Here are some books I’ve enjoyed.
At the time I read them, certain books seemed unusually good (the * list) and others seemed particularly great (the ** list)
I’ve changed quite a bit since reading some of them, so my impression could be different today. Also, I obviously don’t agree with every single thing said or implied in these books.
The List
**
- Enlightenment Now
- Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow
- Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
- Shoe Dog
- The Mom Test
- Why Buddhism is True
*
- Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup
- Doing Good Better
- Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future
- Exhalation: Stories
- Lifespan: Why We Age―and Why We Don’t Have To
- Never Split the Difference
- Permanent Record
- Surely You’re Joking, Mr. Feynman!
- The Martian
- The Spy and the Traitor
- Thinking, Fast and Slow
- Waking Up
- Your Brain at Work
Others
- Abundance
- Angel
- Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder
- Becoming Steve Jobs
- Behave
- Blank Slate
- Brave New World
- Capitalism in America: A History
- Chasing Excellence
- Culture Code
- Free Will
- Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
- Hard Thing About Hard Things
- How Music Works: The Science and Psychology of Beautiful Sounds
- How to Change Your Mind: The New Science of Psychedelics
- Inspired: How To Create Products Customers Love
- Life 3.0
- Lost and Founder
- Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World
- Solve for Happy
- Stories of Your Life and Others
- Sum
- Superforecasting: The Art and Science of Prediction
- Talking to Strangers
- The Big Picture: On the Origins of Life, Meaning, and the Universe
- The Book of Joy
- The Culture Map: Breaking Through the Boundaries of Global Business
- The Gene: An Intimate History
- The Happiness Hypothesis
- The Inevitable
- The Mind Illuminated: A Complete Meditation Guide
- The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories
- This Is Your Brain on Music
- Traction: How Any Startup Can Achieve Explosive Growth
- What Technology Wants