I believe reading and travel are the best ways to expose yourself to new ideas. Travelling can be expensive. So, largely I "travel" (through time and space) through the books I read.
Here is a semi-complete list of the books I own. I have lent many to friends and family and donated others. I prefer to have at least 80% of my books unread. I only keep a book I've read if I am going to re-read it or use it for reference later.
I've highlighted good books in blue, and great books in orange. These recommendations are contextual though. At one time, a certain book might be life changing, but at another time be meaningless.
This page will be updated as I get new books. Send me recommendations!
- Four hour work week
- Dealers of Lightning
- Courage to be disliked
- Skunk works
- Soul of the new machine
- Jobs
- Stalingrad
- Creativity Inc
- Infinite Jest
- Crying in H Mart
- The Sun also rises
- The old man and the sea
- The Game
- Kafka
- Klara and the sun
- Guernica
- Thursday Murder Club
- Thursday Murder Club 2
- Prey
- Girl A
- Groupthink - A study in self-delusion
- Surface Detail
- The Great Indoors
- Walkable City
- Do androids dream of electric sheep
- Meditations
- The Island
- The picture of dorian grey
- Talking to strangers
- Walden
- Surely you're joking Mr Feynman
- Cats Cradle
- Zen and the art of motorcycle maintainence
- All quiet on the western front
- The handmaidens tale
- The rum diary
- Mans search for meaning
- Stuff matters
- Checklist manifesto
- Bad blood
- The man who mistook his wife for a hat
- Perfume
- Bridge over the river kwai
- Principles
- Spy the lie
- Bad science
- Why we sleep
- Chekov Plays
- Shoe dog
- Business for punks
- Flash boys
- Zero to one
- Trust me, I'm lying
- Masters of doom
- Animal farm
- Undercover economist
- Blitzed