Below is a collection of books I would recommend categorized by genre and in no particular order. Just a heads up, I update this list once a year or so.
Also, check out my top 3 book picks from 2019, 2020 and 2021.
General Business & Management
- The Innovator’s Dilemma
by Clayton M. Christensen
- Never Eat Alone by Keith Ferrazzi
- Winning
by Jack Welch
- Swim With The Sharks Without Being Eaten Alive
by Harvey Mackay
- Hug Your Customers by Jack Mitchell
- Scaling Up by Verne Harnish
- Measure What Matters by John Doerr
- Never Split The Difference by Chris Voss
Investing (Private/Public Companies)
- Common Stocks and Uncommon Profits
by Philip Fisher
- The Essays Of Warren Buffett
by Warren Buffett
- One Up On Wall Street
by Peter Lynch
- The Intelligent Investor
by Benjamin Graham
- Seeing What’s Next
by Clayton M. Christensen
- The Quest For Value
by G. Bennett Stewart
- The Outsiders by William Thorndike
- 100 Baggers by Chris Mayer
Investing (Real Estate)
- Confessions of a Real Estate Entrepreneur by James A. Randel
- Multi-Family Millions by David Lindahl
- Am I Being Too Subtle? by Sam Zell
Biographies
- Made in America by Sam Walton
- Shoe Dog by Phil Knight
- Grinding it Out by Ray Kroc
- Red Notice by Bill Browder
- The Man Who Solved The Market by Gregory Zuckerman
- The Gambler by William C. Rempel
- Sons of Witchita by Daniel Schulman
- Why Should White Guys Have All The Fun by Blair S. Walker and Reginald Lewis
Entrepreneurship
- Zero to One by Peter Thiel
- Art of the Start by Guy Kawasaki
- The E-Myth Revisited by Michael Gerber
- The Lean Startup by Eric Reiss
- The Millionaire Fastlane by MJ Demarco
- Built To Sell by John Warrillow
Sales and Marketing
- Cashvertising by Drew Whitman
- Psychology of Selling by Brian Tracy
- Spin Selling by Neil Rackman
- Influence: Psychology of Persuasion by Robert Cialdini
- The Boron Letters by Gary Halbert
- Growth Hacker Marketing by Ryan Holiday
Business History
- Liar’s Poker
by Michael Lewis
- When Genius Failed
by Roger Lowenstein
- A Random Walk Down Wall Street
by Burton Malkiel (recommend reading only part 1)
- King of Capital by David Cary and John Morris
- The Box by Marc Levinson
- Towers of Debt by Peter Foster
- The Fish That Ate The Whale by Rich Cohen
Philosophy and Psychology
- The Art of War
by Sun Tzu
- The Prince
by Niccolo Machiaveli
- Meditations
by Marcus Aurelius
- Everybody Lies by Seth Stephens-Davidowitz
- Siddhartha
by Hermann Hesse
Crime
- Casino by Nicholas Pileggi
- Black Edge by Sheelah Kolhatkar
- Bad Blood by John Carreyrou
- Den of Thieves by James B. Stewart
- Billion Dollar Whale by Bradley Hope
- The Mastermind by Evan Ratliff
- The Key Man by Simon Clark and Will Louch
Science
- A Brief History of Time
by Stephen Hawking
- The Grand Design
by Stephen Hawking
- Freakonomics
by Steven Levitt and Stephen Dubner
- Death By Black Hole
by Neil DeGrasse Tyson
- Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harari
- Homo Deus by Yuval Noah Harari