If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.
― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood
Presented in no particular order, here’s a collection of books I’ve read over the last few years.
- How to Talk About Books You Haven’t Read, Pierre Bayard
- An Economist Walks Into a Brothel: And Other Unexpected Places to Understand Risk, Allison Schrager
- Ninety Percent of Everything: Inside Shipping, the Invisible Industry That Puts Clothes on Your Back, Gas in Your Car, and Food on Your Plate, Rose George
- 1984, George Orwell
- How the Post Office Created America: A History, Winifred Gallagher
- The Entrepreneurial State: Debunking Public vs. Private Sector Myths, Mariana Mazzucato
- Startup Communities: Building an Entrepreneurial Ecosystem in Your City, Brad Feld
- On the Shortness of Life, Seneca
- How Asia Works: Success and Failure in the World’s Most Dynamic Region, Joe Studwell
- Platform Revolution: How Networked Markets Are Transforming the Economy and How to Make Them Work for You, Geoffrey G. Parker, Marshall W. Van Alstyne, and Sangeet Paul Choudary
- AI Superpowers: China, Silicon Valley, and the New World Order, Kai-Fu Lee
- How to Win Friends and Influence People, Dale Carnegie
- Alibaba’s World: How a Remarkable Chinese Company is Changing the Face of Global Business, Porter Erisman
- We Gon’ Be Alright: Notes on Race and Resegregation, Jeff Chang
- The Sum of Small Things: A Theory of the Aspirational Class, Elizabeth Currid-Halkett
- The Sum of Small Things: A Theory of the Aspirational Class, Elizabeth Currid-Halkett
- Thinking in Bets: Making Smarter Decisions When You Don’t Have All the Facts, Annie Duke
- Feminism is for Everybody: Passionate Politics, bell hooks
- Invisible Cities, Italo Calvino
- Off the Clock: Feel Less Busy While Getting More Done, Laura Vanderkam
- The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up: The Japanese Art of Decluttering and Organizing, Marie Kondō
- Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House, Michael Wolff
- The Art of Stillness: Adventures in Going Nowhere, Pico Iyer
- The Year of Less: How I Stopped Shopping, Gave Away My Belongings, and Discovered Life Is Worth More Than Anything You Can Buy in a Store, Cait Flanders
- Venture Deals: Be Smarter Than Your Lawyer and Venture Capitalist, Brad Feld and Jason Mendelson
- Managing Oneself, Peter F. Drucker
- Write Every Day: How to Write Faster, and Write More, Cathy Yardley
- Bound, Claire Schwartz
- Communicating Effectively with the Chinese, Ge Gao and Stella Ting-Toome
- Intercultural Communication: A Discourse Approach, Suzanne Wong Scollon and Rodney H. Jones
- The 4-Hour Work Week: Escape the 9-5, Live Anywhere and Join the New Rich, Timothy Ferriss
- The One Hour China Book: Two Peking University Professors Explain All of China Business in Six Short Stories, Jeffrey Towson and Jonathan Woetzel
- The Bluest Eye, Toni Morrison
- Why I Am Not Going to Buy a Computer, Wendell Berry
- Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future, Peter Thiel and Blake Masters
- America at War with Itself, Henry A. Giroux
- Rules for Radicals: A Pragmatic Primer for Realistic Radicals, Saul D. Alinsky
- The Mom Test: How to talk to customers & learn if your business is a good idea when everyone is lying to you, Rob Fitzpatrick
- Why We Can’t Wait, Martin Luther King Jr.
- The Millionaire Next Door: The Surprising Secrets of America’s Wealthy, Thomas J. Stanley and William D. Danko
- The Start-Up of You: Adapt to the Future, Invest in Yourself, and Transform Your Career, Reid Hoffman
- From Ramen To Riches: Building Wealth In Your 20s, Or Spending, Saving, Investing And Managing Your Money To Get Rich Slowly, But Surely, James G. Wood
- Angel: How to Invest in Technology Startups—Timeless Advice from an Angel Investor Who Turned $100,000 into $100,000,000, Jason Calacanis
- The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers, Ben Horowitz
- Intercom On Starting Up, Des Traynor and team
- Four Loves, C.S. Lewis
- The Complacent Class: The Self-Defeating Quest for the American Dream, Tyler Cowen
- Small Is Beautiful: Economics as if People Mattered, Ernst F. Schumacher
- The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America’s Great Migration, Isabel Wilkerson
- The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness, Michelle Alexander
- Between the World and Me, Ta-Nehisi Coates
- Drown, Junot Díaz
- Modern Romance, Aziz Ansari and Eric Klinenberg
- Americanah, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
- The Souls of Black Folks, W.E.B. Du Bois
- The Defining Decade: Why Your Twenties Matter – And How to Make the Most of Them Now, Meg Jay
- The Economy of Regions, Jane Jacobs
- When Cultures Collide: Leading Across Cultures, Richard D. Lewis
- Direct Action & Sabotage: Three Classic IWW Pamphlets from the 1910s, Elizabeth Gurley Flynn and Walker C. Smith
- Love in the Time of Cholera, Gabriel García Márquez
- New York, Pier Paolo Pasolini
- The Fire Next Time, James Baldwin
- Rewire: Digital Cosmopolitans in the Age of Connection, Ethan Zuckerman
