Reading List

Below you will find my curated reading list of books I’ve enjoyed reading and books.

I’m especially interested in books that leave you pondering, books that you learn something actionable from and books that are introspective. The books are not listed any particular order, but I’ve marked my favourite books with a 💙

Philosophy and Self-Improvement:

• The Alchemist - Paulo Coelho 💙
• Meditations - Marcus Aurelius
• Siddhartha - Hermann Hesse 💙
• A Guide to the Good Life: The Ancient Art of Stoic Joy - William B Irvine 💙
• Man's Search for Meaning - Viktor E. Frankl
• The Obstacle Is the Way - Ryan Holiday
• The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari - Robin Sharma
• The 4 Hour Work Week - Tim Ferris
• The 5 AM Club - Robin Sharma
• Eat That Frog - Brian Tracy
• The Wisdom of the Enneagram - Don Richard Riso
• Ikigai - The Japanese Secret to a Long and Happy Life

Business and Leadership:

• Let My People Go Surfing - Yvon Chouinard
• Shoe Dog - Phil Knight 💙
• The Hard Thing About Hard Things - Ben Horowitz
• Screw It, Let's Do It: Lessons in Life - Richard Branson
• Leaders Eat Last - Simon Sinek
• Start with Why - Simon Sinek
• Build - Tony Fadell
• Zero to One - Peter Thiel
• The Infinite Game - Simon Sinek
• The Lean Startup - Eric Ries
• The Almanak - Naval Ravikant
• Hooked - Nir Eyal
• Elon Musk: by Walter Isaacson

History:

• Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind - Yuval Noah Harari 💙
• Humankind: A Hopeful History - Rutger Bregman
• Black Swan - Nassim Nicholas Taleb
• Homo Deus - Yuval Noah Harari

Psychology and Human Behaviour:

• The Road Less Traveled - M. Scott Peck 💙
• Atomic Habits - James Clear
• Hooked - Nir Eyal
• Outliers - Malcolm Gladwell 💙
• The Tipping Point - Malcolm Gladwell
• Think Again - Adam Grant
• Originals - Adam Grant

Spirituality and Mindfulness:

• The Power of Now - Eckhart Tolle
• Search Inside Yourself - Chade-Meng Tan 💙
• Happiness - Matthieu Ricard

Fables & Fiction:

• Le Petit Prince - Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
• La Buena Suerte - Àlex Rovira, Fernando Trías de Bes 💙
• Who Moved My Cheese? - Spencer Johnson
• Out of the Maze: An A-Mazing Way to Get Unstuck - Spencer Johnson
• Twelve Angry Men - Reginald Rose
• 1945 - George Orwell 💙

Essays:

I’m in love with Paul Graham’s essays, about work, life, and startups, I encourage you to read as many of them as you can on his page here. Here are my favourite ones:

• How to do what you love - Paul Graham 💙
• How to do great work - Paul Graham 💙

If you want to suggest books to read, feel free to suggest them below and I’ll add them to the list :)

I personally love finding book recommendations from goodbooks.io.

This bookshelf was inspired by Patrick Collinson’s bookshelf