Book I Liked

Books recommended by Arbob Mehmood.

Updated: 15 Sept 2025

#Book NameAuthor
1Steve JobsWalter Isaacson
2Hard Drive – Bill Gates and the Making of the Microsoft EmpireWallace, Erickson
3Zero to One – Notes on Start Ups, or How to Build the FuturePeter Thiel
4Elon Musk; Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic FutureAshlee Vance
5ReWork – Change the Way You Work ForeverDavid Heinemeier Hansson and Jason Fried
6Rich Dad Poor DadRobert Kiyosaki
7Creativity, IncAmy Wallace and Edwin Catmull
8The Industries of the FutureAlec Ross
9Originals – How Non-Conformists Move the WorldGrant, Adam
10Good To GreatJim Collins
11The Pragmatic ProgrammerDavid Thomas, Andrew Hunt
12Built to LastJim Collins
13Radical Candor – Be a Kick-Ass Boss Without Losing Your HumanityKim Scott
14The InevitableKevin Kelly
15Sprint – How To Solve Big Problems and Test New Ideas in Just Five DaysJake Knapp
16OutliersMalcolm Gladwell
17The Art of WarSun Tzu
18Abundance: The Future Is Better Than You ThinkPeter Diamandis and Steven Kotler
19The Lean StartupEric Ries
20Crossing the ChasmGeoffrey Moore
21How to Win Friends and Influence PeopleDale Carnegie
22HookedNir Eyal
23The Hard Thing About Hard ThingsBen Horowitz
24Traction – How Any Startup Can Achieve Explosive Customer GrowthGabriel Weinberg & Justin Mares
25The Innovator’s DilemmaClayton M. Christensen
26PrinciplesRay Dalio
27Radical Markets – Uprooting Capitalism and Democracy for a Just SocietyEric Posner, E. Weyl
28Bend the Curve – Accelerating Your Startup’s SuccessAndrew Razeghi
294-Hour WorkweekTimothy Ferriss
30Diamond AgeStephenson Neal
31Monetizing InnovationMadhavan Ramanujam, Georg Tacke
32SiddharthaHermann Hesse
33Enchanted ObjectsDavid Rose
34Utopia for Realists – How We Can Build the Ideal WorldRutger Bregman
35Inspiring ThoughtsSwami Vivekananda
36University of Berkshire Hathaway – 30 Years of Lessons Learned from Warren Buffett & Charlie MungerCorey Wrenn, Daniel Pecaut
37I Hope I Screw This Up – How Falling In Love with Your Fears Can Change the WorldKyle Cease
38The Everything Store – Jeff Bezos and the Age of AmazonBrad Stone
39Swim with the sharks without being eaten aliveHarvey Mackay
40Advantage – Why Organizational Health Trumps Everything Else In BusinessPatrick M. Lencioni
41Running LeanAsh Maurya
42SuperforecastingPhilip E. Tetlock
43The 48 Laws of PowerRobert Greene
44Founders at Work – Stories of Startups’ Early DaysJessica Livingston
45The Leadership Genius of Julius CaesarPhillip Barlag
46Big Bang Disruption – Strategy in the Age of Devastating InnovationLarry Downes, Paul Nunes
47Meaningful – The Story of Ideas That FlyBernadette Jiwa
48Don’t Price the Product, Product the PriceMadhavan Ramanujam
49The Business Idea Factory – A World-Class System for Creating Successful Business IdeasAndrii Sedniev
50Forge your FutureA. P. J. Abdul Kalam
51Disrupted – My Misadventure in the Start-Up BubbleDan Lyons
52Venture Deals: Be Smarter Than Your Lawyer and Venture CapitalistBrad Feld and Jason A. Mendelson
53Power – Why Some People Have It—and Others Don’tJeffrey Pfeffer
54Contagious – Why Things Catch OnJonah Berger
55Grit – The Power of Passion and PerseveranceAngela Duckworth
56Playing to Win – How Strategy Really WorksLafley, A.G. & Martin, Roger L
57Anything You WantDerek Sivers
58Hatching Twitter – A True Story of Money, Power, Friendship, and BetrayalNick Bilton
59The Way of the Superior ManDavid Deida
60FlowMihaly Csikszentmihalyi
61In The PlexSteve Levy
62Chanakya NeetiChanakya
63Smartcuts – How Hackers, Innovators, and Icons Accelerate SuccessShane Snow
64The Company – A Short History of a Revolutionary IdeaJohn Micklethwait, Adrian Wooldridge
65The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the GalaxyDouglas Adams
66How to Get People to Do StuffSusan Weinschenk
67Insanely Simple – The Obsession That Drives Apple’s SuccessKen Segall
68PlatformMichael S. Hyatt
69Become What You AreAlan Watts
70Influence – The Psychology of PersuasionRobert B. Cialdini
71The Subtle art of not Giving a F*ckMark Manson
72The Dip: A Little Book That Teaches You When to Quit (and When to Stick)Seth Godin
73The Obstacle Is the WayRyan Holiday
74What Money Can’t BuyMichael Sandel
75The Righteous MindJonathan Haidt
761984George Orwell
77Catch-22Joseph Heller
78Thinking, Fast and SlowDaniel Kahneman
79One Second AfterWilliam R. Forstchen
80FoundationIsaac Asimov
81The Silk RoadsPeter Fankopan
82A Brief History of IntelligenceMax Solomon Bennett
83Working BackwardsColin Bryar and Bill Carr
84The Art of ImpossibleStephen Kotler
85Exploding the PhonePhil Lapsley
86Ghost in the WiresKevin Mitnick
87Cult Of The Dead CowJoseph Menn
88Project Hail MaryAndy Weir
89Dark MatterBlake Crouch
90RecursionBlake Crouch
91The Cuckoo’s EggCliff Stoll
92The Man From the FutureAnanyo Bhattacharya
93The Idea FactoryJon Gertner
94WinningJack Welch
95The HP WayDavid Packard
96Contract with God TrilogyWill Eisner
97Confessions of the Pricing Man: How Price Affects EverythingHermann Simon
98Ashtavakra GitaSwami Nityaswarupananda
99Why I am an Atheist?Bhagat Singh
100Almanack of Naval RavikantEric Jorgenson
101The Heart of the Buddha’s TeachingThich Nhat Hanh
102The Psychology of MoneyMorgan Housel
103Same as EverMorgan Housel
104Fooled by RandomnessNassim Nicholas Taleb
105Skin in the GameNassim Nicholas Taleb
106How to Live an Extraordinary LifeAnthony Pompliano
107As a Man ThinkethJames Allen
108Homo DeusYuval Noah Harari
109Poor Charlie’s AlmanackCharles T. Munger
110Surely You’re Joking, Mr. Feynman!Richard P. Feynman, Ralph Leighton
111What do you care what other people think?Richard Feynman
112The Money TrapAlok Sama
113Steal Like an ArtistAustin Kleon
114Getting to YesROGER, FISHER
115Only the Paranoid SurviveAndrew S. Grove
116Tipping PointMalcolm Gladwell
117Thrive – The Third Metric to Redefining Success and Creating a Happier LifeArianna Huffington
118Bold – How to Go Big, Create Wealth, and Impact the WorldPeter H. Diamandis, Steven Kotler
119How Google WorksEric Schmidt
120Shoe DogPhil Knight
121Chip WarChris Miller