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March 2023

  • A Hacker's Mind: How the Powerful Bend Society's Rules, and How to Bend them Back

  • What's Our Problem?: A Self-Help Book for Societies

February 2023

  • Remote Work Revolution: Succeeding from Anywhere

  • The Myth of Normal: Trauma, Illness & Healing in a Toxic Culture

  • Seeking Wisdom : From Darwin to Munger

January 2023

  • The Dealmaker: Lessons from a Life in Private Equity

  • The Creative Act: A Way of Being

  • Do Hard Things: Why We Get Resilience Wrong and the Surprising Science of Real Toughness

December 2022

  • When McKinsey Comes to Town: The Hidden Influence of the World's Most Powerful Consulting Firm

  • Money Men: A Hot Startup, A Billion Dollar Fraud, A Fight for the Truth

  • Chip War: The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology

  • Megathreats: The Ten Trends that Imperil Our Future, and How to Survive Them

  • The Parasitic Mind: How Infectious Ideas Are Killing Common Sense

  • Last Mile: How Startups Solve the Challenge of Delivering to Your Door

November 2022

  • The Synergy Solution: How Companies Win the Mergers and Acquisitions Game

  • The Weirdest People in the World: How the West Became Psychologically Peculiar and Particularly Prosperous

October 2022

  • Scale: The Universal Laws of Life and Death in Organisms, Cities and Companies

  • Adrift: 100 Charts that Reveal Why America is on the Brink of Change

  • The WEALTHTECH Book: The FinTech Handbook for Investors, Entrepreneurs and Finance Visionaries

September 2022

  • The Price of Time: The Real Story of Interest

  • Like, Comment, Subscribe: Inside YouTube’s Chaotic Rise to World Domination

  • How the World Really Works: A Scientist’s Guide to Our Past, Present and Future

August 2022

  • Narrative and Numbers: The Value of Stories in Business

  • Exponential: Order and Chaos in an Age of Accelerating Technology

July 2022

  • Direct: The Rise of the Middleman Economy and the Power of Going to the Source

  • The Network State: How To Start a New Country

  • Future Demand

  • Free Speech And Why It Matters

  • Woke: A Guide to Social Justice

  • Social (In)justice: Why Many Popular Answers to Important Questions of Race, Gender, and Identity Are Wrong

  • Free Speech: A Global History from Socrates to Social Media

June 2022

  • 21st Century Monetary Policy: The Federal Reserve from the Great Inflation to COVID-19

  • The Illusion of Control: Why Financial Crises Happen, and What We Can (and Can’t) Do About It

  • Inflation: What It Is, Why It's Bad, and How to Fix It

May 2022

  • Build: An Unorthodox Guide to Making Things Worth Making

  • The Hidden Habits of Genius: Beyond Talent, IQ, and Grit—Unlocking the Secrets of Greatness

  • You're Invited: The Art and Science of Cultivating Influence

  • The Art of Stillness: Adventures in Going Nowhere

April 2022

  • Autonomousity: Autonomous Vehicles and Emerging Business Models

  • Autonomy: The Quest to Build the Driverless Car - And How It Will Reshape Our World

  • Transportation Transformation: How Autonomous Mobility Will Fuel New Value Chains

  • The Big Data Opportunity in Our Driverless Future

  • The Implosion of Public Transit and the Case for an Infinite Game

  • The Future of Public Transportation

  • Autonorama: The Illusory Promise of High-Tech Driving

  • New Mobilities: Smart Planning for Emerging Transportation Technologies

March 2022

  • The Contrarian: Peter Thiel and Silicon Valley's Pursuit of Power

  • Startup Studio Playbook: For entrepreneurs, pioneers and creators who want to build ventures faster and with higher chance of success

  • Exit Right: How to Sell Your Startup, Maximize Your Return and Build Your Legacy

  • The Polymath: Unlocking the Power of Human Versatility

  • Charlie Munger: The Complete Investor

  • The Psychology of Money: Timeless lessons on wealth, greed, and happiness

  • Your Next Five Moves: Master the Art of Business Strategy

February 2022

  • A Random Walk Down Wall Street: The Time-Tested Strategy for Successful Investing

  • In Pursuit of the Perfect Portfolio: The Stories, Voices, and Key Insights of the Pioneers Who Shaped the Way We Invest

  • The Revolution That Wasn't: How GameStop and Reddit Made Wall Street Even Richer

  • The Founders: Elon Musk, Peter Thiel and the Company that Made the Modern Internet

January 2022

  • Where Is My Flying Car?

  • The Bomber Mafia: A Story Set in War

  • Atomic Awakening

  • Beyond Order: 12 More Rules for Life

  • Your True Home: The Everyday Wisdom of Thich Nhat Hanh

  • The Man from the Future: The Visionary Life of John von Neumann

December 2021

  • 10½ Lessons from Experience: Perspectives on Fund Management

  • There’s No Free Lunch: 250 Economic Truths

  • The Pay Off: How Changing the Way We Pay Changes Everything

  • Change by Design, Revised and Updated: How Design Thinking Transforms Organizations and Inspires Innovation

  • The Cold Start Problem: Using Network Effects to Scale Your Product

  • Buy Now, Pay Later: The extraordinary story of Afterpay

November 2021

  • The PAYTECH Book: The Payment Technology Handbook for Investors, Entrepreneurs, and FinTech Visionaries

  • The End of the Everything Bubble: Why $75 trillion of investor wealth is in mortal jeopardy

  • Trillions: How a Band of Wall Street Renegades Invented the Index Fund and Changed Finance Forever

  • Human Frontiers: The Future of Big Ideas in an Age of Small Thinking

  • Framers: Human Advantage in an Age of Technology and Turmoil

  • Enough: True Measures of Money, Business, and Life

  • Calling Bullshit: The Art of Scepticism in a Data-Driven World

October 2021

  • The Great Mental Models Volume 3: Systems and Mathematics

  • Masters of Scale: Surprising truths from the world’s most successful entrepreneurs

  • The Platform Delusion: Who Wins and Who Loses in the Age of Tech Titans

  • Courage Is Calling: Fortune Favours the Brave

  • Cashless: China's Digital Currency Revolution

  • The Future of Money: How the Digital Revolution Is Transforming Currencies and Finance

  • The Heart of Business: Leadership Principles for the Next Era of Capitalism

  • Finite and Infinite Games

September 2021

  • Levers: The Framework for Building Repeatability into Your Business

  • The Long Game: How to Be a Long-Term Thinker in a Short-Term World

  • The Practice of Groundedness: A Transformative Path to Success That Feeds--Not Crushes--Your Soul

  • Better, Simpler Strategy: A Value-Based Guide to Exceptional Performance

  • The Case for Creativity: The link between imaginative marketing & commercial success

  • Seeds of Science: Why We Got It So Wrong On GMOs

August 2021

  • Food 5.0: How We Feed the Future

  • Four Thousand Weeks: The smash-hit Sunday Times bestseller that will change your life

  • Maxims for Thinking Analytically: The wisdom of legendary Harvard Professor Richard Zeckhauser

  • How to Make the World Add Up: Ten Rules for Thinking Differently About Numbers

  • Let There Be Water: Israel's Solution for a Water-Starved World

July 2021

  • Water 4.0: The Past, Present, and Future of the World's Most Vital Resource

  • The Lessons of History

  • Runaway Technology: Can Law Keep Up?

  • The Drama of the Gifted Child: The Search for the True Self

June 2021

  • Cyber Privacy: Who Has Your Data and Why You Should Care

  • The Power of Giving Away Power: How the Best Leaders Learn to Let Go

  • Atlas of AI: Power, Politics, and the Planetary Costs of Artificial Intelligence

  • The Rational Optimist: How Prosperity Evolves

  • The Almanack of Naval Ravikant: A Guide to Wealth and Happiness

May 2021

  • The Entrepreneur’s Weekly Nietzsche: A Book for Disruptors

  • Billion Dollar Loser: The Epic Rise and Fall of WeWork: A Sunday Times Book of the Year

  • The Anatomy of the Swipe: Making Money Move

  • Catalyst

  • Amazon Unbound

  • Payments Systems in the U.S. - Third Edition: A Guide for the Payments Professional

  • Game Changer: How to Be 10x in the Talent Economy

April 2021

  • Rethinking Competitive Advantage: New Rules for the Digital Age

  • Doughnut Economics: Seven Ways to Think Like a 21st-Century Economist

  • Mission Economy: A Moonshot Guide to Changing Capitalism

  • Banking On It: How I Disrupted an Industry

March 2021

  • Edison

  • Present Future: Business, Science, and the Deep Tech Revolution

February 2021

  • Ten Lessons for a Post-Pandemic World

  • Chatter: The Voice in Our Head and How to Harness It

  • A CEO Only Does Three Things: Finding Your Focus in the C-Suite

  • Think Again: The Power of Knowing What You Don't Know

  • Product Roadmaps Relaunched: How to Set Direction while Embracing Uncertainty

January 2021

  • How To Raise A Venture Capital Fund: The Essential Guide on Fundraising and Understanding Limited Partners

  • The Jobs To Be Done Playbook: Align Your Markets, Organization, and Strategy Around Customer Needs

  • Ask Your Developer: How to Harness the Power of Software Developers and Win in the 21st Century

  • Zen: The Art of Simple Living

  • You’re Not Listening: What You’re Missing and Why It Matters

  • Post Corona: From Crisis to Opportunity

  • 2030: How Today's Biggest Trends Will Collide and Reshape the Future of Everything

  • Apollo's Arrow: The Profound and Enduring Impact of Coronavirus on the Way We Live

December 2020

  • EMPOWERED: Ordinary People, Extraordinary Products (Silicon Valley Product Group)

  • Beyond Entrepreneurship 2.0

  • Too Much Information: Understanding What You Don't Want to Know

November 2020

  • Uncharted: How to Map the Future

  • Invent and Wander: The Collected Writings of Jeff Bezos

  • Super Thinking: Upgrade Your Reasoning and Make Better Decisions with Mental Models

  • Across The Board: The Modern Architecture Behind an Effective Board of Directors

October 2020

  • Lives of the Stoics: The Art of Living from Zeno to Marcus Aurelius

  • Upstream: How to solve problems before they happen

  • Build What Matters: Delivering Key Outcomes with Vision-Led Product Management

  • All In: How Obsessive Leaders Achieve the Extraordinary

  • Radical Acceptance: Awakening the Love that Heals Fear and Shame

September 2020

  • Winning Now, Winning Later: How Companies Can Succeed in the Short Term While Investing for the Long Term

  • No Rules Rules: Netflix and the Culture of Reinvention

  • The Good Ancestor: How to Think Long Term in a Short-Term World

  • Margin of Trust: The Berkshire Business Model

  • Dear Shareholder: The best executive letters from Warren Buffett, Prem Watsa and other great CEOs

August 2020

  • Humanocracy: Creating Organizations as Amazing as the People Inside Them

  • Invisible Solutions: 25 Lenses that Reframe and Help Solve Difficult Business Problems

  • The Four Steps to the Epiphany: Successful Strategies for Products that Win

  • The Road Less Stupid: Advice from the Chairman of the Board

  • The Founder's Dilemmas: Anticipating and Avoiding the Pitfalls That Can Sink a Startup

  • Living in a Bubble: A Guide to being diagnosed with High Functioning Asperger’s as an Adult

  • Think for Yourself: Restoring Common Sense in an Age of Experts and Artificial Intelligence

July 2020

  • Humankind: A Hopeful History

  • Apocalypse Never: Why Environmental Alarmism Hurts Us All

  • Be the Go-To: How to Own Your Competitive Market, Charge More, and Have Customers Love You For It

June 2020

  • Beyond Product: How Exceptional Founders Embrace Marketing to Create and Capture Value for their Business

  • Mastering The Market Cycle: Getting the odds on your side

  • The Nature of Personal Reality: Specific, Practical Techniques for Solving Everyday Problems and Enriching the Life You Know (A Seth Book)

May 2020

  • Eleven Rings

  • Flash Crash: A Trading Savant, a Global Manhunt and the Most Mysterious Market Crash in History

  • Story 10x: Turn the Impossible Into the Inevitable

  • Tao of Charlie Munger: A Compilation of Quotes from Berkshire Hathaway's Vice Chairman on Life, Business, and the Pursuit of Wealth

  • Bezonomics: How Amazon Is Changing Our Lives, and What the World's Best Companies Are Learning from It

  • Blockchain Basics: A Non-Technical Introduction in 25 Steps

  • No Filter: The Inside Story of Instagram

April 2020

  • The Great Mental Models Volume 2: Physics, Chemistry and Biology

  • Always Day One: How the Tech Titans Stay on Top

  • The Barefoot Investor for Families: How to teach your kids the value of a buck

  • What's Your Problem?: To Solve Your Toughest Problems, Change the Problems You Solve

  • Get to Aha!: Discover Your Positioning DNA and Dominate Your Competition

  • Strategize: Product Strategy and Product Roadmap Practices for the Digital Age

March 2020

  • Being Mortal: Illness, Medicine and What Matters in the End (Wellcome Collection)

  • The Art of Persuasion: Winning Without Intimidation

  • Disciplined Entrepreneurship: 24 Steps to a Successful Startup

  • 99 Negotiating Strategies: Tips, Tactics & Techniques Used by Wall Street's Toughest Dealmakers

  • Product-Led Growth: How to Build a Product That Sells Itself

  • The Great CEO Within: The Tactical Guide to Company Building

February 2020

  • One Simple Thing: A New Look at the Science of Yoga and How It Can Transform Your Life

  • Non Obvious Megatrends: How to See What Others Miss and Predict the Future

  • Embodiment - Moving beyond mindfulness

  • Billion Dollar Whale: The Man Who Fooled Wall Street, Hollywood, and the World

  • Just Breathe: Mastering Breathwork

  • Applied Empathy: The New Language of Leadership

January 2020

  • Metahuman: Unleashing your infinite potential

  • Wealth, Actually: Intelligent Decision-Making for the 1%

  • Geeks Who Can Schmooze: A Credit Suisse Private Banker Tells All

December 2019

  • Escaping the Build Trap: How Effective Product Management Creates Real Value

  • Start at the End: How to Build Products That Create Change

  • The Unicorn Project: A Novel about Developers, Digital Disruption, and Thriving in the Age of Data

  • Surely You're Joking Mr Feynman: Adventures of a Curious Character

  • The Barefoot Investor: The Only Money Guide You'll Ever Need

November 2019

  • The Grid: The Decision-making Tool for Every Business (Including Yours)

  • Ten Principles Behind Great Customer Experiences, The: The Ten Principles Behind Great Customer Experiences (Financial Times Series)

  • Financial Intelligence, Revised Edition: A Manager's Guide to Knowing What the Numbers Really Mean

  • Transforming The Telco: Developing the instinct for survival in the digital economy

  • Alchemy: The Surprising Power of Ideas That Don't Make Sense

  • The Man Who Solved the Market: How Jim Simons Launched the Quant Revolution

  • An Elegant Puzzle: Systems of Engineering Management

  • What It Takes: Lessons in the Pursuit of Excellence

  • The Great Mental Models Volume 1: General Thinking Concepts

October 2019

  • What You Do Is Who You Are: How to Create Your Business Culture

  • Stay the Course: The Story of Vanguard and the Index Revolution

  • The Compound Effect

  • Atomic Habits: the life-changing million-copy #1 bestseller

  • The Bezos Letters: 14 Principles to Grow Your Business Like Amazon

  • The Infinite Game: From the bestselling author of Start With Why

  • Stillness is the Key: An Ancient Strategy for Modern Life (The Way, the Enemy and the Key)

  • The Ride of a Lifetime: Lessons in Creative Leadership from 15 Years as CEO of the Walt Disney Company

  • The Only Skill that Matters: The Proven Methodology to Read Faster, Remember More, and Become a SuperLearner

September 2019

  • Fascinate, Revised and Updated: How to Make Your Brand Impossible to Resist

  • That Will Never Work: The Birth of Netflix by the first CEO and co-founder Marc Randolph

  • Barking Up the Wrong Tree: The Surprising Science Behind Why Everything You Know About Success Is (Mostly) Wrong

  • Think Like Amazon: 50 1/2 Ideas to Become a Digital Leader

  • Get Together: How to build a community with your people

August 2019

  • Ultralearning: Accelerate Your Career, Master Hard Skills and Outsmart the Competition

  • Strategy That Works: How Winning Companies Close the Strategy-to-Execution Gap

  • Banking Bad: Whistleblowers. Corporate cover-ups. One journalist's fight for the truth.

  • Novacene: The Coming Age of Hyperintelligence

July 2019

  • Hacking Darwin: Genetic Engineering and the Future of Humanity

  • Brief Answers to the Big Questions: the final book from Stephen Hawking

  • The Fifth Risk: Undoing Democracy

  • How to Win Friends and Influence People

June 2019

  • Possible Minds: Twenty-Five Ways of Looking at AI

  • Range: How Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World

  • Everything Is F*cked: A Book About Hope

  • The Last Unknowns: Deep, Elegant, Profound Unanswered Questions About the Universe, the Mind, the Future of Civilization, and the Meaning of Life

  • The Outsiders: Eight Unconventional CEOs and Their Radically Rational Blueprint for Success

May 2019

  • Words That Change Minds: The 14 Patterns for Mastering the Language of Influence

  • Tim Cook: The Genius Who Took Apple to the Next Level

  • Strategy Rules: Five Timeless Lessons from Bill Gates, Andy Grove, and Steve Jobs

  • The Business of Platforms: Strategy in the Age of Digital Competition, Innovation, and Power

  • Pivot to the Future: Discovering Value and Creating Growth in a Disrupted World

April 2019

  • The Art of Seduction

  • Trillion Dollar Coach: The Leadership Handbook of Silicon Valley's Bill Campbell

  • Unlocking the Customer Value Chain: How Decoupling Drives Consumer Disruption

  • The Laws of Human Nature: Robert Greene

  • Why We Sleep: The New Science of Sleep and Dreams

March 2019

  • The Pentagon's Brain: An Uncensored History of DARPA, America's Top-Secret Military Research Agency

  • Loonshots: How to Nurture the Crazy Ideas That Win Wars, Cure Diseases, and Transform Industries

  • Astrophysics for People in a Hurry (Astrophysics for People in a Hurry Series)

  • Breathing through the Whole Body: The Buddha's Instructions on Integrating Mind, Body, and Breath

  • Letters from a Stoic: All Three Volumes

  • The Neuroscience of Mindfulness: The Astonishing Science behind How Everyday Hobbies Help You Relax

  • The Science of Rapid Skill Acquisition: Advanced Methods to Learn, Remember, and Master New Skills and Information

February 2019

  • The Untethered Soul: The Journey Beyond Yourself

  • The Myth of Capitalism: Monopolies and the Death of Competition

  • Purple Cow: Transform Your Business by Being Remarkable

  • Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less

  • Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind: Informal Talks on Zen Meditation and Practice

  • Man's Search For Meaning: The classic tribute to hope from the Holocaust

January 2019

  • Tribe of Mentors: Short Life Advice from the Best in the World

  • The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting Up a Generation for Failure

  • Elastic: Flexible Thinking in a Constantly Changing World

  • Valley of Genius: The Uncensored History of Silicon Valley (As Told by the Hackers, Founders, and Freaks Who Made It Boom)

  • Farsighted: How We Make the Decisions that Matter the Most

  • Building a StoryBrand: Clarify Your Message So Customers Will Listen

  • Contagious: How to Build Word of Mouth in the Digital Age

  • Explosive Growth: A Few Things I Learned While Growing My Startup To 100 Million Users & Losing $78 Million

December 2018

  • The Headspace Guide to... Mindfulness & Meditation

  • The Top Five Regrets of the Dying: A Life Transformed by the Dearly Departing

  • The One Thing: The Surprisingly Simple Truth Behind Extraordinary Results: Achieve your goals with one of the world's bestselling success books

  • Quantum Economics: The New Science of Money

  • Give People Money: The simple idea to solve inequality and revolutionise our lives

November 2018

  • Silicon States: The Power and Politics of Big Tech and What It Means for Our Future

  • Marketing: A Love Story: How to Matter to Your Customers

  • Story Driven: You don't need to compete when you know who you are

  • This is Marketing: You Can’t Be Seen Until You Learn To See

  • Scaling Up: How a Few Companies Make It...and Why the Rest Don't (Rockefeller Habits 2.0)

  • Straight Talk for Startups: 100 Insider Rules for Beating the Odds--From Mastering the Fundamentals to Selecting Investors, Fundraising, Managing Boards, and Achieving Liquidity

October 2018

  • Blitzscaling: The Lightning-Fast Path to Building Massively Valuable Companies

  • The Future of Everything : Big, audacious ideas for a better world

September 2018

  • Origin Story: A Big History of Everything

  • Misbehaving: The Making of Behavioural Economics

  • Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About The World - And Why Things Are Better Than You Think

August 2018

  • 21 Lessons for the 21st Century

  • Monetizing Innovation: How Smart Companies Design the Product Around the Price

  • Capitalism without Capital: The Rise of the Intangible Economy

  • Nudge: The Final Edition

  • Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products

July 2018

  • Pre-Suasion: A Revolutionary Way to Influence and Persuade

  • Win Bigly: Persuasion in a World Where Facts Don't Matter

  • Good Strategy/Bad Strategy: The difference and why it matters

  • Blue Ocean Strategy, Expanded Edition: How to Create Uncontested Market Space and Make the Competition Irrelevant

  • Porter's Five Forces: Understand competitive forces and stay ahead of the competition

  • Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup

  • Go Long: Why Long-Term Thinking Is Your Best Short-Term Strategy

  • Matchmakers: The New Economics of Multisided Platforms

  • The Laws of Simplicity (Simplicity: Design, Technology, Business, Life)

June 2018

  • How to Change Your Mind: The New Science of Psychedelics

  • Deviate: The Science of Seeing Differently

May 2018

  • The Order of Time

  • 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos

  • The Personal MBA: A World-Class Business Education in a Single Volume

  • Measure What Matters: OKRs: The Simple Idea that Drives 10x Growth

April 2018

  • Seductive Interaction Design: Creating Playful, Fun, and Effective User Experiences

  • Intercom on Product Management

  • Intercom on Onboarding

  • When: The Scientific Secrets of Perfect Timing

  • Powerful: Building a Culture of Freedom and Responsibility

  • Berkshire Hathaway Letters to Shareholders, 2021

  • Boards That Lead: When to Take Charge, When to Partner, and When to Stay Out of the Way

  • Startup Boards: Getting the Most Out of Your Board of Directors

March 2018

  • The Snowball: Warren Buffett and the Business of Life

  • Skin in the Game: Hidden Asymmetries in Daily Life

  • Work Rules!: Insights from Inside Google That Will Transform How You Live and Lead

  • INSPIRED: How to Create Tech Products Customers Love (Silicon Valley Product Group)

February 2018

  • Life 3.0: Being Human in the Age of Artificial Intelligence

  • Creativity, Inc.: an inspiring look at how creativity can - and should - be harnessed for business success by the founder of Pixar

  • Stealing Fire: How Silicon Valley, the Navy SEALs, and Maverick Scientists Are Revolutionizing the Way We Live and Work

  • The Undoing Project: A Friendship that Changed the World

  • Simplify: How the Best Businesses in the World Succeed

  • The Upstarts: How Uber, Airbnb and the Killer Companies of the New Silicon Valley are Changing the World

January 2018

  • Delivering Happiness: A Path to Profits, Passion, and Purpose

  • Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World

  • The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon

  • How Google Works

  • Ego is the Enemy: The Fight to Master Our Greatest Opponent (The Way, the Enemy and the Key)

  • The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers

  • Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House

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