📚 Reading

Below is a collection of books I often recommend to others. I've grouped them by genre but in no particular order. I'll likely update this list as I come across others.

Since 2021, I've been taking detailed notes as I read new books. Any recommendations below that have book notes are linked accordingly.

I'm also always on the lookout for my next great read, so if you have one please send it my way via Twitter.

General Business

• High Output Management by Andrew Grove
• The Hard Thing About Hard Things by Ben Horowitz
• Built to Sell by John Warrillow
• Getting Naked by Patrick Lencioni
• The Trusted Advisor by David H. Maister
• Steal Like an Artist by Austin Kleon

Sales & Marketing

• Made to Stick by Chip and Dan Heath
• Traction by Gabriel Weinberg
• The Sales Acceleration Formula by Mark Roberge
• Million Dollar Consulting by Alan Weiss (for the proposal template)
• Fanatical Prospecting by Jeb Blount
• New Sales. Simplified. by Mike Weinberg
• Purple Cow by Seth Godin

Personal Finance & Investing

• Rich Dad, Poor Dad by Robert Kiyosaki
• The Millionaire Next Door by Thomas J. Stanley
• The Bogleheads’ Guide to Investing by Mel Lindauer, Michael LeBoeuf, and Taylor Larimore
• The Intelligent Investor by Benjamin Graham and Jason Zweig

Entrepreneurship

• The E-Myth Revisited by Michael Gerber
• The Lean Startup by Eric Reis
• The 4-hour Workweek by Tim Ferriss
• Company of One by Paul Jarvis
• The Mom Test by Rob Fitzpatrick
• Oversubscribed by Daniel Priestley

Biographies

• Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson
• Educated by Tara Westover
• Bad Blood by John Carreyou
• Endurance by Alfred Lansing
• The Ride of a Lifetime by Robert Iger
• Shoe Dog by Phil Knight
• A Very Punchable Face by Colin Jost
• Red Notice by Bill Browder
• Can’t Hurt Me by David Goggins
• Surely You’re Joking, Mr. Feynman by Richard Feynman
• Alexander Hamilton by Ron Chernow
• The Autobiography of Malcolm X by Alex Haley and Malcolm X
• Open by Andre Agassi

Philosophy & Psychology

• Siddharta by Hermann Hesse
• The Almanack of Naval Ravikant by Eric Jorgenson and Naval Ravikant
• The Four Agreements by Don Miguel Ruiz
• Mindset by Carol Dweck
• Man’s Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl
• Letters from a Stoic by Seneca
• Meditations by Marcus Aurelius
• Influence by Robert Cialdini (pair with Cialdini’s Pre-Suasion)
• Skin in the Game by Nicholas Nassim Taleb
• Peak by Anders Ericsson and Robert Pool

Travel

• The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho
• Shantaram by Gregory David Roberts
• Vagabonding by Rolf Potts
• The Beach by Alex Garland
• Hector and the Search for Happiness by François Lelord

Food & Cooking

• Kitchen Confidential by Anthony Bourdain
• Heat by Bill Buford
• The 4-hour Chef by Tim Ferriss (only the META and DOM sections)
• Dirt by Bill Buford
• Food Rules by Michael Pollan

Science & History

• Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harari
• Guns, Germs, and Steel by Jared Diamond
• Being Mortal by Atul Gawande
• When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi