Book recommendations: investing, startups and everything else

I keep a list of books I want to read on my phone and add to it each day.

It is a long list, but it means I never have to think about what to read next.

When I'm done with each book, I try to jot down the key takeaways from each book, and how much I liked the book. It is surprising how quickly you can forget otherwise (consciously, at least).

In no particular order, here are some of my favourite non-fiction books.

• Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Harari
• Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow by Yuval Harari
• Shoe Dog: A Memoir by the Creator of NIKE by Phil Knight
• Mastery by Robert Greene
• The Origin of Wealth: The Radical Remaking of Economics and What it Means for Business and Society by Eric D. Beinhocker
• How to Become a Rainmaker: The Rules for Getting and Keeping Customers and Clients by Jeffrey J Fox
• How the West Grew Rich: The Economic Transformation Of The Industrial World by ‎ L. E.. Birdzell
• The Chastening: Inside The Crisis That Rocked The Global Financial System by Paul Blustein
• The Upstarts by Brad Stone
• The Gene: An Intimate History by Siddhartha Mukherjee
• Thing Explainer: Complicated Stuff in Simple Words by Randall Munroe
• The Vital Question: Energy, Evolution, and the Origins of Complex Life by Nick Lane
• High Output Management by Andrew S. Grove
• The Hard Thing About Hard Things by Ben Horowitz
• Zero to One: Notes on Start Ups by Peter Thiel and Blake Masters
• Walt Disney: The Triumph of the American Imagination by Neal Gabler
• Eat the Rich: A Treatise on Economics by P.J. O'Rourke
• Schulz and Peanuts: A Biography by David Michaelis
• The Wizard of Menlo Park: How Thomas Alva Edison Invented the Modern World by Randall Stross
• Born Standing Up: A Comic's Life (Steve Martin autobiography) by Steve Martin
• Principles: Life and Work by Ray Dalio
• The Clock Of The Long Now: Time and Responsibility by Stewart Brand
• The Search for Modern China by Jonathan Spence
• A little history of philosophy by Nigel Warburton
• The 4-Hour Work Week by Timothy Ferriss
• Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products by Nir Eyal, Ryan Hoover
• The Big Short by Michael Lewis
• Liar's Poker by Michael Lewis
• The Intelligent Investor by Benjamin Graham
• The Most Important Thing by Howard Marks
• The Dao of Capital: Austrian Investing in a Distorted World by Mark Spitznagel, Ron Paul
• The Big Switch: Rewiring the World, from Edison to Google by Nicholas Carr
• The Inevitable: Understanding the 12 Technological Forces That Will Shape Our Future by Kevin Kelly
• The Rise of the Robots by Martin Ford
• Ghost in the Wires: My Adventures as the World's Most Wanted Hacker by Kevin Mitnick
• The Emperor's New Mind by Roger Penrose
• The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon by Brad Stone
• The Attention Merchants by Tim Wu
• When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi and Abraham Verghese
• On China by Henry Kissinger
• Tribe: On Homecoming and Belonging by Sebastian Junger
• Alibaba: The House That Jack Ma Built by Duncan Clark
• Superforecasting: the art and science of prediction by Philip Tetlock and Dan Gardner
• Adults in the Room by Yanis Varoufakis
• Out of the Crisis by W Edwards Deming
• The Sleepwalkers: How Europe Went to War in 1914 by Christopher Clark
• Originals: How Non-Conformists Move the World by Adam Grant
• The Innovator's Dilemma by Clayton Christensen
• Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness by Richard Thaler and Cass Sunstein
• Chaos Monkeys: Obscene Fortune and Random Failure in Silicon Valley by Antonio Garcia Martinez
• Meditations by Marus Aurelius
• Technological Revolutions and Financial Capital: The Dynamics of Bubbles and Golden Ages by Carlota Perez
• The Social Animal by Elliot Aronson
• Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman
• Influence by Robert Caldini