Below are the books I’ve read since 2015. I started this list to give you some inspiration and help you find interesting books to read.
The list focuses mostly on non-fiction (mostly business and personal growth). Enjoy. :)
(Apologies, I need to update with my latest read.)
The Reading List
| Rating | Title | Author | Topic | Why Reading It? | Finished | Get the Book |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| π | The Workshop Survival Guide: How to design and teach educational workshops that work every time | Rob Fitzpatrick | Workshop Facilitation | Nov 2022 | Get it here | |
| π | Smart Brevity: The Power of Saying More with Less | Jim VandeHei, Mike Allen & Roy Schwartz | Writing | Nov 2022 | Get it here | |
| π | Facilitatorβs Guide to Participatory Decision-Making | Sam Kaner | Workshop Facilitation | Oct 2022 | Get it here | |
| πΆ | The Fashion Designer Survival Guide: Start and Run Your Own Fashion Business | Mary Gehlhar | Fashion & Entrepreneurship | Sept 2022 | Get it here | |
| π | Write Useful Books: A modern approach to designing and refining recommendable nonfiction | Rob Fitzpatrick | Writing & Publishing | Jul 2022 | Get it here | |
| π | Hell Yeah or No: whatβs worth doing | Derek Sivers | Personal Growth | Nov 2021 | Get it here | |
| πΆ | What You Do Is Who You Are: How to Create Your Business Culture | Ben Horowitz | Leadership & Culture | Oct 2021 | Get it here | |
| πΆ | Range: How Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World | David Epstein | Personal Growth | Oct 2021 | Get it here | |
| π | Better: A Surgeonβs Notes on Performance | Atul Gawande | Medicine & Personal Growth | Jul 2021 | Get it here | |
| π | Breaking the Habit of Being Yourself | Joe Dispenza | Personal Growth | Jul 2021 | Get it here | |
| π | The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks and Win Your Inner Creative Battles | Steven Pressfield | Writing & Personal Growth | Feb 2021 | Get it here | |
| π | The Apprentice: My Life in the Kitchen | Jacques PΓ©pin | Cooking & Biography | Feb 2020 | Get it here | |
| π | The Ride of a Lifetime: Lessons Learned from 15 Years as CEO of the Walt Disney Company | Robert Iger | Leadership & Biography | Jan 2020 | Get it here | |
| πΆ | Leaders Eat Last: Why Some Teams Pull Together and Others Donβt | Simon Sinek | Leadership | Jan 2020 | Get it here | |
| π | The Practice: Shipping Creative Work | Seth Godin | Creative Work & Personal Growth | Dec 2020 | Get it here | |
| π | Do Purpose: Why brands with a purpose do better and matter more. | David Hieatt | Branding & Marketing | Dec 2020 | Get it here | |
| π | Mediate, Donβt Litigate: Strategies for Successful Mediation | Peter Lovenheim & Lisa Guerin | Negotiation & Mediation | This book is a great read for those who are interested in diving deeper in the means that exist to negotiate and solve bother personal and business disputes. | Nov 2020 | Get it here |
| π | Solve for Happy: Engineer Your Path to Joy | Mo Gawdat | Personal Growth & Psychology | This book is a good read for those who are interested in looking at happiness from a new angle (i.e. with the mental model of engineers). | Oct 2020 | Get it here |
| π | The Road to Character | David Brooks | Personal Growth & Philosophy | This book is a great read for those who want to reflect on their personal values and who they aspire to be. | Oct 2020 | Get it here |
| π | Weird Parenting Wins: Bathtub Dining, Family Screams, and Other Hacks from the Parenting Trenches | Hillary Frank | Family & Humour | This book is a funny read about the weird things parents do as they take care of their kids. | Sept 2020 | Get it here |
| π | The Invincible Company | Alexander Osterwalder and Yves Pigneur | Strategy & Innovation | This book builds on the Business Model Canvas framework. It is a detailed handbook about managing an innovation portfolio. | Sept 2020 | Get it here |
| π | Loserthink: How Untrained Brains Are Ruining the World | Scott Adams | Psychology & Persuasion | This book dives into the mechanisms used in politics and business to persuade people. It is a great read for those who want to dial up their critical thinking skills and become bullet-proof to this type of “bullshit” communication. | Sept 2020 | Get it here |
| π | The Pyramid Principle: Logic in Writing and Thinking | Barbara Minto | Storytelling & Writing | This book will help you structure your thinking and write in a way that makes it easier for your readers to understand, remember, and get excited about your ideas. | June 2020 | Get it here |
| π | Win Bigly: Persuasion in a World Where Facts Donβt Matter | Scott Adams | Psychology & Persuasion | This book uses the 2016 US election to dive into the mechanisms used in politics to persuade voters. It is a great read for those who want to dial up their critical thinking skills and become bullet-proof to this type of “bullshit” communication. | June 2020 | Get it here |
| π | Cadburyβs Purple Reign: The Story Behind Chocolateβs Best-Loved Brand | John Bradley | History & Business | This book is a good read for those who are curious about the behind-the-scene stories of building a famous national brand over the last 150 years. | June 2020 | Get it here |
| π | Comment se dΓ©fendre | George Dubois | Self defense | May 2020 | – | |
| π | StrengthsFinder 2.0 | Tom Rath | Psychology & Management | This book is an interesting read about certain aspects of inherent traits of personality and ways of being. | May 2020 | Get it here |
| π | Alchemy: The Surprising Power of Ideas That Donβt Make Sense | Rory Sutherland | Innovation & Behavioural Science | This book is a great read about how behavioural science can help businesses do good marketing and create better products and services. | May 2020 | Get it here |
| π | Product Management in Practice: A Real-World Guide to the Key Connective Role of the 21st Century | Matt LeMay | Product Management | This book is a great read for product managers. | Apr 2020 | Get it here |
| π | Emotional Intelligence: Why It Can Matter More Than IQ | Daniel Goleman | Psychology | Apr 2020 | Get it here | |
| π | The Characters Of Theophrastus | Theophrastus | Psychology | Apr 2020 | Get it here | |
| π | The Happiness Myth: The Historical Antidote To What Isnβt Working Today | Jennifer Hecht | Psychology | This book is a good read for those who are interested in an introduction to happiness as a concept and as a way of living. | Apr 2020 | Get it here |
| π | Why I Write | Georges Orwell | Writing | This short read is interesting for anyone who loves writing. | Apr 2020 | Get it here |
| π | The Coaching Habit: Say Less, Ask More | Michael Bungay Stanier | Coaching | This book is an ideal read for managers, leaders, and entrepreneurs who want to help their team members grow and achieve more. | Mar 2020 | Get it here |
| π | Ikigai: The Japanese Secret to a Long and Happy Life | HΓ©ctor GarcΓa | Personal Growth | This book is an interesting bundle of many personal growth principles. | Mar 2020 | Get it here |
| π | Creative Confidence: Unleashing the Creative Potential within Us All | David Kelley & Tom Kelley | Innovation & Creativity | This book is a good read for those who want to dial up their creative skillset. | Mar 2020 | Get it here |
| π | Complications: A Surgeonβs Notes on an Imperfect Science | Atul Gawande | Healthcare | Feb 2020 | Get it here | |
| π | The Science of Effective Communication | Ian Tuhovsky | Personal Growth | Jan 2020 | Get it here | |
| π | Start With Why: How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone To Take Action | Simon Sinek | Marketing | Jan 2020 | Get it here | |
| π | Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst | Robert Sapolsky | Psychology | Jan 2020 | Get it here | |
| π | Love Yourself Like Your Life Depends On It | Kamal Ravikant | Personal Growth | Jan 2020 | Get it here | |
| π | Doing Good Better: Effective Altruism and a Radical New Way to Make a Difference | William MacAskill | Philosophy | Dec 2019 | Get it here | |
| π | Dreyerβs English: An Utterly Correct Guide to Clarity and Style | Benjamin Dreyer | Writing | If your work involves writing long emails or using PowerPoint or Word, this book is a must-read. Learning about English grammar made interesting to read. | Dec 2019 | Get it here |
| π | Awareness | Anthony De Mello | Personal Growth | Dec 2019 | Get it here | |
| π | How to Get Ideas | Jack Foster | Creativity | Nov 2019 | Get it here | |
| π | Short History of Drunkenness | Mark Forsyth | History & Culture | The fascinating origin of today’s drinking culture–full of fun facts. A great read if you like drinking or history or both. | Nov 2019 | Get it here |
| π | Trillion Dollar Coach: The Leadership Playbook of Silicon Valleyβs Bill Campbell | Eric Schmidt & Jonathan Rosenberg | Coaching & Management | The interesting history of a man who coached a generation of tech entrepreneurs. | Oct 2019 | Get it here |
| π | For God, Country, and Coca-Cola: The Definitive History of the Great American Soft Drink | Mark Pendergrast | History & Business | An incredible dive into the history of Coca-Cola. You’ll be surprised by Coca-Cola’s real involvement in shaping the world’s history. Very well written. | Aug 2019 | Get it here |
| π | Gut: The Inside Story of Our Bodyβs Most Underrated Organ | Giulia Enders | Nutrition | Jul 2019 | Get it here | |
| π | Measure What Matters: How Google, Bono, and the Gates Foundation Rock the World with OKRs | John Doerr | Leadership & Management | Some interesting examples on setting goals and direction for your organisation. | Apr 2019 | Get it here |
| π | Genius Foods: Become Smarter, Happier, and More Productive While Protecting Your Brain for Life | Max Lugavere | Nutrition | This book is an interesting read for those who want to debunk some of the myths associated with nutrition. | Apr 2019 | Get it here |
| π | Radical Candor: Be a Kick-Ass Boss Without Losing Your Humanity | Kim Scott | Leadership | This book is a good read for those who are interested in challenging their management style. | Mar 2019 | Get it here |
| π | The 5 Love Languages: The Secret to Love that Lasts | Gary Chapman | Psychology | A lot of good advice on maintaining love in a relationship. | Mar 2019 | Get it here |
| π | Improv Wisdom: Donβt Prepare, Just Show Up | Patricia Ryan Madson | Strategy & Improv | I didn’t expect that we could draw that many parallels between the world of improvisation and life. For me, Improv Wisdom: Don’t Prepare, Just Show Up was great readβfull of good insight on how to live fully. It’s full of motivation boosts. Maybe not much new stuff. But filled with inspiring thoughts and interesting exercises. | Mar 2019 | Get it here |
| π | Atomic Design | Brad Frost | Design | A bit repetitive, but some good ideas such as interface inventory and the importance of separating structure and content. | Fed 2019 | Get it here |
| π | Spark Joy: An Illustrated Master Class on the Art of Organizing and Tidying Up | Marie KondΕ | Minimalism | Cleaning consultant Marie KondΕ takes shares her category-by-category system to declutter homes. A very Japanese take on living in a tidy space. | Fed 2019 | Get it here |
| π | The Simple Guide to a Minimalist Life | Leo Babauta | Minimalism | The book dives deep into the benefits and practice of minimalismβincluding some thoughts on how to keep things tidy by creating a “decluttering system”. | Fed 2019 | Get it here |
| π | This Is Marketing: You Canβt Be Seen Until You Learn to See | Seth Godin | Marketing | A proper introduction to marketing in the 21st century. | Fed 2019 | Get it here |
| π | Turning Pro: Tap Your Inner Power and Create Your Lifeβs Work | Steven Pressfield | Personal Growth | Seeking motivation? Turning Pro is a kick in the butt for those who feel that they hide away from following their aspirations and doing meaningful work | Jan 2019 | Get it here |
| π | Hidden in Plain Sight: How to Create Extraordinary Products for Tomorrowβs Customers | Jan Chipchase | Market Research & Field Study | A good book about doing market research in emerging countries. | Jan 2019 | Get here |
| π | The Seven Principles for Making Marriage Work: A Practical Guide from the Countryβs Foremost Relationship Expert | John M. Gottman | Psychology | A great read about the psychology of relationships. | Jan 2019 | Get here |
| π | The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers | Ben Horowitz | Leadership | Horowitz shares his experience about some of the most difficult leadership challenges he had to face as a CEO of growing businesses. | Dec 2018 | Get it here |
| π | Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World | Cal Newport | Personal Growth | A great book about the art of focusing on work that matters. | Dec 2018 | Get it here |
| π | Donβt Let The Fear Win: How To Get Out Of Your Own Way And Grow Your Businessβ¦Fast | Greg Faxon | Personal Growth | In this book, Greg Faxon equips you with the mindset that will allow you to fight against “creative avoidance” (i.e. the fear that leads you to procrastinate). | Read a few times | Get it here |
| π | The Master Algorithm: How the Quest for the Ultimate Learning Machine Will Remake Our World | Pedro Domingos | Technology & Machine Learning | A thorough explanation of the machine learning mechanism without using mathematics to tell you how it works. | Nov 2018 | Get it here |
| π | 21 Lessons for the 21st Century | Yuval Noah Harari | History & Social Sciences | After writing about the past and the distant future of humankind, Yuval Noah Harari now gives an overview of the trends that are going the shape the next decades. | Oct 2018 | Get it here |
| π | Crucial Conversations Tools for Talking When Stakes Are High | Kerry Patterson, Joseph Grenny, Ron McMilla & Al Switzler | Psychology | This book is a good read for those interested in addressing with courage some difficult conversations that may arise in their personal or professional lives. | Oct 2018 | Get it here |
| π | Bad Pharma: How Medicine is Broken, and How We Can Fix It | Ben Goldacre | Science & Healthcare | A must-read about the best practices to run scientific or business experiments (and how the world of healthcare works). | Sept 2018 | Get it here |
| π | The Art and Craft of Tea: An Enthusiastβs Guide to Selecting, Brewing, and Serving Exquisite Tea | Joseph Wesley Uhl | Tea & Travel | Another book about the art of buying and drinking tea. | Sept 2018 | Get it here |
| π | The Tea Enthusiastβs Handbook | Mary Lou Heiss | Tea & Travel | A 101 course in the art of tea drinking. | Sept 2018 | Get it here |
| π | The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Failβbut Some Donβt | Nate Silver | Technology & Statistics | Learn how to use the right data (signals) and avoid the noise to make better predictions. | Sept 2018 | Get it here |
| π | Bad Science | Ben Goldacre | Science & Healthcare | Reading this book should be compulsory if you have any interest in science and nutrition related topics. | Sept 2018 | Get it here |
| π | 50 Psychology Classics | Tom Butler-Bowdon | Psychology | 50 of the most influential psychology well distilled and summarised. | Aug 2018 | Get it here |
| π | The Psychology of Human Misjudgement | Charles Munger | Psychology | 25 cognitive biases that shape the way we think. | Jul 2018 | See it here |
| π | Little Red Book of Selling | Jeffrey Gitomer | Sales & Negotiation | Sell better with these clear principles to turn advice into action. “People donβt like to be sold, but they love to buy.” | Jun 2018 | Get it here |
| π | Restaurant Success by the Numbers | Roger Fields | Entrepreneurship & Strategy | Restaurant owners are real entrepreneurs; here’s a good recipe for starting a restaurant. | Apr 2018 | Get it here |
| π | On Writing Well: The Classic Guide to Writing Nonfiction | William Zinsser | Writing | This is a must-read for those who enjoy writing and blogging. | Mar 2018 | Get it here |
| π | Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life | Anne Lamott | Writing | This book offers great inspiration for those who love writing fiction and non-fiction. | Mar 2018 | Get it here |
| π | A History of Chile, 1808-2002 | Simon Collier | History | Quite nerdy… Here’s a very complete book about the history of an interesting country. | Mar 2018 | Get it here |
| π | Pretotype It: Make sure you are building The Right It before you build It right | Alberto Savoia | Innovation | A relevant book when it comes to lowering risk while creating new products or services. | Jan 2018 | Get it here |
| π | Breakfast is a Dangerous Meal: Why You Should Ditch Your Morning Meal For Health and Wellbeing | Terence Kealey | Healthcare & Nutrition | Itβs a very insightful read about health (esp. diabetes), nutrition, and how to interpret scientific research. | Dec 2017 | Get it here |
| π | Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow | Yuval Noah Harari | History | A good glance at what the future could be holding for us. | Nov 2017 | Get it here |
| π | Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live | BrenΓ© Brown | Psychology | Vulnerability feels scary. But “when we shut ourselves off from vulnerability, we distance ourselves from the experiences that bring purpose and meaning to our lives.” | Nov 2017 | Get it here |
| π | How to Reform Capitalism | The School of Life | Economics & Philosophy | It’s just the beginning of capitalism. This book offers ideas to continue shaping a better version of it. | Nov 2017 | Get it here |
| π | Ego Is the Enemy | Ryan Holiday | Personal Growth & Philosophy | Nov 2017 | Get it here | |
| π | The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right | Atul Gawande | Management | A thorough explanation of the power of checklists with great examples from the medical and construction industry. | Oct 2017 | Get it here |
| π | The New Business Road Test: What Entrepeneurs and Executives Should Do Before Writing a Business Plan | John Mullins | Strategy | Oct 2017 | Click here | |
| π | Insight Out: Get Ideas Out of Your Head and Into the World | Tina Seelig | Creativity & Innovation | A good explanation of the creative and entrepreneurial process. And this backed with inspiring stories. | Jul 2017 | Click here |
| π | Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind | Yuval Noah Harari | History | An amazing piece about our history as human beings. | Jul 2017 | Click here |
| π | Strategic Intuition: The Creative Spark in Human Achievement | William Duggan | Strategy | Apr 2017 | Click here | |
| π | Strategy Bites Back | Henry Mintzberg | Strategy | Mar 2017 | Click here | |
| π | Difference | Bernadette Jiwa | Innovation & Marketing Strategy | An interesting framework that helps see your marketing strategy in a different way. | Fed 2017 | Click here |
| π | Impossible to Ignore: Creating Memorable Content to Influence Decisions | Carmen Simon | Persuasion | Interesting theory to design more persuasive marketing campaigns. | Fed 2017 | Click here |
| πΆ | Trump Strategies for Real Estate | George Ross | Negotiation | Interesting lessons about negotiation and real estate from one of Donald Trump’s lawyers. | Jan 2017 | Click here |
| π | How I Found Freedom in an Unfree World | Harry Browne | Personal Growth | Interesting book about personal growth, though it’s taking a very individualistic view on life. | Jan 2017 | Click here |
| π | Anything You Want: 40 Lessons for a New Kind of Entrepreneur | Derek Sivers | Marketing Strategy | Wise lessons from an entrepreneur who builds business to help his customers not just to make money. | Jan 2017 | Click here |
| π | How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big | Scott Adams | Personal Growth | A great book about failure and how to design a life system to succeed. | Dec 2016 | Click here |
| π | The Effective Executive: The Definitive Guide to Getting the Right Things Done | Peter Drucker | Personal Growth & Time Management | Precious advice on how to get the right things done. Clearly, a challenge for the new generations on entrepreneurs and managers. | Dec 2016 | Click here |
| π | Trump: The Art of the Deal | Donald Trump | Biography | An interesting dive into the life of Donald Trump in 1987. Now that he’s the new U.S. President, why not learning more about who he is? | Dec 2016 | Click here |
| π | Meditations | Marcus Aurelius | Personal Growth & Philosophy | Marcus Aurelius wrote this book for himself. What aimed to provide personal guidance became one of the greatest piece of Stoic philosophy. I really enjoy the wise and practical aphorisms that you can find in Marcus Aurelius’s private notes to himself. | Nov 2016 | Click here |
| π | Competing Against Luck: The Story of Innovation and Customer Choice | Clayton Christensen & Karen Dillon | Innovation & Marketing | Honestly, one of the most insightful books about innovation. Just loved it! And already putting it into practice. | Nov 2016 | Click here |
| π | Sprint: How To Solve Big Problems and Test New Ideas in Just Five Days | Jake Knapp | Innovation Process | Oct 2016 | Click here | |
| π | Rain Making: Attract New Clients No Matter What Your Field | Ford Harding | Sales & Marketing | The secret sauce for marketing and selling services. Practical advice for freelancers and consultants. | Oct 2016 | Click here |
| π | Designing Your Life | Bill Burnett & Dave Evans | Personal Growth & Creativity | In Designing Your Life, the authors share the results of years of teaching at Stanford: a set of design tools that will help you build the life you really want. | Sept 2016 | Click here |
| π | What They Really Teach You at the Harvard Business School | Francis J. Kelly & Heather Kelly | Business | A business book published in 1987 that summaries the main lessons learned from two years at HBS. The proof that the foundations of business never change. | Sept 2016 | Click here |
| π | Algorithms to Live By | Brian Christian | Decision Making, Strategy & Computer Science | How algorithms can help you think, make decisions, and decode others’ strategies. | Oct 2016 | Click here |
| π | The Old Man and the Sea | Ernest Hemingway | Novel | That’s a classic. | Jul 2016 | Click here |
| π | The Inevitable: Understanding the 12 Technological Forces That Will Shape Our Future | Kevin Kelly | Innovation & Technology Trends | “Much of what will happen in the next thirty years is inevitable, driven by technological trends that are already in motion.” | Jul 2016 | Click here |
| πΆ | The Fourth Industrial Revolution | Klaus Schwab | Innovation & Technology Trends | A good source of data that illustrates what Schwab calls the Fourth Industrial Revolution. | Jun 2016 | Click here |
| πΆ | Marketers Are From Mars, Consumers Are From New Jersey | Bob Hoffman | Advertising & Marketing Strategy | Contrarian ideas on the evolution of advertising and marketing. A great way to challenge preconceptions and commonly accepted ideas. | May 2016 | Click here |
| π | Visual Hammer: Nail your brand into the mind | Laura Ries | Branding & Marketing Strategy | Great ideas on how to reinforce your positioning strategy with the emotional power of visuals. | May 2016 | Click here |
| π | The Robert Collier Letter Book | Robert Collier | Advertising & Copywriting | The Robert Collier Letter Book is by far the top book on writing sales letters. Find out by yourself of to transfer these techniques to the digital era. | May 2016 | Click here |
| π | How to Write a Good Advertisement | Victor O. Schwab | Advertising & Copywriting | Every business depends on words with impact. You need to grab the attention of potential customers, clients, or supporters and call them to action. | May 2016 | Click here |
| π | Scientific Advertising | Claude Hopkins | Advertising & Copywriting | The only book you should read about advertising. Written in 1923 and still so relevant today. | May 2016 | Click here |
| π | Linchpin: Are You Indispensable? | Seth Godin | Personal Growth | Learn how not to fall into the trap of becoming a commodity. | Apr 2016 | Click here |
| π | The Fortune Cookie Principle : The 20 Keys to a Great Brand Story and Why Your Business Needs One) | Bernadette Jiwa | Marketing Strategy & Branding | A great introduction to branding strategy. | Apr 2016 | Click here |
| π | The Dip: The extraordinary benefits of knowing when to quit (and when to stick) | Seth Godin | Strategy | Unrealistic expectations on time and effort needed to achieve high standards are what makes us give up. | Apr 2016 | Click here |
| πΆ | The Industries of the Future | Alec Ross | Innovation & Tech Trends | Apr 2016 | Click here | |
| π | Jab, Jab, Jab, Right Hook | Gary Vaynerchuck | Digital Marketing Strategy | Mar 2016 | Click here | |
| π | Permission Marketing: Turning Strangers Into Friends And Friends Into Customers | Seth Godin | Marketing Strategy | Mar 2016 | Click here | |
| πΆ | Never Eat Alone | Keith Ferrazzi | Leadership & Goal Setting | Mar 2016 | Click here | |
| πΆ | Contagious: Why Things Catch On | Jonah Berger | Viral Marketing | Feb 2016 | Click here | |
| πΆ | Market Your Way to Growth: 8 Ways to Win | Philip Kotler | Marketing & Growth | Feb 2016 | Click here | |
| πΆ | Epic Content Marketing | Joe Pulizzi | Content Marketing | Feb 2016 | Click here | |
| π | The Alchemist | Paul Coelho | Novel | Feb 2016 | Click here | |
| π | Pitch Anything: An Innovative Method for Presenting, Persuading, and Winning the Deal | Oren Klaff | Sales & Neuroscience | A method on pitching deals based on cutting-edge research in neuroscience and the large experience of the author in pitching deals. | Feb 2016 | Click here |
| π | One Up On Wall Street | Peter Lynch | Finance & Investing | How to take advantage over Wall Street experts by the manager of one of the most successful mutual funds, the Fidelity Magellan Fund. | Jan 2016 | Click here |
| π | Neuromarketing For Dummies | Stephen J. Genco, Andrew P. Pohlmann, and Peter Steidl | Neuromarketing & Neuroscience | A good introduction on the potential of neuromarketing. | Jan 2016 | Click here |
| πΆ | Unlocking Energy Innovation: How America Can Build a Low-Cost, Low-Carbon Energy System | Richard K. Lester | Energy & CleanTech | Interesting recommendations on what should be done to implement technological innovations in order to build cleaner energy sources. | Jan 2016 | Click here |
| π | Unlimited Power : The New Science Of Personal Achievement | Tony Robbins | Leadership & Personal Growth | A book that provides clear and inspiring ideas on personal growth. Truly motivational. | Jan 2016 | Click here |
| π | Zen To Done: The Ultimate Simple Productivity System | Leo Babauta | Productivity & Psychology | An incredibly simple but powerful productivity system. A must-read for those who want to be more efficient in their work. | Dec 2015 | Click here |
| π | Tiny Habits | BJ Fogg | Neuroscience & Product Design | An interesting model that explains how technology can impact people’s behavior. | Dec 2015 | Click here |
| π | Mindset: How You Can Fulfil Your Potential | Carol Dweck | Leadership & Neuroscience | Bill Gates himself recommends reading this book. Exploring the differences between having a growth mindset and a fixed mindset is an interesting theory to explain people’s behaviour. | Dec 2015 | Click here |
| π | Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products! | Nir Eyal | Neuroscience & Product Design | Approaching product design from a neuroscience perspective is a great way to understand why some tech products get so much of our attention. | Dec 2015 | Click here |
| π | Ha! | Scott Weems | Neuroscience & Neuromarketing | Pick this book if you want to understand what humor is and what is happening in our heads when we laugh and why we do that. | Dec 2015 | Click here |
| π | How Will You Measure Your Life? | Clayton Christensen & Karen Dillon | Personal Growth & Strategy | What are some of the solutions to avoid being disrupted, build new products that customers want, and create new markets. | Dec 2015 | Click here |
| πΆ | Innovatorβs Solution, Revised and Expanded: Creating and Sustaining Successful Growth | Clayton Christensen | Marketing Strategy | What are some of the solutions to avoid being disrupted, build new products that customers want, and create new markets. | Nov 2015 | Click here |
| π | Purple Cow: Transform Your Business by Being Remarkable | Seth Godin | Marketing | You’re either remarkable or invisible. Make your choice. Because the vast majority of product success stories are engineered from the first day to be successful. | Nov 2015 | Click here |
| π | 100 Things Every Presenter Needs to Know About People | Susan Weinschenk | Neuromarketing & Public Speaking | The book introduces 100 ways to make a better presentation. Every idea is backed by academic research. | Nov 2015 | Click here |
| π | Essays in Love | Alain de Botton | Philosophy | An interesting series of essay that explores the meaning behind one the most mysterious things that human beings experience. | Nov 2015 | Click here |
| π | Whatever You Think, Think the Opposite | Paul Arden | Leadership | “Making the safe decision is dull, predictable, and leads nowhere new. […] Even when we want to be timid and play it safe, we should pause for a moment to imagine what we might be missing.” | Nov 2015 | Click here |
| π | Itβs Not How Good You Are, Itβs How Good You Want to Be | Paul Arden | Leadership & Advertising | An inspiring book about for the talented who need a little boost to make the unthinkable thinkable and the impossible possible. | Nov 2015 | Click here |
| π | Rich Dad Poor Dad: What the Rich Teach Their Kids About Money That the Poor and Middle Class Do Not! | Robert T. Kiyosaki | Personal Finance | Nov 2015 | Click here | |
| πΆ | DREAM BIG: How 3G Capital acquired Anheuser-Busch, Burger King and Heinz | Cris Correa | Biography, Private Equity, and M&A | Get a look at the backstage of some of the most impressive M&A deals. The stories of three sharp investors. | Nov 2015 | Click here |
| πΆ | The Year Without Pants: WordPress.com and the Future of Work | Scott Berkun | Product Management & Remote Work | A book about working remotely for WordPress.com, one of the companies that has been building the Internet. Read it to understand what the future of work looks like. | Oct 2015 | Click here |
| π | Getting Real: The Smarter, Faster, Easier Way to Build a Successful Web Application | Jason Fried | Product Management | A great book for product managers, designers, and developer. How to adopt a human and agile approach to create innovative SaaS and web app. | Sept 2015 | Click here |
| π | Remote: Office Not Required | Jason Fried | Productivity & Remote Work | Improve your productivity as a remote worker and learn how to adopt a remote working culture in your company. | Sept 2015 | Click here |
| π | Fundraising Field Guide: A Startup Founderβs Handbook for Venture Capital | Carlos Espinal | Venture Capital | A must-read book for anyone who wants to raise capital and understand the key elements of the fundraising process. | Aug 2015 | Click here |
| π | The 4-Hour Body: An Uncommon Guide to Rapid Fat-Loss, Incredible Sex, and Becoming Superhuman | Tim Ferriss | Health | The rules for designing shortcuts that help you to remain mentally and physically fit. | Aug 2015 | Click here |
| π | Startupland: How Three Guys Risked Everything to Turn an Idea into a Global Business | Mikkel Svane | Biography | The story of a team who built a customer service software from scratch to IPO. | Aug 2015 | Click here |
| π | Principles | Ray Dalio | Leadership | An interesting book for those who are curious about the management principles of a hedge fund manager. | Aug 2015 | Click here |
| π | Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future | Ashlee Vance | Biography | A riveting portrait of Silicon Valley’s most driven entrepreneur since Steve Jobs. | Jul 2015 | Click here |
| π | Power | Jeffrey Pfeffer | Leadership | Great ideas on how to make the most of your work life. | Jul 2015 | Click here |
| π | Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future | Peter Thiel | Entrepreneurship | Thoughts on entrepreneurship in Silicon Valley by the former CEO of PayPal. | Apr 2015 | Click here |
| π | Tribes: We Need You To Lead Us | Seth Godin | Leadership & Marketing | We need game changers that disrupt the status quo. Tribes inspires you to become one of them! | not sure | Click here |
| π | Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions=0007256531 | Dan Ariely | Behavioural Science | The summary of interesting research about cognitive biases and decision making. | not sure | Click here |
| π | Getting to Yes | Roger Fisher | Negotiation | One of the most popular books about negotiation. | not sure | Click here |
| π | Thinking, Fast and Slow | Daniel Kahneman | Neuroscience | A very interesting framework that explains how we work. | not sure | Click here |
| πΆ | Business Genius: Deceptively Simple Ways to Sharpen Your Business Thinking | James Bannerman | Personal Growth | not sure | Click here | |
| π | How To Stop Worrying And Start Living | Dale Carnegie | Personal Growth | Good principles to feel more peaceful in your life. | not sure | Click here |
| π | Think And Grow Rich | Napoleon Hill | Personal Growth | Simple rules coming from stories of successful figures. | not sure | Click here |
| π | Made in America | Sam Walton | Biography | Understand how one the wealthiest man on earth built a retail empire. | not sure | Click here |
| π | Losing My Virginity | Richard Branson | Biography | It’s one of the first biographies I have read. It shows how developing a business can be lots of fun. | not sure | Click here |
| π | Intelligent Investor: The Definitive Book on Value Investing | Ben Graham | Finance | Never got to read it all. It’s the most recommended book about investing in stocks. | not sure | Click here |