Best Learning & Skill Development Book Summaries
81 learning & skill development titles, each summarized in about 15 minutes with audio and personalized action steps built around your goals.
12 Books That Changed the World
by Melvyn Bragg
21 Lessons for the 21st Century
by Yuval Noah Harari
Actionable Gamification
by Yu-kai Chou
A Mind for Numbers
by Barbara Oakley
A Short History of Nearly Everything
by Bill Bryson
Build, Don’t Talk
by Raj Shamani
Catching the Catfishers
by Tyler Cohen Wood
Co-Intelligence
by Ethan Mollick
Digital Body Language
by Erica Dhawan
Enlightenment Now
by Steven Pinker
Expert
by Roger Kneebone
Factfulness
by Hans Rosling
Frames of Mind
by Howard Gardner
Freakonomics
by Steven D. Levitt & Stephen J. Dubner
From Dominance to Parity
by David W. Brady & Brett Parker
Harnessing the Science of Learning
by Nathaniel Swain
Hidden Potential
by Adam Grant
Homo Deus
by Yuval Noah Harari
How the World Really Works
by Vaclav Smil
How to Be Better at Almost Everything
by Pat Flynn
How to Take Smart Notes
by Sönke Ahrens
How We Learn
by Benedict Carey
Humankind
by Rutger Bregman
Learn Like a Pro
by Barbara Oakley & Olav Schewe
Limitless
by Jim Kwik
Made to Stick
by Chip & Dan Heath
Make It Stick
by Peter C. Brown, Henry L. Roediger, Mark A. McDaniel
Mastery
by Robert Greene
Merchants of Doubt
by Naomi Oreskes & Erik M. Conway
Mind Hacking
by John Hargrave
Mindstorms
by Seymour Papert
Moonwalking with Einstein
by Joshua Foer
Nexus
by Yuval Noah Harari
On The Edge
by Nate Silver
On the Shoulders of Giants
by Stephen Hawking
Peak
by Anders Ericsson & Robert Pool
Power of Ignored Skills
by Manoj Tripathi
Primal Intelligence
by Angus Fletcher
Range
by David Epstein
Reality Is Not What It Seems
by Carlo Rovelli
Right Kind of Wrong
by Amy C. Edmondson
Sapiens
by Yuval Noah Harari
Seven and a Half Lessons About the Brain
by Lisa Feldman Barrett
Six Easy Pieces
by Richard P. Feynman
Solve It!
by Dietmar Sternad
Speak With No Fear
by Mike Acker
Superforecasting
by Philip Tetlock & Dan Gardner
Superintelligence
by Nick Bostrom
Talent Is Overrated
by Geoffrey Colvin
The Alignment Problem
by Brian Christian
The Art of Learning
by Josh Waitzkin
The Art of Uncertainty
by David Spiegelhalter
The Balancing Act
by Dominic Wyse & Charlotte Hacking
The Better Angels of Our Nature
by Steven Pinker
The Checklist Manifesto
by Atul Gawande
The Coming Wave
by Mustafa Suleyman
The Courage to Teach
by Parker J. Palmer
The Extended Mind
by Annie Murphy Paul
The Fabric of Reality
by David Deutsch
The Fabric of the Cosmos
by Brian Greene
The First 20 Hours
by Josh Kaufman
The Future of the Mind
by Michio Kaku
The Good Ancestor
by Roman Krznaric
The Great Mental Models
by Shane Parrish
The Hidden Brain
by Shankar Vedantam
The Long View
by Richard Fisher
The Magic of Reality
by Richard Dawkins
The Math of Life & Death
by Kit Yates
The Personal MBA
by Josh Kaufman
The Power of Flexing
by Susan J. Ashford
The Power of Forgetting
by Mike Byster (with Kristin Loberg)
The Rubber Brain
by Dr. Sue Morris
The Science of Rapid Skill Acquisition
by Peter Hollins
The Talent Code
by Daniel Coyle
The Worldly Philosophers
by Robert L. Heilbroner
Thinking in Systems
by Donella H. Meadows
Thinking in Time
by Richard E. Neustadt & Ernest R. May
This Is Your Brain on Music
by Daniel J. Levitin
Two Paths to Prosperity
by Avner Greif, Joel Mokyr & Guido Tabellini
Ultralearning
by Scott H. Young
Who We Are and How We Got Here
by David Reich