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Books & Reading Lists
Books & Reading Lists
1. Memoirs & Biographies
- The Sun Does Shine: How I Found Life and Freedom on Death Row by Anthony Ray Hinton
- Whistleblower: My Journey to Silicon Valley and Fight for Justice at Uber. By Susan Fowler
- Good for a Girl: A Woman Running in a Man’s World. By Lauren Fleshman
- This is Going to Hurt: Secret Diaries of a Junior Doctor by Adam Kay
- The Best Minds: A Story of Friendship, Madness, and the Tragedy of Good Intentions by Jonathan Rosen
- A Well-Trained Wife: My Escape from Christian Patriarchy by Tia Levings
- The Many Lives of Mama Love: A Memoir of Lying, Stealing, Writing, and Healing by Lara Love Hardin
- Down with the System: A Memoir. By Serj Tankian
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Yo estoy vivo y vosotros estáis muertos: Un viaje a la mente de Phillip K. Dick. By Emmanuel Carrère
- Know My Name: A Memoir by Chanel Miller
- The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales by Oliver Sacks
- Surely You’re Joking, Mr. Feynman! Adventures of a Curious Character by Richard P. Feynman
- Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates
- Unbound: My Story of Liberation and the Birth of the Me Too Movement by Tarana Burke
- Greenlights by Matthew McConaughey
- Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail by Cheryl Strayed
- Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life by William Finnegan
- Educated by Tara Westover
- The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
- Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body by Roxane Gay
- Red Velvet Underground: A Rock Memoir, with Recipes by Freda Love Smith
2. Music & Art
- The Art of Practicing: A Guide to Making Music from the Heart by Madeline Bruser
- The Joy of Music by Leonard Bernstein
- La literatura y la música son parte de mi by Julieta Venegas
- Music Theory for Dummies by Michael Pilhofer
3. AI, Product, Business & UX
- The Upstarts: How Uber, Airbnb, and the Killer Companies of the New Silicon Valley Are Changing the World by Brad Stone
- Apple in China: The Capture of the World’s Greatest Company by Patrick McGee
- Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products by Nir Eyal
- Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness by Richard H. Thaler
- Evidence-Guided: Creating High Impact Products in the Face of Uncertainty by Itamar Gilad
- How to Break Up with Your Phone: The 30-Day Plan to Take Back Your Life by Catherine Price
- Race After Technology: Abolitionist Tools for the New Jim Code by Ruha Benjamin
4. Health, Psychology & Wellness
- The Happiness Hypothesis: Finding Modern Truth in Ancient Wisdom by Jonathan Haidt
- The Parent’s Tao Te Ching: Ancient Advice for Modern Parents by William Martin
- The Way Out: A Revolutionary, Scientifically Proven Approach to Healing Chronic Pain by Alan Gordon
- Good Energy: The Surprising Connection Between Metabolism and Limitless Health by Casey Means
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Made Simple: 10 Strategies for Managing Anxiety, Depression, Anger, Panic, and Worry by Seth J. Gillihan
- Dreamland: The True Tale of America’s Opiate Epidemic by Sam Quinones
- The Wisdom of Wolves: Lessons From the Sawtooth Pack by Jim Dutcher
- Scattered Minds: The Origins and Healing of Attention Deficit Disorder by Gabor Maté
- The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett
- Eating Animals by Jonathan Safran Foer
- The Plantpower Way: Whole Food Plant-Based Recipes and Guidance for The Whole Family by Rich Roll
- The Happy Runner: Love the Process, Get Faster, Run Longer by David Roche
5. Literature, Classics, Philosophy & Science
- Utopia for Realists: How We Can Build the Ideal World by Rutger Bregman
- Women Who Run With the Wolves by Clarissa Pinkola Estés
- The Aeronaut’s Windlass by Jim Butcher
- The Wizard and the Prophet: Two Remarkable Scientists and Their Dueling Visions to Shape Tomorrow’s World by Charles C. Mann
- The Book that Made Your World: How the Bible Created the Soul of Western Civilization by Vishal Mangalwadi
- The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy
- The Fabric of Reality: The Science of Parallel Universes by David Deutsch
- East of Eden by John Steinbeck
- What is Life? by Erwin Schrödinger
- Breaking the Habit of Being Yourself: How to Lose Your Mind and Create a New One by Dr Joe Dispenza
- G.K. Chesterton
6. Curated Shelves, Goodreads and others
- Andy Piper’ profile at bookrastinating.com
- Scott Jenson’s Recommended UX Books
- Non-Amazon Alternatives
- Zach Hamed’s Books + The 20 Best Lessons from Social Psychology
- Russell Moore’s Books
- Melissa’s ‘Read’ Books
- Maraoz’s ‘Read’ Books
- Great “Dog” Books List (1338 books)
- Non-Fiction Dogs Shelf