2025 Reading Challenge: Books That’ll Make Me Smarter (And Shape My Year)
3 min readDec 30, 2024
My book list for 2025:
- The Coming Wave by Mustafa Suleyman
- Leadership Strategy and Tactics by Jocko Willink
- VisuaLeadership by Todd Cherches
- Put Your Ass Where Your Heart Wants to Be by Steven Pressfield
- The Leader’s Guide to Unconscious Bias by Pamela Fuller
- Read Write Own by Chris Dixon
- The Creativity Code, Art and Innovation in the age of AI by Marcus du Sautoy
- Master of Change by Brad Stulberg
- The Righteous Mind: Why good people are divided by politics and religion by Jonathan Haidt
- Creativity, Inc. By Ed Catmull and Amy Wallace
- Practice Perfect by Doug Lemov, Katie Yezzi, Erica Woolway
- Extreme Ownership by Jocko Willing & Leif Babin
- Be Your Future Self Now by Dr. Benjamin Hardy
- Evil Plans by Hugh Macleod
- Meditations by Marcus Aurelius
- The Choice: Embrace the Possible by Dr. Edith Eva Eger
- Unscripted by MJ DeMarco
- The Life You Can Save: How To Do Your Part To End World Poverty by Singer
- Power vs. Force: The Hidden Determinants of Human Behavior David R. Hawkins
- Brave New Words by Sal Khan
- Factfulness by Hans Rosling, Anna Rosling Rönnlund, Ola Rosling
- Where Good Ideas Come From by Steven Johnson
- A Thousand Brains by Jeff Hawkins, Richard Dawkins
- Infectious Generosity: The Ultimate Idea Worth Spreading by Chris Anderson
- How to Know a Person by David Brooks
- ‘AI Snake Oil: What Artificial Intelligence Can Do, What It Can’t, and How to Tell the Difference,’ by Arvind Narayanan and Sayash Kapoor
- ‘The Nvidia Way: Jensen Huang and the Making of a Tech Giant,’ by Tae Kim
- ‘The AI-Savvy Leader: Nine Ways to Take Back Control and Make AI Work,’ by David De Cremer‘
- All Hands on Tech: The AI-Powered Citizen Revolution,’ by Tom Davenport and Ian Barkin
- ‘Burn Book: A Tech Love Story,’ by Kara Swisher
- ‘The Corporate Life Cycle: Business, Investment, and Management Implications,’ by Aswath Damodaran
- ‘Co-Intelligence: Living and Working with AI,’ by Ethan Mollick
Some of the books to be revisited:
- Servant Leadership in Action: How You Can Achieve Great Relationships and Results by Kenneth H Blanchard
- Imagine it Forward by Beth Comstock
- Unboss by Lars Kolind & Jacob Botter
- Courageous Cultures: How to Build Teams of Micro-Innovators, Problem Solvers, and Customer Advocates by Karin Hurt, David Dye and Amy Edmonson
- All In by Adrian Gostick and Chester Elton
- Big Potential by Shawn Anchor
- What You Do Is Who You Are by Ben Horowitz
- Reinventing Organizations by Frederic Laloux, Ken Wilber
- The Fearless Organization by Amy C Edmondson
- Untamed by Glennon Doyle
- Trust yourself : stop overthinking and channel your emotions for success at work
- Trust & inspire : how truly great leaders unleash greatness in others
- Employees first! : inspire, engage, and focus on the heart of your organization
- The patient will see you now by Eric Topol
- Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can’t Stop Talking by Susan Cain
- Only the Paranoid Survive: How to Exploit the Crisis Points That Challenge Every Company by Andrew S. Grove
- I love it here by Clint Pulver
- Your It: Crisis, Change, and How to Lead when it matters Most by Leonard J. Marcus, Eric J McNulty, Joseph M Henderson
- Never Finished by David Goggins
- The Mountain is You by Brianna Wiest
- Do Hard Things by Steve Magness
- Leadershift by John C. Maxwell
- How Women Rise by Sally Helgesen, Marshall Goldsmith
- The Success Principles by Jack Canfield, Janet Switzer
- An Everyone Culture by Robert Kegan, Lisa Laskow Lahey, Matthew L. Miller, And Fleming, Deborah Helsing
- Behavioral Economics by David Orrell Disrupt
- Yourself by Whitney Johnson Misbehaving: The Making of Behavioral Economics by Richard H. Thaler
- Own Your Career, Own Your Life by Andy Storch
- So Good They Can’t Ignore You by Cal Newport
- The 12 Week Year by Brian P. Moran, Michael Lennington
- The Compound Effect by Darren Hardy
- The Five Dysfunctions of a Team by Patrick Lencioni
- The Practice by Seth Godin You Turn by Ashley Stahl
