Fil Aronshtein’s Recommended Reading

Fil Aronshtein’s recommended-reading list, posted on X (@FilArons) on November 16, 2025.

The books

23 books; ✓ marks the ones Kyle has read.

• 12 Rules for Life — Jordan Peterson
• Bronze Age Mindset — Bronze Age Pervert
• Build (Tony Fadell) — Tony Fadell
• Cyropaedia — Xenophon
• Factfulness — Hans Rosling, Ola Rosling & Anna Rosling Rönnlund
• Foundation — Isaac Asimov ✓
• Freedom’s Forge — Arthur Herman
• Great by Choice — Jim Collins & Morten T. Hansen
• High Growth Handbook — Elad Gil
• How Google Works — Eric Schmidt & Jonathan Rosenberg
• Measure What Matters — John Doerr ✓
• Pimp (Iceberg Slim) — Iceberg Slim (Robert Beck)
• Starting Strength — Mark Rippetoe
• The Art of the Deal — Donald J. Trump with Tony Schwartz
• The Courage To Be Disliked — Ichiro Kishimi, Fumitake Koga ✓
• The Fourth Turning (Strauss and Howe) — William Strauss & Neil Howe
• The Innovation Stack — Jim McKelvey
• The Mom Test — Rob Fitzpatrick
• The Strangest Man — Graham Farmelo
• The Titanium Economy — Asutosh Padhi, Gaurav Batra & Nick Santhanam
• The Universe Speaks in Numbers — Graham Farmelo
• What You Do Is Who You Are — Ben Horowitz
• Where Is My Flying Car — J. Storrs Hall

Connections

• Here is my book list… (tweet) — the original post, archived.
• Book Lists — Master