2024
The Snowball, by Alice Schroeder
Kochland, by Christopher Leonard
Understanding Variation, by Dr. Donald J. Wheeler
Murder at First Principles, by Ben Wiener
The Almanack of Naval Ravikant, by Eric Jorgenson
How to Make a Few Billion Dollars, by Brad Jacobs
Slow Productivity, by Cal Newport
Measures of Success, by Mark Graban
HBR Guide to Buying A Small Business, by Richard S. Ruback and Royce Yudkoff
Dream Big, by Cristiane Correa
The Algebra of Wealth, by Scott Galloway
Nick and Zak’s Adventures in Capitalism, by The Rational Cloner
Digital Minimalism, by Cal Newport
Actionable Gamification, by Yu-Kai Chou
The Gambler, by William C. Rempel
What It Takes, by Stephen A. Schwarzman
Never Enough, by Andrew Wilkinson
Men and Rubber, by Harvey S. Firestone
The Lessons of History, by Will and Ariel Durant
The Engines That Move Markets, by Alasdair Nairn
Am I Being Too Subtle?, by Sam Zell
What the CEO Wants You to Know, by Ram Charan
Unreasonable Hospitality, by Will Guidara
Playing with Reality, by Kelly Clancy
2023
How to Decide, by Annie Duke
The Definitive FDR, by James MacGregor Burns
How the World Really Works, by Vaclav Smil
33 Strategies of War, by Robert Greene
The Founders, by Jimmy Soni
Outlive, by Peter Attia and Bill Gifford
The Creative Act, by Rick Rubin
Quit, by Annie Duke
Elon Musk, by Walter Isaacson
The Rebel Allocator, by Jacob Taylor
Chip War, by Chris Miller
A Man for All Markets, by Edward O. Thorp
Same as Ever, by Morgan Housel
2022
Dopamine Nation, by Dr Anna Lembke
The Power Law, by Sebastian Mallaby
Lessons from the Titans, by Scott Davis, Carter Copeland, and Rob Wertheimer
Rest, by Alex Soojung-Kim Pang
Tao of Charlie Munger, by David Clark
Build, by Tony Fadell
Four Thousand Weeks, by Oliver Burkeman
$100M Offers, by Alex Hormozi
The Dhandho Investor, by Mohnish Pabrai
Discipline Is Destiny, by Ryan Holiday
Hackers & Painters, by Paul Graham
2021
Exercised, by Daniel Lieberman
The Molecule of More, by Daniel Lieberman and Michael Long
The Story of the Human Body, by Daniel Lieberman
Obviously Awesome, by April Dunford
Atomic Habits, by James Clear
Tiny Habits, by BJ Fogg
The Box, by Marc Levinson
The Design of Everyday Things, by Don Norman
Indistractable, by Nir Eyal and Julie Li
Obviously Awesome, by April Dunford
Livewired, by David Eagleman
Think Again, by Adam Grant
The Art of Impossible, by Steven Kotler
Man’s Search for Meaning, by Viktor E. Frankl
Genome, by Matt Ridley
How Innovation Works, by Matt Ridley
Mastery, by George Leonard
Working Backwards, by Colin Bryar and Bill Carr
The Sovereign Individual, by James Dale Davidson and William Rees-Mogg
The Defining Decade, by Meg Jay
The Blind Watchmaker, by Richard Dawkins
Amazon Unbound, by Brad Stone
Project Hail Mary, by Andy Weir
The Scout Mindset, by Julia Galef
Storyworthy, by Matthew Dicks
48 Laws of Power, by Robert Greene
Wanting, by Luke Burgis
Product-Led Growth, by Wes Bush
The Great CEO Within, by Matt Mochary, Alex MacCaw, and Misha Talavera
To Pixar and Beyond, by Lawrence Levy
Great by Choice, by Jim Collins and Morten T Hansen
The Contrarian, by Max Chafkin
The Culture Code, by Daniel Coyle
The Millonaire Fastlane, by MJ DeMarco
The Daily Laws, by Robert Greene
A World Without Email, by Cal Newport
Courage is Calling, by Ryan Holiday
How the Mighty Fall, by Jim Collins
Radical Candor, by Kim Scott
The Cold Start Problem, by Andrew Chen
Richer, Wiser, Happier, by William Green
Red Notice, by Bill Browder
2020
The Joy of Movement, by Kelly McGonigal
The Ride of a Lifetime, by Robert Iger
A Gentleman in Moscow, by Amor Towles
The Botany of Desire, by Michael Pollan
Why Nations Fail, by Daron Acemoglu and James A. Robinson
Algorithms to Live By, by Brian Christian and Tom Griffiths
That Will Never Work, by Marc Randolph
Tim Cook, by Leander Kahney
Hacking Darwin, by Jamie Metzl
Breakfast of Champions, by Kurt Vonnegut
Pre-Suasion, by Robert Cialdini
Mastering the Market Cycle, by Howard Marks
Facebook, by Steven Levy
Surprise, Kill, Vanish, by Annie Jacobsen
Let My People Go Surfing, by Yvon Chouinard and Naomi Klein
Setting the Table, by Danny Meyer
The Checklist Manifesto, by Atul Gawande
Solve for Happy, by Mo Gawdat
Working, by Robert A. Caro
A Bigger Picture, by Malcolm Turnbull
The Wedge, by Scott carney
Breath, by James Nestor
The Path to Power, by Robert A. Caro
Personal History, by Katharine Graham
Cable Cowboy, by Mark Rocihaux
Tools of Titans, by Tim Ferriss
High Output Management, by Andy Grove (summary)
Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World, by Jack Weatherford
The Biggest Bluff, by Maria Konnikova
Good Strategy/Bad Strategy, by Richard Rumelt
Means of Ascent, by Robert A. Caro
Mastery, by Robert Greene
Talent Is Overrated, by Geoff Colvin
No Rules Rules, by Reed Hastings and Erin Meyer
The Psychology of Money, by Morgan Housel
Tuxedo Park, by Jennet Conant
Tribal Leadership, by Dave Logan, John King, and Halee Fischer-Wright
Hooked, by Nir Eyal and Ryan Hoover
How Asia Works, by Joe Studwell
A Promised Land, by Barack Obama
Invent and Wander, by Jeff Bezos and Walter Isaacson
Snow Crash, by Neal Stephenson
Delivering Happiness, by Tony Hsiesh
The Alchemist, by Paulo Coelho
Good to Great, by Jim Collins
Beyond Entrepreneurship 2.0, by Jim Collins
The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, by Stephen R. Covey
Inspired, by Marty Cagan
The Charisma Myth, by Olivia Fox Cabane
Black Box Thinking, by Matthew Syed
Guns, Germs and Steel, by Jared Diamond
2019
Superhuman, by Rowan Hooper
The Laws of Human Nature, by Robert Greene
Little Black Stretchy Pants, by Chip Wilson
How to Get Rich, by Felix Dennis
Digital Minimalism, by Cal Newport
The Messy Middle, by Scott Belsky
Loonshots, by Safi Bahcall
Death’s End, by Cixin Liu
What Doesn’t Kill Us, by Scott Carney
The Sports Gene, by David Epstein
Leading, by Alex Ferguson and Michael Moritz
The Return to the Little Kingdom, by Michael Moritz
Endure, by Alex Hutchinson
Reboot, by Jerry Colonna
Disciplined Entrepreneurship, by Bill Aulet
Range, by David Epstein
The First 90 Days, by Michael Watkins
Trillion Dollar Coach, by Eric Schmidt, Jonathan Rosenberg,
and Alan Eagle12 Rules of Life, by Jordan B. Peterson
Alchemy, by Rory Sutherland
I Am a Strange Loop, by Douglas R. Hofstadter
Super Thinking, by Gabriel Weinberg and Lauren McCann
Educated, by Tara Westover
The Language Instinct, by Steven Pinker
Talking to Strangers, by Malcolm Gladwell
Lifespan, by Dr David A. Sinclair and Matthew D. LaPlante
Super Pumped, by Mike Isaac
Stillness Is The Key, by Ryan Holiday
Capitalism Without Capital, by Jonathan Haskel and Stian Westlake
High Performance Habits, by Brendon Burchard
Can’t Hurt Me, by David Goggins
The Untethered Soul, by Michael A. Singer
I Will Teach You to Be Rich, by Ramit Sethi
What It Takes, by Stephen A. Schwarzman
Loserthink, by Scott Adams
The Man Who Solved the Market, by Gregory Zuckerman
How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big, by Scott Adams
The Challenger Sale, by Matthew Dixon and Brent Adamson
Dopesick, by Beth Macy
Disrupted, by Daniel Lyons
Mistakes Were Made (But Not By Me), by Carol Tavris and Elliot Aronson
American Kingpin, by Nick Bilton
2018
Michael Jordan, by Roland Lazenby
Deep Work, by Cal Newport
The Art of Thinking Clearly, by Rolf Dobelli
The Art of Learning, by Josh Waitzkin
The Inner Game of Tennis, by W. Timothy Gallwey
Predictably Irrational, by Dan Ariely
Superforecasting, by Philip Tetlock
Rationality, by Eliezer Yudkowsky
A Moveable Feast, by Ernest Hemingway
Born to Run, by Christopher McDougall
Flow, by Mihaly Csikzentmihalyi
The Fighter’s Mind, by Sam Sheridan
Chop Wood Carry Water, by Joshua Medcalf
For Whom the Bell Tolls, by Ernest Hemingway
Why Moats Matter, by Elizabeth Collins
Modern Monopolies, by Alex Moazed
The Human Brand, by Chris Malone
Titan, by Ron Chernow
The Hero with a Thousand Faces, by Joseph Campbell
Learn Better, by Ulrich Boser
Stealing Fire, by Steven Kotler and Jamie Wheal
Skin in the Game, by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Beyond the Goal, by Eliyahu M. Goldratt
Ready Player One, by Ernest Cline
When Breath Becomes Air, by Paul Kalanithi
Hooked, by Nir Eyal
Drive, by Daniel H. Pink
The Power of Habit, by Charles Duhigg
Peak Performance, by Brad Stulberg and Steve Magness
Brave New World, by Aldous Huxley
Surfaces and Essences, by Douglas Hofstadter and Emmanuel Sander
Why We Sleep, by Matthew Walker
Deep Thinking, by Garry Kasparov
Incognito, by David Eagleman
The Gene, by Siddhartha Mukherjee
Play On, by Jeff Bercovici
How to Change Your Mind, by Michael Pollan
Origin Story, by David Christian
Ego is the Enemy, by Ryan Holiday
Why Information Grows, by Cesar Hidalgo
Bad Blood, by John Carreyrou
Measure What Matters, by John Doerr
Factfulness, by Hans Rosling
So Good They Can’t Ignore You, by Cal Newport
The Three-Body Problem, by Cixin Liu
The Outsiders, by William N. Thorndike
Creativity Inc., by Ed Catmull
The Dark Forest, by Cixin Liu
Altered Traits, by Richard Davidson and Daniel Coleman
Own the Day, Own Your Life, by Aubrey Marcus
Thinking in Bets, by Annie Duke
Expert Political Judgement, by Philip E. Tetlock
The Courage to Be Disliked, by Fumitake Koga and Ichiro Kishimi
Valley of Genius, by Adam Fisher
A Guide to the Good Life, by William B. Irvine
The Barefoot Investor, by Scott Pape
The Spider Network, by David Enrich
Dealers of Lightning, by Michael Hiltzik
High Growth Handbook, by Elad Gil
Getting Things Done, by David Allen
Frenemies, by Ken Auletta
The Facebook Effect, by David Kirkpatrick
In the Plex, by Steven Levy
Scale, by Geoffrey West
Dune, by Frank Herbert
Subscribed, by Tien Tzuo and Gabe Weisert
The Selfish Gene, by Richard Dawkins
The Talent Code, by Daniel Coyle
Behind the Cloud, by Marc Benioff
21 Lessons for the 21st Century, by Yuval Noah Harari
The Book of Why, by Judea Pearl
The Beginning of Infinity, by David Deutsch
Angel, by Jason Calacanis
Who Is Michael Ovitz?, by Michael Ovitz
Creative Selection, by Ken Kocienda
The Warren Buffett Way, by Robert Hagstrom
The Success Equation, by Michael J. Mauboussin
Atomic Habits, by James Clear
Blitzscaling, by Reid Hoffman and Chris Yeh
Conspiracy, by Ryan Holiday
The Mindful Athlete, by Phil Jackson
The Elephant in the Brain, by Robin Hanson and Kevin Simler
The Dream Machine, by M. Mitchell Waldrop
The House of Morgan, by Ron Chernow
The Revolt of the Public, by Martin Gurri
Extreme Ownership, by Jocko Willink and Leif Babin
Eat Move Sleep, by Tom Rath
2017
The Everything Store, by Brad Stone
Hatching Twitter, by Nick Bilton
Steve Jobs, by Walter Isaacson
The Black Swan, by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
The Art of Learning, by Josh Waitzkin
48 Laws of Power, by Robert Greene
The Most Important Thing, by Howard Marks
The Rise of Superman, by Steven Kotler
Benjamin Franklin, by Walter Isaacson
The Brain That Changes Itself, by Norman Doidge MD
The Art of the Deal, by Donald J. Trump
Grit, by Angela Duckworth
Outliers, by Malcolm Gladwell
Charlie Munger, by Tren Griffin
The Upstarts, by Brad Stone
The Marshmallow Test, by Walter Mischel
We Learn Nothing, by Tim Kreider
The Code of the Extraordinary Mind, by Vishen Lakhiani
Essentialism, by Greg McKeown
Homo Deus, by Yuval Noah Harari
Business @ the Speed of Thought, by Bill Gates
World Order, by Henry Kissinger
Basic Economics, by Thomas Sowell
Team of Teams, by General Stanley McChrystal
Flash Boys, by Michael Lewis
Liar's Poker, by Michael Lewis
The Big Short, by Michael Lewis
The Hard Thing About Hard Things, by Ben Horowitz
Andrew Carnegie, by David Nasaw
On Writing, by Stephen King
Writing Tools, by Roy Peter Clark
The Fountainhead, by Ayn Rand
Atlas Shrugged, by Ayn Rand
Thinking, Fast and Slow, by Daniel Kahneman
Siddhartha, by Hermann Hesse
Nudge, by Richard Thaler
Misbehaving, by Richard Thaler
Influence, by Robert Cialdini Ph.D.
Fooling Some of the People All of the Time, by David Einhorn
The Remains of the Day, by Kazuo Ishiguro
Fooled by Randomness, by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Our Oriental Heritage, by Will Durant
The Life of Greece, by Will Durant
Caesar and Christ, by Will Durant
How Will You Measure Your Life?, by Clayton M. Christensen
The Innovator's Solution, by Clayton M. Christensen
Swann's Way, by Marcel Proust
Peak, by Anders Ericsson
Republic, by Plato
Principles, by Ray Dalio
Nicomachean Ethics, by Aristotle
1984, by George Orwell
Fahrenheit 451, by Ray Bradbury
Heart of Darkness, by Joseph Conrad
Zero to One, by Peter Thiel
Hillbilly Elegy, by J. D. Vance
The 22 Immutable Laws of Marketing, by Al Ries
Perennial Seller, by Ryan Holiday
Learn or Die, Edward D. Hess
Originals, by Adam Grant
An Everyone Culture, by Robert Kegan
The Buried Giant, by Kazuo Ishiguro
Capital in the Twenty-First Century, by Thomas Piketty
Leonardo Da Vinci, by Walter Isaacson
Propaganda, by Edward Bernays
Crystallising Public Opinion, by Edward Bernays
Bored and Brilliant, by Manoush Zomorodi
Gut, by Giulia Enders
Deep Work, by Cal Newport
Win Bigly, by Scott Adams
Impossible to Ignore, by Carmen Simon Ph.D.
Yes! 50 Secrets from the Science of Persuasion, by Robert Cialdini Ph.D.
The Goal, by Eliyahu M. Goldratt
It's Not Luck, by Eliyahu M. Goldratt
Critical Chain, by Eliyahu M. Goldratt
The Innovators, by Walter Isaacson
American Prometheus, by Kai Bird
Fermat's Last Theorem, by Simon Singh
To Sell Is Human, by Daniel H. Pink
2016
Scientific Advertising, by Claude C Hopkins
Business Adventures, by John Brooks
The Intelligent Investor, by Benjamin Graham
The Undoing Project, by Michael Lewis
The Grid, by Gretchen Bakke Ph.D.
Chaos Monkeys, by Antonio Garcia Martinez
Sapiens, by Yuval Noah Harari
Deep Work, by Cal Newport
Blue Ocean Strategy, by W. Chan Kim
Zero to One, by Peter Thiel
Those are all north campus I think