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