Books
This is a short list of some of the books I think are worth reading. I have categorised them as best as possible. I will add to this overtime.
Engineering, Design, Science & Computing
- Learning Python
- A Hitchhiker's Guide to Python
- Programming the Finite Element Method
- Signals & Systems
- The Visual Display of Quantitative Information
- Notes on the Synthesis of Form
- Software Engineering for Internet Applications
- SQL for Web Nerds
Non Fiction
- The Fifth Risk
- The Undoing Project
- Flash Boys
- Outliers
- Blink
- David and Goliath
- The Tipping Point
- Thinking Fast and Slow
- The Four
- Key Person of Influence
- Originals
- Fooled By Randomness
- Talk Like TED
- The Startup of You
- TED Talks
- The Power of Habit
- Weapons of Math Destruction
- Big Data
- Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
- Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life
- Born to Run
- The Gene
- Digital Bank
- The Second Machine Age
- The Working Memory Advantage
- A Mathematician's Apology
- Profiles in Courage
- Longitude
- Get Sh!t Done
- Talking to Strangers
- Thank You For Being Late
Business, Management & Finance
- Good Profit
- Let My People Go Surfing
- Principles: Life and Work
- Barbarians At The Gate
- The Intelligent Investor
- High Output Management
- Zero to One
- The Science of Success
- The Hard Thing About Hard Things
- Only the Paranoid Survive
- Fairness for All
- Business Adventures
Biographies & Autobiographies
- Elon Musk
- Steve Jobs
- Open, Andre Agassi
- The Wizard of Menlo Park, Thomas Edison
- Inside the Peloton, Nicholas Roche
- Shoe Dog, Phil Knight
- Made in America, Sam Walton
- Jony Ive
- When Breath Becomes Air, Paul Kalanithi
- It's Not About the Bike, Lance Armstrong
- Kick Kennedy
- Kathy McKeon
- Bobby Kennedy
- The Everything Store, Jeff Bezos
- Pour Your Heart into it, Howard Shultz
- That Will Never Work, Marc Randolf
History, Travel & Fiction
- A Walk In The Woods
- One Summer
- The Grapes of Wrath
- Brave New World
- Othello
- The Merchant of Venice
- Odyssey
- The Old Man and The Sea
- To Kill a Mockingbird
- Go Set A Watchman
- Catcher in the Rye
- Of Mice and Men
- Dubliners
- The Granta Book of Irish Short Story
- Inferno
- The Da Vinci Code
- The Litigators
- The Lost Symbol
- Outsiders
- How Many Miles to Babylon
Got recommendations? Talk to me!