This is a list of the best books I’ve read over the past couple years. My favorites are bolded.
The 22 Immutable Laws of Marketing, by Al Ries and Jack Trout
40 Alternatives to College, by James Altucher
Abundance, by Peter H. Diamandis and Steven Kotler
The Art of Learning, by Josh Waitzkin
Blink, by Malcolm Gladwell
Blue Mind, by Wallace J. Nichols
Bold, by Peter H. Diamandis and Steven Kotler
Brain Rules, by John Medina
Born to Run, by Bruce Springsteen
Contagious, by Jonah Berger
The Crash Course, by Chris Martenson
Creating a Cash Cow in Kenya, by Nat Robinson
Creativity INC, by Ed Catmull
A Deadly Wandering, by Matt Richtel
Dove, by Robin Lee Graham
Drive, by Daniel H. Pink
The Ego is the Enemy, by Ryan Holiday
Elon Musk, by Ashlee Vance
The End of Poverty, by Jeffrey D. Sachs
Energy and Civilization: A History, by Vaclav Smil
Foundation, by Isaac Asimov
The Four Agreements, by Don Miguel Ruiz
The Great Transition, by Lester R. Brown
The Hidden Half of Nature, by David R. Montgomery
Human, by Michael Gazzaniga
I Am The Word, by Paul Selig
Idea of the World, by Bernardo Kastrup
The Inevitable, by Kevin Kelly
Invisible Influence, by Jonah Berger
Is God a Mathematician?, by Mario Livio
Jonathan Livingston Seagull, by Richard Bach
The Life and Science of Richard Feynman, by James Gleick
Man’s Search For Meaning, by Viktor Frankl
The Martian, by Andy Weir
The Meaning of the 21st Century, by James Martin
The New Science of Stong Materials, by J. E. Gordon
The Obstacle is the Way, by Ryan Holiday
The Omnivores Dilemma, by Michael Pollan
Outliers, by Malcolm Gladwell
Physics of the Future, by Michio Kaku
Plan B 3.0, by Lester R. Brown
Prediction Machines, by Ajay Agrawal, Joshua Gans, and Avi Goldfarb
Quantum Electrodynamics, by Richard Feynman
The Runaway Species, by David Eagleman
Scale: The Universal Laws of Growth, Innovation, Sustainability, and the Pace of
Life in Organisms, Cities, Economies, and Companies, by Geoffrey West
The Secret Life of Pronouns, by James W. Pennebaker
Shoe Dog, by Phil Knight
Stealing Fire, by Jaime Wheal and Steven Kotler
Sustainable Development, by Jeffrey D. Sachs
The Talent Code, by Daniel Coyle
The Tao Te Ching, translated by Stephen Mitchell
Tribe, Sebastian Junger
Unbroken, Laura Hillenbrand
The Way of the Iceman, by Wim Hof
We Learn Nothing, by Tim Kreider
Why Materialism Is Baloney, by Bernardo Kastrup
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, by Robert M. Pirsig