Books on Knowingo

Each one condensed into about twenty minutes, in parts of about six.

Mind and judgment

• Algorithms to Live ByBrian Christian, Tom Griffiths
• At the Existentialist CaféSarah Bakewell
• Being You: A New Science of ConsciousnessAnil Seth
• BlinkMalcolm Gladwell
• Daring GreatlyBrené Brown
• David and GoliathMalcolm Gladwell
• Emotional IntelligenceDaniel Goleman
• FlowMihaly Csikszentmihalyi
• Hidden PotentialAdam Grant
• Hope for CynicsJamil Zaki
• How Minds ChangeDavid McRaney
• How to Change Your MindMichael Pollan
• HumankindRutger Bregman
• iGenJean M. Twenge
• InfluenceRobert B. Cialdini
• Lost ConnectionsJohann Hari
• Man's Search for MeaningViktor E. Frankl
• MindsetCarol S. Dweck
• Moonwalking with EinsteinJoshua Foer
• Moral AmbitionRutger Bregman
• Noise: A Flaw in Human JudgmentDaniel Kahneman, Olivier Sibony, Cass R. Sunstein
• Nudge: The Final EditionRichard H. Thaler, Cass R. Sunstein
• OriginalsAdam Grant
• Other MindsPeter Godfrey Smith
• Pre SuasionRobert B. Cialdini
• Predictably IrrationalDan Ariely
• QuietSusan Cain
• Revenge of the Tipping PointMalcolm Gladwell
• Right Thing, Right NowRyan Holiday
• Stolen FocusJohann Hari
• Stumbling on HappinessDaniel Gilbert
• Superforecasting: The Art and Science of PredictionPhilip E. Tetlock, Dan Gardner
• Talking to StrangersMalcolm Gladwell
• The Black SwanNassim Nicholas Taleb
• The Body Keeps the ScoreBessel van der Kolk
• The Consolations of PhilosophyAlain de Botton
• The Courage to Be DislikedIchiro Kishimi, Fumitake Koga
• The God DelusionRichard Dawkins
• The Let Them TheoryMel Robbins, Sawyer Robbins
• The Lucifer EffectPhilip Zimbardo
• The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a HatOliver Sacks
• The Mountain Is YouBrianna Wiest
• The Obstacle Is the WayRyan Holiday
• The Paradox of Choice: Why More Is LessBarry Schwartz
• The Righteous MindJonathan Haidt
• The ScoreC. Thi Nguyen
• The Scout MindsetJulia Galef
• The Sirens’ CallChris Hayes
• The Status GameWill Storr
• The Undoing ProjectMichael Lewis
• The Weirdest People in the WorldJoseph Henrich
• Think AgainAdam Grant
• Thinking in BetsAnnie Duke
• Thinking, Fast and SlowDaniel Kahneman
• WantingLuke Burgis
• What Life Could Mean to YouAlfred Adler
• Why We ClickKate Murphy

Emotions and happiness

• Dopamine NationAnna Lembke
• Maybe You Should Talk to SomeoneLori Gottlieb
• Staring at the SunIrvin D. Yalom
• The Denial of DeathErnest Becker
• The Year of Magical ThinkingJoan Didion

Relationships and marriage

• AttachedAmir Levine, Rachel Heller
• StrangersBelle Burden
• The Art of Gathering: How We Meet and Why It MattersPriya Parker
• The Glass CastleJeannette Walls
• The Good LifeRobert Waldinger, Marc Schulz
• The Marriage Go RoundAndrew J. Cherlin

Children and education

• Bad TherapyAbigail Shrier
• Battle Hymn of the Tiger MotherAmy Chua
• EducatedTara Westover
• Growing with Your Child for LifeFan Deng
• Robot ProofVivienne Ming
• The Anxious GenerationJonathan Haidt
• The Coddling of the American MindGreg Lukianoff, Jonathan Haidt
• The Highest ExamRuixue Jia, Hongbin Li, Claire Cousineau
• The Tyranny of MeritMichael J. Sandel

Work and growth

• 12 Rules for LifeJordan B. Peterson
• Atomic HabitsJames Clear
• Deep WorkCal Newport
• Four Thousand WeeksOliver Burkeman
• Give and Take: A Revolutionary Approach to SuccessAdam Grant
• How to LiveSarah Bakewell
• How to Win Friends and Influence People in the Digital AgeBrent Cole
• Leonardo da VinciWalter Isaacson
• Meditations for MortalsOliver Burkeman
• OutliersMalcolm Gladwell
• PeakAnders Ericsson, Robert Pool
• RangeDavid Epstein
• Same as EverMorgan Housel
• Slow ProductivityCal Newport
• Talent Is OverratedGeoff Colvin
• The 5 Types of WealthSahil Bloom
• The 7 Habits of Highly Effective PeopleStephen R. Covey
• The Compound EffectDarren Hardy
• The Creative Act: A Way of BeingRick Rubin
• The Meaning of Your LifeArthur C. Brooks
• The ONE ThingGary Keller, Jay Papasan
• The Talent CodeDaniel Coyle
• The War of Art: Winning the Inner Creative BattleSteven Pressfield
• Things Become Other ThingsCraig Mod
• Wisdom Takes WorkRyan Holiday

Business and management

• AI ValleyGary Rivlin
• Apple in ChinaPatrick McGee
• Bad BloodJohn Carreyrou
• Careless PeopleSarah Wynn Williams
• Competitive StrategyMichael E. Porter
• Creativity, Inc.Ed Catmull, Amy Wallace
• Elon MuskWalter Isaacson
• Empire of PainPatrick Radden Keefe
• EssentialismGreg McKeown
• Failure Is an OptionMike Grossman
• Getting to YesRoger Fisher, William Ury, Bruce Patton
• Good to GreatJim Collins
• High Output ManagementAndrew S. Grove
• Made to StickChip Heath, Dan Heath
• MoneyballMichael Lewis
• Never Split the DifferenceChris Voss, Tahl Raz
• Next Gen CEOMike Soutar
• No More TearsGardiner Harris
• Shoe DogPhil Knight
• Start with WhySimon Sinek
• The BoxMarc Levinson
• The Culture CodeDaniel Coyle
• The Everything StoreBrad Stone
• The Everything WarDana Mattioli
• The Hard Thing About Hard ThingsBen Horowitz
• The Lean StartupEric Ries
• The Pricing PlaybookIngo Reinhardt
• The Unaccountability MachineDan Davies
• The Warren Buffett CEORobert P. Miles
• The World for SaleJavier Blas, Jack Farchy
• Wild GrowthFeng Lun
• Will Huawei Be the Next to Fall? Ultimate EditionTian Tao, Wu Chunbo
• Your TurnBas Bergmans
• Zero to OnePeter Thiel, Blake Masters

Money and the economy

• A Random Walk Down Wall StreetBurton G. Malkiel
• Capital in the Twenty First CenturyThomas Piketty
• Capitalism and Its CriticsJohn Cassidy
• Career and FamilyClaudia Goldin
• Debt: The First 5,000 YearsDavid Graeber
• Development as FreedomAmartya Sen
• Die with ZeroBill Perkins
• Flash BoysMichael Lewis
• Fooled by RandomnessNassim Nicholas Taleb
• Free to ChooseMilton Friedman, Rose Friedman
• How Countries Go BrokeRay Dalio
• I Will Teach You to Be RichRamit Sethi
• Liar's PokerMichael Lewis
• Lords of FinanceLiaquat Ahamed
• Material WorldEd Conway
• MisbehavingRichard H. Thaler
• Poor EconomicsAbhijit V. Banerjee, Esther Duflo
• Poverty, by AmericaMatthew Desmond
• Power and ProgressDaron Acemoglu, Simon Johnson
• Private EquityCarrie Sun
• Rich Dad Poor DadRobert T. Kiyosaki
• ScarcitySendhil Mullainathan, Eldar Shafir
• Slouching Towards UtopiaJ. Bradford DeLong
• SuperFreakonomicsSteven D. Levitt, Stephen J. Dubner
• The Age of Surveillance CapitalismShoshana Zuboff
• The Algebra of WealthScott Galloway
• The Ascent of MoneyNiall Ferguson
• The Behavioral InvestorDaniel Crosby
• The Big ShortMichael Lewis
• The Globalization ParadoxDani Rodrik
• The Intelligent InvestorBenjamin Graham, Jason Zweig
• The Land TrapMike Bird
• The Man Who Solved the MarketGregory Zuckerman
• The Millionaire FastlaneM. J. DeMarco
• The Millionaire Next Door: The Surprising Secrets of America's WealthyThomas J. Stanley, William D. Danko
• The Next Millionaire Next DoorThomas J. Stanley, Sarah Stanley Fallaw
• The Richest Man in BabylonGeorge S. Clason
• The Rise and Fall of American GrowthRobert J. Gordon
• The Road to SerfdomF. A. Hayek
• The Simple Path to WealthJ. L. Collins
• The Triumph of InjusticeEmmanuel Saez, Gabriel Zucman
• The World Under CapitalismBranko Milanovic
• Trade Wars Are Class WarsMatthew C. Klein, Michael Pettis
• Where Does the Money Come From? A Wealth Plan for Chinese FamiliesXiang Shuai

Body and health

• Being MortalAtul Gawande
• Brain EnergyChristopher M. Palmer
• BreathJames Nestor
• Everything Is TuberculosisJohn Green
• LifespanDavid A. Sinclair, Matthew D. LaPlante
• Outlive: The Science and Art of LongevityPeter Attia, Bill Gifford
• Replaceable YouMary Roach
• Salt Sugar FatMichael Moss
• Super AgersEric Topol
• The Blue ZonesDan Buettner
• The Ghost MapSteven Johnson
• The Immortal Life of Henrietta LacksRebecca Skloot
• The Joy of MovementKelly McGonigal
• The Omnivore's DilemmaMichael Pollan
• Ultra Processed PeopleChris van Tulleken
• When Breath Becomes AirPaul Kalanithi
• Why We SleepMatthew Walker

Technology and the future

• AI SuperpowersKai Fu Lee
• AppleDavid Pogue
• BreakneckDan Wang
• Burn BookKara Swisher
• Character LimitKate Conger, Ryan Mac
• Chip WarChris Miller
• Claude CodeVladimir Korostyshevskiy
• Co IntelligenceEthan Mollick
• Digital Minimalism: Choosing a Focused Life in a Noisy WorldCal Newport
• Empire of AIKaren Hao
• EnshittificationCory Doctorow
• Every Screen on the PlanetEmily Baker White
• Fifteen Years of Ferment: China’s Internet, 1995–2009Lin Jun
• From Cloud Native to AI NativePini Reznik, Michael Müller
• Genius MakersCade Metz
• House of HuaweiEva Dou
• How Infrastructure WorksDeb Chachra
• How Progress EndsCarl Benedikt Frey
• How Things Are MadeTim Minshall
• How to Save the InternetNick Clegg
• Human Compatible: Artificial Intelligence and the Problem of ControlStuart Russell
• I Am Not a RobotJoanna Stern
• If Anyone Builds It, Everyone DiesEliezer Yudkowsky, Nate Soares
• More Everything ForeverAdam Becker
• Steve Jobs in ExileGeoffrey Cain
• SuperagencyReid Hoffman, Greg Beato
• SuperintelligenceNick Bostrom
• The AI ConEmily M. Bender, Alex Hanna
• The Alignment ProblemBrian Christian
• The Chaos MachineMax Fisher
• The Elements of PowerNicolas Niarchos
• The Infinity MachineSebastian Mallaby
• The InnovatorsWalter Isaacson
• The OptimistKeach Hagey
• The Second Machine AgeErik Brynjolfsson, Andrew McAfee
• The Technological RepublicAlexander C. Karp, Nicholas W. Zamiska
• The Thinking MachineStephen Witt
• The Worlds I SeeFei Fei Li
• This Is for EveryoneTim Berners Lee
• Unit XRaj M. Shah, Christopher Kirchhoff
• Weapons of Math DestructionCathy O'Neil

Science and nature

• A Brief History of TimeStephen Hawking
• A Short History of Nearly EverythingBill Bryson
• An Immense WorldEd Yong
• BehaveRobert M. Sapolsky
• BlueprintRobert Plomin
• Braiding SweetgrassRobin Wall Kimmerer
• BurnHerman Pontzer
• Calling BullshitCarl T. Bergstrom, Jevin D. West
• CosmosCarl Sagan
• DeterminedRobert M. Sapolsky
• Entangled LifeMerlin Sheldrake
• Everything Is PredictableTom Chivers
• How the World Really WorksVaclav Smil
• I Contain MultitudesEd Yong
• Merchants of DoubtNaomi Oreskes, Erik M. Conway
• Not the End of the WorldHannah Ritchie
• ProofAdam Kucharski
• Science Fictions: How Fraud, Bias, Negligence, and Hype Undermine the Search for TruthStuart Ritchie
• Seven Brief Lessons on PhysicsCarlo Rovelli
• Silent SpringRachel Carson
• The Art of Statistics: How to Learn From DataDavid Spiegelhalter
• The Book of WhyJudea Pearl, Dana Mackenzie
• The Code BreakerWalter Isaacson
• The Data DetectiveTim Harford
• The Demon Haunted WorldCarl Sagan
• The Disordered CosmosChanda Prescod Weinstein
• The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of CancerSiddhartha Mukherjee
• The Gene: An Intimate HistorySiddhartha Mukherjee
• The Genius in All of UsDavid Shenk
• The Heat Will Kill You FirstJeff Goodell
• The Hidden Life of TreesPeter Wohlleben
• The Information: A History, a Theory, a FloodJames Gleick
• The Invention of NatureAndrea Wulf
• The Making of the Atomic BombRichard Rhodes
• The PrecipiceToby Ord
• The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs: A New History of a Lost WorldSteve Brusatte
• The Selfish GeneRichard Dawkins
• The ServiceberryRobin Wall Kimmerer
• The Signal and the NoiseNate Silver
• The Sixth ExtinctionElizabeth Kolbert
• The Uninhabitable EarthDavid Wallace Wells
• Thinking in SystemsDonella H. Meadows, Diana Wright (editor)
• Who We Are and How We Got Here: Ancient DNA and the New Science of the Human PastDavid Reich

History and civilization

• 1929Andrew Ross Sorkin
• ChokepointsEdward Fishman
• Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or SucceedJared Diamond
• Enlightenment NowSteven Pinker
• Escape from RomeWalter Scheidel
• Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern WorldJack Weatherford
• Guns, Germs, and SteelJared Diamond
• Homo DeusYuval Noah Harari
• King Leopold's GhostAdam Hochschild
• King of KingsScott Anderson
• Long Walk to FreedomNelson Mandela
• LongitudeDava Sobel
• Midnight in ChernobylAdam Higginbotham
• NapoleonAndrew Roberts
• Ordinary MenChristopher R. Browning
• Pale Rider: The Spanish Flu of 1918 and How It Changed the WorldLaura Spinney
• SapiensYuval Noah Harari
• Say NothingPatrick Radden Keefe
• SPQRMary Beard
• The Anarchy: The East India Company, Corporate Violence, and the Pillage of an EmpireWilliam Dalrymple
• The Better Angels of Our NatureSteven Pinker
• The Dawn of EverythingDavid Graeber, David Wengrow
• The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed AmericaErik Larson
• The Eurasian CenturyHal Brands
• The Evolution of Chinese National CharacterZhang Hongjie
• The Fabric of CivilizationVirginia Postrel
• The Great DivergenceKenneth Pomeranz
• The Great InfluenzaJohn M. Barry
• The Guns of AugustBarbara W. Tuchman
• The Hungry Prosperous Age: Gains and Losses in the Qianlong EraZhang Hongjie
• The Jakarta MethodVincent Bevins
• The Looming TowerLawrence Wright
• The Mission: The CIA in the 21st CenturyTim Weiner
• The Rise and Fall of the Great PowersPaul Kennedy
• The Silk RoadsPeter Frankopan
• The Splendid and the VileErik Larson
• The WagerDavid Grann
• The Warmth of Other SunsIsabel Wilkerson
• We the People: A History of the U.S. ConstitutionJill Lepore
• Why the West Rules for NowIan Morris

Society and politics

• AbundanceEzra Klein, Derek Thompson
• Autocracy, Inc.Anne Applebaum
• BecomingMichelle Obama
• Between the World and MeTa Nehisi Coates
• Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American CommunityRobert D. Putnam
• Bullshit JobsDavid Graeber
• Caste: The Origins of Our DiscontentsIsabel Wilkerson
• Chasing the ScreamJohann Hari
• China Along the Yellow River: Reflections on Rural SocietyCao Jinqing
• Clamor in a Small TownWu Yi
• Deng Xiaoping and the Transformation of ChinaEzra F. Vogel
• Destined for WarGraham Allison
• EvictedMatthew Desmond
• From Third World to FirstLee Kuan Yew
• Half the SkyNicholas D. Kristof, Sheryl WuDunn
• Hillbilly ElegyJ. D. Vance
• Hit Makers: The Science of Popularity in an Age of DistractionDerek Thompson
• How Democracies DieSteven Levitsky, Daniel Ziblatt
• In Cold BloodTruman Capote
• Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for MenCaroline Criado Perez
• It's Trevor Noah: Born a Crime (Adapted for Young Readers)Trevor Noah
• Just MercyBryan Stevenson
• Killers of the Flower MoonDavid Grann
• Lean InSheryl Sandberg
• Let Only Red Flowers BloomEmily Feng
• Nickel and DimedBarbara Ehrenreich
• Nuclear WarAnnie Jacobsen
• Of Boys and Men: Why the Modern Male Is Struggling, Why It Matters, and What to Do About ItRichard V. Reeves
• On FreedomTimothy Snyder
• OutclassedJoan C. Williams
• Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Tell You Everything You Need to Know About Global PoliticsTim Marshall
• Skin in the GameNassim Nicholas Taleb
• Status AnxietyAlain de Botton
• Strangers in Their Own LandArlie Russell Hochschild
• Team of RivalsDoris Kearns Goodwin
• The Address BookDeirdre Mask
• The Broken China DreamMinxin Pei
• The Color of LawRichard Rothstein
• The Constitution of KnowledgeJonathan Rauch
• The Death and Life of Great American CitiesJane Jacobs
• The Dictator's HandbookBruce Bueno de Mesquita, Alastair Smith
• The Fifth RiskMichael Lewis
• The Great LevelerWalter Scheidel
• The Haves and Have YachtsEvan Osnos
• The Narrow CorridorDaron Acemoglu, James A. Robinson
• The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of ColorblindnessMichelle Alexander
• The Party’s Interests Come FirstJoseph Torigian
• The PersuadersAnand Giridharadas
• The Power BrokerRobert A. Caro
• The Rise and Fall of the Artificial StateJill Lepore
• The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper TogetherHeather McGhee
• The Tyranny of MetricsJerry Z. Muller
• The Unreturning: An Investigation into the Sanhe YouthTian Feng, Lin Kaixuan
• Twilight of Democracy: The Seductive Lure of AuthoritarianismAnne Applebaum
• Variables: Minor Social Trends in ChinaHe Fan
• WarBob Woodward
• When the Going Was GoodGraydon Carter, James Fox
• Who Is Government?Michael Lewis
• Why Nations FailDaron Acemoglu, James A. Robinson