Books are my mentors. Here’s an overview of my library and anti-library (50/50, for now). My favorite books are highlighted, in no particular order.

• Poorly Drawn Lines: Good Ideas and Amazing Stories
• Explorers’ Sketchbooks: The Art of Discovery & Adventure
• Sperm Wars: Infidelity, Sexual Conflict, and Other Bedroom Battles
• Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
• Antifragile
• Anything You Want: 40 Lessons for a New Kind of Entrepreneur
• The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks and Win Your Inner Creative Battles
• Give and Take: Why Helping Others Drives Our Success
• What I Talk About When I Talk About Running
• How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia
• The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable
• Hannibal and Me
• Outliers: The Story of Success
• Thinking, Fast and Slow (NL: Ons Feilbare Denken)
• Brave New World
• The Crossroads Of Should And Must
• How to Win Friends and Influence People
• Mistakes Were Made (But Not by Me)
• Surely You’re Joking Mr Feynman
• Good Calories, Bad Calories
• Atlas Shrugged (NL: De Kracht van Atlantis)
• Target Switzerland: Swiss Armed Neutrality In World War II
• Originals: How Non-Conformists Move the World
• Ant Farm: And Other Desperate Situations
• The Undoing Project: A Friendship that Changed Our Minds
• Theft by Finding: Diaries: Volume One
• Seeking Wisdom
• Bel-Ami
• Interviews with History and Conversations with Power
• Strangers to Ourselves: Discovering the Adaptive Unconscious
• The Intellectual Life: Its Spirit, Conditions, Methods
• The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature
• Spent: Sex, Evolution, and Consumer Behavior
• Wanderlust: A History of Walking
• A Field Guide To Getting Lost
• Words That Work: It’s Not What You Say, it’s What People Hear
• Doubt: A History
• Mindset: The New Psychology of Success
• Lust for Life
• Bad Feminist
• The Art of Learning: An Inner Journey to Optimal Performance
• On Liberty
• Kant: A Very Short Introduction
• Schopenhauer: A Very Short Introduction
• History: A Very Short Introduction
• Genius: A Very Short Introduction
• Consciousness: A Very Short Introduction
• Economics: A Very Short Introduction
• Hume: A Very Short Introduction
• Home: A Very Short Introduction
• Wittgenstein: A Very Short Introduction
• Chaos: A Very Short Introduction
• Jung: A Very Short Introduction
• Military Strategy: A Very Short Introduction
• Leadership: A Very Short Introduction
• Classical Mythology: A Very Short Introduction
• Risk: A Very Short Introduction
• Logic: A Very Short Introduction
• Probability: A Very Short Introduction
• Enlightenment: A Very Short Introduction
• Waterloo
• Selling The Invisible: A Field Guide to Modern Marketing
• One Hundred Years of Solitude
• Becoming Freud: The Making of a Psychoanalyst
• Speak Like Churchill, Stand Like Lincoln
• Chimpanzee Politics: Power and Sex among Apes
• The Promise of a Pencil: How an Ordinary Person Can Create Extraordinary Change
• History of the Peloponnesian War
• Epictetus: Discourses and Selected Writings
• The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde and Other Tales of Terror
• Eichmann in Jerusalem
• Work Smarts: What CEOs Say You Need to Know to Get Ahead
• The Warrior Ethos
• Turning Pro: Tap Your Inner Power and Create Your Life’s Work
• Do the Work: Overcome Resistance and Get Out of Your Own Way
• The Wisdom of Frugality: Why Less Is More – More or Less
• The Library of Greek Mythology
• Wealth of Nations
• On War
• Write the Perfect Book Proposal: 10 That Sold and Why
• Lying
• Creatures of Greek Mythology
• Rising Strong
• Daring Greatly
• Gifts of Imperfection
• The Myth of Sisyphus
• Nausea
• Jane Eyre
• Rene Descartes’ Meditations
• Frankenstein
• Pride and Prejudice
• Candide
• Hamlet
• The Imitation of Christ
• The Diary Of A Young Girl
• Fahrenheit 451
• The Picture of Dorian Gray
• The Great Gatsby
• On the Genealogy of Morals
• From Those Wonderful Folks Who Gave You Pearl Harbor
• The Rational Optimist
• The Effective Executive
• How to Live: A Life of Montaigne in one question and twenty attempts at an answer
• The Old Man and the Sea
• The Mythical Man-Month
• What I Learned Losing a Million Dollars
• Never Eat Alone: And Other Secrets to Success, One Relationship at a Time
• Dying Every Day: Seneca at the Court of Nero
• Becoming a Category of One
• Mapping the Mind
• Man’s Search for Meaning
• So Good They Can’t Ignore You
• The Rise of Superman
• The Magic of Thinking Big
• The Tartar Steppe
• Mindless Eating
• Titan: The Life of John D. Rockefeller
• Steve Jobs
• Zig Ziglar’s Secrets of Closing the Sale
• The Tom Peters Seminar
• Awaken The Giant Within
• Free Will
• The Hero with a Thousand Faces
• They Got It Wrong: History: All the Facts That Turned Out to Be Myths
• The Wisdom of Insecurity: A Message for an Age of Anxiety
• The Book on the Taboo against Knowing Who You are
• Big Questions from Little People
• The Hard Thing About Hard Things
• David and Goliath
• The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference
• The Wizard of Menlo Park: How Thomas Alva Edison Invented the Modern World
• Walt Disney: The Biography
• Stumbling on Happiness
• Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions
• Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth and Happiness
• Andrew Carnegie
• Howard Hughes: His Life and Madness
• Radical Acceptance: Embracing Your Life with the Heart of a Buddha
• Benjamin Franklin: An American Life
• My Life and Work: An Autobiography of Henry Ford
• Don’t Shoot the Dog!: The New Art of Teaching and Training
• The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine
• As a Man Thinketh
• How to be Bored
• How to Live in the City
• Essays in Love
• Throwing Rocks at the Google Bus: How Growth Became the Enemy of Prosperity
• The Little Prince
• Show Your Work!: 10 Ways to Share Your Creativity and Get Discovered
• Choose Yourself!
• The Comprehensive ENFP Survival Guide
• The 22 Immutable Laws Of Marketing
• Finding Your Element: How to Discover Your Talents and Passions and Transform Your Life
• The Checklist Manifesto: How To Get Things Right
• On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
• We Learn Nothing: Essays
• The Complete Maus
• Bad Science
• Writing That Works: How to Communicate Effectively in Business
• Kurt Vonnegut: Letters
• Letters from a Stoic: Epistulae Morales Ad Lucilium
• The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work
• Small Giants: Companies That Choose to be Great Instead of Big
• Slaughter House Five
• The Prince
• Dodging Extinction: Power, Food, Money, and the Future of Life on Earth
• On Kissing, Tickling and Being Bored: Psychoanalytic Essays on the Unexamined Life
• It’s Not How Good You Are, It’s How Good You Want to Be
• Letter to My Daughter
• Missing Out: In Praise of the Unlived Life
• Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear
• The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
• Buddhism without Beliefs: A Contemporary Guide to Awakening
• The Journal 1837-1861: Thoreau
• How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big: Kind of the Story of My Life
• Insight Meditation
• The Lion and the Bird
• The Psychedelic Explorer’s Guide : Safe, Therapeutic, and Sacred Journeys
• On the Shortness of Life
• Autobiography of a Yogi
• A Guide to the Good Life: The Ancient Art of Stoic Joy
• Waking Up: A Guide to Spirituality Without Religion
• The Obstacle is the Way: The Ancient Art of Turning Adversity to Advantage
• The Greatest Salesman in the World
• Rich Kids: How to Raise Our Children to Be Happy and Successful in Life
• Rich Habits: The Daily Success Habits of Wealthy Individuals
• Pure, White and Deadly: How Sugar Is Killing Us and What We Can Do to Stop It
• The Ivy Portfolio: How to Invest Like the Top Endowments and Avoid Bear Markets
• 10% Happier
• Business Model Generation: A Handbook for Visionaries, Game Changers, and Challengers
• Introducing Neuro-Linguistic Programming
• The Red Queen: Sex and the Evolution of Human Nature
• The Art Of Seduction
• The Selfish Gene
• The Art and Science of Low Carbohydrate Performance
• Essential Zen Habits: Mastering the Art of Change, Briefly
• At the Same Time: Essays and Speeches
• I’ll Be You and You Be Me
• Marcus Aurelius’ Meditations
• Vagabonding: An Uncommon Guide to the Art of Long-Term World Travel
• The E-Myth Revisited: Why Most Small Businesses Don’t Work and What to Do About It
• The Psychology of Winning
• The 80/20 Principle
• 7 Habits Of Highly Effective People
• The Power of Now
• Secrets of the Millionaire Mind
• Rich Dad Poor Dad
• The Richest Man in Babylon
• Think and Grow Rich
• How to Stop Worrying and Start Living
• Getting Things Done
• The 4-Hour Work Week
• Your Money or Your Life
• You Can Be a Stock Market Genius
• The Lean Startup
• The Intelligent Investor
• The Gift of Failure
• Riding with Rilke
• The Happiness Project
• The Art of Non-Conformity
• Godel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid
• The Happiness of Pursuit
• The $100 Startup
• Born for This: How to Find the Work You Were Meant to Do
• The Knowledge: A Too Close To True Novel
• Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life
• Conscious Business: How to Build Value Through Values
• Love Yourself Like Your Life Depends On It
• The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York
• The Artist’s Way
• The Enchiridion
• Pragmatics of Human Communication: A Study of Interactional Patterns, Pathologies, and Paradoxes
• Emotional Intelligence: Why It Can Matter More Than IQ
• A Guide to Econometrics
• Black Elk Speaks
• Get Shit Done
• Malina
• Born to Run: The Hidden Tribe, the Ultra-Runners, and the Greatest Race the World Has Ever Seen
• Eat and Run: My Unlikely Journey to Ultramarathon Greatness
• Run or Die
• The Hour Between Dog and Wolf: How Risk Taking Transforms Us, Body and Mind
• Plato and a Platypus Walk into a Bar…: Understanding Philosophy Through Jokes
• Idea Makers: Personal Perspectives on the Lives & Ideas of Some Notable People
• The Tyranny of Experts: Economists, Dictators, and the Forgotten Rights of the Poor
• Göthe’s Maxims and Reflections
• Groei Maakt Gelukkig
• Cathedral (Vintage Classics)
• Debt: The First 5,000 Years
• The One Thing: The Surprisingly Simple Truth Behind Extraordinary Results
• The Holy Roman Empire: A Thousand Years of Europe’s History
• Ignore Everybody: and 39 Other Keys to Creativity
• Interstellar: The Complete Screenplay With Selected Storyboards
• Inception: The Shooting Script
• Bij Voorbeeld: 31 verhalen over wat het leven je kan brengen
• The General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money
• Bertrand Russell: What I Believe
• A Pilgrim’s Guide to the Camino Portugués
• If This Is A Man/The Truce
• Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
• Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow
• Rapt: Attention and the Focused Life
• Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead
• A Confederacy of Dunces
• Not That Kind of Girl: A Young Woman Tells You What She’s Learned
• Creativity, Inc.: Overcoming the Unseen Forces That Stand in the Way of True Inspiration
• Wild: A Journey from Lost to Found
• The Shortest History of Europe
• The Ethics of Ambiguity
• The Miracle Of Castel Di Sangro
• Fighting Fire
• The Churchill Factor: How One Man Made History
• Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies
• Siddhartha
• Mastery
• The Story of Your Life: Becoming the Author of Your Experience
• The Steal Like an Artist Journal: A Journal for Creative Kleptomaniacs
• Newspaper Blackout
• Teach and Grow Rich
• Killing Rommel
• The Alchemist
• The Virtues of War: A Novel of Alexander the Great