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The reading ledger · 2026

Books I read in 2026.

I read 67 books this year, mostly on strategy, innovation, systems, finance, and operations. Four were rereads, and I’ve marked them below.

Edition 2026 Strategy · Systems · Capital
Total
67
Read
63
Reread
04

All 67 books

The complete list.

Read ↻ Reread / repeatedly studied
  1. Zero to One

    ↻ Reread
  2. The Beginning of Infinity

    ↻ Reread
  3. The Innovator’s Dilemma

    Read
  4. The Innovator’s Solution

    Read
  5. The Innovator’s Prescription

    Read
  6. Competing Against Luck

    Read
  7. Blue Ocean Strategy

    ↻ Reread
  8. 7 Powers

    ↻ Reread
  9. Understanding Michael Porter

    Read
  10. Competitive Strategy

    Read
  11. Competitive Advantage

    Read
  12. Economics of Strategy

    Read
  13. Competition Demystified

    Read
  14. Increasing Returns and Path Dependence in the Economy

    Read
  15. Crossing the Chasm

    Read
  16. Inside the Tornado

    Read
  17. Positioning

    Read
  18. Obviously Awesome

    Read
  19. The Right It

    Read
  20. The Mom Test

    Read
  21. Monetizing Innovation

    Read
  22. Thinking in Systems

    Read
  23. The Goal

    Read
  24. The Crux

    Read
  25. Design Rules, Volume 1

    Read
  26. Only the Paranoid Survive

    Read
  27. The Nature of Technology

    Read
  28. The Four Steps to the Epiphany

    Read
  29. Sam Walton: Made in America

    Read
  30. The Everything Store

    Read
  31. Principles

    Read
  32. The Hard Thing About Hard Things

    Read
  33. Good to Great

    Read
  34. Thinking, Fast and Slow

    Read
  35. The Black Swan

    Read
  36. Titan

    Read
  37. Play Bigger

    Read
  38. Beyond Disruption

    Read
  39. Antifragile

    Read
  40. Valuation: Measuring and Managing the Value of Companies

    Read
  41. Principles of Corporate Finance

    Read
  42. Financial Statement Analysis and Security Valuation

    Read
  43. Factory Physics

    Read
  44. System Architecture

    Read
  45. Business Dynamics

    Read
  46. Managerial Economics and Organizational Architecture

    Read
  47. Investment Under Uncertainty

    Read
  48. Good Strategy/Bad Strategy

    Read
  49. The Wide Lens

    Read
  50. Economics, Organization, and Management

    Read
  51. Strategy and Structure

    Read
  52. Information Rules

    Read
  53. Technological Revolutions and Financial Capital

    Read
  54. The Origin of Wealth

    Read
  55. Diffusion of Innovations

    Read
  56. Capital Returns

    Read
  57. The Outsiders

    Read
  58. High Output Management

    Read
  59. The Principles of Product Development Flow

    Read
  60. Supply Chain Management: Strategy, Planning, and Operation

    Read
  61. Horngren’s Cost Accounting

    Read
  62. Investments

    Read
  63. Applied Corporate Finance

    Read
  64. Venture Capital and the Finance of Innovation

    Read
  65. Investment Banking

    Read
  66. Project Finance in Theory and Practice

    Read
  67. Industrial Organization: Markets and Strategies

    Read

A note

The subjects overlap more than they first appear. Strategy depends on technology, operations, organization, and capital, which is why I tend to read across all of them.

See the rest of my reading lists