Books

Read widely. Read wisely.

Accounting, Finance, & Investing

Common Stocks and Uncommon Profits

Philip Fisher

Dear Shareholder

Lawrence A. Cunningham

Deep Value

Tobias Carlisle

Investment Valuation

Aswath Damodaran

One Up on Wall Street

Peter Lynch

Quality of Earnings

Thornton O'Glove

Quantitative Value

Wesley Gray & Tobias Carlisle

Security Analysis

Benjamin Graham & David Dodd

Strategic Value Investing

Stephen Horan, Robert Johnson, & Thomas Robinson 

The Acquirer's Multiple

Tobias Carlisle

The Dhandho Investor

Monish Pabrai

The Essays of Warren Buffett

Lawrence A. Cunningham

The Intelligent Asset Allocator

William Bernstein

The Intelligent Investor

Benjamin Graham

The Interpretation of Financial Statements

Benjamin Graham & Spencer Meredith

The Joys of Compounding

Gautum Baid

The Little Book of Valuation

Aswath Damodaran

The Most Important Thing

Howard Marks

Where the Money Is

Adam Seessel

You Can Be a Stock Market Genius

Joel Greenblatt

Autobiographies, Biographies, & History

A World Lit Only By Fire

William Manchester

Benjamin Franklin: An American Life

Walter Isaacson

Devil in the White City

Erik Larson

Empire of Ice and Stone

Buddy Levy

King Leopold's Ghost

Adam Hochschild

Land: How the Hunger for Ownership Shaped the Modern World

Simon Winchester

Lawrence in Arabia

Scott Anderson

Metropolis

Ben Wilson

Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind

Yuval Noah Harari

Shadow Divers

Robert Kurson

Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!

Richard P. Feynman

The Better Angels of Our Nature

Steven Pinker

The House of Morgan

Ron Chernow

The Lost City of Z

David Grann

The Man Who Solved the Markets

Gregory Zuckerman

The Mysterious Case of Rudolf Diesel

Robert Iger

The River of Doubt

Candice Miller

The Tao of Charlie Munger

David Clark

The Tycoons

Charles R. Morris

The Wager

David Grann

The Wright Brothers

David McCullough

Titan: The Life of John D. Rockefeller, Sr.

Ron Chernow

Thunderstruck

Erik Larson

Unbroken

Laura  Hillenbrand

Business

Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup

John Carreyrou

Becoming Trader Joe

Joe Coulombe

Burn Rate

Andy Dunn

Chip War

Chris Miller

Creativity, Inc.

Ed Catmull

Delivering Happiness

Tony Hsieh

Financial Intelligence

Karen Berman & Joe Knight

Good Company

Arthur Blank

High Growth Handbook

Elad Gil

Let My People Go Surfing

Yvon Chouinard

Originals

Adam Grant

Red Notice

Bill Browder

Shoe Dog

Phil Knight

The Business Book: Big Ideas Simply Explained

DK

The Business of Design

Keith Granet

The Curriculum

Stanley Bing

The E-Myth Revisited

Michael E. Gerber

The Innovator's Dilemma

Claton Christensen

The Fish That Ate the Whale

Rich Cohen

The Hard Thing About Hard Things

Ben Horowitz

The Lean Startup

Eric Ries

The Ride of a Lifetime

Robert Iger

The Virgin Way

Richard Branson

Unreasonable Hospitality

Will Guidara

What it Takes

Stephen Schwarzman

Zero to One

Peter Thiel

Communication, Negotiation, & Rhetoric

Art of Rhetoric

Aristotle

How to Know a Person

David Brooks

How to Win Friends & Influence People

Dale Carnegie

Making Conversation

Fred Dust

Never Split the Difference

Chris Voss

Nobody Wants to Read Your Sh*t

Steven Pressfield

Stories that Stick

Kindra Hall

Supercommunicators

Charles Duhigg

Thank You for Arguing

Jay Heinrichs

The Art of Gathering

Priya Parker

The Art of Seduction

Robert Greene

The Communication Book

Mikael Krogerus & Tschappeler

The Exceptional Presenter

Timothy J. Koegel

To Sell is Human

Daniel Pink

Economics & Currencies

Big Debt Crises

Ray Dalio

Coined

Kabir Sehgal

Money Changes Everything

William N. Goetzmann

When Money Dies

Adam Fergusson

Energy, Engineering, & Construction

Broken Buildings, Busted Budgets

Barry B. Lepatner

How to Avoid a Climate Disaster

Bill Gates

Inside Commercial Construction MVP's

Coty Leigh Fournier

Markup & Profit: A Contractor's Guide

Michael C. Stone

Running a Successful Construction Company

David Gerstel

The New Map: Energy, Climate, and the Clash of Nations

Daniel Yergin

Law

Law for Architects

Robert F. Herrmann

Law for Business

James Barnes, et al

Legal Aspects of Architecture, Engineering, and the Construction Process

Justin Sweet, Marc Schneier

Leadership, Management, & Mentorship

An Elegant Puzzle: Systems of Engineering Management

Will Larson

Call Sign Chaos

General Jim Mattis

Daring Greatly

Brene Brown

Ender's Game

Orson Scott Card

Endurance

Alfred Lansing

Extreme Ownership

Jocko Willink & Leif Babin

Leaders Eat Last

Simon Sinek

Leadership in Organizations

Gary Yukl

Leading

Sir Alex Ferguson

Lincoln's Mentors

Michael Gerhardt

Managing Effort, Getting Results

Bob McHardy & John Marshall

Multipliers: How the Best Leaders Make Everyone Smarter

Liz Wiseman

Start with Why

Simon Sinek

Team of Teams

Gen. Stanley McChrystal

The Dichotomy of Leadership

Jocko Willink & Leif Babin

The Effective Executive

Peter F. Drucker

Turn the Ship Around

L. David Marquet

Wenger

Arsene Wenger

Wooden on Leadership

John Wooden

Mathematics, Risk, & Probability

Against the Gods

Peter L. Bernstein

Arithmetic

Paul Lockhart

Fooled by Randomness

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Skin in the Game

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

The Black Swan

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Psychology, Decisions, & Behavior

101 Essays that Will Change the Way You Think

Brianna Wiest

Atomic Habits

James Clear

Breaking Bread with the Dead

Alan Jacobs

Caste: The Origin of Our Discontents

Isabel Wilkerson

Deep Survival

Laurence Gonzales

Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us

Daniel Pink

Educated

Tara Westover

Ego is the Enemy

Ryan Holiday

Endure

Alex Hutchinson

Four Thousand Weeks

Oliver Burkeman

Grit

Angela Duckworth

Hillbilly Elegy

J.D. Vance

Mastermind: How to Think Like Sherlock Holmes

Maria Konnikova

Mastery

Robert Greene

Maxims for Thinking Analytically

Dan Levy

Pebbles of Perception

Laurence Endersen

Recalculating

Lindsey Pollak

Seeking Wisdom

Peter Bevelin

Sources of Power: How People Make Decisions

Gary Klein

Talking to Strangers

Malcolm Gladwell

The 80/20 Principle and 92 Other Powerful Laws of Nature

Richard Koch

The Decision Book

Michael Krogerus & Roman Tachappeler

The Emperor's Handbook

Lindsey Pollak

The Great Mental Models, Vol. 1-3

Shane Parish

The Hidden Habits of Genius

Malcolm Gladwell

The Obstacle is the Way

Ryan Holiday

The Power of Habit

Charles Duhigg

The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck

Mark Manson

Think Again

Adam Grant

Thinking Fast & Slow

Daniel Kahneman

Thinking in Systems

Donella Meadows

This Will Make You Smarter

John Brockman

Tribe: On Homecoming and Belonging

Sebastian Junger

Who Moved My Cheese?

Dr. Spencer Johnson

Science

Astrophysics for People in a Hurry

Neil DeGrasse Tyson

Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst

Robert M. Sapolsky

Chaos: The Making of a New Science

James Gleick

Outlive: The Science & Art of Longevity

Peter Attia

Reality Is Not What It Seems

Carlo Rovelli

The Beginning of Infinity

David Deutsch

The Body: A Guide for Occupants

Bill Bryson

The Hidden Life of Trees

Peter Wohlleben

The Order of Time

Carlo Rovelli

Strategy, Tactics, & War

Antifragile

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Blue Ocean Strategy

W. Chan Kim & Renee Mauborgne

Fighting by Minutes

Robert R. Leonhard

On Flexibility

Meir Finkel

On Grand Strategy

John Lewis Gaddis

On War

Carl von Clausewitz

Scrum: The Art of Doing Twice the Work in Half the Time

Jeff Sutherland

Strategy: A History

Lawrence Freedman

The 33 Strategies of War

Robert Greene

The 48 Laws of Power

Robert Greene

The Art of War

Sun Tzu

The Crux: How Leaders Become Strategists

Richard P. Rumelt