Books I enjoyed.

// In Summer 2024 I try to read 1x book/week. Follow me on for updates.

Tech & Science

• The Book of Why - Judea Pearl
• Weapons of Math Destruction - Cathy O’Neil
• Numbers Don’t Lie - Vaclav Smil
• Livewired - David Eagleman
• Moonwalking with Einstein - Joshua Foer
• Algorithms To Live By - Christian & Griffiths
• Deep Thinking - Garry Kasparov
• Hello World - Hannah Fry
• Seven Brief Lessons on Physics - Carlo Rovelli
• Genius Maker - Cade Metz
• Blood, Sweat and Pixels - Jason Schreier
• Chip War - Chris Miller
• Sandworm - Andy Greenberg
• Tracers in the Dark - Andy Greenberg

History & Politics

• Turkey: A Short History - Norman Stone
• No Escape - Nury Turkel
• Occupy - Noam Chomsky
• On All Fronts - Clarissa Ward
• The Billionaire Raj - James Crabtree
• Blood & Oil - Hope & Scheck
• On Anarchism - Noam Chomsky
• Making the Future - Noam Chomsky
• It's Not About the Burqua - Mariam Khan
• Billion Dollar Whale - Hope & Wright
• Nelson Mandela - Christina Scott
• A History of Modern Oman - Jones & Ridout
• CEO, China: The Rise of Xi Jinping - Kerry Brown
• The New Politics of Russia - Andrew Monaghan
• Prisoners of Geography - Tim Marshall
• Notes on Nationalism - George Orwell
• Disunited Nations - Peter Zeihan
• On Palestine - Noam Chomsky
• Islam - Harris & Hawaz
• Winter is Coming - Garry Kasparov
• A Short History of Russia - Mark Galeotti
• Out of Mao’s Shadow - Philip Pan
• Africa is Not a Country - Dipo Faloyin
• Chutzpah - Inbal Arieli
• Incredible India 2.0 - Amitabh Kant
• Scars of 1947 - Rajeev Shukla
• Our Woman on the Ground - Zahra Hankir

Business & Entrepreneurship

• No Rules Rules - Reed Hastings
• Dark Pools - Scott Patterson
• Hooked - Nir Eyal
• Inspired - Marty Cagan
• The Founders - Jimmy Son
• Creativity Inc. - Ed Catmull
• Blitzscaling - Reid Hoffman
• Flash Crash - Liam Vaughan
• What You Do Is Who You are - Ben Horowitz
• Start-up Nation - Senor & Singer
• Inspired - Marty Cagan
• A Man of All Markets - Edward Thorpe
• Without Their Permission - Alexis Ohanian
• Swipe to Unlock - Metha & Agashe & Detroja
• Zero to One - Pether Thiel
• Outliers - Malcolm Gladwell
• The Black Swan - Nassim Taleb
• Flash Boys - Michael Lewis
• The Tipping Point - Malcolm Gladwell
• The Fifth Risk - Michael Lewis
• Bubble or Revolution - Metha & Agashe & Detroja
• The Hard Thing About the Hard Things - Ben Horowitz
• The Entrepreneurial State - Mariana Mazzucato
• User Friendly - Kuang & Fabricant
• The Lean Startup - Eric Ries
• Platform Revolution - Parker et. al
• Lean in - Sheryl Sandberg

Others

• Imagine If - Robinson & Robinson
• Creative Schools - Ken Robinsons
• The One World Schoolhouse - Salman Khan
• Pegasus - Richard & Rigaud
• Animal Farm - George Orwell
• Doing Good Better - William Macaskill
• Ghost of Wires - Kevin Mitnick
• Nudge - Thaler & Sunstein

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