Book Shelf
The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you’ll go.”- Dr Seuss
“It is what you read when you don’t have to that determines what you will be when you can’t help it.” – Oscar Wilde
I LOVE reading as a way of learning. Here is what is on my bookshelf:
Innovation/Entrepreneurship:
Business Model Generation: A Handbook for Visionaries, Game Changers, and Challengers
Value Proposition Design: How to Create Products and Services Customers Want (Strategyzer)
Thinkertoys: A Handbook of Creative-Thinking Techniques (2nd Edition)
The Doodle Revolution: Unlock the Power to Think Differently
Creative Confidence: Unleashing the Creative Potential Within Us All
Gamestorming: A Playbook for Innovators, Rulebreakers, and Changemakers
Cracking Creativity: The Secrets of Creative Genius
The Other Side of Innovation: Solving the Execution Challenge (Harvard Business Review (Hardcover))
Inside the Box: A Proven System of Creativity for Breakthrough Results
Zig Zag: The Surprising Path to Greater Creativity
The Opposable Mind: How Successful Leaders Win Through Integrative Thinking
The Corporate Startup: How Established Companies Can Develop Successful Innovation Ecosystems
Creativity, Inc.: Overcoming the Unseen Forces That Stand in the Way of True Inspiration
Entrepreneurial You: Monetize Your Expertise, Create Multiple Income Streams, and Thrive
Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative
Productivity:
The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change
Peak Performance: Elevate Your Game, Avoid Burnout, and Thrive with the New Science of Success
Designing Your Life: How to Build a Well-Lived, Joyful Life
Fiction:
Heart of Darkness and the Congo Diary (Penguin Classics) by Conrad Joseph (2007-09-25) Paperback
Catch-22: 50th Anniversary Edition
Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell [2008]
Crime and Punishment: A New Translation
Psychology:
The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference
Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking
Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion, Revised Edition
StrengthsFinder 2.0: By the New York Times Bestselling Author of Wellbeing
Predictably Irrational, Revised and Expanded Edition: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions
Modern Man In Search of a Soul
The Elephant in the Brain: Hidden Motives in Everyday Life
The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements (Perennial Classics)
Philosophy:
Meditations: A New Translation (Modern Library)
The Conquest of Happiness by Bertrand Russell (1996-03-17)
12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos
As One Is: To Free the Mind from All Conditioning
Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets (Incerto)
The Book of Life: Daily Meditations with Krishnamurti
Wherever You Go, There You Are: Mindfulness Meditation in Everyday Life
Collected Maxims and Other Reflections (Oxford World’s Classics)
The Daily Stoic: 366 Meditations on Wisdom, Perseverance, and the Art of Living
Walden and Civil Disobedience: (American Library) by Thoreau. Henry David ( 2002 ) Paperback
Meaningful Work: A Quest to Do Great Business, Find Your Calling, and Feed Your Soul
The Power of Meaning: Finding Fulfillment in a World Obsessed with Happiness
Health/Medicine:
The Patient Will See You Now: The Future of Medicine Is in Your Hands
How We Die: Reflections of Life’s Final Chapter, New Edition
Design for Care: Innovating Healthcare Experience
Deep Nutrition: Why Your Genes Need Traditional Food
Limits to Medicine: Medical Nemesis: The Expropriation of Health (Open Forum)
Filters Against Folly: How To Survive Despite Economists, Ecologists, and the Merely Eloquent
When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times
Exercise:
Total Immersion: The Revolutionary Way To Swim Better, Faster, and Easier
Letters of Note: An Eclectic Collection of Correspondence Deserving of a Wider Audience
The New Encyclopedia of Modern Bodybuilding : The Bible of Bodybuilding, Fully Updated and Revised
Biographies:
Benjamin Franklin: An American Life
Endurance: Shackleton’s Incredible Voyage
The Last Lion: Winston Spencer Churchill: Defender of the Realm, 1940-1965
Michel de Montaigne – The Complete Essays (Penguin Classics)
Surely You’re Joking, Mr. Feynman! (Adventures of a Curious Character)
Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power
The Gulag Archipelago Abridged: An Experiment in Literary Investigation (P.S.)
Poetry:
Leaves of Grass (Barnes & Noble Classics Series): First and “Death-Bed” Editions
A Year with Rumi: Daily Readings
Financial:
Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything
How to Worry Less About Money (The School of Life Book 5)
Mastering Bitcoin: Programming the Open Blockchain
Blockchain Revolution: How the Technology Behind Bitcoin and Other Cryptocurrencies Is Changing the World
History:
Debt – Updated and Expanded: The First 5,000 Years
Writing:
Essentials of Writing Biomedical Research Papers. Second Edition
On Writing Well: The Classic Guide to Writing Nonfiction
Screenplay: The Foundations of Screenwriting
Writing Tools: 55 Essential Strategies for Every Writer
Artificial Intelligence/Mathematics/Data Science:
The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail–but Some Don’t
The Princeton Companion to Mathematics
The Mathematics Lover’s Companion: Masterpieces for Everyone
Prediction Machines: The Simple Economics of Artificial Intelligence
Miscellaneous:
Constitution of the United States (Little Books of Wisdom)
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History
The Selfish Gene: 40th Anniversary Edition (Oxford Landmark Science)
Islam and the Future of Tolerance: A Dialogue
The Origin of Species: 150th Anniversary Edition
The Evolution of Everything: How New Ideas Emerge
The Rational Optimist: How Prosperity Evolves (P.s.)
Tribe of Mentors: Short Life Advice from the Best in the World
Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity
Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland
