The Best Books I’ve Read Recently
I read a lot. Here are some of my recent favourites.
Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder (Incerto) – Nassim Nicholas Taleb
The Happiness Hypothesis: Finding Modern Truth in Ancient Wisdom – Jonathan Haidt
Man’s Search for Meaning – Viktor Frankl
The Art of Asking: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Let People Help – Amanda Palmer
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind – Yuval Noah Harari
The Sports Gene: Inside the Science of Extraordinary Athletic Performance – David Epstein
The Upside of Stress: Why Stress is Good For You (And How to Get Good at it) – Kelly McGonigal
Faster, Higher, Stronger: How Sports Science Is Creating a New Generation of Superathletes–and What We Can Learn from Them – Mark McClusky
Why We Get Fat: And What to Do About It – Gary Taubes
The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business – Charles Duhigg
The Art of Learning: An Inner Journey to Optimal Performance – Josh Waitzkin
The Gifts of Imperfection – Brene Brown
Legacy: What the All Blacks Can Teach Us About the Business of Life – James Kerr
Reasons to Stay Alive – Matt Haig
When Breath Becomes Air – Paul Kalanithi
The Rosie Project: A Novel – Graeme Simsion
How to Live: Or A Life of Montaigne in One Question and Twenty Attempts at an Answer – Sarah Bakewell
Show Your Work!: 10 Ways to Share Your Creativity and Get Discovered – Austin Kleon
The Omnivore’s Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals – Michael Pollan
Ready Player One: A Novel – Ernest Cline
The Antidote: Happiness for People Who Can’t Stand Positive Thinking – Oliver Burkeman
Bad Science: Quacks, Hacks, and Big Pharma Flacks – Ben Goldacre
Levels of the Game – John McPhee
The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks and Win Your Inner Creative Battles – Steven Pressfield
Mastery – Robert Greene
The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right – Atul Gawande
The Black Swan: Second Edition: The Impact of the Highly Improbable: With a new section: “On Robustness and Fragility” (Incerto) – Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can’t Stop Talking – Susan Cain
Daily Rituals: How Artists Work – Mason Currey
Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life – Anne Lamott
Meditations (Dover Thrift Editions) – Marcus Aurelius
The Art of Living: The Classical Manual on Virtue, Happiness and Effectiveness – Epictetus, Sharon Libell
Letters From A Stoic – Seneca
The Obstacle Is the Way: The Timeless Art of Turning Trials into Triumph – Ryan Holiday