LIBRARY
The purpose of the library is not to showcase every book I’ve read nor recommend every text on this list. I * around 5 for each year at the end of the year and try to write up some thoughts on the top 10-20 on Medium​. In addition, I do not always read these books cover to cover, I will aim to extract the information I need from each and promptly move on to the next.
The idea of documenting ones reading list came from Art Garfunkel. He's been doing it since 1968.
2024
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Material World - Ed Conway
Profit First - Mike Michalowicz
The Great Divide - Alan Kohler
Bad Therapy - Abigail Shrier
The Trading Game - Gary Stevenson
Killing for Country - David Marr
Talleyrand - Charles River Editors
Troubled - Rob Henderson
Triumph of Genius - Ronald K Fierstein
Scaling People - Claire Hughes Johnson
The Power Law of Venture Capital - Sebastian Malaby
Socrates - Paul Johnson
How Big Things Get Done - Brent Flyvberg
Creators - Paul Johnson
How to Make a Few Billion Dollars - Brad Jacobs
Churchill - Paul Johnson
Mozart - Paul Johnson
The E-Myth Revisited - Michael Gerber
The coddling of the American Mind - Jonathan Haidt, Greg Lukianoff
Same as Ever - Morgan House
Nudge - Richard Thaler, Cass Sunstein
The Art of Seduction - Robert Greene
Profit First - Mike Michalowicz
Bread, The Story of Greggs - Ian Gregg
Poor Charlie’s Almanack - Charles Munger
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2023
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The coddling of the American Mind - Jonathan Haidt, Greg Lukianoff
Same as Ever - Morgan House
Aiming High - Atsuo Inoue
Elon Musk - Walter Isaacson
The Power of Geography - Tim Marshall
House of Versace - Deborah Ball
Napoleon the Great - Andre Roberts
A Certain Idea of France - Julian Jackson
Stay the Course - John C Bogle
The Autobiography and Andrew Carnegie and The Gospel of Wealth - Andrew Carnegie
Jack Welch and the GE Way - Robert Slater
Napoleon, A Concise Biography - David A Bell
Grinding it Out - Ray Kroc
Deluxe, How Luxury Lost its Luster - Dana Thomas
Confessions of a Pricing Man - Hermann Simon
Authentic - Paul Van Doren
My Life and Work - Henry Ford
Shoemaker - Joe Foster
Am I Being Too Subtle - Sam Zell
The Making of a Blockbuster - Gail DeGeorge
The Hedgehog and The Fox - Isaiah Berlin
Cable Cowboy - Mark Robichaux
The Great CEO Within - Matt Mochary
What’s Our Problem - Tim Urban
Good Strategy Bad Strategy - Richard Rumelt
100 Baggers - Christopher Mayer
The Future of Insurance - Bryan Falchuk
How to Invest - David Rubenstein
2022
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Chip War - Chris Miller 12/22*
Lone Wolf - Katherine Murphy 12/22
When McKinsey Comes to Town - Walt Boganich 12/22
Working Backwards - Colin Bryar - 11/22
Messy Marketplace - Brent Beshore 11/22
What it Takes - Stephen A Schwarzman 11/22
More Money than God - Sebastian Mallaby 10/22
A New World Begins - Jeremy Popkin 10/22
The World for Sale - Javier Blas 10/22
Nothing to Envy - Barbara Demick 09/22
Mastering the Market Cycle - Howard Marks 09/22
The Masters of Private Equity and Venture Capital - Robert Finkel 09/22
Make you Bed - William H. McRaven 08/22
How to be a Founder - Matt Clifford 08/22
Damn Right, Behind the Scenes with Berkshire Hathaway Billionaire Charlie Munger - Janet Lowe 08/22*
How to Keep Your Cool - Seneca 08/22
In the Plex - Steven Levy 07/22
The Bed of Procrustes - Nassim Taleb 07/22
Quarterly Essay 86: Sleepwalk to War - Hugh White 07/22
The Human Crisis - Albert Camus 06/22
The Dealmaker - Guy Hands 06/22
Nazi Billionaires - David de Jong 05/22
High Velocity Innovation - Katherine Radeka 05/22
A Bright Future - Joshua Golstein 04/22*
Dare to Lead - Brené Brown 04/22
Barbarians at the Gate - Bryan Burrough, John Heylar 03/22
At Home: A Short History of Private Life - Bill Bryson 03/22
Fanatical Prospecting - Jeb Blount - 03/22
Say Nothing - Patrick Radden Keefe 02/22*
Simplify - Richard Koch 02/22
HBR Guide to Buying a Small Business - Richard S Ruback, Royce Yudkoff 02/22
The Private Equity Playbook - Adam Coffey 01/22
Delivering Happiness - Tony Hsieh 01/22
Exponential - Azeem Azhar 01/22
Wanting - Luke Burgis 01/22*
2021
Buy and Build - Walker Diebel 12/21
The Medici Effect - Frans Johansson 11/21
The Contrarian - Max Chafkin 10/21
The Case for Courage - Kevin Rudd 10/21
Talking to my Country - Stan Grant 09/21
Quarterly Essay 83: Top Blokes 09/21
One Hundred Years of Dirt - Rick Morton 09/21
Striking Thoughts - Bruce Lee 08/21
The Psychology of Money - Morgan Housel 08/21
Unreasonable Success and How to Achieve it - Richard Kock 08/21
Driven to Distraction - M.D. Edward Hallowell, M.D. John Ratey 07/21
Ikigai - Hector Garcia 07/21
Super Thinking - Gabriel Weinberg 06/21
Liars Poker - Michael Lewis 06/21
The Business of Platforms - Michael Cusumano 05/21
The Snowball - Alice Schroeder 05/21
The Lucky Country - Donald Horne
A Short History of China - Gordon Kerr 04/21
The Star Principle - Richard Koch 04/21
The Outsiders - William Thorndike 04/21
The 80/20 Principle - Richard Koch 03/21
Think Again - Adam Grant 03/21
Benjamin Franklin - Walter Isaacson 03/21
The Hidden Life of Trees - Peter Wohlleben 02/21
Shah of Shahs - Ruszard Kapuscinski 02/21
Invent and Wander - Jeff Bezos 01/21
The Shortest History of England - James Hawes 01/21
A Promised Land - Barrack Obama 01/21
2020
Navalmanack - Eric Jorgenson 10/20
The Decadent Society - Ross Douthat 10/20
When Breath Becomes Air - Paul Kalanithi 09/20
I, Partridge - Alan Partridge 09/20
China’s Disruptors - Edward Tse 08/20
The Outsider - Albert Camus 08/20
How Innovation Works - Matt Ridley 08/20
Deep Time Dreaming - Billy Griffiths 07/20
Velocity Overdrive - Dale Pollak - 07/20
Black Wave - Kim Ghattas 06/20
The Sovereign Individual - William Rees-Mogg 06/20
Seinfeldia - Jennifer Keishin Armstrong 06/20
Measure What Matters - John Doerr 05/20
The Prince - Niccolo Machiavelli 05/20
The Fountainhead - Ayn Rand 05/20
The Ape that Understood the Universe - Steve Stewart-Williams 05/20
The Anarchy - William Dalrymple 04/20
As a Man Thinketh - James Allen 04/20
Three Tigers, One Mountain - Michael Booth 03/20
A Short History of Australia - Geoffrey Blainey 03/20
The Alchemist - Paulo Coelho 03/20
Educated - Tara westover 03/20
The Future of Capitalism - Paul Collier 03/20
Atomic Awakening - John McLain 03/20
Tuesdays with Mauri - Mitch Albom 02/20
Into Thin Air - Jon Krakauer 02/20
The Intelligent Investor - Ben Graham 02/20
One Giant Leap - Charles Fishman 02/20
Dark Emu - Bruce Pascoe 01/19
Organising Genius - Patricia Biederman and Warren Bennis 01/20
The Secret of Our Success - Joseph Henrich 01/20
Novacene - James Lovelock 01/20
The Everything Store - Brad Stone 01/20
The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini 01/20
2019
Matchmakers - Richard Schmalensee 12/19
The Ride of a Lifetime - Bob Iger 12/19
The Success Equation - Michael J Mauboussin 12/19
Churchill & Orwell: The Fight for Freedom - Thomas E Ricks 12/19
The New Silk Roads - Peter Frankopan 11/19
Endurance: Shackleton’s Incredible Voyage - Alfred Lansing 11/19
Red Flags: Why Xi’s China is in Jeopardy - George Magnus 11/19
The Rape of Nanking - Iris Chang 11/19
Breathe - Tim Winton 10/19
Ultralearning - Scott Young 10/19
Range: Why Generalists Succeed in a Specialised World - David Epstein 10/19
The Accidental Superpower - Peter Zeihan 10/19
Super Thinking: The Book of Mental Models - Gabriel Weinberg and Lauren McCann 09/19
Lee Kuan Yew - Graham Allison 09/19
The Revolt of The Public - Martin Gurri 09/19
Blowing the Doors Off - Michael Caine 08/19
Made in America - Sam Walton 08/19
Rise of Robots - Martin Ford 08/19
Emotional Intelligence - Daniel Coleman 08/19*
Alchemy: The Surprising Power of Ideas that Don’t Make Sense - Rory Sutherland 07/19*
It Doesn’t Have to be Crazy at Work - Jason Fried 07/19
The Forgotten Highlander - Alistair Urquhart 07/19
Trillion Dollar Coach - Eric Schmidt, Jonathan Rosenberg 07/19
HhHH - Laurent Binet 07/19
The Paris Architect - Charles Belfoure 06/19
Born Standing Up - Steve Martin 06/19
Good to Great - Jim Collins 05/19
The Wright Brothers - David McCullough 05/19
How Asia Works: Success and Failure in the World’s Most Dynamic Region - Joe Studwell 05/19
Thieves of State: Why Corruption Threatens the Global Economy - Sarah Chayes 05/19
Radical Candor - Kim Scott 05/19
The Man Who Mistook his Wife for a Hat - Oliver Sacks 05/19
Influence - Robert Cialdini 04/19
The Diary of a Young Girl - Anne Frank 04/19
The Prophet - Khalil Gibran 04/19
Hackers and Painters - Paul Graham 04/19
The Virtue of Nationalism - Yoram Hazony 04/19
The Fourth Industrial revolution - Klaus Schwab 04/19
Crashing Through - Robert Kurson 04/19*
Siddhartha - Hermann Hesse 04/19*
Neither Here nor There - Bill Bryson 04/19
Brief Answers to Big Questions - Stephen Hawking 04/19
The American Challenge - J J Stevan-Schreiber 04/19
China’s Great Wall of Debt - Dinny McMahon 04/19
Genghis Khan - The Making of the Modern World - Jack Weatherford 03/19
A Few Lessons From Sherlock Holmes - Peter Bevelin 03/19
Down Under - Bill Bryson 03/19
The Bush - Don Watson 03/19
Let my people go surfing - Yvon Choinard 03/19
Genome - Matt Ridley 03/19
Land and Sea - Carl Schmitt 03/19
Why Nations Fail - Daron Acemoglu, James Robinson 02/19
The Future is Asian - Parag Khanna 02/19
The Lion and the Unicorn - George Orwell 02/19
Future Politics - Jamie Susskind 02/19
The End of History and the Last Man - Francis Fukuyama 02/19
The Laws of Human Nature - Robert Greene 02/19
Has the West Lost it? - Kishore Mahbubani 02/19
The Little Prince - Antoine de Saint-Exupéry 01/19*
Creativity Inc - Ed Catmull 01/19
Guns, Germs and Steel - Jared Diamond 01/19
Charlie Munger, The Complete Investor - Tren Griffin 01/19
2018
The Traitor and the Spy - Ben Macintyre 12/18 *
Atomic Habits - James Clear 12/18
AI superpowers - Kai-Fu Lee 11/18
No Spin - Shane Warne 11/18
Fascism: A Warning - Madeleine Albright 11/18 *
Utopia for Realists - Rutger Bregman 10/18
Bad Blood - John Carreyrou 09/18
Conspiracy - Ryan Holiday 09/18
Blitzed - Norman Ohler 09/18
21 Lessons for the 21st Century - Yuval Noah Harari 09/18
Autonomy, The Quest to Build the Autonomous Car - Larry Bruns 08/18
How to Change Your Mind - Michael Pollan 07/18 *
12 Rules for Life - Jordan P Peterson 07/18
Enlightenment Now - Stephen Pinker 06/18
The Etymologicon - Mark Forsyth 06/18
In The Garden of Beasts - Erik Larson 05/18
The Subtle Art of Not Giving a Fuck - Mark Manson 05/18
The Future of Professions - Richard and Daniel Susskind 05/18
Factfulness - Hans Rosling 04/18
Capitalism Without Capital - Jonathan Haskel 03/18
Skin in the Game - Nassim Nicholas Taleb 02/18 *
The Tao of Seneca - Seneca 02/18
Leonardo da Vinci- Walter Isaacson 01/18 *
2017
Steve Jobs - Walter Isaacson 11/17
Homo Deus - Yuval Noah Harari 10/17 *
Tools of Titans - Tim Ferriss 10/17
Life 3.0 - Max Tegmark 10/17 *
Principles - Ray Dalio 09/17
Insanely Simple - Ken Segall 09/17
Seagull - Richard Bach 08/17
Hooked - Nir Eyal 08/17
Why We Sleep - Matthew Walker 07/17
Startup Nation - Dan Señor and Saul Singer 07/17
Mortality - Christopher Hitchens 06/17
Love Yourself - Kamal Ravikant 05/17
The Daily Stoic - Ryan Holiday 04/17
Tao Te Ching - Laozi 03/17
Crypto-Assets - The Innovators Guide to Investing - Chris Burniske 03/17
Elon Musk - Ashley Vance 03/17
Born to Run: The hidden tribe, the ultra runners and the greatest race the world as ever seen - Christopher McDougall 03/17
Surely You’re Joking Mr Feynman - Richard Feynman 01/17 *
2016
Ego is the Enemy - Ryan Holiday 12/16
AntiFragile - Nassim Nicholas Taleb 10/16 *
Genius: The Life and Science of Richard Feynman - Richard Feynman 09/16
David and Goliath - Malcolm Gladwell 09/16
The Fish That Ate the Whale - Rich Cohen 08/16
Forty Tales from the Afterlives - David Eagleman 07/18
Shoe Dog - Phil Knight 06/16
From Beirut to Jerusalem - Thomas Friedman 03/16
The Silk Road: A New History of the World - Peter Frankopan 03/16
Dealing with China: An Insider Unmasks the New Economic Superpower - Henry Paulsen 03/16
Outliers - Malcom Gladwell 01/16
2015
Red notice - Bill Browder 12/15
The Personal MBA, Master the Art of Business - Josh Kaufman 11/15
The Evolution of Everything - Matt Ridley 10/15
The Big Short - Michael Lewis 09/15
Hitch 22: A Memoir - Christopher Hitchens 07/15
Empire - Niall Ferguson 06/15
Republic - Plato 05/15 *
The Magic of Thinking Big - David Schwartz 04/15
Seven Brief Lessons of Physics - Carlo Rovelli 03/15 *
Poor Richards Almanac - Benjamin Franklin 01/15
The New Rulers of the World - John Pilger 01/15 *
2014
The Innovators - Walter Isaacson 12/14
Zero to One - Peter Thiel 12/14 *
The Hard Thing About Hard Things - Ben Horowitz 11/14
Superintelligence - Nick Bostrom 10/14
A Brief History of Nearly Everything - Bill Bryson 09/14 *
The Damage Done, Twelve Years of Hell in a Bangkok Prison - Warren Fellows 07/14
The Innovators Dilemma - Clayton M. Christensen 06/14
The God Delusion - Richard Dawkins 06/14
City of Thieves - David Benioff 06/14
The Old Man and the Sea - Earnest Hemingway 04/14
Obstacles: Aboriginals in Sport - Colin Tatz 04/14
The Rational Optimist - Matt Ridley 02/14 *
Legacy - James Kerr 02/14
2013
The Myth of Sisyphus - Albert Camus 12/13
Venture Deals - Brad Feld and Jason Mendelson 11/13
How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia - Moshin Hamid 10/13
Vagabonding - Rolf Potts 09/13
The Personal MBA - Josh Kaufman 08/13
Stoner - John Edward Williams 07/13
Thinking Fast and Slow - Daniel Kahneman 06/13
The Better Angels of our Nature - Steven Picker 05/13 *
Ready Player One - Ernest Cline 04/13
Sapiens - Yuval Noah Harari 04/13 *
Only the Paranoid Survive - Andy Grove 03/13
Touching the Void - Joe Simpson 02/13
The Churchill Factor - Boris Johnson 02/13
When China Rules The World - Martin Jacques 01/13 *
What do You Care What Other People Think - Richard Feynman 01/13 *
2012
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance - Robert M Pirsig 12/12
Catching the Wolf of Wall Street - Jordan Belford 12/12
Capitalism and Freedom - Milton Friedman 11/12
Art of War - Sun Tzu 11/12 *
Meditations - Marcus Aurelius 10/12 *
Sex at Dawn: The Prehistoric Origins of Modern Sexuality - Cecilia Jethá 09/12
Wealth of Nations - Adam Smith 08/12
4 Hour Work Week - Tim Ferriss 08/12
Man’s Search for Meaning - Viktor Frankl 07/12*
The Wolf of Wall Street - Jordan Belford 06/12
The Selfish gene - Richard Dawkins 06/12
Fooled by Randomness - Nassim Nicholas Taleb 05/12
How to Win Friends and Influence People - Dale Carnegie 04/12
Shantaram - Gregory David Roberts 03/12
One on One - Craig Brown 02/12
Origin of Species - Charles Darwin 02/12
A Moveable Feast - Earnest Hemingway 01/12 *
The Elements of Style - William Strunk Jr 01/12
Confessions of an Advertising Man - David Ogilvy 01/12 *