Currently Reading

  1. The Lean Startup: How Today’s Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses by Eric Ries (304pg)

Upcoming Reading

  1. Chip War: The Fight for the World’s Most Critical Technology by Chris Miller (464pg)
  2. Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman (499pg)
  3. Elon Musk by Walter Isaacson (668pg)

Favourites

  1. Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance by Angela Duckworth (352pg)
  2. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee (384pg)
  3. Being Mortal by Atul Gawande (282pg)
  4. Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson (656pg)
  5. Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup by John Carreyrou (352pg)
  6. Too Big to Fail: The Inside Story of How Wall Street and Washington Fought to Save the Financial System and Themselves by Andrew Ross Sorkin (640pg)
  7. Lords of Finance: The Bankers Who Broke the World by Liaquat Ahamed (576pg)

Recommendations from Friends, Family, & Mentors

  1. Albert Speer: His Battle with Truth by Gitta Sereny (800pg)
  2. Endurance : Shackleton’s Incredible Voyage to the Antarctic by Alfred Lansing (288pg)
  3. Mastering The Market Cycle: Getting the Odds on Your Side by Howard Marks (316pg)
  4. Red Notice: A True Story of High Finance, Murder, and One Man’s Fight for Justice by Bill Browder (416 pg)

Discovered from Articles & Websites

  1. The House of Rothschild: Part I & II (1136pg)
  2. Morgan: American Financier (848pg)
  3. Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson (656pg)
  4. Belonging: The Science of Creating Connection and Bridging Divides by Geoffrey L. Cohen (448pg)

Completed

I list books finished from January 2021 onwards, categorized by genre. Books re-read are not relisted but considered in reading statistics compared to KPIs.

Biographies & Memoirs

  1. The Power Broker: Robert Moses & The Fall of New York by Robert A. Caro (1344pg)
  2. Becoming by Michelle Obama (448pg)
  3. Shoe Dog: A Memoir by the Creator of Nike by Phil Knight (399pg)
  4. The Man Who Solved the Market: How Jim Simons Launched the Quant Revolution by Gregory Zuckerman (384pg)
  5. I Love Capitalism!: An American Story by Ken Langone (320pg)
  6. Railroader: The Unfiltered Genius and Controversy of Four-Time CEO Hunter Harrison by Howard Green (336pg)
  7. The Ride of a Lifetime: Lessons Learned from 15 Years as CEO of the Walt Disney Company by Robert Iger (272pg)
  8. What It Takes: Lessons in the Pursuit of Excellence by Stephen A. Schwarzman (384pg)

Business & Money

  1. Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World by Cal Newport (304pg)
  2. Principles for Dealing with the Changing World Order: Why Nations Succeed and Fail by Ray Dalio (576pg)
  3. Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup by John Carreyrou (352pg)
  4. Too Big to Fail: The Inside Story of How Wall Street and Washington Fought to Save the Financial System and Themselves by Andrew Ross Sorkin (640pg)
  5. CEO Excellence: The Six Mindsets That Distinguish the Best Leaders from the Rest by Carolyn Dewar, Scott keller, Vikran Malhotra (384pg)
  6. Money and Power: How Goldman Sachs Came to Rule the World by William D. Cohan (672pg)
  7. Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty by Patrick Radden Keefe (560pg)
  8. This Is How They Tell Me the World Ends: The Cyberweapons Arms Race by Nicole Perlo (528pg)
  9. No Filter: The Inside Story of Instagram by Sarah Frier (352pg)
  10. Principles: Life and Work by Ray Dalio (592pg)
  11. Woke, Inc.: Inside Corporate America’s Social Justice Scam (368pg)
  12. Billion Dollar Whale: The Man Who Fooled Wall Street, Hollywood, and the World by Tom Wright & Bradley Hope (400pg)
  13. The World For Sale: Money, Power, and the Traders Who Barter the Earth’s Resources by Javier Blas and Jack Farchy (416pg)
  14. Freakonomics by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner (336pg)
  15. Big Debt Crises by Ray Dalio (300 pg)
  16. SuperFreakonomics: Global Cooling, Patriotic Prostitutes, and Why Suicide Bombers Should Buy Life Insurance by by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner (320pg)
  17. The Smartest Guys In The Room: The Amazing Rise and Scandalous Fall of Enron by Bethany McLean (440pg)
  18. The AI-First Company: How to Compete and Win with Artificial Intelligence by Ash Fontana (304pg)

Fiction

  1. The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida by Shehan Karunatilaka (400pg)
  2. The Great Gatby by F. Scott Fitzgerlad (180pg)
  3. The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood (325pg)
  4. Man Alone by John Mulgan (224pg)
  5. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte (624pg)
  6. Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov (317pg)
  7. 1984 by George Orwell (328pg)
  8. The God Boy by Ian Cross (180pg)
  9. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee (384pg)
  10. Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese (688pg)

History

  1. How Asia Works by Joe Studwell (400pg)
  2. Lords of Finance: The Bankers Who Broke the World by Liaquat Ahamed (576pg)
  3. Asian Godfathers: Money & Power in Hong Kong & Southeast Asia by Joe Studwell (368pg)
  4. Capital in the 21st Century by Thomas Piketty (816 pg)
  5. Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China by Jung Chang (538pg)
  6. Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity and Poverty by Daron Acemoglu and James A. Robinson (556pg)

Medicine

  1. When Breathe Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi (228pg)
  2. Better: A Surgeon’s Notes on Performance by Atul Gawande (288pg)
  3. Complications: A Surgeon’s Notes on an Imperfect Science by Atul Gawande (269pg)
  4. Being Mortal by Atul Gawande (282pg)

Lifestyle

  1. Ikigai: The Japanese Secret to a Long and Happy Life by Héctor García and Francesc Miralles (208pg)
  2. Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance by Angela Duckworth (352pg)
  3. How to Win Friends & Influence People by Dale Carnegie (320pg)
  4. The How of Happiness: A New Approach to Getting the Life You Want by Sonja Lyubomirsky (384pg)
  5. Humor, Seriously: Why Humor Is a Secret Weapon in Business and Life by Jennifer Aaker and Naomi Bagdonas (pg 272)
  6. What Happened to You?: Conversations on Trauma, Resilience, and Healing by Oprah Winfrey & Bruce D. Perry (304pg)
  7. Attached: The New Science of Adult Attachment and How It Can Help You Find, and Keep, Love by Amir Levine & Rachel Heller (304pg)
  8. The Good Life: Lessons from the World’s Longest Scientific Study of Happiness by by Robert Waldinger M.D. and Marc Schulz Ph.D (352pg)
  9. Money and Love: An Intelligent Roadmap for Life’s Biggest Decisions by Myra Strober and Abby Davisson (320pg)

Politics & Social Science

  1. Of Boys and Men: Why the Modern Male Is Struggling, Why It Matters, and What to Do about It by Richard Reeves (256pg)
  2. Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men by Caroline Criado Perez (272pg)
  3. Secrets of the Sprakkar: Iceland’s Extraordinary Women and How They Are Changing the World by Eliza Reid (288pg)
  4. Split the Pie: A Radical New Way to Negotiate by Barry Nalebuff (304pg)
  5. Outliers: The Story of Success by Malcolm Gladwell (336pg)
  6. Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men by Caroline Criado Perez (272pg)
  7. Psychopolitics: Neoliberalism and New Technologies of Power by Byung-Chul Han (96pg)
  8. Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking by Malcolm Gladwell (296pg)

KPIs & Statistics

Last update: 13/12/23

Statistics KPI 2021 2022 2023 Total
# Days 365 365 365 346 1076
# Books 25 22 19 24 65
# Pages 10000 7386 8171 9721 25278
# Pages / Book 400 336 430 405 389
# Pages / Day 27 20 22 28 23
# Weeks / Book 2.09 2.37 2.74 2.06 2.36
Categories 2021 2022 2023 Total
Biographies & Memoirs 1 3 4 8
Business & Money 6 5 7 18
Fiction 8 1 1 10
History 0 4 2 6
Medicine 0 4 0 4
Lifestyle 2 2 6 10
Politics & Social Science 5 0 4 9

Disclaimer: Page-related statistics use page counts published in Amazon listings. These may include acknowledgements, notes, and references. Subsequently, page-related statistics are approximations.