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Best Non-Fiction Books to Read: The Club: How The English Premier League Became the Richest, Most Disruptive Force in Sports (Joshua Robinson and Jonathan Clegg)
Soccer is not my preferred sport of choice to watch or play, but it is undeniably the most popular sport in the world. The Premier League is the highest professional soccer league in England, and it is one of, if not THE biggest soccer league in the world. It comprises of 20 teams at a…
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Best Non-Fiction Books to Read: Super Founders: What Data Reveals About Billion-Dollar Startups (Ali Tamaseb)
Super Founders is not a book that will teach you how to create a billion dollar company, but rather a book that gives statistics on how past billion dollar companies have been founded. Throughout Super Founders, there are some interesting tidbits on billion dollar companies. I think that the author, Ali Tamaseb, does a good…
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Best Non-Fiction Books to Read: No Filter (Sarah Frier)
Instagram is one of the most recognizable platforms in the world, but a lot of its history is unknown to a lot of people. In the book No Filter, author Sarah Frier takes us behind the scenes about Instagram’s rise from a super small company to becoming part of Facebook, before eventually becoming the social…
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Best Non-Fiction Books to Read: The Fish that Ate the Whale: The Life and Times of America’s Banana King
The banana industry may seem like relatively mundane, but there is actually a lot of history and drama. Although my uncle works in the banana industry in Japan, I do not know a lot about it, so reading The Fish that Ate the Whale was an informative read. The Fish that Ate the Whale talks…
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Best Non-Fiction Books to Read: The Match: The Day the Game of Golf Changed Forever (Mark Frost)
The Match: The Day the Game of Golf Changed Forever is a book written by famous sports author Mark Frost. While it may seem dull to read a book about golf (especially if you are not interested in it), Frost is such a great writer that he makes the book both factual and entertaining to…
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Best Non-Fiction Books to Read: Vanderbilt: The Rise and Fall of an American Dynasty
Anderson Cooper is best known for his reporting work for CNN and CBS, but one lesser known fact about him (or at least I wasn’t super aware of) is that his mother was a descendent of the legendary Vanderbilt family. The Vanderbilt family is one that carries a lot of weight in American history, and…
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Best Non-Fiction Books to Read: The Pumpkin Plan (Mike Michalowicz)
The Pumpkin Plan is a business book written by Mike Michalowicz about how to grow and build successful businesses. Like many business books, I think that the book is repetitive and could definitely do without so many anecdotes. However, this does not mean the book is not worth reading (feel free to skip parts if…
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Best Non-Fiction Books to Read: The Undoing Project (Michael Lewis)
Michael Lewis is a famous author that I have mentioned before with Flash Boys, but he is also famous for other books such as The Blind Side and Moneyball. One of Lewis’ other books is The Undoing Project, which is a story about the relationship of Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky. Kahneman and Tversky are…
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Best Non-Fiction Books to Read: Giannis The Improbable Rise of an NBA MVP (Mirin Fader)
As a basketball and NBA fan, I already knew a ton about Giannis and his background (one of the reasons I previously recommended watching the YouTube video “Finding Giannis“). There is a new book by Mirin Fader called “Giannis: The Improbable Rise of an NBA MVP” that I found one of the most captivating and…
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