Cindy Hao

bookshelf.

reading

In typical ADHD fashion, I'm usually juggling between books

  • Storyworthy — Matthew Dicks
  • Unreasonable Hospitality — Will Guidara
  • Stories that Stick — Kindra Hall

want to read

  • Win Every Argument — Mehdi Hasan
  • Misbehaving: The Making of Behavioral Economics — Richard Thaler

finished

repeat read / favorite

  • How to Know a Person — David Brooks
  • Start with Why — Simon Sinek
  • The Fearless Organization — Amy Edmondson
  • The Glass Castle — Jeannette Walls
  • The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People — Stephen Covey
  • Crucial Conversations — Joseph Grenny, Kerry Patterson, Al Switzler, Ron McMillan
  • Moneyball — Michael Lewis
  • Humor, Seriously — Jennifer Aaker & Naomi Bagdonas
  • Radical Candor — Kim Scott
  • The Biggest Bluff — Maria Konnikova
  • Atlas of the Heart — Brené Brown
  • Becoming — Michelle Obama
  • Bad Blood — John Carreyrou
  • Greenlights — Matthew McConaughey
  • When Breath Becomes Air — Paul Kalanithi
  • Pitch Perfect — Bill McGowan
  • Originals — Adam Grant
  • The Fuck It Diet — Caroline Dooner
  • Everything Is F*cked — Mark Manson
  • Never Split the Difference — Chris Voss
  • Super Pumped — Mike Isaac
  • Delivering Happiness — Tony Hsieh
  • The Culture Code — Daniel Coyle
  • Give & Take — Adam Grant
  • Dare to Lead — Brené Brown
  • Leaders Eat Last — Simon Sinek
  • Lean In — Sheryl Sandberg
  • Sell It Like Serhant — Ryan Serhant
  • Die with Zero — Bill Perkins (the only book I’ve gifted)
  • Plays Well with Others — Eric Barker
  • Magic Words — Jonah Berger
  • I'm Glad My Mom Died — Jennette McCurdy
  • Don't Trust Your Gut — Seth Stephens-Davidowitz
  • Everybody Lies — Seth Stephens-Davidowitz
  • Algorithms to Live By — Brian Christian & Tom Griffiths
  • Grit – Angela Duckworth
  • Black Edge — Sheelah Kolhatkar
  • Attached — Amir Levine & Rachel Heller
  • The Power of Regret — Daniel H. Pink
  • The Art of Gathering — Priya Parker
  • The Almanack of Naval Ravikant — Eric Jorgenson
  • Strangers: A Memoir of Marriage — Belle Burden

abandoned

Things I tried to read but could not get through. Fighting the sunk cost fallacy

  • Lessons in Chemistry — Bonnie Garmus (Got bored)
  • Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow — Gabrielle Zevin (Got bored)
  • Unleashed — Frances Frei & Anne Morriss (Listened to a couple podcasts to get the gist of their work instead)
  • To Sell Is Human — Daniel Pink (Felt diminishing marginal returns reading the book)
  • Trick Mirror — Jia Tolentino (Only skimmed through a few chapters)
  • An American Sickness — Elisabeth Rosenthal (Not that interested in healthcare)