2019
The Course of Love | Alain de Botton | ★★★★★ |
Things Might Go Terribly, Horribly Wrong: A Guide to Life Liberated from Anxiety | Kelly G. Wilson, Troy DuFrene | ★★★ |
Waking Up: Searching for Spirituality Without Religion | Sam Harris | ★★★ |
Alcohol Explained | William Porter | ★★ |
The Biology of Desire: why addiction is not a disease (The Addicted Brain) | Marc Lewis | ★★★ |
This Naked Mind: The myth-busting cult hit for anyone who wants to cut down their alcohol consumption | Annie Grace | ★★★ |
Memoirs of an Addicted Brain: a neuroscientist examines his former life on drugs | Marc Lewis | ★★★★★ |
Utopia for Realists: And How We Can Get There | Rutger Bregman | ★★★★★ |
The Artist's Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity | Julia Cameron | ★★★★ |
A God That Could Be Real: Spirituality, Science, and the Future of Our Planet | Nancy Ellen Abrams | ★★★★ |
The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment | Eckhart Tolle | ★★★★★ |
Team of Vipers: My 500 Extraordinary Days in the Trump White House | Cliff Sims | ★★★ |
Measure What Matters: OKRs: The Simple Idea that Drives 10x Growth | John Doerr | ★★★ |
The Body Keeps the Score: Mind, Brain and Body in the Transformation of Trauma | Bessel van der Kolk | ★★★★ |
Make Time: How to focus on what matters every day | Jake Knapp, John Zeratsky | ★★★ |
This is Marketing: You Can’t Be Seen Until You Learn To See | Seth Godin | ★★★★ |
2018
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind | Yuval Noah Harari | In progress |
A Higher Loyalty: Truth, Lies, and Leadership | James Comey | ★★★★ |
The Year of Less: How I Stopped Shopping, Gave Away My Belongings, and Discovered Life Is Worth More Than Anything You Can Buy in a Store | Cait Flanders | ★★★ |
Fire and Fury | Michael Wolff | ★★★★ |
The Great Beanie Baby Bubble: Mass Delusion and the Dark Side of Cute | Zac Bissonnette | ★★★★★ |
Building a StoryBrand: Clarify Your Message So Customers Will Listen | Donald Miller | ★★★ |
Garden City: Work, Rest, and the Art of Being Human. | John Mark Comer | ★★★ |
2017
Shattered: Inside Hillary Clinton’s Doomed Campaign | Jonathan Allen, Amie Parnes | ★★★★ |
Devil’s Bargain: Steve Bannon, Donald Trump, and the Nationalist Uprising | Joshua Green | ★★★★ |
Elon Musk: How the Billionaire CEO of SpaceX and Tesla is Shaping our Future | Ashlee Vance | ★★★★★ |
Once Upon a Time in Russia: The Rise of the Oligarchs and the Greatest Wealth in History | Ben Mezrich | ★★★★★ |
Blockchain: How Technologies Behind Bitcoin Is Changing Money and Business | Mark Bresett | ★ |
Shoe Dog: A Memoir by the Creator of NIKE | Phil Knight | ★★★★★ |
Beer School: A Crash Course in Craft Beer | Jonny Garrett, Brad Evans | ★★★ |
Man’s Search For Meaning: The classic tribute to hope from the Holocaust | Viktor E Frankl | ★★★★ |
The Happiness Trap: Stop Struggling, Start Living | Russ Harris, Steven Hayes | ★★★★ |
Radical Focus: Achieving Your Most Important Goals with Objectives and Key Results | Christina Wodtke | ★★★★ |
To Sell Is Human: The Surprising Truth About Perusading, Convincing and Influencing Others | Daniel H. Pink | ★★★★ |
Thank You for Being Late: An Optimist’s Guide to Thriving in the Age of Accelerations | Thomas L. Friedman | ★★★ |
The Unsettlers: In Search of the Good Life in Today’s America | Mark Sundeen | ★★★★★ |
The Daily Stoic | Ryan Holiday | ★★★★ |
The Undoing Project: A Friendship that Changed the World | Michael Lewis | ★★★★ |
Thinking, Fast and Slow | Daniel Kahneman | ★★★ |
The Making of Donald Trump | David Cay Johnston | ★★★ |
2016
The Cozy Life: Rediscover the Joy of the Simple Things Through the Danish Concept of Hygge | Pia Edberg | ★★★★★ |
The Zen Habits Beginner’s Guide to Mindfulness | Leo Babauta | ★★★ |
Everything That Remains: A Memoir by The Minimalists | Joshua Fields Millburn, Ryan Nicodemus | ★★★★ |
Life, the Yurt and Everything | Jason E. Hamilton | ★★ |
Chaos Monkeys: Inside the Silicon Valley money machine | Antonio Garcia Martinez | ★★★★★ |
Disrupted: Ludicrous Misadventures in the Tech Start-up Bubble | Dan Lyons | ★★★★ |
The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck: A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life | Mark Manson | ★★★★ |
Attention All Passengers: The Truth About the Airline Industry | William J. McGee | ★★★ |
How a Second Grader Beats Wall Street: Golden Rules Any Investor Can Learn | Allan S. Roth | ★★★★ |
Debt: The First 5,000 Years | David Graeber | ★★★ |
The Richest Man in Babylon | George S. Clason | ★★★★ |
The Coaching Habit: Say Less, Ask More & Change the Way You Lead Forever | Michael Bungay Stanier | ★★★ |
The Checklist Manifesto: How To Get Things Right | Atul Gawande | ★★★ |
Alibaba: The House That Jack Ma Built | Duncan Clark | ★★★ |
Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance | Angela Duckworth | ★★★★ |
Present Over Perfect: Leaving Behind Frantic for a Simpler, More Soulful Way of Living | Shauna Niequist, Brene Brown, | ★★★★ |
Born to Rule: The unauthorised biography of Malcolm Turnbull | Dane Huckelbridge | ★★★ |
The Persian Puzzle: Deciphering the Twenty-five-Year Conflict Between the United States and Iran | Kenneth Pollack | ★★★ |
The Road to Ruin: how Tony Abbott and Peta Credlin destroyed their own government | Niki Savva | ★★★★ |
Rising Strong | Brené Brown | ★★★★ |
The Sleepeasy Solution: The Exhausted Parent’s Guide to Getting Your Child to Sleep | Jennifer Waldburger, Jill Spivak | ★★★★ |
Mindset: How You Can Fulfil Your Potential | Carol Dweck | ★★★★ |
Bill Bryson’s African Diary | Bill Bryson | ★★★ |
And a Bottle of Rum: A History of the New World in Ten Cocktails | Wayne Curtis | ★★★ |
Bourbon: A History of the American Spirit | Dane Huckelbridge | ★★★★ |
All the Light We Cannot See | Anthony Doerr | ★★★ |
Carry on, Warrior: Thoughts on a Life Unarmed | Glennon Melton | ★★★★ |
The Anti-Cool Girl | Rosie Waterland | ★★★★ |
Fragments of Grace: My Search for Meaning in the Strife of South Asia | Pamela Constable | ★★★★★ |
Notorious RBG: The Life and Times of Ruth Bader Ginsburg | Irin Carmon, Shana Knizhnik | ★★★★ |
The Rational Optimist: How Prosperity Evolves | Matt Ridley | ★★★ |
Life of the Beloved: Spiritual Living in a Secular World | Henri J. M. Nouwen | ★★★★ |
Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead | Sheryl Sandberg | ★★★★ |
Simple Living | Lorilee Lippincott | ★★★ |
2015
All Joy and No Fun: The Paradox of Modern Parenthood | Jennifer Senior | ★★★★ |
The Danish Way of Parenting: A Guide To Raising The Happiest Kids in the World | Jessica Alexander, Iben Sandhal | ★★★★ |
Leaders Eat Last: Why Some Teams Pull Together and Others Don’t | Simon Sinek | ★★★★ |
The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined | Steven Pinker | ★★★★★ |
Product Design for the Web: Principles of Designing and Releasing Web Products | Randy J. Hunt | IP |
Girt: The Unauthorised History of Australia | David Hunt | ★★★★ |
Judgment of Paris: California vs. France and the Historic 1976 Paris Tasting That Revolutionized Wine | George M. Taber | ★★★★ |
The Billionaire’s Vinegar: The Mystery of the World’s Most Expensive Bottle of Wine | Benjamin Wallace | ★★★★ |
What Einstein Told His Cook: Kitchen Science Explained | Robert L. Wolke | ★★ |
Art & Fear: Observations on the Perils (and Rewards) of Artmaking | David Bayles, Ted Orland | ★★★★ |
The Practitioner’s Guide to Product Management | Jock Busuttil | IP |
Making It Right: Product Management For A Startup World | Rian van der Merwe | IP |
The Wife Drought | Annabel Crabb | ★★★ |
Religion for Atheists | Alain de Botton | IP |
Mindfulness: A practical guide to awakening | Joseph Goldstein | ★★★ |
Dot Complicated | Randi Zuckerburg | ★★★ |
Zero to One: Notes on Start Ups, or How to Build the Future | Blake Masters, Peter Thiel | ★★★★ |
The Art of the Start 2.0: The Time-Tested, Battle-Hardened Guide for Anyone Starting Anything | Guy Kawasaki | ★★★ |
Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less | Greg McKeown | ★★★★★ |
The Untethered Soul: The Journey Beyond Yourself | Michael A. Singer | ★★★ |
Super Sad True Love Story | Gary Shteyngart | ★★★★ |
Cat’s Cradle | Kurt Vonnegut | ★★★★ |
Bittersweet: Thoughts on Change, Grace, and Learning the Hard Way | Shauna Niequist | ★★★★ |
Become a Technical Marketer: A Guide to Working Faster, Accelerating Growth, Automating Marketing Tasks, and More | Justin Mares, Nathaniel Eliason, Noah Kagan | ★★ |
American Sniper: The Autobiography of the Most Lethal Sniper in U.S. Military History | Chris Kyle, Scott McEwen, Jim DeFelice | ★★★ |
Scary Close: Dropping the Act and Finding True Intimacy | Donald Miller | ★★★★★ |
The Rosie Effect: Don Tillman 2 | Graeme Simsion | ★★★★★ |
2014
Ready Player One | Ernest Cline | ★★★★ |
Rich Christians in an Age of Hunger: Moving from Affluence to Generosity | Ronald Sider | ★★★★ |
Blackwater: The Rise of the World’s Most Powerful Mercenary Army | Jeremy Scahill | ★★★ |
A More Beautiful Question: The Power of Inquiry to Spark Breakthrough Ideas | Warren Berger | ★★★★★ |
Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage: A novel | Haruki Murakami, Philip Gabriel | ★★★★★ |
Remote: Office Not Required | Jason Fried, David Heinemeier Hansson | ★★★ |
Sex at Dawn: How We Mate, Why We Stray, and What It Means for Modern Relationships | Christopher Ryan, Cacilda Jetha | ★★★★ |
Masters of Sex: The Life and Times of William Masters and Virginia Johnson, the Couple Who Taught America How to Love | Thomas Maier | ★★★ |
The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business | Charles Duhigg | ★★★★★ |
The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics | Daniel James Brown | ★★★★★ |
Think Like a Freak: The Authors of Freakonomics Offer to Retrain Your Brain | Steven D. Levitt, Stephen J. Dubner | ★★★ |
I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings | Maya Angelou | ★★★★★ |
The $12 Million Stuffed Shark: The Curious Economics of Contemporary Art | Don Thompson | ★★★★ |
The Rise: Creativity, the Gift of Failure, and the Search for Mastery | Sarah Lewis | ★★★ |
The Hard Thing about Hard Things | Ben Horowitz | ★★★★ |
A/B Testing: The Most Powerful Way to Turn Clicks Into Customers | Dan Siroker, Pete Koomen | ★★ |
The Up Side of Down: Why Failing Well is the Key to Success | Megan McArdle | ★★★★ |
Flash Boys: A all Street Revolt | Michael Lewis | ★★★★ |
Creativity, Inc.: Overcoming the Unseen Forces That Stand in the Way of True Inspiration | Ed Catmull, Amy Wallace | ★★★★★ |
The Frackers | Gregory Zuckerman | ★★★★ |
Big Data at Work: Dispelling the Myths, Uncovering the Opportunities | Thomas H. Davenport | ★★ |
Treasure Island | Robert Louis Stevenson | ★★★★★ |
Bitter Brew: The Rise and Fall of Anheuser-Busch and America’s Kings of Beer | William Knoedelseder | ★★★ |
Hotel Kerobokan | Kathryn Bonella | ★★★ |
The Tiger: A True Story of Vengeance and Survival | John Vaillant | ★★★★ |
Trust Me, I’m Lying: Confessions of a Media Manipulator | Ryan Holiday | ★★★ |
David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants | Malcolm Gladwell | ★★★★ |
A Short History of Nearly Everything | Bill Bryson | ★★★★★ |
Snowing in Bali | Kathryn Bonella | ★★★★ |
What We Talk About When We Talk About God | Rob Bell | ★★★★ |
Thank You for Your Service | David Finkel | ★★★★ |
Killing Jesus: A History | Bill O’Reilly, Martin Dugard | ★★★★ |
The Rosie Project: A Novel | Graeme Simsion | ★★★★★ |
Anything That Moves: Renegade Chefs, Fearless Eaters, and the Making of a New American Food Culture | Dana Goodyear | ★★★ |
The Expats: A Novel | Chris Pavone | ★★★★★ |
Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products | Nir Eyal, Ryan Hoover | ★★★ |
On the Brink: Inside the Race to Stop the Collapse of the Global Financial System | Henry M. Paulson | ★★ |
Too Big to Fail: The Inside Story of How Wall Street and Washington Fought to Save the Financial System–and Themselves | Andrew Ross Sorkin | ★★★★★ |
2013
To Serve God and Wal-Mart: The Making of Christian Free Enterprise | Bethany Moreton | IP |
The Origins of the Urban Crisis: Race and Inequality in Postwar Detroit | Thomas J. Sugrue | IP |
Out of Poverty: What Works When Traditional Approaches Fail | Paul Polak | IP |
Shantaram | Gregory David Roberts | ★★★★★ |
Founders at Work: Stories of Startups’ Early Days | Jessica Livingston | ★★★★ |
Hatching Twitter: A True Story of Money, Power, Friendship, and Betrayal. | Nick Bilton | ★★★★★ |
Wheat Belly | William Davis MD | ★★ |
In Defense of Food: An Eater’s Manifesto | Michael Pollan | ★★★★★ |
Steve Jobs | Walter Isaacson | ★★★★★ |
Daring Greatly | Brene Brown | ★★★★ |
Searching for Dave Chappelle | Jason Zinoman | ★★★ |
World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War | Max Brooks | ★★★★★ |
The Age of Platform: Hoe Amazon, Apple, Facebook and Have Redefined Business | Phil Simon | ★★★★ |
Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder | Nassim Nicholas Taleb | ★★★ |
The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail-but Some Don’t | Nate Silver | ★★★★ |
Detroit City Is The Place To Be | Mark Binelli | ★★★★★ |
Detroit | Charlie LeDuff | ★★★★ |
The 4-Hour Chef | Timothy Ferris | ★★★ |
The 4-Hour Body | Timothy Ferris | ★★ |
Proof of Heaven | Eben Alexander, M.D. | ★★★★ |
Americanah | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ★★★★★ |
Killing Kennedy | Bill O’Rilley | ★★★★★ |
Lean Analytics | Alistair Croll | ★★★★ |
Conscious Capitalism | John Mackey, Raj Sisodia | ★★★★ |
Screw Business as Usual | Richard Branson | ★★★ |
The Principles of Beautiful Web Design | Jason Beaird | ★★★★ |
Greenpeace | Rex Weyler | ★★★★★ |
The Australian Moment | George Megalogenis | ★★★ |
The Icarus Deception | Seth Godin | ★★★★ |
Boomerang | Michael Lewis | ★★★★★ |
2012
Hope | Tim Costello | ★★★★ |
My Other Life | Paul Theroux | ★★★ |
Haiti: The Aftershocks of History | Laurent Dubois | ★★★★★ |
Standard Operating Procedure | Philip Gourevitch and Errol Morris | ★★★★★ |
The Bangkok Connection: Trafficking Heroin from Asia to the USA | Ron Chepesiuk | ★★★ |
Obama’s Wars | Bob Woodward | ★★★★ |
In the Plex | Steven Levy | ★★★★★ |
The Operators: The Wild and Terrifying Inside Story of America’s War in Afghanistan | Michael Hastings | ★★★★★ |
The Moral Lanscape | Sam Harris | ★★★ |
The Art of Choosing | Sheena Iyengar | ★★★ |
The Social Animal | David Brooks | ★★★★★ |
Bossypants | Tina Fey | ★★ |
The Ascent of Money | Niall Ferguson | ★★ |
Confessions of an Advertising Man | David Ogilvy | ★★★ |
Sex, Bombs and Burgers | Peter Nowak | ★★ |
State of Denial | Bob Woodward | ★★★★★ |