You are what you read — 2016 Edition

In the last couple of years I’ve actively tried to improve my daily reading routine, cutting out dopamine inducing articles and replacing them with books. Since many friends have asked, here is the unfiltered, unranked list of all the titles that kept me company over the last 12 months.

Let My People Go Surfing: The Education of a Reluctant Businessman

Brain Maker: The Power of Gut Microbes to Heal and Protect Your Brain-for Life

Play Bigger: How Pirates, Dreamers, and Innovators Create and Dominate Markets

Doing Good Better: How Effective Altruism Can Help You Help Others, Do Work that Matters, and Make…

Deep: Freediving, Renegade Science, and What the Ocean Tells Us about Ourselves

The Most Important Thing Illuminated: Uncommon Sense for the Thoughtful Investor (Columbia Business…

The ONE Thing: The Surprisingly Simple Truth Behind Extraordinary Results

Designing Your Life: How to Build a Well-Lived, Joyful Life

Quiet Leadership: Winning Hearts, Minds and Matches

Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance

Do the Work

Mindset: The New Psychology of Success

Competing Against Luck: The Story of Innovation and Customer Choice

Attached: The New Science of Adult Attachment and How It Can Help You Find-and Keep-Love

Powerhouse: The Untold Story of Hollywood’s Creative Artists Agency

Smarter Faster Better: The Secrets of Being Productive in Life and Business

The Inevitable: Understanding the 12 Technological Forces That Will Shape Our Future

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

Serve to Win: The 14-Day Gluten-Free Plan for Physical and Mental Excellence

How Will You Measure Your Life?

Algorithms to Live By: The Computer Science of Human Decisions

The Power of Vulnerability: Teachings of Authenticity, Connection, and Courage

Ego Is the Enemy

The 5 Elements of Effective Thinking

The Advantage: Why Organizational Health Trumps Everything Else In Business

Nonviolent Communication: A Language of Life, 3rd Edition: Life-Changing Tools for Healthy…

Shoe Dog: A Memoir by the Creator of Nike

The Industries of the Future

Alibaba: The House That Jack Ma Built

The Beginning of Infinity: Explanations That Transform the World

An Astronaut’s Guide to Life on Earth: What Going to Space Taught Me About Ingenuity, Determination…

Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind

Originals: How Non-Conformists Move the World

The Hero with a Thousand Faces (The Collected Works of Joseph Campbell)

SPIN Selling

Tao Te Ching: A New English Version (Perennial Classics)

Pacific: Silicon Chips and Surfboards, Coral Reefs and Atom Bombs, Brutal Dictators and Fading…

The Machine Stops

On Dialogue (Routledge Classics) (Volume 76)

The Evolving Self: Problem and Process in Human Development

Psychoanalytic Diagnosis, Second Edition: Understanding Personality Structure in the Clinical…

In case you are interested I also published a collection of books I read in 2015 on Product Hunt.

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