The following is a list of all suggested books in the body of Tribe of Mentors, the person who suggested it, and the page where it can be found in the hardback version of the book.
# | Book | Author | Suggested By | on Page |
---|---|---|---|---|
1 | History of the Peloponnesian War | Thucydides | Steven Pressfield | 6 |
2 | Dune | Frank Herbert | Kyle Maynard | 15 |
3 | The Stranger | Albert Camus | Kyle Maynard | 15 |
4 | The Hero with a Thousand Faces | Joseph Campbell | Kyle Maynard | 15 |
5 | The Master Key System | Charles F. Haanel | Terry Crews | 20 |
6 | Man’s Search for Meaning | Viktor E. Frankl | Terry Crews | 20 |
7 | You Are Not So Smart | David McRaney | Terry Crews | 20 |
8 | The Voice That is Great Within Us: American Poetry of the 20th Century | Anthology | Debbie Millman | 25 |
9 | Total Freedom | Jiddu Krishnamurti | Naval Ravikant | 33 |
10 | Sapiens | Yuval Noah Harari | Naval Ravikant | 33 |
11 | Genome | Matt Ridley | Naval Ravikant | 33 |
12 | The Red Queen | Matt Ridley | Naval Ravikant | 33 |
13 | The Origins of Virtue | Matt Ridley | Naval Ravikant | 33 |
14 | The Rational Optimist | Matt Ridley | Naval Ravikant | 33 |
15 | The Double Helix | James D. Watson | Matt Ridley | 36 |
16 | The Selfish Gene | Richard Dawkins | Matt Ridley | 36 |
17 | Song of Solomon | Toni Morrison | Bozoma Saint John | 37 |
18 | The Fountainhead | Ayn Rand | Tim Urban | 41 |
19 | The Open Society and Its Enemies | Karl Popper | Ayaan Hirsi Ali | 54 |
20 | Making Sense of People | Sam Barondes | Graham Duncan | 57 |
21 | In Over Our Heads | Robert Kegan | Graham Duncan | 58 |
22 | Changing on the Job | Jennifer Garvey Berger | Graham Duncan | 58 |
23 | The Top Five Regrets of the Dying | Bronnie Ware | Mike Maples Jr. | 65 |
24 | Jonathan Livingston Seagull | Richard Bach | Mike Maples Jr. | 65 |
25 | Hope for the Flowers | Trina Paulus | Mike Maples Jr. | 65 |
26 | Living Forward | Michael Hyatt & Daniel Harkavy | Mike Maples Jr. | 65 |
27 | How Will You Measure Your Life? | Clayton M. Christensen | Mike Maples Jr. | 65 |
28 | The War of Art | Steven Pressfield | Soman Chainani | 71 |
29 | A Little Life | Hanya Yanagihara | Soman Chainani | 71 |
30 | Peter Pan | J.M. Barrie | Soman Chainani | 71 |
31 | On Sex, Health, and ESP | Mae West | Dita Von Teese | 77 |
32 | It’s Called a Breakup Because It’s Broken | Greg Benrendt | Dita Von Teese | 77 |
33 | Your Beauty Mark | Dita Von Teese | Dita Von Teese | 77 |
34 | Guns, Germs, and Steel | Jared Diamond | Jesse Williams | 80 |
35 | A Confederacy of Dunces | John Kennedy Toole | Jesse Williams | 80 |
36 | Song of Solomon | Toni Morrison | Jesse Williams | 80 |
37 | The Souls of Black Folk | W.E.B. Du Bois | Jesse Williams | 80 |
38 | The Fountainhead | Ayn Rand | Jesse Williams | 80 |
39 | The 15 Commitments of Conscious Leadership | Jim Dethmer & Diana Chapman | Dustin Moskovitz | 83 |
40 | Autobiography of a Yogi | Paramahansa Yogananda | Richa Chadha | 86 |
41 | Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland | Lewis Carroll | Richa Chadha | 86 |
42 | Shame | Salman Rushdie | Richa Chadha | 86 |
43 | No Logo | Naomi Klein | Richa Chadha | 86 |
44 | The Master and Margarita | Mikhail Bulgakov | Max Levchin | 93 |
45 | Ulysses | James Joyce | Neil Strauss | 96 |
46 | Under Saturn’s Shadow | James Hollis | Neil Strauss | 96 |
47 | Nonviolent Communication | Marshall Rosenberg | Neil Strauss | 97 |
48 | 10% Happier | Dan Harris | Veronica Belmont | 101 |
49 | The Enigma of Anger | Garret Keizer | Patton Oswalt | 105 |
50 | The Making of the Atomic Bomb | Richard Rhodes | Lewis Cantley | 109 |
51 | The Baroque Cycle | Neal Stephenson | Lewis Cantley | 109 |
52 | Prussian Blue (and all other Bernie Gunther novels) | Philip Kerr | Lewis Cantley | 109 |
53 | The Doctor and the Soul | Viktor E. Frankl | Jerzy Gregorek | 115 |
54 | The Tao of Power | Lao Tzu | Jerzy Gregorek | 115 |
55 | Letters from a Stoic | Seneca | Jerzy Gregorek | 115 |
56 | Man’s Search for Meaning | Viktor E. Frankl | Aniela Gregorek | 122 |
57 | Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain | Oliver Sacks | Aniela Gregorek | 122 |
58 | Atlas Shrugged | Ayn Rand | Amelia Boone | 129 |
59 | A Tale of Two Cities | Charles Dickens | Amelia Boone | 129 |
60 | Brave Enough | Cheryl Strayed | Amelia Boone | 129 |
61 | Thanks for the Money: How to Use My Life Story to Become the Best Joel McHale You Can Be | Joel McHale | Joel McHale | 132 |
62 | The Road | Cormac McCarthy | Joel McHale | 132 |
63 | The Blade Itself | Joe Abercrombie | Joel McHale | 132 |
64 | The Book of Strange New Things | Michel Faber | Joel McHale | 132 |
65 | How to Fly a Horse: The Secret History of Creation, Invention, and Discovery | Kevin Ashton | Joel McHale | 132 |
66 | Deep Survival | Laurence Gonzales | Joel McHale | 132 |
67 | Crime and Punishment | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | Joel McHale | 133 |
68 | The Second Tree from the Corner | E.B. White | Ben Stiller | 136 |
69 | Nine Stories | J.D. Salinger | Ben Stiller | 136 |
70 | Jaws Log | Carl Gottlieb | Ben Stiller | 137 |
71 | Miss Rumphius | Barbara Cooney | Anna Holmes | 142 |
72 | Remix: Making Art and Commerce Thrive in the Hybrid Economy | Lawrence Lessig | Joseph Gordon-Levitt | 149 |
73 | Leadership on the Line | Ronald A. Heifetz & Marty Linsky | Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks | 158 |
74 | Superforecasting | Philip E. Tetlock & Dan Gardner | Julia Galef | 165 |
75 | How to Measure Anything | Douglas W. Hubbard | Julia Galef | 165 |
76 | Decisive | Chip & Dan Heath | Julia Galef | 165 |
77 | The Map That Changed the World | Simon Winchester | Turia Pitt | 168 |
78 | Born to Run | Christopher McDougall | Turia Pitt | 168 |
79 | The Barefoot Investor | Scott Pape | Turia Pitt | 168 |
80 | Man’s Search for Meaning | Viktor E. Frankl | Turia Pitt | 168 |
81 | Man’s Search for Meaning | Viktor E. Frankl | Jimmy Fallon | 177 |
82 | The Monster at the End of This Book | Jon Stone | Jimmy Fallon | 177 |
83 | The Beggar King and the Secret of Happiness: A True Story | Joel ben Izzy | Maria Sharapova | 183 |
84 | Zen in the Art of Archery | Eugen Herrigel | Adam Robinson | 186 |
85 | Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain | Betty Edwards | Adam Robinson | 186 |
86 | The Crack in the Cosmic Egg | Joseph Chilton Pearce | Adam Robinson | 186 |
87 | The Act of Creation | Arthur Koestler | Adam Robinson | 186 |
88 | The Origins of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind | Julian Jaynes | Adam Robinson | 186 |
89 | On the Road | Jack Kerouac | Josh Waitzkin | 197 |
90 | Tao Te Ching | Lao Tzu | Josh Waitzkin | 197 |
91 | Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance | Robert Pirsig | Josh Waitzkin | 197 |
92 | Ernest Hemingway on Writing | Ernest Hemingway | Josh Waitzkin | 197 |
93 | Seeking Wisdom: From Darwin to Munger | Peter Bevelin | Jason Fried | 203 |
94 | Meditations | Marcus Aurelius | Arianna Huffington | 212 |
95 | Memories, Dreams, Reflections | Carl Jung | Arianna Huffington | 212 |
96 | The Meaning of Culture | John Cowper Powys | Tim O’Reilly | 220 |
97 | The Way of Life According to Lao Tzu | Lao Tzu (translated by Witter Bynner) | Tim O’Reilly | 220 |
98 | Rissa Kerguelen | F.M. Busby | Tim O’Reilly | 220 |
99 | Quiet | Susan Cain | Tom Peters | 226 |
100 | Wait | Frank Partnoy | Tom Peters | 226 |
101 | The Power of Nice | Linda Kaplan-Thaler | Tom Peters | 226 |
102 | The Power of Small | Linda Kaplan-Thaler | Tom Peters | 226 |
103 | Weapons of Math Destruction | Cathy O’Neil | Tom Peters | 226 |
104 | Retail Superstars | George Whalin | Tom Peters | 226 |
105 | Small Giants | Bo Burlingham | Tom Peters | 226 |
106 | Simply Brilliant | Bill Taylor | Tom Peters | 226 |
107 | Hidden Champions of the Twenty-first Century | Hermann Simon | Tom Peters | 226 |
108 | Rhinoceros Success | Scott Alexander | Bear Gyrlls | 231 |
109 | The Dance of Anger | Harriet Lerner | Brené Brown | 232 |
110 | Why Won’t You Apologize? | Harriet Lerner | Brené Brown | 232 |
111 | Positive Disipline Series | Jane Nelsen | Brené Brown | 232 |
112 | Touchpoint Series | T. Berry Brazelton | Brené Brown | 232 |
113 | Stretch | Scott Sonenshein | Brené Brown | 232 |
114 | Lead Yourself First | Kethledge and Erwin | Brené Brown | 232 |
115 | Zen Mind, Beginner’s Mind | Shunryu Suzuki | Leo Babauta | 237 |
116 | What is Zen? | Norman Fischer | Leo Babauta | 237 |
117 | The Biology of Desire | Marc Lewis | Esther Dyson | 244 |
118 | Scarcity | Sendhil Mullainathan & Eldar Shafir | Esther Dyson | 244 |
119 | From Bacteria to Bach and Back | Daniel C. Dennet | Esther Dyson | 244 |
120 | Childhood’s End | Arthur C. Clarke | Kevin Kelly | 247 |
121 | The Whole Earth Catalog | Stewart Brand | Kevin Kelly | 247 |
122 | The Fountainhead | Ayn Rand | Kevin Kelly | 247 |
123 | Leaves of Grass | Walt Whitman | Kevin Kelly | 247 |
124 | The Story of My Experiments with Truth | Mahatma Gandhi | Kevin Kelly | 247 |
125 | The Bible | God | Kevin Kelly | 248 |
126 | Gödel, Escher, Bach | Douglas Hofstadter | Kevin Kelly | 248 |
127 | The Ultimate Resource | Julian Simon | Kevin Kelly | 248 |
128 | Finite and Infinite Games | James P. Cause | Kevin Kelly | 248 |
129 | The Happiest Baby on the Block | Harvey Karp | Ashton Kutcher | 251 |
130 | The Sleepeasy Solution | Jennifer Waldburger & Jill Spivack | Ashton Kutcher | 251 |
131 | Sapiens | Yuval Noah Harari | Ashton Kutcher | 251 |
132 | Propaganda | Edward Bernays | Jérôme Jarre | 257 |
133 | Understanding Media | Marshall McLuhan | Jérôme Jarre | 259 |
134 | Man’s Search for Meaning | Viktor E. Frankl | Fedor Holz | 265 |
135 | The Alchemist | Paulo Coelho | Eric Ripert | 269 |
136 | A Plea for the Animals | Matthieu Ricard | Eric Ripert | 269 |
137 | 32 Yolks | Eric Ripert | Eric Ripert | 269 |
138 | Zen Mind, Beginners Mind | Shunryu Suzuki | Sharon Salzberg | 273 |
139 | The Way of the Peaceful Warrior | Dan Millman | Greg Norman | 284 |
140 | Tools of Titans | Tim Ferriss | Greg Norman | 284 |
141 | On China | Henry Kissinger | Greg Norman | 284 |
142 | The Way of the Shark | Greg Norman | Greg Norman | 284 |
143 | Black Box Thinking | Matthew Syed | Daniel Ek | 287 |
144 | The Alchemist | Paulo Coelho | Daniel Ek | 287 |
145 | The Minefield Girl | Sofia Ek | Daniel Ek | 287 |
146 | Poor Charlie’s Almanack | Charles T. Munger | Daniel Ek | 287 |
147 | How to Win Friends and Influence People | Dale Carnegie | Strauss Zelnick | 289 |
148 | The Scientist in the Crib | Alison Gopnik | Steve Jurvetson | 293 |
149 | Ready Player One | Ernest Cline | Steve Jurvetson | 293 |
150 | Out of Control | Kevin Kelly | Steve Jurvetson | 294 |
151 | Age of Spiritual Machines | Ray Kurzweil | Steve Jurvetson | 294 |
152 | The Passion Trap | Dean Delis | Liv Boeree | 301 |
153 | Map and Territory | Eliezer Yudkowsky | Liv Boeree | 301 |
154 | How to Actually Change Your Mind | Eliezer Yudkowsky | Liv Boeree | 301 |
155 | Iceland Small World | Sigurgeir Sigurjónsson | Annie Mist Pórisdóttir | 307 |
156 | Iceland in All Its Splendour | Inner Jökulsdóttir | Annie Mist Pórisdóttir | 307 |
157 | Crush It! | Gary Vaynerchuk | Mark Bell | 310 |
158 | The 4-Hour Workweek | Tim Ferriss | Mark Bell | 310 |
159 | 5/3/1 | Jim Wendler | Mark Bell | 310 |
160 | The Hero with a Thousand Faces | Joseph Campbell | Ray Dalio | 322 |
161 | The Lessons of History | Will & Ariel Durant | Ray Dalio | 322 |
162 | River Out of Eden | Richard Dawkins | Ray Dalio | 322 |
163 | Invisible Man | Ralph Ellison | Jacqueline Novogratz | 325 |
164 | Things Fall Apart | Chinua Achebe | Jacqueline Novogratz | 325 |
165 | A Fine Balance | Rohinton Mistry | Jacqueline Novogratz | 325 |
166 | What I Talk About When I Talk About Running | Haruki Murakami | Brian Koppelman | 329 |
167 | The Artist’s Way | Julia Cameron | Brian Koppelman | 329 |
168 | Awaken the Giants | Tony Robbins | Brian Koppelman | 329 |
169 | City of Thieves | David Benioff | Brian Koppelman | 329 |
170 | Sizzling Chops and Devilish Spins | Jerome Charyn | Brian Koppelman | 330 |
171 | Finite and Infinite Games | James P. Carse | Stewart Brand | 333 |
172 | One True God | Rodney Stark | Stewart Brand | 333 |
173 | The Idea of Decline in Western History | Arther Herman | Stewart Brand | 333 |
174 | The Better Angels of our Nature | Steven Pinker | Stewart Brand | 333 |
175 | A Field Guide to Getting Lost | Rebecca Solnit | Sarah Elizabeth Lewis | 337 |
176 | The Price of the Ticket | James Baldwin | Sarah Elizabeth Lewis | 337 |
177 | Winnie-The-Pooh | A.A. Milne | Gabor Maté | 341 |
178 | The Scourge of the Swastika | E.F.L. Russell | Gabor Maté | 341 |
179 | The Dharmmapada | Buddha | Gabor Maté | 342 |
180 | The Drama of the Gifted Child | Alice Miller | Gabor Maté | 342 |
181 | Don Quixote | Miguel De Cervantes | Gabor Maté | 342 |
182 | When the Body Says No | Gabor Maté | Gabor Maté | 344 |
183 | The Third Wave | Alvin Toffler | Steve Case | 346 |
184 | The Third Wave: An Entrepreneur’s Vision of the Future | Steve Case | Steve Case | 346 |
185 | The Nightingale’s Song | Robert Timberg | Tommy Vietor | 355 |
186 | The Catcher in the Rye | J.D. Salinger | Larry King | 361 |
187 | Lou Gehrig: A Quiet Hero | Frank Graham | Larry King | 361 |
188 | The Power of a Positive No | William Ury | Muna AbuSulayman | 363 |
189 | The Beginning of Infinity | David Deutsch | Sam Harris | 366 |
190 | Superintelligence | Nick Bostrom | Sam Harris | 366 |
191 | In Cold Blood | Truman Capote | Sam Harris | 366 |
192 | Passages | Gail Sheehy | Maurice Ashley | 369 |
193 | Sugar Blues | William Dufty | Maurice Ashley | 369 |
194 | Mastery | George Leonard | Maurice Ashley | 369 |
195 | The 4-Hour Workweek | Tim Ferriss | Maurice Ashley | 369 |
196 | The Rational Optimist | Matt Ridley | John Arnold | 374 |
197 | Better Angels of Our Nature | Steven Pinker | John Arnold | 374 |
198 | The Motel Weekend | James Donner | David Lynch | 380 |
199 | The Srimad Devi Bhagavatam | Swami Vijnanananda | David Lynch | 380 |
200 | Metamorphosis | Franz Kafka | David Lynch | 380 |
201 | The Selfish Gene | Richard Dawkins | Nick Szabo | 383 |
202 | Thinking Body, Dancing Mind | Chungliang Al Huang | Jon Call | 386 |
203 | The Heart of a Champion | Bob Richards | Dan Gable | 393 |
204 | The Stars | H.A. Rey | Caroline Paul | 396 |
205 | Last Exit to Brooklyn | Hubert Selby Jr. | Darron Aronofsky | 399 |
206 | Requiem for a Dream | Hubert Selby Jr. | Darron Aronofsky | 399 |
207 | The Beginning of Infinity | David Deutsch | Chris Anderson | 408 |
208 | Any Book by Steven Pinker | Steven Pinker | Chris Anderson | 408 |
209 | Narnia Series | C.S. Lewis | Chris Anderson | 408 |
210 | Paco and the Orchestra | Magali Le Huche | Neil Gaiman | 411 |
211 | Paco and Jazz | Magali Le Huche | Neil Gaiman | 411 |
212 | Paco and Rock | Magali Le Huche | Neil Gaiman | 411 |
213 | Paco and Vivaldi | Magali Le Huche | Neil Gaiman | 411 |
214 | Paco and Mozart | Magali Le Huche | Neil Gaiman | 411 |
215 | Man’s Search for Meaning | Viktor E. Frankl | Michael Gervais | 413 |
216 | Tao Te Ching | Lao Tzu | Michael Gervais | 413 |
217 | Mind Gym | Gary Mack | Michael Gervais | 413 |
218 | Inch and Miles | John Wooden | Michael Gervais | 413 |
219 | The Tao of Health, Sex, and Longevity | Daniel Reid | Kelly Slater | 419 |
220 | The Prophet | Kahlil Gibran | Kelly Slater | 420 |
221 | Wooden: A Lifetime of Observations and Reflections On and Off the Court | John Wooden | Katrín Tanja Davídsdóttir | 421 |
222 | The Champion’s Mind | Jim Afremow | Katrín Tanja Davídsdóttir | 422 |
223 | The Rise of Superman | Steven Kotler | Adam Fisher | 428 |
224 | The Emperor of All Maladies | Siddhartha Mukherjee | Laura R. Walker | 438 |
225 | How to Cook Everything | Mark Bittman | Laura R. Walker | 438 |
226 | Nonstop Metropolis | Rebecca Solnit | Laura R. Walker | 438 |
227 | Anna Karenina | Leo Tolstoy | Laura R. Walker | 438 |
228 | The Second Sex | Simone de Beauvoir | Laura R. Walker | 438 |
229 | The 4-Hour Workweek | Tim Ferriss | Laura R. Walker | 438 |
230 | Mastery | George Leonard | Terry Laughlin | 440 |
231 | Managing | Harold Geneen | Marc Benioff | 446 |
232 | The Mythical Man-Month | Frederick P. Brooks | Marc Benioff | 446 |
233 | The Good Heart | Dalai Lama | Marc Benioff | 446 |
234 | The War of Art | Steven Pressfield | Marie Forleo | 451 |
235 | Poor Charlie’s Almanack | Charlie Munger | Drew Houston | 456 |
236 | The Effective Executive | Peter Drucker | Drew Houston | 458 |
237 | Jayber Crowe | Wendell Berry | Tim McGraw | 465 |
238 | Book of Longing | Leonard Cohen | Craig Newmark | 473 |
239 | 36 Arguments for the Existence of God | Rebecca Newberger Goldstein | Steven Pinker | 477 |
240 | The Strategy of Conflict | Thomas C. Schelling | Steven Pinker | 477 |
241 | The Science of Words | George A. Miller | Steven Pinker | 477 |
242 | Retreat from Doomsday | John Mueller | Steven Pinker | 477 |
243 | The Future Assumption | Judith Rich Harris | Steven Pinker | 477 |
244 | The Evolution of Human Sexuality | Donald Symons | Steven Pinker | 477 |
245 | Knowledge and Decisions | Thomas Sowell | Steven Pinker | 477 |
246 | Clear and Simple as the Truth | Francis Noël-Thomas | Steven Pinker | 477 |
247 | A Pattern of Language | Christopher Alexander | Gretchen Rubin | 480 |
248 | Why We Get Fat | Gary Taubes | Gretchen Rubin | 480 |
249 | Getting the Love You Want | Harville Hendrix | Whitney Cummings | 482 |
250 | The Fantasy Bond | Robert W. Firestone | Whitney Cummings | 482 |
251 | The Female Brain | Louann Brizendine | Whitney Cummings | 483 |
252 | Tao Te Ching | Lao Tzu (Stephen Mitchell Translation) | Rick Rubin | 487 |
253 | Wherever You Go, There You Are | Jon Kabat-Zinn | Rick Rubin | 487 |
254 | The Paleo Solution | Robb Wolf | Rick Rubin | 488 |
255 | Sapiens | Yuval Noah Harari | Ryan Shea | 492 |
256 | The Alchemist | Paulo Coelho | Ryan Shea | 492 |
257 | Snow Crash | Neal Stephenson | Ryan Shea | 492 |
258 | The Sovereign Individual | James Dale Davidson & Lord William Rees-Mogg | Ryan Shea | 492 |
259 | The Better Angels of Our Nature | Steven Pinker | Ben Silbermann | 497 |
260 | Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat | Samin Nosrat | Ben Silbermann | 497 |
261 | Introduction to Mathematical Philosophy | Bertrand Russell | Vlad Zamfir | 502 |
262 | Complexity and Chaos | Dr. Roger White | Vlad Zamfir | 502 |
263 | The Lily | Daniel Cloud | Vlad Zamfir | 502 |
264 | Good Calories, Bad Calories | Gary Taubes | Zooko Wilcox | 507 |
265 | Tools of Titans | Tim Ferriss | Stephanie McMahon | 511 |
266 | The Transformed Cell | Steven A. Rosenberg | Peter Attia | 515 |
267 | Mistakes Were Made (but Not By Me) | Carol Tavris & Elliot Aronson | Peter Attia | 515 |
268 | Surely You’re Joking, Mr. Feynman! | Richard P. Feynman | Peter Attia | 515 |
269 | The Autobiography of Malcolm X | Malcolm X | Steve Aoki | 520 |
270 | The Singularity Is Near | Ray Kurzweil | Steve Aoki | 522 |
271 | Ghost in the Shell | Shirow Masamune | Steve Aoki | 522 |
272 | Ending Aging | Dr. Aubrey de Grey | Steve Aoki | 522 |
273 | Man’s Search for Meaning | Viktor E. Frankl | Jim Loehr | 527 |
274 | The Four Agreements | Don Miguel Ruiz | Daniel Negreanu | 533 |
275 | About Face | Colonel David H. Hackworth | Jocko Willink | 537 |
276 | The Wisdom of the Enneagram | Don Richard Riso & Russ Hudson | Kristen Ulmer | 549 |
277 | The Power of Now | Eckhart Tolle | Kristen Ulmer | 550 |
278 | Brave New World | Aldous Huxley | Yuval Noah Harari | 555 |