Reading List
Reading
Founding Sales: The Early Stage Go-to-Market Handbook
Peter Kazanjy
The Book of Disquiet
Fernando Pessoa
Read (Non-Exhaustive)
Pleased but Not Satisfied
D.L. Sokol
Selling Your Marketing Agency: Making the Most of Your Most Important Deal
David Rodnitzky, Robert Glazer
The Almanack of Naval Ravikant: A Guide to Wealth and Happiness
Eric Jorgenson
Mister Fred
Jill Pinkwater
The Great CEO Within: The Tactical Guide to Company Building
Matt Mochary
Getting Our Bodies Back: Recovery, Healing, and Transformation through Body-Centered Psychotherapy
Christine Caldwell
Your Money or Your Life
Vicki Robin
Anam Cara: A Book of Celtic Wisdom
John O’Donohue
Circling Europe SAS Curriculum
Sean Wilkinson, John Thompson, Jordan Myska Allen
House of Belonging
David Whyte
The Ultimate Hiker’s Gear Guide: Tools and Techniques to Hit the Trail
Andrew Skurka
Models
Mark Manson
Delegation & Supervision
Brian Tracy
Profit First
Michael Michalowicz
Traction: Get a Grip on Your Business
Gino Wickman
Managing Oneself
Peter Drucker
Too Soon Old, Too Late Smart: Thirty True Things You Need to Know Now
Gordon Livingston
Atomic Habits
James Clear
The Appearance of Power: How Masculinity is Expressed Through Aesthetics
Tanner Guzy
Finite and Infinite Games
James Carse
Thinking, Fast and Slow
Daniel Kahneman
The E-Myth Revisited: Why Most Small Businesses Don’t Work and What to Do About It
Michael Gerber
Ender’s Game
Orson Scott Card
Built to Sell: Creating a Business That Can Thrive Without You
John Warrilow
The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right
Atul Gawande
Crucial Conversations: Tools for Talking When Stakes Are High
Kerry Patterson, Joseph Grenny, Al Switzler, and Laura Roppe
Porcelain: A Memoir
Moby
The Course of Love
Alain de Botton
The Conquest of Happiness
Bertrand Russell
Wired for Dating: How Understanding Neurobiology and Attachment Style Can Help You Find Your Ideal Mate
Stan Tatkin
On The Shortness of Life
Lucius Seneca
Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future
Peter Thiel
59 Seconds: Change Your Life in Under a Minute
Richard Wiseman
Head & Heart Together
Thanissaro Bhikkhu
High Output Management
Andrew Grove
The Art of Travel
Alain de Botton
Never Split the Difference
Chris Voss
Psycho-Cybernetics, A New Way to Get More Living Out of Life
Maxwell Maltz
Marketing Analytics: Data-Driven Techniques with Microsoft Excel
Wayne Winston
The Laws of Manifestation: A Consciousness Classic
David Spangler
The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up: The Japanese Art of Decluttering and Organizing
Marie Kondo
Economics in One Lesson: The Shortest and Surest Way to Understand Basic Economics
Henry Hazlitt
The Culture Code: An Ingenious Way to Understand Why People Around the World Live and Buy as They Do
Clotaire Rapaille
Couch Fiction: A Graphic Tale of Psychotherapy
Philippa Perry
“Yes” or “No”: The Guide to Better Decisions
M.D. Johnson Spencer
Habits Of A Happy Brain: Retrain Your Brain to Boost Your Serotonin, Dopamine, Oxytocin, & Endorphin Levels
Loretta Breuning
Lean Analytics: Use Data to Build a Better Startup Faster
Alistair Croll
A Guide to the Good Life: The Ancient Art of Stoic Joy
Tad Brennan
Ready Player One
Ernest Cline
Search Inside Yourself: The Unexpected Path to Achieving Success, Happiness (and World Peace)
Chade-Meng Tan
The Elements of User Onboarding
Samuel Hulick
The Architecture of Happiness
Alain De Botton
Presenting to Win: The Art of Telling Your Story
Jerry Weissman
What is a p-value Anyway? 34 Stories to Help You Actually Understand Statistics
Andrew Vickers
Ahead of All Parting: The Selected Poetry and Prose of Rainer Maria Rilke
Rainer Maria Rilke
Chiggers
Hope Larson
A Wrinkle in Time: The Graphic Novel
Hope Larson
Decisive: How to Make Better Choices in Life and Work
Chip Heath
DOM Scripting: Web Design with JavaScript and the Document Object Model
Jeremy Keith
The Art of SEO: Mastering Search Engine Optimization (Theory in Practice)
Eric Enge, Stephan Spencer, Rand Fishkin, and Jessie Stricchiola
The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Getting Real: The Smarter, Faster, Easier Way to Build a Successful Web Application
Jason Fried
Games People Play: The Basic Handbook to Transactional Analysis
Eric Berne
How to Win Every Argument: The Use and Abuse of Logic
Madsen Pirie
The Prince
Niccolo Machiavelli
Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?: Selected Early Short Stories
Joyce Carol Oates
The Effective Executive: The Definitive Guide to Getting Things Done
Peter Drucker
Go: A Kidd’s Guide to Graphic Design
Chip Kidd
Nonviolent Communication: A Language of Life
Marshall Rosenberg
Beyond Good and Evil
Friederich Nietzsche
The Tropic of Cancer
Henry Miller
A Mathematician’s Lament: How Schools Cheat Us Out of Our Most Fascinating and Imaginative Art Form
Paul Lockhart
Reflections on the Art of Living: A Joseph Campbell Companion
Joseph Campbell
Hot Text: Web Writing that Works
Lisa & Jonathan Price
The Art and Science of Java
Eric Roberts
Karel The Robot Learns Java
Eric Roberts
Surely You’re Joking, Mr. Feynman!
Richard Feynman
Don’t Make Me Think!
Steve Krug
The Bet
Anton Chekhov
Manage Your Day-To-Day: Build your Routine, Find Your Focus, and Sharpen Your Creative Mind
The 99U Book Series
How to Read a Book: The Classic Guide to Intelligent Reading
Mortimer J. Adler
How to Solve It
George Polya
Inspired: How to Create Products Customers Love
Marty Cagan
Content Strategy for the Web
Kristina Halvorson
Scientific Advertising
Claude Hopkins
Ice Haven
Daniel Clowes
Web Analytics 2.0: The Art of Online Accountability and Science of Customer Centricity
Avinash Kaushik
The Road Less Traveled: A New Psychology of Love, Traditional Values and Spiritual Growth
M. Scott Peck
Your Customer Creation Equation: Unexpected Website Formulas of The Conversion Scientist
Brian Massey
Eloquent JavaScript: A Modern Introduction to Programming
Marijn Haverbeke
Excel 2010 All-in-One for Dummies
Greg Harvey
The World According to Garp
John Irving
Marketing Strategy: A Decision Focused Approach
Orville Walker
The Autobiography of Bertrand Russell
Bertrand Russell
Adapt: Why Success Always Starts with Failure
Tim Harford
What He’s Poised to Do
Ben Greenman
The Candles of Your Eyes
James Purdy
What We Talk About When We Talk About Love: Stories
Raymond Carver
Strategic Project Management Made Simple: Practical Tools for Leaders and Teams
Terry Schmidt
How to Live: Or A Life of Montaigne in One Question and Twenty Attempts at an Answer
Sarah Bakewell
Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity
David Allen
The Elements of Style
William Strunk & E.B. White
Dracula
Bram Stoker
The First 90 Days: Critical Success Strategies for New Leaders at All Levels
Michael Watkins
The Doors of Perception and Heaven and Hell
Aldous Huxley
Bit Literacy
Mark Hurst
Everything Burned, Everything Ravaged
Wells Tower
Tinkers
Paul Harding
Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison
Michel Foucault
On Evil (Thinking in Action)
Adam Morton
Envisioning Information
Edward Tufte
DMT: The Spirit Molecule: A Doctor’s Revolutionary Research into the Biology of Near-Death and Mystical Experiences
Rick Strassman
Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion
Robert Cialdini
I Will Teach You To Be Rich
Ramit Sethi
Invisible Man
Ralph Ellison
The Visual Display of Quantitative Information
Edward Tufte
Story of O
Pauline Reage
The Best Short Stories of Dostoevsky
Fyodor Dostoevsky
The Memory Book: The Classic Guide to Improving your Memory at Work, at School, and at Play
Harry Lorayne & Jerry Lucas
Native Son
Richard Wright
Last Exit to Brooklyn
Hubert Selby Jr.
Choke
Chuck Palahniuk
The Art of War
Sun Tzu
The Ten-Day MBA: A Step-By-Step Guide to Mastering The Skills Taught in America’s Top Business Schools
Steven Silbiger
Savage Inequalities: Children in America’s Schools
Jonathan Kozol
A Clockwork Orange
Anthony Burgess
The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference
Malcolm Gladwell
The McKinsey Way
Ethan Rasiel
Ishmael: An Adventure of the Mind and Spirit
Daniel Quinn
Unequal Childhoods: Class, Race, and Family Life
Annette Lareau
Island
Aldous Huxley
The Collector
John Fowles
Breakfast of Champions
Kurt Vonnegut
Howl and Other Poems
Allen Ginsberg
Naked Lunch
William S. Burroughs
The Essential Ken Wilber: An Introductory Reader
Ken Wilber
A Brave New World
Aldous Huxley
The Complete Works of Shakespeare
William Shakespeare
The Essential Calvin and Hobbes
Bill Watterson
Attack of the Deranged Mutant Killer Monster Snow Goons (Calvin & Hobbes)
Bill Watterson
The Indispensable Calvin and Hobbes: A Calvin and Hobbes Treasury
Bill Watterson
The Calvin and Hobbes Lazy Sunday Book
Bill Watterson
The Calvin and Hobbes Tenth Anniversary Book
Bill Watterson
Something Under the Bed Is Drooling (Calvin and Hobbes)
Bill Watterson
The Authoritative Calvin and Hobbes (A Calvin and Hobbes Treasury)
Bill Watterson
Masters of Deception: The Gang That Ruled Cyberspace
Michele Slatalla
Takedown: The Pursuit and Capture of Kevin Mitnick, America’s Most Wanted Computer Outlaw - By the Man Who Did It
Tsutomo Shimomura
The Days are Just Packed: A Calvin and Hobbes Collection
Bill Watterson
There’s Treasure Everywhere - A Calvin and Hobbes Collection
Bill Watterson
Scientific Progress Goes ‘Boink’: A Calvin and Hobbes Collection
Bill Watterson