Here are the first 100 books.

Psychology & Human Behavior

1. Thinking, Fast and Slow – Daniel Kahneman
   
   • Understand the two systems that drive your thinking and learn to make better decisions by recognizing cognitive biases.

2. Atomic Habits – James Clear
   
   • Master the art of tiny changes that compound into remarkable results through actionable habit-formation strategies.
3. Mindset: The New Psychology of Success – Carol S. Dweck
   
   • Transform your approach to challenges by adopting a growth mindset that embraces learning and resilience.
4. Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience – Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
   
   • Discover how to achieve states of complete absorption and fulfillment in your work and life.
5. The Happiness Hypothesis – Jonathan Haidt
   
   • Explore ancient wisdom through modern psychology to understand what truly makes us happy.
6. Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion – Robert Cialdini
   
   • Learn the six universal principles of influence to better understand human behavior and protect yourself from manipulation.
7. Predictably Irrational – Dan Ariely
   
   • Uncover the hidden forces that shape your decisions and learn to make more rational choices.
8. The Paradox of Choice – Barry Schwartz
   
   • Understand why more options don’t lead to more happiness and learn to make decisions with greater satisfaction.
9. Stumbling on Happiness – Daniel Gilbert
   
   • Discover why we’re terrible at predicting what will make us happy and how to improve our forecasting.
10. The Emotional Life of Your Brain – Richard J. Davidson
    
    • Understand your emotional style and learn science-based techniques to reshape your brain for greater wellbeing.
11. Social: Why Our Brains Are Wired to Connect – Matthew D. Lieberman
    
    • Explore the neuroscience of social connection and why relationships are fundamental to human thriving.
12. The Willpower Instinct – Kelly McGonigal
    
    • Master self-control through neuroscience-backed strategies that strengthen your willpower muscle.
13. Emotional Intelligence – Daniel Goleman
    
    • Learn why EQ matters more than IQ and develop the skills to understand and manage emotions effectively.

Philosophy & Wisdom Traditions

16. Meditations – Marcus Aurelius
    
    • Access the private reflections of a Roman emperor practicing Stoic philosophy for inner peace and virtue.
17. The Daily Stoic – Ryan Holiday
    
    • Apply ancient Stoic wisdom to modern challenges through 366 days of practical philosophical guidance.
18. Letters from a Stoic – Seneca
    
    • Receive timeless advice on wealth, poverty, success, failure, and mortality from one of history’s wisest philosophers.
19. The Obstacle Is the Way – Ryan Holiday
    
    • Transform obstacles into opportunities using Stoic principles applied to contemporary life.
20. The Art of Living – Epictetus
    
    • Master the distinction between what you can control and what you cannot through ancient Stoic wisdom.
21. The Tao Te Ching – Lao Tzu
    
    • Discover the path of effortless action and harmony with the natural flow of life through ancient Chinese wisdom.
22. The Prophet – Kahlil Gibran
    
    • Reflect on life’s essential questions—love, work, freedom, death—through poetic philosophical insights.
23. Siddhartha – Hermann Hesse
    
    • Journey alongside a spiritual seeker discovering that wisdom cannot be taught but must be lived.

24. The Art of Happiness – Dalai Lama & Howard Cutler
    
    • Learn Buddhist principles for cultivating lasting happiness through compassion and mental discipline.

25. The Power of Myth – Joseph Campbell
    
    • Understand the universal patterns in human stories and find your own hero’s journey.

26. Man and His Symbols – Carl Jung
    
    • Explore the unconscious mind through symbols, dreams, and archetypes to understand your deeper self.
27. The Denial of Death – Ernest Becker
    
    • Confront how our awareness of mortality shapes human civilization and personal psychology.

Productivity & Focus

31. Deep Work – Cal Newport
    
    • Develop the ability to focus without distraction on cognitively demanding tasks for exceptional results.
32. Essentialism – Greg McKeown
    
    • Learn the disciplined pursuit of less but better by eliminating the nonessential.
33. Getting Things Done – David Allen
    
    • Master a complete system for stress-free productivity and capturing all your commitments.
34. The One Thing – Gary Keller
    
    • Focus on the single most important task that makes everything else easier or unnecessary.
35. Eat That Frog! – Brian Tracy
    
    • Overcome procrastination by tackling your biggest, most important task first thing each day.
36. The 4-Hour Workweek – Tim Ferriss
    
    • Challenge conventional work assumptions and design a lifestyle of mobility and meaningful work.
37. Make Time – Jake Knapp & John Zeratsky
    
    • Redesign your default settings to create time for what matters in an attention-hijacking world.
38. Indistractable – Nir Eyal
    
    • Master the skill of controlling your attention and choosing your life in a world of distraction.
39. Hyperfocus – Chris Bailey
    
    • Learn to manage your attention deliberately to achieve more and live more meaningfully.
40. The Productivity Project – Chris Bailey
    
    • Discover evidence-based strategies for accomplishing more by managing time, attention, and energy.

Communication & Relationships

41. How to Win Friends and Influence People – Dale Carnegie
    
    • Master timeless principles of human relations that remain powerfully relevant today.
42. Nonviolent Communication – Marshall Rosenberg
    
    • Transform conflicts into compassionate connections through empathetic communication practices.
43. Crucial Conversations – Kerry Patterson et al.
    
    • Navigate high-stakes discussions when opinions vary, stakes are high, and emotions run strong.
44. The Five Love Languages – Gary Chapman
    
    • Understand how you and others give and receive love to strengthen relationships.
45. Attached – Amir Levine & Rachel Heller
    
    • Understand your attachment style and improve your romantic relationships through science-backed insights.
46. The Seven Principles for Making Marriage Work – John Gottman
    
    • Build a lasting partnership using research-proven strategies from relationship science.
47. Daring Greatly – Brené Brown
    
    • Embrace vulnerability as the birthplace of innovation, creativity, and change in relationships and life.
48. Hold Me Tight – Sue Johnson
    
    • Transform your relationship through emotionally focused therapy principles and secure bonding.
49. The Relationship Cure – John Gottman
    
    • Strengthen all relationships through small moments of connection called “emotional bids.”
50. Difficult Conversations – Douglas Stone et al.
    
    • Navigate life’s toughest discussions with greater skill, less stress, and better outcomes.

Business & Entrepreneurship

51. The Lean Startup – Eric Ries
    
    • Build sustainable businesses through validated learning, experimentation, and iterative product releases.
52. Zero to One – Peter Thiel
    
    • Think differently about innovation and create breakthrough value rather than incremental improvement.
53. The Hard Thing About Hard Things – Ben Horowitz
    
    • Face the brutal realities of building and running a startup with honest, practical wisdom.
54. Good to Great – Jim Collins
    
    • Discover why some companies make the leap to greatness while others don’t through rigorous research.
55. Built to Last – Jim Collins & Jerry Porras
    
    • Learn the timeless principles that distinguish truly great companies from merely good ones.
56. The E-Myth Revisited – Michael Gerber
    
    • Understand why most small businesses fail and how to build systems that work without you.
57. Rework – Jason Fried & David Heinemeier Hansson
    
    • Challenge business orthodoxy with a refreshingly contrarian approach to building companies.
58. The $100 Startup – Chris Guillebeau
    
    • Launch a successful microbusiness with minimal capital by turning passion into profit.
59. Start with Why – Simon Sinek
    
    • Inspire action by understanding and communicating the deeper purpose behind what you do.
60. The Innovator’s Dilemma – Clayton Christensen
    
    • Understand why great companies fail and how to navigate disruptive innovation successfully.

Money & Financial Wisdom

61. Rich Dad Poor Dad – Robert Kiyosaki
    
    • Challenge conventional beliefs about money and learn to think like wealthy people do about assets and income.
62. The Millionaire Next Door – Thomas Stanley & William Danko
    
    • Discover the surprising habits of America’s wealthy that contradict popular stereotypes.
63. Your Money or Your Life – Vicki Robin & Joe Dominguez
    
    • Transform your relationship with money and achieve financial independence through conscious spending.
64. The Psychology of Money – Morgan Housel
    
    • Understand that financial success is more about behavior than knowledge through engaging stories.
65. I Will Teach You to Be Rich – Ramit Sethi
    
    • Build wealth through a no-nonsense, 6-week program focused on automating your finances.
66. The Total Money Makeover – Dave Ramsey
    
    • Eliminate debt and build wealth through a proven step-by-step plan and behavioral change.
67. The Simple Path to Wealth – JL Collins
    
    • Achieve financial independence through straightforward, time-tested investment principles.
68. The Intelligent Investor – Benjamin Graham
    
    • Master value investing principles that have guided successful investors for generations.
69. A Random Walk Down Wall Street – Burton Malkiel
    
    • Understand markets through an evidence-based approach to investing and wealth building.
70. The Little Book of Common Sense Investing – John Bogle
    
    • Learn why low-cost index fund investing beats trying to beat the market over time.

Creativity & Innovation

71. The War of Art – Steven Pressfield
    
    • Overcome resistance and unleash your creative potential by understanding the invisible forces that block you.
72. Big Magic – Elizabeth Gilbert
    
    • Live a creative life driven by curiosity rather than fear through liberating perspectives on creativity.
73. Steal Like an Artist – Austin Kleon
    
    • Embrace influence and remix ideas to unlock your creative potential in the digital age.
74. The Artist’s Way – Julia Cameron
    
    • Recover your creative self through a 12-week program of exercises and spiritual practices.
75. Show Your Work! – Austin Kleon
    
    • Build an audience and share your creative process in the age of social media.
76. Bird by Bird – Anne Lamott
    
    • Approach writing and creativity with humor, honesty, and practical wisdom for getting words on paper.
77. On Writing – Stephen King
    
    • Learn the craft of writing from a master storyteller who shares both technique and memoir.
78. The Creative Habit – Twyla Tharp
    
    • Develop rituals and practices that make creativity a consistent part of your life.
79. Creative Confidence – Tom & David Kelley
    
    • Reclaim your creative identity and apply design thinking to challenges in any domain.
80. Originals – Adam Grant
    
    • Discover how nonconformists move the world forward and learn to champion your own original ideas.

Health & Wellbeing

81. Why We Sleep – Matthew Walker
    
    • Understand the vital importance of sleep for every aspect of your physical and mental health.
82. The Body Keeps the Score – Bessel van der Kolk
    
    • Understand how trauma reshapes the body and brain, and discover paths to recovery and healing.
83. Breath – James Nestor
    
    • Transform your health through the lost art and science of proper breathing techniques.
84. Born to Run – Christopher McDougall
    
    • Discover the science and joy of running through an adventure with the world’s greatest distance runners.
85. The 4-Hour Body – Tim Ferriss
    
    • Experiment with unconventional approaches to rapid fat loss, incredible sex, and peak performance.
86. Spark – John Ratey
    
    • Understand how exercise is the single best thing you can do for your brain and mental health.
87. The Blue Zones – Dan Buettner
    
    • Learn longevity lessons from the world’s healthiest, longest-living communities.
88. How Not to Die – Michael Greger
    
    • Discover evidence-based nutritional interventions to prevent and reverse chronic diseases.
89. In Defense of Food – Michael Pollan
    
    • Cut through nutrition confusion with simple wisdom: “Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants.”
90. The Omnivore’s Dilemma – Michael Pollan
    
    • Understand where your food comes from and make more conscious choices about what you eat.

Leadership & Management

91. Principles – Ray Dalio
    
    • Learn the radical transparency and idea meritocracy principles that built one of the world’s most successful hedge funds.
92. Extreme Ownership – Jocko Willink & Leif Babin
    
    • Apply Navy SEAL leadership principles to take complete responsibility and lead effectively.
93. Leaders Eat Last – Simon Sinek
    
    • Create a circle of safety where people feel valued and inspired to contribute their best.
94. Dare to Lead – Brené Brown
    
    • Lead with courage and vulnerability in a world that demands both strength and authenticity.
95. The Five Dysfunctions of a Team – Patrick Lencioni
    
    • Diagnose and overcome the common pitfalls that sabotage team effectiveness.
96. Radical Candor – Kim Scott
    
    • Build better relationships at work by caring personally while challenging directly.
97. Turn the Ship Around! – L. David Marquet
    
    • Transform organizations by pushing authority to where the information is, creating leaders at every level.
98. The Culture Code – Daniel Coyle
    
    • Understand the secrets of highly successful groups and how to build psychological safety.
99. Measure What Matters – John Doerr
    
    • Implement OKRs (Objectives and Key Results) to achieve ambitious goals and organizational alignment.
100. High Output Management – Andrew Grove – Master the fundamentals of management from Intel’s legendary CEO through practical frameworks.