If you want to know how I think, you’ve come to the right place. I have read or listened to all the following titles at least once (a few of them I’ve read several times). Feel free to use this as an AI reading recommendations list.
This list will evolve as I read more, and as I have more time to refine this page and add further details. If you have any questions about any of these titles, please feel free to contact me. I love talking about books I’ve read—just ask my wife! Anyway, I figured someone would be interested in my AI and business books recommendation list.
CONTENT PROVENANCE STATEMENT: The following list of AI and business books was organized by ChatGPT based on information from my relevant accounts (e.g. Audible, Spotify, Etc.) I basically copied the page text of my “past purchase” pages (or past reads or whatever) in addition to taking screenshots—all of which I plugged into ChatGPT, which organized everything into a CSV file that I uploaded to Google Drive for verification and embedding purposes. Those Google Sheets are what you see below.
AI, Technology, and Futurism
| Title | Author | Domain | Publication Year |
| The Creativity Code: Art and Innovation in the Age of AI | Marcus du Sautoy | AI/Creativity | 2019 |
| AI Snake Oil: What Artificial Intelligence Can Do, What It Can’t, and How to Tell the Difference | Sayash Kapoor; Arvind Narayanan | AI/Critique | 2024 |
| The Alignment Problem: Machine Learning and Human Values | Brian Christian | AI/Ethics | 2020 |
| Robot Rights | David J. Gunkel | AI/Ethics | 2018 |
| Life 3.0: Being Human in the Age of Artificial Intelligence | Max Tegmark | AI/Future | 2017 |
| The Singularity Is Nearer: When We Merge with AI | Ray Kurzweil | AI/Futurism | 2024 |
| Machine Learning for Beginners: Learn and Understand the Basics of Artificial Intelligence | Samuel Hack | AI/Intro | 2019 |
| HBR Guide to AI Basics for Managers | Harvard Business Review | AI/Management | 2023 |
| Deep Learning with Python | Francois Chollet | AI/ML | 2017 |
| If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies: Why Superhuman AI Would Kill Us All | Eliezer Yudkowsky; Nate Soares | AI/Safety | 2025 |
| Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies | Nick Bostrom | AI/Safety | 2014 |
| The Coming Wave: Technology, Power, and the Twenty-first Century’s Greatest Dilemma | Mustafa Suleyman; Michael Bhaskar | AI/Tech | 2023 |
| Superagency: What Could Possibly Go Right with Our AI Future | Reid Hoffman; Greg Beato | AI/Tech/Future | 2025 |
| Co-Intelligence: Living and Working with AI | Ethan Mollick | AI/Work | 2024 |
| Unfinished: The Role of the Artist in the Age of Artificial Intelligence | Lucas Cantor Santiago | Creativity/AI | 2025 |
| Power and Progress: Our Thousand-Year Struggle Over Technology and Prosperity | Daron Acemoglu; Simon Johnson | Economics/Tech | 2023 |
| Bold: How to Go Big, Create Wealth and Impact the World | Peter H. Diamandis; Steven Kotler | Futurism/Business | 2015 |
| Abundance: The Future Is Better Than You Think | Peter H. Diamandis; Steven Kotler | Futurism/Tech | 2012 |
| Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI | Yuval Noah Harari | History/Tech | 2024 |
| Reality+: Virtual Worlds and the Problems of Philosophy | David J. Chalmers | Philosophy/VR | 2022 |
| Our Mathematical Universe: My Quest for the Ultimate Nature of Reality | Max Tegmark | Physics/Cosmology | 2014 |
| The Fabric of Reality: The Science of Parallel Universes—and Its Implications | David Deutsch | Physics/Philosophy | 1997 |
| The Skeptics’ Guide to the Future: What Yesterday’s Science and Technology Tell Us About the World of Tomorrow | Steven Novella; Bob Novella; Jay Novella | Skepticism/Future | 2022 |
| The Technological Republic: Hard Power, Soft Belief, and the Future of the West | Alexander C. Karp; Nicholas W. Zamiska | Tech/Geopolitics | 2025 |
| The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood | James Gleick | Tech/History | 2011 |
| An Introduction to Information Theory: Symbols, Signals and Noise | John R. Pierce | Tech/Information Theory | 1980 |
| Read Write Own: Building the Next Era of the Internet | Chris Dixon | Tech/Internet | 2024 |
General Business Education and Inspiration
| Title | Author | Domain | Publication Year |
| Dopamine Nation | Anna Lembke | Addiction/Health | 2021 |
| Predictably Irrational | Dan Ariely | Behavioral Econ | 2008 |
| Nudge: The Final Edition | Richard H. Thaler; Cass R. Sunstein | Behavioral Econ | 2021 |
| Thinking, Fast and Slow | Daniel Kahneman | Behavioral Econ | 2011 |
| The E-Myth Revisited | Michael E. Gerber | Business | 1995 |
| Who Moved My Cheese? | Spencer Johnson | Business/Change | 1998 |
| Create the Future: Tactics for Disruptive Thinking | Jeremy Gutsche | Business/Innovation | 2020 |
| The Great Game of Business, Expanded and Updated | Jack Stack; Bo Burlingham | Business/Management | 2013 |
| Reset | Dan Heath | Business/Systems | 2025 |
| Supercommunicators | Charles Duhigg | Communication | 2024 |
| Making Numbers Count | Chip Heath; Karla Starr | Communication/Data | 2022 |
| Magic Words | Jonah Berger | Communication/Persuasion | 2023 |
| Ping: The Secrets of Successful Virtual Communication | Andrew Brodsky | Communication/Work | 2025 |
| Complexity: A Guided Tour | Melanie Mitchell | Complexity/Systems | 2009 |
| How to Do Motivational Interviewing | Bill Matulich | Counseling/MI | 2012 |
| Originals | Adam Grant | Creativity/Business | 2016 |
| Decisive | Chip Heath; Dan Heath | Decision Making | 2013 |
| Bullshit Jobs | David Graeber | Economics/Society | 2018 |
| Superforecasting | Philip Tetlock; Dan Gardner | Forecasting/Decision | 2015 |
| Bold | Peter H. Diamandis; Steven Kotler | Futurism/Business | 2015 |
| Atomic Habits | James Clear | Habits | 2018 |
| The Power of Habit | Charles Duhigg | Habits | 2012 |
| Guns, Germs and Steel | Jared Diamond | History | 1997 |
| Anaximander: And the Birth of Science | Carlo Rovelli | History of Science | 2023 |
| The Fourth Turning | William Strauss; Neil Howe | History/Society | 1997 |
| The Catalyst | Jonah Berger | Influence/Behavior | 2011 |
| Radical Candor | Kim Scott | Leadership | 2019 |
| The Right Kind of Wrong | Amy C. Edmondson | Leadership/Learning | 2023 |
| The Fearless Organization | Amy C. Edmondson | Leadership/Psych Safety | 2018 |
| Teaming | Amy C. Edmondson | Leadership/Teams | 2012 |
| Day Trading Attention | Gary Vaynerchuk | Marketing/Business | 2024 |
| Influencer | Brittany Hennessy | Marketing/Social | 2023 |
| Building a StoryBrand | Donald Miller | Marketing/Story | 2017 |
| Proof: The Art and Science of Certainty | Adam Kucharski | Math/Reasoning | 2025 |
| The Top Five Regrets of the Dying | Bronnie Ware | Memoir/Meaning | 2011 |
| Drive | Daniel H. Pink | Motivation/Psych | 2009 |
| The Serviceberry | Robin Wall Kimmerer | Nature/Community | 2024 |
| Never Split the Difference | Chris Voss; Tahl Raz | Negotiation | 2016 |
| Connected: The Surprising Power of Our Social Networks and How They Shape Our Lives | Nicholas A. Christakis; James H. Fowler | Networks/Society | 2011 |
| Mind Electric: A Neurologist on the Strangeness and Wonder of Our Brains | Pria Anand | Neuroscience | 2025 |
| Influence Is Your Superpower | Zoe Chance | Persuasion/Business | 2022 |
| Mind and Cosmos | Thomas Nagel | Philosophy | 2012 |
| The Antidote | Oliver Burkeman | Philosophy/Self-Help | 2012 |
| Reality+ | David J. Chalmers | Philosophy/VR | 2022 |
| Reality Is Not What It Seems: The Journey to Quantum Gravity | Carlo Rovelli | Physics | 2017 |
| Life as No One Knows It: The Physics of Life’s Emergence | Sara Imari Walker | Physics/Biology | 2023 |
| Our Mathematical Universe | Max Tegmark | Physics/Cosmology | 2014 |
| There Are Places in the World Where Rules Are Less Important Than Kindness | Carlo Rovelli | Physics/Essays | 2018 |
| The Fabric of Reality | David Deutsch | Physics/Philosophy | 1996 |
| Helgoland: Making Sense of the Quantum Revolution | Carlo Rovelli | Physics/Quantum | 2020 |
| The Order of Time | Carlo Rovelli | Physics/Time | 2017 |
| Abundance | Ezra Klein; Derek Thompson | Politics/Policy | 2025 |
| Upstream | Dan Heath | Problem Solving | 2020 |
| Smarter Faster Better | Charles Duhigg | Productivity | 2016 |
| Getting Things Done | David Allen | Productivity | 2001 |
| Four Thousand Weeks | Oliver Burkeman | Productivity/Meaning | 2021 |
| Mindset | Carol S. Dweck | Psych | 2006 |
| Grit | Angela Duckworth | Psych | 2016 |
| The Power of Regret | Daniel H. Pink | Psych/Decision | 2022 |
| 10 to 25 | David Yeager | Psych/Development | 2023 |
| The End of Average | Todd Rose | Psych/Education | 2016 |
| Think Again | Adam Grant | Psych/Learning | 2021 |
| The Secret Life of Pronouns | James W. Pennebaker | Psych/Linguistics | 2011 |
| Hidden Potential | Adam Grant | Psych/Performance | 2023 |
| The Righteous Mind | Jonathan Haidt | Psych/Politics | 2012 |
| Validation | Caroline Fleck | Psych/Relationships | 2025 |
| Life in Three Dimensions: How Curiosity, Exploration, and Experience Make a Fuller, Better Life | Shigehiro Oishi | Psych/Wellbeing | 2025 |
| Give and Take | Adam Grant | Psych/Work | 2013 |
| On the Edge | Nate Silver | Risk/Decision | 2024 |
| The Blind Spot: Why Science Cannot Ignore Human Experience | Adam Frank; Marcelo Gleiser; Evan Thompson | Science/Philosophy | 2024 |
| The Skeptics’ Guide to the Future | Steven Novella; Bob Novella; Jay Novella | Skepticism/Future | 2018 |
| Of Boys and Men | Richard V. Reeves | Society | 2022 |
| Utopia for Realists | Rutger Bregman | Society/Policy | 2017 |
| The Lean Startup | Eric Ries | Startups | 2011 |
| A Guide to the Good Life | William B. Irvine | Stoicism | 2008 |
| The Information | James Gleick | Tech/History | 2011 |
| The Body Keeps the Score | Bessel van der Kolk | Trauma/Psych | 2014 |
| It Didn’t Start with You | Mark Wolynn | Trauma/Psych | 2016 |
| Tomorrowmind | Gabriella Rosen Kellerman; Martin E. P. Seligman | Work/Psych | 2022 |
| Just Work | Kim Scott | Workplace/Culture | 2021 |
| The Anxious Generation | Jonathan Haidt | Sociology/Development | 2024 |
