Books

Apple

  • Inside Apple by Adam Lashinsky

Mobile App Development

  • Tapworthy: Designing Great iPhone Apps by Josh Clark
  • Designing the iPhone User Experience by Suzanne Ginsburg
  • Learning Cocos2D by Rod Strougo and Ray Wenderlich

History

  • The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon
  • Deng Xiaoping and the Transformation of China by Ezra Vogel
  • The Ascent of Money by Niall Fergusson
  • The House of Morgan: An American Banking Dynasty and Rise of Modern Finance by Ron Chernow
  • Lords of Finance: The Bankers Who Broker the World by Liaquat Ahamed
  • The Greater Journey by David McCullough

Investing

  • Stocks For The Long Run by Jeremy Siegel
  • The Intelligent Investor by Benjamin Graham
  • Value Investing: From Graham to Buffett and Beyond by Bruce Greenwald
  • Value: The Four Cornerstones of Corporate Finance by Tim Koller, Richard Dobbs & Bill Huyett
  • The Little Book of Behavioral Investing by John Montier
  • Financial Shenanigans by Howard Shilit
  • Security Analysis and Business Valuation on Wall Street by Jeffrey Hooke
  • Value Investing: Tools and Techniques for Intelligent Investment by James Montier
  • Accounting for Value by Stephen Penman
  • Distressed Debt Analysis: Strategies for Speculative Investors by Stephen Moyer
  • Distress Investing: Principles and Technique by Martin Whitman and Fernando Diz
  • Asset Protection by Jay Adiksson and Chris Rider
  • Wealth Protection by Christopher Jarvis and David Mandell
  • Expected Returns by Antti Ilmanen
  • What Investors Really Want by Meir Statman

Economics & Finance

  • This Time Is Different by Carmen Rienhart and Kenneth Rogoff
  • The Alpha Masters by Maneet Ahuja
  • The Portable MBA in Finance & Accounting by Theodore Grossman and John Livingstone
  • Unconventional Success by David Swenson
  • The Little Book of Emerging Markets by Mark Mobius
  • When Genius Failed: The Rise and Fall of Long-Term Capital Management by Roger Lowenstein
  • The Alchemy of Finance by George Soros
  • Economics in One Lesson by Henry Hazlitt
  • Against the Gods: The Remarkable Story of Risk by Peter Bernstein
  • New Ideas from Dead Economists by Todd Buchholz
  • Beating the Business Cycle by Lakshman Achuthan
  • Why Smart People Make Big Money Mistakes and How to Correct Them by Gary Belsky and Thomas Gilovich
  • More Than You Know: Finding Financial Wisdom in Uncoventional Places by Michael Mauboussin
  • Devil Take the Hindmost: A History of Financial Speculation by Edward Chancellor
  • Currency Wars: The Making of the Next Global Crisis by James Rickards
  • Inside the Black Box: The Simple Truth about Quantitative Trading by Rishi Narang

Philosophy & Law

  • History of Western Philosophy by Betrand Russell
  • The Common Law by Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

Psychology

  • Seeking Wisdom by Peter Bevelin
  • How We Decide by John Lehrer
  • Stumbling Towards Happiness by Dan Gilbert
  • Influence: The Pyschology of Persuasion by Robert Cialdini
  • Priceless: The Myth of Fair Value by William Poundstone
  • Identity Economics by George Akerlof
  • Discover Your Inner Economist by Tyler Cowen

Productivity

  • Checklist Manifesto by Atul Gawande
  • Getting Things Done by David Allen
  • Dare, Dream, Do by Whitney Johnson

Communication

  • Pitch Anything by Oren Klaff

Leadership

  • Team of Rivals by Doris Kearns Goodwin
  • Never Give In! The Best of Winston Churchill by Winston Churchill

Biographies

  • Onward by Howard Schultz
  • Buffett: The Making of An American Capitalist by Roger Lowenstein
  • Titan: The Life of John D. Rockefeller, Sr. by Ron Chernow
  • King of Capital by David Carey and John Morris
  • Made in America by Sam Walton
  • Andrew Carnegie by Joseph Frazier Wall
  • Poor Charlie’s Almanack: The Wit and Wisdom of Charles T Munger by Charles Munger, Peter Kaufman, Warren Buffett
  • The New Financial Capitalists: Kohlberg Kravis Roberts and the  Creation of Corporate Value by George Baker and George Smith
  • The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York by Robert A. Caro
  • The Years of Lyndon Johnson: The Path to Power by Robert A. Caro
  • Master of the Senate by Robert A. Caro
  • The Price of Power: Kissinger in the Nixon White House by Seymour M. Hersh
  • Wille Brown: A Biography by James Richardson