Reading List
What I've been reading in chronological order.
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Position on this list serves no relation to how worthwhile I think a book is.
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🌟'd titles are books I highly recommended reading.
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Italicized titles are books I finished and wouldn't recommend.
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Titles with a
strikethroughare books I couldn't finish and wouldn't recommend.
2024
- 🌟 The Book of Joy
- Poor Charlie’s Almanack: The Essential Wit and Wisdom of Charles T. Munger
- The SaaS Playbook
- Crossing the Chasm
2023
- The Heart of the Buddha's Teaching: Transforming Suffering into Peace, Joy, and Liberation
- 🌟 A Prompt Pattern Catalog to Enhance Prompt Engineering with ChatGPT
- 🌟 You Are Here: Discovering the Magic of the Present Moment
- 🌟 From Strength to Strength: Finding Success, Happiness, and Deep Purpose in the Second Half of Life
- 🌟 The Good Life: Lessons from the World's Longest Scientific Study of Happiness
- 🌟 The Creative Act
- 🌟 How To Think Like A Roman Emperor
2022
- 🌟 How To Be Perfect
- Freedom From Pain
- 🌟 A Whole New Mind
- 🌟 Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less
- 🌟 Rest: Why You Get More Done When You Work Less
- The Mom Test: How to Talk to Customers
- Talent
- 🌟 The Science of Managing Our Digital Stuff
- Big Friendship: How We Keep Each Other Close
- Backable: The Surprising Truth Behind What Makes People Take a Chance on You
- A Hacker’s Teleology: Sharing the Wealth of Our Shrinking Planet
- App Launch Map
- Feminist Fight Club: A Survival Manual for a Sexist Workplace
- 🌟 Elephant In The Brain
- Life, the Universe and Everything
2021
- The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
- 🌟 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
- Unwinding Anxiety
- 🌟 Valley of Genius
- 🌟 Ask Your Developer: How to Harness the Power of Software Developers and Win in the 21st Century
- Good Prose: The Art of Nonfiction
- 🌟 Healing Trauma: A Pioneering Program for Restoring the Wisdom of Your Body
- 🌟 The Scout Mindset
- Say What You Mean
- The Lessons of History
- 🌟 Working in Public: The Making and Maintenance of Open Source Software
- 🌟 The Deficit Myth: Modern Monetary Theory and the Birth of the People's Economy
- This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate
2020
- 🌟 How to Be an Antiracist
- 🌟 Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
- 🌟 Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
- 🌟 Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
- 🌟 Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
- 🌟 Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
- 🌟 Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
- 🌟 Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
- Chasing The Sun
- It Doesn't Have To Be Crazy At Work
- 🌟 10% Happier
- 🌟 Strong Towns: A Bottom-Up Revolution to Rebuild American Prosperity
2019
- 🌟 Because Internet: Understanding the New Rules of Language
- 🌟 Loonshots
- 🌟 Super Thinking: The Big Book of Mental Models
- Creative Confidence
- 🌟 Between The World And Me
- 🌟 We Were Eight Years in Power
- The Colossus of New York
- The Shallows
- Walden
- The Omnivore's Dilemma
- The Manager’s Path
- The Art of War
- 🌟 High Growth Handbook
2018
- Why We Sleep
- The Inner Game Of Tennis
- Stubborn Attachments
- Brave New World
- 🌟 Antifragile
- 🌟 The Buddha's Noble Eightfold Path
- An Autobiography of John Stuart Mill
- Intercom On Jobs To Be Done
- Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
- 1984
- Communist Manifesto and Social Contract
- 🌟 Siddhartha
- How to Create a Mind: The Secret of Human Thought Revealed
- Shop Class as Soulcraft
- The Purity Myth
- High Output Management
Finite and Infinite Games- 🌟 Triggers
- 🌟 Mindset
- 🌟 Amusing Ourselves To Death
- 🌟 Nudge
- 🌟 Algorithms To Live By
- A Random Walk Down Wall Street
- A Brief History of Time
- Machine Learning: The New AI
- 🌟 The Hard Thing About Hard Things
- 🌟 Sapiens
2017
- 🌟 Why Buddhism Is True
- 🌟 Creativity Inc.
- Blink
- Man's Search For Meaning
- 🌟 Thinking Fast And Slow
- The Dip
- 🌟 Deep Work
- Traction: How Any Startup Can Achieve Explosive Customer Growth
The Distant Past Before I Started Keeping Track
Joe Fabisevich is an indie developer creating software at Red Panda Club Inc. while writing about design, development, and building a company. Formerly an iOS developer working on societal issues @Twitter. These days I don't tweet, but I do post on Threads.
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