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The Booklist

Continuously growing collection of good reads: analyzed, thought through and reviewed.
Last edited 1102 days ago by Vito Strokov.
I have been planning this exercise for quite some time now, and only today I am finalizing my personal list of reads for this year - 20 books of 2023.
After putting this list together, I realize how heavily it is packed with books about management, leadership, and self-development in general. This probably happened for a good reason. At the same time, some amazing books about mindfulness, human biology, and a beautiful futuristic novel written by Stanisław Lem make this list more balanced and leave some space for things beyond one's professional life. I look forward to re-reading some of these books for the second or even third time, but most of them are completely new to me.
I truly believe that some books are written for everybody, some for many and some for few. Therefore I’m planning on sharing my Post-Read Summaries for every book in the list, analyzing and reviewing the key ideas, and leaving a final call for every individual read up to your discretion.

If this list is going reveal a new scope of good literature for some of you, then the whole effort was meaningful.

Thought Library Tracker
Reads
Author
Status
Post-Read Summary
Discipline Equals Freedom: Field Manual
Jocko Willink
Extreme Ownership: How U.S. Navy SEALs Lead and Win
Jocko Willink
Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones
James Clear
The Art of Leadership: Small Things, Done Well
Michael Lopp
PIHKAL: A Chemical Love Story
Alexander Shulgin
Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst
Robert M. Sapolsky
How to Change Your Mind: What the New Science of Psychedelics Teaches Us About Consciousness, Dying, Addiction, Depression, and Transcendence
Michael Pollan
Angel Investing: Start to Finish
Joe Wallin
Lifespan: Why We Age―and Why We Don't Have To
David A. Sinclair
High Growth Handbook
Elad Gil
Summa Technologiae
Stanisław Lem
Rework
Jason Fried
The Obstacle Is the Way: The Timeless Art of Turning Trials into Triumph
Ryan Holiday
Meditations
Marcus Aurelius
Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future
Peter Thiel
Beyond Order: 12 More Rules for Life
Jordan B. Peterson
High Output Management
Andrew S. Grove
The Laws of Human Nature
Robert Greene
Skin In The Game
N. N. Taleb
The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers
Ben Horowitz
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