Yoni’s Reading List — 2015
“Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them at all.”-Henry David Thoreau
Change by Design: How Design Thinking Transforms Organizations and Inspires Innovation by Tim Brown
Brain Rules: 12 Principles for Surviving and Thriving at Work, Home, and School by John Medina
The Human Age: The World Shaped By Us by Diane Ackerman
Creative Confidence: Unleashing the Creative Potential Within Us All by Tom and David Kelly
The First 90 Days: Proven Strategies for Getting Up to Speed Faster and Smarter, Updated and Expanded by Michael Watkins
Emotional Intelligence 2.0 by Travis Bradberry
Stop Thinking Like a Freelancer: The Evolution of a $1m Web Designer by Liam Veitch
The Man Who Sold The Moon by Robert Heinlein
Airframe by Michael Crichton
Congo by Michael Crichton
The Defector by Daniel Silva
For Whom the Bells Toll by Ernest Hemingway
Waking Up: A Guide to Spirituality without Religion by Sam Harris
The Adventures of Johnny Bunko: The Last Career Guide You’ll Ever Need by Daniel Pink
Nexus by Ramez Naam
Your Brain at Work by David Rock
Tales of the City by Armistead Maupin
How we Got to Now: Six Innovations That Made the Modern World by Steven Johnson
Tarkin: Star Wars by James Luceno
Crux by Ramez Naam
The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho
1000 Places to See Before You Die by Patricia Schultz
Bold: How to Go Big, Create Wealth, and Impact the World by Peter Diamandis
On the Road by John Kerouac
The Infinite Resource: The Power of Ideas on a Finite Planet by Ramez Naam
On the Shortness of Life by Seneca
Food: A Love Story by Jim Gaffigan
Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing with Organizations by Clay Shirky
Ready Player One by Ernest Cline
The Bourne Ascendancy by Eric Van Lustbader
Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future by Peter Thiel
The Plot to Save the Planet: How Visionary Entrepreneurs and Corporate Titans are Creating Real Solutions to Global Warming by Brian Dumaine
Think Like a Freak by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner
Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products by Nir Eyal
You Are Not a Gadget: A Manifesto by Jaron Lanier
World’s Best Travel Experiences: 400 Extraordinary Places by National Geographic
The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America’s Great Migration by Isabel Wilkerson
Foundation by Isaac Asimov
Forward the Foundation by Isaac Asimov
Sea of Fire by Tom Clancy
Future Crimes: Everything is Connected, Everyone is Vulnerable, and What we Can do About It by Marc Goodman
Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion by Robert B. Cialdini
Astonish Yourself: 101 Experiments in the Philosophy of Everyday Life by Roger Pol Droit
The Moviegoer by Walker Percy
Green Hills of Africa by Ernest Hemingway
What if? Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions by Randall Monroe
The Autobiography of Malcolm X by Malcolm X
Bangkok 8: A Royal Thai Detective Novel by John Burndet
The Andromeda Strain by Michael Crichton
So Good They Can’t Ignore You Cal Newport
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
Do Androids Dream of Robot Sheep by Philip Dick
Deadline by Mira Grant
Blackout by Mira Grant
AngularJS: Up and Running: Enhanced Productivity with Structured Web Apps by Brad Green and Shyam Seshadri
Company K by William March
War Dogs by Greg Bear
The Art of Living: The Classical Manual on Virtue, Happiness, and Effectiveness by Epictetus
Motherless Brooklyn: Jonathan Lethem
Small is Beautiful: Economics as if People Mattered by E.F. Schumacher
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz
Lords of the Sith by Paul Kemp
When to Rob a Bank and 131 More Warped Suggestions and Well-Intentioned Rants by Steven Levitt and Stephen Dubner
We Learn Nothing by Tim Kreider
Cosmos by Carl Sagan
The Second Machine Age: Work, Progress, and Prosperity in a Time Of Brilliant Technologies by Erik Brynjolfsson and Andrew McAfee
This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs The Climate by Naomi Klein
Tomorrowland: Our Journey from Science Fiction to Science Fact by Steven Kotler
Why the West Rules — For Now by Ian Morris
Tom Clancy Under Fire by Grant Blackwood
The End of Jobs: Money, Meaning and Freedom Without the 9-to-5 by Taylor Pearson
APE: Author, Publisher, Entrepreneur-How to Publish a Book by Guy Kawasaki
Dying Every Day: Seneca at the Court of Nero by James Romm
Ultimate Star Wars by Ryder Windham
A Million Miles in a Thousand Years: How I Learned to Live a Better Story by Donald Miller
The Painted Bird by Jerzy Kosinski
Apex by Ramez Naam
Our Final Invention: Artificial Intelligence and the End of the Human Era by James Barrat
The Beach by Alex Garland
Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
Defining Decade by Meg Jay
The Slow Regard of Silent Things by Patrick Rothfuss
The Fourth Turning by William Strauss
Tom Clancy Support and Defend by Mark Greaney
The Best Interface is No Interface by Golden Krishna
A History of the World in 6 Glasses by Tom Standage
The Happiness Project or Why I spent a Year Trying to Sing in the Morning, Clean my Closets, Fight RIght, Read Aristotle, and Generally Have More Fun by Gretchen Rubin
The Digital Economy: Rethinking Promise and Peril in the Age of Networked Intelligence by Don Tapscott
Groundswell, Expanded and Revised Edition: Winning in a World Transformed by Social Technologies by Charlene Li and Josh Bernoff
Remote: Office Not Required by Jason Fried and David Heinemeier Hansson
The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right by Atul Gawande
Insight Guides: Thailand by Howard Richardson
Shantaram: A Novel by Gregory David Roberts
Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar by Cheryl Strayed
Hackers & Painters: Big Ideas from the Computer Age by Paul Graham
Journey to Star Wars: The Force Awakens Lost Stars by Claudia Gray
The Martian by Andy Weir
A Curious Mind: The Secret to a Bigger Life by Brian Grazer
Altered Carbon by Richard Morgan
What Technology Wants by Kevin Kelly
The Age of Access: The New Culture of Hypercapitalism, Where all of Life is a Paid-For Experience by Jeremy Rifkin
The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari: A Fable About Fulfilling Your Dreams & Reaching Your Destiny by Robin Sharma
Make Your Mark: The Creative’s Guide to Building a Business with Impact by Jocelyn Glei
Tao Te Ching by Lao Tzu and Stephen Mitchell
The Monk and the Riddle: The Art of Creating a Life While Making a Living by Randy Komisar
Seven Eves: A Novel by Neal Stephenson
The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom by Don Miguel Ruiz
Gulliver’s Travels by Jonathan Swift
Endurance: Shackleton’s Incredible Voyage by Alfred Lansing
The Dharma Bums by Jack Kerouac
Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson
Buy Your Own Island: The Ultimate Guide to Breaking Free and Making Your Dreams Reality by Danny Flood
Digital Nomad Escape Plan: Thailand Expat Guide for Working Remotely in Chiang Mai, Thailand by Michael Hulleman
The Elements of User Experience: User-Centered Design for the Web by Jesse James Garrett
Your Money or Your Life: 9 Steps to Transforming Your Relationship with Money and Achieving Financial Independence by Vicki Robin
The Analects of Confucius translated by Arthur Waley
Star Wars: Dark Disciple by Christie Golden
Ulysses by James Joyce
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values by Robert M. Pirsig
Star Wars: Heir to the Jedi Hardcover by Kevin Hearne
Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson
My reading list from 2014
