
The Anxious Generation Jonathan Haidt 
The Art of War Sun Tzu 
Artemis Andy Weir 
Astrophysics for People in a Hurry Neil deGrasse Tyson 
Atomic Habits James Clear 
The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin Benjamin Franklin
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The Beginning of Infinity David Deutsch 
Big Magic Elizabeth Gilbert 
The Big Picture Sean Carroll The Blazing World Margaret Cavendish 
The Book of Joy Dalai Lama & Desmond Tutu 
Bringing Up Bébé Pamela Druckerman 
Buddhism Plain and Simple Steve Hagen
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Can’t Hurt Me David Goggins 
The Checklist Manifesto Atul Gawande 
Chip War Chris Miller 
The Choice Edith Eger The Climate Solution Mridula Ramesh 
The Code Breaker Walter Isaacson 
The Cold Start Problem Andrew Chen 
The Corn Maiden and Other Nightmares Joyce Carol Oates The Corporation in the Twenty-First Century John Kay 
The Courage to Be Disliked Ichiro Kishimi & Fumitake Koga 
The Creativity Code Marcus du Sautoy 
Crossing the Chasm Geoffrey A. Moore 
The Culture Code Daniel Coyle
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The Daily Stoic Ryan Holiday & Stephen Hanselman 
Deep Work Cal Newport 
The Diary of a Young Girl Anne Frank 
Discipline Is Destiny Ryan Holiday 
Don’t Believe Everything You Think Joseph Nguyen 
Draw to Win Dan Roam
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Early Indians Tony Joseph 
Earthquake Boy Leela Gour Broome 
Effortless Greg McKeown 
Ego Is the Enemy Ryan Holiday 
Elon Musk Walter Isaacson 
The End of Jobs Taylor Pearson 
The Entrepreneur Roller Coaster Darren Hardy 
Essentialism Greg McKeown
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Factfulness Hans Rosling, Ola Rosling & Anna Rosling Rönnlund 
Fire and Fury Michael Wolff 
Flatland Edwin Abbott Abbott Founding Sales Peter Kazanjy 
Frankenstein Mary Shelley The Future Is Asian Parag Khanna 
The Future We Choose Christiana Figueres & Tom Rivett-Carnac
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Getting Real 37signals 
Girl, Woman, Other Bernardine Evaristo 
The God of Small Things Arundhati Roy 
Good Economics for Hard Times Abhijit Banerjee & Esther Duflo 
A Good Enough Parent Bruno Bettelheim 
Good Strategy Bad Strategy Richard Rumelt 
The Great Gatsby F. Scott Fitzgerald 
A Guide to the Good Life William B. Irvine
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Hackers & Painters Paul Graham 
High Growth Handbook Elad Gil 
Hit Refresh Satya Nadella 
How I Almost Blew It Sidharth Rao 
How Not to Be Wrong Jordan Ellenberg 
How the World Really Works Vaclav Smil 
How To Randall Munroe 
How to Avoid a Climate Disaster Bill Gates 
How to Be Perfect Michael Schur 
How to Read a Book Mortimer J. Adler & Charles Van Doren 
How to Read a Person Like a Book Gerard I. Nierenberg & Henry H. Calero 
How to Talk So Kids Will Listen and Listen So Kids Will Talk Adele Faber & Elaine Mazlish 
How We Got to Now Steven Johnson
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I Am Malala Malala Yousafzai 
Ikigai Héctor García & Francesc Miralles 
The Iliad Homer Impact Mapping Gojko Adzic 
The Infinite Game Simon Sinek 
The Innovators Walter Isaacson 
Invisible Women Caroline Criado Perez 
It Doesn’t Have to Be Crazy at Work Jason Fried & David Heinemeier Hansson
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The Launch Pad Randall E. Stross Lifescale Brian Solis The Little Book of Lykke Meik Wiking 
Little Women Louisa May Alcott 
Loonshots Safi Bahcall 
Luka and the Fire of Life Salman Rushdie
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Master of the Game Sidney Sheldon 
Meaningful: The Story of Ideas That Fly Bernadette Jiwa 
Meditations Marcus Aurelius 
Merchants of Doubt Naomi Oreskes & Erik M. Conway 
Multipliers Liz Wiseman & Greg McKeown 
My Family and Other Animals Gerald Durrell
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The Power of Future Machines Rajiv Malhotra, TN Sudarshan & Manogna Sastry 
Prepared Diane Tavenner The Price of Time Edward Chancellor Principles for Dealing with the Changing World Order Ray Dalio 
Project Hail Mary Andy Weir 
The Psychology of Money Morgan Housel 
The Push Ashley Audrain
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Radical Candor Kim Scott 
Radical Focus Christina Wodtke 
Range David Epstein 
Remote Jason Fried & David Heinemeier Hansson 
Reviving Ophelia Mary Pipher 
Rework Jason Fried & David Heinemeier Hansson 
The Right It Alberto Savoia 
A Room of One’s Own Virginia Woolf
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The Sands of Time Sidney Sheldon 
Sapiens Yuval Noah Harari 
Saying No to Jugaad TN Hari & MS Subramanian 
The Secret of Secrets Dan Brown The Secret to Success Eric Thomas 
The Selfish Gene Richard Dawkins Show and Tell Dan Roam 
Silver Spoon Kids Eileen Gallo & Jon Gallo Simplify Joshua Becker 
Smartcuts Shane Snow 
So Good They Can’t Ignore You Cal Newport 
Start With Why Simon Sinek 
Stillness Is the Key Ryan Holiday 
The Story of My Experiments with Truth Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi 
The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck Mark Manson 
Superintelligence Nick Bostrom
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Tao Te Ching Laozi The Tatas Girish Kuber 
That Will Never Work Marc Randolph 
Their Lost Daughters Joy Ellis 
Think Straight Darius Foroux The Three-Body Problem Liu Cixin 
Too Soon Old, Too Late Smart Gordon Livingston 
Trillion Dollar Coach Eric Schmidt, Jonathan Rosenberg & Alan Eagle 
Turn the Ship Around! L. David Marquet
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Under Pressure Lisa Damour 
Unfolding the Napkin Dan Roam 
The Uninhabitable Earth David Wallace-Wells 
The Universe in a Nutshell Stephen Hawking 
Unscripted M.J. DeMarco 
The Untethered Soul Michael A. Singer
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The War of Art Steven Pressfield 
We Have a Deal Natalie Reynolds 
What If Randall Munroe 
What You Do Is Who You Are Ben Horowitz 
Why We Sleep Matthew Walker 
Will Will Smith WTF? What’s the Future and Why It’s Up to Us Tim O’Reilly
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