Books I like to recommend
I think most books are bad (or at best, are very thin and hastily written). These are books that I feel are complete, worthwhile, and have positively shaped my thinking.
Business & Entrepreneurship
- The Great CEO Within by Matt Mochary
- Venture Deals by Brad Feld & Jason Mendelson
- High Output Management by Andy Grove
- Poor Charlie's Almanack by Charlie Munger
- The Snowball by Alice Schroeder
- Bankruptcy Investing by Ben Branch
Philosophy
- Discourses & Selected Writings by Epictetus
- A Book of Five Rings by Miyamoto Musashi
- The Prince by Niccolo Machiavelli
- The Creative Act by Rick Rubin
- On War by Carl von Clausewitz
Psychology & Decision Making
- The Laws of Human Nature by Robert Greene
- The 48 Laws of Power by Robert Greene
- Games People Play by Eric Berne
- Psychocybernetics by Maxwell Maltz
- Self-Consistency by Prescott Leckey
History & Society
- Power Failure by William D. Cohan
- Catherine the Great by Robert K. Massie
- The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt by Edmund Morris
- Very Important People by Ashley Mears
Science & Technology
- "Surely You're Joking Mr. Feynman!" by Richard Feynman
- Kelly: More Than My Share of It All by Kelly Johnson
Fiction
- A River Runs Through It by Norman Maclean
- The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka
- The Aleph & Other Stories by Jorge Luis Borges
- Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami
- The Seagull by Anton Chekhov