Books I Enjoyed - James Lavin

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I read (too) many books, especially since I began listening to audiobooks from my local library (which it offers free via Overdrive) and from Audible at 2.5x to 3.0x speed while exercising, folding laundry, washing pots, doing yardwork, driving, etc.

I was driven to audiobooks in late 2019, after suffering a detached retina. The (very successful) vitrectomy that saved my eye -- thank you again, Dr. Peter Weseley!!! -- induced a cataract that grew progressively worse until I fixed that with successful cataract surgery -- thank you, Dr. Peter Libre!!! For two years, between those surgeries, I couldn't focus both eyes at any distance and compensated by switching from dead-tree books to audiobooks. My happy accidental discovery of the joys of "reading" audiobooks has now blossomed into a habit... okay, an addiction. The only physical books I still read the old-fashioned way are inherently visual books, like technical books with code examples. I now do 95% of my text-based "reading" via audiobooks while accomplishing other tasks.

I have completed and enjoyed all the books below and would recommend them to anyone like me. Of course, you're not me, so YMMV. Books not marked "library" overcame a higher bar to make this list because I had to pay for them, so I vetted them carefully pre-purchase.

I encourage you to borrow audio or physical books from your local library or buy them from any retailer you choose. Personally, I first look for books through my library, then buy those I'm excited about but can't borrow. The key is to always be learning! Books empower you to learn things others have become experts at over many years in just a few hours. Their hard-earned, distilled wisdom just flows into your eyes or ears. It's incredible!

If you do sign up for Audible, learn how to stretch your dollar. I have a membership but save most of my credits for two-for-one or three-for-two specials. You can also buy a book for $3 to $6 via the daily special or during occasional sales. Search in your favorite search engine for "save money Audible" or "Audible insider tips" for more information.

(MOSTLY) NON-FICTION BOOKS

Completed 2024

• Martin Warner, Startup Story: An Entrepreneur's Journey from Idea to Exit (wild story well told, but I cringe at his overpromise-underdeliver approach)
• Daniel Goleman, Focus: The Hidden Driver of Excellence
• Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi: Creativity: The Psychology of Discovery and Invention (Really loved this!)
• Peter Sims: Little Bets: How Breakthrough Ideas Emerge From Small Discoveries
• David Gardner, The Startup Hats: Master the Many Roles of the Entrepreneur
• Tilman Fertitta, Shut Up and Listen! Hard Business Truths that Will Help You Succeed (I hate the title)
• Feng Zhu & Bonnie Yining Cao, Smart Rivals: How Innovative Companies Play Games That Tech Giants Can't Win
• Kim Hvidkjaer, How to F-ck up Your Startup: The Science Behind Why 90% of Companies Fail - and How You Can Avoid It
• Paul Cheek, Disciplined Entrepreneurship - Startup Tactics: 15 Tactics to Turn Your Business Plan into a Business
• Ananyo Bhattacharya, The Man from the Future: The Visionary Life of John von Neumann
• Seth Stephens-Davidowitz, Don't Trust Your Gut: Using Data to Get What You Really Want in Life
• Dr. Albert Bourla, Moonshot: Inside Pfizer's Nine-Month Race to Make the Impossible Possible
• Paul Bloom, Psych: The Story of the Human Mind
• Josh Kaufman, The Personal MBA: Master the Art of Business
• Seth Godin, The Practice: Shipping Creative Work
• Andrew McAfee, The Geek Way: The Radical Mindset That Drives Extraordinary Results
• Horst Schulze, Excellence Wins: A No-Nonsense Guide to Becoming the Best in a World of Compromise
• T.J. English, Dangerous Rhythms: Jazz and the Underworld
• M.J. DeMarco, Unscripted: Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Entrepreneurship (loved parts of this and hated other parts)

Completed 2023

• Brian Long, Problem Hunting: The Tech Startup Textbook
• Gary Keller with Jay Papasan, The ONE Thing: The Surprisingly Simple Truth Behind Extraordinary Results
• Alberto Savola, The Right It: Why So Many Ideas Fail and How to Make Sure Yours Succeed
• Bernhard Schroeder, Brands and Bulls**: Excel at the Former and Avoid the Latter. A Branding Primer for Millennial Marketers in a Digital Age
• Marcus Sheridan, They Ask, You Answer: A Revolutionary Approach to Inbound Sales, Content Marketing, and Today's Digital Consumer, Revised & Updated
• John Whalen, Design for How People Think: Using Brain Science to Build Better Products
• Donald Miller, How to Grow Your Small Business: A 6-Step Plan to Help Your Business Take Off
• J. Stuart Ablon, Changeable: How Collaborative Problem Solving Changes Lives at Home, at School, and at Work
• Scott Berkun, The Myths of Innovation
• Craig Ferguson, Riding the Elephant: A Memoir of Altercations, Humiliations, Hallucinations, and Observations
• Philipp Dettmer, Immune: A Journey into the Mysterious System That Keeps You Alive (wonderfully accessible & entertaining exploration of the amazing human immune system from the creator of the fabulous Kurzgesagt science video channel)
• Alistair Croll & Benjamin Yoskovitz, Lean Analytics: Use Data to Build a Better Startup Faster
• Liz Wiseman, Multipliers: How the Best Leaders Make Everyone Smarter (Revised & Updated)
• Bret Stetka, A History of the Human Brain: From the Sea Sponge to CRISPR, How Our Brain Evolved (tragically, the M.D. author of this excellent book on the human brain died suddenly a year later from a brain seizure)
• Melissa Perri, Escaping the Build Trap: How Effective Product Management Creates Real Value (fabulous product management book)
• Suneel Gupta with Carlye Adler, Backable: The Surprising Truth Behind What Makes People Take a Chance on You
• Martin Short, I Must Say: My Life as a Humble Comedy Legend
• Jeff Scheinrock & Matt Richter-Sand, The Agile Start-Up (pretty, colorful physical book; excellent overview/intro but doesn't go very deep)
• Bill Messenger, Elements of Jazz: From Cakewalks to Fusion (audiobook only; fabulous)
• Jeffrey Pfeffer, 7 Rules of Power: Surprising But True Advice on How to Get Things Done and Advance Your Career
• David Ogilvy, Confessions of an Advertising Man
• Rishad Tobaccowala, Restoring the Soul of Business: Staying Human in the Age of Data
• Jennifer Aaker & Naomi Bagdonas, Humor, Seriously: Why Humor Is a Secret Weapon in Business and Life
• Donella H. Meadows, Thinking in Systems: A Primer
• Tom Kelley with Jonathan Littman, The Art of Innovation: Lessons in Creativity from IDEO, America's Leading Design Firm
• Gary Hamel & Michele Zanini, Humanocracy: Creating Organizations as Amazing as the People Inside Them
• Tobias Hürter, Too Big for a Single Mind: How the Greatest Generation of Physicists Uncovered the Quantum World
• Seth Godin, Purple Cow: Transform Your Business by Being Remarkable
• Matt Ridley, How Innovation Works: And Why It Flourishes in Freedom
• Eric Barker, Plays Well With Others: The Surprising Science Behind Why Everything You Know About Relationships is (Mostly) Wrong
• David Sloan Wilson, This View of Life: Completing the Darwinian Revolution
• Simu Liu, We Were Dreamers: An Immigrant Superhero Origin Story (far deeper, funnier, and more meaningful than I had expected... I recommend the audiobook because Simu Liu's story is especially entertaining when he reads it)
• Richard Sheridan, Chief Joy Officer: How Great Leaders Elevate Human Energy and Eliminate Fear
• Kip Tindell, Uncontainable: How Passion, Commitment, and Conscious Capitalism Built a Business Where Everyone Thrives
• Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Coach Wooden and Me: Our 50-Year Friendship on and off the Court (astonishingly great book on so many levels; I literally cried at the end... I recommend the audiobook, which Kareem reads)
• Robert Rosenberg, Around the Corner to Around the World: A Dozen Lessons I Learned Running Dunkin Donuts
• Ryan Leak, Chasing Failure: How Falling Short Sets You Up for Success
• Dan Lyons, Lab Rats: How Silicon Valley Made Work Miserable for the Rest of Us
• Simon Sinek, The Infinite Game
• Michael G. Goldsby, The Entrepreneur's Toolkit (The Great Courses)
• Mariana Mazzucato, Mission Economy: A Moonshot Guide To Changing Capitalism
• Annie Jacobsen, The Pentagon's Brain: An Uncensored History of DARPA, America's Top Secret Military Research Agency
• Lorraine Justice, The Future of Design: Global Product Innovation for a Complex World
• Thales S. Teixeira, Unlocking the Customer Value Chain: How Decoupling Drives Consumer Disruption
• Robert McKee, Storynomics: Story-Driven Marketing in the Post-Advertising World
• Benjamin Bikman, MD, Why We Get Sick: The Hidden Epidemic at the Root of Most Chronic Disease
• Simon Sinek, Start With Why: How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone To Take Action
• Jim Kwik, Limitless: Upgrade Your Brain, Learn Anything Faster, and Unlock Your Exceptional Life
• David Nilssen & Jeff Levy, Making the Jump into Small Business Ownership
• Jamie Mustard, The Iconist: The Art and Science of Standing Out
• Barton Gellman, Dark Mirror: Edward Snowden and the American Surveillance State
• Michael Dell, Play Nice But Win: A CEO's Journey from Founder to Leader
• Srinivas Rao (with Robin Dellabough), An Audience of One: Reclaiming Creativity for Its Own Sake
• Clint Pulver, I Love It Here: How Great Leaders Create Organizations Their People Never Want To Leave
• Sam Newman, Building Microservices: Designing Fine-Grained Systems, 2nd ed
• Dennis E. Taylor, We Are Legion (We Are Bob)
• Rich Diviney, The Attributes: 25 Hidden Drivers of Optimal Performance
• Jim Collins & William Lazier, BE 2.0 (Beyond Entrepreneurship 2.0): Turning Your Business Into an Enduring Great Company (Read this twice)
• Cal Newport, Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World

Completed 2022

• Brad Stone, The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon
• Michelle Obama, Becoming
• Jeremy DeSilva, First Steps: How Upright Walking Made Us Human
• Lawrence Ingrassia, Billion Dollar Brand Club: How Dollar Shave Club, Warby Parker, and Other Disruptors Are Remaking What We Buy
• Todd Herman, The Alter Ego Effect
• Stacy Perman, In-N-Out Burger (didn't enjoy this as much as I had expected to)
• Daniel E. Lieberman, Exercised: Why Something We Never Evolved to Do Is Healthy and Rewarding
• Nathan Furr, Nail It Then Scale It: The Entrepreneur's Guide to Creating and Managing Breakthrough Innovation
• Jeff Lawson, Ask Your Developer: How to Harness the Power of Software Developers and Win in the 21st Century
• Mark Manson, Everything Is F-cked: A Book About Hope
• Reed Hastings, No Rules Rules: Netflix and the Culture of Reinvention
• Mike Michalowicz, Fix This Next: Make the Vital Change That Will Level Up Your Business
• Bill Russell, Go Up For Glory (autobiography by Boston Celtics legend)
• Leander Kahney, Jony Ive: The Genius Behind Apple's Greatest Products
• Allen Gannett, The Creative Curve: How to Develop the Right Idea at the Right Time
• Shirish Nadkarni, From Startup to Exit: An Insider's Guide to Launching and Scaling Your Tech Business
• Leigh Gallagher, The Airbnb Story: How Three Ordinary Guys Disrupted an Industry, Made Billions…and Created Plenty of Controversy
• Ted Gioia, How to Listen to Jazz
• Ash Maurya, Running Lean: Iterate from Plan A to a Plan That Works (3rd ed)
• Seth Godin, This Is Marketing: You Can't Be Seen Until You Learn to See
• Morgan Housel, The Psychology of Money: Timeless Lessons on Wealth, Greed, and Happiness
• Sheera Frenkel and Cecilia Kang, An Ugly Truth: Inside Facebook's Battle for Domination
• Ken Segall, Insanely Simple: The Obsession that Drives Apple's Success
• Yvon Chouinard, The Responsible Company: What We've Learned from Patagonia's First 40 Years
• Rob Fitzpatrick, The Mom Test: How to Talk to Customers & Learn If Your Business Is a Good Idea When Everyone Is Lying to You
• Tony Fadell, Build: An Unorthodox Guide to Making Things Worth Making
• Kurt Vonnegut, Hocus Pocus (fiction)
• Ben R. Rich, Skunk Works: A Personal Memoir of My Years of Lockheed
• Donna Jackson Nakazawa, The Angel and the Assassin: The Tiny Brain Cell That Changed the Course of Medicine
• Curtis Morley, The Entrepreneur's Paradox: And How to Overcome the 16 Pitfalls Along the Startup Journey
• Frederic Kerrest, Zero to IPO: Over $1 Trillion of Actionable Advice from the World's Most Successful Entrepreneurs
• George Magnus, Red Flags: Why Xi's China Is in Jeopardy
• Roger L. Martin & A.G. Lafley, Playing to Win: How Strategy Really Works
• Eric Jorgenson, The Almanack of Naval Ravikant: A Guide to Wealth and Happiness
• Jon Acuff, Finish: Give Yourself the Gift of Done
• Norm Brodsky & Bo Burlingham, Street Smarts: An All-Purpose Tool Kit for Entrepreneurs
• Robert A. Heinlein, The Moon is a Harsh Mistress (sci-fi)
• Marcus Buckingham & Ashley Goodall, Nine Lies About Work: A Freethinking Leader's Guide to the Real World
• Andy Weir, Project Hail Mary (sci-fi)
• Robert Glazer, Elevate: Push Beyond Your Limits and Unlock Success in Yourself and Others
• Randy Pausch & Jeffrey Zaslow, The Last Lecture
• Bill George, Discover Your True North (updated & expanded edition)
• Ray Kroc & Robert Anderson, Grinding It Out: The Making of McDonald's
• Ozan Varol, Think Like a Rocket Scientist: Simple Strategies You Can Use to Make Giant Leaps in Work and Life (listened twice)
• Steven S. Hoffman, Make Elephants Fly: The Process of Radical Innovation
• Cal Newport, Digital Minimalism: Choosing a Focused Life in a Noisy World
• Dan Sullivan, Benjamin Hardy, The Gap and the Gain: The High Achievers' Guide to Happiness, Confidence, and Success
• Shellye Archambeau, Unapologetically Ambitious: Take Risks, Break Barriers, and Create Success on Your Own Terms
• Jim McKelvey, The Innovation Stack: Building an Unbeatable Business One Crazy Idea at a Time
• Fernando Trias de Bes, The Little Black Book of Entrepreneurship
• Ash Maurya, Scaling Lean: Mastering the Key Metrics for Startup Growth
• Allen Dib, The 1-Page Marketing Plan: Get New Customers, Make More Money, And Stand Out From The Crowd
• Dan Olsen, The Lean Product Playbook: How to Innovate with Minimum Viable Products and Rapid Customer Feedback
• Robin Wigglesworth, Trillions: How a Band of Wall Street Renegades Invented the Index Fund and Changed Finance Forever (library)
• Steven Johnson, Where Good Ideas Come From: The Natural History of Innovation (read this multiple times; library)
• Fred Reichheld, Winning On Purpose: The Unbeatable Strategy of Loving Customers
• Dave Parker, Trajectory: Startup: Ideation to Product/Market Fit - A Handbook for Founders and Anyone Supporting Them
• Joseph Henrich, The Secret of Our Success: How Culture Is Driving Human Evolution, Domesticating Our Species, and Making Us Smarter (library got it at my request)
• Antonio Damasio, The Strange Order of Things: Life, Feeling, and the Making of Cultures (library got it at my request)
• Adam Grant, Think Again: The Power of Knowing What You Don't Know (library)
• Betty White, Here We Go Again: My Life In Television (library)
• Dan Ariely, Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions (library)
• Ari Meisel, The Art of Less Doing: One Entrepreneur's Formula for a Beautiful Life
• Alan Ramadan, Play Bigger: How Pirates, Dreamers, and Innovators Create and Dominate Markets (library)
• Betty White, If You Ask Me (And of Course You Won't) (library)
• Daniel Coyle, The Culture Code: The Secrets of Highly Successful Groups (library; I re-read this every few years)
• Jim McLamore, The Burger King: A Whopper of a Story on Life and Leadership (library got it at my request)
• Karl Deisseroth, Projections: A Story of Human Emotions
• Paul G. Falkowski, Life’s Engines: How Microbes Made Earth Habitable
• Peter M. Hoffman, Life’s Ratchet: How Molecular Machines Extract Order from Chaos
• Beronda L. Montgomery, Lessons from Plants
• Rajat Bhargava & Will Herman, The Startup Playbook: Founder-to-Founder Advice from Two Startup Veterans (2nd ed)
• Sahil Levingia, The Minimalist Entrepreneur: How Great Founders Do More with Less
• Chuck Palahniuk, Consider This: Moments in My Writing Life After Which Everything Was Different
• Seth Godin, Tribes: We Need You to Lead Us
• Sy Montgomery, The Soul of An Octopus: A Surprising Exploration into the Wonder of Consciousness (library)
• Scott O’Neil, Be Where Your Feet Are: Seven Principles to Keep You Present, Grounded, and Thriving (library)
• Katie Hafner, Where Wizards Stay Up Late: The Origins of the Internet
• Thomas E. Ricks, First Principles: What America's Founders Learned from the Greeks and Romans and How That Shaped Our Country (library)
• Fumio Sasaki, Hello, Habits: A Minimalist's Guide to a Better Life (library)
• Caroline Williams, Move: How the New Science of Body Movement Can Set Your Mind Free (library)
• Kai Strittmatter, We Have Been Harmonized: Life in China's Surveillance State (library)
• David Fideler, Breakfast With Seneca: A Stoic Guide to the Art of Living (library)
• Amelia Pang, Made in China: A Prisoner, an SOS Letter, and the Hidden Cost of America's Cheap Goods (library)
• John Cleese, Creativity: A Short and Cheerful Guide (library)
• Catherine Price, The Power of Fun: How to Feel Alive Again (library)
• Carlo M. Cipolla, The Basic Laws of Human Stupidity (library)
• Satya Nadella, Hit Refresh: The Quest to Rediscover Microsoft's Soul and Imagine a Better Future for Everyone (library)
• Walter Isaacson, The Code Breaker: Jennifer Doudna, Gene Editing, and the Future of the Human Race (library)
• Elie Mystal, Allow Me to Retort: A Black Guy's Guide to the Constitution (really, really great… get the audiobook, read by the author!)
• Ben Lindbergh, Travis Sawchik, The MVP Machine: How Baseball's New Nonconformists Are Using Data to Build Better Players
• David A. Price, The Pixar Touch: The Making of a Company
• Carl Zimmer, Life’s Edge: The Search for What It Means to Be Alive
• Patrick J. McGinnis, The 10% Entrepreneur: Live Your Startup Dream Without Quitting Your Day Job
• Brad Stulbert, Steve Magness, The Passion Paradox: A Guide to Going All In, Finding Success, and Discovering the Benefits of an Unbalanced Life
• Jeffrey Bussgang, Entering StartupLand: An Essential Guide to Finding the Right Job
• Pat Flynn, Superfans: The Easy Way to Stand Out, Grow Your Tribe, and Build a Successful Business
• Jo Boaler, Limitless Mind: Learn, Lead, and Live Without Barriers
• Michael Moss, Salt, Sugar, Fat: How the Food Giants Hooked Us
• David M. Cote, Winning Now, Winning Later: How Companies Can Win in the Short Term While Investing for the Long Term
• Suneel Gupta, Backable: The Surprising Truth Behind What Makes People Take a Chance on You
• Adam Savage, Every Tool’s a Hammer: Lessons from a Lifetime of Making
• Reginald F. Lewis, Why Should White Guys Have All the Fun?: How Reginald Lewis Created a Billion-Dollar Business Empire
• Randy Komisar, Jantoon Reigersman, Straight Talk for Startups: 100 Insider Rules for Beating the Odds - From Mastering the Fundamentals to Selecting Investors, Fundraising, Managing Boards, and Achieving Liquidity
• Steve Kamb, Level Up Your Life: How to Unlock Adventure and Happiness by Becoming the Hero of Your Own Story
• Eric Barker, Barking Up The Wrong Tree: The Surprising Science Behind Why Everything You Know About Success Is (Mostly) Wrong
• Dr Michael Gervais & Pete Carroll, Finding Your Best: A Conversation on High Performance Mindset
• Neil Postman, Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business
• Jonathan Hernandez, The Truth About Aaron: My Journey to Understand My Brother
• Ron Lieber, The Price You Pay for College: An Entirely New Roadmap for the Biggest Financial Decision Your Family Will Ever Make
• John J. Ratey, Richard Manning, Go Wild: Free Your Body and Mind from the Afflictions of Civilization
• Guy Raz, How I Built This: The Unexpected Paths to Success from the World's Most Inspiring Entrepreneurs
• Alex Korb, The Upward Spiral: Using Neuroscience to Reverse the Course of Depression, One Small Change at a Time
• Roger McNamee, Zucked: Waking Up to the Facebook Catastrophe
• Cliff Kuang, User Friendly: How the Hidden Rules of Design Are Changing the Way We Live, Work, and Play

Completed (approx) 2020-2021

• Patrick J. McGinnis, The 10% Entrepreneur: Live Your Startup Dream Without Quitting Your Day Job
• Dan Harris, 10% Happier: How I Tamed the Voice in My Head, Reduced Stress Without Losing My Edge, and Found a Self-Help That Actually Works
• Patrick Lencioni, The Advantage: Why Organizational Health Trumps Everything Else in Business
• Rory Sutherland, Alchemy: The Dark Art and Curious Science of Creating Magic in Brands, Business, and Life
• Neil Postman, Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business
• Rolf Dobelli, The Art of Thinking Clearly
• Neil DeGrasse Tyson, Astrophysics for People in a Hurry
• James Clear, Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones
• Eric Barker, Barking up the Wrong Tree: The Surprising Science Behind Why Everything You Know About Success Is (Mostly) Wrong
• Brent Schlender and Rick Tetzeli: Becoming Steve Jobs: The Evolution of a Reckless Upstart into a Visionary Leader
• Atul Gawande, Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End
• Michael Lewis, Boomerang: Travels in the New Third World
• Zig Ziglar, Born to Win: Find Your Success
• David Fideler, Breakfast with Seneca: A Stoic Guide to the Art of Living
• Emily Chang, Brotopia: Breaking Up the Boys' Club of Silicon Valley
• Nathaniel Philbrick, Bunker Hill: A City, a Siege, a Revolution
• Jim McLamore, The Burger King: A Whopper of a Story on Life and Leadership
• Michael A. Cusumano, Annabelle Gawer, and David B. Yoffie, The Business of Platforms: Strategy in the Age of Digital Competition, Innovation, and Power
• Walter Isaacson, The Code Breaker: Jennifer Doudna, Gene Editing, and the Future of the Human Race
• Darren Hardy, The Compound Effect: Jumpstart Your Income, Your Life, Your Success
• Chase Jarvis, Creative Calling: Establish a Daily Practice, Infuse Your World with Meaning, and Succeed in Work + Life
• Ken Kocienda, Creative Selection: Inside Apple's Design Process During the Golden Age of Steve Jobs
• John Cleese, Creativity: A Short and Cheerful Guide
• Ed Catmull with Amy Wallace, Creativity, Inc.: Overcoming the Unseen Forces That Stand in the Way of True Inspiration
• Joseph Menn, Cult of the Dead Cow: How the Original Hacking Supergroup Might Just Save the World
• Daniel Coyle, The Culture Code: The Secrets of Highly Successful Groups
• William Vanderbloemen, Culture Wins
• Ian Leslie, Curious: The Desire to Know and Why Your Future Depends On It
• Jane Mayer, Dark Money: The Hidden History of the Billionaires Behind the Rise of the Radical Right
• Malcolm Gladwell, David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants
• Tony Hsieh, Delivering Happiness: A Path to Profits, Passion, and Purpose
• Jack Trout with Steve Rivkin, Differentiate or Die
• Thomas M. Siebel, Digital Transformation: Survive and Thrive in an Era of Mass Extinction
• David Cohen & Brad Feld, Do More Faster: TechStars Lessons to Accelerate Your Startup, 2nd Ed
• Darren Hardy, The Entrepreneur Roller Coaster: Why Now Is the Time to #JointheRide
• Kurt Andersen, Evil Geniuses: The Unmaking of America: A Recent History
• Alex Bezzerides, Evolution Gone Wrong: The Curious Reasons Why Our Bodies Work (Or Don't)
• Marcus Buckingham & Gallup, First, Break All the Rules: What the world's Greatest Managers Do Differently
• Thomas E. Ricks, First Principles: What America's Founders Learned from the Greeks and Romans and How That Shaped Our Country
• Michael Lewis, Flash Boys: A Wall Street Revolt
• John J. Ratey and Richard Manning, Go Wild: Free Your Body and Mind from the Afflictions of Civilization
• Jim Collins, Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap...And Others Don't
• William B. Irvine, A Guide to the Good Life: The Ancient Art of Stoic Joy
• Tal Ben-Shahar, Happier: Learn the Secrets to Daily Joy and Lasting Fulfillment
• Shawn Achor, The Happiness Advantage: The Seven Principles of Positive Psychology That Fuel Success and Performance at Work
• Fumio Sasaki, Hello, Habits: A Minimalist’s Guide to a Better Life
• Satya Nadella, Hit Refresh: The Quest to Rediscover Microsoft's Soul and Imagine a Better Future for Everyone
• Yuval Noah Harari, Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow
• Dan Shapiro, Hot Seat: The Startup CEO Guidebook
• Guy Raz, How I Built This: The Unexpected Paths to Success from the World's Most Inspiring Entrepreneurs
• Brian McCullough, How the Internet Happened: From Netscape to the iPhone
• Jordan Ellenberg, How Not to Be Wrong: The Power of Mathematical Thinking
• Alan Alda, If I Understood You, Would I Have This Look on My Face?: My Adventures in the Art and Science of Relating and Communicating
• Betty White, If You Ask Me: (And of Course You Won't)
• Nir Eyal, Indistractable: How to Control Your Attention and Choose Your Life
• Robert B. Cialdini, Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion
• Jim McKelvey, The Innovation Stack: Building an Unbeatable Business One Crazy Idea at a Time
• Steve Kamb, Level Up Your Life: How to Unlock Adventure and Happiness by Becoming the Hero of Your Own Story
• Dr Jason Fung, Eve Mayer, and Megan Ramos, Life in the Fasting Lane: How to Make Intermittent Fasting a Lifestyle - and Reap the Benefits of Weight Loss and Better Health
• Brian Greene, Light Falls: Space, Time, and an Obsession of Einstein
• Steven R. Gundry, MD: The Longevity Paradox: How to Die Young at a Ripe Old Age
• Safi Bahcall, Loonshots: How to Nurture the Crazy Ideas That Win Wars, Cure Diseases, and Transform Industries
• Amelia Pang, Made In China: A Prisoner, an SOS Letter, and the Hidden Cost of America's Cheap Goods
• William H. McRaven, Make Your Bed: Little Things That Can Change Your Life...and Maybe the World
• Julie Zhuo, The Making of a Manager: What to Do When Everyone Looks to You
• Gregory Zuckerman, The Man Who Solved the Market: How Jim Simons Launched the Quant Revolution
• Donald Miller with Dr J.J. Peterson, Marketing Made Simple: A Step-by-Step StoryBrand Guide for Any Business
• Jeff Haden, The Motivation Myth: How High Achievers Really Set Themselves Up to Win
• Caroline Williams, Move: How the New Science of Body Movement Can Set Your Mind Free
• Chris Voss, Never Split the Difference: Negotiating as if Your Life Depended on It
• Malcolm Gladwell, Outliers: The Story of Success
• Edward Snowden, Permanent Record
• Alan Ramadan, et al. Play Bigger: How Pirates, Dreamers, and Innovators Create and Dominate Markets
• Michael Lewis, Playing to Win
• Ron Lieber, The Price You Pay for College: An Entirely New Roadmap for the Biggest Financial Decision Your Family Will Ever Make
• Edward Bernays, Propaganda
• Alan Stein with Jon Sternfeld, Raise Your Game: High-Performance Secrets from the Best of the Best
• David Epstein, Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World
• Robert Iger, The Ride of a Lifetime: Lessons Learned from 15 Years as CEO of the Walt Disney Company
• Yuval Noah Harari, Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
• Robert Reich, Saving Capitalism: For the Many, Not the Few
• Bill Walsh with Dick Hill and Craig Walsh, The Score Takes Care of Itself: My Philosophy of Leadership
• Benjamin Lorr, The Secret Life of Groceries: The Dark Miracle of the American Supermarket
• Joseph Henrich, The Secret of Our Success: How Culture Is Driving Human Evolution, Domesticating Our Species, and Making Us Smarter
• Sy Montgomery, Soul of an Octopus: A Surprising Exploration into the Wonder of Consciousness
• Jim Camp, Start With No: The Negotiating Tools that the Pros Don't Want You to Know
• Matt Blumberg, Startup CEO: A Field Guide to Scaling Up Your Business, 2nd Edition
• Austin Kleon, The Steal Like an Artist Audio Trilogy: How to Be Creative, Show Your Work, and Keep Going
• Randy Komisar and Jantoon Reigersman, Straight Talk for Startups: 100 Insider Rules for Beating the Odds - From Mastering the Fundamentals to Selecting Investors, Fundraising, Managing Boards, and Achieving Liquidity
• Antonio Damasio, The Strange Order of Things: Life, Feeling, and the Making of Cultures
• Mark Manson, The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F_ck: A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life
• Philip Tetlock and Dan Gardner, Superforecasting: The Art and Science of Prediction
• Richard P. Feynman, Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!
• Chip Heath & Dan Heath, Switch: How to Change Things When Change Is Hard
• Malcolm Gladwell, Talking to Strangers: What We Should Know About the People We Don't Know
• Marc Randolph, That Will Never Work: The Birth of Netflix and the Amazing Life of an Idea
• Adam Grant, Think Again: The Power of Knowing What You Don't Know
• Annie Duke, Thinking in Bets: Making Smarter Decisions When You Don't Have All the Facts
• Kim Lorenz, Tireless: Key Principles that Drive Success Beyond Business School Audible Logo Audible Audiobook
• Lawrence Levy, To Pixar and Beyond: My Unlikely Journey with Steve Jobs to Make Entertainment History
• Mary L. Trump, Ph.D., Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the World's Most Dangerous Man
• Jonathan Hernandez, The Truth About Aaron: My Journey to Understand My Brother
• Robert H. Frank, Under the Influence: Putting Peer Pressure to Work
• Michael Lewis, The Undoing Project: A Friendship That Changed Our Minds
• Alex Korb, PhD, The Upward Spiral: Using Neuroscience to Reverse the Course of Depression, One Small Change at a Time
• Cliff Kuang and Robert Fabricant, User Friendly: How the Hidden Rules of Design Are Changing the Way We Live, Work, and Play
• Richard Branson, The Virgin Way: Everything I Know about Leadership
• Christine Lagorio-Chafkin, We Are the Nerds: The Birth and Tumultuous Life of Reddit, the Internet's Culture Laboratory
• Kai Strittmatter, We Have Been Harmonized: Life in China's Surveillance State
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