Book Reviews

Summary page to include all my book reviews alphabetically. Rating it from ⭐ to ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ based on how likely I'm to recommend it. Placing 🌟 for my top recommendations.

A few of the ratings are not consistent with my book reviews at the time of writing as I got time to reflect and practice some of the principles. Keep in mind it's all relative as most of the books are highly reviewed publicly.

• 1984 by George Orwell🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟
• A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
• A Promised Land by Barack Obama⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
• Aleph by Paulo Coelho (in Spanish)⭐
• Annie Bot by Sierra Greer⭐
• Apache Iceberg: The Definitive Guide: Data Lakehouse by Tomer Shiran & Jason Hughes & Alex Merced⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
• Bad Blood by John Carreyrou🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟
• Crazy Rich Asians by Kevin Kwan⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
• Creativity, Inc. by Ed Catmull, Amy Wallace⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
• Crush It! by Gary Vaynerchuk⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
• Designing Data-Intensive Applications by Martin Kleppmann⭐⭐⭐⭐
• Designing Machine Learning Systems by Chip Huyen⭐⭐⭐⭐
• Educated by Tara Westover⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
• Elon Musk by Ashlee Vance⭐⭐⭐
• Finding Chika by Mitch Albom⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
• Fourth Wing by Rebecca Yarros⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
• Fundamentals of Data Engineering by Joe Reis & Matt Housley⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
• Genius Makers by Cade Metz🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟
• Getting Everything You Can Out of All You’ve Got by Jay Abraham⭐⭐⭐
• Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by J.K. Rowling (in Spanish)⭐⭐⭐
• Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban by J.K. Rowling (in Spanish)⭐⭐⭐
• Hello Beautiful by Ann Napolitano⭐⭐⭐
• High Output Management by Andrew S. Grove⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
• Homo Deus by Yuval Noah Harari⭐⭐
• How to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie⭐⭐⭐⭐
• Iron Flame by Rebecca Yarros⭐⭐⭐
• Mindset by Carol S. Dweck🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟
• Moby Dick by Herman Melville🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟
• Nine Pints by Rose George⭐⭐⭐⭐
• None of This Is True by Lisa Jewell⭐⭐⭐
• Oh William! by Elizabeth Strout⭐⭐⭐
• On Writing by Stephen King⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
• Piranesi by Susanna Clarke⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
• Rework by Jason Fried⭐⭐⭐⭐
• Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harari⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
• Shoe Dog by Phil Knight🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟
• Sometimes the Magic Works by Terry Brooks⭐⭐
• Start With Why by Simon Sinek⭐⭐
• The $100 Startup by Chris Guillebeau⭐⭐
• The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People by Stephen Covey🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟
• The 38 Letters from J.D. Rockefeller to His Son by J D Rockefeller⭐⭐⭐⭐
• The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho (in Spanish)⭐⭐⭐⭐
• The Best We Could Do by Thi Bui⭐⭐⭐⭐
• The Book of Negroes by Lawrence Hill🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟
• The Bullet Journal Method by Ryder Carroll🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟
• The Covenant of Water by Abraham Verghese⭐⭐⭐
• The Five People You Meet in Heaven by Mitch Albom⭐⭐⭐⭐
• The Intelligent Investor by Benjamin Graham🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟
• The Last Quarter of the Moon by Chi Zijian (in Chinese)⭐⭐⭐⭐
• The Lean Startup by Eric Ries⭐⭐⭐⭐
• The Little Liar by Mitch Albom🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟
• The Next Person You Meet in Heaven by Mitch Albom⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
• The Outsiders by William N. Thorndike, Jr.⭐
• The Pursuit of Power: Europe 1815-1914 by Richard J. Evans⭐⭐⭐⭐
• The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro⭐⭐⭐⭐
• The Richest Man in Babylon by George S. Clason⭐⭐⭐
• The Splendid and the Vile by Erik Larson⭐⭐⭐⭐
• The Spy by Paulo Coelho (in Spanish)⭐⭐⭐
• The Subtle Art of Not Giving A F*ck by Mark Manson⭐
• The Tattooist of Auschwitz by Heather Morris⭐⭐⭐
• Tools of Titans by Tim Ferriss🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟
• Upheaval by Jared Diamond⭐⭐⭐⭐
• When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi⭐⭐⭐
• When Genius Failed by Roger Lowenstein⭐⭐⭐
• Wired for Story by Lisa Cron⭐⭐⭐⭐
• Zero to One by Peter Thiel⭐⭐