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
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- Why We Sleep – Matthew Walker
- Stillness is the Key – Ryan Holiday
- The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck – Michael Manson
- The Strategy Book – Max McKeown
- How Women Rise – Sally Helgesen & Marshall Goldsmith
- Practical Cloud Security – Chris Dotson
- Lean Software Development: An Agile Toolkit – Mary & Tom Poppendieck
- The Dream Machine – M. Mitchell Waldrop
- Strong Recommendations (YMMV)
- 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
Waiting to read (Kindle or print to-read list)
- Administrative Behavior – Herbert A Simon
- Peak – Anders Ericsson, Robert Pool
- And the Next Question Is… – Rachel Alexander, Julia Russell
- Everything – ok, not quite everything, but there’s a lot out there 🙂
Recently finished
- 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
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