I have been an avid reader from the time I learned how to read. In first grade, I read over 150 books and the next closest student read less than a dozen. I spent a lot of time in libraries over the years so books have been a big part of my life. Now with Kindle and Audible, I take my reading with me where everywhere I go and it has only gotten better. I often listen to a book a week and when you factor in all the other traditional reading I will read 60-80 books a year.
Over the past few years, I have been using Goodreads to track my reading but I am finding that I haven’t been as diligent in maintaining my book list as I should. I am often asked by students or other folks what books I would recommend and once I find out what they are really interested in learning I can point to an assortment of titles that I have read and can recommend.
The intention of the following list is to provide a place where I can point people to a book that they may find useful. I think the reason that I may not have started a list like this much earlier is that I always assumed that I should write a short annotation, review, or summary for each of the entries. I have decided to not do this because it would just take too long at this point. But, I do plan on doing a top 10 list for most of the categories at some point which would include a review or a minimum a detailed annotation. The books are separated into different categories and if the book is on this list I have read it (often more than once) and I recommend it. I will be adding the books on a regular basis and adding additional categories as necessary. For example, I haven’t included any of the books on parenting, theology, science, philosophy, and a few other areas—YET.
I haven’t ranked or rated the books in the categories below and for the most part, the most recent books I have read or reread are closer to the top of the list in each category. I must repeat I only put books on this list that I have read completely and would recommend. I have read so many more that obviously aren’t on this list.
Books on Learning
Books on Teaching, School, & the System of Education
Books on Curriculum & Instructional Design
Books on Leadership & Change
Books on Creativity
Books on Reading Writing, & Presenting
Books on Psychology & Behavior
Books on Self-Help and Personal Development, & Motivation
Books on Entrepreneurship & Marketing
Books on Health
Books on Sports Psychology & Performance
Books on Philosophy, History, General Wisdom
PLEASE NOTE: All of the hyperlinks are from the Amazon Associates program, and if you choose to buy the book through the links below I’ll get a small commission that I use to buy and read more books from Amazon and Audible. When you read as much as I do the cost of all these books does add up so please consider helping me feed my reading habit. If you want to buy the book, but don’t want to use the link, feel free to search for it on Amazon or Audible (or anywhere).
Books on Learning
- Teaching for Deeper Learning: Tools to Engage Students in Meaning Making by Jay McTighe and Harvey F. Silver
- The End of Average: How We Succeed in a World That Values Sameness by Todd Rose
- A New Culture of Learning: Cultivating the Imagination for a World of Constant Change by Douglas Thomas and John Seely Brown
- How to Read a Book: The Classic Guide to Intelligent Reading by Mortimer J. Adler and Charles Van Doren
- Dark Horse: Achieving Success Through the Pursuit of Fulfillment by Todd Rose
- Failing Forward: Turning Mistakes Into Stepping Stones for Success by John C. Maxwell
- A More Beautiful Question: The Power of Inquiry to Spark Breakthrough Ideas by Warren Berger
- Brain Rules: 12 Principles for Surviving and Thriving at Work, Home, and School by John Medina
- Grit: Passion, Perseverance, and the Science of Success by Angela Duckworth
- Why Knowledge Matters: Rescuing Our Children from Failed Educational Theories by E.D. Hirsch
- Urban Myths about Learning and Education by Pedro De Bruyckere, Paul A Kirschner, Casper Hulshof
- Peak: Secrets from the New Science of Expertise by K. Anders Ericsson, Robert Pool
- Grown Up Digital: How the Net Generation is Changing Your World by Don Tapscott
- The Shallows: What the Internet is Doing to Our Brains by Nicholas Carr
- Invent To Learn: Making, Tinkering, and Engineering in the Classroom by Sylvia Libow Martinez and Gary Stager
- Why School?: How Education Must Change When Learning and Information Are Everywhere by Will Richardson
- The Monsters of Education Technology by Audrey Watters
- Who Owns the Learning?: Preparing Students for Success in the Digital Age by Alan November
- Never Send a Human to Do a Machine’s Job: Correcting the Top 5 EdTech Mistakes by Yong Zhao, Gaoming Zhang, Jing Lei, Wei Qiu
- How We Learn: The Surprising Truth About When, Where, and Why It Happens by Benedict Carey
- Visible Learning and the Science of How We Learn by John Hattie
- Design for How People Learn by Julie Dirksen
- Minimalism Beyond the Nurnberg Funnel by John Millar Carroll
- The Nurnberg Funnel: Designing Minimalist Instruction for Practical Computer Skill by John Millar Carroll
- Learning Revolution by Gordon Dryden
- Skeptical Visionary: A Seymour Sarason Educational Reader by Robert L. Fried (Editor), Seymour B. Sarason
- The Psychology of Intelligence by Piaget, Jean
- Piaget’s Theory of Intellectual Development by Herbert P. Ginsburg and Sylvia Opper
Books on Teaching, School, & the System of Education
- Assessment as Learning: Using Classroom Assessment to Maximize Student Learning 2nd Edition by Lorna M. Earl
- Failure to Disrupt: Why Technology Alone Can’t Transform Education by Justin Reich
- The Red Pencil: Convictions from Experience in Education by Theodore R. Sizer
- Blended: Using Disruptive Innovation to Improve Schools by Michael B. Horn and Heather Staker
- Teaching Naked: How Moving Technology Out of Your College Classroom Will Improve Student Learning by José Antonio Bowen
- Make Just One Change: Teach Students to Ask Their Own Questions by Dan Rothstein and Luz Santana
- Disrupting Class: How Disruptive Innovation Will Change the Way the World Learns by Clayton M. Christensen
- Essential Questions: Opening Doors to Student Understanding by Jay McTighe, Grant P. Wiggins
- You Don’t Have to Be Bad to Get Better: A Leader’s Guide to Improving Teacher Quality by Candi B. McKay
- The Case Against Education: Why the Education System Is a Waste of Time and Money by Bryan Caplan
- Passion-Driven Classroom, The: A Framework for Teaching and Learning by Angela Maiers and Amy Sandvold
- Teaching Minds: How Cognitive Science Can Save Our Schools by Roger C. Schank
- Why Don’t Students Like School?: A Cognitive Scientist Answers Questions About How the Mind Works and What It Means for the Classroom by Daniel T. Willingham
- Teaching What You Don’t Know by Therese Huston
- The Death and Life of the Great American School System: How Testing and Choice Are Undermining Education by Diane Ravitch
- Teach Like a Pirate: Increase Student Engagement, Boost Your Creativity, and Transform Your Life as an Educator by Dave Burgess
- Creating Innovators: The Making of Young People Who Will Change the World by Tony Wagner
- Academically Adrift: Limited Learning on College Campuses by Richard Arum, Josipa Roksa
- World Class Learners: Educating Creative and Entrepreneurial Students by Yong Zhao
- Rethinking Rubrics in Writing Assessment by Maja Wilson
- Flip Your Classroom: Reach Every Student in Every Class Every Day by Jonathan Bergmann
- The Innovative University: Changing the DNA of Higher Education from the Inside Out by Clayton M. Christensen and Henry J. Eyring
- The Skillful Teacher: On Technique, Trust, and Responsiveness in the Classroom by Stephen D. Brookfield
- Weapons of Mass Instruction: A Schoolteacher’s Journey Through The Dark World of Compulsory Schooling by John Taylor Gatto
- The Underground History of American Education: A Schoolteacher’s Intimate Investigation Into the Problem of Modern Schooling by John Taylor Gatto
- Teaching as a Subversive Activity by Neil Postman and Charles Weingartner
- Kindly Inquisitors: The New Attacks on Free Thought by Jonathan Rauch
Books on Curriculum & Instructional Design
- Creating Significant Learning Experiences by Dee Fink
- Understanding by Design, Expanded 2nd Edition by Grant Wiggins and Jay McTighe
- Visible Learning for Teachers: Maximizing Impact on Learning by John Hattie
- The Graphic Syllabus and the Outcomes Map: Communicating Your Course by Linda B. Nilson
- The Course Syllabus: A Learning-Centered Approach by Judith Grunert O’Brien, Barbara J. Millis, Margaret W. Cohen
- Classroom Assessment Techniques: A Handbook for College Teachers by Thomas A. Angelo and K. Patricia Cross
- Art of Evaluation, 2nd Edition: A Resource for Educators and Trainers by Tara Fenwick, Univ of B.C., et al.
Books on Leadership & Change
- The Fourth Turning Is Here: What the Seasons of History Tell Us About How and When This Crisis Will End by Neil Howe
- Factfulness: Ten Reasons We’re Wrong About the World–and Why Things Are Better Than You Think by Hans Rosling
- Leaders Eat Last: Why Some Teams Pull Together and Others Don’t by Simon Sinek
- Change Anything by Kerry Patterson, Joseph Grenny, Ron McMillan & Al Switzler
- The 4 Disciplines of Execution: Achieving Your Wildly Important Goals by Chris McChesney, Sean Covey, Jim Huling
- Influencer: The Power to Change Anything by Kerry Patterson, Joseph Grenny, David Maxfield
- Leading Change by John P. Kotter
- Abundance: The Future Is Better Than You Think by Peter H. Diamandis
- Bold: How to Go Big, Make Bank, and Better the World by Peter H. Diamandis, Steven Kotler, et al.
- Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap… and Others Don’t by James C. Collins
- Crucial Conversations: Tools for Talking When Stakes Are High by Kerry Patterson, Joseph Grenny, Ron McMillan
- The Innovator’s Mindset: Empower Learning, Unleash Talent, and Lead a Culture of Creativity by George Couros
- A More Beautiful Question: The Power of Inquiry to Spark Breakthrough Ideas by Warren Berger
- The ONE Thing: The Surprisingly Simple Truth Behind Extraordinary Results by Gary Keller
- The Element: How Finding Your Passion Changes Everything by Ken Robinson
- A Failure of Nerve: Leadership in the Age of the Quick Fix by Edwin H. Friedman
- The Virgin Way: Everything I Know About Leadership by Richard Branson
- The SPEED of Trust: The One Thing That Changes Everything by Stephen M.R. Covey
- Wikinomics: How Mass Collaboration Changes Everything by Don Tapscott, Anthony D. Williams
- The Coaching Habit: Say Less, Ask More & Change the Way You Lead Forever by Michael Bungay Stanier
- The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership: Follow Them and People Will Follow You by John C. Maxwell
- Digital Leadership: Changing Paradigms for Changing Times by Eric C. Sheninger
- The Lean Startup: How Today’s Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses by Eric Ries
- Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead by Brene Brown
- Wooden On Leadership: How to Create a Winning Organization by John Wooden
Books on Creativity
- Out of Our Minds: Learning to Be Creative by Ken Robinson
- The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks and Win Your Inner Creative Battles by Steven Pressfield
- The Circle of Innovation: You Can’t Shrink Your Way to Greatness by Tom Peters
- Originals: How Nonconformists Move the World by Adam M. Grant
- The Creative Habit: Learn It and Use It For Life by Twyla Tharp
Books on Reading Writing, & Presenting
- Resonate: Present Visual Stories that Transform Audiences by Nancy Duarte
- slide:ology: The Art and Science of Creating Great Presentations by Nancy Duarte
- The Back of the Napkin: Solving Problems and Selling Ideas with Pictures by Dan Roam
- Business Model Generation by Alexander Osterwalder
- Presentation Zen Design: Simple Design Principles and Techniques to Enhance Your Presentations by Garr Reynolds
- Write. Publish. Repeat by Sean Platt
- Your First 1000 Copies: The Step-by-Step Guide to Marketing Your Book by Tim Grahl
- Wired for Story: The Writer’s Guide to Using Brain Science to Hook Readers from the Very First Sentence by Lisa Cron
- The Non-Designer’s Design & Type Books, Deluxe Edition by Robin P. Williams
Books on Psychology & Behavior
- The Madness of Crowds: Gender, Race and Identity by Douglas Murray
- 50 Great Myths of Popular Psychology: Shattering Widespread Misconceptions about Human Behavior by Scott O. Lilienfeld
- Pre-Suasion: A Revolutionary Way to Influence and Persuade by Robert B. Cialdini
- Words That Work: It’s Not What You Say, It’s What People Hear by Frank Luntz
- Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion by Robert Cialdini
- Habit Stacking: 97 Small Life Changes That Take Five Minutes or Less by S.J. Scott
- Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking by Malcolm Gladwell
- Outliers: The Story of Success by Malcolm Gladwell
- David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants by Malcolm Gladwell
- Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman
- The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business by Charles Duhigg
- Switch: How to Change Things When Change Is Hard by Chip Heath and Dan Heath
- Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die by Chip Heath and Dan Heath
- Contagious: Why Things Catch On by Jonah Berger
- Mindset: The New Psychology of Success by Carol Dweck
- To Sell Is Human: The Surprising Truth About Moving Others by Daniel H. Pink
- Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us by Daniel H. Pink
- Where Good Ideas Come From by Steven Johnson
- Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
- Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions by Dan Ariely, Simon Jones, et al.
Books on Self-Help and Personal Development, & Motivation
- How to Have Impossible Conversations: A Very Practical Guide by Peter Boghossian
- Smarter Faster Better: The Secrets of Being Productive in Life and Business by Charles Duhigg
- The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business by Charles Duhigg
- The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change by Stephen R. Covey
- The Accidental Creative: How to Be Brilliant at a Moment’s Notice by Todd Henry
- Stick with It: A Scientifically Proven Process for Changing Your Life – for Good by Sean Young
- Designing Your Life: Build a Life that Works for You by Bill Burnett and Dave Evans
- Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less by Greg McKeown
- Practice Perfect: 42 Rules for Getting Better at Getting Better by Doug Lemov, Katie Yezzi, Erica Woolway
- Finish: Give Yourself the Gift of Done by Jon Acuff
- Net Smart by Howard Rheingold
- Take It to the Next Level: What Got You Here, Won’t Get You There by Marshall Goldsmith
- Mojo: How to Get It, How to Keep It, How to Get It Back If You Lose It by Marshall Goldsmith
- Triggers: Creating Behavior That Lasts—Becoming the Person You Want to Be by Marshall Goldsmith
- Change Your Questions, Change Your Life: 10 Powerful Tools for Life and Work by Marilee G. Adams
- The TenX Rule: The Only Difference Between Success and Failure by Grant Cardone
- The 4-Hour Workweek: Escape 9-5, Live Anywhere, and Join the New Rich by Timothy Ferriss
- Start: Punch Fear in the Face, Escape Average and Do Work that Matters by Jon Acuff
- Start with Why: How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone to Take Action by Simon Sinek
- Rethinking Positive Thinking: Inside the New Science of Motivation by Gabriele Oettingen
- The Seven Decisions: Understanding the Keys to Personal Success by Andy Andrews
- Eat That Frog!: 21 Great Ways to Stop Procrastinating and Get More Done in Less Time by Brian Tracy
- Mini Habits: Smaller Habits, Bigger Results by Stephen Guise
- Habit Stacking: 97 Small Life Changes That Take Five Minutes or Less by S.J. Scott
- Don’t Sweat the Small Stuff and It’s All Small Stuff: Simple Ways to Keep the Little Things From Taking Over Your Life by Richard Carlson
- The 80/20 Principle: The Secret to Achieving More with Less by Richard Koch
- How to Win Friends and Influence People in the Digital Age by Dale Carnegie
Books on Health
- Rebuilding Milo: A Lifter’s Guide to Fixing Common Injuries and Building a Strong Foundation for Enhancing Performance – Aaron Horschig and
Kevin Sonthana - Becoming a Supple Leopard 2nd Edition: The Ultimate Guide to Resolving Pain, Preventing Injury, and Optimizing Athletic Performance by Kelly Starrett & Glen Cordoza
- ATG For Life by Ben Patrick and Derek Williams
- Kettlebell Simple & Sinister: Revised and Updated Edition by Pavel Tsatsouline
- End Your Carb Confusion: A Simple Guide to Customize Your Carb Intake for Optimal Health by Eric Westman and Amy Berger
- The Fatburn Fix: Boost Energy, End Hunger, and Lose Weight by Using Body Fat for Fuel by Catherine Shanahan
- The Case Against Sugar by Gary Taubes
- Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams by Matthew Walker
- The Upside of Stress: Why Stress Is Good for You, and How to Get Good at It by Kelly McGonigal
- Sleep: The Myth of 8 Hours, the Power of Naps… and the New Plan to Recharge Your Body and Mind by Nick Littlehales
- The Complete Guide to Fasting: Heal Your Body Through Intermittent, Alternate-Day, and Extended Fasting by Jason Fung
- The Real Meal Revolution: The Radical, Sustainable Approach to Healthy Eating by Tim Noakes, Jonno Proudfoot & Sally-Ann Creed
- The Low-Carb Athlete: The Official Low-Carbohydrate Nutrition Guide for Endurance and Performance by Ben Greenfield
- The Art and Science of Low Carbohydrate Performance by Jeff S. Volek, Stephen D. Phinney
- The New Primal Blueprint: Reprogram Your Genes for Effortless Weight Loss, Vibrant Health, and Boundless Energy by Mark Sisson
- Why We Get Fat: And What to Do About It by Gary Taubes
- Good Calories, Bad Calories: Fats, Carbs, and the Controversial Science of Diet and Health by Gary Taubes
- Change Your Brain, Change Your Life: The Breakthrough Program for Conquering Anxiety, Depression, Obsessiveness, Lack of Focus, Anger, and Memory Problems by Daniel G. Amen
Books for/on Entrepreneurs & Marketing
- Traction: Get a Grip on Your Business by Gino Wickman
- Marketing Made Simple: A Step-by-Step StoryBrand Guide for Any Business by Donald Millar
- The Practice: Shipping Creative Work by Seth Godin
- They Ask You Answer: A Revolutionary Approach to Inbound Sales, Content Marketing, and Today’s Digital Consumer by Marcus Sheridan
- This is Marketing: You Can’t Be Seen Until You Learn To See by Seth Godin
- Tribes: We Need You to Lead Us by Seth Godin
- Unleashing the Ideavirus by Seth Godin
- Platform: Get Noticed in a Noisy World by Michael Hyatt
- The Art of Work: A Proven Path to Discovering What You Were Meant to Do by Jeff Goins
- What to Do When its Your Turn (and it’s Always Your Turn) by Seth Godin
- The $100 Startup: Reinvent the Way You Make a Living, Do What You Love, and Create a New Future by Chris Guillebeau
- The Power of Pull: How Small Moves, Smartly Made, Can Set Big Things in Motion by John Hagel III, John Seely Brown, Lang Davison
- Jab, Jab, Jab, Right Hook: How to Tell Your Story in a Noisy World by Gary Vaynerchuk
- Crush It!: Why Now Is the Time to Cash In on Your Passion by Gary Vaynerchuk
- Ask: The Counterintuitive Online Method to Discover Exactly What Your Customers Want to Buy…Create a Mass of Raving Fans…and Take Any Business to the Next Level by Ryan Levesque
- So Good They Can’t Ignore You: Why Skills Trump Passion in the Quest for Work You Love by Cal Newport
- What Would Google Do? by Jeff Jarvis
- Anything You Want by Derek Sivers
- Company of One: Why Staying Small Is the Next Big Thing for Business by Paul Jarvis
- Running Down a Dream: Your Road Map to Winning Creative Battles by Tim Grahl
- Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World by David Epstein
- The Slight Edge: Turning Simple Disciplines into Massive Success and Happiness by Jeff Olson and John David Mann
- E-Myth Mastery: The Seven Essential Disciplines for Building a World-Class Company by Micheal Gerber
- The Most Successful Small Business in the World: The Ten Principles by Micheal Gerber
- The E-Myth Enterprise: How to Turn A Great Idea Into a Thriving Business by Micheal Gerber
- The Art of the Start 2.0: The Time-Tested, Battle-Hardened Guide for Anyone Starting Anything by Guy Kawasaki
- Why Should I Choose You (in Seven Words Or Less)? by Ian Chamandy and Ken Aber
- Do the Work: Overcome Resistance and Get Out of Your Own Way by Steven Pressfield
- Blue Ocean Strategy: How to Create Uncontested Market Space and Make the Competition Irrelevant by W. Chan Kim and Renée Mauborgne
- The Innovator’s Dilemma by Clayton M. Christensen
Books on Sports Psychology & Performance
- Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen by Christopher McDougall
- Peak: The New Science of Athletic Performance That is Revolutionizing Sports by Marc Bubbs
- Mind Gym: An Athlete’s Guide to Inner Excellence by Gary Mack
- In Pursuit of Excellence: How to Win in Sport and Life Through Mental Training by Terry Orlick
- The Sports Gene: Inside the Science of Extraordinary Athletic Performance by David Epstein
- The Brave Athlete: Calm the F*ck Down and Rise to the Occasion by Simon Marshall and Lesley Paterson
- Performing Under Pressure: The Science of Doing Your Best When It Matters Most by Hendrie Weisinger, J.P. Pawliw-Fry
- Unbeatable Mind: Forge Resiliency and Mental Toughness to Succeed at an Elite Level by Mark Divine
- 10-Minute Toughness: The Mental Training Program for Winning Before the Game Begins by Jason Selk
- Attainment: The 12 Elements of Elite Performers by Troy Bassham
- Mental Toughness Training by James E Loehr & Peter J McLaughlin
- Faster, Higher, Stronger: How Sports Science Is Creating a New Generation of Superathletes—and What We Can Learn from Them by Mark McClusky
- The Champion’s Mind: How Great Athletes Think, Train, and Thrive by Jim Afremow
- With Winning in Mind by Lanny Bassham
- Sport Psychology for Cyclists by Saul L. Miller and Peggy Maass Hill
- The Power of Full Engagement: Managing Energy, Not Time, Is the Key to High Performance and Personal Renewal by Jim Loehr, Tony Schwartz
- The Only Way to Win by Jim Loehr
- The Talent Code: Greatness Isn’t Born. It’s Grown. Here’s How by Daniel Coyle
- Talent is Overrated: What Really Separates World-Class Performers from Everybody Else by Geoff Colvin
- The Little Book of Talent: 52 Tips for Improving Your Skills by Daniel Coyle
- The Art of Mental Training – A Guide to Performance Excellence by D.C. Gonzalez
- Mental Toughness and True Grit: Develop an Unbeatable Mindset, the Self-Discipline to Succeed, Achieve a Champion’s Mind, the Willpower of a Navy Seal, and Become an Elite Spartan with Self-Control by Mark Dweck
- Psyching for Sport: Mental Training for Athletes by Terry Orlick
Books on Philosophy, History, & General Wisdom
- Cynical Theories: How Activist Scholarship Made Everything about Race, Gender, and Identity—and Why This Harms Everybody
by Helen Pluckrose and James Lindsey - Giants: Sons of the gods, Tenth Anniversary Edition Revised and Expanded by Thomas Van Dorn
- The Unsean Realm by Michael Heiser
- The Quest for Cosmic Justice by Thomas Sowell
- A Conflict of Visions: Ideological Origins of Political Struggles by Thomas Sowell
- Intellectuals and Society by Thomas Sowell
- 2084: Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Humanity by John C. Lennox
- Scientism and Secularism: Learning to Respond to a Dangerous Ideology by J. P. Moreland
- The Devil and Karl Marx: Communism’s Long March of Death, Deception, and Infiltration by Paul Kengor
- Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress by Steven Pinker
- The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting Up a Generation for Failure by Jonathan Haidt and Greg Lukianoff
- 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos by Jordan B. Peterson
- Who Built That: Awe-Inspiring Stories of American Tinkerpreneurs by Michelle Malkin
- Explaining Postmodernism: Skepticism and Socialism from Rousseau to Foucault by Stephen Hicks
- How We Got to Now: Six Innovations That Made the Modern World by Steven Johnson
- Where Good Ideas Come from: The Natural History of Innovation by Steven Johnson
- Everything Bad is Good for You by Steven Johnson
- The Second Machine Age: Work, Progress, and Prosperity in a Time of Brilliant Technologies by Erik Brynjolfsson, Andrew McAfee
- Art of Possibility: Transforming Professional and Personal Life by Benjamin and Rosamund Stone Zander
- The Closing of the American Mind by Allan Bloom
- Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland by Christopher R. Browning
- Extraordinary Evil: Why Genocide Happens by Barbara Coloroso
- Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
- The World Is Flat 3.0: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century by Thomas L. Friedman
- This Is Water: Some Thoughts, Delivered on a Significant Occasion, about Living a Compassionate Life by David Foster Wallace
- How Do You Kill 11 Million People? Why The Truth Matters More Than You Think by Andy Andrews
- Man’s Search for Meaning by Viktor E. Frankl
- The 48 Laws of Power by Robert Greene
- Intellect: Mind over Matter by Mortimer Adler
- Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
- The Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956 by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
- The Art of War by Sun Tzu
Revised on Jan 2024
