Bookshelf

20/02/2026 - This list needs refining. There some great books here but lots that I probably won’t get round to reading anytime soon. To see what I’m currently reading, see my Reading Log page.

Psychology & Behavioral Science

• Thinking, Fast and Slow — Daniel Kahneman

• Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can’t Stop Talking — Susan Cain

• Antifragile — Nassim Taleb

• The Coaching Habit — Michael Bungay Stanier

• Lost Connections — Johann Hari

• A Mind of Your Own — Dr. Kelly Brogan

• The Winner Effect — Ian H. Robertson

• The Expectation Effect — David Robson

• Good Habits, Bad Habits — Wendy Wood

Science & Technology

• Algorithms: A Functional Programming Approach — Fethi Rabhi and Guy Lapalme

• The Cuckoo’s Egg — Clifford Stoll

• Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind — Yuval Noah Harari

• Other Minds — Peter Godfrey-Smith

• The Beautiful Cure — Daniel M. Davis

• Why We Sleep — Matthew Walker

• Grain Brain — David Perlmutter

• Breath — James Nestor

• Python Tricks — Dan Bader

• Measure, Integration & Real Analysis — Sheldon Axler

• Algorithms to Live By — Brian Christian & Tom Griffiths

• The Art of Statistics — David Spiegelhalter

• Super Crunchers — Ian Ayres

• How AI Will Change Your Life — Patrick D. Dixon

• SQL Queries for Mere Mortals — John L. Viescas & Michael J. HernandezRecommendedReference

Personal Development & Self-Help

• Limitless — Jim Kwik

• Think Clearly — Rolf Dobelli

• So Good They Can’t Ignore You — Cal Newport

• How to Win Friends and Influence People — Dale Carnegie

• Finite and Infinite Games — James P. Carse

• Atomic Habits — James ClearRecommended

• The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People — Stephen R. Covey

• Finish What You Start — Peter Hollins

• Self Discipline — Gemma Ray

• 365 Days With Self-Discipline — Martin Meadows

• The 1% Rule — Tommy Baker

• Greenlights — Matthew McConaughey

• The War of Art — Steven Pressfield

• The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success — Deepak Chopra

• Happiness by Design — Paul Dolan

• Ten Times Happier — Owen O’Kane

• The Fitness Mindset — Brian Keane

• Exactly What to Say — Phil M Jones

• The Chimp Paradox — Steve Peters

• How to Thrive in a World of Too Much — Tony Crabbe

• The Source — Tara Swart

• Into the Magic Shop — James R. Doty

• The Little Book of Hygge — Meik Wiking

• Ikigai — Héctor García, Francesc Miralles

• A New Earth — Eckhart Tolle

• The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying — Marie Kondo

• Psycho-Cybernetics — Maxwell Maltz

• The Daily Stoic — Ryan HolidayRecommendedReference

• Meditations by Marcus Aurelius

• Letters from a Stoic (Letters to Lucilius) by Seneca

• How to Keep Your Cool by Seneca

• Stillness Is the Key by Ryan Holiday

• Digital Minimalism by Cal Newport

• Deep Work by Cal Newport

• 4,000 Weeks by Oliver Burkeman

• 10% Happier by Dan Harris

• Fair Play by Eve Rodsky

• A Calendar of Wisdom by Leo Tolstoy

• The Daily Drucker by Peter Drucker

• Hope in the Dark by Rebecca Solnit

• Gift from the Sea by Anne Morrow Lindbergh

• The Daily Dad by Ryan Holiday

Business & Entrepreneurship

• How to Interpret Data — Nicholas Kelly

• Analysis for Managers — Begley/Fisher

• The Phoenix Project — Gene Kim, Kevin Behr, and George Spafford

• Only the Paranoid Survive — Andrew S. Grove

• The Strategist — Cynthia A. Montgomery

• The Advantage — Emma-Sue Prince

• Smarter Investing — Tim Hale

• The Art of the Start 2.0 — Guy Kawasaki

• The 48 Laws of Power by Robert Greene

• Laws of Human Nature by Robert Greene

• Mastery by Robert Greene

• Art of Seduction by Robert Greene

• The Daily Laws by Robert Greene

• Good to Great — Jim Collins

• Built to Last — Jim Collins

• Zero to One — Peter Thiel

• The Hard Thing About Hard Things — Ben Horowitz

• The Millionaire Master Plan — Roger James Hamilton

• $100M Offers — Alex Hormozi

• Business Adventures — John Brooks

• The Personal MBA — Josh Kaufman

• Tools of Titans — Timothy Ferriss

• Think Like a Rocket Scientist — Ozan Varol

• The Practice — Seth Godin

• The Culture Code — Daniel Coyle

• Bad Blood — John Carreyrou

• One Up on Wall Street — Peter Lynch

• Money — Rob Moore

• Start Now. Get Perfect Later. — Rob Moore

• The Chief Data Officer’s Playbook — Caroline Carruthers, Peter Jackson

• Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) Getting Started Guide — Amazon Web Services

• Amazon Relational Database Service: User Guide — Amazon Web Services

• Trade Your Way to Financial Freedom — Van K. Tharp

• Making Numbers Count — Chip Heath & Karla Starr

• The Intelligent Investor — Benjamin Graham

History & Society

• Leadership in Turbulent Times by Doris Kearns Goodwin

• Forget the Alamo by Bryan Burrough, Chris Tomlinson, and Jason Stanford

• Walter Lord’s book on the Alamo by Walter Lord

• Walter Isaacson’s book on the Declaration of Independence by Walter Isaacson

• Factfulness — Hans Rosling, Ola Rosling & Anna Rosling Rönnlund

• How the World Works — Noam Chomsky

• The Lords of Easy Money — Christopher Leonard

• The Spider Network — David Enrich

• Flash Boys — Michael Lewis

• A Brief History of Japan — Jonathan Clements

Memoirs & Biographies

• When Breath Becomes Air — Paul Kalanithi

• Courage Under Fire by James Bond Stockdale

• Montaigne by Stefan Zweig

• 84 Charing Cross Road by Helene Hanff

• The works of Maya Angelou by Maya Angelou

• Shoe Dog: A Memoir by the Creator of NIKE — Phil Knight

• Finding My Virginity — Richard Branson

• 38 Letters to his Son — John D. Rockefeller

• The Salt Path — Raynor Winn

• Poor - Katriona O’SullivanRecommended

• Man’s Search for Meaning - Victor E FranklHighly Recommended

Fiction & Literature

Science Fiction

• Asimov: The Currents of Space — Isaac Asimov

• Artemis — Andy Weir

Fantasy

• The Hobbit — J.R.R. TolkienRecommended

• The Fellowship of the Ring (The Lord of the Rings, Book 1) — J.R.R. TolkienRecommended

• The Two Towers (The Lord of the Rings, Book 2) — J.R.R. TolkienRecommended

• The Return of the King (The Lord of the Rings, Book 3) — J.R.R. TolkienRecommended

• Divergent (Divergent Trilogy, Book 1) — Veronica Roth

General Fiction

• Ask the Dust by John Fante

• Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan

• How Much of These Hills is Gold — C Pam Zhang

• The Circle — Dave Eggers

• The Promise — Damon Galgut

• The Night She Disappeared — Lisa Jewell

• James — Percival Everett

• The Alchemist — Paulo Coelho

• The Other Side of Truth — Beverley Naidoo

• For One More Day — Mitch Albom

• The Secret Life of Bees — Sue Monk Kidd

• A Little Life — Hanya Yanagihara

• American Dirt — Jeanine Cummins

• The Book Thief — Markus Zusak

• He Said/She Said — Erin Kelly

• As the Crow Flies — Damien BoydEasy Read

• Edge of Collapse — Kyla StoneEasy Read

• The Housemaid — Freida McFaddenEasy Read

• Fairy Tale — Stephen King

• The Importance of Being Earnest Illustrated — Oscar Wilde

• The Remains of the Day — Kazuo Ishiguro

Health & Wellness

• Vertical Leaner: Brain Food — Dr. Lisa Mosconi

• Outlive — Dr. Peter Attia

• The Lost Art of Running — Shane Benzie

• The Gut Feeling — Naomi Devlin

• The Doctor’s Kitchen — Dr. Rupy Aujla

• Veggie BBQ — Joe Wicks

• Ottolenghi SIMPLE — Yotam Ottolenghi

Writing & Communication

• On Writing Well — William Zinsser

• Write Great Essays! — Peter Levin

Sports & Recreation

• How to Win the Premier League — Ian Graham