Book Reviews

I try my best to write a short summary/review of the books I read as this helps me with learning and retention.

I typically publish them on Goodreads, but also sync them here.

2021

🥇	The Psychology of Money (2020) — by Morgan Housel
🥈	The Restaurant at the End of the Universe (1980) — by Douglas Adams

2020

🥇	High Output Management (1983) — by Andrew S. Grove [Review]
🥇	Dune (1965) — By Frank Herbert
🥇	How We Got to Now: Six Innovations That Made the Modern World (2014) — by Steven Johnson [Review]
🥇	Where Good Ideas Come from: The Natural History of Innovation (2010) — by Steven Johnson [Review]
🥇	100 Truths You Will Learn Too Late (2019) — by Luca Dellanna
🥈	50 Years in the Making: The Great Recession and Its Aftermath (2012) — by Morgan Housel
🥈	Everyone Believes It; Most Will Be Wrong: Motley Thoughts on Investing and the Economy (2011) — by Morgan Housel
🥈	What has the government done to our money (1963) — by Murray Rothbard
🥈	The Culture Map: Decoding How People Think, Lead, and Get Things Done Across Cultures (2016) — by Erin Meyer
🥉	Atomic Habits: An Easy and Proven Way to Build Good Habits and Break Bad Ones (2018) — by James Clear
🥉	Dune Messiah (1969) — by Frank Herbert
🥉	Children of Dune (1976) — by Frank Herbert

2019

🥇	The Prince (1532) — by Niccolò Machiavelli
🥇	Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (2011) — by Yuval Noah Harari
🥈	Shoe Dog: A Memoir by the Creator of Nike (2016) — by Phil Knight
🥈	Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup (2018) — by John Carreyrou

2018

🥇	Thinking Fast and Slow (2011) — by Daniel Kahneman [Review]
🥇	The Stranger (1942) — Albert Camus
🥈	Meditations (A.D. 121–180) — by Marcus Aurelius [Review]
🥈	Platform Revolution: How Networked Markets Are Transforming the Economy–and How to Make Them Work for You (2016) — Geoffrey G. Parker
🥉	The Inevitable (2016) — by Kevin Kelly [Review]
🥉	Turn the Ship Around!: A True Story of Turning Followers into Leaders (2012) — by L. David Marquet

Older

🥇	The Art of War — by Sun Tzu
🥇	Typescript of the Second Origin (1974) — Manuel de Pedrolo
🥇	1984 (1949) — George Orwell
🥇	Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (1971) — Hunter S. Thompson
🥇	On the Road (1957) — by Jack Kerouac
🥇	Almost transparent Blue (1976) — Ryū Murakami
🥇	American Psycho (1991) — Breat Easton Ellis
🥇	Crucial Conversations: Tools for Talking When Stakes Are High (2001) — by Joseph Grenny
🥇	Trainspotting (1993) — Irvine Welsh
🥇	The Hobbit (1937) — John R. R. Tolkien
🥇	The Lord of the Rings (1954) — John R. R. Tolkien
🥇	The Two Towers (1954) — John R. R. Tolkien
🥇	The Return of the King (1955) — John R. R. Tolkien
🥇	The Silmarillion (1977) — John R. R. Tolkien
🥈	The Acid House (2001) — Irvine Welsh
🥈	Ecstasy (2011) — Irvine Welsh
🥈	Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future (2014) — Peter Thiel
🥈	The Lean Startup: How Today’s Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses (2011) by Eric Ries
🥈	Business Model Generation: A Handbook for Visionaries, Game Changers, and Challengers (2010) — Alexander Osterwalder
🥈	Blue Ocean Strategy: How to Create Uncontested Market Space and Make the Competition Irrelevant (2004) — W. Chan Kim
🥉	The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism (2007) — by Naomi Klein
	No Logo (1999) — by Naomi Klein
🥉	Cyberia: Life in the Trenches of Cyberspace (2002) — by Douglas Rushkoff
🥉	Media Virus!: Hidden Agendas in Popular Culture (1994) — by Douglas Rushkoff
🥉	Life Inc.: How the World Became a Corporation and How to Take it Back (2009) — by Douglas Rushkoff
🥉	Get Back in the Box: Innovation from the Inside Out (2005) — by Douglas Rushkoff