Below is a list of the books I've read after graduating high school. Learning should not end after your school years. Most of what you learned in school probably isn't useful and you probably have forgotten it anyway. Books offer high-quality information on whatever subject you desire. They're convenient, cheap, and even available as audiobooks so you can listen to them in the car.
These are categorized into audiobooks and paper books. They are in roughly the order I read/listened to them.
The books I give 5 stars and would highly recommend are in bold.
Audiobooks:
Think and Grow Rich, Napoleon Hill
The Power of Purpose, Les Brown
Lead the Field, Earl Nightingale
The Psychology of Selling, Brian Tracy
The Secrets of Power Negotiating, Roger Dawson
Born to Win, Zig Ziglar
The Unfiltered Truth, Larry Winget
The Art of Exceptional Living, Jim Rohn
The Day That Turns Your Life Around, Jim Rohn
How to Be a No-Limit Person, Dr. Wayne Dyer
Cultivating an Unshakable Character, Jim Rohn
See You at the Top, Zig Ziglar
A View from the Top, Zig Ziglar
Secrets of the Millionaire Mind, T. Harv Eker
The Miracle of Self-Discipline, Brian Tracy
The Strangest Secret, Earl Nightingale
Action Strategies for Personal Achievement, Brian Tracy
Getting Things Done with Work-Life Balance, David Allen
Get Out of Your Own Way, Larry Winget
The Essence of Success, Earl Nightingale
The New Dynamics of Goal Setting, Denis Waitley
Sell Your Way to the Top, Zig Ziglar
Goals, Brian Tracy
Advanced Selling Techniques, Brian Tracy
Getting Rich in America, Brian Tracy
Many Miles to Go, Brian Tracy
Million Dollar Habits, Brian Tracy
How to Master Your Time, Brian Tracy
The Psychology of Success, Brian Tracy
The Psychology of Achievement, Brian Tracy
The Power of Clarity, Brian Tracy
Sell Like a Pro, Dale Carnegie
How to Win Friends and Influence People, Dale Carnegie
Swim With the Sharks, Harvey Mackay
Maximum Confidence, Jack Canfield
The Abundance Paradigm, Dr. Joe Vitale
The Highest Calling, Larry Janesky
Dreams Don't Have Deadlines, Mark Victor Hansen
Essentialism, Greg McKeown
Man's Search for Meaning, Viktor E. Frankl
The Fourth Turning, William Straus and Neil Howe
The Five Love Languages, Gary Chapman
Captivate, Vanessa Van Edwards
Barking Up the Wrong Tree, Eric Barker
Extreme Ownership, Jock Willink and Leif Babin
Peak Performance, Brad Stulburg and Steve Magness
Love Does, Bob Goff
Anthem, Ayn Rand
Bigger, Leaner, Stronger, Michael Matthews
Wired to Eat, Robb Wolf
The Operator, Robert O'Neil
The Emperor of All Maladies, Siddartha Mukherjee
The 4-Hour Workweek, Tim Ferris
Sapiens, Yuval Noah Harari
The Rise of Superman, Steven Kotler
First, Rich Froning
The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck, Mark Manson
The Oxygen Advantage, Patrick McKeown
Primal Endurance, Mark Sisson
Running with the Mind of Meditation, Sakyong Mipham
The Road to Sparta, Dean Karnazes
Into the Wild, Jon Krakauer
A Walk in the Woods, Bill Bryson
The Art of War, Sun Tzu
Everyday Survival, Laurence Gonzales
The Compound Effect, Darren Hardy
The Everything Store - Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon, Brad Stone
Antifragile, Nassim Nicolas Taleb
The Cool Impossible, Eric Orton
Drive, Daniel Pink
Eat & Run, Scott Jurek
Deep Survival, Laurence Gonzales
(3x) Elon Musk - Tesla, SpaceX and the Quest for a Fantastic Future, Ashlee Vance
The Design of Everyday Things, Donald A. Norman
Emotional Intelligence, Daniel Goleman Ph.D.
The First 20 Minutes, Gretchen Reynolds
(4x) Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen, Christopher McDougall
Creating Innovators, Tony Wagner
Adrift, Steven Callahan
Beyond the Obvious, Phil McKinney
Finding Ultra, Rich Roll
David and Goliath, Malcolm Gladwell
What Doesn't Kill Us: How Freezing Water, Extreme Altitude and Environmental Conditioning Will Renew Our Lost Evolutionary Strength, Scott Carney
The Paleo Manifesto, John Durant
Spartan Fit!, Joe DeSena
The Lean Product Playbook, Dan Olsen
Grit, Angela Duckworth
Smarter Faster Better, Charles Duhigg
How Bad Do You Want It?, Matt Fitzgerald
Unbeatable Mind, Mark Divine
(2x) Natural Born Heroes, Christopher McDougall
How We Got to Now, Steven Johnson
Spartan Up!, Joe DeSena
Run!, Dean Karnazes
Hooked, Nir Eyal and Ryan Hoover
Go Pro - 7 Steps to Becoming a Network Marketing Professional, Eric Worre
Hardwiring Happiness, Rick Hanson Ph.D.
The Story of the Human Body, Daniel Lieberman
(3x) The Richest Man in Babylon, George S. Clayson
I Invented the Modern Age - The Rise of Henry Ford, Richard Snow
What the Most Successful People Do at Work, Laura Vanderkam
What the Most Successful People Do on the Weekend, Laura Vanderkam
What the Most Successful People Do Before Breakfast, Laura Vanderkam
The Power of Habit, Charles Duhigg
Thinking Fast and Slow, Daniel Kahneman
Steve Jobs, Walter Isaacson
Great by Choice, Jim Collins
Games People Play, Eric Berne, M.D.
South, Sir Earnest Shackleton
Self Reliance, Ralph Waldo Emerson
Start With Why, Simon Sinek
168 Hours - You Have More Time than You Think, Laura Vanderkam
How Pleasure Works, Paul Bloom
What the Dog Saw, Malcolm Gladwell
A Short History of Nearly Everything, Bill Bryson
The Tipping Point, Malcolm Gladwell
Purple Cow, Seth Godin
It's Not About the Money, Bob Proctor
The Next 100 Years, George Friedman
Outliers, Malcolm Gladwell
The Unthinkable, Amanda Ripley
50 50, Dean Karnazes
Spanish for Dummies, Jessica Langemeir
The Graveyard Book, Neil Gaiman
Killer Elite: The Inside Story of America's Most Secret Special Operations Team, Michael Smith
Sleep Smarter: 21 Essential Strategies to Sleep Your Way to a Better Body, Better Health, and Bigger Success, Shawn Stevenson
Narconomics: How to Run a Drug Cartel, Tom Wainwright
Damn Few: Making the Modern SEAL Warrior, Rorke Denver
Worth Dying For: A Navy Seal's Call to a Nation, Ellis Henican , Rorke Denver
Gates of Fire: An Epic Novel of the Battle of Thermopylae, Steven Pressfield
The Obstacle Is the Way: The Timeless Art of Turning Trials into Triumph, Ryan Holiday
The Tao of Seneca: Practical Letters from a Stoic Master, Seneca
Digital Gold: Bitcoin and the Inside Story of the Misfits and Millionaires Trying to Reinvent Money, Nathaniel Popper
Walden: Life in the Woods, Henry David Thoreau
You Are a Badass: How to Stop Doubting Your Greatness and Start Living an Awesome Life, Jen Sincero
The Way of Me, Jack Donovan
The Life-Changing Magic of Not Giving a F*ck: How to Stop Spending Time You Don't Have with People You Don't Like Doing Things You Don't Want to Do, Sarah Knight
Becoming a Barbarian, Jack Donovan
Get Your Sh*t Together: How to Stop Worrying About What You Should Do So You Can Finish What You Need to Do and Start Doing What You Want to Do, Sarah Knight
Unfu*k Yourself: Get Out of Your Head and into Your Life, Gary John Bishop
The Power of Moments: Why Certain Experiences Have Extraordinary Impact, Chip Heath and Dan Heath
12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos, Jordan B. Peterson
10% Happier: How I Tamed the Voice in My Head, Reduced Stress Without Losing My Edge, and Found a Self-Help That Actually Works, Dan Harris
The Dictator's Handbook: Why Bad Behavior Is Almost Always Good Politics, Bruce Bueno de Mesquita and Alastair Smith
Goodbye, Things: The New Japanese Minimalism, Fumio Sasaki
Attached: The New Science of Adult Attachment and How It Can Help You Find - and Keep - Love, Amir Levine and Rachel S. F. Heller
Standard Deviations: Flawed Assumptions, Tortured Data, and Other Ways to Lie with Statistics, Gary Smith
Superforecasting: The Art and Science of Prediction, Philip Tetlock and Dan Gardner
Ghost in the Wires: My Adventures as the World’s Most Wanted Hacker, Kevin Mitnick
The Art of Invisibility: The World's Most Famous Hacker Teaches You How to Be Safe in the Age of Big Brother and Big Data, Kevin Mitnick
Misbehaving: The Making of Behavioral Economics, Richard H. Thaler
Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World, Jack Weatherford
Chaos Monkeys: Obscene Fortune and Random Failure in Silicon Valley, Antonio Garcia Martinez
How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big: Kind of the Story of My Life, Scott Adams
Everybody Lies: Big Data, New Data, and What the Internet Can Tell Us About Who We Really Are, Seth Stephens-Davidowitz
The Business Blockchain: Promise, Practice, and Application of the Next Internet Technology, William Mougayar and Vitalik Buterin
Cryptoassets: The Innovative Investor's Guide to Bitcoin and Beyond, Chris Burniske and Jack Tatar
The Age of Cryptocurrency: How Bitcoin and Digital Money Are Challenging the Global Economic Order, Paul Vigna and Michael J. Casey
Litecoin: An Introduction to Litecoin Cryptocurrency and Litecoin Mining, Jeff Reed
Meditations of Marcus Aurelius, Marcus Aurelius
Cryptocurrency: 4 Books in 1: Cryptocurrency, Bitcoin, Blockchain & Ethereum for Beginners, FinTech Publishing
Let Your Mind Run: A Memoir of Thinking My Way to Victory, Deena Kastor and Michelle Hamilton
The Men Who United the States: America's Explorers, Inventors, Eccentrics, and Mavericks, and the Creation of One Nation, Indivisible, Simon Winchester
(2x) The Rational Optimist: How Prosperity Evolves, Matt Ridley
Soverignty, Ryan Michler
Endure: Mind, Body, and the Curiously Elastic Limits of Human Performance, Alex Hutchinson
Roughing It, Mark Twain
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Mark Twain
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: A Signature Performance by Elijah Wood, Mark Twain
Own the Day, Own Your Life, Aubrey Marcus
Human + Machine: Reimagining Work in the Age of AI, Paul R. Daugherty and H. James Wilson
North, Scott Jurek and Jenny Jurek
Why You Eat What You Eat: The Science Behind Our Relationship with Food, Rachel Herz PhD
Rest: Why You Get More Done When You Work Less, Alex Soojung-Kim Pang
The Internet of Money, Andreas M. Antonopoulos
The Innovator's Dilemma: When New Technologies Cause Great Firms to Fail, Clayton M. Christensen
Kingpin: How One Hacker Took Over the Billion-Dollar Cybercrime Underground, Kevin Poulsen
Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness, Richard H. Thaler and Cass R. Sunstein
Guided Meditation: 30 Minute Guided Meditation for Sleep, Relaxation, & Stress Relief, Mindfulness Training
The Mother of All Antioxidants: How Health Gurus Are Misleading You and What You Should Know About Glutathione, Joey Lott
Free Radicals and Antioxidant Vitamins Explained, Alan Hall PhD
Crushing It!: How Great Entrepreneurs Build Their Business and Influence-and How You Can, Too, Gary Vaynerchuk
The 4-Hour Body: An Uncommon Guide to Rapid Fat-Loss, Incredible Sex, and Becoming Superhuman, Timothy Ferriss
Thanks a Thousand: A Gratitude Journey, A. J. Jacobs
Drop Dead Healthy: One Man's Humble Quest for Bodily Perfection,
The Year of Living Biblically: One Man's Humble Quest to Follow the Bible as Literally as Possible, A. J. Jacobs
Suggestible You: The Curious Science of Your Brain’s Ability to Deceive, Transform, and Heal, Erik Vance
Skunk Works: A Personal Memoir of My Years of Lockheed, Ben R. Rich and Leo Janos
The Call of the Wild, Jack London
To Build a Fire, Jack London
White Fang, Jack London
Natural Born Heroes: How a Daring Band of Misfits Mastered the Lost Secrets of Strength and Endurance, Christopher McDougall
How to Change Your Mind: What the New Science of Psychedelics Teaches Us About Consciousness, Dying, Addiction, Depression, and Transcendence, Michael Pollan
Area 51: An Uncensored History of America's Top Secret Military Base, Annie Jacobsen
American Wolf: A True Story of Survival and Obsession in the West, Nate Blakeslee
Coyote America: A Natural and Supernatural History, Dan Flores
Vagabonding: An Uncommon Guide to the Art of Long-Term World Travel, Rolf Potts
Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets, Nassim Nicholas Taleb
The Botany of Desire, Michael Pollan
The Industries of the Future, Alec Ross
Phenomena: The Secret History of the U.S. Government's Investigations into Extrasensory Perception and Psychokinesis, Annie Jacobsen
In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto, Michael Pollan
Twilight of the Elites: America after Meritocracy, Chris Hayes
The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals, Michael Pollan
Growth Hacker Marketing: A Primer on the Future of PR, Marketing, and Advertising, Ryan Holiday
Trust Me, I'm Lying: Confessions of a Media Manipulator, Ryan Holiday
The Rise and Fall of American Growth: The U.S. Standard of Living Since the Civil War, Robert J. Gordon
Natural Remedies: Your Guide for Herbal Medicines and Natural Healing: Body Healing, Jessica Thompson
Herbal Remedies: Unleash the Magic of Natural Remedies, Medicinal Herbs and Recipes with the Power to Heal, Kylie Young
Chinese Medicine for Beginners: The Top 10 Chinese Medicine Techniques for Optimal Health and Healing, The Healthy Reader
The Automatic Customer: Creating a Subscription Business in Any Industry, John Warrillow
For All the Tea in China: How England Stole the World's Favorite Drink and Changed History, Sarah Rose
Side Hustle: From Idea to Income in 27 Days, Chris Guillebeau
Dollars and Sense: How We Misthink Money and How to Spend Smarter, Dan Ariely and Jeff Kreisler
19 Lessons on Tea: Become an Expert on Buying, Brewing, and Drinking the Best Tea, 27Press
Subscribed: Why the Subscription Model Will Be Your Company's Future - and What to Do About It, Tien Tzuo and Gabe Weisert
Shed More Pounds: Super-Antioxidant Tea for Weight Loss, Weight-Loss Foods, Sherry S. Williams
Antioxidants: A Simple Method to Increase Brain Power, Strengthen Your Immune System and Reverse the Aging Process, Ruth Logan
The Elephant in the Brain: Hidden Motives in Everyday Life, Kevin Simler and Robin Hanson
Ten Drugs: How Plants, Powders, and Pills Have Shaped the History of Medicine, Thomas Hager
Nonviolent Communication: Create Your Life, Your Relationships, and Your World in Harmony with Your Values, Marshall Rosenberg PhD
Payoff: The Hidden Logic That Shapes Our Motivations, Dan Ariely
Triggers: Creating Behavior That Lasts - Becoming the Person You Want to Be, Marshall Goldsmith and Mark Reiter
Green Giants: How Smart Companies Turn Sustainability into Billion-Dollar Businesses, E. Freya Williams
Good Profit: How Creating Value for Others Built One of the World's Most Successful Companies, Charles G. Koch
Scale: The Universal Laws of Growth, Innovation, Sustainability, and the Pace of Life, in Organisms, Cities, Economies, and Companies, Geoffrey West
Freakonomics, Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner
Fire Your Boss, Be a Nomad and Change Your Life: How To Start Full Time Living in RV Make Money in the Digital Era and Live in Your Own Terms, Alyssa Jerry Cliff Wells
Gumption: Relighting the Torch of Freedom with America's Gutsiest Troublemakers, Nick Offerman
From Zero to One Million Followers: Become an Influencer with Social Media Viral Growth Strategies on You Tube, Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, and The Secrets to Make Your Personal Brand Known, Jake A. Clark
YouTube Secrets: The Ultimate Guide to Growing Your Following and Making Money as a Video Influencer, Sean Cannell and Benji Travis
Youtubers: How Youtube Shook up TV and Created a New Generation of Stars, Chris Stokel-Walker
Gut: The Inside Story of Our Body's Most Underrated Organ, Giulia Enders
The Last Season, Eric Blehm
Can't Hurt Me: Master Your Mind and Defy the Odds, David Goggins
A Place of My Own: The Architecture of Daydreams, Michael Pollan
Cooked: A Natural History of Transformation, Michael Pollan
Everything All at Once: How to Unleash Your Inner Nerd, Tap into Radical Curiosity and Solve Any Problem, Bill Nye
Will It Fly? How to Test Your Next Business Idea So You Don't Waste Your Time and Money, Pat Flynn
A Man Without a Country, Kurt Vonnegut
The Dip, Seth Godin
Leap First: Creating Work That Matters, Seth Godin
Crash Test Girl: An Unlikely Experiment in Using the Scientific Method to Answer Life’s Toughest Questions, Kari Byron
And Then You're Dead: What Really Happens If You Get Swallowed by a Whale, Are Shot from a Cannon, or Go Barreling over Niagara, Cody Cassidy and Paul Doherty
Undeniable: Evolution and the Science of Creation, Bill Nye
What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions, Randall Munroe
How To: Absurd Scientific Advice for Common Real-World Problems, Randall Munroe
Every Tool's a Hammer: Lessons from a Lifetime of Making, Adam Savage
The Infinite Game, Simon Sinek
The Fish That Ate the Whale: The Life and Times of America's Banana King, Rich Cohen
The Lost Art of Listening, Second Edition: How Learning to Listen Can Improve Relationships, Michael P. Nichols PhD
You Are Now Less Dumb: How to Conquer Mob Mentality, How to Buy Happiness, and All the Other Ways to Outsmart Yourself, David McRaney
Running with Sherman: The Donkey with the Heart of a Hero, Christopher McDougall
Talking to Strangers: What We Should Know About the People We Don't Know, Malcolm Gladwell
Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones, James Clear
Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions, Dan Ariely
Take Control of Your Life: How to Silence Fear and Win the Mental Game, Mel Robbins
The End Is Always Near: Apocalyptic Moments, from the Bronze Age Collapse to Nuclear Near Misses, Dan Carlin
The Birth of Plenty: How the Prosperity of the Modern World Was Created, William Bernstein
The ONE Thing: The Surprisingly Simple Truth Behind Extraordinary Results, Gary Keller and Jay Papasan
Liquid Rules: The Delightful and Dangerous Substances That Flow Through Our Lives, Mark Miodownik
Life 3.0: Being Human in the Age of Artificial Intelligence, Max Tegmark
Socialism Sucks: Two Economists Drink Their Way Through the Unfree World, Robert Lawson and Benjamin Powell
Solve for Happy: Engineer Your Path to Joy, Mo Gawdat
Unscripted: Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Entrepreneurship, MJ DeMarco
Creating a Learning Society: A New Approach to Growth, Development, and Social Progress, Joseph E. Stiglitz
Platform Revolution: How Networked Markets Are Transforming the Economy - and How to Make Them Work for You, Geoffrey G. Parker , Marshall W. Van Alstyne , Sangeet Paul Choudary
The Evolution of Everything: How New Ideas Emerge, Matt Ridley
The Future Is Faster Than You Think: How Converging Technologies Are Disrupting Business, Industries, and Our Lives, Peter H. Diamandis and Steven Kotler
Game-Changer: Game Theory and the Art of Transforming Strategic Situations, David McAdams
Algorithms to Live By: The Computer Science of Human Decisions, Brian Christian and Tom Griffiths
Leaders Eat Last: Why Some Teams Pull Together and Others Don't, Simon Sinek
Sum: Tales from the Afterlives, David Eagleman
Caffeine: How Caffeine Created the Modern World, Michael Pollan
Unstoppable: Harnessing Science to Change the World, Bill Nye
The Like Switch: An Ex-FBI Agent's Guide to Influencing, Attracting, and Winning People Over, Jack Schafer PhD and Marvin Karlins Ph.D.
Humble Pi: When Math Goes Wrong in the Real World, Matt Parker
The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail - but Some Don't, Nate Silver
Where Good Ideas Come From: The Natural History of Innovation, Steven Johnson
How to American: An Immigrant's Guide to Disappointing Your Parents, Jimmy O. Yang
The Most Productive People in History: 18 Extraordinarily Prolific Inventors, Artists, and Entrepreneurs, from Archimedes to Elon Musk, Michael Rank
Who: The A Method for Hiring, Geoff Smart and Randy Street
12 Months to $1 Million: How to Pick a Winning Product, Build a Real Business, and Become a Seven-Figure Entrepreneur, Ryan Daniel Moran
Wealth and Poverty: A New Edition for the Twenty-First Century, George F. Gilder
Knowledge and Power: The Information Theory of Capitalism and How It Is Revolutionizing Our World, George Gilder
How I Built This: The Unexpected Paths to Success from the World's Most Inspiring Entrepreneurs, Guy Raz
Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World - and Why Things Are Better Than You Think, Hans Rosling , Anna Rosling Rönnlund , Ola Rosling
Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies, Nick Bostrom
How to Destroy America in Three Easy Steps, Ben Shapiro
The Red and the Blue: The 1990s and the Birth of Political Tribalism, Steve Kornacki
Our Mathematical Universe: My Quest for the Ultimate Nature of Reality, Max Tegmark
The Science of Fear: Why We Fear the Things We Should Not - and Put Ourselves in Great Danger, Daniel Gardner
The Start-Up J Curve: The Six Steps to Entrepreneurial Success, Howard Love
The Innovation Stack: Building an Unbeatable Business One Crazy Idea at a Time, Jim McKelvey
The Physics of Wall Street: A Brief History of Predicting the Unpredictable, James Owen Weatherall
The Perfectionists: How Precision Engineers Created the Modern World, Simon Winchester
Crossing the Chasm: Marketing and Selling Technology Projects to Mainstream Customers, Geoffrey A. Moore
The Weather Makers: How Man is Changing the Climate and What it Means for Life on Earth, Tim Flannery
Irrationally Yours: On Missing Socks, Pickup Lines, and Other Existential Puzzles, Dan Ariely
Bold: How to Go Big, Make Bank, and Better the World, Peter H. Diamandis and Steven Kotler
The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable, Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Risk Management: The Ultimate Guide to Financial Risk Management as Applied to Corporate Finance, Greg Shields
The Philosophy Book: Big Ideas Simply Explained, DK
Spooky Action at a Distance: The Phenomenon That Reimagines Space and Time-and What It Means for Black Holes, the Big Bang, and Theories of Everything, George Musser
The Inevitable: Understanding the 12 Technological Forces That Will Shape Our Future, Kevin Kelly
Never Split the Difference: Negotiating as if Your Life Depended on It, Chris Voss
Poor Economics: A Radical Rethinking of the Way to Fight Global Poverty, Abhijit V. Banerjee and Esther Duflo
Understanding Complexity, Scott E. Page, The Great Courses
The Scandal of Money: Why Wall Street Recovers but the Economy Never Does, George Gilder
How to Lie with Statistics, Darrell Huff
The Art of Learning: An Inner Journey to Optimal Performance, Josh Waitzkin
Brave New World, Aldous Huxley
Doors of Perception, Aldous Huxley
Tribe of Mentors: Short Life Advice from the Best in the World, Tim Ferriss
Tools of Titans: The Tactics, Routines, and Habits of Billionaires, Icons, and World-Class Performers, Tim Ferriss
Thinking in Systems: A Primer, Donella H. Meadows
The Origins of Virtue: Human Instincts and the Evolution of Cooperation, Matt Ridley
The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms, Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Billion Dollar Brand Club: How Dollar Shave Club, Warby Parker, and Other Disruptors Are Remaking What We Buy, Lawrence Ingrassia
How Innovation Works: And Why It Flourishes in Freedom, Matt Ridley
The 21st Century Case for Gold: A New Information Theory of Money, George Gilder
Principles: Life and Work, Ray Dalio
Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future, Peter Thiel and Blake Masters
Unlocking the Customer Value Chain: How Decoupling Drives Consumer Disruption, Thales S. Teixeira and Greg Piechota
The Science of Success: How Market-Based Management Built the World's Largest Private Company, Charles G. Koch
The Almanack of Naval Ravikant: A Guide to Wealth and Happiness, Eric Jorgenson
Leap: How to Thrive in a World Where Everything Can Be Copied, Howard Yu
(2x) Stealing Fire: How Silicon Valley, the Navy SEALs, and Maverick Scientists Are Revolutionizing the Way We Live and Work, Steven Kotler and Jamie Wheal
What Do You Care What Other People Think?: Further Adventures of a Curious Character, Richard P. Feynman
Mind Over Back Pain: A Radically New Approach to the Diagnosis and Treatment of Back Pain, John E. Sarno M.D.
Tao Te Ching, Lao Tzu
The Keto Reset Diet: Reboot Your Metabolism in 21 Days and Burn Fat Forever, Mark Sisson
The Latte Factor: Why You Don't Have to Be Rich to Live Rich, David Bach and John David Mann
The Psychology of Money: Timeless Lessons on Wealth, Greed, and Happiness, Morgan Housel
Limitless: Upgrade Your Brain, Learn Anything Faster, and Unlock Your Exceptional Life, Jim Kwik
Wisdom: How to Discover Your Path in Work and Life, Barry Schwartz
The Motivation Myth: How High Achievers Really Set Themselves Up to Win, Jeff Haden
More from Less: How We Learned to Create More Without Using More, Andrew McAfee
Goals, Zig Ziglar
Genome: The Autobiography of a Species in 23 Chapters, Matt Ridley
Elemental: How the Periodic Table Can Now Explain (Nearly) Everything, Tim James
Oxygen, The Molecule that Made the World, Nick Lane
The Grid: The Fraying Wires Between Americans and Our Energy Future, Gretchen Bakke
The Selfish Gene, Richard Dawkins
The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined, Steven Pinker
Keto for Life: Reset Your Biological Clock in 21 Days and Optimize Your Diet for Longevity, Mark Sisson and Brad Kearns
The Grid: The Fraying Wires Between Americans and Our Energy Future, Gretchen Bakke
Cool It: The Skeptical Environmentalist’s Guide to Global Warming, Bjorn Lomborg
The Wedge: Evolution, Consciousness, Stress, and the Key to Human Resilience, Scott Carney
The Laws of Thermodynamics: A Very Short Introduction, Peter Atkins
The Red Queen: Sex and the Evolution of Human Nature, Matt Ridley
Numbers Don't Lie: 71 Stories to Help Us Understand the Modern World, Vaclav Smil
Fundamental: How Quantum and Particle Physics Explain Absolutely Everything (Except Gravity), Tim James
Energy: Bolinda Beginner Guides, Vaclav Smil
This Is Your Mind on Plants, Michael Pollan
Growth: From Microorganisms to Megacities, Vaclav Smil
Energy and Civilization: A History, Vaclav Smil
Speed & Scale: An Action Plan for Solving Our Climate Crisis Now, John Doerr
Flow: Living at the Peak of Your Abilities, Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
Energy: A Human History, Richard Rhodes
Einstein's Fridge: How the Difference Between Hot and Cold Explains the Universe, Paul Sen
Life’s Ratchet: How Molecular Machines Extract Order from Chaos, Peter M. Hoffman
The Map That Changed the World: William Smith and the Birth of Modern Geology, Simon Winchester
Awareness: Conversations with the Masters, Anthony De Mello
The Art of Impossible: A Peak Performance Primer, Steven Kotler
The Lion Tracker's Guide to Life, Boyd Varty
Framers: Human Advantage in an Age of Technology and Turmoil, Kenneth Cukier, Viktor Mayer-Schönberger, Francis de Véricourt
Midnight in Chernobyl, Adam Higgenbotham
Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World, David Epstein
Astronomical: From Quarks to Quasars, the Science of Space at Its Strangest, Tim James
Measure What Matters: How Google, Bono, and the Gates Foundation Rock the World with OKRs, John Doerr
Principles for Dealing with the Changing World Order: Why Nations Succeed or Fail, Ray Dalio
The Wires of War: Technology and the Global Struggle for Power, Jacob Helberg
Where the Water Goes: Life and Death Along the Colorado River, David Owen
Life's Engines: How Microbes Made Earth Habitable, Paul G. Falkowski
Astrophysics for People in a Hurry, Niel deGrasse Tyson
Work: A Deep History from the Stone Age to the Age of Robots, James Suzman
Storm in a Teacup: The Physics of Everyday Life, Helen Czerski
The God Equation: The Quest for a Theory of Everything, Michio Kaku
Becoming Trader Joe: How I Did Business My Way and Still Beat the Big Guys, Joe Coulombe
The Lessons of History, Will & Ariel Durant
The World According to Physics, Jim Al-Khalili
Paradox: The Nine Greatest Enigmas in Physics, Jim Al-Khalili
The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity, David Graeber and David Wengrow
The End of the World Is Just the Beginning: Mapping the Collapse of Globalization, Peter Zeihan
Recapture the Rapture: Rethinking God, Sex, and Death in a World That’s Lost Its Mind, Jamie Wheal
Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants, Robin Wall Kimmerer
Project Hail Mary, Andy Weir
What Is Life?: With Mind and Matter and Autobiographical Sketches, Erwin Schrodinger
Symphony in C: Carbon and the Evolution of (Almost) Everything, Robert M. Hazen
An Introduction to Information Theory: Symbols, Signals and Noise, John R. Pierce
Quantum: A Guide for the Perplexed, Jim Al-Khalili
Life on the Edge: The Coming of Age of Quantum Biology, Johnjoe McFadden, Jim Al-Khalili
What the Future Looks Like: Scientists Predict the Next Great Discoveries and Reveal How Today's Breakthroughs Are Already Shaping Our World, Jim Al-Khalili
Longpath: Becoming the Great Ancestors Our Future Needs, Ari Wallach
Let My People Go Surfing: The Education of a Reluctant Businessman, Yvon Chouinard
What If? 2: Additional Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions, Randall Munroe
The Big Picture: On the Origins of Life, Meaning, and the Universe Itself, Sean Carroll
How to Avoid a Climate Disaster: The Solutions We Have and the Breakthroughs We Need, Bill Gates
Spark: The Revolutionary New Science of Exercise and the Brain, John J. Ratey MD
Mastery: The Keys to Success and Long Term Fulfillment, George Leonard
Anything You Want: 40 Lessons for a New Kind of Entrepreneur, Derek Sivers
Hell Yeah or No: What's Worth Doing, Derek Sivers
The Rational Optimist: How Prosperity Evolves (3rd read), Matt Ridley
The Book of Beautiful Questions: The Powerful Questions That Will Help You Decide, Create, Connect, and Lead, Warren Berger
The Prosperity Paradox: How Innovation Can Lift Nations Out of Poverty, Clayton M. Christensen
The Third Door: The Wild Quest to Uncover How the World's Most Successful People Launched their Careers, Alex Banayan
Delivering Happiness - A Path to Profits, Passion, and Purpose, Tony Hseih
The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark, Carl Sagan
The Plant Paradox: The Hidden Dangers in "Healthy" Foods That Cause Disease and Weight Gain, Steven Gundry MD
Whole Earth Discipline: An Ecopragmatist Manifesto, Stewart Brand
Blue Ocean Strategy, Expanded Edition: How to Create Uncontested Market Space and Make the Competition Irrelevant, W. Chan Kim and Renee Mauborgne
Buy Back Your Time: Get Unstuck, Reclaim Your Freedom, and Build Your Empire, Dan Martell
Build: An Unorthodox Guide to Making Things Worth Making, Tony Fadell
$100M Offers: How to Make Offers So Good People Feel Stupid Saying No, Alex Hormozi
Human Hacking: Win Friends, Influence People, and Leave Them Better off for Having Met You, Christopher Hadnagy
Who Not How: The Formula to Achieve Bigger Goals Though Accelerating Teamwork, Dan Sullivan & Dr. Benjamin Hardy
The Science of Energy: Resources and Power Explained, Michael E. Wysession
False Alarm: How Climate Change Panic Costs Us Trillions, Hurts the Poor, and Fails to Fix the Planet, Bjorn Lomborg
Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World, Cal Newport
Born to Run 2: The Ultimate Training Guide, Christopher McDougall & Eric Orton
Alive at Work: The Neuroscience of Helping Your People Love What They Do, Daniel M. Cable
The Story Behind: The Extraordinary History Behind Ordinary Objects, Emily Prokop
Ultralearning: Master Hard Skills, Outsmart the Competition, and Accelerate Your Career, Scott Young
Endure: How to Work Hard, Outlast, and Keep Hammering, Cameron Hanes
Tesla: Inventor of the Modern, Richard Munson
Never Finished, Unshackle Your Mind and Win the War Within, David Goggins
Outlive, The Science and Art of Longevity, Peter Attia MD
Talent Is Overrated: What Really Separates World-Class Performers from Everybody Else, Geoff Colvin
Multipliers: How the Best Leaders Make Everyone Smarter, Liz Wiseman
The Comfort Crisis: Embrace Discomfort to Reclaim Your Wild, Happy, Healthy Self, Michael Easter
Do Hard Things: Why We Get Resilience Wrong and the Surprising Science of Real Toughness, Steve Magness
How to Be Better at Almost Everything: Learn Anything Quickly, Stack Your Skills, Dominate, Pat Flynn
Healthy No Matter What: How Humans are Hardwired to Adapt, Alex Jadad and Tamen Jadad-Garcia
(2X) Recapture the Rapture: Rethinking God, Sex, and Death in a World That’s Lost Its Mind, Jamie Wheal
Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals, Oliver Burkeman
The Happiness Hypothesis, Jonathan Haidt
The Passion Paradox: A Guide to Going All In, Finding Success, and Discovering the Benefits of an Unbalanced Life, Brad Stulburg and Steve Magness
The Denial of Death, Earnest Becker
Breath: The New Science of a Lost Art, James Nestor
Power, Sex, Suicide: Mitochondria and the Meaning of Life, Nick Lane
The Future of Nutrition: An Insider's Look at the Science, Why We Keep Getting It Wrong, and How to Start Getting It Right, T. Colin Campbell PhD
The Rise of the Ultrarunners, Adharanand Finn
Breathe: A Life in Flow, Rickson Gracie
Young Forever: The Secrets to Living Your Longest, Healthiest Life, Dr Mark Hyman MD
The New Rules of Marriage: What You Need to Know to Make Love Work, Terrence Real
The Circadian Code: Lose Weight, Supercharge Your Energy, and Transform Your Health from Morning to Midnight, Satchin Panda PhD
Red Light Therapy: Miracle Medicine, Mark Sloan
Lifespan: Why We Age - and Why We Don't Have To, David A. Sinclair PhD, Matthew D. LaPlante
Life Force: How New Breakthroughs in Precision Medicine Can Transform the Quality of Your Life & Those You Love, Tony Robbins, Peter H. Diamandis, Robert Hariri
Be Your Future Self Now: The Science of Intentional Transformation, Dr. Benjamin Hardy
The Slight Edge: Turning Simple Disciplines into Massive Success and Happiness, Jeff Olson
The Wim Hof Method: Activate Your Full Human Potential, Wim Hof and Elissa Epel PhD
A Practical Guide to Breathwork: A Remedy for the Modern Human Condition, Jesse Coomer
Half-Safe: A Story of Love, Obsession, and History's Most Insane Around-the-World Adventure, James Nestor
Biomimicry: Innovation Inspired by Nature, Janine M. Benyus
Gnar Country: Growing Old, Staying Rad, Steven Kotler
I Will Teach You to Be Rich: No Guilt. No Excuses. No B.S. Just a 6-Week Program that Works, Ramit Sethi
The Millionaire Next Door: The Surprising Secrets of America's Rich, Thomas J Stanley PhD and William D Danko PhD
How to Live: 27 Conflicting Answers and One Weird Conclusion, Derek Sivers
The Precipice: Existential Risk and the Future of Humanity, Toby Ord
The Creative Act: A Way of Being, Rick Rubin
Originals: How Non-Conformists Move the Worlds, Adam Grant
How the World Really Works: The Science Behind How We Got Here and Where We're Going
An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us, Ed Yong
Three Laws of Nature: A Little Book on Thermodynamics, R. Stephen Berry
The Practice of Groundedness: A Transformative Path to Success That Feeds - Not Crushes - Your Soul, Brad Stulberg
Every Life Is on Fire: How Thermodynamics Explains the Origins of Living Things, Jeremy England
The First Minute: How to Start Conversations That Get Results, Chris Fenning
The Wealth of Humans: Work, Power, and Status in the Twenty-First Century, Ryan Avent
How the Earth Works, Michael Wysession
Screw It, Let's Do It: Lessons in Life and Business, Sir Richard Branson
Hackers & Painters: Big Ideas from the Computer Age, Paul Graham
Complexity: The Emerging Science at the Edge of Order and Chaos, Mitchell Waldrop
Existential Physics: A Scientist's Guide to Life's Biggest Questions
The Molecule of More: How a Single Chemical in Your Brain Drives Love, Sex, and Creativity - And Will Determine the Fate of the Human Race, Daniel Z. Leiberman MD and Michael E. Long
Six Thinking Hats, Edward de Bono
Think Again: The Power of Knowing What You Don't Know, Adam Grant
Grand Transitions: How the Modern World Was Made, Vaclav Smil
Made in the USA: The Rise and Retreat of American Manufacturing, Vaclav Smil
Shape: The Hidden Geometry of Information, Biology, Strategy, Democracy, and Everything Else, Jordan Ellenberg
The Wayfinders: Why Ancient Wisdom Matters in the Modern World, Wade Davis
When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times, Pema Chodron
The Knowledge: How to Rebuild Our World from Scratch, Lewis Dartnell
End Times: Elites, Counter-Elites, and the Path of Political Disintegration, Peter Turchin
The Age of Wood: Our Most Useful Material and the Construction of Civilization, Roland Ennos
Stuff You Should Know: An Incomplete Compendium of Mostly Interesting Things, Josh Clark & Chuck Bryant
The Alchemy of Us: How Humans and Matter Transformed One Another, Ainissa Ramirez
Material World: The Six Raw Materials That Shape Modern Civilization, Ed Conway
Blueprint: The Evolutionary Origins of a Good Society, Nicholas A. Christakis
Mine!: How the Hidden Rules of Ownership Control Our Lives, Michael A. Heller & James Salzman
Soonish: Ten Emerging Technologies That'll Improve and/or Ruin Everything, Kelly Weinersmith & Zach Weinersmith
The Science of Stuck: Breaking Through Inertia to Find Your Path Forward, Britt Frank
Beyond Biocentrism: Rethinking Time, Space, Consciousness, and the Illusion of Death, Robert Lanza & Bob Berman
Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions, Edwin A. Abbott
The Art of Possibility: Transforming Professional and Personal Life, Rosamund Stone Zander, Benjamin Zander
Building a Sustainable Home: Practical Green Design Choices for Your Health, Wealth and Soul, Melissa Rappaport Schifman
The Drunkard's Walk: How Randomness Rules Our Lives, Leonard Mlodinow
Superpower: One Man's Quest to Transform American Energy, Russell Gold
Areté: Activate Your Heroic Potential, Brian Johnson
Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst, Robert Sapolsky
Scarcity Brain: Fix Your Craving Mindset and Rewire Your Habits to Thrive with Enough, Michael Easter
The Earned Life: Lose Regret, Choose Fulfillment, Marshall Goldsmith
The Alchemist: A Fable About Following Your Dream, Paulo Coelho
Be Useful: Seven Tools for Life, Arnold Schwarzenegger
The Age of Sustainable Development, Jeffrey D. Sachs
Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow, Yuval Noah Harari
The Joy of Science, Robert M. Hazen (The Great Courses)
Great Ideas of Classical Physics, Steven Pollock (The Great Courses)
Books That Have Made History: Books That Can Change Your Life, Rufus J. Fears (The Great Courses)
Do the Work, Steven Pressfield
The War of Art, Steven Pressfield
Turning Pro: Tap Your Inner Power and Create Your Life's Work, Steven Pressfield
Elemental: How Five Elements Changed Earth’s Past and Will Shape Our Future, Stephen Porder
Not the End of the World: How We Can Be the First Generation to Build a Sustainable Planet, Hannah Ritchie
Influence, New and Expanded: The Psychology of Persuasion, Robert B. Cialdini
The New Map: Energy, Climate, and the Clash of Nations, Daniel Yergin
Hidden Potential: The Science of Achieving Greater Things, Adam Grant
Power Moves: Lessons from Davos, Adam Grant
Rationality: What It Is, Why It Seems Scarce, Why It Matters, Steven Pinker
The Republic, Plato
The Wealth of Nations, Adam Smith
The Communist Manifesto, Karl Marx
Volt Rush: The Winners and Losers in the Race to Go Green, Henry Sanderson
The First Rule of Mastery: Stop Worrying About What People Think of You, Michael Gervais
Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives, Siddharth Kara
A Hunter-Gatherer's Guide to the 21st Century: Evolution and the Challenges of Modern Life, Heather Heying, Bret Weinstein
Holistic Management: A Commonsense Revolution to Restore Our Environment: Third Edition, Jody Butterfield, Allan Savory
Dirt to Soil: One Family’s Journey into Regenerative Agriculture, Gabe Brown
The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate - Discoveries from a Secret World, Peter Wohlleben
Finding the Mother Tree: Discovering the Wisdom of the Forest, Suzanne Simard
The Tree: A Natural History of What Trees Are, How They Live, and Why They Matter, Colin Tudge
The Lean Startup: How Today's Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses, Eric Ries
Building a Second Brain: A Proven Method to Organize Your Digital Life and Unlock Your Creative Potential, Tiago Forte
Soil Science for Regenerative Agriculture: A Comprehensive Guide to Living Soil, No-till Gardening, Composting and Natural Farming - Complete with a Step-by-Step Action Plan to Quickly Grow Soil, Amélie des Plantes
Bullshit Jobs: A Theory, David Graeber
The Hero with a Thousand Faces: The Collected Works of Joseph Campbell, Joseph Campbell
The Secret Wisdom of Nature: Trees, Animals, and the Extraordinary Balance of All Living Things; Stories from Science and Observation, Peter Wohlleben
Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout, Cal Newport
Maktub: An Inspirational Companion to The Alchemist, Paulo Coelho
Warrior of the Light: A Manual, Paulo Coelho
The Fifth Mountain: A Novel, Paulo Coelho
Life on Earth, David Attenborough
Reimagining Capitalism in a World on Fire, Rebecca Henderson
Regeneration: Ending the Climate Crisis in One Generation, Paul Hawken
Paper books:
Hatchet, Gary Paulsen
How to Stay Alive in the Woods, Bradford Angier
The Frontiersman, Allan W. Eckert
Tough As They Come, SSG Travis Mills
Between a Rock and a Hard Place, Aron Ralston
Many Miles to Go, Brian Tracy
Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage, Alfred Lansing
Good to Great, Jim Collins
Great by Choice, Jim Collins
The Maffetone Method, Dr. Phil Maffetone
The Big Book of Endurance Training and Racing, Dr. Phil Maffetone
Spartan Fit!, Joe De Sena
The Spartan Way, Joe De Sena
Ready to Run, Kelly Starrett
Unbreakable Runner, Brian Mackenzie & TJ Murphy
Becoming a Supple Leopard, Kelly Starrett
Embrace the Suck, Stephen Madden
Power, Speed, Endurance, Brian Mackenzie
History's Greatest Discoveries, Joel Levy
Nothing Down, Robert Allen
What Got You Here Won't Get You There, Marshall Goldsmith
The Passion Test, Chris Attwood & Janet Bray Attwood
An Enemy Called Average, John Mason
Personality Plus, Florence Littauer
Thoreau's Book of Quotations, Henry David Thoreau
Civil Disobedience and Other Essays, Henry David Thoreau
Self-Reliance and Other Essays, Ralph Waldo Emmerson
Inspiration and Wisdom from the Pen of Ralph Waldo Emmerson
Show Your Work, Austin Kleon
Discipline Equals Freedom, Jocko Willink
An Organic Architecture, Frank Lloyd Wright
Structures - or Why Things Don't Fall Down, J.E. Gordon
The Evolution of Cooperation, Robert Axelrod
The Second Law, P.W. Atkins ***(this is one of my favorite books ever!!!)
The Compleat Strategyst: Being a Primer on the Theory of Games of Strategy, J.D. Williams
The Biochemistry of Respiration, D.C. James and G.S. Matthews
Thing Explainer, Randall Munroe
Engines, Energy, and Entropy: A Thermodynamics Primer, John B. Fenn
The New Science of Strong Materials, J.E. Gordon
The Future of Energy: The 2021 Guide to the Future of Energy, John Michael Armstrong
Battery Technology Crash Course, Slobodan Petrovic
Reality Blind: Integrating the Systems Science Underpinning Our Collective Futures, Nj Hagens and DJ White
Radioactivity - A Very Short Introduction, Claudio Tuniz
Nuclear Power - A Very Short Introduction, Maxwell Irvine
How to Drive a Nuclear Reactor, Colin Tucker
The Bottlenecks of the 21st Century, Nate Hagens
Ultralearning: Master Hard Skills, Outsmart the Competition, and Accelerate Your Career, Scott Young
Anatomy Trains: Myofascial Meridians, Structures, and Functions, Myers, Thomas, Burns, Melanie, Harper, Cristy
Outlive: The Science and Art of Longevity, Peter Attia MD
Young Forever: The Secrets to Living Your Longest, Healthiest Life, Dr Mark Hyman MD
Explain Pain, Dr. David Butler and G. Lorimer Moseley
Life Force: How New Breakthroughs in Precision Medicine Can Transform the Quality of Your Life & Those You Love, Tony Robbins, Peter H. Diamandis, Robert Hariri
Education in a Time Between Worlds: Essays on the Future of Schools, Technology, and Society, Zachary Stein
Electrochemistry Crash Course for Engineers, Slobodan Petrovic
Entropy Demystified: The Second Law Reduced to Plain Common Sense, Arieh Ben-Naim
Primary Exergy Costs of Goods and Services: An Input-Output Approach, Matteo Vincenzo Rocco
Gaviotas: A Village to Reinvent the World, Alan Weisman
Tight Hip Twisted Core: The Key to Unresolved Pain, Christine Koth
Exergy: Energy, Environment and Sustainable Development 3rd Edition, Ibrahim Dincer and Marc A Rosen (this is a 700 page textbook with dense math, so maybe not for everyone)
Click here for a condensed list of my favorite books of all time.
My favorite authors (based on multiple great books) are:
Matt Ridley
Christopher McDougall
Michael Pollan
George Gilder
Mark Sisson
Zig Ziglar
Max Tegmark
Dan Ariely
Tim James
Ray Dalio
Jim Al-Khalili