Scroll down through the annual lists. If a book is on this list, you can safely assume it will serve you well.

Anything below a 9 doesn’t make it.

You can check my full reading list here.

The New Tsar: The Rise and Reign of Vladimir Putin

The Absent Superpower: The Shale Revolution and a World Without America

Game Over, Press Start to Continue: How Nintendo Conquered the World

Masters of Doom: How Two Guys Created an Empire and Transformed Pop Culture

Grinding It Out: The Making of McDonald’s

Scientific Advertising

Leonardo da Vinci

Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup

The Master Switch: The Rise and Fall of Information Empires

How Money Got Free: Bitcoin and the Fight for the Future of Finance

Deep Nutrition: Why Your Genes Need Traditional Food

Dark Money: The Hidden History of the Billionaires Behind the Rise of the Radical Right

The Attention Merchants: The Epic Scramble to Get Inside Our Heads

Five Families: The Rise, Decline, and Resurgence of America’s Most Powerful Mafia Empires

How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia

 Red Notice: A True Story of High Finance, Murder, and One Man’s Fight for Justice

American War

How an Economy Grows and Why It Crashes

Travels with Charley: In Search of America

A Short History of Nearly Everything

Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies

Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis

A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail

The Lost Continent: Travels in Small Town America

Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing

Buyology: Truth and Lies About Why We Buy and the New Science of Desire

10% Happier: How I Tamed the Voice in My Head, Reduced Stress Without Losing My Edge, and Found Self-Help That Actually Works

Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear