I love reading. It’s the cheat code to get hundreds of hours of high-quality research neatly condensed into a package that takes about a week to consume.
Here is what I’ve completed reading lately:
| Year | Title | Author | Must Read |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | A Man for All Markets: From Las Vegas to Wall Street, How I Beat the Dealer and the Market | Edward O. Thorp | |
| Poor Charlie’s Almanack | Charlie Munger | ⚡️ | |
| 2023 | The Forgotten Highlander: My Incredible Story of Survival During the War in the Far East | Alistair Urquhart | ⚡️ |
| Long Walk to Freedom | Nelson Mandela | ⚡️ | |
| The Velveteen Rabbit | Margery Williams | ||
| Start at the End | Matt Wallaert | ||
| What We Owe the Future | William MacAskill | ||
| Electric City | Thomas Hager | ||
| Cracking the PM Interview: How to Land a Product Manager Job in Technology | Gayle Laakmann McDowell & Jackie Bavaro | ||
| The Diamond Age: Or, A Young Lady’s Illustrated Primer | Neal Stephenson | ||
| Titan: The Life of John D. Rockefeller, Sr. | Ron Chernow | ||
| Am I Being Too Subtle? | Sam Zell | ||
| The Richest Man in Babylon | George S. Clason | ⚡️ | |
| Man’s Search for Meaning | Viktor E. Frankl | ⚡️ | |
| Project Hail Mary | Andy Weir | ||
| The Holy Quran (English Translation) | Abdullah Yusuf Ali | ||
| Antifragile | Nassim Nicholas Taleb | ||
| The Mom Test | Rob Fitzpatrick | ⚡️ | |
| Building a Second Brain | Tiago Forte | ||
| Zero to One | Peter Thiel | ||
| 2022 | Company of One | Paul Jarvis | |
| Start Small, Stay Small: A Developer’s Guide to Launching a Startup | Rob Walling | ||
| Show Your Work! | Austin Kleon | ||
| Start Marketing the Day You Start Coding | Rob Walling | ||
| 12 Rules to Learn to Code | Dr. Angela Yu | ||
| Make – Bootstrapper’s Handbook | Pieter Levels | ||
| The Productive Muslim | Mohammed Faris | ||
| How to Change Your Mind | Michael Pollan | ||
| SCRUM – The Art of Doing Twice the Work in Half the Time | Jeff Sutherland | ||
| The First 20 Hours | Josh Kaufman | ||
| The Four – The Hidden DNA of Amazon, Apple, Facebook and Google | Scott Galloway | ||
| The Productivity Project | Chris Bailey | ||
| The War of Art | Steven Pressfield | ⚡️ | |
| Daring Greatly | Brene Brown | ⚡️ | |
| Getting Things Done | David Allen | ⚡️ | |
| Productivity Ninja | Graham Allcott | ||
| The Lazy Project Manager | Peter Taylor | ||
| Limitless | Jim Kwik | ||
| The Science of Getting Rich | Wallace D. Wattles | ||
| The Art of War | Sun Tsu | ⚡️ | |
| Meditations | Marcus Aurelius | ⚡️ | |
| The Obstacle is the Way | Ryan Holiday | ||
| The Compound Effect | Darren Hardy | ||
| Crushing It! | Gary Vaynerchuk | ||
| The Millennial Game Plan | Laura Shin | ||
| The 4-Hour Body | Timothy Ferriss | ||
| Mindset | Carol Dweck | ⚡️ | |
| The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People | Stephen R. Covey | ⚡️ | |
| The Total Money Makeover | Dave Ramsey | ||
| Atomic Habits | James Clear | ||
| Peak Performance | Brad Stulberg | ||
| The Power of Now | Eckhart Tolle | ||
| Transcend – The New Science of Self-Actualisation | Scott Barry Kaufman | ⚡️ | |
| Kettlebell Simple & Sinister | Pavel Tsatsouline | ||
| Secrets of Divine Love | A. Helwa | ⚡️ | |
| Finding Ultra | Rich Roll | ||
| Deep Work | Cal Newport | ||
| Everything is F*cked | Mark Manson | ||
| The Lifestyle Investor | Justin Donald | ||
| Big Magic | Elizabeth Gilbert | ||
| Ikigai: The Japanese Secret to a Long and Happy Life | Hector Garcia | ||
| Can’t Hurt Me: Master Your Mind and Defy the Odds | David Goggins | ||
| 2021 | The Talent Code | Daniel Coyle | |
| Black Tax: Burden or Ubuntu? | Niq Mhlongo | ||
| The Holy Quran (Arabic) | |||
| 2020 | Shoe Dog | Phil Knight | |
| Born to Run | Christopher McDougall | ||
| The Cannabis Grow Bible | Greg Green | ||
| Let My People Go Surfing: The Education of a Reluctant Businessman | Yvon Chouinard | ⚡️ | |
| Start With Why | Simon Sinek | ||
| The 4-Hour Workweek | Timothy Ferriss | ||
| Essentialism | Greg McKeown | ⚡️ | |
| Who Moved My Cheese? | Dr. Spencer Johnson | ||
| Think and Grow Rich | Napoleon Hill | ||
| Your Happy Healthy Pet: Cockatiel, 2nd Edition | Julie Rach Mancini | ||
| Rich Dad Poor Dad | Robert T. Kiyosaki | ||
| The Mad Scientist | Gaathier Mahed | ||
| The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck | Mark Manson | ||
| The 5am Club | Robin Sharma | ||
| Outliers | Malcolm Gladwell | ||
| I Will Teach You To Be Rich (2nd Edition) | Ramit Sethi |