25 books everyone should read in 2017 — Part 1

Sabir Semerkant
4 min readJan 1, 2017

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2017 Top-25 Reading List

Here is my 2017 Reading List http://amzn.to/2iPi4Pm published as #wishlist via @amazon @SabirS #gosabir — I will continue updating through out the year with additional parts to this article. Here is the quick list (in no particular order) in case the wish list becomes inaccessible:

Alexander Hamilton by Ron Chernow

Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood by Trevor Noah

Einstein: His Life and Universe by Walter Isaascson

Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future by Ashlee Vance

Extreme Ownership: How U.S. Navy SEALs Lead and Win by Jocko Willink, Leif Babin

Faraday, Maxwell, and the Electromagnetic Field: How Two Men Revolutionized Physics by Nancy Forbes, Basil Mahon

Hitler: Ascent, 1889–1939 by Volker Ullrich

How Propaganda Works by Jason Stanley

Lincoln by David Herbert Donald

#AskGaryVee: One Entrepreneur’s Take on Leadership, Social Media, and Self-Awareness by Gary Vaynerchuk

Stress Test: Reflections on Financial Crisis by Timothy Geithner

Tap Dancing to Work: Warren Buffett on Practically Everything, 1966–2013 by Carol J. Loomis

Thank You for Being Late: An Optimist’s Guide to Thriving in the Age of Accelerations by Thomas L. Friedman

The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World by Niall Ferguson

The Book of Joy: Lasting Happiness in a Changing World by Dalai Lama, Desmond Tutu, Douglas Carlton Abrams

The Bully Pulpit: Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and the Golden Age of Journalism by Doris Kearns Goodwin

The Innovator’s Dilemma: The Revolutionary Book That Will Change the Way You Do Business by Clayton M. Christensen

The Snowball: Warren Buffett and the Business of Life by Alice Schroeder

The Undoing Project: A Friendship That Changed Our Minds by Michael Lewis

The Wealth and Poverty of Nations: Why Some Are So Rich and Some So Poor by David S. Landes

The Whistler by John Grisham

Titan: The Life of John D. Rockefeller, Sr. by Ron Chernow

What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions by Randall Munroe

Napoleon: A Life by Andrew Roberts

A History of the Ottoman Empire by Douglas A. Howard

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About the Author

Sabir Semerkant is a data-obsessed, Transformative and entrepreneurial Senior Marketing Executive in E-commerce and Digital Marketing offers progressive global experience at growth oriented companies in the consumer goods and e-commerce sector. He is currently the SVP of eCommerce at VaynerMedia working alongside Gary Vaynerchuk and team. He can be found via LinkedIn, Twitter and Instagram. His articles are posted on Medium.

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Sabir Semerkant

$1B incremental sales guiding & advising E-com strategies by turning promising Ecom brands into profitable $10M+ winners | CEO @GrowthbySabir