History / Macroeconomics:

• Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (Yuval Noah Harari)
  #civilization
• Americana: A 400-Year History of American Capitalism (Bhu Srinivasan)
  #United States #capitalism #industries
• Principle: Dealing with The Changing World Order (Ray Dalio)
  #Empire #Cycles #capitalism
• Energy and Civilization: A History (Vaclav Smil)
  #energy #civilization
• Guns, Germs, and Steel (Jared Diamond)
  #civilization
• The Lessons of History (Will Durant)
  #evolution
• The Path Between the Seas: The Creation of the Panama Canal, 1870-1914 (David McCullough)
  #United States #Latin America
• Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time (David Sobel)
  #Europe #chronometer #astronomy
• The Sovereign Individual: Mastering the Transition to the Information Age (James Dale Davidson)
  #libertarianism
• Divine Fury: A History of Genius (Darrin M. McMahon)
  #genius
• The 48 Laws of Power (Robert Greene)
  #economics #power
• The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany (William Shirer)
  #Germany
• The Rise of Carry: The Dangerous Consequences of Volatility Suppression and the New Financial Order of Decaying Growth and Recurring Crisis (Tim Lee, Jamie Lee, Kevin Coldiron)
  #economics #finance
• The Spider Network: The Wild Story of a Math Genius, a Gang of Backstabbing Bankers, and One of the Greatest Scams in Financial History (David Enrich)
  #fraud #finance
• Capital in the Twenty-First Century (Thomas Piketty)
  #economics #finance
• The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World (Niall Ferguson)
  #economics #finance
• Debt: The First 5,000 Years — Updated and Expanded (David Graeber)
  #economics #finance
• China's Second Continent: How a Million Migrants Are Building a New Empire in Africa (Howard French)
  #China #Africa #economics
• The Other Half of Macroeconomics and the Fate of Globalization (Richard Koo)
  #economics
• Banking Secrecy and Global Finance: Economic and Political Issues (Donato Masciandaro)
  #banking #economics
• House of Niccolo Series (Dorothy Dunnett)
  #banking #economics

Investing:

• University of Berkshire Hathaway: 30 Years of Lessons Learned from Warren Buffett & Charlie Munger at the Annual Shareholders Meeting (Daniel Pecaut)
  #value
• Poor Charlie's Almanack: The Wit and Wisdom of Charles T. Munger (Peter Kaufman)
  #value #biography
• The Intelligent Investor (Ben Graham)
  #value
• Invested: How I Learned to Master My Mind, My Fears, and My Money to Achieve Financial Freedom and Live a More Authentic Life (Phil Town)
  #value
• The Dhandho Investor: The Low-Risk Value Method to High Returns (Monish Pabrai)
  #value
• Margin of Safety: Risk-Averse Value Investing Strategies for the Thoughtful Investor (Seth Klarman)
  #value
• Security Analysis: Principles and Technique (Ben Graham)
  #value
• Common Stocks and Uncommon Profits and Other Writings (Phil Fisher)
  #stock
• The Man Who Solved the Market: How Jim Simons Launched the Quant Revolution (Gregory Zuckerman)
  #quant #JimSimons #biography
• The Quants: How a New Breed of Math Whizzes Conquered Wall Street and Nearly Destroyed It (Scott Patterson)
  #quant #mathematics
• A Man for All Markets: From Las Vegas to Wall Street, How I Beat the Dealer and the Market (Edward O. Thorp)
  #biography
• King of Capital: The Remarkable Rise, Fall, and Rise Again of Steve Schwarzman and Blackstone (David Carey)
  #Schwarzman #blackstone #biography
• The Mathematics of Gambling (Edward O. Thorp)
  #mathematics #gambling
• The Mathematics of Games and Gambling (Edward Packel)
  #mathematics #gambling
• Probability Guide to Gambling: The Mathematics of Dice, Slots, Roulette, Baccarat, Blackjack, Poker, Lottery and Sport Bets (Catalin Barboianu)
  #gambling
• Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder (Nassim Taleb)
• Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets (Nassim Taleb)
• 文明、现代化、价值投资与中国 (Li Lu)
  #China #economics #history #investing

Startup:

• Zero to One (Peter Thiel)
  #monopoly
• High Growth Handbook (Elad Gil)
  #growth
• Hackers & Painters: Big Ideas from the Computer Age (Paul Graham)
  #yc
• Business Adventures: Twelve Classic Tales from the World of Wall Street (John Brooks)
  #GatesNotes #sales
• Measure What Matters: How Google, Bono, and the Gates Foundation Rock the World with OKRs (John Doerr)
  #metrics #data
• Scale: The Universal Laws of Growth, Innovation, Sustainability, and the Pace of Life in Organisms, Cities, Economies, and Companies (Geoffrey West)
  #growth
• Blitzscaling: The Lightning-Fast Path to Building Massively Valuable Companies (Reid Hoffman)
  #LinkedIn #growth
• The Entrepreneur's Guide to Customer Development: A cheat sheet to The Four Steps to the Epiphany (Brant Cooper)
  #growth
• The Innovator's Dilemma: When New Technologies Cause Great Firms to Fail (Clayton M. Christensen)
  #innovations
• Founding Sales (Pete Kazanjy)
  #growth #sales
• The Morando Method (Mitchell Morando)
  #growth #sales
• Venture Deals: Be Smarter Than Your Lawyer and Venture Capitalist (Brad Feld)
  #fundraising #VC
• The Fundraising Rules (Mark Peter Davis)
  #fundraising
• Secrets of Sand Hill Road: Venture Capital and How to Get It (Scott Kupor)
  #fundraising #VC
• The Hardware Startup: Building Your Product, Business, and Brand (Renee DiResta, Brady Forrest, Ryan Vinyard )
  #hardware
• The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers (Ben Horowitz)
  #VC

Leadership / Management:

• The Culture Code: The Secrets of Highly Successful Groups (Daniel Coyle)
  #management #culture
• What You Do Is Who You Are: How to Create Your Business Culture (Ben Horowitz)
  #management #culture #VC
• Trillion Dollar Coach: The Leadership Playbook of Silicon Valley's Bill Campbell (Eric Schmidt )
  #management #SiliconValley #Google
• The Making of a Manager: What to Do When Everyone Looks to You (Julie Zhuo)
  #management #Facebook
• Radical Candor: Be a Kickass Boss Without Losing Your Humanity (Kim Scott)
  #management
• The One Minute Manager (Ken Blanchard)
  #management
• The Carolina Way: Leadership Lessons from a Life in Coaching (Dean Smith)
  #leadership #sports
• It's Your Ship: Management Techniques from the Best Damn Ship in the Navy (Captain D. Michael Abrashoff)
  #leadership #military
• Plain Talk (Ken Iverson)
  #leadership

Biography:

• Lee Kuan Yew (Graham Allison)
  #Singapore #politics
• Steve Jobs (Walter Isaacson)
  #United States #tech #Apple
• Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future (Ashlee Vance)
  #United States #tech #energy #Tesla #SpaceX
• Sons of Wichita: How the Koch Brothers Became America's Most Powerful and Private Dynasty (Daniel Schulman)
  #United States #politics
• Kochland: The Secret History of Koch Industries and Corporate Power in America (Christopher Leonard)
  #United States #politics
• King Icahn: The Biography of a Renegade Capitalist (Mark Stevens)
  #United States #finance #politics
• MBS: The Rise to Power of Mohammed bin Salman (Ben Hubbard)
  #SaudiArabia #politics
• The Polyester Prince: The Rise of Dhirubhai Ambani (Hamish McDonald)
  #India #reliance
• The Billionaire Raj: A Journey Through India's New Gilded Age (James Crabtree)
  #India
• Billion Dollar Whale: The Man Who Fooled Wall Street, Hollywood, and the World (Bradley Hope)
  #Malaysia #UAE #1mdb #SovereignWealthFund #fraud
• Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup (John Carreyrou)
  #United States #ElizabethHolmes #fraud
• Kingpin: How One Hacker Took Over the Billion-Dollar Cybercrime Underground (Kevin Poulson)
  #hacker #crime
• Ghost in the Wires: My Adventures as the World's Most Wanted Hacker (Kevin Mitnick)
  #tech #hacker
• Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage to the Antarctic (Alfred Lansing)
  #navigation #Antarctica
• Benjamin Franklin: An American Life (Walter Isaacson)
  #United States #politics #inventor
• Alexander Hamilton (Ron Chernow)
  #United States #politics
• Einstein: His Life and Universe (Walter Isaacson)
  #United States #physics
• Genius: The Life and Science of Richard Feynman (James Gleick)
  #United States #physics
• Titan: The Life of John D. Rockefeller, Sr. (Ron Chernow)
  #United States #oil
• The House of Morgan: An American Banking Dynasty and the Rise of Modern Finance (Ron Chernow)
  #United States #finance #banking
• Andrew Carnegie (David Nasaw)
  #United States #finance #oil

Industries:

• The Song Machine: Inside the Hit Factory (John Seabrook)
  #music
• The Mirage Factory: Illusion, Imagination, and the Invention of Los Angeles (Gary Krist)
  #film
• Powerhouse: The Untold Story of Hollywood's Creative Artists Agency (James Miller)
  #film #hollywood
• Blackwater: The Rise of the World's Most Powerful Mercenary Army (Jeremy Scahill)
  #blackwater #military
• The Cartiers: The Untold Story of the Family Behind the Jewelry Empire (Francesca Cartier Brickell)
  #jewelry
• Stoned: Jewelry, Obsession, and How Desire Shapes the World (Aja Raden)
  #jewelry
• Boom: Mad Money, Mega Dealers, and the Rise of Contemporary Art (Michael Shnayerson)
  #art
• The Ride of a Lifetime: Lessons Learned from 15 Years as CEO of the Walt Disney Company (Robert Iger)
  #film #disney
• Pour Your Heart Into It: How Starbucks Built a Company One Cup at a Time (Howard Schultz)
  #retail #starbucks
• Shoe Dog: A Memoir by the Creator of Nike (Phil Knight)
  #retail #nike
• The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon (Brad Stone)
  #retail #amazon
• Working Backwards: Insights, Stories, and Secrets from Inside Amazon (Collin Bryar, Bill Carr)
  #retail #amazon #kindle #aws #prime
• One Up: Creativity, Competition, and the Global Business of Video Games (Joost van Dreunen)
  #video games #e-sports
• BARE ESSENTIALS: The ALDI Way to Retail Success (Dieter Brandes)
  #retail #aldi
• Alibaba: The House That Jack Ma Built (Duncan Clark)
  #alibaba #China
• Empire State of Mind: How Jay-Z Went From Street Corner to Corner Office (Zack Greenburg)
  #music #jay-z
• The Idea Factory: Bell Labs and the Great Age of American Innovation (Jon Gertner)
  #tech #Bell Labs #Silicon Valley
• Empires of Light: Edison, Tesla, Westinghouse, and the Race to Electrify the World (Jill Jonnes)
  #electricity #energy
• The Powerhouse: America, China, and the Great Battery War (Steve Levine)
  #battery #electricity #energy
• Wind Power: The Struggle for Control of a New Global Industry (Ben Backwell)
  #wind #energy
• Uranium: War, Energy and the Rock That Shaped the World (Tom Zoellner)
  #nuclear #energy
• How to Make a Spaceship: A Band of Renegades, an Epic Race, and the Birth of Private Spaceflight (Julian Guthrie)
  #space
• Bottle of Lies: The Inside Story of the Generic Drug Boom (Katherine Eban)
  #medicine
• Germ Theory: Medical Pioneers in Infectious Diseases (Robert Gaynes)
  #biology #medicine
• Plastic: A Toxic Love Story (Susan Freinkel)
  #infrastructure #material
• Concrete Planet: The Strange and Fascinating Story of the World's Most Common Man-Made Material (Robert Courland)
  #infrastructure #material
• Steel: From Mine to Mill, the Metal that Made America (Brooke Stoddard)
  #infrastructure #steel #material
• Ninety Percent of Everything: Inside Shipping, the Invisible Industry That Puts Clothes on Your Back, Gas in Your Car, and Food on Your Plate (Rose George)
  #logicstics #shipping
• The Box: How the Shipping Container Made the World Smaller and the World Economy Bigger (Marc Levinson)
  #logicstics #shipping
• Napoleon's Buttons: How 17 Molecules Changed History (Penny Couteur)
  #chemistry #material
• A History of World Agriculture: From the Neolithic Age to the Current Crisis (Marcel Mazoyer)
  #agriculture #history
• The Sugar Barons: Family, Corruption, Empire, and War in the West Indies (Matthew Parker)
  #agriculture #sugar #history
• Cotton: The Biography of a Revolutionary Fiber (Stephen Yafa)
  #agriculture #food #history
• Slaughterhouse: The Shocking Story of Greed, Neglect, And Inhumane Treatment Inside the U.S. Meat Industry (Gail Eisnitz)
  #meat #food
• Samsung Rising: The Inside Story of the South Korean Giant That Set Out to Beat Apple and Conquer Tech (Geoffrey Cain)
  #tech #chips #samsung