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Fiction
Sci-fi / Adventure
Dune - Frank Herbert
1984 - George Orwell
Ender's Game - Orson Scott Cards
The Name of the Wind & The Wise Man's Fear - Patrick Rothfuss
Foundation - Isaac Asimov
Classics
Crime and punishment - Dostojevski
The Plague - Albert Camus
Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh
The Name of the Rose - Umberto Eco
Tale of Two Cities- Charles Dickens
In Cold Blood - Truman Capote
Non-Fiction
General
Factfulness - Hans, Ola & Anna Rosling
Sapiens & Homo Deus -
Enlightenment Now - Steven Pinker
Fooled By Randomness - Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Skin in the Game - Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Tribe - Sebastian Junger
Life Optimisation
Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience - Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
Atomic Habits - James Clear
Principles - Ray Dalio
Mind Management not Time Management - David Kadavy
Essentialism - Greg McKeown
Deep Work - Cal Newport
12 Rules for Life - Jordan B. Peterson
Mindset - Carol S. Dweck
Lying - Sam Harris
Company Building
Zero to one - Peter Thiel
Let my people go surfing - Yvonne Chouinard
Good strategy bad strategy - Richard Rumelt
The Hard Thing about Hard Things - Ben Horowitz
What You Do Is Dho You Are - Ben Horowits
Creative Selection - Ken Kocienda
Setting the Table - Danny Meyer
Blitzscaling - Reed Hofman
High Output Management - Andrew S. Grove
Understanding Michael Porter - Joan Magretta
Culture Code - Daniel Coyle
7 Powers - Hamilton Helmer
The Great CEO Within - Matt Mochary
Delivering Happiness - Tony Hsieh
The Product Marketing Manager - Lucas Weber
The Tao of Charlie Munger - David Clark
Jobs To Be Done - Anthony W. Ulwick
The Healing Organization - Raj Sisodia & Micheal J. Gelb
Crossing the Chasm - Geoffrey A. Moore
Blue Ocean Strategy - W. Chan Kim & Renée Mauborgne
Measure What Matters - John Doerr
No Rules Rules - Reed Hastings & Erin Meyer
Working Backwards - Colin Bryar & Bill Carr
Customer Success: How Innovative Companies Are Reducing Churn and Growing Recurring Revenue - Nick Mehta & Dan Steinman
Philosophy
Become What You Are - Alan Watts
Man's Search for Meaning - Viktor Frankl
Tao Te Ching - Lao Tzu
Free Will - Sam Harris
Waking Up - Sam Harris
Meditations - Marcus Aurelius
The Obstacle is the Way - Ryan Holiday
Stillness is the Key - Ryan Holiday
The Secret of Secrets - Osho
Science
The Selfish Gene - Richard Dawkins
The Science of Meditation - Daniel Goleman & Richard J. Davidson
Thinking Fast and Slow - Daniel Kahneman
A Brief History of Time - Stephen Hawking
Behave - Robert Sapolsky
Thinking in Systems - Donella H. Meadows
The Order of Time - Carlo Rovelli
History & Biogrophies
The World of Yesterday - Stefan Zweig
The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich - William L. Shirer
Jobs - Walter Isaacson
Surely You're Joking Mr. Feynman! - Richard P. Feynman
Invent & Wander - Walter Isaacson
Leonardo Da Vinci - Walter Isaacson
The World of Yesterday - Stefan Zweig
Skills
On Writing Well - William Zinsser
On Writing - Stephen King
Ultralearning - Scott H. Young
3 Months to No. 1 - Will Coombe