I love a book list, so here’s my own list of favourite books that I’ve come across over the years.
A Work in Progress - René Redzepi
The Unwomanly Face of War - Svetlana Alexievich
Barbarian Days - William Finnegan
The Hard Thing About Hard Things - Ben Horowitz
The Profiteers - Sally Denton
Stoner - John Williams
The Hit Makers: How Things Become Popular - Derek Thompson
Deep Work - Cal Newport
Lenin on the Train - Catherine Merridale
Deep Thinking - Garry Kasparov
The Third Plate - Dan Barber
Wherever You Go, There You Are - Jon Kabatt-Zinn
Midnight’s Furies - Nisid Hajari
Thinking in Systems - Donella Meadows
High Growth Handbook - Elad Gil
Prisoners of Geography - Tim Marshall
The Luminaries - Eleanor Catton
Can’t Hurt Me - David Goggins
All That Man Is - David Szalay
Say Nothing - Patrick Radden Keefe
A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole
Building and Dwelling - Richard Sennet
Good Strategy, Bad Strategy - Richard Rumelt
Continuous Discovery Habits - Teresa Torres
A Place of My Own - Michael Pollan
A Sense of Where You Are - John McFee
Slaugterhouse 5 - Curt Vonnegut
Small Giants - Bo Burlingham
The Cold War - Odd Arne Westad
A Short History of Nearly Everything - Bill Bryson
The Art of Learning - Josh Waitzkin
Political Order and Political Decay - Francis Fukuyama
Breath - James Nestor
The Sun Also Rises - Ernest Hemingway
Pereira Maintains - Antonio Tabucchi
Days Without End - Sebastian Barry
Exhalation - Ted Chiang
Anything by Deborah Levy
Anything by Rachel Cusk