Bookroll

These are some of my favorite books (that I can remember having recently read):

Startup Life and Biz in General

 

MUST READS – If you are running a startup, read these

  • The Lean Startup – Eric Ries
  • Rework – Jason Fried
  • Predictably Irrational – Dan Ariely
  • Positioning: The Battle for your Mind – Al Ries and Jack Trout
  • Differentiate or Die: Jack Trout
  • Drive – Daniel H Pink
  • To Sell is Human – Daniel H Pink
  • Where Good Ideas Come From – Steven Johnson
  • Venture Deals – Jason Mendelson
  • The Checklist Manifesto – Atul Gawande
  • Crossing the Chasm – Geoffrey Moore
  • All Marketers Tell Stories – Seth Godin
  • Never Eat Alone – Keith Ferrazzi
  • Spent – Geoffrey Miller

PRETTY GOOD – Nice reading

  • The Art of the Start – Guy Kawasaki
  • Hackers & Painters – Paul Graham
  • Inspired, how to create products customers love – Marty Cagan
  • Startup Nation – Dan Senor
  • Seizing the White Space – Mark Johnson
  • The Art of Pricing – Rafi Mohammed
  • Influencer – Kerry Paterson
  • Outliers – Malcolm Gladwell
  • What Would Google Do – Jeff Jarvis
  • Blue Ocean Strategy – Renee Mauborgne
  • The Turnaround Kid – Steve Miller
  • Adventure Capitalist – Jim Rogers
  • The First Billion is the Hardest – T. Boone Pickens
  • Lean Startup Marketing – Sean Ellis

Sci-fi & Misc

  • Flatland – Edwin A Abbot
  • The Traveler – John Twelve Hawks
  • The Dark River – John Twelve Hawks
  • The Golden City  – John Twelve Hawks
  • Inferno – Jerry Pournell, Larry Niven
  • The Mote in God’s Eye – Larry Niven
  • The Lost Fleet – Jack Campbell
  • Old Man’s War – John Scalzi
  • Childhood’s End – Arthur C. Clarke
  • The Artifact – Patrick Astre
  • Seven Views of Olduvai Gorge – Mike Resnick
  • Seeker – Jack McDevitt
  • Rendezvous with Rama – Arthur C. Clarke
  • The Forever war – Joe Haldeman
  • Protector – Larry Niven
  • Spin – Robert Charles Wilson
  • Timeline – Michael Crichton
  • Ringworld – Larry Niven
  • The Fabric of the Cosmos – Brian Green
  • Healing Back Pain – John E Sarno
  • Don’t Sweat the Small Stuff – Richard Carlson
  • Fatal System Error – Joseph Menn
  • 97 Things Every Programmer Should Know – Kevlin Henney

 

 

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