Books I like to recommend
I think most books are very thin (or more often, hastily written). Below 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
- Startup Boards by Brad Feld
- High Output Management by Andy Grove
- Bankruptcy Investing by Ben Branch
History & Society
- The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt by Edmund Morris
- Boyd by Robert Coram
- Catherine the Great by Robert K. Massie
- Power Failure by William D. Cohan
Science & Technology
- Dealers of Lightning by Michael Hiltzik
- Surely You're Joking Mr. Feynman! by Richard Feynman
Philosophy
- Discourses & Selected Writings by Epictetus
- A Book of Five Rings by Miyamoto Musashi
- On War by Carl von Clausewitz
- The Creative Act by Rick Rubin
People & Psychology
- The Laws of Human Nature by Robert Greene
- Games People Play by Eric Berne
- Psychocybernetics by Maxwell Maltz
- Very Important People by Ashley Mears
Fiction
- A River Runs Through It by Norman Maclean
- Ender's Shadow by Orson Scott Card
- The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka
- The Aleph & Other Stories by Jorge Luis Borges
- Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami