📚 Alex's Reading List

Note : Between 2023 - and Now ( 2025 ) - I lost my shit with Audible, and used a different playback tool. History is not as linear as it should be.

Smile, or You're Doing It Wrong — Andy Glaze

1. Grokking Algorithms – Aditya Bhargava
2. Be Useful: Seven Tools for Life – Arnold Schwarzenegger
3. Doom Guy: Life in First Person – John Romero
4. Don't Wait for Someone Else to Fix It – Doug Lennick, Chuck Wachendorfer
5. Feel-Good Productivity – Ali Abdaal
6. Founders at Work – Jessica Livingston
7. Great Leaders Have No Rules – Kevin Kruse
8. North – Scott Jurek, Jenny Jurek
9. Outlive: The Science and Art of Longevity – Dr. Peter Attia
10. Radical Candor – Kim Scott
11. Master Mentors – Scott Jeffrey Miller
12. Supercommunicators – Charles Duhigg
13. The Art of Small Talk – Casey Wilson, Jessica St. Clair
14. The End of Burnout – Jonathan Malesic
15. The Perfection Trap – Thomas Curran
16. Loonshots – Safi Bahcall
17. Death by Meeting – Patrick Lencioni
18. Running Meetings – Harvard Business Review
19. The Surprising Science of Meetings – Steven G. Rogelberg, L. J. Ganser
20. Working Backwards – Colin Bryar, Bill Carr
21. Steal Like an Artist — Austin Kleon
22. Becoming a Data Head — Alex J. Gutman, Jordan Goldmeier
23. Chaos Monkeys — Antonio García Martínez
24. Fixing Your Feet — John Vonhof
25. How to Be a Good Boss and a Great Leader — Anthony Raymond
26. Smile, or You're Doing It Wrong — Andy Glaze
27. Source Code: My Beginnings — Bill Gates
28. The Hard Thing About Hard Things — Ben Horowitz
29. Thinking in Bets — Annie Duke

• Don’t Wait For Someone Else to Fix It – Doug Lennick, Chuck Wachendorfer
• Outlive: The Science & Art of Longevity – Peter Attia, M.D.
• Doom Guy: Life in First Person – John Romero
• Relentless Forward Progress
• How to Get Rich – Felix Dennis
• Undoctored – Adam Kay
• Running Your First Ultra
• Training Essentials for Ultrarunning
• Ultramarathon Man – Dean Karnazes
• Endure – Cameron Hanes
• The Paradox of Choice
• The Tipping Point – Malcolm Gladwell
• Build – Tony Fadell
• Die With Zero – Bill Perkins
• Thanks for the Feedback – Douglas Stone, Sheila Heen
• Four Thousand Weeks – Oliver Burkeman
• A Hunter-Gatherer’s Guide to the 21st Century – Heather Heying
• Hyperfocus – Chris Bailey
• Talking to Strangers – Malcolm Gladwell
• Windswept & Interesting – Billy Connolly

• Calling Bullshit – Dropped, got bored

• The Way I Heard It – Mike Rowe
• A Police Interceptor's Drive into Darkness – Benjamin Pearson
• Training for Ultra – Rob Steger
• The Storyteller – Dave Grohl
• Meathead – Meathead Goldwyn

• Rich Dad's Guide to Investing
• The Madness of Crowds – Douglas Murray
• Fake Law – The Secret Barrister
• Irresistible – Adam Alter
• A Bit of a Stretch – Chris Atkins
• The Secret Barrister
• This Is Going to Hurt – Adam Kay
• Tools of Titans – Tim Ferriss
• Smoke Gets in Your Eyes – Caitlin Doughty
• Simply Said – Jay Sullivan
• The Field Guide to Understanding 'Human Error' – Sidney Dekker

• The Unfair Advantage
• The Intelligent Investor (Rev Ed.)

• The Richest Man in Babylon
• Woke – Titania McGrath
• The Grid
• Rich Dad Poor Dad – Robert Kiyosaki
• Loserthink – Scott Adams
• For the Record – David Cameron
• Never Split the Difference – Chris Voss
• Call Sign Chaos – Jim Mattis
• Midnight in Chernobyl – Adam Higginbotham
• Stop Doing That Sht* – Gary John Bishop
• What the Most Successful People Do Before Breakfast – Laura Vanderkam
• Surrounded by Idiots – Thomas Erikson
• Algorithms to Live By – Brian Christian, Tom Griffiths
• The Keto Reset Diet – Mark Sisson
• The Everything Store – Brad Stone
• Do Dice Play God? – Ian Stewart
• Masters of Doom – David Kushner
• Everything Is Fcked* – Mark Manson
• The Power of Habit – Charles Duhigg
• Range – David Epstein
• Crash Test Girl – Kari Byron
• Every Tool's a Hammer – Adam Savage
• Skunk Works – Ben Rich
• Paddle Your Own Canoe – Nick Offerman
• The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying – Marie Kondo
• The Rise of the Ultra Runners – Adharanand Finn

• What If? – Too familiar with content
• Ten Arguments for Deleting Your Social Media – Didn’t find it useful
• Energy and Civilization: A History – Boring

• 12 Rules for Life – Jordan Peterson
• 48 Laws of Power – Robert Greene
• Animal Farm – George Orwell
• Born to Run – Christopher McDougall
• Brave New World – Aldous Huxley
• Deep Work – Cal Newport
• Elon Musk – Ashlee Vance
• Ender's Game – Orson Scott Card
• How to Win Friends & Influence People – Dale Carnegie
• Losing My Virginity – Richard Branson
• Meditations – Marcus Aurelius
• Nineteen Eighty-Four – George Orwell
• Ready Player One – Ernest Cline
• The 4-Hour Work Week – Tim Ferriss
• The Art of War – Sun Tzu
• The Martian – Andy Weir
• The Subtle Art of Not Giving a Fck* – Mark Manson
• Thinking, Fast and Slow – Daniel Kahneman
• Win Bigly – Scott Adams
• Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance – Robert M. Pirsig