Gabriel Harper's Blog

Despite all of the technology we have available, you still can’t beat a great book. The business and marketing books listed here have helped me tremendously over the years (some more than others). I try to do a brief book review on the new business books, software books and marketing titles I read.

If there is a review on a book here, you can click on the book title to read the review. Currently I don’t review ebooks here – only the “real” kind. You can also just visit my book reviews section to see all the reviews in one place.

Here are some of my favorite and most highly recommended business, marketing and software books:

Business and Marketing

1. Blink by Malcolm Gladwell
2. Blue Ocean Strategy by W. Chan Kim and Renée Mauborgne
3. Business @ The Speed of Thought by Bill Gates
4. Freakonomics by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner
5. Good to Great by Jim Collins
6. Growing Great Employees by Erika Andersen
7. Gut Feelings: The Intelligence of the Unconscious by Gerd Gigerenzer
8. How to Win Friends & Influence People by Dale Carnegie
9. Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion by Robert B. Cialdini, Ph.D.
10. My Start-Up Life by Ben Casnocha
11. Software That Sells by Edward Hasted
12. StrengthsFinder 2.0 by Tom Rath
13. The Essential Drucker by Peter F. Drucker
14. The Starbucks Experience by Joseph A. Michelli
15. The Tipping Point by Malcolm Gladwell
16. Unleashing the Ideavirus by Seth Godin

Software and Technology

1. Database Systems: A Practical Approach to Design, Implementation, and Management by Thomas Connolly and Carolyn Begg
2. Just for Fun by Linus Torvalds
3. Software Project Management: From Concept to Deployment by Kieron Conway
4. Software Requirements by Karl E. Wiegers
5. The Cathedral & the Bazaar by Eric S. Raymond

Science

1. Chaos by James Gleick
2. Godel, Escher, Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid by Douglas R. Hofstadter
3. On Intelligence by Jeff Hawkins
4. “Surely You’re Joking, Mr. Feynman!” by Richard P. Feynman
5. The Dancing Wu Li Masters by Gary Zukav
6. The Structure of Scientific Revolutions by Thomas S. Kuhn

Fantasy and Science Fiction

1. The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
2. The Sword of Truth (a series) by Terry Goodkind
3. The Wheel of Time (a series) by Robert Jordan
4. Vurt by Jeff Noon