A friend of mine shares every book she reads. I dug through her list and even used AI to analyze it. She’s a professional tastemaker—the kind of reader I once wanted to be: deeply literate, reading for love and insight. I’m jealous.
It made me pull together the books I’ve bought over the past decade. About 40 % are physical copies, 40 % are audiobooks, and the rest are Blinkist summaries I listen to while biking.
Only one is contemporary fiction. I adored Ready Player One, so of course I read Ready Player Two. Aside from Stephen Fry’s mythology audiobooks (highly recommended), everything else is geared toward sharpening my mind for business and tech.
I do pick up the occasional “get-rich bro” title, but rarely make it past ten pages—they’re awful.
Empire of AI
Karen Hao
2025
You Deserve to Be Rich
Rashad Bilal & Troy Millings
2025
Co-Intelligence
Ethan Mollick
2024
Read Write Own
Chris Dixon
2024
Supercommunicators
Charles Duhigg
2024
Right Thing, Right Now
Ryan Holiday
2024
The Everything Token
Steve Kaczynski & Scott Duke Kominers
2024
The Algebra of Wealth
Scott Galloway
2024
The Singularity Is Nearer
Ray Kurzweil
2024
Brave New Words
Salman Khan
2024
The Let Them Theory
Mel Robbins
2024
So Many Steves
Steve Martin & Adam Gopnik
2023
Going Infinite
Michael Lewis
2023
The Diary of a CEO
Steven Bartlett
2023
When the Clock Broke
John Ganz
2023
Start. Scale. Exit. Repeat.
Colin C. Campbell
2023
The AI-Driven Leader
Geoff Woods
2023
The Coming Wave
Mustafa Suleyman
2023
Dinner with the Rogue Archaeologists
Sam Kean
2023
Metaverse
Matthew Ball
2022
Proof of Stake
Vitalik Buterin & Nathan Schneider
2022
The Bomber Mafia
Malcolm Gladwell
2021
Courage Is Calling
Ryan Holiday
2021
Think Again
Adam Grant
2021
The 6 Habits of Growth
Brendon Burchard
2021
$100M Offers
Alex Hormozi
2021
Choose Possibility
Sukhinder Singh Cassidy
2021
Leadership Strategy and Tactics
Jocko Willink
2020
A Promised Land
Barack Obama
2020
Think Like a Rocket Scientist
Ozan Varol
2020
Ready Player Two
Ernest Cline
2020
Redefining Possible
Ron Alford & Dustin Hillis
2020
The Future Is Faster Than You Think
Peter H. Diamandis & Steven Kotler
2020
The Price of Peace
Zachary D. Carter
2020
Stillness Is the Key
Ryan Holiday
2019
We're All Marketers
Nico De Bruyn
2019
Power Moves
Adam Grant
2019
Secrets of Sand Hill Road
Scott Kupor
2019
Reboot
Jerry Colonna
2019
The Algebra of Happiness
Scott Galloway
2019
The Infinite Game
Simon Sinek
2019
The Burnout Generation
Anne Helen Petersen
2019
Talking to Strangers
Malcolm Gladwell
2019
How to Be an Antiracist
Ibram X. Kendi
2019
The Psychology of Success
Josephine Perry
2019
What You Do Is Who You Are
Ben Horowitz
2019
Alchemy
Rory Sutherland
2019
Measure What Matters
John Doerr
2018
Atomic Habits
James Clear
2018
This Is Marketing
Seth Godin
2018
Your Money or Your Life
Vicki Robin
2018
Thinking in Bets
Annie Duke
2018
Marketing Management Crash Course
Harvard Business Review
2018
Beastie Boys Book
Michael Diamond & Adam Horovitz
2018
AI Superpowers
Kai-Fu Lee
2018
Creative Quest
Questlove
2018
Prediction Machines
Ajay Agrawal et al.
2018
Cracking Complexity
David Benjamin & David Komlos
2018
The Art of Simple Living
Shunmyo Masuno
2018
The Messy Middle
Scott Belsky
2018
Ethereum
Henning Diedrich
2018
Tribe of Mentors
Tim Ferriss
2017
Deep Thinking
Garry Kasparov
2017
Move Fast and Break Things
Jonathan Taplin
2017
Cryptoassets
Chris Burniske & Jack Tatar
2017
Principles
Ray Dalio
2017
Building a StoryBrand
Donald Miller
2017
The Power of Moments
Chip Heath & Dan Heath
2017
You Are a Badass at Making Money
Jen Sincero
2017
High Performance Habits
Brendon Burchard
2017
The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck
Mark Manson
2016
Born For This
Chris Guillebeau
2016
Players First
John Calipari
2016
Grit
Angela Duckworth
2016
Platform Revolution
Geoffrey G. Parker et al.
2016
The Internet of Money
Andreas M. Antonopoulos
2016
Ego Is the Enemy
Ryan Holiday
2016
The 15 Commitments of Conscious Leadership
Jim Dethmer, Diana Chapman, Kaley Klemp
2016
Algorithms to Live By
Brian Christian, Tom Griffiths
2016
Think Like an Entrepreneur, Act Like a CEO
Beverly E. Jones
2016
Tools of Titans
Tim Ferriss
2016
Disrupt Yourself
Whitney Johnson
2015
Wired To Create
Scott Barry Kaufman & Carolyn Gregoire
2015
Smarter Screen
Shlomo Benartzi
2015
The Membership Economy
Robbie Kellman Baxter
2015
Practicing Mindfulness
Matthew Sockolov
2015
The Hard Thing About Hard Things
Ben Horowitz
2014
Do Breathe
Michael Townsend Williams
2014
Zero to One
Peter Thiel
2014
The Innovator's Hypothesis
Michael Schrage
2014
Creativity Inc.
Ed Catmull
2014
The Cleveland Clinic Way
Toby Cosgrove
2014
What If?
Randall Munroe
2014
The Mom Test
Rob Fitzpatrick
2013
The Startup Playbook
David S. Kidder
2012
Design Is a Job
Mike Monteiro
2012
The Startup Owner's Manual
Steve Blank, Bob Dorf
2012
Steal Like an Artist
Austin Kleon
2012
The Challenger Sale
Matthew Dixon & Brent Adamson
2011
100 Things Every Designer Needs to Know About People
Susan M. Weinschenk
2011
The Lean Startup
Eric Ries
2011
Traction
Gino Wickman
2011
Anything You Want
Derek Sivers
2010
Business Model Generation
Alexander Osterwalder & Yves Pigneur
2010
The Personal MBA
Josh Kaufman
2010
Drive
Daniel H. Pink
2009
Managing Oneself
Peter F. Drucker
2008
The Untethered Soul
Michael A. Singer
2007
Getting Real
37signals
2006
Mindset
Carol S. Dweck
2006
Poor Charlie's Almanack
Charlie Munger
2005
Digital Research Confidential
Eszter Hargittai & Christian Sandvig
2004
The Art of the Start
Guy Kawasaki
2004
Differentiate or Die
Jack Trout, Steve Rivkin
2004
Younger Next Year
Chris Crowley, Henry S. Lodge
2004
Good to Great
Jim Collins
2001
The Alchemist
Paulo Coelho
1988
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Douglas Adams
1979
