What are some of the best books you've read this year?
Abhilash Sankaramanchi
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Inspired by HN post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33849267
I've read these books:
1. Psychology of Money by Morgan Housel
A masterpiece on Personal Finance that highlights most common mistakes people tend to make with money.
2. Rework by David Heinemeier
This book emphasizes on failing early & often to learn Business lessons, must read!
3. Building Brand Communities by Melissa Jones
Community Building is crucial for brands & this book teaches the exact ways to build a fostering community.
4. Business of Belonging by David Spinks
Following the similar lines of Community Building in the earlier book, this book emphasizes on the true nature of communities which is belonging & giving value back.
It's your turn now to list a few, let's provide more value to the space. I'm pretty sure we have a lot of bookworms here! :)
Here are some books by popular vote recommended by Awesome PH'ers!
1. Alchemist by Paulo Coelho
2. Rich Dad Poor Dad by Robert T Kiyosaki
3. Shiva Trilogy by Amish Tripathi
4. It Ends With Us by Colleen Hoover
5. Zero to One by Peter Thiel.
6. The Lean Startup by Eric Ries.
7. Atomic Habits by James Clear
8. Principles by Ray Dalio
9. The Joy of Compounding by Gautam Baid
10. Almanack of Naval Ravikant
11. The Courage to be Disliked by Ichiro Kishimi
12. Shoe Dog by Phil Knight
13. What your customer wants & cannot tell you by Meline Palmer
14. Time is a Mother by Ocean Vuong
15. The Millionaire Fastlane by M J DeMarco
16. Mahabharata
17. Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom
18. The Child In You - Stefanie Stahl
19. Thrive by Arianna Huffington
20. The Power of Introverts by Susan Cain
21. The 5 Love Languages by Gary Chapman
22. The Mom Test by Rob Fitzpatrick
23. A Primate`s Memoir by Robert Sapolsky
24. Oliver Sacks Books
25. Mr. Toad went to see a psychiatrist
26. Thirty thousand stiches by Sudha Murthy
27. Eat that Frog by Brian Tracy
28. Stillness is the key by Ryan Holiday
29. Happy Sexy Millionaire by Steven Bartlett
30. The Child in you by Stefanie Stahl
31. Options, Futures, and Other Derivatives by John Hull
32. Mastery by Robert Greene
33. Learning SQL by Alan Beaulieu
34. The Pragmatic Programmer by David Thomas
35. Clean Code: A Handbook of Agile Software Craftsmanship by Martin Robert C
Last but not the least, do check out Nikolas's Discussion for more incredible books: https://www.producthunt.com/discussions/the-best-ultimate-reading-list-continuously-updated
Bonus List: Found Paul Graham's Gift Book Recommendations:
https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1602347941473275909?s=20&t=07ntdImP45MiWSc_Uol6Nw
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Charlotte Chiang@charlotte_chiang1
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"What your customer wants and cannot tell you" by Melina Palmer. An excellent insight into customers' brains.
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Discovered this pretty late. The Mom Test is an awesome read for any builder.
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@archisman_das Just checked with the book, knowing how to talk to customers & derive inputs is an important skill. Thanks for the reco! 💯
1. Courage to be Disliked - Fumitake Koga & Ichiro Kishimi
2. 'Psychology of Money' - Morgan Housel
3. The Child In You - Stefanie Stahl
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@indu_thangamuthu Heard a lot about the first book you mentioned, it's on my reading list. Thanks for the recos! 😄
@_abhitweets "Courage to be Disliked - Fumitake Koga & Ichiro Kishimi" - THE BEST. I wish they make kids read these type of books in schools. A MUST-READ FOR ALL.
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1. Joy of Compounding
2. Almanack of Naval Ravikant
3. The courage to be disliked
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Rooting in for more suggestions, I've read Mastery by Robert Greene. This book truly justifies its title. It will take you in greater depth through examples of legends like Leonardo da Vinci, Mozart, Faraday, Benjamin Franklin etc. Author greatly explains every important detail how they have achieved mastery in their life and how we can follow their footsteps.
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@vishal_godhwani Robert Greene's books are great to find a direction in life! Thanks for the reco mate!
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Robert Sapolsky "A Primate`s Memoir"
Oliver Sacks - I can recommend all books )
Psychology of Money and Atomic Habits.
Thanks for starting the discussion, I am an avid reader & I've started reading Shiva Trilogy by - Amish Tripathi. The book talks about gods & takes us back to Ancient India. A very interesting read.
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@nikhil_singh16 ancient? 2000-3000 years ago?
stillness is the key and happy sexy millionaire
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good thread! i wrote this one so we can create a list and keep expanding it!
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I am more into technical books so the best book I read this year is from O’Reilly publications its called Learning SQL by Alan Beaulieu.
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@abid_unnisa Awesome Unnisa, this is first technical book recommended here & for that I recommend these two books back at you: The Pragmatic Programmer & Clean Code: A Handbook of Agile Software Craftsmanship.
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Read The Millionaire Fastlane, Zero to One and Shoe Dog.
All of them are great books for people who want to live a life of freedom.
Thirty thousand stiches
Mahabharata. Reading in detail
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"The Minimalist Entrepreneur: How Great Founders Do More with Less" is a great read, painting a very compelling picture of sustainable entrepreneurship. I've picked it up after reading "Blitzscaling: The Lightning-Fast Path to Building Massively Valuable Companies", and it was a very interesting contrast.
And it might be even more relevant in todays market, where a lot of hyper-growth companies are scaling down.
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Prowriting
Sell it like Serhant ;) The learnings can be applied anywhere.
Rich dad poor dad...Is the book of good financial advise.