Book Summaries

Self-Help

Atomic Habits

James Clear

Psychology

Thinking, Fast and Slow

Daniel Kahneman

Business

The Lean Startup

Eric Ries

Philosophy

Meditations

Marcus Aurelius

Fiction

The Alchemist

Paulo Coelho

Science

Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind

Yuval Noah Harari

Self-Help

The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People

Stephen R. Covey

Business

Rich Dad Poor Dad

Robert T. Kiyosaki

Self-Help

Think and Grow Rich

Napoleon Hill

Self-Help

How to Win Friends and Influence People

Dale Carnegie

Philosophy

The Power of Now

Eckhart Tolle

Business

Deep Work

Cal Newport

Philosophy

Man's Search for Meaning

Viktor E. Frankl

Psychology

The 48 Laws of Power

Robert Greene

Psychology

Outliers: The Story of Success

Malcolm Gladwell

Self-Help

The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck

Mark Manson

Psychology

Thinking in Bets

Annie Duke

Psychology

Mindset: The New Psychology of Success

Carol S. Dweck

Psychology

Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance

Angela Duckworth

Business

Start with Why

Simon Sinek

Business

Good to Great

Jim Collins

Business

Zero to One

Peter Thiel

Business

The Hard Thing About Hard Things

Ben Horowitz

Business

Shoe Dog

Phil Knight

Business

The Psychology of Money

Morgan Housel

Philosophy

Ikigai: The Japanese Secret to a Long and Happy Life

Hector Garcia and Francesc Miralles

Self-Help

Can't Hurt Me

David Goggins

Philosophy

12 Rules for Life

Jordan B. Peterson

Philosophy

The Art of War

Sun Tzu

Philosophy

Ego Is the Enemy

Ryan Holiday

Fiction

Dune

Frank Herbert

Fiction

1984

George Orwell

Fiction

Brave New World

Aldous Huxley

Fiction

To Kill a Mockingbird

Harper Lee

Fiction

The Great Gatsby

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Science

Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow

Yuval Noah Harari

Science

A Brief History of Time

Stephen Hawking

Science

Guns, Germs, and Steel

Jared Diamond

Psychology

Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking

Susan Cain

Psychology

Emotional Intelligence

Daniel Goleman

Psychology

Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

Psychology

Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion

Robert B. Cialdini

Science

Thinking in Systems

Donella H. Meadows

Business

Principles: Life and Work

Ray Dalio

Business

The Intelligent Investor

Benjamin Graham

Psychology

The Power of Habit

Charles Duhigg

Business

The 4-Hour Workweek

Tim Ferriss

Philosophy

The Obstacle Is the Way

Ryan Holiday

Business

Never Split the Difference

Chris Voss

Science

Astrophysics for People in a Hurry

Neil deGrasse Tyson

Psychology

Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World

David Epstein

Self-Help

The Miracle Morning

Hal Elrod

Self-Help

Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less

Greg McKeown

Science

Why We Sleep

Matthew Walker

Philosophy

Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Self-Help

The Compound Effect

Darren Hardy

Self-Help

The Four Agreements

Don Miguel Ruiz

Self-Help

Daring Greatly

Brene Brown

Self-Help

You Are a Badass

Jen Sincero

Self-Help

The 5 AM Club

Robin Sharma

Self-Help

Awaken the Giant Within

Tony Robbins

Self-Help

Think Again

Adam Grant

Self-Help

Digital Minimalism

Cal Newport

Self-Help

Make Your Bed

Admiral William McRaven

Self-Help

The Gifts of Imperfection

Brene Brown

Self-Help

Tiny Habits

BJ Fogg

Self-Help

Boundaries

Henry Cloud

Self-Help

The Untethered Soul

Michael Singer

Self-Help

Who Moved My Cheese

Spencer Johnson

Self-Help

Extreme Ownership

Jocko Willink

Self-Help

The Magic of Thinking Big

David Schwartz

Self-Help

As a Man Thinketh

James Allen

Self-Help

The Richest Man in Babylon

George Clason

Business

The E-Myth Revisited

Michael Gerber

Business

Built to Last

Jim Collins

Business

Rework

Jason Fried

Business

The $100 Startup

Chris Guillebeau

Business

Profit First

Mike Michalowicz

Business

The Millionaire Next Door

Thomas Stanley

Business

Blue Ocean Strategy

W. Chan Kim

Business

Crossing the Chasm

Geoffrey Moore

Business

Measure What Matters

John Doerr

Business

The Innovator's Dilemma

Clayton Christensen

Business

The Personal MBA

Josh Kaufman

Business

Hooked

Nir Eyal

Business

Contagious

Jonah Berger

Business

The One Thing

Gary Keller

Business

Getting Things Done

David Allen

Business

Leaders Eat Last

Simon Sinek

Business

Delivering Happiness

Tony Hsieh

Business

Tools of Titans

Tim Ferriss

Business

Crushing It

Gary Vaynerchuk

Business

The Art of the Start

Guy Kawasaki

Psychology

Predictably Irrational

Dan Ariely

Psychology

The Power of Your Subconscious Mind

Joseph Murphy

Psychology

The Body Keeps the Score

Bessel van der Kolk

Psychology

Attached

Amir Levine

Psychology

The Happiness Hypothesis

Jonathan Haidt

Psychology

Drive

Daniel Pink

Psychology

Stumbling on Happiness

Daniel Gilbert

Psychology

Blink

Malcolm Gladwell

Psychology

The Paradox of Choice

Barry Schwartz

Psychology

Switch

Chip Heath & Dan Heath

Psychology

Nudge

Richard Thaler

Psychology

The Coddling of the American Mind

Jonathan Haidt

Science

The Selfish Gene

Richard Dawkins

Science

Cosmos

Carl Sagan

Science

The Gene

Siddhartha Mukherjee

Science

The Structure of Scientific Revolutions

Thomas Kuhn

Science

Silent Spring

Rachel Carson

Science

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks

Rebecca Skloot

Science

The Order of Time

Carlo Rovelli

Science

Behave

Robert Sapolsky

Science

The Double Helix

James Watson

Science

Factfulness

Hans Rosling

Science

The Sixth Extinction

Elizabeth Kolbert

Philosophy

Thus Spoke Zarathustra

Friedrich Nietzsche

Philosophy

Beyond Good and Evil

Friedrich Nietzsche

Philosophy

The Republic

Plato

Philosophy

Tao Te Ching

Lao Tzu

Philosophy

Letters from a Stoic

Seneca

Philosophy

The Prince

Niccolo Machiavelli

Philosophy

Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance

Robert Pirsig

Philosophy

Sophie's World

Jostein Gaarder

Philosophy

The Book of Five Rings

Miyamoto Musashi

Philosophy

Siddhartha

Hermann Hesse

Philosophy

The Consolation of Philosophy

Boethius

Philosophy

A Guide to the Good Life

William Irvine

Philosophy

The Daily Stoic

Ryan Holiday

Philosophy

Stillness is the Key

Ryan Holiday

Philosophy

The Enchiridion

Epictetus

Philosophy

Walden

Henry David Thoreau

Fiction

The Catcher in the Rye

J.D. Salinger

Fiction

Fahrenheit 451

Ray Bradbury

Fiction

Animal Farm

George Orwell

Fiction

Lord of the Flies

William Golding

Fiction

The Old Man and the Sea

Ernest Hemingway

Fiction

The Kite Runner

Khaled Hosseini

Fiction

A Thousand Splendid Suns

Khaled Hosseini

Fiction

The Book Thief

Markus Zusak

Fiction

Life of Pi

Yann Martel

Fiction

The Little Prince

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Fiction

The Road

Cormac McCarthy

Fiction

Slaughterhouse-Five

Kurt Vonnegut

Fiction

One Hundred Years of Solitude

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Fiction

Pride and Prejudice

Jane Austen

Fiction

Crime and Punishment

Fyodor Dostoevsky

Fiction

The Brothers Karamazov

Fyodor Dostoevsky

Fiction

War and Peace

Leo Tolstoy

Fiction

Anna Karenina

Leo Tolstoy

Fiction

Don Quixote

Miguel de Cervantes

Fiction

Moby Dick

Herman Melville

Fiction

Jane Eyre

Charlotte Brontë

Fiction

Wuthering Heights

Emily Brontë

Fiction

Les Misérables

Victor Hugo

Fiction

The Count of Monte Cristo

Alexandre Dumas

Fiction

Great Expectations

Charles Dickens

Fiction

A Tale of Two Cities

Charles Dickens

Fiction

The Picture of Dorian Gray

Oscar Wilde

Fiction

Catch-22

Joseph Heller

Science

Seven Brief Lessons on Physics

Carlo Rovelli

Science

The Emperor of All Maladies

Siddhartha Mukherjee

Science

A Short History of Nearly Everything

Bill Bryson

Science

Entangled Life

Merlin Sheldrake

Science

An Immense World

Ed Yong

Science

Being Mortal

Atul Gawande

Philosophy

The Myth of Sisyphus

Albert Camus

Philosophy

Nicomachean Ethics

Aristotle

Philosophy

On Liberty

John Stuart Mill

Philosophy

The Analects

Confucius

Philosophy

The Courage to Be Disliked

Ichiro Kishimi and Fumitake Koga

Fiction

The Stranger

Albert Camus

Fiction

Invisible Man

Ralph Ellison

Fiction

Their Eyes Were Watching God

Zora Neale Hurston

Fiction

Things Fall Apart

Chinua Achebe

Fiction

The Sun Also Rises

Ernest Hemingway

Psychology

The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat

Oliver Sacks

Psychology

The Lucifer Effect

Philip Zimbardo

Psychology

The Road Less Traveled

M. Scott Peck

Psychology

Games People Play

Eric Berne

Self-Help

The War of Art

Steven Pressfield

Self-Help

Mastery

Robert Greene

Self-Help

Peak

Anders Ericsson and Robert Pool

Self-Help

How to Stop Worrying and Start Living

Dale Carnegie

Business

High Output Management

Andy Grove

Business

The Effective Executive

Peter Drucker

Business

The First 90 Days

Michael Watkins

Business

Crucial Conversations

Kerry Patterson et al.