Bookshelf

Ancient wisdom. Modern technology. Nature.

Ancient wisdom

• Meditations, Marcus Aurelius
• The Treasured Writings of Kahlil Gibran
• Falling Upward, Richard Rohr
• Women Who Run with the Wolves, Clarissa Pinkola Estés
• Greater Than the Sum of Our Parts, Richard Schwartz
• The Complete Enneagram, Beatrice Chestnut
• Atlas of the Heart, Brené Brown
• The Untethered Soul, The Surrender Experiment and Living Untethered, Michael Singer
• The Art of Learning, Josh Waitzkin
• Legacy, James Kerr
• The Power of Now, Eckhart Tolle
• Loving What Is, Byron Katie with Stephen Mitchell
• Games People Play, Eric Berne
• Finite and Infinite Games, James Carse
• The Myth of Normal, Gabor Maté with Daniel Maté
• The Matter with Things, Iain McGilchrist
• The More Beautiful World Our Hearts Know Is Possible, Charles Eisenstein
• Iron John, Robert Bly
• The Man of Zero, David Deida
• The Hero with a Thousand Faces, Joseph Campbell
• The Power of Myth, Joseph Campbell with Bill Moyers
• Iamblichus’ Life of Pythagoras, translated by Thomas Taylor
• Magicians of the Gods, Graham Hancock
• The Shamanic Path to Quantum Consciousness, Laurent Huguelit
• Zen and the Art of Happiness, Chris Prentiss

Modern technology and capital

• The Beginning of Infinity, David Deutsch
• Antifragile and Skin in the Game, Nassim Taleb
• The Power Law, Sebastian Mallaby
• Zero to One, Peter Thiel
• The Lean Startup, Eric Ries
• The Snowball, Alice Schroeder
• The Most Important Thing, Howard Marks
• Small Giants, Bo Burlingham
• Against the Gods, Peter Bernstein
• Superforecasting, Philip Tetlock and Dan Gardner
• Thinking, Fast and Slow, Daniel Kahneman
• The End of Alchemy, Mervyn King
• Steve Jobs, Elon Musk, Einstein: His Life and Universe, Leonardo da Vinci and Benjamin Franklin: An American Life, Walter Isaacson
• Range, David Epstein
• Good to Great, Built to Last, How the Mighty Fall, Turning the Flywheel and What to Make of a Life, Jim Collins
• The Art of Strategy, Barry J. Nalebuff and Avinash Dixit
• The Hard Thing About Hard Things, Ben Horowitz
• The Startup Owner’s Manual, Steve Blank and Bob Dorf
• Adventure Finance, Aunnie Patton Power
• A Random Walk Down Wall Street, Burton G. Malkiel
• 1873, Liaquat Ahamed
• 1929: Inside the Crash, Andrew Ross Sorkin
• The Code of Capital, Katharina Pistor
• The Bank That Lived a Little, Philip Augar
• The Sovereign Individual, James Dale Davidson and William Rees-Mogg
• The Fourth Turning Is Here, Neil Howe
• Sam Walton: Made in America, Sam Walton with John Huey
• The Everything Store and The Upstarts, Brad Stone
• Apple in China, Patrick McGee
• Life After Google, George Gilder
• The Master Switch, Tim Wu
• Who Owns the Future?, Jaron Lanier
• The Second Machine Age and Machine, Platform, Crowd, Erik Brynjolfsson and Andrew McAfee
• The Master Algorithm, Pedro Domingos
• How to Create a Mind, Ray Kurzweil
• Thank You for Being Late, Thomas L. Friedman
• The Anxious Generation, Jonathan Haidt
• Diffusion of Innovations, Everett M. Rogers
• The Design of Everyday Things, Don Norman
• Influence, Robert Cialdini
• Matter, Peter Sheahan and Julie Williamson
• On Board, John Tusa

Nature and systems

• Let My People Go Surfing, Yvon Chouinard
• The Man Who Planted Trees, Jean Giono
• Seeing Like a State and Against the Grain, James C. Scott
• How Forests Think, Eduardo Kohn
• Novacene, James Lovelock
• The Order of Time and On the Equality of All Things, Carlo Rovelli
• Cosmos, Carl Sagan
• H Is for Hawk, Helen Macdonald
• The Tiger, John Vaillant
• Sapiens, Yuval Noah Harari
• The Systems Bible, John Gall
• The Art of Systems Architecting, Mark W. Maier and Eberhardt Rechtin

Africa and history

• Mandela by Himself
• The Bushman Winter Has Come, Paul John Myburgh
• The State of Africa, Martin Meredith
• Africa: A Modern History, Guy Arnold
• The Washing of the Spears, Donald Morris
• Jan Smuts: Unafraid of Greatness, Milner: Last of the Empire-Builders, Louis Botha: A Man Apart and Rhodes and His Banker, Richard Steyn
• How South Africa Works, Mills, Herbst and others
• Cobalt Red, Siddharth Kara
• Commando and Trekking On, Deneys Reitz
• External Mission: The ANC in Exile 1960–1990, Stephen Ellis
• Harry Oppenheimer: Diamonds, Gold and Dynasty, Michael Cardo
• Third World Child and Kasinomics, GG Alcock
• The Churchill Factor, Boris Johnson

Exploration and endurance

• Mawson’s Will, Lennard Bickel
• Mad, Bad and Dangerous to Know, Ranulph Fiennes

Fiction

• The Overstory and Playground, Richard Powers
• Normal People and Intermezzo, Sally Rooney
• Brotherless Night, V.V. Ganeshananthan
• Brazzaville Beach, William Boyd
• False River, Dominique Botha