Books I like.

Early Exits

Exit Strategies for Entrepreneurs and Angel Investors (but Maybe Not Venture Capitalists)


By Basil Peters

Pre-Suasion

A Revolutionary Way to Influence and Persuade


By Robert Cialdini

Wintering

The Power of Rest and Retreat in Difficult Times


By Katherine May

The Direct Mail Revolution

How to Create Profitable Direct Mail Campaigns in a Digital World


By Robert W. Bly

Can't Hurt Me

Master Your Mind and Defy the Odds


By David Goggins

Moonwalking with Einstein

The Art and Science of Remembering Everything


By Joshua Foer

Why Buddhism is True

The Science and Philosophy of Meditation and Enlightenment


By Robert Wright

$100M Leads

How to Get Strangers To Want To Buy Your Stuff


By Alex Hormozi

$100M Offers

How to Make Offers So Good People Feel Stupid Saying No


By Alex Hormozi

Waking Up

A Guide to Spirituality Without Religion


By Sam Harris

The 4-hour Chef

The Simple Path to Cooking Like a Pro, Learning Anything, and Living the Good Life


By Timothy Ferriss

The Art of Selling Your Business

Winning Strategies & Secret Hacks for Exiting on Top


By John Warrillow

Built to Sell

Creating a Business That Can Thrive Without You


By John Warrillow

Living with a SEAL

31 Days Training with the Toughest Man on the Planet


By Jesse Itzler

The River of Doubt

Theodore Roosevelt's Darkest Journey


By Candice Millard

Elon Musk


By Walter Isaacson

The ONE Thing

The Surprisingly Simple Truth Behind Extraordinary Results


By Gary Keller & Jay Papasan

Endurance

Shackleton's Incredible Voyage


By Alfred Lansing

Stolen Focus

Why You Can't Pay Attention--and How to Think Deeply Again


By Johann Hari

How to Live on 24 Hours a Day


By Arnold Bennett

In Order to Live

A North Korean Girl's Journey to Freedom


By Yeonmi Park & Maryanne Vollers

The Great Stagnation

How America Ate All The Low-Hanging Fruit of Modern History, Got Sick, and Will (Eventually) Feel Better: A Penguin eSpecial from Dutton


By Tyler Cowen

Fluent in 3 Months

How Anyone at Any Age Can Learn to Speak Any Language from Anywhere in the World


By Benny Lewis

Practice Makes Perfect Spanish Verb Tenses, Premium 3rd Edition


By Dorothy Richmond

The Man Who Solved the Market

How Jim Simons Launched the Quant Revolution


By Gregory Zuckerman

Steve Jobs


By Walter Isaacson

Neural Networks from Scratch in Python


By Harrison Kinsley & Daniel Kukiela

Why We Sleep

Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams


By Matthew Walker

Influence

The Psychology of Persuasion


By Robert B. Cialdini, PhD

Deep Work

Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World


By Cal Newport

1491

New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus


By Charles C. Mann

The Genius of Birds


By Jennifer Ackerman

Lying


By Sam Harris

Ten Arguments for Deleting Your Social Media Accounts Right Now


By Jaron Lanier

Hallucinations


By Oliver Sacks

I'll Be Gone in the Dark

One Woman's Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer


By Michelle McNamara

Uncanny Valley

A Memoir


By Anna Wiener

The Hidden Life of Trees

What They Feel, How They Communicate; Discoveries from a Secret World


By Peter Wohlleben & Mike Grady

Small Giants

Companies That Choose to Be Great Instead of Big, 10th-Anniversary Edition


By Bo Burlingham

The Strenuous Life

Theodore Roosevelt and the Making of the American Athlete


By Ryan Swanson

Fanatical Prospecting

The Ultimate Guide to Opening Sales Conversations and Filling the Pipeline by Leveraging Social Selling, Telephone, Email, Text, and Cold Calling


By Jeb Blount

Way of the Wolf

Straight Line Selling: Master the Art of Persuasion, Influence, and Success


By Jordan Belfort

The 1-Page Marketing Plan

Get New Customers, Make More Money, and Stand Out from the Crowd


By Allan Dib

The Power of Habit

Why We Do What We do in Life and Business


By Charles Duhigg

Fluent Forever

How to Learn Any Language Fast and Never Forget it


By Gabriel Wyner

Letters to a Young Contrarian


By Christopher Hitchens

Animal Wise

The Thoughts and Emotions of Our Fellow Creatures


By Virginia Morell

Man's Search For Meaning


By Viktor E. Frankl

The Monk of Mokha


By Dave Eggers

100 Things You Will Never Find

Lost Cities, Hidden Treasures and Legendary Quests


By Daniel Smith

Chaos

Charles Manson, the CIA, and the Secret History of the Sixties


By Tom O'Neill

Range

Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World


By David Epstein

The Tiger

A True Story of Vengeance and Survival


By John Vaillant

Why Nations Fail

The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty


By Daron Acemoglu & James A. Robinson

The Psychopath Test

A Journey Through the Madness Industry


By Jon Ronson

Meditations


By Marcus Aurelius

The Hero with a Thousand Faces


By Joseph Campbell

The Mystery of Capital

Why Capitalism Triumphs in the West and Fails Everywhere Else


By Hernando De Soto

Permanent Record


By Edward Snowden

Mere Christianity


By C. S. Lewis

Salt Sugar Fat

How the Food Giants Hooked Us


By Michael Moss

Zero to One

Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future


By Peter Thiel & Blake Masters

God Is Not Great

How Religion Poisons Everything


By Christopher Hitchens

The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs

A New History of a Lost World


By Steve Brusatte

The Lost City of Z

A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon


By David Grann

Secret Empires

How the American Political Class Hides Corruption and Enriches Family and Friends


By Peter Schweizer

The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People

Restoring the Character Ethic


By Stephen R. Covey

Astrophysics for People in a Hurry


By Neil deGrasse Tyson

Letter to a Christian Nation


By Sam Harris

Free Will


By Sam Harris

101 Secrets of the Freemasons

The Truth Behind the World's Most Mysterious Society


By Barb Karg & John K Young

Troublemaker

Surviving Hollywood and Scientology


By Leah Remini & Rebecca Paley

The God Delusion


By Richard Dawkins

Einstein

His Life and Universe


By Walter Isaacson

Seven Brief Lessons on Physics


By Carlo Rovelli

The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin


By Benjamin Franklin

Leonardo Da Vinci


By Walter Isaacson

The Shepherd's Life

Modern Dispatches from an Ancient Landscape


By James Rebanks

The Lost City of the Monkey God

A True Story


By Douglas Preston

12 Rules for Life

An Antidote to Chaos


By Jordan B. Peterson

Left of Bang

How the Marine Corps' Combat Hunter Program Can Save Your Life


By Patrick Van Horne, Jason A. Riley & Steven Pressfield

The $100 Startup

Reinvent the Way You Make a Living, Do what You Love, and Create a New Future


By Chris Guillebeau

Self-Reliance


By Ralph Waldo Emerson

Sapiens

A Brief History of Humankind


By Yuval Noah Harari

The Effective Executive


By Peter Drucker

How to Travel the World on $50 a Day

Third Edition: Travel Cheaper, Longer, Smarter


By Matt Kepnes

The Deals That Made the World

Reckless Ambition, Backroom Negotiations, and the Hidden Truths of Business


By Jacques Peretti

Economics in One Lesson

The Shortest and Surest Way to Understand Basic Economics


By Henry Hazlitt

Thomas Jefferson


By David Saville Muzzey

Emergency

This Book Will Save Your Life


By Neil Strauss

Walden

Or, Life in the Woods


By Henry David Thoreau

Real Estate Investing Made Simple

A Commonsense Approach to Building Wealth


By M. Anthony Carr

Lost Cities and Vanished Civilizations


By Robert Silverberg

Invitation to Archaeology


By James Deetz

The Art of War


By Sun Tzu

Getting Started in Electronics


By Forrest M. Mims

Building a Virtual Assistant for Raspberry Pi

The practical guide for constructing a voice-controlled virtual assistant


By Tanay Pant

Automate the Boring Stuff with Python

Practical Programming for Total Beginners


By Al Sweigart

Limited Liability Companies For Dummies


By Jennifer Reuting

Vagabonding

An Uncommon Guide to the Art of Long-Term World Travel


By Rolf Potts

The Comte de St. Germain

The Secret of Kings; a Monograph


By Isabel Cooper-Oakley

Nudge

Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness


By Richard H. Thaler & Cass R. Sunstein

Elon Musk

Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future


By Ashlee Vance

Capitalism and Freedom

Fortieth Anniversary Edition


By Milton Friedman

What If Money Grew on Trees?

Asking the Big Questions about Economics


By David Boyle & Neva R. Goodwin

Rich Dad, Poor Dad

What The Rich Teach Their Kids About Money


By Robert T. Kiyosaki

The Richest Man In Babylon


By G.S. Clason

The Year of Living Biblically

One Man's Humble Quest to Follow the Bible as Literally as Possible


By A. J. Jacobs

Highway to Success

The Entertainer's Roadmap to a Thriving Business


By Elliott Smith & Ian Quick

Secrets of a Master Closer

A Simpler, Easier, and Faster Way to Sell Anything to Anyone, Anytime, Anywhere


By Mike Kaplan

The 10 Pillars of Wealth

Mind-Sets of the World's Richest People


By Alex Becker

The 4-Hour Work Week

Escape the 9-5, Live Anywhere and Join the New Rich


By Timothy Ferriss

I Will Teach You To Be Rich

No guilt, no excuses - just a 6-week program that works


By Ramit Sethi

When I Stop Talking, You'll Know I'm Dead

Useful Stories from a Persuasive Man


By Jerry Weintraub

A Brief History of Time


By Stephen W. Hawking

How To Win Friends and Influence People


By Dale Carnegie

The Millionaire Next Door

The Surprising Secrets of America's Wealthy


By Thomas J. Stanley & William D. Danko

How Not to be Wrong

The Power of Mathematical Thinking


By Jordan Ellenberg

How to Develop a Brilliant Memory Week by Week

52 Proven Ways to Enhance Your Memory Skills


By Dominic O'Brien