Most Influential Book List - jmadison222/knowledge GitHub Wiki

These are the most influential books I’ve read, ranked in order across my lifetime. Some may be useful to you. Some will seem odd. Take what works. Leave what doesn’t.

I have considered grouping them by topic, but decided to have a single ranking, though it causes many apples-and-oranges topic shifts.

• Animal Counting Book by Golden Press - My first math book, as it were. My mother said I would ask her to read it over and over and over and over. I consider it the foundation of my love of numbers.

• The Lorax by Dr. Seuss - The best business book for kids. The book is framed as business versus the environment. The real lesson is that a business that relies on natural resources, and then fails to manage those resources, puts itself out of business. Good business management protects the slice of the environment it owns—​because it is the self-interest of the business to do so.

• Renascence by Edna St. Vincent Millay - A poem of 256 lines with nearly perfect rhyme and meter. Millay wrote it when she was only 14. It is the story of death and rebirth with nothing but one’s own mindset about the world. I was in detention in high school and didn’t bring anything to read—​which was a requirement of being in detention. So I picked a random book off the shelf, which contained this poem, and I have loved poetry ever since.

• Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand - TODO.

• Computability Theory - TODO.

• The Mythical Man Month by Fred Brooks - TODO.

• The Pragmatic Programmer by Hunt and Thomas - TODO.

• The Little Book of Talent by Daniel Coyle - TODO.

• Now, Discover Your Strengths by TODO - TODO.

• The Linux Command Line by TODO - TODO.

• 9 Things Successful People Do Differently by Harvard Business Review - TODO.

• Sources of Power by TODO - TODO.

• The Essential Drucker by Peter Drucker - TODO.

• Give and Take by Adam Grant - TODO.

• English 2600 by Joseph C. Blumenthal - TODO.

• The Decision Book by Krogerus and Tschappeler - TODO.

• The Oxford Essential Guide to Writing by Thomas S. Kane - TODO.

• Power by Jeffrey Pfeffer - TODO.

• David and Goliath by Malcolm Gladwell - TODO.

• Superforecasting by Philip E. Tetlock - TODO.

• Freakonomics by Levitt and Dubner - TODO.