What’s the last 10/10 book you read?

Compiling Patrick OShaughnessy's tweet replies

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?

Patrick OShaughnessy @patrick_oshag

What’s the last 10/10 book you read?

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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