My Digital Bookshelf

A curated list of books that have shaped my thinking, organized by category.

Legend: ⭐ = Recently added 5-star favorites 

Total: 80 books across 7 categories

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Page last updated: January 2026

🧠 Strategy & Execution

1. Strategy Beyond the Hockey Stick by Chris Bradley, Martin Hirt, & Sven Smit

2. The Lean Startup by Eric Ries

3. Crossing the Chasm by Geoffrey A. Moore

4. The Four Steps to the Epiphany by Steve Blank

5. Disciplined Entrepreneurship by Bill Aulet

6. Zero to One by Peter Thiel

7. Scaling Up by Verne Harnish

8. From Impossible To Inevitable by Aaron Ross & Jason Lemkin

9. The Right It by Alberto Savoia

10. Sprint by Jake Knapp

11. The Innovator's Method by Nathan Furr

12. Machine, Platform, Crowd by Andrew McAfee & Erik Brynjolfsson

13. The Content Trap by Bharat Anand

14. Storynomics by Robert McKee

15. Play Bigger by Al Ramadan, Dave Peterson, & Christopher Lochhead

16. Inside Real Innovation by Eugene Fitzgerald

17. The Strategy Of Conflict by Thomas C. Schelling

18. Day Trading Attention by Gary Vaynerchuk

19. What Customers Want: Using Outcome-Driven Innovation to Create Breakthrough Products and Services by Anthony W. Ulwick ⭐

💡 Understanding the World

1. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari

2. The Lessons of History by Will & Ariel Durant

3. Where Good Ideas Come From by Steven Johnson

4. The Medici Effect by Frans Johansson

5. The Formula: The Universal Laws of Success by Albert-László Barabási

6. Connected: The Surprising Power of Our Social Networks by Nicholas A. Christakis & James H. Fowler

7. River Out Of Eden: A Darwinian View Of Life by Richard Dawkins

8. Drawdown by Paul Hawken

9. Weak Links: The Universal Key to the Stability of Networks and Complex Systems by Peter Csermely ⭐

10. The Third Wave by Steve Case

11. Structures: Or Why Things Don't Fall Down by J.E. Gordon ⭐

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13. The Science of Storytelling by Will Storr

14. Whole Earth Discipline by Stewart Brand

15. Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals by Oliver Burkeman

🤔 Decision Making & Mental Models

1. Super Thinking: The Big Book of Mental Models by Gabriel Weinberg & Lauren McCann

2. Thinking in Bets by Annie Duke

3. Algorithms to Live By by Brian Christian & Tom Griffiths

4. The Checklist Manifesto by Atul Gawande

5. How Not to Be Wrong: The Power of Mathematical Thinking by Jordan Ellenberg

6. Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less by Greg McKeown

7. The Most Important Thing Illuminated by Howard Marks

8. Link: How Decision Intelligence Connects Data, Actions & Outcomes by Lorien Pratt

🏆 Leadership & Founders

1. The Hard Thing About Hard Things by Ben Horowitz

2. The Outsiders: Eight Unconventional CEOs by William N. Thorndike Jr.

3. High Growth Handbook by Elad Gil

4. Working Backwards: Insights, Stories & Secrets from Inside Amazon by Colin Bryar & Bill Carr

5. Sam Walton: Made In America by Sam Walton

6. Future Forward: Leadership Lessons from Patrick McGovern by Glenn Rifkin

7. An Everyone Culture by Robert Kegan & Lisa Laskow Lahey

8. BE 2.0 (Beyond Entrepreneurship 2.0) by Jim Collins

9. The Contrarian's Guide to Leadership by Steven B. Sample

10. Amp It Up by Frank Slootman

11. The Trusted Advisor by David H. Maister ⭐

12. Inner Excellence: Train Your Mind for Extraordinary Performance and the Best Possible Life by Jim Murphy ⭐

🤝 Negotiation, Sales & Influence

1. Never Split the Difference by Chris Voss

2. How to Win Friends & Influence People by Dale Carnegie

3. Pre-Suasion: A Revolutionary Way to Influence and Persuade by Robert B. Cialdini

4. Venture Deals: Be Smarter Than Your Lawyer and Venture Capitalist by Brad Feld & Jason Mendelson

5. Getting (More of) What You Want by Margaret A. Neale & Thomas Z. Lys

6. $100M Offers by Alex Hormozi

7. The SaaS Sales Method by Jacco van der Kooij

8. Win the Crowd: Unlock the Secrets of Influence, Charisma, and Showmanship by Steve Cohen ⭐

💪 Mind, Body & Philosophy

1. Meditations by Marcus Aurelius

2. Tools of Titans by Timothy Ferriss

3. The Power of Now by Eckhart Tolle

4. Biocentrism by Robert Lanza

5. How Bad Do You Want It?: Mastering the Psychology of Mind over Muscle by Matt Fitzgerald

6. The Confidence Code by Katty Kay & Claire Shipman

7. SuperLife by Darin Olien

8. The Art of Possibility by Rosamund Stone Zander & Benjamin Zander

9. The War of Art by Steven Pressfield

10. The Hero with a Thousand Faces by Joseph Campbell

11. Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand

12. Staring at the Sun: Overcoming the Terror of Death by Irvin D. Yalom ⭐

13. Managing Oneself by Peter F. Drucker ⭐

14. The Big Leap: Conquer Your Hidden Fear and Take Life to the Next Level by Gay Hendricks ⭐

📚 Great Fiction

1. Shantaram by Gregory David Roberts ⭐

2. Les Trois Mousquetaires (The Three Musketeers) by Alexandre Dumas ⭐

3. Horse Soldiers: The Extraordinary Story of a Band of US Soldiers Who Rode to Victory in Afghanistan by Doug Stanton ⭐