Tim Ferriss's Book Recommendations
Tim Ferriss is a bestselling author, entrepreneur, and podcast host, best known for his book The 4-Hour Workweek, which advocates for designing a lifestyle of financial and personal freedom through efficiency and outsourcing. He has written several other books, including Tools of Titans and Tribe of Mentors, compiling lessons from interviews with high achievers across industries. Ferriss’s podcast, The Tim Ferriss Show, is one of the most popular in the world, where he interviews leaders and influencers about their habits, strategies, and personal development. He is known for his emphasis on productivity, health, and optimizing performance.
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The Montessori Toddler
Simone Davies
The Birth Partner - Revised 4th Edition
Penny Simkin
The Fifth Trimester
Lauren Smith Brody
Your Baby, Your Way
Jennifer Margulis
The Expectant Father: The Ultimate Guide for Dads-to-Be (Fifth Edition) (The New Father)
Armin A. Brott, Jennifer Ash Rudick
Poor Charlie's Almanack
Charles T. Munger
Tao Te Ching
Stephen Mitchell
The Ride of a Lifetime
Robert Iger
Creativity, Inc
Ed Catmull, Amy Wallace
The Obstacle Is the Way
Ryan Holiday
Moonwalking with Einstein
Joshua Foer
Mastery
George Leonard
Tribe
Sebastian Junger
Delivering Happiness
Tony Hsieh
Getting to Yes
Roger Fisher, William Ury, Bruce Patton
Letters from a Stoic
Seneca
The Artist's Way Morning Pages Journal
Julia Cameron
A Thousand Splendid Suns
Khaled Hosseini
Blue Ocean Strategy, Expanded Edition
W. Chan Kim, Renee Mauborgne
The Origin of Species
Charles Darwin
About Face
David H. Hackworth, Julie Sherman
How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia
Mohsin Hamid
Awareness
Anthony De Mello
Atlas Shrugged
Ayn Rand
Snow Crash
Neal Stephenson
Loonshots
Safi Bahcall
The Checklist Manifesto
Atul Gawande
Benjamin Franklin
Walter Isaacson
Ender's Game
Orson Scott Card
The Book of Five Rings
Miyamoto Musashi
Open
Andre Agassi
10% Happier Revised Edition
Dan Harris
Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World
Jack Weatherford
Lying
Sam Harris
On Writing Well, 30th Anniversary Edition
William Zinsser
Anything You Want
Derek Sivers
Wild
Cheryl Strayed
The Gift of Fear
Gavin De Becker
Abundance
Steven Kotler, Peter H. Diamandis
The 80/20 Principle and 92 Other Powerful Laws of Nature
Richard Koch
Levels of the Game
John McPhee
Words That Work, Revised, Updated Edition
Frank I. Luntz
Poor Richard's Almanack
Benjamin Franklin
The Healing Journey (2nd Edition): Pioneering Approaches to Psychedelic Therapy
Claudio Naranjo
Emergency
Neil Strauss
You Can Be a Stock Market Genius
Joel Greenblatt
We Learn Nothing
Tim Kreider
Don't Shoot the Dog
Karen Pryor
Unlimited Power
Tony Robbins
Play It Away
Charlie Hoehn
The Graveyard Book
Neil Gaiman
On Grief and Grieving
Elisabeth Kübler-Ross, David Kessler
Night Sky with Exit Wounds
Ocean Vuong
Death of a Salesman
Arthur Miller
Au Contraire!
Gilles Asselin, Ruth Mastron
Becoming a Category of One
Joe Calloway
Musicophilia
Oliver Sacks
Secrets of Power Negotiating
Roger Dawson
The Neverending Story
Michael Ende
Happy Money
Elizabeth Dunn, Michael Norton
Liar's Poker
Michael Lewis
Draft No. 4
John McPhee
Bad Pharma
Ben Goldacre
How to Stop Worrying and Start Living
Dale Carnegie
Bad Science
Ben Goldacre
Neuromancer
William Gibson
Vagabonding
Rolf Potts
Zorba the Greek
Nikos Kazantzakis
Age of Propaganda
Elliot Aronson, Anthony R. Pratkanis
The Mind of a Mnemonist
Aleksandr Romanovich Lurii͡a
The Loom of Language
Frederick Bodmer
Devotions
Mary Oliver
Gratitude
Oliver Sacks
Cryptonomicon
Neal Stephenson
Atomic Habits
James Clear
The Lessons of History
Will Durant, Ariel Durant
Extreme Ownership
Jocko Willink, Leif Babin
Stumbling on Happiness
Daniel Todd Gilbert
The Artist's Way
Julia Cameron
Principles
Ray Dalio
Antifragile
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Essentialism
Greg McKeown
Deep Work
Cal Newport
Bird by Bird
Anne Lamott
Grit
Angela Duckworth
The Alchemist
Paulo Coelho
Dune
Frank Herbert
The Effective Executive
Peter Drucker
Rework
Jason Fried, David Heinemeier Hansson
Stories of Your Life and Others
Ted Chiang
Radical Acceptance
Tara Brach
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