Since December 2020 I have been writing notes to summarise key points from every book I read (over 170). I am sharing them all here:
Leadership
Creativity Inc. by Ed Catmull and Amy Wallace
Principles: life and work by Ray Dalio
The hard thing about hard things by Ben Horowitz
The art of possibility by Rosamund Stone Zander and Benjamin Zander
Start with why and Find your why by Simon Sinek
The no asshole rule by Robert Sutton
Radical candor by Kim Scott
Dare to lead by Brené Brown [coming soon]
Entrepreneurship
The E-myth revisited by Michael E. Gerber
Zero to one by Peter Thiel
Goal setting
OKRs: measure what matters by John Doerr
Awaken the giant within by Tony Robbins
Marketing
Made to stick by Chip & Dan Heath
Purple cow by Seth Godin
Habits and routines
The power of habit by Charles Duhigg
The seven habits of highly effective people by Stephen Covey
Atomic habits by James Clear
The compound effect by Darren Hardy
The war of art and Do the work by Steven Pressfield
Productivity and focus
Essentialism by Greg McKeown
Make time by Jake Knapp and John Zeratsky
Getting things done by David Allen
168 hours by Laura Vanderkam
Learning
Make it stick by Peter C. Brown
The art of learning by Josh Waitzkin
Purpose and direction
The subtle art of not giving a f*ck by Mark Mason
Man’s search for meaning by Viktor E. Frankl
Ikigai by Héctor García & Francesc Miralles
The art of work by Jeff Goins
Mastery by Robert Greene [coming soon]
Careers
So good they can’t ignore you by Cal Newport
The squiggly career by Helen Tupper and Sarah Ellis
What colour is your parachute? by Richard N. Bolles [coming soon]
Creativity
Big Magic by Elizabeth Gilbert
Life advice
The happiness project by Gretchen Rubin
The road less travelled by M. Scott Peck
The last lecture by Randy Pausch
The magic of thinking big by David J. Schwartz
The things you can see only when you slow down by Haemin Sunim [coming soon]
Philosophy
The practicing stoic by Ward Farnsworth
The precipice by Toby Ord [coming soon]
Decision making
Antifragile by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Decisive by Chip & Dan Heath
The checklist manifesto by Atul Gawande [coming soon]
Psychology
Grit by Angela Duckworth
Quiet by Susan Cain
Originals by Adam Grant
Mindset by Carol Dweck
Thinking, fast and slow by Daniel Kahneman
The courage to be disliked by Ichiro Kishimi and Fumitake Koga
The Chimp Paradox by Steve Peters
Communication
Talk like TED by Carmine Gallo
(Auto)Biographies
Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson
Parenting
The book you wish your parents had read by Philippa Perry
Personal finance
The Almanack of Naval Ravikant by Eric Jorgenson
The psychology of money by Morgan Housel
You are a badass at making money by Jen Sincero
Your money or your life by Vicki Robin [coming soon]
Rich dad, poor dad by Robert Kiyosaki and Sharon Lechter
Die with zero by Bill Perkins
Economics
Manifesto for a moral revolution by Jacqueline Novogratz
Doughnut economics by Kate Raworth
Value(s) by Mark Carney
History
The rational optimist by Matt Ridley
Invisible women by Caroline Criado-Perez
The better angels of our nature by Steven Pinker [coming soon]
Running
Out of thin air by Michael Crawley
Can’t hurt me by David Goggins
What I talk about when I talk about running by Haruki Murakami [coming soon]
Here are some other good book summary websites:
– Four minute books
– James Clear’s site
– Samuel T. Davies’ site