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Books on the go in 2020
Here’s the current list of books that I am trying to get through:
Still reading:
- Walden by
- Lateral Thinking by Edward De Bono
- How Google Works
- Agile Software Development, Principles, Patterns, and Practices
- Thinking Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman
- Benjamin Franklin by
- Raising a Sensory Smart Child by Lindsey Biel and Nancy Peske
Complete:
Books in 2019
After seeing Matt Mullenweg’s post about 29 Books in 2019, I thought I would start highlighting the books I’ve covered.
This list covers 2019, here’s the list for 2018, 2017, 2016 and here’s the list of all the books before 2016:
- The Baron in the Trees by Italo Calvino and Ann Goldstein
- Stealing Fire by Steven Kotler and Jamie Wheal
- Bold by
- The Out of Sync Child by
- The Explosive Child by
- Making Sense of People by Samuel Barondes
- How to Change Your Mind
- Carve the Mark by Veronica Roth
- The Fates Divide by Veronica Roth
- Wool by Hugh Howey
- One Simple Idea by Steven Key
Books in 2018
After seeing Matt Mullenweg’s post about 29 Books in 2019, I thought I would start highlighting the books I’ve covered.
This list covers 2018, here’s the list for 2017, 2016 and here’s the list of all the books before 2016:
- A Pattern Language by Christopher Alexander
- The Third Door by Alex Banayan
- Tribe of Mentors by Tim Ferriss
- Discipline Equals Freedom by Jocko Willink
- The War of Art by Steven Pressfield
- Principles by Ray Dalio
- Pivot by Adam Markel
- Built to Sell by John Warrillow
- 12 The Elements of Great Managing by Rodd Wagner and James Harter
- The Inevitable by Kevin Kelly
- Small Giants by /Bo Burlingham
- The Million Dollar, One-Person Business by Elaine Pofeldt
- Poor Charlie’s Almanack by Charlie Munger
Books in 2017
After seeing Matt Mullenweg’s post about 29 Books in 2019, I thought I would start highlighting the books I’ve covered.
This list covers 2017, here’s the list for 2016 and here’s the list of all the books before 2016:
- Zorba the Greek by Nikos Kazantzakis
- Tools of Titans by Tim Ferriss
- The Last Safe Investment by Bryan Franklin and Michael Ellsberg
- The Subtle Art of Not Giving a Fuck by Mark Manson
- The Obstacle is the Way by Ryan Holiday
- How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big by Scott Adams
- How to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie
- Rework by Jason Fried and David Heinemeier Hansson
- Team of Teams by by Gen. Stanley McChrystal, Tantum Collins, David Silverman, Chris Fussell
- Hiring Smart! by Pierre Mornell and Regan Dunnick
- The Goal by
- The Sea Peoples by S.M. Stirling
Books in 2016
After seeing Matt Mullenweg’s post about 29 Books in 2019, I thought I would start highlighting the books I’ve covered.
This list covers 2016, and here’s the list of all the books before 2016:
- Very Good Lives by JK Rowling
- The E-Myth Revisited by Michael Gerber
- I Got This: The Art of Getting Grit by Aniela and Jerzy Gregorek
- Braving the Wilderness by Brené Brown
- Daring Greatly by Brené Brown
- The Happy Body by Aniela and Jerzy Gregorek
- Money: Master the Game by Tony Robbins
- Ego is the Enemy by Ryan Holiday
- Ready Player One
- Deep Work by Cal Newport
- The Martian by Andy Weir
Books Before 2016
After seeing Matt Mullenweg’s post about 29 Books in 2019, I thought I would start highlighting the books I’ve covered.
First, here’s just a giant list of the books I have read at SOME POINT before 2016. I think I have a pretty good sense of the books I read each year after 2016, but these books I have no shot at the year I read them. They aren’t ordered in any particular way other than how I came across them on my shelves. This also doesn’t list any of the textbooks from my undergrad degree or my PhD.
Here we go:
- The Alchemist by Paulo Coehlo
- Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom
- The Five People You Meet in Heaven by Mitch Albom
- The Four Hour Work Week by Tim Ferriss
- The 4-Hour Chef by Tim Ferriss
- Linchpin by Seth Godin
- The $100 Startup by Chris Guillebeau
- The Personal MBA by Josh Kaufman
- The First 20 Hours by Josh Kaufman
- The Education of Millionaries by Michael Ellsberg
- The Start-up of You by Reid Hoffman and Ben Casnocha
- The Magic of Thinking Big by David Schwartz
- So Good they Can’t Ignore you by Cal Newport
- The Dip by Seth Godin
- Good to Great by Jim Collins
- What they don’t teach you at Harvard Business School by Mark McCormack
- Design of Everyday Things by Don Norman
- Don’t Make Me Think, Revisited by Steve Krug
- Rocket Surgery Made Easy by Steve Krug
- The Hard Thing about Hard Things by Ben Horowitz
- Smart and Gets Things Done by Spolsky
- Peopleware by DeMarco and Lister
- High Output Management by Andrew Grove
- Getting to Yes by Fisher, Ury and Patton
- No BS Direct Marketing by Dan Kennedy
- The Lean Startup by Eric Ries
- The Hardware Startup by Diresta, Forrest and Vinyard
- Only the Paranoid Survive by Andrew Grove
- Man’s Search for Meaning by Victor Frankl
- Surely You’re Joking Mr. Feynman by Richard Feynman
- Think like a Freak, Steven Levitt and Stephen Dubner
- C++ Primer by Lippman, Lajoie and Moo
- Code Complete (2nd Edition) by Steve McConnel
- How to Talk so Kids will Listen by Faber and Mazlish
- Siblings Without Rivalry by Faber and Mazlish
- Freakonomics – Steven Levitt and Stephen Dubner
- Superfreakenomics– Steven Levitt and Stephen Dubner
- The Power of Full Engagement – Jim Joehr and Tony Schwartz
- The Happiness Project – Gretchen Rubin
- Flow by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
- The Power of Habit by Charles Duhigg
- Ready to Run by Dr. Kelly Starrett
- The Paleo Solution by Robb Wolf
- The 4 hour Body by Tim Ferriss
- I Will Teach You To Be Rich by Ramit Sethi
- The Art of Learning: An Inner Journey to Optimal Performance by Josh Waitzkin
- The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman
- The Phoenix Project by Gene Kim, Kevin Behr, George Spafford
- Pragmatic Unit Testing by Andy Hunt and Dave Thomas
- Pragmatic Project Automation by Mike Clark
- Pragmatic Version Control Using Subversion by Mike Mason
- New Programmer’s Survival Manual by Joshua Carter
- The Effective Executive by Peter Drucker
- The Wahls Protocol By Terry Wahls
- What to Do When its Your Turn (and its Always Your Turn) by Seth Godin
- Daily Rituals by Mason Currey