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What’s the last 10/10 book you read?

Compiling Patrick OShaughnessy's tweet replies

Kalani Scarrott
Mar 25, 2021
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What’s the last 10/10 book you read?

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I’m trying to be helpful and listing, linking and categorizing people’s latest books that they read that they thought were a 10/10

Suggestions from Patrick Oshaughnessy’s tweet. What’s the last 10/10 book you read?

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Patrick OShaughnessy @patrick_oshag
What’s the last 10/10 book you read?
7:02 PM ∙ Mar 23, 2021
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Biographies and Autobiographies

  • Can’t Hurt Me by David Goggins

  • Creativity, Inc. by Ed Catmull and Amy Wallace

  • Elon Musk by Ashlee Vance

  • German Boy: A Child in War by Wolfgang Samuel

  • Know My Name: A Memoir by Chanel Miller

  • Master of the Senate: The Years of Lyndon Johnson by Robert Caro

  • Napoleon: A Life by Andrew Roberts

  • The Snowball: Warren Buffett and the Business of Life by Alice Shroeder

  • Pappyland by Wright Thompson

  • The Fish That Ate the Whale by Rich Cohen

  • The Innovation Stack by Jim Mckelvey

  • The Splendid and the Vile by Erik Larson

  • Three Wise Men by Beau Wise

  • Working by Robert A. Caro

Fiction

  • A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles

  • All Our Wrong Todays by Elan Mastai

  • Asian Saga Book Series by James Clavell

  • Blood Meridian: Or the Evening Redness in the West by Cormac McCarthy

  • Blue Remembered Earth by Alastair Reynolds

  • Collected Fictions by Jorge Luis Borges

  • Musashi: An Epic Novel of the Samurai Era by Eiji Yoshikawa

  • Sum: Forty Tales from the Afterlives by David Eagleman

  • The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho

  • The Overstory by Richard Powers

  • The Road to Wigan Pier by George Orwell

Business and Investing

  • 7 Powers: The Foundations of Business Strategy by Hamilton Helmer

  • Alchemy: The Dark Art and Curious Science of Creating Magic in Brands, Business, and Life by Rory Sutherland

  • Billion Dollar Brand Club by Lawrence Ingrassia

  • Blitzscaling by Reid Hoffman

  • Crossing the Chasm by Geoffrey A Moore

  • How Innovation Works by Matt Ridley

  • Red Notice by Bill Browder

  • Strategy Beyond the Hockey Stick: People, Probabilities, and Big Moves to Beat the Odds by Chris Bradley

  • The Almanack of Naval Ravikant by Eric Jorgenson

  • The Outsiders by William Thorndike

  • The Price of Tomorrow by Jeff Booth

  • The Psychology of Money by Morgan Housel

  • The Smartest Guys in the Room by Bethany McLean

  • When the Fund Stops by David Ricketts

History, Government, Politics Etc

  • Americana: A 400-Year History of American Capitalism by Bhu Srinivasan

  • A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century by Barbara Tuchman

  • A History of the World in 6 Glasses by Tom Standage

  • Rules for a Flat World by Gillian Hadfield

  • Say Nothing by Patrick Radden Keefe

  • The Lessons of History by Will & Ariel Durant

  • The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion by Jonathan Haidt

Psychology and Self Improvement

  • Atomic Habits by James Clear

  • Courage to be Disliked by Ichiro Kishimi

  • Ego Is the Enemy by Ryan Holiday

  • Humor, Seriously: Why Humor Is a Secret Weapon in Business and Life by Jennifer Aaker & Naomi Bagdonas

  • Never Split the Difference by Christopher Voss

  • Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World by David Epstein

  • Say What You Mean: A Mindful Approach to Nonviolent Communication by Oren Jay Sofer

  • Seeking Wisdom: From Darwin to Munger by Peter Bevelin

  • Think Again: The Power of Knowing What You Don’t Know by Adam Grant

  • Think Like a Rocket Scientist by Ozan Varol

Science and Tech

  • A Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawking

  • Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst by Robert M. Sapolsky

  • Genome by Matt Ridley

  • Lifespan by David A. Sinclair PhD and Matthew D. LaPlante

  • The Beginning of Infinity by David Deutsch

  • The Hidden Life of Trees by Peter Wohlleben

  • Why We Sleep by Matthew Walker

Misc

  • Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder by Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  • My Gita by Devdutt Pattanaik

  • Power of Myth by Joseph Campbell

  • When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi


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