Bookshelf

An incomplete list of books I've loved and would recommend, inspired by Patrick Collison's list of the same.

Founders and companies

• The Accidental Billionaires - Ben Mezrich
• Alibaba - Duncan Clark
• Becoming Trader Joe - Joe Coulombe
• Billion Dollar Loser - Reeves Wiedeman
• Careless People - Sarah Wynn-Williams
• The Cobbler
• Elon Musk - Walter Isaacson
• The Everything Store - Brad Stone
• Facebook: The Inside Story - Steven Levy
• The Founders - Jimmy Soni
• Grinding It Out - Ray Kroc
• How Google Works - Eric Schmidt & Jonathan Rosenberg
• Idea Man - Paul Allen
• In The Plex - Steven Levy
• Insanely Simple - Ken Segall
• The Inside Story of PayPal
• Invention - James Dyson
• Jony Ive - Leander Kahney
• Let My People Go Surfing - Yvon Chouinard
• Losing My Virginity - Richard Branson
• Lululemon
• Michael O'Leary
• No Filter - Sarah Frier
• No Rules Rules - Reed Hastings & Erin Meyer
• Pour Your Heart Into It - Howard Schultz
• Shoe Dog - Phil Knight
• Shoemaker - Joe Foster
• Steve Jobs: The Exclusive Biography - Walter Isaacson
• Super Pumped - Mike Isaac
• Supremacy - Parmy Olson
• That Will Never Work - Marc Randolph
• The Thinking Machine - Stephen Witt
• Unreasonable Hospitality - Will Guidara
• Who Is Michael Ovitz? - Michael Ovitz

Startups and building

• The Almanack of Naval Ravikant - Eric Jorgenson
• Blitzscaling - Reid Hoffman
• The Cold Start Problem - Andrew Chen
• Crossing the Chasm - Geoffrey Moore
• The Founder's Dilemmas - Noam Wasserman
• The Hard Thing About Hard Things - Ben Horowitz
• The Lean Startup - Eric Ries
• The Mom Test - Rob Fitzpatrick
• Rework - Jason Fried & David Heinemeier Hansson
• Shape Up - Ryan Singer
• Speed & Scale - John Doerr
• The Startup Owner's Manual - Steve Blank & Bob Dorf
• Zero to One - Peter Thiel

Sales, growth and persuasion

• $100M Leads - Alex Hormozi
• Alchemy - Rory Sutherland
• The Challenger Sale - Matthew Dixon & Brent Adamson
• Fanatical Prospecting - Jeb Blount
• Hacking Growth - Sean Ellis & Morgan Brown
• Influence - Robert Cialdini
• Never Split The Difference - Chris Voss

Software and engineering

• AI Engineering - Chip Huyen
• Clean Architecture - Robert C. Martin
• Clean Code - Robert C. Martin
• Metaprogramming Ruby - Paolo Perrotta
• Operating Systems: Three Easy Pieces - Remzi & Andrea Arpaci-Dusseau
• The Pattern on the Stone - W. Daniel Hillis
• The Phoenix Project - Gene Kim, Kevin Behr & George Spafford
• Refactoring - Martin Fowler
• Sustainable Rails - David Bryant Copeland
• Sustainable Web Development with Ruby on Rails - David Bryant Copeland

Design

• The Design of Everyday Things - Don Norman
• User Friendly - Cliff Kuang & Robert Fabricant

Narrative non-fiction and memoir

• American Kingpin - Nick Bilton
• And Away... - Bob Mortimer
• Going Infinite - Michael Lewis
• Greenlights - Matthew McConaughey
• How To Lose Friends And Alienate People - Toby Young
• Levels of the Game - John McPhee
• The Lunch That Killed a Critic
• The Man Who Solved The Market - Gregory Zuckerman
• Reentry - Eric Berger
• This Is Going To Hurt - Adam Kay
• Very Important People - Ashley Mears
• When The Heavens Went On Sale - Ashlee Vance

Thinking, habits and health

• Advanced Memory Palaces
• Atomic Habits - James Clear
• Fluke - Brian Klaas
• Four Thousand Weeks - Oliver Burkeman
• How Not To Die - Michael Greger
• How To Take Smart Notes - Sonke Ahrens
• The Let Them Theory - Mel Robbins
• Lightoff
• Outlive - Peter Attia
• Why Has Nobody Told Me This Before? - Julie Smith

Fiction

• The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Arthur Conan Doyle
• Dune - Frank Herbert
• A Good Year - Peter Mayle
• Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality - Eliezer Yudkowsky
• The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
• The Lord of the Rings - J.R.R. Tolkien
• The Lords of the North - Bernard Cornwell
• The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes - Arthur Conan Doyle
• The Murder of Roger Ackroyd - Agatha Christie
• Sherlock Holmes - Arthur Conan Doyle
• The Sign of Four - Arthur Conan Doyle
• A Study in Scarlet - Arthur Conan Doyle
• The Thursday Murder Club - Richard Osman