If you are looking for a list of great books to read, the following are my very favorite books (mostly non-fiction) that I have read since college — presented in alphabetical order.
- The Accidental Superpower by Peter Zeihan
- Against the Gods: The Remarkable Story of Risk by Peter L. Bernstein
- The Cash Nexus: Money and Power in the Modern World, 1700-2000 by Niall Ferguson
- The Color Purple by Alice Walker (fiction)
- Coming Apart by Charles Murray
- Churchill: A life by Martin Gilbert
- The Dictator’s Handbook: Why Bad Behavior Is Almost Always Good Politics by Bruce Bueno de Mesquita and Alastair Smith
- Difficult Conversations by Douglas Stone, Bruce Patton, and Sheila Heen
- Economics Facts and Fallacies by Thomas Sowell
- The Effective Executive by Peter F. Drucker
- Exodus by Leon Uris (fiction)
- Five Dysfunctions of a Team by Patrick Lencioni
- Fooled by Randomness by Nassim Taleb
- Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything by Steven D. Levitt, Stephen J. Dubner
- Generations: The History of America’s Future, 1584 to 2069 by William Strauss & Neil Howe
- Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World by Jack Weatherford
- The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers by Ben Horowitz
- Hillbilly Elegy by JD Vance
- The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams (fiction)
- How the Mind Works by Steven Pinker
- How to Decide by Annie Duke
- Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion by Robert Cialdini
- John J. McCloy: Chairman of the Establishment by Kai Bird
- Just and Unjust Wars by Michael Walzer
- Justice by Mike Sandel
- The Making of the Atom Bomb by Richard Rhodes
- The Man Who Mistook His Wife For A Hat : And Other Clinical Tales by Oliver Sacks
- The Moral Animal : Why We Are, the Way We Are: The New Science of Evolutionary Psychology by Robert Wright
- The Next 100 Years: A Forecast for the 21st Century by George Friedman
- Night by Elie Wiesel
- Nixonland by Rick Perlstein
- The Nurture Assumption by Judith Rich Harris
- Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell
- The Outsiders: Eight Unconventional CEOs and Their Radically Rational Blueprint for Success by Will Thorndike
- Path of Least Resistance by Robert Fritz
- Path to Power: Early Life of Lyndon Johnson by Robert Caro
- A Piece of the Action How the Middle Class Became the Money Class by Joseph Nocera
- The Prize : The Epic Quest for Oil, Money, and Power by Daniel Yergin
- Revolution 1989 by Victor Sebestyen
- Righteous Mind by Jonathan Haidt
- Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harari
- The Signal and the Noise by Nate Silver
- Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson (fiction)
- Startup: A Silicon Valley Adventure by Jerry Kaplan
- Stumbling on Happiness by Daniel Gilbert
- Surely You’re Joking Mr. Feynman!: Adventures of a Curious Character by Richard Feynman
- Thinking Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman
- Too Big to Fail by Andrew Ross Sorkin
- The True Believer by Eric Hoffer
- We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will be Killed With Our Families: Stories from Rwanda by Philip Gourevitch
- We the Living by Ayn Rand (fiction)
- When Money Dies by Adam Fergusson
- Why We Buy: The Science Of Shopping by Paco Underhill
- A World Lit Only by Fire : The Medieval Mind and the Renaissance – Portrait of an Age by William Manchester
- Zero to One: How to Build the Future by Peter Thiel
