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Note: Bolded titles are my recommendations
A list of books or audiobooks that I have finished
2023
- Crucial Conversations (Third Edition): Tools for Talking When Stakes Are High
- Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals (Burkeman, Oliver)
2022
- That Will Never Work: The Birth of Netflix and the Amazing Life of an Idea (Randolph, Marc)
- The Madness of Crowds: Gender, Race and Identity (Murray, Douglas)
- Everybody, Always: Becoming Love in a World Full of Setbacks and Difficult People (Goff, Bob)
- Boundaries in Dating: How Healthy Choices Grow Healthy Relationships (Cloud, Henry)
- Nobody Wants to Read Your Sh*t: And Other Tough-Love Truths to Make You a Better Writer (Pressfield, Steven)
- Naked, Short and Greedy: Wall Street’s Failure to Deliver (Trimbath, Susanne)
- I Hate You - Don’t Leave Me: Third Edition: Understanding the Borderline Personality (Kreisman, Jerold J.)
- Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams (Walker, Matthew)
- Attached: The New Science of Adult Attachment and How It Can Help You Find—and Keep—Love (Grenny, Joseph)
- Wired for Love: How Understanding Your Partner’s Brain and Attachment Style Can Help You Defuse Conflict and Build a Secure Relationship (Tatkin, Stan)
2021
- The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers (Horowitz, Ben)
- How to Win Friends and Influence People (Carnegie, Dale)
- How to Stop Worrying and Start Living (Carnegie, Dale)
- Outliers (Gladwell, Malcolm)
- Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future (Thiel, Peter & Masters, Blake)
- Indistractable (Eyal, Nir)
- Start with Why (Sinek, Simon)
- Surrounded by Idiots (Erikson, Thomas)
- Principles (Dalio, Ray) *STRONG RECOMMEND
- Talking to Strangers (Gladwell, Malcolm)
- How to Change Your Mind (Pollan, Michael)
- Your Price is Wrong (Kim, Yoojin)
- Talking to Strangers (Gladwell, Malcolm)
- How to Change Your Mind (Pollan, Michael)
- 12 Months to $1 Million (Moran, Ryan D.)
- The Productivity Project (Bailey, Chris)
- The Magic of Thinking Big (Schwartz, David)
- Quiet (Cain, Susan)
- Loonshots (Bahcall, Safi)
- No Rules Rules (Hastings, Reed)
- The Psychology of Money (Housel, Morgan)
- The Compound Effect (Hardy, Darren)
- Grit (Duckworth, Angela)
- The Properties of Money (Kim, Seung Ho)
2020
- Thinking, Fast and Slow (Kahneman, Daniel)
- How to Win Friends and Influence People (Carnegie, Dale)
- Snakes in Suits: When Psychopaths Go to Work (Babiek, Paul & Hare, Robert)
- The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We do in Life and Business (Duhigg, Charles)
- Talking to Strangers (Gladwell, Malcolm)
- Lying (Harris, Sam)
- The Great Mental Models (Parrish, Shane)
- I Can’t Make This Up (Hart, Kevin & Strauss, Neil)
- The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck (Manson, Mark)
- Rich Dad, Poor Dad (Kiyosaki, Robert)
- Think and Grow Rich (Hill, Napoleon)
- Dare To Lead (Brown, Brené)
- The Laws of Human Nature (Greene, Robert)
- Never Split the Difference (Voss, Chris)
- Blue Ocean Strategy (Kim, W. Chan)
- 12 Rules for Life (Peterson, Jordan B.)
- The 4-Hour Workweek (Feriss, Thomas)
- The Magic of Thinking Big (Schwartz, David)
- Shoe Dog (Knight, Phil)
- Atomic Habits (Clear, James)
- The Millionaire Next Door (Stanley, Thomas & Danko, William)
- The Ride of a Lifetime (Iger, Robert)
- The Richest Man in Babylon (Clason, George S.)
- The E-Myth Revisited: Why Most Small Businesses Don’t Work and What to Do About It (Gerber, Michael E.)
- The Secret of Harvard’s Top 1% (Jung, Juyoung)
- UNSCRIPTED: Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Entrepreneurship (DeMarco, MJ)
- The 10X Rule (Cardone, Grant)
- Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the World’s Most Dangerous Man (Trump, Mary L.)
- The Psychology of Money (Housel, Morgan)
- Mindset (Dweck, Carol S.)
- The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People (Covey, Stephen)
- Think Again: The Power of Knowing What You Don’t Know (Grant, Adam)
- How to Stop Worrying and Start Living: Time-Tested Methods for Conquering Worry (Carnegie, Dale)
- Contagious: Why Things Catch On (Berger, Jonah)
- How I Built This (Raz, Guy)
A list of off-topic books or audiobooks that I have finished
- The Way You Make Me Feel (Goo, Maurene)
- Emergency Contacts (Choi, Mary H.K)
- The Knife of Never Letting Go: Chaos Walking (Ness, Patrick)
A list of books or audiobooks that I am planning on one day
- The 48 Laws of Power (Greene, Robert)
- Clean Code: A Handbook of Agile Software Craftsmanship (Martin, Robert)
- The Road Less Stupid (Cunningham, Keith J.)
- Mastering the Market Cycle (Marks, Howard)
- How to Own Your Own Mind (Hill, Napoleon)
- The Most Important Thing (Marks, Howard)
- Richer, Wiser, Happier (Green, William)
- Homo Deus (Harari, Yuval N.)
- Gun, Germs, and Steel (Diamond, Jared)
- Warren Buffet (Lard, Keith)
A list of books or audiobooks that I dropped off in the middle
- The 10 Pillars of Wealth (Becker, Alex)
- Affluenza (de Graaf, John)
- The Intelligent Investor (Graham, Benjamin)
- Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future (Vance, Ashlee)
- Sapiens (Harari, Yuval)
- Tools of Titans (Ferriss, Tim)
- Building a StoryBrand (Miller, Donald)
- Talk Like TED (Gallo, Garmine)
- Algorithms to Live By (Christian, Brian)
- The Sociopath Next Door (Stout, Martha)