Skip to content

A world of great books

Books recommended by Patrick O'Shaughnessy

Patrick O'Shaughnessy recommends 66 books, among them Sapiens, Shoe Dog and When Breath Becomes Air.

Category

Industry

66 books

Sapiens

Yuval Noah Harari

Nonfiction

Shoe Dog

Phil Knight

Nonfiction

When Breath Becomes Air

Paul Kalanithi

Biography & memoir

Creativity, Inc.

Ed Catmull

Biography & memoir

Principles

Ray Dalio

Nonfiction

Zero to One

Peter Thiel

Nonfiction

Influence

Robert B. Cialdini, PhD

Nonfiction

Thinking in Systems

Donella Meadows

Design

Antifragile

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Nonfiction

The Right Stuff

Tom Wolfe

Nonfiction

Shadow Divers

Robert Kurson

Nonfiction

The Hero With a Thousand Faces

Joseph Campbell

Nonfiction

The Snow Leopard

Peter Matthiessen

Nonfiction

A Curious Mind

Brian Grazer

Biography & memoir

A Few Lessons from Sherlock Holmes

Peter Bevelin

Philosophy

A Technique for Producing Ideas

James Webb Young

Design

Adapt

Tim Harford

Economics & politics

Against the Gods

Peter L. Bernstein

History

Amusing Ourselves to Death

Neil Postman

Economics & politics

Boyd

Robert Coram

History

Chaos Monkeys

Antonio García Martínez

Technology

Creativity

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

Design

Deep Survival

Laurence Gonzales

Health & fitness

Drunk Tank Pink

Adam Alter

Psychology

Essays and Aphorisms

Arthur Schopenhauer

Philosophy

Finite and Infinite Games

James Carse

Economics & politics

Fooling Some of the People All of the Time

David Einhorn

Money & investing

Gratitude

Oliver Sacks

Biography & memoir

Hackers & Painters

Paul Graham

History

Impro

Keith Johnstone

Arts & entertainment