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Must Read Non-Fiction Books
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items Best non-fiction books I've read in the last 12 months since I started my goal of over 50 books a year.
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Sections
7
Investing Wisdom
Personal Productivity
Leadership
Your Longevity
Better Sleep
Greatest Innovators & Icons
Investing Wisdom
From Warren Buffett, Charlie Munger, Tony Robbins
This book provides practical financial advice on how to achieve financial freedom. It focuses on strategies like smart investing, managing risks, and building a solid financial foundation to secure one's future and achieve peace of mind.
Unshakeable: Financial Freedom Playbook
A collection of articles and insights on Warren Buffett's investment philosophies, his journey with Berkshire Hathaway, and his broader views on business and life. Offers a comprehensive look at Buffett's strategies and the wisdom that has driven his...
Tap Dancing to Work: Buffett on Everything
Offers the wisdom and life lessons of Charlie Munger, focusing on multidisciplinary learning, decision-making, and investment strategies. Through speeches and essays, Munger emphasizes practical wisdom, integrity, and the value of learning from multi...
Poor Charlie’s Almanack: Wisdom of Munger
Top strategies from Tony Robbins emphasizing diversification, asset allocation, and risk management to achieve financial freedom. It explores alternative investments, including private equity and real estate, highlighting how these approaches have consistently outperformed tradition...
The Holy Grail of Investing: Strategies for Freedom
Personal Productivity
Simple things/habits to change your productivity tenfold
A blueprint for achieving personal and financial success through 13 principles, such as desire, faith, and persistence. It emphasizes the power of thoughts and a clear, unwavering purpose in transforming ideas into tangible wealth.
Think and Grow Rich: Official Napoleon Hill
This book emphasizes the power of waking up early to maximize productivity and improve well-being. By adopting a 5 AM routine, focusing on personal growth, and consistently practicing daily habits, readers can achieve exceptional success and transfor...
The 5AM Club: Own Your Morning. Elevate Your Life.
Explains how small, consistent changes can lead to remarkable results. It emphasizes building good habits and breaking bad ones through a system of cues, cravings, responses, and rewards, rather than relying solely on motivation. The key idea is that...
Atomic Habits: Build Good Habits & Break Bad
Leadership
Learn from the best
Explores the six key principles of influence: reciprocity, commitment and consistency, social proof, authority, liking, and scarcity. These principles explain how people are persuaded and how to use these techniques effectively to influence others in...
Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion
Outlines the seven habits to improve personal and professional effectiveness: be proactive, begin with an end in mind, prioritize important tasks, think win-win, seek to understand first, synergize, and regularly renew yourself. These habits focus on...
The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People
Provides 21 practical strategies to overcome procrastination and get more important things done. The central idea is to tackle your most challenging task first each day to boost productivity and achieve your goals efficiently.
Eat That Frog!: 21 Ways to Stop Procrastinating
Offers practical leadership lessons derived from the author's military experiences. Emphasizes values like honor, integrity, and resilience, providing straightforward, actionable advice for effective leadership in any field.
The Wisdom of the Bullfrog: Leadership Guide
A motivational book that shares ten life lessons learned from Navy SEAL training, emphasizing the importance of small tasks, resilience, teamwork, and perseverance to overcome challenges and achieve success.
Make Your Bed: Little Things That Change Life
Your Longevity
Improve your lifespan and healthspan
Explores the science of aging and presents the idea that aging is a disease that can be treated. It discusses how advances in genetics, biology, and lifestyle can potentially extend the human lifespan and improve overall health.
Lifespan: Why We Age―and Why We Don't Have To
Explores the science of aging and provides strategies to extend health and longevity. It emphasizes the importance of diet, exercise, stress management, and cutting-edge medical innovations to enhance vitality and prevent age-related diseases. The bo...
Young Forever: Secrets to a Healthy Life
Explores regions where people live the longest. It identifies common lifestyle traits such as plant-based diets, regular physical activity, strong social connections, and a sense of purpose that contribute to longevity in these areas.
Blue Zones Secrets for Living Longer
Evidence-based advice on extending lifespan and improving healthspan. It explores dietary and lifestyle interventions, debunks myths in the anti-aging industry, and emphasizes the role of nutrition, exercise, and science-backed strategies to prevent ...
How Not to Age: A Scientific Approach
Focuses on extending lifespan and healthspan through proactive medicine. It emphasizes early intervention, personalized healthcare, and lifestyle changes such as diet, exercise, and sleep to prevent chronic diseases and improve overall quality of lif...
Outlive: The Science and Art of Longevity
Better Sleep
The shorter your sleep, the shorter your lifespan
Offers practical advice on improving sleep quality. It covers understanding sleep, its importance, common disorders, and effective treatments. The book emphasizes behavioral changes, good sleep hygiene, and seeking medical help for persistent issues,...
Harvard Medical School Guide to Sleep
Offers a simple seven-day plan to help improve your sleep. It provides practical tips and daily habits to reset your sleep patterns, ensuring you get better rest and feel more refreshed.
The Stress Prescription: 7 Days to Joy
This book offers a seven-day plan to manage stress and build resilience, focusing on practical strategies to embrace uncertainty, control reactions to stress, and cultivate joy. It aims to transform the reader's relationship with stress through small...
The Sleep Prescription: Unlock Your Best Rest
The book explains the critical importance of sleep, detailing its benefits for the brain and body, the consequences of sleep deprivation, and the mechanisms of dreaming. It highlights the detrimental impact of modern society on sleep and calls for a ...
Why We Sleep: Unlocking Sleep's Power
Greatest Innovators & Icons
Famous people as written by Walter Isaacson
A collection of Bezos' writings and speeches, emphasizing innovation, customer obsession, and the importance of maintaining a "Day One" mentality in business. The book highlights Bezos' thoughts on leadership, entrepreneurship, and the strategic deci...
Invent and Wander: Writings of Jeff Bezos
Steve Jobs revolutionized multiple industries by merging creativity with technology. Known for his intense personality, he transformed personal computing, animated movies, music, phones, tablets, and digital publishing. His legacy includes iconic pro...
Steve Jobs
Chronicles Musk's journey from his challenging childhood in South Africa to becoming a pivotal figure in multiple industries, including electric vehicles, space exploration, and artificial intelligence. It highlights his relentless drive, innovative ...
Elon Musk
Delves into the life of the quintessential Renaissance man. It explores Leonardo's boundless curiosity and his genius in art, science, and engineering. The biography highlights his masterworks, innovative sketches, and the intricate connections he ma...
Leonardo da Vinci
Chronicles Jennifer Doudna's pioneering work with CRISPR gene-editing technology. It highlights her scientific journey, the ethical implications of genetic manipulation, and her role in combating the COVID-19 pandemic. The book emphasizes the revolut...
The Code Breaker: Doudna & Gene Editing
AI Visionaries
The experts with the foresight to predict the future
Ray Kurzweil predicts that by 2045, technological advancements will allow humans to merge with AI, dramatically enhancing our intelligence and abilities. This transformation, called the Singularity, will be driven by exponential growth in computing p...
The Singularity Is Nearer: When We Merge with AI
Nigel Toon explores how artificial intelligence works, its potential benefits, and the challenges it presents. It explains the technology behind AI, compares it to human intelligence, and emphasizes the need for responsible AI development and control...
How AI Thinks: Building and Controlling AI
Kai-Fu Lee and Chen Qiufan presents a collection of science fiction stories exploring how AI might transform various aspects of human life by 2041. Each story illustrates potential applications of AI, addressing both the technological advancements an...
AI 2041: Ten Visions for Our Future
Ethan Mollick explores the integration of AI into everyday life and work, emphasizing collaboration between humans and AI. The book provides practical strategies for leveraging AI, discusses its potential future impact, and stresses the importance of...
Co-Intelligence: Living and Working with AI
Nick Bostrom explores a future where technology has advanced to the point of solving all material problems. It delves into the philosophical and existential questions of purpose, meaning, and fulfillment in a world where human effort is no longer nee...
Deep Utopia: Life and Meaning in a Solved World