Last Updated: January 2020
This is a work-in-progress page that reflects books that have contributed to how I work, think, and live. I liked the idea of a ‘career bibliography’ and my intention is to evolve and expand this page over time to become more robust.
As I reflected on this further, this page will also act as my 100-book bookshelf. I have an artificial filter of wanting to own only 100 books. With that limitation, which would make the cut?
This list contains the books I own hard copies of and want to keep as part of the 100. My hope is to continually prune this list.
The 100-Book Shelf
(d) = digital copy
- Leonardo Da Vinci
- The Nature of Value
- The Knowledge-Creating Company
- Poor Charlie’s Almanack
- Web Analytics 2.0
- Atmamun
- Shop class as Soulcraft
- Pachinko
- Colourless Tsukuru Tazaki
- Enon
- Sapiens
- Trick Mirror
- Language in thought and action
- Pitch Perfect
- Tribe of Mentors
- Seeking Wisdom
- Managing the Design Factory
- Godel Escher Bach
- What I Talk About When I Talk About Running
- Meditations
- To Pixar and Beyond
- Men Without Women
- If on a winter’s night a traveler…
- The Art of Failure
- Haruki Murakami Goes to Meet Hayao Kawai
- The Art of the Good Life
- Born to Run
- Masters of Doom
- After Dark
- Norwegian Wood
- How to Grow Old
- Tools of Titans
- Killing Commendatore
- On the Shortness of Life
- The Lessons of History
- The Lean Startup
- I Will Teach You To Be Rich
- South of the Border, West of the Sun
- Principles
- Siddhartha
- Zero to One
- Simple Wealth, Inevitable Wealth
- Wind/Pinball
- The Courage to be Disliked
- Nudge (to be donated)
- Thinking Fast and Slow
- Strategy and the Fat Smoker
- Managing the Professional Services Firm
- Working
- Confessions of an Advertising Man
- 1Q84
- Arithmetic
- Peak (d)
- Range (d)
- Deep Work (d)
- Art of Learning
- Breaking Smart
- Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
- Spelunky
- Worry-Free Money