My Book Recommendations
Archive of all the books I've read over the past 5-years
updated as: January 2024
I love to read, it is the best way to expand perspectives and expand knowledge. For my recommended books, they have a (*). I will write detailed reviews on these books as well. My book list is segmented into different topics:
Company Building
Company Biographies
General Management
Strategy
Venture Capital
Product Management
Design
Sales & Marketing / Growth
Corporate Finance
Software Engineering & Data
Investing & Money
Personal Development & Productivity
Politics
Climate & Sustainability
Personal Interests
Company Building
Traction (Entrepreneur Operating System) *
Working Backwards (Colin Bryar) *
The Hard Thing about Hard Things *
Turn the Ship Around!
Power: Building a Culture of Freedom & Responsibility (Netflix)
Disciplined Entrepreneurship (24 steps to a successful business)
Business Model Generation
Startup Studio Playbook
Company Biographies & Related
The Ride of a Lifetime (Robert Iger; Disney) *
Elon Musk (Walter Isaacson) *
Amazon Unbound (Brad Stone)
Reset (Ellen Pao)
Let’s Build a Company (Harpreet Grover)
General Management
Making of a Manager (Julie Zhuo) *
High Output Management *
What I didn’t Learn in Business School: How Strategy Works in the Real World
Radical Focus
Scaling People - Tactics for Management & Company Building
Strategy
Good Strategy, Bad Strategy *
Venture Capital
Venture Deals *
The Business of Venture Capital: Insights from Leading Practitioners
Secrets of Sand Hill Road
The Venture Hacks Bible
Private Equity Operational Due Diligence
How to Raise a Venture Capital Fund
Product Management
Cracking the PM Interview: How to land a Product Manager Job *
The Lean Product Playbook
Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products
Swipe to Unlock
Inspired: How to Create Tech Products Customers Love
Escaping the Build Trap (Melissa Perri)
Build (Tony Fadell)
Design
The Mom Test (Rob Fitzpatrick) *
Show Your Work! 10 Ways to Share Your Creativity and Get Discovered
Continuous Discovery Habits: Discover Products that Create Customer Value
User Story Mapping
Sales & Marketing / Growth
Traction
Product-Led SEO
High Growth Handbook (Elad Gil)
Hacking Growth: How Today’s Fastest Growing Companies Drive Breakout Success
The Cold Start Problem
Corporate Finance:
Financial Statements: A Step-by-Step Guide
HBR Guide to Finance Basics for Managers
Software Engineering & Data
The Phoenix Project *
An Introduction to APIs (Brian Coksey)
Python for Everybody
Automate the Boring Stuff with Python
The Phoenix Project
Fundamentals of Data Engineering
Investing & Money
University of Berkshire Hathaway: 30 years of Lessons Learned from Warren Buffett
One Up On Wall Street: How to Use What You Already Know to Make Money
Understanding options (Michael Sincere)
I will teach you to be Rich (Ramit Sethi)
The Psychology of Money (Morgan Housel)
Die with Zero: Getting All You Can from your Money and Your Life
Personal Development & Productivity
Ikigai: The Japanese Secret to a Long and Happy Life
Crucial Conversations: Tools for Talking When Stakes Are High
On Writing Well (30th Anniversary Edition)
Art and Business of Online Writing: How to Beat the Game of Capturing Attention
Never Split the Difference - Negotiating As if Your Life Depended on It
Hold me tight - Seven Conversations for a lifetime of love
Politics:
Air-Conditioned Nation Revisited: Essays on Singapore politics *
The Dictator’s Handbook: Why Bad Behaviour is Almost Always Good Politics
Indonesia, etc: Exploring the Improbably Nation
Climate & Sustainability:
How to Avoid a Climate Disaster (Bill Gates) *
Speed & Scale - An Action Plan for Saving our Climate Crisis (John Doerr) *
Personal Interests:
The Victory Machine: The Making & Unmaking of the Warriors Dynasty
The Sixth Man (Andre Iguodala)
Golden - Stephen Curry (Marcus Thompson)
Thinking Basketball (Ben Taylor)
WIP:
Lee Kuan Yew: The Man and his Ideas
Can’t Hurt Me: Master your Mind and Defy the Odds
rewire your Brain: Think your Way to a Better Life
The Promised Land (Barack Obama)
Post Corona (Scott Galloway)
Good Economics for Hard Times
The Option Trader’s Hedge Fund: A Business Framework for Trading Equities & Options
People Skills
How Not to be Wrong: the Power of Mathematical Thinking
Radical Candor
The Bitcoin Standard (Saifedean Ammous)
10% Less Democracy
Reimagining Capitalism in a World on Fire
Python Crash Course
Atomic Habits: Tiny Changes, Remarkable Results
Joys of Compounding
The Everything Guide to investing in your 20s & 30s
The Value of Debt
The Tyranny of Merit
The Customer Centricity Playbook
The Four Agreements (Practical Guide to Personal Freedom)
The Charisma Myth: How Anyone can Master the Art and Science of Personal Magnetism
No Filter (Sarah Frier)
The Goal: A Process of Ongoing Improvement
The Infinite Machine
The Unicorn Project (Gene Kim)
The Alamanack of Naval Ravikant: A Guide to Wealth & Happiness
The Book of Beautiful Questions
Billion Dollar Fraud Club
Becoming Trader Joe
Dark Money: The Hidden History of The Billionaire
The Wires of War
The Coddling of the American Mind
Why Startups Fail: New Roadmap for Entrepreneurial Success
Money Men: A Hot Startup, Billion Dollar Fraud, Fight for the Truth
Capital In The Twenty-First Century
An Ugly Truth (Facebook; Sheera Frenkel)
The M&A Leader’s Playbook
The First 20 Hours: How to Learn Anything
The 48 Laws of Power (Robert Green)
Atomic Habits: Tiny Changes, Remarkable Results
Hothouse Earth - An Inhabitants Guide
The Courage to be Disliked
Courage to be Disliked
Xi (Kerry Brown)
Green Swans - the Coming Boom in Regenerative Capital
How Bad Are Bananas (Carbon Footprint)
The Secret Life of Groceries (Dark Miracle of the American Supermarket)
The Grid (Fraying Wires)
The Sixth Extinction - An Unnatural History
12 Rules for Life - An Antidote
The Prize - the Epic Quest for Oil, Money and Power
Doughnut Economics
Nonviolent Communication
Experts’ Voice in Databases