Book Recommendations from various mentors taken from Tribe of Mentors by Timothy Ferriss

Book Recommendations from various mentors taken from Tribe of Mentors by Timothy Ferriss

Steven Pressfield

Thucydides’ History of the Peloponnesian War.

Kyle Maynard

Dune by Frank Herbert

The Stranger by Albert Camus

The Hero with a Thousand Faces by Joseph Campbell

Terry Crews

The Master Key System by Charles F. Haanel

Viktor E. Frankl’s incredible Man’s Search for Meaning 

David McRaney’s You Are Not So Smart

Debbie Millman

Anthology The Voice That Is Great Within Us: American Poetry of the 20th Century. Edited by Hayden Carruth

“Maximus to Himself,” by Charles Olson

Poetry of Denise Levertov, Adrienne Rich, Ezra Pound, Wallace Stevens

Naval Ravikant

Total Freedom by Jiddu Krishnamurti

Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harari

Everything by Matt Ridley. Genome, The Red Queen, The Origins of Virtue, The Rational Optimist

Matt Ridley

The Double Helix by James D. Watson 

The Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins

Bozoma Saint John

Toni Morrison’s Song of Solomon

Tim Urban

The Fountainhead, by Ayn Rand

Ayaan Hirsi Ali

        Karl Popper’s The Open Society and Its Enemies, first published in 1945

Graham Duncan

Sam Barondes’ book Making Sense of People

Jennifer Garvey Berger’s more recent and less academic book Changing on the Job.

Mike Maples Jr.

The Top Five Regrets of the Dying by Bronnie Ware

Jonathan Livingston Seagull by Richard Bach

Hope for the Flowers by Trina Paulus

Living Forward by Michael Hyatt and Daniel Harkavy

How Will You Measure Your Life? by Clayton M. Christensen

Soman Chainani

The War of Art by Steven Pressfield  

A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara

Peter Pan by J. M. Barrie

Dita Von Teese

Mae West’s On Sex, Health, and ESP

It’s Called a Breakup Because It’s Broken by Greg Behrendt and Amiira Ruotola-Behrendt 

Your Beauty Mark by Dita Von Teese

Jesse Williams

Guns, Germs, and Steel by Jared Diamond

A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole

Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison

The Souls of Black Folk by W. E. B. Du Bois

The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand

Dustin Moskovitz

The 15 Commitments of Conscious Leadership by Jim Dethmer and Diana Chapman

Richa Chadha

Autobiography of a Yogi (by Paramahansa Yogananda)

Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland

Salman Rushdie’s Shame

Naomi Klein’s No Logo

Max Levchin

The Master and Margarita, by Mikhail Bulgakov (translated by Pevear, et al.)

Neil Strauss

James Joyce’s Ulysses

Under Saturn’s Shadow by James Hollis

Nonviolent Communication by Marshall Rosenberg (audiobook)

Veronica Belmont

10% Happier by Dan Harris

Patton Oswalt

Garret Keizer’s The Enigma of Anger

Lewis Cantley

The Making of the Atomic Bomb by Richard Rhodes

Neal Stephenson's The Baroque Cycle

everything Philip Kerr

Jerzy Gregorek

The Doctor and the Soul by Viktor E. Frankl

The Tao of Power by Lao Tzu [a translation of the Tao Te Ching by R. L. Wing]

  Letters from a Stoic by Seneca

Aniela Gregorek

Man’s Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl

Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain by Oliver Sacks

Amelia Boone

Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand

A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens

Brave Enough by Cheryl Strayed

Sir Joel Edward McHale

The Road by Cormac McCarthy.  

The Blade Itself by Joe Abercrombie 

The Book of Strange New Things by Michel Faber

How to Fly a Horse: The Secret History of Creation, Invention, and Discovery by Kevin Ashton 

Deep Survival: Who Lives, Who Dies, and Why, by Laurence Gonzales

Ben Stiller

The Second Tree from the Corner, a book of short stories by E. B. White

Nine Stories by Salinger

The Jaws Log is a book written by Carl Gottlieb

Anna Holmes

Miss Rumphius, by Barbara Cooney

Joseph Gordon-Levitt

Remix: Making Art and Commerce Thrive in the Hybrid Economy by Lawrence Lessig

Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks

Leadership on the Line: Staying Alive Through the Dangers of Leading by Ronald A. Heifetz and Marty Linsky

Turia Pitt

The Map That Changed the World by Simon Winchester

Born to Run by Christopher McDougall

The Barefoot Investor by Scott Pape

Viktor Frankl’s Man’s Search for Meaning

Jimmy Fallon

Man’s Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl

The Monster at the End of This Book by Jon Stone.

Maria Sharapova

The Beggar King and the Secret of Happiness: A True Story by Joel ben Izzy

Adam Robinson

Zen in the Art of Archery by Eugen Herrigel

Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain by Betty Edwards

The Crack in the Cosmic Egg by Joseph Chilton Pearce

The Act of Creation by Arthur Koestler

The Origins of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind by Julian Jaynes.

Josh Waitzkin

On the Road by Jack Kerouac 

Tao Te Ching, Gia-Fu Feng and Jane English translation 

Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert Pirsig

Ernest Hemingway on Writing

Jason Fried

Seeking Wisdom: From Darwin to Munger by Peter Bevelin

Arianna Huffington

Meditations by Marcus Aurelius

Memories, Dreams, Reflections by Carl Jung

Tim O'Reilly

The Meaning of Culture by John Cowper

The Way of Life According to Lao Tzu

Tao Te Ching as translated by Witter Bynner

Rissa Kerguelen by F. M. Busby

Tom Peters

Susan Cain’s book Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can’t Stop Talking

Frank Partnoy’s Wait: The Art and Science of Delay

Linda Kaplan-Thaler’s The Power of Nice: How to Conquer the Business World with Kindness

The Power of Small: Why Little Things Make All the Difference

Cathy O’Neil’s Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy.

George Whalin’s Retail Superstars: Inside the Twenty-five Best Independent Stores in America 

Bo Burlingham’s Small Giants: Companies That Choose to Be Great Instead of Big

Bill Taylor’s Simply Brilliant: How Great Organizations Do Ordinary Things in Extraordinary Ways

Hermann Simon’s Hidden Champions of the Twenty-first Century: The Success Strategies of Unknown World Market Leaders.

Bear Grylls

Rhinoceros Success by Scott Alexander

Brene Brown

The Dance of Anger by Harriet Lerner

Why Won’t You Apologize? by Harriet Lerner

Positive Discipline series by Jane Nelsen 

Touchpoints series by T. Berry Brazelton

Stretch by Scott Sonenshein 

Lead Yourself First by Kethledge and Erwin

Leo Babauta

Zen Mind, Beginner’s Mind by Shunryu Suzuki

What Is Zen?: Plain Talk for a Beginner’s Mind by Norman Fischer

Esther Dyson

The Biology of Desire: Why Addiction Is Not a Disease by Marc Lewis

Scarcity: Why Having Too Little Means So Much by Sendhil Mullainathan and Eldar Shafir

From Bacteria to Bach and Back: The Evolution of Minds by Daniel C. Dennett