Books I’ve read, in part, or in full, and keep going back to from time to time.
If you have suggestions for good reads, I’m all ears (I mean, eyes).
Business/Entrepreneurship
Rework – 37signals
The Art of The Start – Guy Kawasaki
Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion – Robert Cialdini
How To Get Rich – Felix Dennis
Yes! 50 Scientifically Proven Ways to Be Persuasive – Noah Goldstein, Steve Martin, and Robert Cialdini
Crossing The Chasm – Geoffrey Moore
Made To Stick – Chip Heath & Dan Heath
Presenting To Win: The Art of Telling Your Story – Jerry Weisman
The Innovator’s Dilemma – Clayton Christensen
Think and Grow Rich – Napoleon Hill
10 Rules for Strategic Innovators – Vijay Govindrajan & Chris Trimble
Non-fiction (general)
The Black Swan – Nassim Taleb
Failure Is Not An Option – Gene Kranz
Mountaineering: Freedom of The Hills
The World is Flat – Thomas Friedman
Blackbelt in Blackjack – Arnold Snyder
Enron: The Smartest Guys in The Room – Bethany McLean & Peter Elkind
Bringing Down the House – Ben Mezrich
The Book of Muscle – Ian King and Lou Schuler
Fiction
The Alchemist – Paulo Coelho
The Kite Runner – Khaled Hosseini
Five Point Someone – Chetan Bhagat
The Inscrutable Americans – Anurag Mathur
Shantaram – Gregory David Roberts
The Panchatantra
The Dante Club – Matthew Pearl
The Arabian Nights – Hussain Haddawy translation
Science/Psychology
Cracking The Genome – Craig Venter
The Third Chimpanzee – Jared Diamond
Your Brain at Work – David Rock
The Fabric of The Cosmos – Brian Greene
The Invisible Century
Surely, You’re Joking, Mr. Feynman – Richard Feynman
The Selfish Gene – Richard Dawkins
The Happiness Hypothesis – Jonathan Haidt
Stumbling on Happiness – Daniel Gilbert
Phantoms in The Brain – VS Ramachandran
Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus
Working on Emotional Intelligence – Daniel Goleman
Philosophy/Spirituality
Siddhartha – Herman Hesse
The Book Of Secrets – Osho
Meditation – Osho
Man’s Search for Meaning – Viktor Frankl
The Way of The Superior Man – David Deida
The Art of War – Sun Tzu
Courage: The Joy of Living Dangerously – Osho
The First and Last Freedom – Jiddu Krishnamurti
Zen: It’s History and Teachings – Osho
