Reading list

Recommended reads are marked with an *.

Business

• Robert D. Austin - Measuring and Managing Performance in Organizations
• Laszlo Bock - Work Rules!: Insights from Inside Google That Will Transform How You Live and Lead*
• Clayton M. Christensen - The Innovator’s Dilema: When New Technologies Cause Great Firms to Fail*
• Tom DeMarco - Slack
• John Doerr - Measure What Matters: How Google, Bono, and the Gates Foundation Rock the World with OKRs*
• Peter Drucker - The Effective Executive*
• Camille Fournier - The Manager’s Path: A Guide For Tech Leaders Navigating
• Elad Gil - High Growth Handbook
• Eliyahu M. Goldratt - The Goal: A Process of Ongoing Improvement*
• Andrew S. Grove - High Output Management*
• William Haeberle - How a Business Works
• Heidari-Robinson & Heywood - Reorg: how to get it right
• Ben Horowitz - The Hard Thing About Hard Things*
• Ben Horowitz - What You Do Is Who You Are
• Frederic Laloux - Reinventing Organizations*
• Will Larson - An Elegant Puzzle: Systems of Engineering Management
• Patrick Lencioni - The Advantage: Why Organizational Health Trumps Everything Else in Business
• Jeffrey Linker - The Toyota Way*
• Michael Lopp - Managing Humans
• Gordon MacKenzie - Orbiting the Giant Hairball: A Corporate Fool’s Guide to Surviving with Grace
• Yves Morieux & Peter Tollman - How to Manage Complexity without Getting Complicated
• Redlan Nadler - Leading with Emotional Intelligence*
• Donald G. Reinertsen - The Principles of Product Development Flow*
• Rothman & Derby - Behind Closed Doors: Secrets of Great Management
• Richard Rumelt - Good Strategy / Bad Strategy*
• Eric Schmidt & Jonathan Rosenberg - How Google Works*
• Eric Schmidt et. al. - Trillion Dollar Coach: The Leadership Playbook of Silicon Valley’s Bill Campbell*
• Kim Scott - Radical Candor: Be a Kick-Ass Boss Without Losing Your Humanity
• Peter Thiel with Blake Masters - Zero to One: Notes on Start-Ups, or How to Build the Future*
• Julie Zhou - The Making of a Manager: What to Do When Everyone Looks to You

Communication

• The Arbinger Institute - Leadership and Self-deception*
• The Arbinger Institute - The Outward Mindset
• Dianna Booher - Would you put that in writing?
• Dale Carnegie - How to Win Friends and Influence People
• Faber & Mazlish - How to Talk So Kids Will Listen & Listen So Kids Will Talk*
• Harvard Program on Negotiation: Roger Fisher and William L. Ury - Getting to Yes: Negotiating Agreement Without Giving In*
• Harvard Program on Negotiation: Roger Fisher and Daniel Shapiro - Beyond Reason
• Harvard Program on Negotiation: Stone, Patton, Heen - Difficult Conversations*
• Harvard Program on Negotiation: William L. Ury - Getting Past No
• Bailey Richardson et. al. - Get Together: How to build a community with your people

Computer science & software engineering

• Betsy Beyer et. al. - Site Reliability Engineering: How Google Runs Production Systems*
• Brendan Burns - Designing Distributed Systems: Patterns and Paradigms for Scalable, Reliable Services Growth and Change
• Martin Fowler et al. - Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture
• Brendan Gregg - Systems Performance: Enterprise and the Cloud
• Hunt & Thomas - The Pragmatic Programmer
• Martin Kleppmann - Designing Data-Intensive Applications*
• Judea Pearl - The Book of Why: The new Science of Cause and Effect*
• Luciano Ramalho - Fluent Python*
• Sussman, Abelson & Sussman - Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs*

Design

• Jessica Helfand - The Invention of Desire
• Ken Kocienda - Creative Selection: Inside Apple’s Design Process During the Golden Age of Steve Jobs*
• Edward Tufte - The Visual Display of Quantitative Information*
• Edward Tufte - Visual Explanations: Images and Quantities, Evidence and Narrative*

Finance

• Taylor Larimore et. al. - The Boglehead’s Guide to Investing
• Eric Tyson and Ray Brown - Home Buying Kit for Dummies

History and politics

• Ta-Nehisi Coates - Between the World and Me
• Francis Fukuyama - Identity: The Demand for Dignity and the Politics of Resentment*
• Francis Fukuyama - Origins of Political Order*
• Francis Fukuyama - Political Order and Political Decay*
• Sam Harris - Letter to a Christian Nation
• David Harvey - The Enigma of Capital & the Crises of Capitalism*
• Arle Russel Hochschild - Strangers In Their Own Land
• Barack Obama - A Promised Land*
• Rebecca Solnit - Call Them by Their True Names: American Crises (and Essays)
• Jason Stanley - How Fascism Works*
• Jason Stanley - How Propaganda Works*

Literature

• Jane Austen - Emma*
• Jane Austen - Mansfield Park
• Jane Austen - Northanger Abbey
• Jane Austen - Persuasion*
• Jane Austen - Pride and Prejudice*
• Jane Austen - Sense and Sensibility
• William Deresiewicz - A Jane Austen Education*
• Roberto Bolaño - The Savage Detectives
• Roberto Bolaño - 2666
• Robert Chandler (Editor) - Russian Short Stories from Pushkin to Buida*
• Mohandas K. Gandhi - Autobiography: The Story of My Experiments with Truth
• Bohumil Hrabal - Too Loud a Solitude
• Alice Munro - Too Much Happiness*
• Thomas Pynchon - Bleeding Edge
• Franz Kafka - The Castle*
• Franz Kafka - The Trial*
• Karl Ove Knausgaard - My Struggle pt1*
• Karl Ove Knausgaard - My Struggle pt2*
• Karl Ove Knausgaard - My Struggle pt3
• Karl Ove Knausgaard - My Struggle pt4
• Tarjei Vesaas - The Birds*

Philosophy

• Marcus Aurelius - Meditations
• Roland Barthes - Mythologies*
• Roland Barthes - S/Z*
• Niccolò Machiavelli - The Prince*
• Maggie Nelson - The Art of Cruelty*

Religion & meditation

• Reb Anderson - Being Upright
• Anonymous and Valerie Roebuck - The Dhammapada
• Sam Harris - Waking Up
• Christopher Hitchens - God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything
• Les Kaye - A Sense of Something Greater
• Wapola Rahula - What the Buddha Taught
• Shunryū Suzuki - Zen Mind, Beginner’s Mind*
• Shunryū Suzuki - Not Always So
• Kazuaki Tanahasi & Peter Levitt - The Essential Dogen: Writings of the Great Zen Master
• Nayanaponika Thera - The Heart of Buddhist Meditation*
• Alan Watts - The Way of Zen

Technology & society

• Leslie Berlin - Troublemakers: Silicon Valley’s coming of age*
• John Carreyrou - Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup*
• Alex Davies - Driven: The Race to Create the Autonomous Car
• Seth Stephens-Davidowitz - Everybody Lies
• Susan Fowler - Whistleblower
• Abraham H. Foxman - Viral Hate: Containing Its Spread on the Internet
• Sarah Frier - No Filter: The Inside Story of Instagram
• Jon Gertner - The Idea Factory: Bell Labs and the Great Age of American Innovation*
• Stephen Hilgartner - Reordering Life: Knowledge and Control in the Genomics Revolution
• Mike Isaac - Super Pumped: The Battle for Uber
• Walter Isaacson - Steve Jobs
• Brian Krebs - Spam Nation: The Inside Story of Organized Cybercrime
• Christine Lagorio-Chafkin - We Are the Nerds*
• Jaron Lanier - You Are Not a Gadget*
• Donella Meadows - Thinking in Systems: A Primer
• Evgeny Morozov - The Net Delusion*
• Evgeny Morozov - To Save Everything, Click Here
• Margaret O’Mara - The Code*
• Joshua Cooper Ramo - The Seventh Sense
• Stuart Russell - Human Compatible: Artificial Intelligence and the Problem of Control*
• James Shreeve - The Genome War: How Craig Venter Tried to Capture the Code of Life and Save the World
• Neal Stephenson - In the beginning… was the command line
• Brad Stone - The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon
• John Sulston - The Common Thread
• M. Mitchell Waldrop - The Dream Machine*
• Anna Wiener - Uncanny Valley
• Karl Zimmer - She Has Her Mother’s Laugh