Bookshelf

I have read most of the books here on this list and i highly recommend them. This list is for posterity and for keeping my readings on track.

  • The SaaS Playbook – Rob Walling
  • As Equals: The Oei Women of Java – Daryl Yeap
  • Red Roulette- Desmond Shum
  • Elon Musk – Walter Issacson  
  • Man’s Search for Meaning — Viktor Frankl
  • The Black Swan — Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • The Hare with Amber Eyes — Edmund De Waal
  • To Change the World — James Davison Hunter
  • The Kingdom of God — Martyn Lloyd-Jones
  • The Clash of Civilizations — Samuel Huntington
  • The Hedgehog and the Fox — Isaiah Berlin
  • The Hobbit — J. R. R. Tolkien
  • The Age of the Unthinkable — Joshua Cooper Ramo
  • Only the Paranoid Survives — Andrew Grove
  • The New Digital Age — Eric Schmidt and Jared Cohen
  • How Google Works — Eric Schmidt & Jonathan Rosenberg
  • Start-up Nation: The Story of Israel’s Economic Miracle — Dan Senor and Saul Singer
  • Studies in the Sermon on the Mount — Martyn Llyod-Jones
  • Mobilizing Gay Singapore — Lynette J Chua
  • King’s Cross — Tim Keller
  • Generous Justice — Tim Keller
  • Walking with God Through Pain and Suffering — Tim Keller
  • Pilgrim at Tinker Creek — Annie Dillard
  • On China — Henry Kissinger
  • The Leader The Teacher and You — Lim Siong Guan
  • Anna Karenina — Leo Tolstoy
  • Air-Conditioned Nation — Cherian George
  • The One World School House — Sal Khan
  • On Bonsai, Banyan and the Tao — George Yeo
  • 京華 煙雲 - 林語堂
  • 吾國與吾民 - 林語堂
  • Roberto Calasso — The Art of the Publisher
  • Liem Sioe Liong’s Salim Group — Borsuk and Chng
  • Catcher in the Rye — J.D. Salinger
  • Goh Keng Swee: A Portrait — Tan Siok Sun
  • The Prophet — Kahlil Gibran
  • The Language of Things — Deyan Sudjic
  • Wealth of Nations — Adam Smith
  • The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York — Robert A. Caro
  • Asian Godfather — Joe Studwell
  • The Industries of the Future — Alec Ross
  • Deep Work – Cal newport
  • Wonderland — Steven Johnson
  • So Good They Can’t Ignore You — Cal Newport
  • Niccolò Machiavelli — The Prince
  • Winning with Honour — Lim Siong Guan
  • Dealing with an Ambiguous World — Bilahari Kausikan
  • Singapore is not an Island — Bilahari Kausikan
  • Satya Nadella — Hit Refresh
  • Whiplash: How to Survive Our Faster Future — Joi Ito
  • Robert Kuok Memoir
  • Powerful: Building a Culture of Freedom and Responsibility — Patty McCord
  • Importance of Living — Lin Yutang
  • How Inequality Looks Like — Teo You Yenn
  • My Country My People — Lin Yutang
  • Superintelligence — Nick Bostrom
  • The Master Algorithm — Pedro Domingos
  • Leonardo Da Vinci — Issac Walterson
  • Measure What Matters — John Doerr
  • Meditations by Marcus Aurelius
  • Letters from a Self-Made Merchant to His Son–George Horace Lorimer
  • What I learnt Losing a Million Dollars — Jim Paul and Brendan Moynihan
  • The Score Takes Care of Itself — Bill Walsh
  • 12 Against the Gods: The Story of Adventure — William Bolitho
  • The Measure of My Days — Florida Scott Maxwell
  • The Straegemata — Frontinus
  • Boyd: The Fighter Pilot Who Changed The Art of War — Robert Coram
  • The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz — Mordecai Richler
  • Up From Slavery — Booker T. Washington
  • Bodyguard of Lies: The Extraordinary True Story of D-Day Vol 1 –Anthony Cave Brown
  • The Fish that Ate the Whale: The Life and Times of America’s Banana King — Rich Cohen
  • Rules for Radicals and Reveille of Radicals — Saul Alinsky
  • The Moral Sayings of Publius Syrus: A Roman Slave — Publius Syrus
  • Cyropaedia by Xenophon (a more accessible “translation” can be found in Xenophon’s Cyrus The Great: The Arts of Leadership and War)
  • Letters from a Stoic : Epistulae Morales Ad Lucilium–Seneca
  • The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right — Atul Gawande
  • The Defining Decade : Why Your Twenty Something Matters — Meg Jay
  • Hatching Twitter: A True Story of Money, Power, Friendship, and Betrayal — Nick Bilton
  • Whatever You Think, Think Opposite — Paul Arden
  • Dogfight: How Apple and Google Went to War and Started a Revolution — Fred Vogelstein
  • Elon Musk — Ashlee Vance
  • Zero to One — Peter Thiel
  • The Message of the Sermon on the Mount — John Stott
  • Growing Deep in God — Edmund Chan
  • Discipleship Missions — Edmund Chan
  • Growing Deep in Faith — Edmund Chan
  • Mentoring Paradigms — Edmund Chan
  • Cultivating Your Inner Life — Edmund Chan
  • Radical Discipleship — Edmund Chan
  • A Certain Kind — Edmund Chan
  • Reasons for God — Tim Keller
  • 出走是為了回家 — 劉安婷
  • Inside Out Singapore
  • Hard Truth — Lee Kuan Yew
  • One Man’s View of the World — Lee Kuan Yew
  • Jubilee and the Destiny of Nations — Thio Li-Ann
  • Every Good Endeavor — Tim Keller
  • Crazy Rich Asians — Kevin Kwan
  • Crazy Rich Girlfriend — Kevin Kwan
  • Tempted and Tried: Temptation and the Triumph of Christ — Russell D. Moore
  • One More Chance — Benny Se To
  • 王永慶給年輕人的八堂課 - 郭泰
  • 王永慶 全传 - 双根
  • 那些年我们一起追的女孩 — 九把刀
  • Harry Potter (Full Collection) — J. k. Rowling
  • Crazy Love — Francis Chan
  • Walking the Tycoon’s Rope — Robert Wang
  • The Time Traveler’s Wife — Audrey Niffenegger
  • Kisses from Katie — Katie Davis
  • Sophie’s World — Jostein Gaarder
  • Power Through Prayer — E.M. Bound
  • Walking from East to West — Ravi Zacharias
  • I Isacc, Take Thee Rebekah — Ravi Zacharias
  • Mere Christianity — C.S. Lewis
  • Kenya Hara — Designing Design
  • 話說海外華商 - 方雄普
  • The Alchemist — Paulo Coelho
  • 43. Veronika Decides to Die — Paulo Coelho
  • 44. Eleven Minutes — Paulo Coelho
  • The Little Prince — Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
  • Charlie and the Chocolate Factory — Roald Dahl
  • Witches — Roald Dahl
  • Fantastic Mr Fox — Roald Dahl
  • Kisses from Katie — Katie Davis
  • The Davinci Code — Dan Brown
  • Air-Conditioned Nation — Cherian George (2017)
  • Neither Civil nor Servant: The Philip Yeo Story — Peh Shing Huei (2017)
  • The Road to Character — David Brooks(2017)
  • When Breath Becomes Air — Paul Kalanithi (2017)
  • Being Mortal — Atul Gawande (2017)
  • Rich People’s Problem — Kevin Kwan (2017)
  • the art of Charlie chan hock chye — Sonny Liew (2017)
  • Shoe Dog — Phil Knight (2017)
  • Singapore Incomplete–Cherian George (2017)
  • Deep work — Cal Newport(2018)
  • The Ruling Elite of Singapore: Networks of Power and Influence –Michael D. Barr (2018)
  • Conspiracy: Peter Thiel, Hulk Hogan, Gawker, and the Anatomy of Intrigue –Ryan Holiday (2018)
  • The Obstacle is the way–Ryan Holiday (2018)
  • This Is Water Some Thoughts, Delivered on a Significant Occasion, about Living a Compassionate Life — David Foster Wallace (2018)
  • The Bet– Anton Chekhov (2018)
  • Powerful — Building a Culture of Freedom and Responsibility — Patty McCord (2018)
  • Growth Hacker Marketing: A Primer on the Future of PR, Marketing, and Advertising — Ryan Holiday (2018)
  • Growth Hacker Handbook — Jon Yongfook Cockle (2018)
  • Wee Kheng Chiang of Sarawak: Entrepreneur Extraordinaire (A short extract) — Lam Chee Kheung (2018)
  • Billion Dollar Whale: The Man Who Fooled Wall Street, Hollywood, and the World– Tom Wright and Bradley Hope (2018)
  • Meditations — Marcus Aurelius (2018)
  • Antifragile — Nicholas Nassim Taleb (2018)