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Here is a book list which has helped me to expand my thinking in the past year:
- Antifragile by Nassim Taleb
- The Power Laws by Richard Koch
- Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman
- Zero to One by Peter Thiel
- Do the Work by Steven Pressfield
- Persian Fire by Tom Holland
- The Delusions of the Crowds by William Bernstein
- Foundation by Isaac Asimov
- A Short History of Everything by Bill Bryson
- Innumeracy by John Allen Paulos
My MasterMind newsletter subscribers have added their favourite books to this list:
- Hans Rosling
- Factfullness
- How I learned to understand the world
- Malcom Gladwell
- Outliers
- Tipping Point
- Blink
- Yuval Noah Harari
- Sapiens
- Homo Deus
- Dan Heath
- Upstream
- Vaclav Smil
- Numbers don’t Lie
- How the World Really Works
- Simon Winchester
- The Perfectionist
- Dan Ariely
- Predictably Irrational
- Ray Dalio
- Principles of Dealing with the Changing World
- Bent Flyvbjerg
- How Big things get done
- Richard Thaler
- Misbehaving door
- James Clear
- Atomic Habits
- Oliver Burkemann
- Four thousand weeks
- Morrison & Boyd
- Organic Chemistry
- Eckhart Tolle
- A New Earth
- The Power of Now
- Gene Kim
- The Phoenix project
- Steven Pinker
- Enlightenment Now
- Adam Grant
- Give and take
- Original
- Think again
- Tim Williams
- Positioning for professionals
- Barry Schwartz
- The paradox of choice
- Fritjof Capra and P.L. Luisi
- A Systems View of Life
- Sam Conniff Allende
- Be more Pirate
- Roland Huntford
- Scott & Amundsen: The last place on earth
- Jason Fried
- Rework
- Murakami
- 1q84 Trilogie
- Friederike Fabritius and Hans W. Hagemann
- The Leading Brain
- Dusan Djukich
- Straight-Line Leadership van
- Arnout Jaspers
- Stikstof Fuik (Dutch)
- Meesters & Jacobs
- Van aardbeving to zoonoses (Dutch)
- Edel Maex / Lannoo
- Een kleine inleiding in het boeddhisme (Dutch)
- Siets Bakker
- Rake vragen (Dutch)
Let me know in the comments: Which books have expanded your thinking?