Books

I have always enjoyed reading other people’s book lists so I thought I’d share mine in case someone finds it interesting. Every book on this list has meant something to me, I am hopeful that this list helps people discover something meaningful too. This list is not an exhaustive list of every book I’ve read, but rather just the books that I would recommend.

Rating System

Absolutely epic, couldn’t recommend it enough

Really, really recommended

Recommended

Absolutely epic, couldn’t recommend it enough

• The Second World War: Antony Beevor’s magisterial account the WW2
• Dracula: Bram Stoker’s classic
• The Old Man and the Sea: The Hemingway Library Edition
• Poor Charlie’s Almanack: The Essential Wit and Wisdom of Charles T. Munger
• The Mandarins - by Simone De Beauvoir, translated by Leonard M. Friendman

Really, really recommended

• The Rebel: Albert Camus
• Churchill: Walking with Destiny by Andrew Roberts
• Build What Matters: Ben Forster & Rajesh Nerlikar
• Complexity: A Guided Tour: Melanie Mitchell
• Dark Emu: Bruce Pascoe
• Henry and June: Anais Nin
• Man and Crisis: by Jose Ortega Y Gasset
• Behave: the biology of Humans at our Best and Worst - by Robert Sapolsky
• The Great CEO within: The tactical guide to Company Building - by Matt Mochary
• How Asia Works: Success and Failure in the World's Most Dynamic Region
• High growth handbook - by Elad Gill

Recommended

• The Earth - Emile Zola’s classic
• The Power of Geography: Ten Maps That Reveal the Future of Our World - by Tim Marshall
• Middlemarch - by George Elliot
• Frankenstein: Mary Shelley
• Lady Chatterley’s Lover: D. H. Lawrence
• Arguably: Essays by Christopher Hitchens
• Crossing the Chasm - by Geoffrey A. Moore
• The Four Hour Work Week - by Tim Ferris
• Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man - by Siegfried Sassoon
• The Shape of Things to Come: HG Wells
• Swallows and Amazons: Arthur Ransome
• Daily Rituals: Mason Currey
• Death on the Nile: Agatha Christie
• Chernobyl - The History of a Nuclear Catastrophe: Serhii Plokhy
• Tribes - We need you to lead us: Seth Godin
• Every Tool's a Hammer - Life Is What You Make It: Adam Savage
• The moral landscape: Sam Harris
• Tobruk: Peter Fitzgibbon
• Into the War: Italo Calvino
• Albert Camus, A Life: Olivier Todd
• The Odyssey: Homer, Translated by Robert Fagles
• The Escape Artist - The Man Who Broke Out of Auschwitz to Warn the World - by Jonathan Freedland
• Leonardo Da Vinci - by Walter Isaacson
• Do hard things - by Steve Magness
• Madness and Civilization: A History of Insanity in the Age of Reason - by Michael Foucault
• Limberlost - by Robbie Arnott
• Dopamine Nation: Finding Balance in the Age of Indulgence - by Anna Lembke
• The Good Book: A Humanist Bible - by A. C. Grayling
• The Naked Island - by Russell Braddon
• Heroes of F Force - by Don Wall
• Illuminations: Essays and Reflections - by Walter Benjamin
• All Creatures Great and Small: Every Living Thing - by James Herriot
• The Outsider - by Albert Camus, translated by Joseph Laredo
• A Happy Death - Albert Camus, translated by Richard Howard
• The First Man - Albert Camus
• The Fastidious Assassins - by Albert Camus
• The Plague - by Albert Camus
• Albert Camus: Elements of a life - by Robert Zaretsky
• On Love: Aspects of a Single Theme - by Jose Ortega Y Gasset
• What is Philosophy - by Jose Ortega Y Gasset
• The Revolt of the Masses - Jose Ortega Y Gasset
• The Ethics of Ambiguity - Simone De Beauvoir, translated by Bernard Frechtman
• Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter - by Simone De Beauvoir
• Nausea - by Jean-Paul Sartre, translated by Lloyd Alexander
• Iron in the Soul - by Jean-Paul Sartre, translated by Gerard Hopkins
• Intimacy - by Jean-Paul Sartre, translated by Lloyd Alexander
• The Words: The Autobiography of Jean-Paul Sartre - by Jean-Paul Sartre, translated by Bernard Frechtman
• The Reprieve - by Jean-Paul Sartre
• Chip War: The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology - by Chris Miller
• Show your work: 10 Ways to Share Your Creativity and Get Discovered
• Men, Machines, and Modern Times - by Elting E. Morison
• I, Claudius - by Robert Graves
• How language works - by David Crystal
• Brideshead Revisited - by Evelyn Waugh
• Vile bodies - by Evelyn Waugh
• The mind of God - by Paul Davies
• The Fabric of the Cosmos - by Brian Green
• The periodic table - by Primo Levi
• Middlemarch - by George Elliot
• In Evil Hour - by Gabriel García Márquez
• Living to tell the tale - by Gabriel García Márquez
• Goodbye to all that - by Robert Graves
• Island - by Aldous Huxley
• Antic Hay - by Aldous Huxley
• Doors of Perception - by Aldous Huxley
• A memorial volume - by Aldous Huxley
• Time must have a stop - by Aldous Huxley
• Limbo - by Aldous Huxley
• The House of the Dead - by Dostoyevsky
• Inferno - by Dante
• Iris Murdoch as I knew her - by A. N. Wilson
• The Archaeology of the Mind - by Biven
• Scepticism and the possibility of Knowledge - by A.C. Grayling
• Life of Pi - by Yann Martel
• Stasiland - by Anna Funder
• Casino Royale - by Ian Fleming
• Danny the Champion of the World - by Ronald Dahl
• The Complete Robot - by Issac Asimov
• Carry On, Jeeves - by P.G. Wodehouse
• Hitch 22 - by Christopher Hitchens
• Musicophilia - by Oliver Sacks
• On Language - by Noam Chomsky
• Shackleton - by Ranulph Fiennes
• Death Sentence - by Don Watson
• Keating - by Kerry O’Brien
• Recollections of a Bleeding Heart - by Don Watson
• The Lean Startup - by Eric Ries
• The good state: On the principles of democracy - by A.C. Grayling
• The New One Minute Manager - by Kenneth H. Blanchard
• Philosophy and Life: Exploring the great questions of how to live - by A.C. Grayling
• Principles for Dealing with the changing World Order: Why Nations succeed or fail - by Ray Dalio
• Hannah Arendt: A very short introduction - by Dana Vila
• Populism: A very short introduction - by Cas Mudde, Cristoball Rovira Kaltwasser
• Enlightenment Now: The case for reason, science, humanism and progress - by Steven Pinker
• Political Ideals - by Bertrand Russell
• No Rules Rules: Netflix and the Culture of Reinvention - by Reed Hastings, Erin Meyer
• Radical Simplicity: How simplicity transformed a loss-making mega brand into a world-class performer - by Ken Allen
• The Pheonix Project: A Novel about It, Devops, and Helping Your Business Win - by Gene Kim
• The Alchemy of Air: A Jewish Genius, a Doomed Tycoon, and the Scientific Discovery That Fed the World but Fueled the Rise of Hitler - by Thomas Hager
• How Big Things Get Done: The Surprising Factors Behind Every Successful Project, from Home Renovations to Space Exploration - by Bent Flyvbjerg , Dan Gardner
• The Alter Ego Effect - by Todd Herman
• Thinking in Bets - by Annie Duke
• Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring - by J.R.R. Tolkien
• Digital Minimalism: Choosing a Focused Life in a Noisy World - by Cal Newport
• A very easy death - by Simone De Beauviour
• Napoleon: A life - by Andrew Roberts
• The Spanish Civil War - by Hugh Thomas
• The bridge at Parit Sulong - Lynette Ramsay Silver
• Tobruk 1941 - by Chester Wilmot
• Leadership in War - by Andrew Roberts
• How the Scots invented the modern world - by Arthur Herman
• Rommel : The Desert Fox : The Desert Fox - by Desmond Young
• Good Strategy, Bad Strategy. The difference and why it matters - by Richard Rumelt
• The Day of the Jackal - Frederick Forsyth
• The five dysfunctions of a team: A leadership fable - by Patrick Lencioni
• The SAAS playbook - by Rob Walling
• A year in Provence - Peter Mayle
• Putin’s people - Catherine Belton
• The Spy and the Traitor - Ben Macintyre
• Amp it up: Leading for Hypergrowth - Frank Slootman
• Execution: The discipline of getting things done - Larry Bossidy, Ram Charan, Charles Burck
• Last chance to see - Douglas Adams, Mark Carwardine
• Traction - by Gabriel Weinberg and Justin Mares