Derek Sivers Book Recommendations
Who is Derek Sivers:
One of the most original thinkers of our time, also humble and funny. In his own words: I’ve been a musician, circus performer, entrepreneur, and speaker. I’m a slow thinker, explorer, xenophile, and I love a different point of view.
What’s on the list:
360+ books he has read and liked enough to recommend to others.
Derek Sivers books: Useful Not True, How to Live, Hell Yeah or No, Your Music and People, Anything You Want
You Can Negotiate Anything, by Herb Cohen
The Listening Book, by W.A. Mathieu
The Courage to Be Disliked, by Ichiro Kishimi and Fumitake Koga
Sum: Forty Tales from the Afterlives, by David Eagleman
The Gardener and the Carpenter, by Alison Gopnik
Playful Parenting, by Lawrence Cohen
On Writing Well, by William Zinsser
The War of Art, by Steven Pressfield
Stumbling on Happiness, by Daniel Gilbert
E-Myth Revisited, by Michael Gerber
Arabs, by Tim Mackintosh-Smith
The Vagabond’s Way, by Rolf Potts
Finite and Infinite Games, by James P. Carse
Israel: A Simple Guide to the Most Misunderstood Country on Earth, by Noa Tishby
How Minds Change, by David McRaney
How Religion Evolved, by Robin Dunbar
Nothing & Everything, by Val N. Tine
You Look Like a Thing and I Love You, by Janelle Shane
City of Gold: Dubai, by Jim Krane
The Righteous Mind, by Jonathan Haidt
Write Useful Books, by Rob Fitzpatrick
Wild Problems, by Russ Roberts
Relationship Handbook, by George Pransky
Awaken the Giant Within, by Tony Robbins
How Buildings Learn, by Stewart Brand
Getting Things Done, by David Allen
Several Short Sentences About Writing, by Verlyn Klinkenborg
Skin in the Game, by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
This Is Marketing, by Seth Godin
Thinking in Bets, by Annie Duke
12 Rules for Life, by Jordan Peterson
Au Contraire: Figuring Out the French, by Gilles Asselin and Ruth Mastron
The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck, by Mark Manson
Ego Is the Enemy, by Ryan Holiday
Too Soon Old, Too Late Smart: Thirty True Things You Need to Know Now, by Gordon Livingston
Cows, Pigs, Wars, and Witches, by Marvin Harris
The Entrepreneur Roller Coaster, by Darren Hardy
The Wisdom of No Escape, by Pema Chödrön
When Things Fall Apart, by Pema Chödrön
The Compound Effect, by Darren Hardy
When Cultures Collide, by Richard D. Lewis
Antifragile, by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
The Willpower Instinct, by Kelly McGonigal
Turning Pro, by Steven Pressfield
Do the Work, by Steven Pressfield
What Got You Here Won’t Get You There, by Marshall Goldsmith
A Guide to the Good Life: The Ancient Art of Stoic Joy, by William Irvine
Switch, by Chip Heath and Dan Heath
The Happiness Hypothesis, by Jonathan Haidt
The Time Paradox, by Philip Zimbardo and John Boyd
How to Get Rich, by Felix Dennis
The 4-Hour Work Week, by Tim Ferriss
The Smartest Investment Book You’ll Ever Read, by Daniel R. Solin
The Paradox of Choice – Why More is Less, by Barry Schwartz
The Art of Profitability, by Adrian Slywotzky
The Silk Roads, by Peter Frankopan
The Religious Case Against Belief, by James P. Carse
Complete Idiot’s Guide to Understanding Judaism, by Rabbi Benjamin Blech
The Biggest Bluff, by Maria Konnikova
The Secrets of Story, by Matt Bird
Philosophy: a Complete Introduction, by Sharon Kaye
The Minimalist Entrepreneur, by Sahil Lavingia
Four Thousand Weeks – by Oliver Burkeman
How to Live on 24 Hours a Day, by Arnold Bennett
How to Think More Effectively, by the School of Life
All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten, by Robert Fulghum
Nonviolent Communication, by Marshall Rosenberg
The Psychology of Money, by Morgan Housel
Stillness Is the Key, Ryan Holiday
Everything Is F*cked, by Mark Manson
Stubborn Attachments, by Tyler Cowen
Watching the English, by Kate Fox
Story of Philosophy, by Will Durant
Innumeracy, by John Allen Paulos
The Road Less Traveled, by M. Scott Peck
Guns, Germs, and Steel, by Jared Diamond
Steal Like an Artist, by Austin Kleon
Total Recall, by Arnold Schwarzenegger
A Mind for Numbers, by Barbara Oakley
Mindwise: How We Understand What Others Think, Believe, Feel, and Want, by Nicholas Epley
The Obstacle Is the Way, by Ryan Holiday
The Antidote: Happiness for People Who Can’t Stand Positive Thinking, by Oliver Burkeman
Decisive, by Chip and Dan Heath
5 Elements of Effective Thinking, by Edward B. Burger and Michael Starbird
The Icarus Deception, by Seth Godin
So Good They Can’t Ignore You, by Cal Newport
The Little Book of Talent, by Daniel Coyle
What Technology Wants, by Kevin Kelly
Thinking, Fast and Slow, by Daniel Kahneman
Willpower, by Roy Baumeister and John Tierney
Power of Full Engagement, by Jim Loehr and Tony Schwartz
Moonwalking with Einstein, by Joshua Foer
Practicing Mind, by Thomas Sterner
The Personal MBA, by Josh Kaufman
Art and Fear, by David Bayles and Ted Orland
The Geography of Bliss, by Eric Weiner
How We Decide, by Jonah Lehrer
Discover Your Inner Economist, by Tyler Cowen
The Talent Code, by Daniel Coyle
Ignore Everybody, by Hugh MacLeod
How to Talk to Anyone, by Leil Lowndes
You, Inc – The Art of Selling Yourself, by Harry Beckwith
The Innovator’s Solution, by Clayton Christensen
Small is the New Big, by Seth Godin
The 48 Laws of Power, by Robert Greene and Joost Elffers
Swisstory, History of Switzerland – by Laurie Theurer
Useful Delusions, by Shankar Vedantam
Nietzsche: a complete introduction, by Roy Jackson
What Everyone Needs to Know about Islam, by John L. Esposito
Almost Perfect, by Erika Lemay
The Courage to Be Happy, by Ichiro Kishimi and Fumitake Koga
Essays and Aphorisms, by Arthur Schopenhauer
Beyond Order, by Jordan Peterson
The Art of Creative Thinking, by Rod Judkins
Will, by Will Smith and Mark Manson
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Dummies, by Rob Willson and Rhena Branch
Prisoners of Geography, by Tim Marshall
Finland Culture Shock, by Deborah Swallow
The Alter Ego Effect, by Todd Herman
The Consolations of Philosophy, by Alain De Botton
The Lessons of History, by Will and Ariel Durant
Perennial Seller, by Ryan Holiday
How to Read a Book, by Charles Van Doren and Mortimer Adler
How to Talk So Kids Will Listen & Listen So Kids Will Talk, by Adele Fabe and Elaine Mazlish
The Inevitable, by Kevin Kelly
Peak: Secrets from the New Science of Expertise, by Anders Ericsson
The Geography of Genius, by Eric Weiner
Writing Tools, by Roy Peter Clark
Fluent Forever, by Gabriel Wyner
Geography of Time, by Robert Levine
Show Your Work, by Austin Kleon
How to Learn a Foreign Language, by Paul Pimsleur
Man’s Search for Meaning, by Viktor Frankl
Choose Yourself!, by James Altucher
Self Reliance, by Ralph Waldo Emerson
How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big, by Scott Adams
No B.S. Time Management for Entrepreneurs, by Dan S. Kennedy
The Power of Habit, by Charles Duhigg
The Passionate Programmer, by Chad Fowler
The 4-Hour Body, by Tim Ferriss
Hackers & Painters, by Paul Graham
I Will Teach You To Be Rich, by Ramit Sethi
Why Smart People Make Big Money Mistakes, by Gilovich and Belsky
Management of the Absurd, by Richard Farson
Predictably Irrational, by Dan Ariely
The Magic of Thinking Big, by David Schwartz
The Ultimate Sales Machine, by Chet Holmes
The Art of Learning, by Josh Waitzkin
Wikinomics, by Don Tapscott and Anthony Williams
The Wisdom of Crowds, by James Surowiecki
Meatball Sundae, by Seth Godin
Don’t Make Me Think, by Steve Krug
Excellent Advice for Living, by Kevin Kelly
The Essentials of Hinduism, by Swami Bhaskarananda
Delphi Complete Works of William James, by William James
Introducing Pragmatism, by Cornelis de Waal
Pragmatism an Introduction, by Michael Bacon
Japanese Mind, by Roger Davies and Osamu Ikeno
River Out of Eden, by Richard Dawkins
Where Is My Flying Car?, by J Storrs Hall
The Beginning of Infinity, by David Deutsch
The Art of Possibility, by Rosamund and Benjamin Zander
Pre-Suasion, by Robert Cialdini
How Not to Be Wrong, by Jordan Ellenberg
Surely You’re Joking, Mr. Feynman!, by Richard Feynman
Never Split the Difference, by Chris Voss and Tahl Raz
Getting the Love You Want, by Harville Hendrix
Homo Deus, by Yuval Noah Harari
How to Live, by Sarah Bakewell
Nobody Wants to Read Your Sh*t, by Steven Pressfield
Living Beautifully with Uncertainty and Change, by Pema Chödrön
Give and Take, by Adam M. Grant
The Bed of Procrustes, by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Making Ideas Happen, by Scott Belsky
A Short History of Nearly Everything, by Bill Bryson
Pragmatic Programmer, by Andy Hunt and David Thomas
Meditations – by Marcus Aurelius, translation by C Scot Hicks and David V Hicks
The Developing World, by Fredrik Härén
You Are Not So Smart, by David McRaney
The Lean Startup, by Eric Ries
Seeking Wisdom, by Peter Bevelin
Start Small, Stay Small, by Rob Walling and Mike Taber
Making a Good Brain Great, by Daniel G. Amen
Business Stripped Bare, by Richard Branson
Talent Is Overrated, by Geoff Colvin
The Investor’s Manifesto, by William J. Bernstein
Overachievement, by John Eliot
The How of Happiness, by Sonja Lyubomirsky
Personal Development for Smart People, by Steve Pavlina
The Culture Code, by Clotaire Rapaille
The Four Pillars of Investing, by William Bernstein
Here Comes Everybody, by Clay Shirky
The Culting of Brands, by Douglas Atkin
Made to Stick, by Chip Heath and Dan Heath
Maximum Achievement, by Brian Tracy
Persuasion Story Code, by David Garfinkel
The Power of Regret, by Daniel Pink
What’s in It for Them?, by Joe Polish
How to Know Everything – by Elke Wiss
The Me, Me, Me Epidemic – by Amy McCready
Consider This – by Chuck Palahniuk
Scepticism: A Very Short Introduction – by Duncan Pritchard
True Style – by G. Bruce Boyer
Brain Rules for Aging Well – by John Medina
The Artist’s Journey – by Steven Pressfield
Swiss Watching – by Diccon Bewes
Mindfulness in Plain English – by Henepola Gunaratana
How Music Works – by David Byrne
The Way of the Linguist – by Steve Kaufmann
Zero to One – by Peter Thiel and Blake Masters
How Adam Smith Can Change Your Life – by Russ Roberts
Daily Rituals: How Artists Work – by Mason Currey
The Story of French – by Jean-Benoit Nadeau and Julie Barlow
Ready for Anything – by David Allen
Starting Strength – by Mark Rippetoe
Meditation for Beginners – by Jack Kornfield
Fail-Safe Investing – by Harry Browne
Cognitive Surplus – by Clay Shirky
The Selfish Gene – by Richard Dawkins
Nudge – by Richard Thaler and Cass Sunstein
Being Logical: A Guide to Good Thinking – by D.Q. McInerny
Pragmatic Thinking and Learning – by Andy Hunt
The Great Formula – by Mark Joyner
Outliers: The Story of Success – by Malcolm Gladwell
Lucky Or Smart? – by Bo Peabody
The China Study – by Campbell and Campbell
The Power of Less – by Leo Babauta
Cut to the Chase – by Stuart Levine
Know-How – by Ram Charan with Geri Willigan
The Art of Project Management – Scott Berkun
Nineteen Ways of Looking at Wang Wei – by Eliot Weinberger
Arabian Sands – by Wilfred Thesiger
Rebel Talent – by Francesca Gino
The Toilet Paper Entrepreneur – by Mike Michalowicz
Rich Dad Poor Dad – by Robert Kiyosaki
Pragmatism as a Way of Life – Ruth Anna and Hilary Putnam
Loving What Is – by Byron Katie
Everything Is Obvious – by Duncan Watts
The Socrates Express – by Eric Weiner
The Data Detective – by Tim Harford
The Philosophy of Cognitive-Behavioural Therapy – by Donald Robertson
The New York Nobody Knows – by William Helmreich
Barking Up the Wrong Tree – by Eric Barker
Tools of Titans – by Tim Ferriss
The Only Investment Guide You’ll Ever Need – by Andrew Tobias
Germany: Unraveling an Enigma – by Greg Nees
In Pursuit of Silence – by George Prochnik
The Laws of Subtraction – by Matthew May
Drop Dead Healthy – by A. J. Jacobs
One Simple Idea – by Stephen Key
The Upside of Irrationality – by Dan Ariely
Confessions of a Public Speaker – by Scott Berkun
The Profit Zone – by Adrian Slywotzky
Never Eat Alone – by Keith Ferrazzi and Tahl Raz
What Would Google Do? – by Jeff Jarvis
Speaking of India – by Craig Sorti
Losing My Virginity, by Richard Branson
From Rebel to Ruler – by Tony Saich
Questions Are the Answer – by Hal B. Gregersen
The Barbell Prescription – Jonathon M. Sullivan
UAE Culture Shock – by Gina Crocetti Benesh
UAE Culture Smart – by John Walsh
Mistakes Were Made (But Not by Me) – by Carol Tavris
The Question Behind the Question – by John Miller
Writing to Learn – by William Zinsser
Skip the Line – by James Altucher
The Complacent Class – by Tyler Cowen
The Daily Stoic – by Ryan Holiday
Leading an Inspired Life – by Jim Rohn
The Drunkard’s Walk: How Randomness Rules Our Lives – by Leonard Mlodinow
How I Found Freedom in an Unfree World – by Harry Browne
The Sense of Style – by Steven Pinker
A More Beautiful Question – by Warren Berger
Make It Stick – by Peter Brown
The Power of No – by James and Claudia Altucher
How to Learn and Memorize French Vocabulary – by Anthony Metivier
The Checklist Manifesto – by Atul Gawande
Hiring Smart – by Pierre Mornell
A Gift to My Children – by Jim Rogers
Pomodoro Technique Illustrated – by Staffan Nöteberg
Causing a Scene – by Charlie Todd
Born to Run – by Christopher McDougall
How to be a Billionaire – by Martin Fridson
Reality Check – by Guy Kawasaki
Fooled by Randomness – by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
The Obsolete Employee – by Michael Russer
Secrets of the Millionaire Mind – by T. Harv Ecker
Execution – by Larry Bossidy and Ram Charan
Islam and the Future of Tolerance – by Sam Harris and Maajid Nawaz
Cyprus Culture Smart – by Constantine Buhayer
Palestine a Four Thousand Year History – by Nur Masalha
Thus Spoke Zarathustra – by Friedrich Nietzsche
Complete Idiot’s Guide to Hinduism – by Linda Johnsen
100 Ways to Improve Your Writing – by Gary Provost
The Five Rings – by Miyamoto Musashi
Aesop’s Fables – translated by George Fyler Townsend
Fallen Leaves – by Will Durant
The Good Ancestor – by Roman Krznaric
The Elements of Style – by William Strunk
The Tao of George Carlin – by George Carlin
21 Lessons for the 21st Century – by Yuval Noah Harari
The Geometry of Wealth – by Brian Portnoy
Peak Performance – by Brad Stulberg and Steve Magness
Money: Master the Game – by Tony Robbins
Simple Rules: How to Thrive in a Complex World – by Donald Sull
Quirkology – by Richard Wiseman
Mindware: Tools for Smart Thinking – by Richard Nisbett
Wilde in America – by David M. Friedman
Complexity: A Guided Tour – by Melanie Mitchell
Your Memory – by Kenneth L. Higbee
The Philosophical Baby – by Alison Gopnik
Hire With Your Head – by Lou Adler
The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work – by Alain De Botton
Born Standing Up – by Steve Martin
Committed – by Elizabeth Gilbert
What the Dog Saw – by Malcolm Gladwell
Hot Commodities – by Jim Rogers
The Everything Token – by Steve Kaczynski and Scott Duke Kominers
Methods of Persuasion – by Nick Kolenda
The Alchemist – by Paulo Coelho
Prototype Nation – by Silvia M. Lindtner
The Art of Loving – by Erich Fromm
Grow Rich With Peace of Mind – by Napoleon Hill
Editing Humanity – by Kevin Davies
Poking a Dead Frog – by Mike Sacks
And Never Stop Dancing – by Gordon Livingston
The Future of Almost Everything – by Patrick Dixon
Program or Be Programmed – by Douglas Rushkoff and Leland Purvis
The Four Filters Invention of Warren Buffett and Charlie Munger – by Bud Labitan
What I Talk About When I Talk About Running – by Haruki Murakami
Confessions of a Serial Entrepreneur – by Stuart Skorman
Life Without Lawyers – by Philip K. Howard
The Productive Programmer – by Neal Ford
Crash Proof 2.0 – by Peter Schiff
Radical Honesty – by Brad Blanton