These are books I usually recommend

Highly Recommended: Life/Wisdom/Thinking

• The Road Less Traveled

• Leading with Character

• The Power of Full engagement

• 30 Lessons for living

• Stumbling on Happiness

• The Incerto: Antifragile, Fooled by randomness, The Black swan, the bed of Procrustes

• The Complete Essays of Michel de Montaigne (I open it and read a random part)

• The Fifth Discipline

• The Time Paradox

  
  
  

Biographies/Founding Stories

• Against the odds: James Dyson

• Keeping at it

• Shoe Dog

• A passion to win

• The art of being unreasonable

• Idea Makers

• Founders at Work

• Charlie Munger: the complete investor

• A dozen lessons for Entrepreneurs

Science & Technology

• Collapse

• Parasite Rex

• The Society of Mind

• Countdown to Zero Day

• Superintelligence (Yes although I don’t buy in to the conclusion)

• A new kind of science

• The road to reality: Penrose

• Ghost Map
  

Business

• High Output Management

• The innovators dilemma

• Crossing the Chasm

• The 7 Powers

• Competitive Strategy

• Predictable Revenue

• The Sales Acceleration Formula

• Subscribed

• Remote

• Re/work

• It doesn’t have to be crazy at work

• the essential Drucker

• The Toyota way

• Improving Performance: How to Manage the White Space in the Organization Chart

• The hard thing about hard things

• What you do is who you are

• The score takes care of itself

• Subscribed

• The checklist manifesto

• Trillion Dollar Coach