Hi HN,<p>Every person I've come across always has one book that sits at the top of their book list that they would recommend to everyone. For me, it's "How to win friends & influence people" by Dale Carnegie. What's your book?
Another book I recommend: On the shortness of life, by Seneca<p>I's life changing, it teaches you the importance to do not waste our most precious finite resource.
Peak: Secrets from the New Science of Expertise <a href="http://peakthebook.com/index.html" rel="nofollow">http://peakthebook.com/index.html</a> It is on deliberate practice. Together with "Deep Work" can help to build a personal system to achieve the goals in study, work, etc.
Non Fiction: Godel Escher Bach<p>Fiction: Seveneves<p>Both of these I've read several times and glean new things each reading. And those things I've learned have formed essential parts of the heuristics I use on a day to day basis to deal with the dark ambiguities of life.
Fiction: War and Peace; the more everything changes the same humans stay. 200 years old and yet you can empathise with every character<p>Non-fiction: Letters from Seneca; the only philosophy book I enjoyed and whose tenets I aim to practise every day.
Death and Life of Great American Cities, by Jane Jacobs. If you ever think about the design of your town or city or wonder why it's not safe to go out after dark in parts of your city, among many other things, it's applicable to you.<p>Reading Jacobs' most famous book, you're hit with this feeling that she possessed the perfect balance of humility and knowledge. That we still make the mistakes she described half a century ago is quite unfortunate, especially once you realize the we do and for a long time, have, known better.
Deep work is one of the best book I had read in this year<p><a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/1455586692/ref=mp_s_a_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1489895766&sr=8-1&pi=AC_SX236_SY340_FMwebp_QL65&keywords=deep+work" rel="nofollow">https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/1455586692/ref=mp_s_a_1_1?ie=...</a>
The Mythical Man Month: Essays on Software Engineering - Frederick Brooks<p>The HP Way: How Bill Hewlett and I Built Our Company - David Packard<p>I have read countless books and articles and have attended countless discussions and talks on software engineering and business practices and it never ceases to amaze me how many of the principles tie right back to these two books. Each is short and can be easily tackled together in a day or less.
1. Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance by Angela Duckworth - <a href="http://amzn.to/2mLuQyU" rel="nofollow">http://amzn.to/2mLuQyU</a><p>2. The Startup of You by Reid Hoffman - <a href="http://amzn.to/2mXSlFB" rel="nofollow">http://amzn.to/2mXSlFB</a><p>3. Strengths Finder by Gallup Press - <a href="http://amzn.to/2mqDNuY" rel="nofollow">http://amzn.to/2mqDNuY</a>
1. Prithvivallabh (Gujarati Book) by K.M. Munshi
2. Glimpses of World History[0] by J. Naheru<p>[0]. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glimpses_of_World_History" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glimpses_of_World_History</a>
"Economics in one lesson"<p>I found it on a libertarian website, free to download, its about free market, against government intervention. It gives many examples of how "anything that the government touches, it dies"
Health Related:<p>1. The Obesity Code: Unlocking the Secrets of Weight Loss Jason Fung<p>2. Tripping Over the Truth: The Return of the Metabolic Theory of Cancer