Summer is coming!
And people always ask me about my favorite book. So here’s a small selection, perfect for enjoying yourself at the beach 😉 😎
Philosophy
A History of Western Philosophy — Bertrand Russell
Incerto: Fooled by Randomness, The Black Swan, The Bed of Procrustes, Antifragile, Skin in the Game — Nassim Taleb
Meditations — Marcus Aurelius
Physics, Ethics, Poetics, Metaphysics, Categories, On Logic, On the Soul — Aristotle
Critique of Pure Reason — Emmanuel Kant
The Prince — Niccolò Machiavelli
A Treatise of Human Nature — David Hume
The Transcendent Philosophy of the Four Journeys of the Intellect — Mulla Sadra
The Politics of Obedience: The Discourse of Voluntary Servitude — de La Boetie
Cybernetics: Or the Control and Communication in the Animal and the Machine — Norbert Wiener
Philosophical Investigations — Ludwig Wittgenstein
On Liberty — John Stuart Mills
The Road to Serfdom — Friedrich Von Hayek
The Structure of Scientific Revolutions — Thomas Khun
The Open Society and Its Enemies — Karl Popper
Human Kindness and the Smell of Warm Croissants: An Introduction to Ethics — Ruwen Ogien
Novels
The Picture of Dorian Gray — Oscar Wilde
His Dark Materials Trilogy: The Golden Compass / The Subtle Knife / The Amber Spyglass — Philip Pullman
Swann's Way: In Search of Lost Time — Marcel Proust
City — Alessandro Baricco
Anna Karenina — Leo Tolstoy
Gargantua and Pantagruel — Rabelais
Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes — Edith Hamilton
Memoirs of Hadrian — Marguerite Yourcenar
The Arabian Nights — Scheherazade ;)
Illiad & Odyssey — Homer
Foundation — Isaac Asimov
The Man Who Sold the Moon and Orphans of the Sky — Robert Heinlein
Collected Fictions — Borges
The Masterpiece — Zola
Father Goriot — Balzac
Biography
Ex-Prodigy: My Childhood and Youth — Norbert Wiener
Becoming Beauvoir: A Life — Simone de Beauvoir
The Dictionary of Imaginary Places — Alberto Manguel
A Beautiful Mind — Sylvia Nasar
Alan Turing: The Enigma — Andrew Hodges
Alexander Hamilton — Ron Chernow
Napoleon: A Life — Andrew Roberts
Steve Jobs — Walter Isaacson
Leonardo da Vinci — Walter Isaacson
Marie-Antoinette — Stefan Zweig
Magellan — Stefan Zweig
The Snowball: Warren Buffett and the Business of Life — Alice Schroeder
Morgan, American Financier — Jean Strouse
Jack, Straight From the Gut — Jack Welch
The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon — Brad Stone
Alibaba: The House That Jack Ma Built — Duncan Clark
Creativity, Inc. — Ed Catmull
Empire State of Mind: How Jay Z Went from Street Corner to Corner Office — Zack O'Malley Greenburg
Losing My Virginity: How I Survived, Had Fun, and Made a Fortune Doing Business My Way — Richard Branson
Enjoy! 🏖 And don’t forget your sunscreen 💖
Of course, you’re probably not quite off on vacation yet, so join our online workshop with Mixpanel tomorrow to help you use data to find product-market fit! And if you’re still around in July, join our next First-Time Founder Summit (and the videos of the first FTF Summit are up on Startupfood, right here ;)