This is the latest I’ve published my reading list for the last 6 years. I typically start my reading list for the year by carrying over unread stuff from the last year, but this time I’m going to start off with the books I think I should really be reading at this point, and continue with things I have in progress that I should complete at some point.
Edit - Feb 2025 - my initial list turned out to be wishful thinking. I have it archived here, but here's what I actually ended up reading.
READ
- Lateral Thinking - Ed De Bono
- Secrets of Consulting - Gerald M. Weinberg
- More Secrets of Consulting - Gerald M. Weinberg
- A Technique for Producing Ideas - James Webb Young
- Men and Rubber - Harvey S. Firestone
- Generating Product Ideas - Alexander Hiam
- Product Leadership - Richard Banfield, Martin Eriksson, and Nate Walkingshaw
- White - Kenya Hara
- The 12 Week Year - Brian P. Moran and Michael Lennington
- Born a Crime (a) - Trevor Noah
- Elon Musk (a) - Walter Isaacson
- How to Know a person (a) - David Brooks
- How to be Rich - Paul Getty
DNF - Did Not Finish
- Product Management Sacred Seven - read 350+ pages!
- The Mom Test - 80% done
- Weinberg on Writing: The Fieldstone Method - halfway through.
- The Heart of Our Cities, Victor Gruen
- Slow Productivity
- So Good They Can't Ignore You
- Making Digital China
- Tadao Ando, Complete works
- Ghostroots(a)
- How to Invest(a)
- The Halo Effect(a)
- The Illiad (a)
DNS - Did Not Start
User Story Mapping, Product Sense, Introduction to Information Retrieval, Continuous Discovery Habits, Algorithms of the Intelligent Web, The Sex Lives of African Women, Attached, Notes of a Native Son, James Baldwin, Bell Hooks, All About Love, Python for Geospatial Data Analysis, Rethinking Systems Analysis & Design, Only the Paranoid Survive(a), Things Hidden Since the Foundation of the World(a), Superthinking(a), China's Second Continent(a)
WNF - Will Not Finish
Thinking in Bets(a) Unreasonable Hospitality (a)