10/08/2026
McKinsey & Company just dropped their 2026 reading list 100 books recommended by global CEOs
I spent hours analyzing all of them and categorized them under Business, Artificial Intelligence, Personal Development, in part 1 Workplace Culture and Biography and Memoir, Politics and History in part 2 of this post so you don't have to.
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Personal Development
👉 The 5 Types of Wealth: A Transformative Guide to Design Your Dream... https://link.amazon/B09cjfsYC
👉 Die with Zero: Getting All You Can from Your Money and Your... — Bill Perkins https://link.amazon/B01XzJXxm
👉 Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals — Oliver Burkeman https://link.amazon/B08SsuEpK
👉 How to Not Know: The Value of Uncertainty in a World That... https://link.amazon/B09tTUP0Z
👉 How to Start: Discovering Your Life's Work — Jodi Kantor https://link.amazon/B05NI8dni
👉 Life in Three Dimensions: How Curiosity, Exploration, and Experience Make... https://link.amazon/B06ZqMuzy
👉 The Meaning of Your Life: Finding Purpose in an Age of Emptiness https://link.amazon/B03uGN668
👉 The Surrender Experiment: My Journey into Life's Perfection — Michael A. Singer https://link.amazon/B0bcRmUJu
👉What to Make of a Life: Cliffs, Fog, Fire and... https://link.amazon/B0aPWlnst
Business
👉Apple: The First 50 Years — David Pogue : https://link.amazon/B0f8PVcVe
👉The Art of Spending Money: Simple Choices for a Richer Life : https://link.amazon/B03GlTyxF
👉Ensh*ttification: Why Everything Suddenly Got Worse and What to Do About It : https://link.amazon/B02ktSz1O
👉The Fearless Organization: Creating Psychological Safety in the Workplace for Learning... https://link.amazon/B0667jXXZ
👉Hidden Potential: The Science of Achieving Greater Things — Adam Grant : https://link.amazon/B09HekaiD
👉Inside the Box: How Constraints Make Us Better — David Epstein : https://link.amazon/B01hTYhYL
👉Leadership: In Turbulent Times — Doris Kearns Goodwin : https://link.amazon/B07Uisnm4
👉The Listening Leader: How to Drive Performance by Using Communicative Leadership : https://link.amazon/B0ePPSfGA
👉The Origins of Efficiency — Brian Potter : https://link.amazon/B03E9umUp
👉The Unaccountability Machine: Why Big Systems Make Terrible Decisions—and How... https://link.amazon/B0bst1G8t
Artificial Intelligence
👉 AI for Good: How Real People Are Using Artificial Intelligence to Fix Things That Matter — Josh Tyrangiel : https://link.amazon/B0eCjJv0N
👉Birds Up Close: An Engineer Explores Their Hidden Wonders — Lorna Gibson : https://link.amazon/B0cxD7wMk
👉A Brief History of Intelligence: Evolution, AI, and the Five Breakthroughs That Made Our Brains — Max Bennett : https://link.amazon/B0eJgohUQ
👉The Coming Wave: AI, Power, and Our Future — Mustafa Suleyman with Michael Bhaskar : https://link.amazon/B05cPU9BY
👉Human Magic: Leading with Wisdom in an Age of Algorithms — Johan Roos : https://link.amazon/B02T12AoN
👉Human Raised: Nurturing Connection, Curiosity & Lifelong Learning in the Age... : https://link.amazon/B0c1R9tt6
👉I Am Not a Robot: My Year Using AI to Do... : https://link.amazon/B02RQkCgS
👉The Infinity Machine: Demis Hassabis, DeepMind, and the Quest for... https://link.amazon/B0j7XwnF7
👉Prophecy: Prediction, Power, and the Fight for the Future... https://link.amazon/B03x1DG4t
👉Rewired: How Leading Companies Win with Technology and AI — Eric Lamarre, et al. : https://link.amazon/B0cGBGVmT
👉Supremacy: AI, ChatGPT, and the Race That Will Change the World https://link.amazon/B0gcSlvHQ
Biography and Memoir
All the Beauty in the World: The Metropolitan Museum of Art and... https://link.amazon/B06VGiMF2
A Beginner's Guide to Dying — Simon Boas https://link.amazon/B048zJGu7
Big Fan: Two Friends, 82,490 Miles, and the Wild... https://link.amazon/B03oIvqkx
The Black Family Who Built America: The McKissacks, Two Centuries of... https://link.amazon/B0aYaLbyy
Born of This Land: My Life Story — Chung Ju-yung https://link.amazon/B0fM6fvsY
Daughters of the Bamboo Grove: From China to America, a True... https://link.amazon/B064UIHUc
A Different Kind of Power — Jacinda Ardern https://link.amazon/B0iTGbOVQ
Famesick — Lena Dunham https://link.amazon/B0gMBB1VM
From Third World to First: The Singapore Story: 1965–2000 — Lee Kuan Yew https://link.amazon/B0g3ckYJW
Gender Q***r — Maia Kobabe https://link.amazon/B0afJIaCu
God, Human, Animal, Machine: Technology, Metaphor, and... https://link.amazon/B05uoE6ka
Making It Big: Lessons from a Life in Business — Femi Otedola https://link.amazon/B055joLIu
Nelson: A Personal History — Christopher Hibbert https://link.amazon/B03lAJzUe
An Odyssey: A Father, a Son, and an Epic https://link.amazon/B0cLQLFRn
Oh My Mother!: A Memoir in Nine Adventures — Connie Wang https://link.amazon/B00KRRMni
Raising Hare — Chloe Dalton https://link.amazon/B04NrdOlT
Rough Sleepers: Dr. Jim O'Connell's Urgent Mission to Bring... https://link.amazon/B0crXZC2H
Thank You, Teachers: True Stories from America's Teachers, Our Last... https://link.amazon/B01CleeRT
What Could Possibly Go Right?: The Essential Journey to Scale an... https://link.amazon/B09DEzxNR
The Years — Annie Ernaux (trans. Alison L. Strayer) https://link.amazon/B03BCAeKP
Workplace Culture
👉 The Mission Generation: Reclaim Your Purpose, Rewrite Success, Rebuild Our... https://link.amazon/B05JPNEkr
👉Mission Ready: How to Build Teams That Perform Under Pressure — Lindy https://link.amazon/B05DJHovm
👉 The Mission Generation: Reclaim Your Purpose, Rewrite Success, Rebuild Our... https://link.amazon/B05JPNEkr
Health
The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Is Causing an... — Jonathan Haidt : https://link.amazon/B07HQrAPn
Models of the Mind: How Physics, Engineering and Mathematics Have Shaped... : https://link.amazon/B07TlaGwN
The Parkinson's Plan: A New Path to Prevention and Treatment — Ray : https://link.amazon/B08xkccfv
Replaceable You: Adventures in Human Anatomy — Mary Roach https://link.amazon/B0fHvIie1
Up to Speed: The Groundbreaking Science of Women Athletes — Christine Yu https://link.amazon/B0bCd4wHO
History
1929: Inside the Greatest Crash in Wall Street History—and How... https://link.amazon/B0j3TpRyy
An African History of Africa: From the Dawn of Humanity to Independence https://link.amazon/B0aQI1KL7
The Boundless Deep: Young Tennyson, Science and the Crisis of Belief https://link.amazon/B05gASLZo
The British Are Coming: The War for America, Lexington to Princeton https://link.amazon/B08YnS0Vp
Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage — Alfred Lansing https://link.amazon/B0eong7ss
Freedom's Forge: How American Business Produced Victory in World War II https://link.amazon/B08VSPbRr
An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States — Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz https://link.amazon/B09sKuKah
King of Kings: The Iranian Revolution; A Story of Hubris... https://link.amazon/B0eZqJVX9
London Falling: A Mysterious Death in a Gilded City and a Family's... https://link.amazon/B0j90I3bQ
The Singing Word: 168 Years of Atlantic Poetry — Walt Hunter https://link.amazon/B0iRxD41h
Thinking Historically: A Guide to Statecraft and Strategy — Francis J. https://link.amazon/B0h4HYIUl
The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration — Isabel Wilkerson
Politics https://link.amazon/B0hfuAADv
The Accidental Superpower: Ten Years On — Peter Zeihan https://link.amazon/B05JcwleN
The Avoidable War: The Dangers of a Catastrophic Conflict Between the US... — Kevin Rudd https://link.amazon/B0dLZI3M9
Breakneck: China's Quest to Engineer the Future — Dan Wang https://link.amazon/B0cxANWBA
Capitalism, Socialism, and Democracy (Third Edition) — Joseph A. Schumpeter https://link.amazon/B0fnfl8gb
A Century of Plenty: A Story of Progress for Generations to Come https://link.amazon/B0fDCkKsb
Destined for War: Can America and China Escape Thucydides's Trap? — Graham Allison https://link.amazon/B02flqFJW
The Invisible People: How a Quarter of Humanity Can Thrive in Africa https://link.amazon/B09OZbrwg
Sovereign Funds: How the Communist Party of China Finances Its Global Ambitions https://link.amazon/B0fmtW5qd
Standing Firm for Indonesia's Democracy: An Oral History of President Susilo Bambang... https://link.amazon/B091jD7N4
Who Is the City For?: Architecture, Equity, and the... https://link.amazon/B02QGlP6R
Why Nothing Works: Who Killed Progress—and How to Bring It... https://link.amazon/B056WHx8e
Sustainability
The High Frontier: Human Colonies in Space — Gerard K. O'Neill https://link.amazon/B01vnYeWl
The Underworld: Journeys to the Depths of the Ocean — Susan Casey https://link.amazon/B0iSQFtnI
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