Book List


This is just a brief list of recent books I consider worth a mention. I’ll try to revisit this post to update it on occasion.

2016
- Grit: The Power of Passion and Perserverance by Angela Duckworth
- Thank You For Being Late by Thomas Friedman
- Algorithms to Live By by Brian Christian
- Arms and The Dudes by Guy Lawson
- Eccentric Orbits: The Iridium Story by John Bloom
- From Silk to Silicon: The Story of Globalization Through Ten Extraordinary Lives
- The Industries of the Future by Alec Ross
- Narconomics: How to Run a Drug Cartel by Tom Wainwright
- Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are? by Frans de Waal
- Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City by Matthew Desmond
- This Is Your Brain on Parasites: How Tiny Creatures Manipulate Our Behavior and Shape Society by Kathleen McAuliffe
- Creative Schools: The Grassroots Revolution That’s Transforming Education
- Phishing for Phools: The Economics of Manipulation and Deception by George Akerlof
- The Rise and Fall of American Growth by Robert Gordon
- Misbehaving: The Making of Behavioral Economics by Richard Thaler
- Sonic Boom: How Sound Transforms the Way We Think, Feel, and Buy by Joel Beckerman
2015
- The Innovators by Walter Isaacson
- Flash Boys by Michael Lewis
- The Signal and The Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail, But Some Don’t by Nate Silver
- Humans Need Not Apply by Jerry Kaplan
- Superforecasting: The Art and Science of Prediction by Philip Tetlock
- Bold: How to Go Big, Create Wealth, and Impact the World by Peter Diamandis
- Sugar: A Global History by Andrew Smith
- Abundance: The Future is Better Than You Think by Peter Diamandis
- Why Information Grows: The Evolution of Order, from Atoms to Economies
- Capital in the Twenty-First Century by Thomas Piketty
- The Economics of Inequality by Thomas Piketty
- Saving Capitalism: For the Many, Not the Few by Robert Reich
- Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies by Nick Bostrom
- Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Harari

2014
- Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder by Nassim Taleb
- Predictably Irrational by Dan Ariely
- Meditations by Marcus Aurelius
- Salt Sugar Fat: How the Food Giants Hooked Us by Michael Moss
- Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman
- Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion by Dr. Robert Cialdini
- Thinking in Systems: A Primer by Donnella Meadows
- Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products by Nir Eyal
- Growth Hacker Marketing: Ryan Holiday
- Numbers Rule Your World: The Hidden Influence of Probabilities and Statistics on Everything You Do by Kaiser Fung
2013
- The Innovator’s Dilemma by Clayton Christensen
- The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbably by Nassim Taleb
- The Invisible Gorilla by Christopher Chabris
- The Lean Startup by Eric Ries
- The Toyota Way by Jeffrey Liker
- The Box: How the Shipping Container Made the World Smaller and the World Economy Bigger by Marc Levinson
- Lean Analytics: Use Data to Build a Better Startup Faster by Alistair Croll
- Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
<= 2012
- The Intelligent Investor by Benjamin Graham
- The World is Flat by Thomas Friedman
- The Lexus and the Olive Tree by Thomas Friedman
- Freakonomics by Steven Levitt
- Blink by Malcolm Gladwell
- Tipping Point by Malcolm Gladwell
- The Paradox of Choice: Why More is Less by Barry Schwartz
- Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us by Daniel Pink
- Priceless: The Myth of Fair Value by William Poundstone
- How to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie
- SuperFreakonomics by Steven Levitt
- Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell
- Contagious: Why Things Catch On by Jonah Berger
- Why We Buy: The Science of Shopping by Paco Underhill
- The End of Advertising as We Know It by Sergio Zyman
- Little Red Book of Selling: 12.5 Principles of Sales Greatness by Jeffrey Gitomer
- Mao in the Boardroom: Marketing Genius from the Mind of the Master Guerilla
- The 33 Strategies of War by Robert Greene
- Mastery by Robert Greene
- The 48 Laws of Power by Robert Greene
- Man’s Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl
- Wikinomics: How Mass Collaboration Changes Everything by Don Tapscott