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Max Holzheu
Cofounder at Beek.io. College Dropout.

Must-read books for 2016

Just like last year I want to share with you the books I want to read in 2016. Last year’s list was a huge success. It gave me a sense of direction and allowed me to focus on best books only. It also made me realize how much I grew as a person during the year. Books like The Accidental Universe or The Total Money Makeover seemed great choices in January and were interesting to read, but they didn’t provide enough juice. Books like that won’t make the cut this year. I want to keep this list restricted to only the best of the best. And, to make things even better, I want to up the ante and increase the list from 25 to 30 books. That’s 2.5 books per month. Let’s do this!

Update: 26 down, 4 to go!

  1. The Passionate Programmer — Chad Fowler (comes from last year)
  2. Talking to Humans — Giff Constable (comes from last year)
  3. Meditations — Marcus Aurelius
  4. Venture Deals — Brad Feld and Jason Mendelson
  5. Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future — Ashlee Vance ✓
  6. The Virgin Way — Richard Branson ✓
  7. The Tell-Tale Brain — Vilayanur S. Ramachandran ✓
  8. The Fountainhead — Ayn Rand ✓
  9. Mastery — Robert Greene ✓
  10. Mindset — Carol Dweck ✓
  11. Do The Work — Steven Pressfield ✓
  12. Flow — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi ✓
  13. The Hard Thing About Hard Things — Ben Horowitz ✓
  14. Daily Rituals: How Artists Work — Mason Currey ✓
  15. Creativity, Inc — Amy Wallace and Edwin Catmull ✓
  16. Open — Andre Agassi ✓
  17. Surely You’re Joking, Mr. Feynman! — Ralph Leighton and Richard Feynman ✓
  18. Snow Crash — Neal Stephenson ✓
  19. The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin — Benjamin Franklin ✓
  20. The Prince — Niccolò Machiavelli ✓
  21. Antifragile — Nassim Nicholas Taleb ✓
  22. Freakonomics — Stephen J. Dubner and Steven Levitt ✓
  23. The Circle — Dave Eggers ✓
  24. The Score Takes Care of Itself — Bill Walsh ✓
  25. Chasing The Scream: The First and Last Days of the War on Drugs— Johann Hari ✓
  26. Ready Player One — Ernest Cline ✓
  27. Bold — Peter Diamandis ✓
  28. Pitch Anything — Oren Klaff ✓
  29. Sapiens — Yuval Noah Harari ✓
  30. 48 Laws of Power — Robert Greene ✓

Last year, I left the last book up for grabs because of necessity: I didn’t know what I wanted to read. This year, I still have tons of books that didn’t make the list. I want you to help me fill the list. What book has changed your life? What book was so earth-shattering that it completely messed up your previous conception of the world? I want to read it. Let me know by leaving a response or contact me on Twitter.

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