Reading List
Great Books & Executive Knowledge Library
A curated queue of 315 enduring and executive-relevant works across management, leadership, philosophy, psychology, history, economics, law, politics, science, technology, strategy, finance, architecture, and literature.
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The works below are grouped by domain and include their tier, author, reading status, and priority. The list is designed as a long-term multidisciplinary program rather than a short-term reading queue.
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| Domain | Title | Author | Progress | Favorite | Priority |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Management | Good to Great | Jim Collins | ○ Not Started | High | |
| Management | The First 90 Days | Michael D. Watkins | ○ Not Started | High | |
| Management | The Five Dysfunctions of a Team | Patrick Lencioni | ○ Not Started | High | |
| Management | Essentialism | Greg McKeown | ○ Not Started | High | |
| Management | Measure What Matters | John Doerr | ○ Not Started | High | |
| Management | The Hard Thing About Hard Things | Ben Horowitz | ○ Not Started | High | |
| Management | Radical Candor | Kim Scott | ○ Not Started | High | |
| Management | No Rules Rules | Reed Hastings and Erin Meyer | ○ Not Started | High | |
| Management | Rework | Jason Fried and David Heinemeier Hansson | ○ Not Started | High | |
| Management | The Culture Map | Erin Meyer | ○ Not Started | High | |
| Management | Multipliers | Liz Wiseman | ○ Not Started | High | |
| Management | The Advantage | Patrick Lencioni | ○ Not Started | High | |
| Management | The Making of a Manager | Julie Zhuo | ○ Not Started | High | |
| Management | The Manager’s Path | Camille Fournier | ○ Not Started | High | |
| Management | Drive | Daniel H. Pink | ○ Not Started | High | |
| Management | The Fearless Organization | Amy C. Edmondson | ○ Not Started | High | |
| Management | Reinventing Organizations | Frederic Laloux | ○ Not Started | High | |
| Management | An Everyone Culture | Robert Kegan and Lisa Laskow Lahey | ○ Not Started | High | |
| Management | Work Rules! | Laszlo Bock | ○ Not Started | High | |
| Management | Powerful | Patty McCord | ○ Not Started | High | |
| Management | Scrum | Jeff Sutherland | ○ Not Started | High | |
| Management | The Lean Startup | Eric Ries | ○ Not Started | High | |
| Management | Scaling Up Excellence | Robert I. Sutton and Huggy Rao | ○ Not Started | High | |
| Management | Execution | Larry Bossidy and Ram Charan | ○ Not Started | High | |
| Management | Decisive | Chip Heath and Dan Heath | ○ Not Started | High | |
| Management | Nine Lies About Work | Marcus Buckingham and Ashley Goodall | ○ Not Started | Medium | |
| Management | Team Topologies | Matthew Skelton and Manuel Pais | ○ Not Started | Medium | |
| Management | The Phoenix Project | Gene Kim, Kevin Behr, and George Spafford | ○ Not Started | Medium | |
| Management | Accelerate | Nicole Forsgren, Jez Humble, and Gene Kim | ○ Not Started | Medium | |
| Management | The DevOps Handbook | Gene Kim et al. | ○ Not Started | Medium | |
| Management | The 4 Disciplines of Execution | Chris McChesney, Sean Covey, and Jim Huling | ○ Not Started | Medium | |
| Management | Great by Choice | Jim Collins and Morten T. Hansen | ○ Not Started | Medium | |
| Management | Turn the Ship Around! | L. David Marquet | ○ Not Started | Medium | |
| Management | The Coaching Habit | Michael Bungay Stanier | ○ Not Started | Medium | |
| Management | Trillion Dollar Coach | Eric Schmidt, Jonathan Rosenberg, and Alan Eagle | ○ Not Started | Medium | |
| Management | Principles | Ray Dalio | ○ Not Started | Medium | |
| Management | The Checklist Manifesto | Atul Gawande | ○ Not Started | Medium | |
| Management | Thinking in Systems | Donella H. Meadows | ○ Not Started | Medium | |
| Management | Good Strategy/Bad Strategy | Richard Rumelt | ○ Not Started | Medium | |
| Management | Blue Ocean Strategy | W. Chan Kim and Renée Mauborgne | ○ Not Started | Medium | |
| Management | Playing to Win | A.G. Lafley and Roger L. Martin | ○ Not Started | Medium | |
| Management | Competing Against Luck | Clayton M. Christensen et al. | ○ Not Started | Medium | |
| Management | The Innovator’s Solution | Clayton M. Christensen and Michael E. Raynor | ○ Not Started | Medium | |
| Management | The Outsiders | William N. Thorndike | ○ Not Started | Medium | |
| Management | The Everything Store | Brad Stone | ○ Not Started | Medium | |
| Management | Creativity, Inc. | Ed Catmull and Amy Wallace | ○ Not Started | Medium | |
| Management | The Amazon Management System | Ram Charan and Julia Yang | ○ Not Started | Medium | |
| Management | Remote | Jason Fried and David Heinemeier Hansson | ○ Not Started | Medium | |
| Management | The Alliance | Reid Hoffman, Ben Casnocha, and Chris Yeh | ○ Not Started | Medium | |
| Management | Humanocracy | Gary Hamel and Michele Zanini | ○ Not Started | Medium | |
| Leadership | The Leadership Challenge | James M. Kouzes and Barry Z. Posner | ○ Not Started | High | |
| Leadership | Leaders Eat Last | Simon Sinek | ○ Not Started | High | |
| Leadership | Dare to Lead | Brené Brown | ○ Not Started | High | |
| Leadership | Extreme Ownership | Jocko Willink and Leif Babin | ○ Not Started | High | |
| Leadership | Team of Teams | Stanley McChrystal et al. | ○ Not Started | High | |
| Leadership | Turn the Ship Around! | L. David Marquet | ○ Not Started | High | |
| Leadership | Primal Leadership | Daniel Goleman, Richard Boyatzis, and Annie McKee | ○ Not Started | High | |
| Leadership | Leadership on the Line | Ronald A. Heifetz and Marty Linsky | ○ Not Started | High | |
| Leadership | The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership | John C. Maxwell | ○ Not Started | High | |
| Leadership | On Becoming a Leader | Warren Bennis | ○ Not Started | High | |
| Leadership | The Effective Executive | Peter F. Drucker | ○ Not Started | High | |
| Leadership | Good to Great | Jim Collins | ○ Not Started | High | |
| Leadership | Start with Why | Simon Sinek | ○ Not Started | High | |
| Leadership | Multipliers | Liz Wiseman | ○ Not Started | High | |
| Leadership | The Five Dysfunctions of a Team | Patrick Lencioni | ○ Not Started | High | |
| Leadership | Radical Candor | Kim Scott | ○ Not Started | High | |
| Leadership | The Culture Code | Daniel Coyle | ○ Not Started | High | |
| Leadership | Trillion Dollar Coach | Eric Schmidt, Jonathan Rosenberg, and Alan Eagle | ○ Not Started | High | |
| Leadership | Legacy | James Kerr | ○ Not Started | High | |
| Leadership | The Captain Class | Sam Walker | ○ Not Started | High | |
| Leadership | Wooden on Leadership | John Wooden and Steve Jamison | ○ Not Started | High | |
| Leadership | The Score Takes Care of Itself | Bill Walsh, Steve Jamison, and Craig Walsh | ○ Not Started | High | |
| Leadership | Winning | Jack Welch and Suzy Welch | ○ Not Started | High | |
| Leadership | Execution | Larry Bossidy and Ram Charan | ○ Not Started | High | |
| Leadership | True North | Bill George and Peter Sims | ○ Not Started | High | |
| Leadership | The Hard Thing About Hard Things | Ben Horowitz | ○ Not Started | Medium | |
| Leadership | Creativity, Inc. | Ed Catmull and Amy Wallace | ○ Not Started | Medium | |
| Leadership | Principles | Ray Dalio | ○ Not Started | Medium | |
| Leadership | Leadership in War | Andrew Roberts | ○ Not Started | Medium | |
| Leadership | The Ride of a Lifetime | Robert Iger | ○ Not Started | Medium | |
| Leadership | Shoe Dog | Phil Knight | ○ Not Started | Medium | |
| Leadership | Hit Refresh | Satya Nadella | ○ Not Started | Medium | |
| Leadership | My Life in Full | Indra Nooyi | ○ Not Started | Medium | |
| Leadership | The Outsiders | William N. Thorndike | ○ Not Started | Medium | |
| Leadership | The First 90 Days | Michael D. Watkins | ○ Not Started | Medium | |
| Leadership | Act Like a Leader, Think Like a Leader | Herminia Ibarra | ○ Not Started | Medium | |
| Leadership | Immunity to Change | Robert Kegan and Lisa Laskow Lahey | ○ Not Started | Medium | |
| Leadership | The Practice of Adaptive Leadership | Ronald Heifetz, Alexander Grashow, and Marty Linsky | ○ Not Started | Medium | |
| Leadership | Conscious Business | Fred Kofman | ○ Not Started | Medium | |
| Leadership | The Infinite Game | Simon Sinek | ○ Not Started | Medium | |
| Leadership | Think Again | Adam Grant | ○ Not Started | Medium | |
| Leadership | Originals | Adam Grant | ○ Not Started | Medium | |
| Leadership | Give and Take | Adam Grant | ○ Not Started | Medium | |
| Leadership | Quiet | Susan Cain | ○ Not Started | Medium | |
| Leadership | Presence | Amy Cuddy | ○ Not Started | Medium | |
| Leadership | The Obstacle Is the Way | Ryan Holiday | ○ Not Started | Medium | |
| Leadership | Ego Is the Enemy | Ryan Holiday | ○ Not Started | Medium | |
| Leadership | The Motive | Patrick Lencioni | ○ Not Started | Medium | |
| Leadership | No Rules Rules | Reed Hastings and Erin Meyer | ○ Not Started | Medium | |
| Leadership | Unleashed | Frances Frei and Anne Morriss | ○ Not Started | Medium | |
| Leadership | How to Win Friends and Influence People | Dale Carnegie | ○ Not Started | High | |
| Philosophy | The Republic | Plato | ✓ Finished | High | |
| Philosophy | Nicomachean Ethics | Aristotle | ○ Not Started | High | |
| Philosophy | Meditations | Marcus Aurelius | ○ Not Started | High | |
| Philosophy | Confessions | Augustine | ○ Not Started | High | |
| Philosophy | Summa Theologica: Selections | Thomas Aquinas | ○ Not Started | High | |
| Philosophy | Discourse on Method | René Descartes | ○ Not Started | High | |
| Philosophy | Leviathan | Thomas Hobbes | ○ Not Started | Medium | |
| Philosophy | An Essay Concerning Human Understanding | John Locke | ○ Not Started | Medium | |
| Philosophy | Critique of Pure Reason | Immanuel Kant | ○ Not Started | Medium | |
| Philosophy | Phenomenology of Spirit | G.W.F. Hegel | ○ Not Started | Medium | |
| Philosophy | On Liberty | John Stuart Mill | ○ Not Started | Medium | |
| Philosophy | Beyond Good and Evil | Friedrich Nietzsche | ○ Not Started | Medium | |
| Philosophy | The Art of Happiness | Epicurus | ○ Not Started | Medium | |
| Psychology | The Principles of Psychology | William James | ○ Not Started | High | |
| Psychology | The Interpretation of Dreams | Sigmund Freud | ○ Not Started | High | |
| Psychology | Modern Man in Search of a Soul | C.G. Jung | ○ Not Started | High | |
| Psychology | Man and His Symbols | C.G. Jung | ○ Not Started | High | |
| Psychology | Man’s Search for Meaning | Viktor E. Frankl | ○ Not Started | High | |
| Psychology | Influence | Robert B. Cialdini | ○ Not Started | High | |
| Psychology | Thinking, Fast and Slow | Daniel Kahneman | ○ Not Started | Medium | |
| Psychology | Judgment under Uncertainty | Daniel Kahneman, Paul Slovic & Amos Tversky | ○ Not Started | Medium | |
| Psychology | The Righteous Mind | Jonathan Haidt | ○ Not Started | Medium | |
| Psychology | Flow | Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi | ○ Not Started | Medium | |
| Psychology | Mindset | Carol S. Dweck | ○ Not Started | Medium | |
| Psychology | Attachment | John Bowlby | ○ Not Started | Medium | |
| Psychology | Psycho-Cybernetics | Maxwell Maltz | ○ Not Started | High | |
| Psychology | The Laws of Human Nature | Robert Greene | ○ Not Started | High | |
| Psychology | Atomic Habits | James Clear | ○ Not Started | High | |
| Psychology | When the Body Says No | Gabor Maté | ○ Not Started | Medium | |
| Psychology | The Power of Now | Eckhart Tolle | ○ Not Started | Medium | |
| Psychology | The Drama of the Gifted Child | Alice Miller | ○ Not Started | Medium | |
| Psychology | The Body Keeps the Score | Bessel van der Kolk | ○ Not Started | High | |
| History | The Histories | Herodotus | ○ Not Started | High | |
| History | History of the Peloponnesian War | Thucydides | ○ Not Started | High | |
| History | The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire | Edward Gibbon | ○ Not Started | High | |
| History | The Muqaddimah | Ibn Khaldun | ○ Not Started | High | |
| History | The History of the Russian Revolution | Leon Trotsky | ○ Not Started | High | |
| History | The Guns of August | Barbara W. Tuchman | ○ Not Started | High | |
| History | Postwar | Tony Judt | ○ Not Started | Medium | |
| History | The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich | William L. Shirer | ○ Not Started | Medium | |
| History | The Making of the Atomic Bomb | Richard Rhodes | ○ Not Started | Medium | |
| History | Guns, Germs, and Steel | Jared Diamond | ○ Not Started | Medium | |
| History | The Silk Roads | Peter Frankopan | ○ Not Started | Medium | |
| History | The Lessons of History | Will & Ariel Durant | ○ Not Started | Medium | |
| Economics | The Wealth of Nations | Adam Smith | ○ Not Started | High | |
| Economics | Principles of Economics | Alfred Marshall | ○ Not Started | High | |
| Economics | Capital: Volume I | Karl Marx | ○ Not Started | High | |
| Economics | The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money | John Maynard Keynes | ○ Not Started | High | |
| Economics | Capitalism and Freedom | Milton Friedman | ○ Not Started | High | |
| Economics | The Road to Serfdom | F.A. Hayek | ○ Not Started | High | |
| Economics | Human Action | Ludwig von Mises | ○ Not Started | Medium | |
| Economics | The Theory of Games and Economic Behavior | John von Neumann & Oskar Morgenstern | ○ Not Started | Medium | |
| Economics | Development as Freedom | Amartya Sen | ○ Not Started | Medium | |
| Economics | Why Nations Fail | Daron Acemoglu & James A. Robinson | ○ Not Started | Medium | |
| Economics | Poor Economics | Abhijit V. Banerjee & Esther Duflo | ○ Not Started | Medium | |
| Economics | Capital in the Twenty-First Century | Thomas Piketty | ○ Not Started | Medium | |
| Law | The Spirit of the Laws | Montesquieu | ○ Not Started | High | |
| Law | Commentaries on the Laws of England | William Blackstone | ○ Not Started | High | |
| Law | The Federalist Papers | Alexander Hamilton, James Madison & John Jay | ○ Not Started | High | |
| Law | Democracy in America | Alexis de Tocqueville | ○ Not Started | High | |
| Law | On the Duty of Civil Disobedience | Henry David Thoreau | ○ Not Started | High | |
| Law | The Common Law | Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. | ○ Not Started | High | |
| Law | The Concept of Law | H.L.A. Hart | ○ Not Started | Medium | |
| Law | Law’s Empire | Ronald Dworkin | ○ Not Started | Medium | |
| Law | A Theory of Justice | John Rawls | ○ Not Started | Medium | |
| Law | Anarchy, State, and Utopia | Robert Nozick | ○ Not Started | Medium | |
| Law | The Morality of Law | Lon L. Fuller | ○ Not Started | Medium | |
| Law | The Rule of Law | Tom Bingham | ○ Not Started | Medium | |
| Political science | Politics | Aristotle | ○ Not Started | High | |
| Political science | The Prince | Niccolò Machiavelli | ○ Not Started | High | |
| Political science | The Social Contract | Jean-Jacques Rousseau | ○ Not Started | High | |
| Political science | Second Treatise of Government | John Locke | ○ Not Started | High | |
| Political science | Reflections on the Revolution in France | Edmund Burke | ○ Not Started | High | |
| Political science | The Communist Manifesto | Karl Marx & Friedrich Engels | ○ Not Started | High | |
| Political science | The Origins of Totalitarianism | Hannah Arendt | ○ Not Started | Medium | |
| Political science | The Open Society and Its Enemies | Karl Popper | ○ Not Started | Medium | |
| Political science | Political Order in Changing Societies | Samuel P. Huntington | ○ Not Started | Medium | |
| Political science | Polyarchy | Robert A. Dahl | ○ Not Started | Medium | |
| Political science | Seeing Like a State | James C. Scott | ○ Not Started | Medium | |
| Political science | The End of History and the Last Man | Francis Fukuyama | ○ Not Started | Medium | |
| Mathematics | Elements | Euclid | ○ Not Started | High | |
| Mathematics | The Sand Reckoner | Archimedes | ○ Not Started | High | |
| Mathematics | The Nine Chapters on the Mathematical Art | Anonymous Chinese scholars | ○ Not Started | High | |
| Mathematics | Ars Magna | Gerolamo Cardano | ○ Not Started | High | |
| Mathematics | La Géométrie | René Descartes | ○ Not Started | High | |
| Mathematics | Principia Mathematica | Alfred North Whitehead & Bertrand Russell | ○ Not Started | High | |
| Mathematics | A Course of Pure Mathematics | G.H. Hardy | ○ Not Started | Medium | |
| Mathematics | What Is Mathematics? | Richard Courant & Herbert Robbins | ○ Not Started | Medium | |
| Mathematics | How to Solve It | George Pólya | ○ Not Started | Medium | |
| Mathematics | Gödel, Escher, Bach | Douglas Hofstadter | ○ Not Started | Medium | |
| Mathematics | The Princeton Companion to Mathematics | Timothy Gowers, June Barrow-Green & Imre Leader | ○ Not Started | Medium | |
| Mathematics | Concrete Mathematics | Ronald Graham, Donald Knuth & Oren Patashnik | ○ Not Started | Medium | |
| Physics | Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems | Galileo Galilei | ○ Not Started | High | |
| Physics | Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy | Isaac Newton | ○ Not Started | High | |
| Physics | Treatise on Electricity and Magnetism | James Clerk Maxwell | ○ Not Started | High | |
| Physics | The Evolution of Physics | Albert Einstein & Leopold Infeld | ○ Not Started | High | |
| Physics | Relativity | Albert Einstein | ○ Not Started | High | |
| Physics | The Character of Physical Law | Richard Feynman | ○ Not Started | High | |
| Physics | The Feynman Lectures on Physics | Richard Feynman, Robert Leighton & Matthew Sands | ○ Not Started | Medium | |
| Physics | QED | Richard Feynman | ○ Not Started | Medium | |
| Physics | The Road to Reality | Roger Penrose | ○ Not Started | Medium | |
| Physics | The First Three Minutes | Steven Weinberg | ○ Not Started | Medium | |
| Physics | A Brief History of Time | Stephen Hawking | ○ Not Started | Medium | |
| Physics | The Elegant Universe | Brian Greene | ○ Not Started | Medium | |
| Biology | On the Origin of Species | Charles Darwin | ○ Not Started | High | |
| Biology | The Descent of Man | Charles Darwin | ○ Not Started | High | |
| Biology | The Selfish Gene | Richard Dawkins | ○ Not Started | High | |
| Biology | The Extended Phenotype | Richard Dawkins | ○ Not Started | High | |
| Biology | The Structure of Evolutionary Theory | Stephen Jay Gould | ○ Not Started | High | |
| Biology | Wonderful Life | Stephen Jay Gould | ○ Not Started | High | |
| Biology | The Double Helix | James D. Watson | ○ Not Started | Medium | |
| Biology | Molecular Biology of the Gene | James D. Watson et al. | ○ Not Started | Medium | |
| Biology | The Eighth Day of Creation | Horace Freeland Judson | ○ Not Started | Medium | |
| Biology | The Vital Question | Nick Lane | ○ Not Started | Medium | |
| Biology | The Gene | Siddhartha Mukherjee | ○ Not Started | Medium | |
| Biology | The Song of the Cell | Siddhartha Mukherjee | ○ Not Started | Medium | |
| Engineering | De Architectura | Vitruvius | ○ Not Started | High | |
| Engineering | Two New Sciences | Galileo Galilei | ○ Not Started | High | |
| Engineering | On the Art of Building in Ten Books | Leon Battista Alberti | ○ Not Started | High | |
| Engineering | The New Science of Strong Materials | J.E. Gordon | ○ Not Started | High | |
| Engineering | Structures | J.E. Gordon | ○ Not Started | High | |
| Engineering | The Design of Everyday Things | Don Norman | ○ Not Started | High | |
| Engineering | The Sciences of the Artificial | Herbert A. Simon | ○ Not Started | Medium | |
| Engineering | To Engineer Is Human | Henry Petroski | ○ Not Started | Medium | |
| Engineering | The Existential Pleasures of Engineering | Samuel C. Florman | ○ Not Started | Medium | |
| Engineering | Skunk Works | Ben R. Rich & Leo Janos | ○ Not Started | Medium | |
| Engineering | The Goal | Eliyahu M. Goldratt | ○ Not Started | Medium | |
| Engineering | How Buildings Learn | Stewart Brand | ○ Not Started | Medium | |
| Computer science | The Art of Computer Programming | Donald E. Knuth | ○ Not Started | High | |
| Computer science | Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs | Harold Abelson & Gerald Jay Sussman | ○ Not Started | High | |
| Computer science | Introduction to Algorithms | Thomas H. Cormen et al. | ○ Not Started | High | |
| Computer science | Computer Systems: A Programmer’s Perspective | Randal E. Bryant & David R. O’Hallaron | ○ Not Started | High | |
| Computer science | Design Patterns | Erich Gamma et al. | ○ Not Started | High | |
| Computer science | The Mythical Man-Month | Frederick P. Brooks Jr. | ○ Not Started | High | |
| Computer science | Code Complete | Steve McConnell | ○ Not Started | Medium | |
| Computer science | Clean Code | Robert C. Martin | ○ Not Started | Medium | |
| Computer science | Refactoring | Martin Fowler | ○ Not Started | Medium | |
| Computer science | Compilers: Principles, Techniques, and Tools | Alfred V. Aho et al. | ○ Not Started | Medium | |
| Computer science | Database System Concepts | Abraham Silberschatz, Henry F. Korth & S. Sudarshan | ○ Not Started | Medium | |
| Computer science | Computer Networking: A Top-Down Approach | James F. Kurose & Keith W. Ross | ○ Not Started | Medium | |
| Artificial intelligence | Computing Machinery and Intelligence | Alan M. Turing | ○ Not Started | High | |
| Artificial intelligence | Perceptrons | Marvin Minsky & Seymour Papert | ○ Not Started | High | |
| Artificial intelligence | Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach | Stuart Russell & Peter Norvig | ○ Not Started | High | |
| Artificial intelligence | Pattern Recognition and Machine Learning | Christopher M. Bishop | ○ Not Started | High | |
| Artificial intelligence | The Elements of Statistical Learning | Trevor Hastie, Robert Tibshirani & Jerome Friedman | ○ Not Started | High | |
| Artificial intelligence | Probabilistic Graphical Models | Daphne Koller & Nir Friedman | ○ Not Started | High | |
| Artificial intelligence | Deep Learning | Ian Goodfellow, Yoshua Bengio & Aaron Courville | ○ Not Started | Medium | |
| Artificial intelligence | Reinforcement Learning | Richard S. Sutton & Andrew G. Barto | ○ Not Started | Medium | |
| Artificial intelligence | Human Compatible | Stuart Russell | ○ Not Started | Medium | |
| Artificial intelligence | The Alignment Problem | Brian Christian | ○ Not Started | Medium | |
| Artificial intelligence | Superintelligence | Nick Bostrom | ○ Not Started | Medium | |
| Artificial intelligence | Life 3.0 | Max Tegmark | ○ Not Started | Medium | |
| Business strategy | Competitive Strategy | Michael E. Porter | ○ Not Started | High | |
| Business strategy | Competitive Advantage | Michael E. Porter | ○ Not Started | High | |
| Business strategy | The Innovator’s Dilemma | Clayton M. Christensen | ○ Not Started | High | |
| Business strategy | Good Strategy/Bad Strategy | Richard Rumelt | ○ Not Started | High | |
| Business strategy | The Lean Startup | Eric Ries | ○ Not Started | High | |
| Business strategy | Crossing the Chasm | Geoffrey A. Moore | ○ Not Started | High | |
| Business strategy | The Innovator’s Solution | Clayton M. Christensen & Michael E. Raynor | ○ Not Started | Medium | |
| Business strategy | Blue Ocean Strategy | W. Chan Kim & Renée Mauborgne | ○ Not Started | Medium | |
| Business strategy | The Strategy-Focused Organization | Robert S. Kaplan & David P. Norton | ○ Not Started | Medium | |
| Business strategy | The Fifth Discipline | Peter M. Senge | ○ Not Started | Medium | |
| Business strategy | Built to Last | Jim Collins & Jerry I. Porras | ○ Not Started | Medium | |
| Business strategy | Good to Great | Jim Collins | ○ Not Started | Medium | |
| Military history | The Art of War | Sun Tzu | ○ Not Started | High | |
| Military history | History of the Peloponnesian War | Thucydides | ○ Not Started | High | |
| Military history | The Gallic War | Julius Caesar | ○ Not Started | High | |
| Military history | The Campaigns of Alexander | Arrian | ○ Not Started | High | |
| Military history | On War | Carl von Clausewitz | ○ Not Started | High | |
| Military history | The Fifteen Decisive Battles of the World | Edward Shepherd Creasy | ○ Not Started | High | |
| Military history | The Face of Battle | John Keegan | ○ Not Started | Medium | |
| Military history | A History of Warfare | John Keegan | ○ Not Started | Medium | |
| Military history | Makers of Modern Strategy | Peter Paret, Gordon A. Craig & Felix Gilbert | ○ Not Started | Medium | |
| Military history | The Second World War | Winston Churchill | ○ Not Started | Medium | |
| Military history | A World at Arms | Gerhard L. Weinberg | ○ Not Started | Medium | |
| Military history | The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers | Paul Kennedy | ○ Not Started | Medium | |
| Finance | Security Analysis | Benjamin Graham & David Dodd | ○ Not Started | High | |
| Finance | The Intelligent Investor | Benjamin Graham | ○ Not Started | High | |
| Finance | Common Stocks and Uncommon Profits | Philip A. Fisher | ○ Not Started | High | |
| Finance | A Random Walk Down Wall Street | Burton G. Malkiel | ○ Not Started | High | |
| Finance | The Essays of Warren Buffett | Warren Buffett & Lawrence A. Cunningham | ○ Not Started | High | |
| Finance | Against the Gods | Peter L. Bernstein | ○ Not Started | High | |
| Finance | Capital Ideas | Peter L. Bernstein | ○ Not Started | Medium | |
| Finance | Options, Futures, and Other Derivatives | John C. Hull | ○ Not Started | Medium | |
| Finance | The Alchemy of Finance | George Soros | ○ Not Started | Medium | |
| Finance | Margin of Safety | Seth A. Klarman | ○ Not Started | Medium | |
| Finance | When Genius Failed | Roger Lowenstein | ○ Not Started | Medium | |
| Finance | The Most Important Thing | Howard Marks | ○ Not Started | Medium | |
| Finance | Poor Charlie’s Almanack | Charles T. Munger | ○ Not Started | High | |
| Finance | One Up on Wall Street | Peter Lynch | ○ Not Started | Medium | |
| Architecture | De Architectura | Vitruvius | ○ Not Started | High | |
| Architecture | The Four Books of Architecture | Andrea Palladio | ○ Not Started | High | |
| Architecture | The Seven Lamps of Architecture | John Ruskin | ○ Not Started | High | |
| Architecture | The Stones of Venice | John Ruskin | ○ Not Started | High | |
| Architecture | Towards a New Architecture | Le Corbusier | ○ Not Started | High | |
| Architecture | Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture | Robert Venturi | ○ Not Started | High | |
| Architecture | The Death and Life of Great American Cities | Jane Jacobs | ○ Not Started | Medium | |
| Architecture | A Pattern Language | Christopher Alexander et al. | ○ Not Started | Medium | |
| Architecture | The Timeless Way of Building | Christopher Alexander | ○ Not Started | Medium | |
| Architecture | Delirious New York | Rem Koolhaas | ○ Not Started | Medium | |
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