Category: Reading

Books I’m currently reading or re-reading, books I recommend and those on my backlog in Kindle.  I’m always on the lookout for new books, and welcome recommendations.  I recently found a potential goldmine on Patrick Collison’s site – hundreds of books with no categorisation, which makes it challenging, but interesting to explore.

Currently Reading/Re-reading

• • The Culture Map – Erin Meyer
  • Benjamin Franklin; An American Life  – Walter Isaacson
  • How to Measure Anything in Cybersecurity Risk – Douglas W Hubbard, Richard Seiersen
  • Scary Smart – Mo Gawdat
  • Noise – Daniel Kahneman, Oliver Sibry, et. al.
  • The Experience Machine – Andy Clark
  • The Body Keeps the Score – Bessel van der Kolk
  • Set Boundaries, Find Peace – Nedra Glover Tawwab
  • The Strategy Book – Max McKeown

• Strong Recommendations (YMMV)

• Seven and a Half Lessons about the Brain – Lisa Feldman Barrett
• Outlive – Peter Attia
• The Infinite Game – Simon Sinek
• Good Leaders Ask Great Questions – John C. Maxwell
• Power Failure – The Rise and Fall of General Electric – William D. Cohan
• Talking to Strangers – Malcolm Gladwell
• The Wisdom of the Bullfrog – Admiral William McRaven
• Atomic Habits – James Clear
• David and Goliath – Malcolm Gladwell
• Courage is Calling – Ryan Holiday
• Discipline is Destiny – Ryan Holiday
• The Lazarus Heist – Geoff White
• And the Next Question Is… – Rachel Alexander, Julia Russell
• Why We Sleep – Matthew Walker
• Stillness is the Key – Ryan Holiday
• How Women Rise – Sally Helgesen & Marshall Goldsmith
• Behave – Robert Sapolsky
• Quiet Leadership – Dr. David Rock
• The Happiness Advantage – Shawn Achor
• Bad Blood -John Carreyou
• Shine: Using Brain Science to get the Best from your People – Ned Hallowell
• Your Brain at Work – David Rock
• 21 Lessons for the 21st Century – Noah Yuval Harari
• Talent Wins – Ram Charan, Dominic Barton, et. al.
• That Will Never Work – Marc Randolph
• Zero to One – Peter Thiel, Blake Masters
• Life 3.0 – Max Tegmark
• Principles – Ray Dalio
• The Lean Startup – Eric Ries
• The Undoing Project – Michael Lewis
• Measure what Matters – John Doerr
• The Obstacle Is The Way – Ryan Holiday
• Team of Teams – Stanley McChrystal
• Turn the Ship Around – David Marquet
• Make your Bed – William H. McRaven
• Influence  – The Psychology of Persuasion– Robert Cialdini
• Tribe of Mentors – Tim Ferriss
• Tools of Titans – Tim Ferriss
• The Phoenix Project – Gene Kim, Kevin Behr
• Anything You Want – Derek Sivers
• The Effective Executive – Peter Drucker
• Choose Yourself – James Altucher – needs patience but has some really good points in it
• Trust me, I’m Lying – Ryan Holiday
• Superfreakonomics – Steven Levitt, Stephen Dubner
• Norse Mythology – Neil Gaiman
• The Five Dysfunctions of a Team – Patrick Lencioni
• Thinking, Fast and Slow – Daniel Kahneman
• Work Rules! – Laszlo Bock
• Nudge – Richard Thaler, Cass Sunstein
• Bounce -Matthew Syed
• Storyworthy – Matthew Dicks
• The Culture Code  – Daniel Coyle
• The Fifth Risk – Michael Lewis
• The Fourth Age – Byron Reese
• Outlaw Platoon – Sean Parnell
• Homo Deus – Yuval Noah Harari
• Invisible Women – Caroline Criado Perez
• The Wisdom of Psychopaths – Kevin Dutton
• Black Box Thinking – Matthew Syed
• The Hard Thing about Hard Things – Ben Horowitz
• Getting to Yes  – Roger Fisher, William Ury
• The Ride of a Lifetime – Bob Iger
• The 4 Disciplines of Execution – Sean Covey, Chris Chesney, et. al.
• Money – Yuval Noah Harari
• Rebel Ideas– Matthew Syed
• Wilful Blindness – Margaret Heffernan
• The Power of Habit – Charles Duhigg
• Deep Survival – Laurence Gonzales
• The Future Leader – Jacob Morgan
• Reinventing Organizations – Frederic Laloux
• Extreme Ownership – Jocko Willink, Leif Babin
• The Dichotomy of Leadership – Jocko Willink, Leif Babin
• Gates of Fire – Steven Pressfield
• AI Superpowers – Kai Fu Lee
• The Bomber Mafia – Malcolm Gladwell
• Emotional Intelligence – Daniel Goleman
• Mindset – Carol Dweck (again)
• The Pathfinders – Will Iredale
• Indistractable – Nir Eyal
• Time to Think – Nancy Kline
• Good Strategy, Bad Strategy – Richard Rumelt
• Site Reliability Engineering – Betsy Beyer, Niall Richard Murphy, et. al.
• Misbehaving – Richard Thaler
• Meditations – Marcus Aurelius
• And the Next Question Is… – Rachel Alexander, Julia Russell
• Leaders Eat Last – Simon Sinek
• How to think like a Roman Emperor – Donald Robertson

Waiting to read (Kindle or print to-read list)

• Administrative Behavior – Herbert A Simon
• Everything – ok, not quite everything, but there’s a lot out there 🙂

Recently finished

• Leadership, Strategy and Tactics – Jocko Willink
• AI Superpowers – Kai Fu Lee
• The Unicorn Project – Gene Kim
• Principles – Ray Dalio
• The Lean Startup – Eric Ries
• Freakonomics – Steven Levitt, Stephen Dubner
• Gravitas – Caroline Goyder
• Discipline Equals Freedom – Jocko Willink – this is a really interesting book – it’s like listening to the Jocko podcast in written form 🙂
• Extreme Ownership – Jocko Willink, Leif Babin
• Start with Why  – Simon Sinek
• Radical Focus – Christina Wodtke
• Ego is the Enemy – Ryan Holiday
• CyberWars – Charles Arthur
• Trust me, I’m Lying – Ryan Holiday
• Superfreakonomics – Steven Levitt, Stephen Dubner
• Fooled by Randomness – Nassim Taleb
• Norse Mythology – Neil Gaiman
• The Five Dysfunctions of a Team – Patrick Lencioni
• Thinking, Fast and Slow – Daniel Kahneman
• Work Rules! – Laszlo Bock
• Nudge – Richard Thaler, Cass Sunstein
• Bounce -Matthew Syed
• Tribal Leadership – Dave Logan, et. al.
• Storyworthy – Matthew Dicks
• Born a Crime – Trevor Noah
• The Fifth Risk – Michael Lewis
• The Innovators Dilemma – Clayton Christensen
• Can’t Hurt Me – David Goggins
• The Fourth Age – Byron Reese
• Leaders: Myth and Reality – Gen. Stanley McChrystal
• Homo Deus – Yuval Noah Harari
• Invisible Women – Caroline Criado Perez
• Machines like me (fiction) – Ian McEwan
• The Wisdom of Psychopaths – Kevin Dutton
• Black Box Thinking – Matthew Syed
• The Hard Thing about Hard Things – Ben Horowitz
• Zero to One – Peter Thiel, Blake Masters
• That Will Never Work – Marc Randolph
• Getting to Yes  – Roger Fisher, William Ury
• The Ride of a Lifetime – Bob Iger
• Call Sign Chaos – Jim Mattis
• How The Mind Works – Steven Pinker
• Why I’m no longer Talking to White People About Race – Reni Eddo-Lodge
• Quiet: The Power of Introverts in World That Can’t Stop Talking – Susan Cain
• Option B – Adam Grant, Sheryl Sandberg
• Ahead in the Cloud – Stephen Orban
• Discipline Equals Freedom (updated) – Jocko Willink
• No Time Like the Future – Michael J. Fox
• Barbarians at the Gate – Bryan Burrough, John Helya
• Deep Survival – Laurence Gonzales
• Think Again – Adam Grant
• How to be an Antiracist – Ibram X. Kendi
• Mindset – Carol Dweck (again)
• Competing in the Age of AI – Marco Iansiti, Karim Lakhani
• The Five Dysfunctions of a Team – Patrick Lencioni
• Misbehaving – Richard Thaler
• Nice Girls Don’t Get The Corner Office – Lois P. Frankel
• Meditations – Marcus Aurelius
• Lean Software Development: An Agile Toolkit – Mary & Tom Poppendieck
• Practical Cloud Security – Chris Dotson
• Peak – Anders Ericsson, Robert Pool
• The Dream Machine – M. Mitchell Waldrop
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