Books

This page covers book recommendations of books that I've either read or are on my reading list. I haven't listed them in any particular order.

I have styled my all time favourite reads in bold. These are the books I'll always recommend to someone with a curious mind, who wants to learn more about themselves and the world they've been born into. Someone who wants to change the world.

Economics and Finance

• Economics for the Many by John McDonnell
• An Inquiry Into the Nature & Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith
• The Economic Consequences of the Peace by John Maynard Keynes
• The Richest Man In Babylon by George S. Clason
• More Money Than God by Sebastian Mallaby
• The Future of Capitalism by Paul Collier
• How to Own the World by Andrew Craig
• The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers by Paul Kennedy
• Why Nations Fail by Daron Acemoglu and James A. Robinson
• Bean Counters: The Triumph of the Accountants and How They Broke Capitalism by Richard Brooks
• How an Economy Grows and Why It Crashes by Peter D. and Andrew J. Schiff
• The Undercover Economist by Tim Harford
• Debt: The First 5000 Years by David Graeber

Management & Leadership

• Start With Why and Leaders Eat Last by Simon Sinek
• The Black Swan by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
• Getting Things Done by David Allen
• The Innovator's Dilemma by Clayton M. Christensen
• The Lean Startup by Eric Ries
• Who Moved My Cheese by Spencer Johnson
• Linchpin by Seth Godin
• The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People by Stephen R. Covey
• Talking to Strangers by Malcolm Gladwell
• Shoe Dog: A Memoir by the Creator of NIKE by Phil Knight

Philosophy

• The Prince by Niccolò Machiavelli
• Big Ideas for Curious Minds by The School of Life
• Meditations by Marcus Aurelius
• Discourses and Selected Writings by Epictetus
• Letters from a Stoic by Seneca
• Lessons of History by Will Durant
• Status Anxiety by Alain de Botton

Psychology

• Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman
• Atomic Habits by James Clear
• Think And Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill
• The 48 Laws Of Power by Robert Greene
• The Courage To Be Disliked by Ichiro Kishimi and Fumitake Koga
• The School of Life: An Emotional Education by The School of Life
• Happy by Derren Brown
• The Chimp Paradox by Steve Peters
• Man's Search For Meaning by Viktor E. Frankl
• True Believer by Eric Hoffer
• Stumbling on Happiness by Daniel Gilbert
• Mindset by Carol Dweck
• Outliers: The Story of Success by Malcolm Gladwell

History, Science & Mathematics

• Why We Sleep by Matthew Walker
• Sapiens and Homo Deus by Yuval Noah Harari
• The Origin of Species by Charles Darwin
• Factfulness by Hans and Ola Rosling
• The Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins
• The Drunkard's Walk by Leonard Mlodinow
• Bad Science by Ben Goldacre
• A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson

Biographies

• Becoming by Michelle Obama
• Steve Jobs: The Exclusive Biography by Walter Isaacson
• Elon Musk by Ashlee Vance
• Bill Gates: The Man Behind Microsoft by JR MacGregor
• A Life in Football by Ian Wright
• The Snowball: Warren Buffett and the Business of Life by Alice Schroeder
• My Autobiography by Alex Ferguson
• A Promised Land by Barack Obama

Novels

• The Alchemist: A Fable About Following Your Dream by Paulo Coelho
• Pachinko by Min Jin Lee
• War And Peace by Leo Tolstoy
• Notre-Dame de Paris and Les Misérables by Victor Hugo
• 1984 by George Orwell
• Middle England by Jonathan Coe
• Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

Race & Inequality

• Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People About Race by Reni Eddo-Lodge
• Invisible Women by Caroline Criado Perez
• The Souls of Black Folk by W. E. B. Du Bois
• Natives: Race and Class in the Ruins of Empire by Akala
• How To Be an Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi
• Black and British: A Forgotten History by David Olusoga