Books that have shaped how I think — across climate, philosophy, economics, creativity and the art of working well. A living list, updated as I read.
Climate change
- Climate Change — Joseph Romm
- How to Avoid a Climate Disaster — Bill Gates
- This Changes Everything — Naomi Klein
- The Uninhabitable Earth — David Wallace-Wells
- The Great Derangement — Amitav Ghosh
- All We Can Save — Ayana Elizabeth Johnson et al.
- Indica — Pranay Lal
Philosophy, religion and meditation
- The Science of Meditation — Daniel Goleman
- How to Be a Stoic — Massimo Pigliucci
- The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying — Sogyal Rinpoche
- The Antidote — Oliver Burkeman
- The Collected Works of Ramana Maharshi — Ramana Maharshi
- Four Thousand Weeks — Oliver Burkeman
- The Righteous Mind — Jonathan Haidt
Economics and business
- Capital in the Twenty-First Century — Thomas Piketty
- Scarcity — Sendhil Mullainathan & Eldar Shafir
- Skin in the Game — Nassim Nicholas Taleb
- The Tyranny of Merit — Michael J. Sandel
- Antifragile — Nassim Nicholas Taleb
- Thinking, Fast and Slow — Daniel Kahneman
- Nudge — Richard Thaler
- The Stuff of Thought — Steven Pinker
Productivity and knowledge management
- Deep Work — Cal Newport
- Never Stop Learning — Bradley R. Staats
- How to Take Smart Notes — Sonke Ahrens
- Smarter Faster Better — Charles Duhigg
- The Organized Mind — Daniel J. Levitin
- The Power of Habit — Charles Duhigg
- Essentialism — Greg McKeown
Writing and creativity
- The Sense of Style — Steven Pinker
- On Writing — Stephen King
- The Elements of Style — William Strunk
- The War of Art — Steven Pressfield
- The Creative Act — Rick Rubin