Reading List: 2021

Biographies & Memoirs:

• Steve Jobs – Walter Isaacson
• Leonardo da Vinci – Walter Isaacson
• Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin – Benjamin Franklin
• Autobiography of Malcolm X – Malcolm X
• Shoe Dog – Phil Knight
• Educated – Tara Westover
• A Promised Land – Barack Obama
• The Ride of a Lifetime – Robert Iger
• Born A Crime – Trevor Noah
• Only the Paranoid Survive: How to Exploit The Crisis Point That Challenge Every Company and Career – Andrew S. Grove
• Radical Simplicity – Ken Allen
• The Story Behind The Man Who Helped Launch 5 AI Companies Worth $25 Billion – Kai-Fu Lee

Faith:

• The Bible (NKJV)
• All Pastor Emmanuel Iren books

Technology & Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning

• Human Compatible: AI and the Problem of Control – Stuart Russell
• The Future is Faster Than You Think: How Converging Technologies Are Transforming Business, Industries, and Our Lives – Peter H. Diamandis, Steven Kotler
• The Age of Surveillance Capitalism The Fight for a Human Future ad the New Frontier of Power – Shoshana Zuboff
• Life 3.0: Being Human in the Age of Artificial Intelligence – Max Tegmark
• Competing in the Age of AI: Strategy and Leadership When Algorithms and Networks Run the World – Marco Iansiti, Karim R, Lakhani
• Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism – Safiya Umoja Noble
• Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases and Threatens Democracy – Cathy O’Neil
• Technically Wrong: Sexist Apps, Biased Algorithms, and Other Threats of Toxic Tech – Sara Wachter- Boettcher
• Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men – Caroline Criado Perez
• Chaos Monkeys: Inside the Silicon Valley Machine – Antonio Garcia Martinez
• No Rule Rules: Netflix and the Culture of Reinvention – Reed Hastings, Erin Meyer
• Prediction Machines: The Simple Economics of Artificial Intelligence – Ajay Agrawal, Joshua Gans
• Human + Machines: Reimagining Work in the Age of AI – Paul R. Daugherty
• On AI Analytics and the New Machine Age – Harvard Business Review

China:

• The Hundred-Year Marathon: China’s Secret Strategy to Replace America as the Global Superpower – Michael Phillsbury
• The Search For Modern China – Jonathan D. Spence
• Tech Titans of China – Rebecca A. Fannin
• Chasing Fortune, Truth and Faith in the New China – Evan Osnos
• Belt and Road: A Chinese World Order – Bruno Macaes
• China’s Gilded Age: A Paradox of Economic Boom and Vast Corruption – Yuen Yuen Ang
• Everything Under the Heavens: How The Past Helps Shape China’s Push for Global Power – Howard W. French
• How Asia Works: Success and Failure In the World’s Most Dynamic Region – Joe Studwell
• On China – Henry Kissinger
• When China Rules The World – The End of The Western World And The Birth of A New Global Order – Martin Jacques
• The Asian Aspiration – Greg Mills, Olusegun Obasanjo
• The Future is Asian – Parag Khana

Africa:

• The Next Factory of the World: How Chinese Investment Is Reshaping Africa – Irene Yuan Sun
• We Need To Talk About Africa: The Harm We Have Done, and How We Should Help – Tom Young

Economics & Development:

• Profit Over People: Neoliberalism and Global Order – Noah Chomsky
• Manifesto for a Moral Revolution: Practices to Build a Better World – Jacqueline Novogratz
• Economic Facts and Fallacies – Thomas Sowell
• How An Economy Grows and Why It Crashes – Peter D. Schiff
• Why States Recover: Changing Walking Societies into Winning Nations from Afghanistan to Zimbabwe – Greg Mills
• Good Economics for Hard Times – Esther Duflo, Abhijit Banarjee
• Poor Economics – Esther Duflo
• Growth: From Microorganisms to Megacities – Vaclav Smil

(Venture) Capitalism, Investment & Money:

• Creative Capitalism – Michael Kinsley
• People, Power and Profits: Progressive Capitalism For an Age of Discontent – Joseph E. Stiglitz
• The Spider Network: The Wild Story of a Math Genius and One of the Greatest Scams in Financial History – David Enrich
• The Tag of Warrant Buffet – Mary Buffett & David Clark
• Warren Buffet Stock Portfolio – Mary Buffett & David Clark
• The Wolf of Wall Street – Jordan Belfort
• A Random Walk Down Wall Street – Burton G. Malkiel
• One Up on Wall Street – Peter Lynch
• 7 Secret to Investing Like Warren Buffett – Mary Buffett & Sean Seah
• The Psychology of Money: Timeless Lessons on Wealth, Greed and Happiness – Morgan Housel
• Death of Despair and the Future of Capitalism – Anne Case, Angus Seaton
• Capital in The Twenty-First Century – Thomas Piketty
• Kleptopia: How Dirty Money Is Conquering The World – Tom Burgis
• New Power: How Power Works In Our Hyperconnected World – and How to Make It Work for You – Jeremy Heimans and Henry Timms

Leadership & Management (Business)

• Leading without Authority: Why You Don’t Need To Be In Charge to Inspire Others and Make Change Happen – Keith Ferrazzi
• Ultralearnig: Accelerate Your Career, Master Hard Skills and Outsmart the Competition
• How To Lead: Wisdom from the World’s Greatest CEOs, Founders, and Game Changers – David M. Rubenstein
• Leadership Strategy & Tactics: Jocko Willink
• Mentor to Millions – Kevin Harrington & Mark Timm
• Competing Against Luck: The Story of Innovation and Customer Choice – Clayton M. Christensen
• In Search of Excellence – Tom Peters
• Your Next Five Moves: Master the Art of Business Strategy – Patrick Bet-David
• The Hard Things About Hard Things: Building A Business When There Are No Easy Answers – Ben Horowitz
• No Filter: The Inside Story of Instagram – Sarah Frier

Nigeria, History & Politics:

• Power, Politics & Death – Olusegun Adeniyi
• Awo: The Autobiography of Obafemi Awolowo

Philosophy:

• Ego is the Enemy – Ryan Holiday
• A Guide to the Good Life: The Ancient Art of Stoic Joy – William B. Irvine
• Lives of The Stoics – Ryan Holiday
• Wise Words: The Philosophy For Everyday Life – Stephen Trombley
• Machiavelli – Alexander Lee

Psychology & Behavior:

• Why Smart People Make Big Money Mistakes – And How to Correct Them: Lessons from the New Science of Behavioral Economics – Gary Belsky & Thomas Gilovich
• Moonwalking with Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything – Joshua Foer
• Indistractable: How to Control Your Attention and Choose Your Life – Nir Eyal, Julie Li
• Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead – Brene Brown
• Creativity, Inc.: Overcoming the Unseen Forces That Stand in the Way of True Inspiration – Ed Catmull, Amy Wallace
• Talking to Strangers: What We Should Know About the People We Don’t Know – Malcolm Gladwell
• Emotional Agility: Get Unstuck, Embrace Change, and Thrive in Work and Life – Susan David
• Range: How Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World – David Epstein

Others:

• Representations of the Intellectual – Edward W. Said
• Natives: Race and Class in the Ruins of Empire – Akala
• 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos – Jordan B. Peterson
• 1984 – George Orwell
• Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing The World – Anand Giridharads
• Blueprint for Revolution: How To Use Rice Pudding, Lego Men, and Other Non-Violent Technologies to Galvanize Communities, Overthrow Dictators or Simply Change The World – Sroja Popovic
• Bobby Fischer Teaches Chess by Bobby Fischer, Stuart Margulies and Don Mosenfelder

These are quite an exhaustive list of books I intend to read in 2021. Which books are you reading this year? Leave a comment.