Autobiographies 

1. Eric Schmidt, Jonathan Rosenberg, and Alan Eagle: Trillion Dollar Coach: The Leadership Playbook of Silicon Valley's Bill Campbell
2. Yevgenia Ginzburg: Journey into the Whirlwind

Bitcoin

1. Saifedean Ammous: The Bitcoin Standard: The Decentralized Alternative to Central Banking

Business, Marketing, and Sales

1. David H. Sandler: You Can't Teach a Kid to Ride a Bike at a Seminar: Sandler Training's 7-Step System for Successful Selling
2. Jim Camp: Start with No: The Negotiating Tools That the Pros Don't Want You to Know
3. John Carlton: Kick-Ass Copywriting Secrets of a Marketing Rebel
4. Josh Kaufman: The Personal MBA: Master the Art of Business
5. Matt Mochary: The Great CEO Within: The Tactical Guide to Company Building 
   
6. Richard Koch: The 80/20 Principle and 92 Other Powerful Laws of Nature: The Science of Success

Economics

1. Adam Smith: The Wealth of Nations
2. Gary North: Mises on Money
3. Gary North: What Is Money?
4. Henry Hazlitt: Economics in One Lesson: The Shortest and Surest Way to Understand Basic Economics
5. James Dale Davidson: The Sovereign Individual: Mastering the Transition to the Information Age
6. Murray N. Rothbard: What Has Government Done to Our Money?

Evolutionary Biology

1. Robert Trivers: The Folly of Fools: The Logic of Deceit and Self-Deception in Human Life

History

1. David C. Lindberg: The Beginnings of Western Science: The European Scientific Tradition in Philosophical, Religious, and Institutional Context, Prehistory to A.D. 1450
2. John Hersey: Hiroshima
3. Iris Chang: The Rape of Nanking: The Forgotten Holocaust of World War II

Investing

1. Claudia Zeisberger, Michael Prahl, and Bowen White: Mastering Private Equity: Transformation via Venture Capital, Minority Investments and Buyouts
2. Howard Marks: The Most Important Thing: Uncommon Sense for The Thoughtful Investor
3. Mark Spitznagel: The Dao of Capital: Austrian Investing in a Distorted World
4. Peter Bevelin: Seeking Wisdom: From Darwin to Munger, 3rd Edition
5. Seth A. Klarman: Margin of Safety: Risk-Averse Value Investing Strategies for the Thoughtful Investor

Linguistics 

1. Dr. Mardy Grothe: Metaphors Be with You: An A to Z Dictionary of History's Greatest Metaphorical Quotations
2. George Lakoff and Mark Johnson: Metaphors We Live By

Novels

1. Fyodor Dostoevsky: Notes from Underground
2. Leo Tolstoy: The Death of Ivan Ilyich and Other Stories
   

Philosophy, Self-Help, and Spirituality

1. David R. Hawkins: Healing and Recovery
2. David R. Hawkins: Reality and Subjectivity
3. Eknath Easwaran: The Upanishad
4. John C. Maxwell: The 5 Levels of Leadership: Proven Steps to Maximize Your Potential
5. Luke Rhinehart: The Book of Est
6. Raymond Holliwell: Working With The Law
7. Swami Dayananda Saraswati: Pūrṇamadaḥ Pūrṇamidam
8. Swami Dayananda Saraswati: The Bhagavad Gita in nineteen talks
9. Swami Rama: Spirituality: Transformation Within and Without

Politics 

1. Frédéric Bastiat: The Law

Psychology 

1. Brad Blanton: Radical Honesty: How to Transform Your Life by Telling the Truth
2. Chase Hughes: Collected Works of Chase Hughes
3. Chase Hughes: Six-Minute X-Ray: Rapid Behavior Profiling
4. Christopher Hadnagy: Human Hacking: Win Friends, Influence People, and Leave Them Better Off for Having Met You
5. Douglas O'Brien: The User's Guide to Sleight Of Mouth
6. Gil & Nil Peretz: Obama's Secrets: How to Speak and Communicate with Power and a Little Magic
7. Robert Dilts: Sleight of Mouth: The Magic of Conversational Belief Change

Science

1. James Gleick: Chaos: Making a New Science
2. David Deutsch: The Beginning of Infinity: Explanations That Transform the World
3. Donella H. Meadows: Thinking in Systems: A Primer

Writing

1. Bryan A. Garner: Better Business Writing: Engage Readers, Tighten and Brighten, Make Your Case
2. Bryan A. Garner: The Winning Brief: 100 Tips for Persuasive Briefing in Trial and Appellate Courts

Updated May 12, 2022