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Edward's Booklist

01 · Non-fiction

Books that solve a problem.

Best non-fiction so farThe GoalEliyahu M. Goldratt4.67 / 5Read this if “I'm busy all day and nothing actually moves.”

Best of each shelf

The Goal
Business & Systems4.67Poor Charlie's Almanack
Wealth & Money4.33The Black Swan
Strategy & Decision-Making4.33Magnetic Marketing
Marketing & Persuasion4.17Maps of Meaning
Psychology4.50Beyond Good and Evil
Philosophy4.33The One Thing
Self-Mastery4.50Astrophysics For People In A Hurry
Science3.50
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All 50 books, ranked

  1. 1The GoalEliyahu M. Goldratt · Business & SystemsRead this if “I'm busy all day and nothing actually moves.”4.67
  2. 210x Is Easier Than 2xDan Sullivan & Benjamin Hardy · Business & SystemsRead this if “I'm working twice as hard for slightly better results.”4.50
  3. 3Maps of MeaningJordan B. Peterson · Psychology4.50
  4. 4The One ThingGary Keller · Self-MasteryRead this if “Twenty things on my list, and the important one never gets done.”4.50
  5. 5Beyond Good and EvilFriedrich Nietzsche · PhilosophyRead this if “I do what's expected of me and can't say why.”4.33
  6. 6Critical ChainEliyahu Goldratt · Business & SystemsRead this if “I always finish at the deadline no matter how much time I had.”4.33
  7. 7Finite and Infinite GamesJames P. Carse · PhilosophyRead this if “I hit the target, feel nothing, and set a bigger one.”4.33
  8. 8PCPoor Charlie's AlmanackCharlie Munger · Wealth & MoneyRead this if “I keep making the same mistake in different situations.”4.33
  9. 9The Almanack of Naval RavikantEric Jorgenson · Wealth & MoneyRead this if “I work hard and my income barely moves.”4.33
  10. 10The Black SwanNassim Nicholas Taleb · Strategy & Decision-Making4.33
  11. 11Unreasonable HospitalityWill Guidara · Business & SystemsRead this if “My product is good and nobody talks about it.”4.33
  12. 12Magnetic MarketingDan Kennedy · Marketing & PersuasionRead this if “I rely on word of mouth and it's not enough.”4.17
  13. 13MeditationsMarcus Aurelius · Philosophy4.17
  14. 14Memories, Dreams, ReflectionsC.G. Jung · PsychologyRead this if “My dreams feel like they're trying to tell me something.”4.17
  15. 15The Earth Has a SoulMeredith Sabini · PsychologyRead this if “I feel most myself outdoors and spend my life indoors.”4.17
  16. 16The Power of NowEckhart Tolle · PhilosophyRead this if “My mind won't shut up, even when nothing is wrong.”4.17
  17. 17Thinking in SystemsDonella Meadows · Business & SystemsRead this if “I fix something and it comes back a month later.”4.17
  18. 18UnshakeableTony Robbins · Self-MasteryRead this if “I panic every time my numbers dip.”4.17
  19. 19VelocityDee Jacob · Business & SystemsRead this if “We improved everything and the bottom line didn't move.”4.17
  20. 20Who Not HowDan Sullivan & Benjamin Hardy · Business & SystemsRead this if “Everything in my business still runs through me.”4.17
  21. 21Why Him? Why Her?Helen Fisher · PsychologyRead this if “I keep falling for the same kind of person and it keeps ending the same way.”4.17
  22. 22AntifragileNassim Nicholas Taleb · Strategy & Decision-MakingRead this if “One bad month would wipe me out.”4.00
  23. 23No B.S. Direct MarketingDan Kennedy · Marketing & PersuasionRead this if “I spend on ads and can't tell if any of it works.”4.00
  24. 24The Lessons of HistoryWill & Ariel Durant · PhilosophyRead this if “The news makes me feel like the world has never been this bad.”4.00
  25. 25The War of ArtSteven Pressfield · Self-MasteryRead this if “I have the idea and keep not starting.”4.00
  26. 26Beyond the GoalEliyahu Goldratt · Business & SystemsRead this if “We bought the software and nothing got faster.”3.83
  27. 27On BullshitHarry G. Frankfurt · PhilosophyRead this if “Some confident people feel off and I can't say why.”3.83
  28. 28PropagandaEdward Bernays · Marketing & PersuasionRead this if “My product is better and the crowd still buys the other one.”3.83
  29. 29Scientific AdvertisingClaude Hopkins · Marketing & Persuasion3.83
  30. 30TCThe ChoiceEfrat Goldratt-Ashlag · Business & SystemsRead this if “My situation is uniquely complicated.”3.83
  31. 31TGTraction: Get A Grip On Your BusinessGino Wickman · Business & Systems3.83
  32. 32Lessons from the PackCesar Millan · PsychologyRead this if “My dog listens to everyone except me.”3.67
  33. 33Prometheus RisingRobert Anton Wilson · PsychologyRead this if “I keep finding evidence for what I already believe.”3.67
  34. 34Reality TransurfingVadim Zeland · PhilosophyRead this if “The harder I want something, the further it moves.”3.67
  35. 35What Would the Rockefellers Do?Garrett Gunderson · Wealth & MoneyRead this if “I earn well and none of it is building anything for my family.”3.67
  36. 36Astrophysics For People In A HurryNeil deGrasse Tyson · Science3.50
  37. 37MVMaker vs ManagerPaul Graham · Business & SystemsRead this if “One meeting in the afternoon kills my whole day.”3.50
  38. 38Thus Spoke ZarathustraFriedrich Nietzsche · Philosophy3.50
  39. 39High Output ManagementAndrew Grove · Business & SystemsRead this if “I hired people and my workload went up, not down.”3.33
  40. 40The Everything StoreBrad Stone · Business & SystemsRead this if “I want to know how Amazon was really built, not the legend.”3.33
  41. 41The Untethered SoulMichael A. Singer · PhilosophyRead this if “There's a voice in my head that never stops commenting.”3.33
  42. 42Tao Te ChingLao Tzu · Philosophy3.17
  43. 43The Art of LovingErich Fromm · PhilosophyRead this if “My relationships start strong and fade the same way every time.”3.00
  44. 44Goldratt's Rules of FlowEfrat Goldratt-Ashlag · Business & SystemsRead this if “My projects take three times longer than they should.”2.83
  45. 45The Meaning of It AllRichard Feynman · ScienceRead this if “I'm sure about things I have no way of checking.”2.83
  46. 46Boron LettersGary Halbert · Marketing & PersuasionRead this if “I write emails and ads and nobody replies.”2.67
  47. 47The KybalionThree Initiates · PhilosophyRead this if “My life swings between extremes and I can't find the middle.”2.67
  48. 48The PrinceNiccolò Machiavelli · PhilosophyRead this if “I play fair and keep losing to people who don't.”2.67
  49. 49The Hard Thing About Hard ThingsBen Horowitz · Business & SystemsRead this if “Nobody warned me running a company would feel like this.”2.50
  50. 50Crucial ConversationsKerry Patterson · Business & SystemsRead this if “I avoid the conversation until it explodes.”2.33

02 · Fiction

Books that change how you feel.

Best fiction so farWhite NightsFyodor Dostoevsky4.88 / 5Read this when “I'm lonely in a city full of people.”

Best of each genre

White Nights
Literary4.88Lord Of The Rings: The Fellowship Of The Ring
Fantasy4.63The Alchemist
Fable4.13The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Sci-fi4.00

15 books, ranked

  1. 1White NightsFyodor Dostoevsky · LiteraryRead this when “I'm lonely in a city full of people.”4.88
  2. 2LOLord Of The Rings: The Fellowship Of The RingJ. R. R. Tolkien · Fantasy4.63
  3. 3Of Mice and MenJohn Steinbeck · LiteraryRead this when “I've been talking about the same plan for years.”4.50
  4. 4StonerJohn Williams · Literary4.38
  5. 5A Picture Of Dorian GrayOscar Wilde · Literary4.25
  6. 6The HobbitJ.R.R. Tolkien · FantasyRead this when “I'm comfortable and secretly bored.”4.25
  7. 7The AlchemistPaulo Coelho · FableRead this when “I know what I want and keep finding reasons to wait.”4.13
  8. 8The Hitchhiker's Guide to the GalaxyDouglas Adams · Sci-fiRead this when “I'm taking everything far too seriously.”4.00
  9. 9DuneFrank Herbert · Sci-fiRead this when “I want a world big enough to get lost in for a month.”3.75
  10. 10The Metamorphosis of Prime IntellectRoger Williams · Sci-fiRead this when “Everything is easy and nothing feels worth doing.”3.75
  11. 11ACA Casino Odyssey in CyberspaceRoger Williams · Sci-fiRead this when “I want something short and strange for one evening.”3.38
  12. 12Norse MythologyNeil Gaiman · Fantasy3.38
  13. 13The Old Man and the SeaErnest Hemingway · LiteraryRead this when “I'm exhausted and I refuse to quit.”3.38
  14. 14The StrangerAlbert Camus · Literary3.38
  15. 15The MetamorphosisFranz Kafka · LiteraryRead this when “I feel like a burden to the people around me.”3.00
65 books scored so far. Scores sync from my reading spreadsheet.
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