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

Manage Your Day-to-Day: Build Your Routine, Find Your Focus, and Sharpen Your Creative Mind (The 99U Book Series)

The Practicing Mind: Developing Focus and Discipline in Your Life — Master Any Skill or Challenge by Learning to Love the Process

Own the Day, Own Your Life: Optimized Practices for Waking, Working, Learning, Eating, Training, Playing, Sleeping, and Sex

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

A Thousand Splendid Suns

Cat’s Cradle: A Novel

Catch-22: 50th Anniversary Edition

Blindness (Harvest Book)

Disgrace: A Novel

Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell [2008]

Shantaram: A Novel

The Master and Margarita

The Old Man and The Sea

The Odyssey

Crime and Punishment: A New Translation

The Sun Also Rises

Submission: A Novel

Life of Pi

The Da Vinci Code

The Stranger

The Sense of an Ending

Psychology:

The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference

Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking

A Grief Observed

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 LifePeak (A Peak Marcello Adventure)

The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements (Perennial Classics)

Nonviolent Communication: A Language of Life, 3rd Edition: Life-Changing Tools for Healthy Relationships (Nonviolent Communication Guides)

Philosophy:

Meditations: A New Translation (Modern Library)

The Conquest of Happiness by Bertrand Russell (1996-03-17)

Republic (Penguin Classics)

The BOOK OF JOB

Candide (Barnes & Noble Classics Series) [2003 Paperback] Voltaire (Author)Candide (Barnes & Noble Classics Series) [2003 Paperback]

The Essential Schopenhauer: Key Selections from The World As Will and Representation and Other Writings (Harper Perennial Modern Thought)

12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos

A Pocket Mirror for Heroes

Mortality

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)

Mastery

The Daily Stoic: 366 Meditations on Wisdom, Perseverance, and the Art of Living

Consciousness Explained

Man’s Search for Meaning

Finite and Infinite Games

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

The Year of Magical Thinking

Illness: The Cry of the Flesh

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

Becoming a Supple Leopard 2nd Edition: The Ultimate Guide to Resolving Pain, Preventing Injury, and Optimizing Athletic Performance

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 WorldThe Misbehavior of Markets: A Fractal View of Financial Turbulence

The Bond Book, Third Edition: Everything Investors Need to Know About Treasuries, Municipals, GNMAs, Corporates, Zeros, Bond Funds, Money Market Funds, and More

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 WriterThe Artist’s Way: 25th Anniversary Edition

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

Strength to Love

The Origin of Species: 150th Anniversary Edition

The Power of Myth

The Accidental Superpower: The Next Generation of American Preeminence and the Coming Global Disorder

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

The Strange Death of Europe: Immigration, Identity, Islam

The Parthenon

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