2026 Reading List

1. Untangled by Lisa Damour
2. Notes on Being A Man by Scott Gallaway
3. They Just Need To Get A Job – 15 Myths On Homelessness by Mary Brosnahan
4. The AI Con by Emily M. Bender and Alex Hanna
5. Blood in the Machine by Brian Merchant
6. The 15 Commitments of Conscious Leadership by Jim Dethmer, Diana Chapman, and Kaely Warner Klemp
7. Work Like a Monk by Shoukei Matsumoto
8. The Way of Excellence by Brad Stulberg
9. The Shipping News by Annie Proulx
10. Where Good Ideas Come From by Steven Johnson
11. Your Data Will Be Used Against You by Andrew Guthrie Ferguson
12. Recoding America by Jennifer Pahlka
13. Game Theory: A Very Short Introduction by Ken Binmore
14. Good Writing by Neal Allen and Anne Lamont
15. A Little Devil in America by Hanif Abdurraqib
16. Technofeudalism by Yannis Varoufakis
17. Justice by Michael Sandel
18. The Means of Prediction by Maximilian Kasy
19. American Bulk by Emily Mester
20. Evicted by Matthew Desmond
21. Your Face Belongs To Us by Kasmir Hill
22. Algorithms of Oppression by Safiya Umoja Noble
23. The Palestine Laboratory by Antony Loewenstein
24. Reader Bot by Naomi S. Baron
25. The Soul of Money by Lynne Twist

2025 Reading List

1. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie
2. Bird By Bird by Anee Lamott
3. Day Trading Attention by Gary Vaynerchuck
4. Slaying Leviathan by Glenn S. Sunshine
5. The Defining Decade by Meg Jay
6. The Mamba Mentality by Kobe Bryant.
7. Lumumba – Africa’s Lost Leader by Leo Zeilig.
8. How to be a Happier Parent by KJ Dell’Antonia
9. Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris
10. Not with a Bug but with a Sticker by Ram Shankar and Hyrum Anderson
11. There’s Always This Year by Hanif Abdurraquib
12. The Hard Thing About Hard Things by Ben Horowitz
13. Company of One by Paul Jarvis
14. The Chronicles of Doom by S.H. Fernando Jr.
15. High Output Management by Andrew S. Grove
16. Reps by Jusin Keane
17. The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows by John Koenig
18. Atomic Habits by James Clear
19. Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
20. Trauma: The Invisible Epidemic by Paul Conti
21. Empire of AI by Karen Hao
22. This Is How They Tell Me The World Ends by Nicole Perlroth
23. The Psychology of Money by Morgan Housel
24. The Unsettling of America by Wendell Berry
25. Dear Sugar by Cheryl Strayed
26. Draft No. 4 by John McPhee
27. Outlive by Peter Attia
28. Prisoners of Geography by Tim Marshall
29. Co-Intelligence by Ethan Mollick
30. Nothing More of this Land by Joseph Lee
31. Thinking in Systems by Donella Meadows
32. From Strength to Strength by Arthur Brooks
33. Orbiting the Giant Hairball by Gordan MacKenzie
34. The Color of Law by Richard Rothstein
35. Supercommunicators by Charles Duhigg
36. Sloppy by Rax King
37. AI Snake Oil by Arvind Narayanan and Sayash Kapoor
38. Power and Progress by Daron Acemoglu and Simon Johnson
39. More Everything Forever by Adam Becker
40. The Art of Spending Money by Morgan Housel
41. The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander
42. Enshittification by Corey Doctorow
43. The Scaling Era: An Oral History of AI, 2019-2015 by Dwarkesh Patel with Gavin Leech
44. Pedagogy of the Oppressed by Paulo Freire
45. The Code by Margaret O’Mara
46. On Writing by Stephan King
47. Nudge by Richard H. Thaler and Cass R. Sunstein
48. White Fragility by Robin Diangelo
49. Misunderstood by Allen Iverson
50. Against the Machine by Paul Kingsnorth
51. The Answer to How is Yes by Peter Block

2024 Reading List

1. Where the Deer and the Antelope Play – Nick Offerman
2. Upstream – Dan Heath
3. A People’s History of the United States – Howard Zinn
4. 32 Principles: Harnessing the Power of Jiu-Jitsu to Succeed in Business, Relationships, and Life – Renner Gracie
5. Welcome to the Writer’s Life – Paulette Perhach
6. Sister Outsider – Audre Lourde
7. Race & Economics – Walter E. Williams
8. Born a Crime – Trevor Noah
9. A Promised Land – Barak Obama
10. The Infinite Game – Simon Sinek
11. The War of Art – Steven Pressfield
12. In Defense of Witches – The Legacy of the Witch Hunts and Why Women are Still on Trial by Mona Chollet.
13. A Memory Called Empire by Arkady Martine
14. The Address Book – What Street Addresses Reveal about Identity, Race, Wealth, and Power by Deirdre Mask
15. Reader, Come Home – The Reading Brain in a Digital World by Maryanne Wolf
16. Slow Productivity – The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout by Cal Newport
17. Talk like Ted by Carmine Gallo
18. Tranquility by Tuesday by Laura Vanderkam
19. The Big Disconnect: Protecting Childhood and Family Relationships in the Digital Age by Catherine Steiner Adair
20. The Danaher Diaries 2021
21. The Answer to How is Yes by Peter Block
22. The Go-Giver: A Little Story About A Powerful Business Idea by Bob Burg and John David Mann
23. Born Standing Up by Steve Martin
24. Executive Presence 2.0 by Sylvia Ann Hewett
25. The 48 Laws of Power by Robert Greene
26. Uptime by Laura Mae Martin
27. Unmasking AI: My Mission to Protect What Is Human in a World of Machines by Joy Buolamwini
28. Life is a Miracle: An Essay Against Modern Superstition by Wendall Berry
29. Million Dollar Weekend by Noah Kagan
30. Greenlights by Matthew McConaughey
31. The Visible Hand: The Managerial Revolution in American Business by Alfred D. Chandler, Jr.
32. An American Marriage by Tayari Jones
33. 10 Poems to Change Your Life by Roger Housden
34. Brief: make a bigger impact by saying less by Joseph McCormack
35. People Management from the Ground Up: A Guide for New and Aspiring People Managers by Me
36. How I Rob Banks and other such places by FC (Freaky Clown)
37. Quiet Leadership by David Rock
38. Back of the Napkin by Dan Roam
39. Power to the Middle by Bill Schaninger, Bryan Hancock, Emily Field
40. The Breakthrough Years by Ellen Galinsky
41. We should all be Millionaires by Rachel Rodgers
42. Disabling Professions by Ivan Illich
43. Thrillville U.S.A. by Taylore Koekkoek
44. Shell of an Idea by Don Jones
45. The AI Revolution in Customer Service and Support: A Practical Guide to Impactful Deployment of AI to Best Serve Your Customers by Ross Smith, Mayte Cubino and Emily McKeon.
46. Emotional Intelligence by Daniel Goleman
47. Primal Leadership by Daniel Goleman, Richard Boyatzis, and Annie McKee
48. Nobody Cares About Your Career by Erika Ayers Badan
49. They Can’t Kill Us Until They Kill Us by Hanif Abdurraqib
50. The Coming Wave by Mustafa Suleyman
51. Tribe of Mentors by Tim Ferris
52. Confronting Our Freedom by Peter Block and Peter Koestenbaum
53. Meditations for Mortals by Oliver Burkeman
54. Who Wrote This? By Naomi S. Baron
55. How to be a High School Super Star by Cal Newport
56. Made to Stick – Chip Heath and Dan Heath
57. Deschooling Society by Ivan Illich
58. Man’s Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl
59. Meditations by Marcus Aurelius
60. Our Iceberg is Melting by John Kotter and Holger Rathgeber