Survival Books

Tim Ferriss

The Tactics, Routines, and Habits of Billionaires, Icons, and World-Class Performers. Mariner Books, 2016.

Peter Thiel, Blake Masters

Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future. Currency, 2014.

David Leavitt

Alan Turing and the Invention of the Computer. Atlas Books, 2006.

Admiral William H. McRaven

Little Things that Can Change Your Life… and Maybe the World. Grand Central Publishing, 2017.

Kate Moore

The Dark Story of America’s Shining Women. Sourcebooks, 2017.

Simon Sinek

How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone to Take Action. Portfolio/Penguin, 2009.

Jasmine Brown

The Stories of Black Women Who Fought to Become Physicians, from the Civil War to the 21st Century. Beacon Press, 2023.

Olivia Campbell

How the First Women Doctors Changed the World of Medicine. Park Row Books, 2021.

Barbara Minto

Logic in Writing and Thinking. 3rd ed., Pearson, 2020.

Tania Gergel

The Brief Life and Towering Exploits of History’s Greatest Conqueror as Told by His Original Biographers. Penguin Books, 2004.

Kirk Wallace Johnson

Beauty, Obsession, and the Natural History Heist of the Century. Penguin Books, 2018.

Martin Lings

Muhammad: His Life Based on the Earliest Sources. Inner Traditions, 2006.