Book list review

I am building a long-term non-fiction “home library.” I’ve gathered a big list and now need to narrow it down.

Which 10 would you prioritize buying/reading?

Which ones would you cut from the list?

Any other impactful book worth adding?

Thank you!

Book list:

1. Decision-Making & Strategy

Superforecasting – Philip Tetlock

Noise – Daniel Kahneman

Thinking in Bets – Annie Duke

Thinking, Fast and Slow – Daniel Kahneman

Poor Charlie’s Almanack – Charles Munger

Antifragile – Nassim Taleb

The Black Swan – Nassim Taleb

Principles – Ray Dalio

Good Strategy Bad Strategy – Richard Rumelt

Competitive Strategy – Michael Porter

The Innovator’s Dilemma – Clayton Christensen

Blue Ocean Strategy – Kim & Mauborgne

Zero to One – Peter Thiel

Crossing the Chasm – Geoffrey Moore

Seeing Like a State – James C. Scott

2. Management & Execution

High Output Management – Andrew Grove

The Goal – Eliyahu Goldratt

Scaling Up – Verne Harnish

Financial Intelligence for Entrepreneurs – Berman & Knight

Introduction to Statistical Quality Control – Douglas Montgomery

Managing Variation – Donald Wheeler

Out of the Crisis – W. Edwards Deming

The Lean Startup – Eric Ries

The Hard Thing About Hard Things – Ben Horowitz

3. Leadership & Human Behavior

Never Split the Difference – Chris Voss

Influence – Robert Cialdini

Pre-Suasion – Robert Cialdini

Tribal Leadership – Dave Logan

Drive – Daniel Pink

Leaders Eat Last – Simon Sinek

The Dichotomy of Leadership – Jocko Willink & Leif Babin

The Righteous Mind – Jonathan Haidt

Flow – Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

Man’s Search for Meaning – Viktor Frankl

4. Big Picture & Philosophy

Meditations – Marcus Aurelius

Letters from a Stoic – Seneca

The Prince – Machiavelli

The Tao Te Ching – Lao Tzu

Surely You’re Joking, Mr. Feynman! – Richard Feynman

Sapiens – Yuval Harari

Homo Deus – Yuval Harari

Guns, Germs, and Steel – Jared Diamond

Why Nations Fail – Acemoglu & Robinson

Chaos – James Gleick

The Demon-Haunted World – Carl Sagan

The Selfish Gene – Richard Dawkins

The Gene – Siddhartha Mukherjee

The Double Helix – James Watson

The Republic – Plato

Outliers – Malcolm Gladwell

The Tipping Point – Malcolm Gladwell

Freakonomics – Levitt & Dubner