Everything you need for your better future and success has already been written.
— Jim Rohn
The day I started reading books on a regular basis marks the tipping point of my understanding of the world, personal development, and awareness. Books hold an immense power capable of changing one’s life. They have definitely changed mine.
I am eternally grateful to Jim Rohn, whose seminars were the first to really inspire me.
2012
- Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman
- The Passionate Programmer: Creating a Remarkable Career in Software Development by Chad Fowler
- Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen by Christopher McDougall
- Ghost in the Wires: My Adventures as the World’s Most Wanted Hacker by Kevin Mitnick and William L. Simon
- How an Economy Grows and Why It Crashes by Peter D. Schiff and Andrew J. Schiff
- Genius: The Life and Science of Richard Feynman by James Gleick
- The Pleasure of Finding Things Out: The Best Short Works of Richard P. Feynman by Richard P. Feynman
- What Do You Care What Other People Think?: Further Adventures of a Curious Character by Richard P. Feynman and Ralph Leighton
- Surely You’re Joking, Mr. Feynman! (Adventures of a Curious Character) by Richard P. Feynman and Ralph Leighton
- Anything You Want by Derek Sivers
- The Happiness Hypothesis: Finding Modern Truth in Ancient Wisdom by Jonathan Haidt
- Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can’t Stop Talking by Susan Cain
- A Little History of the World by E. H. Gombrich
- The Two-Second Advantage: How We Succeed by Anticipating the Future–Just Enough by Kevin Maney and Vivek Ranadive
- Arguably: Essays by Christopher Hitchens by Christopher Hitchens
2011
- Boomerang: Travels in the New Third World by Michael Lewis
- The Hidden Reality: Parallel Universes and the Deep Laws of the Cosmos by Brian Greene
- Crucial Conversations: Tools for Talking When Stakes are High by Kerry Patterson, Joseph Grenny, Ron McMillan, Al Switzler
- How to Develop Self-Confidence And Influence People By Public Speaking by Dale Carnegie
- End Malaria by Michael Bungay Stanier
- Einstein: His Life and Universe by Walter Isaacson
- How To Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie
- If You Want to Write: A Book about Art, Independence and Spirit by Brenda Ueland
- Moonwalking with Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything by Joshua Foer
- The Art of Non-Conformity: Set Your Own Rules, Live the Life You Want, and Change the World by Chris Guillebeau
- Before the Big Bang: The Prehistory of Our Universe by Brian Clegg
- Economics in One Lesson: The Shortest and Surest Way to Understand Basic Economics by Henry Hazlitt
- Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion by Robert B. Cialdini
- The Startup Game: Inside the Partnership between Venture Capitalists and Entrepreneurs by William H. Draper
- The Personal MBA: Master the Art of Business by Josh Kaufman
- Eight Pillars of Prosperity by James Allen
2010
- As a Man Thinketh by James Allen
- Living With Intensity: Understanding the Sensitivity, Excitability, and the Emotional Development of Gifted Children, Adolescents, and Adults by Susan Daniels and Michael M. Piechowski
- The Drama of the Gifted Child: The Search for the True Self by Alice Miller
- The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine by Michael Lewis
- Man’s Search for Meaning by Viktor E. Frankl
- Crush It!: Why NOW Is the Time to Cash In on Your Passion by Gary Vaynerchuk
- Delivering Happiness: A Path to Profits, Passion, and Purpose by Tony Hsieh
- The Last Lecture by Randy Pausch and Jeffrey Zaslow
- Behind the Cloud: The Untold Story of How Salesforce.com Went from Idea to Billion-Dollar Company-and Revolutionized an Industry by Marc Benioff and Carlye Adler
- Rework by Jason Fried & David Heinemeier Hansson
- What the Dog Saw: And Other Adventures by Malcolm Gladwell
- Founders at Work: Stories of Startups’ Early Days by Jessica Livingston
- Linchpin: Are You Indispensable? by Seth Godin Review
- Bringing Nothing To The Party: True Confessions of a New Media Whore by Paul Carr
- The Four Steps to the Epiphany by Steven Gary Blank
- Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill Review
- The RSpec Book: Behaviour Driven Development with Rspec, Cucumber, and Friends by David Chelimsky, Dave Astels, Bryan Helmkamp, and Dan North
- Five Major Pieces to the Life Puzzle by Jim Rohn
- Th Richest Man in Babylon by George Samuel Clason Review
2009
- Eric Sink on the Business of Software by Eric Sink
- Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die by Chip & Dan Heath
- Outliers: The Story of Success by Malcolm Gladwell
- Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking by Malcolm Gladwell
- Grammar Girl’s Quick and Dirty Tips for Better Writing by Mignon Fogarty
- Pragmatic Version Control Using Git by Travis Swicegood
- Domain-Driven Design: Tackling Complexity in the Heart of Software by Eric Evans
- The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference by Malcolm Gladwell
- Getting Real: The smarter, faster, easier way to build a successful web application by Jason Fried, David Heinemeier Hansson, and Matthew Linderman
- Pragmatic Thinking and Learning: Refactor Your Wetware by Andrew Hunt
- The Magic of Thinking Big by David J. Schwartz
- The 4-Hour Workweek by Timothy Ferriss
Middle-earth and Hogwarts are my favorite fictions.
The book you don’t read won’t help.
— Jim Rohn