As we approach the end of the year, what are some of the best books you've read in 2024? Also, feel free to share any articles, podcasts, stories, or insightful resources you found valuable this year!
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For any modern history nerds, 'Appeasing Hitler' is a great account into how the UK followed appeasement in the build up to WW2. One of the best books I've read. Anything by Ruchir Sharma is also quite good for geopolitics/macroeconomics
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"The Anxious Generation" by Jonathan Haidt
A great book about how our modern way of life has contributed to a generation where seemingly everyone is on antidepressants.
Very topical with the movie coming out but I loved American Prometheus.
Napoleon by Andrew Roberts.
Sapiens
World Order by Henry Kissinger
Bible
My top 3 for 2024:
1) “Loved: How to rethink marketing for tech products” - learn new skills, work on things I would otherwise work on last.
2) ”The Magic of Thinking Big” - try to get motivated. I recommend for the young men on this forum who are in need of an “older, wiser” relative to teach you how the world works. Also, good for mid-career people looking to reinvent themselves. There are free audiobook versions on YouTube.
3) ”Elon Musk” - try to understand the guy.
Life Advice from Death Row - a self help book, but the advice comes from inmates at San Quentin instead of the typical business leaders/CEOs. I thought they had some interesting takes.
These are the top 5 non fiction books I have read this year, with one additional that provides color on the incomming VP.
The Money Kings - Daniel Schulman
The Revolt of the Elites and the Betrayal of Democracy - Christopher Lasch
Hilbilly Elegy - J.D. Vance (I wouldn't say this is a top book, but it is an interesting insight into VP Vance)
The Idea Factory - Jon Gertner
Targeted: Beirut - Jack Carr
Cheaper, Faster, Better - Tom Steyer
I try to read between 60 - 80 books per year with the majority being books on history, finance, memoirs, biographies. I do usually read 15 - 20 fiction books for a change of pace as well. For those of you who do not utilize audiobooks I highly recommend that you take advantage of them. It is a huge productivity boost. With that said here is my list of books I am planning on reading in 2025.
The House of Rothschild, Vol 1 - Niall Ferguson
Lords of Finance - Liaquat Ahamed
Empire - Niall Ferguson
The Ascent of Money - Niall Ferguson
The Last Hill - Bob Drury
First Principles - Thomas E. Ricks
Alone at Dawn - Dan Schilling
Leadership - Henry Kissinger
Last Boat Out of Shanghai - Helen Zia
Thomas Jefferson and the Tripoli Pirates - Brian Kilmeade
Unscripted - James B Stewart
Thomas Jefferson - Jon Meacham
The Fund - Rob Copeland
Woke, Inc. - Vivek Ramaswamy
The First Conspiracy - Brad Meltzer
Son of Hamas - Mosab Hassan Yousef
American Prometheus - Kai Bird
Leonardo da Vinci - Walter Isaacson
Beyond Good and Evil - Friedrich Nietzsche
The Idiot - Fyodor Dostoevsky
Notes From Underground - Fyodor Dostoevsky
The Brothers Karamazov - Fyodor Dostoevsky
Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoevsky
Fordlandia - Greg Grandin
Race for the South Pole - Roland Huntford
Endurance - Alfred Lansing
Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World - Jack Weatherford
Stalin's War - Sean McMeekin
To Overthrow the World - Sean McMeeking
The Russian Revolution - Sean McMeeking
Why England Slept - John F. Kennedy
What It Takes - Richard Ben Cramer
Obama's Wars - Bob Woodward
Regan - H. W. Brands
His Very Best - Jonathan Alter
Being Nixon - Evan Thomas
Truman - David McCukkough
The Path to Power, Means of Ascent, Master of the Senate, The Passage of Power - Robert A. Caro
The Strategy of Denial - Elbridge A. Colby
Grand Expectations - James T. Patterson
Freedom from Fear - David M. Kennedy
The Age of Acrimony - Jon Grinspan
Suicide of the West - James Burnham
The Age of Entitlement - Christopher Caldwell
The Orgins of Woke - Richard Hanania
Days of Rage - Bryan Burrough
Bush - Jean Edward Smith
The Loudest Voice in the Room - Gabriel Sherman
Coming Apart - Charles Murray
The Unwinding - George Packer
The Wilderness - McKay Coppins
Born Fighting - Jim Webb
In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts: Close Encounters with Addiction
This is for all my homies that have been addicted to work, and watched their career pump the brakes hard in this transaction recession we’ve been in since mid 2022 (throw in binge drinking alcoholism for me too).
The author is a psychiatrist that works with drug addicts but extrapolates to addiction in general and its roots. It is the most profound book I’ve read about the brain and psychology in a long time and helped me better understand why I am the way I am, and pathways to being at peace.
The Defining Decade - a lot of the lost, prestige chasing new grads would benefit greatly by reading.
The King of Oil
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