Last update: April 24th, 2025
Throughout my life, books have been instrumental in shaping my worldview, strategic thinking, and deep understanding of human nature. I real all kind of books, but I have a strong appetite for essays and philosophy more than fiction.
Here is a curated collection of a few books I could really recommend you, divided into key categories:
Intelligence and strategy
- The Art of War by Sun Tzu
- How Spies Think: Ten Lessons in Intelligence by David Omand
- Psychology of Intelligence Analysis by Richards J. Heuer Jr.
- Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion by Robert B. Cialdini
- Les nouveaux rapports de la CIA by Alexandre Adler
- Petit guide de contre manipulation by Christophe Caupenne
- Never Split the Difference by Chris Voss
Human behavior and psychology
- The 48 Laws of Power by Robert Greene
- How to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie
- The Art of Being Right by Arthur Schopenhauer
- Emotional Intelligence by Daniel Goleman
- The Totalitarian System by Hannah Arendt
- L'existentialisme est un humanisme by Jean-Paul Sartre
Politics, history, sociology...
- The Prince by Niccolò Machiavelli
- On War by Carl von Clausewitz
- Orientalism by Edward W. Said
- The Clash of Civilizations by Samuel P. Huntington
- Diplomacy by Henry Kissinger
- Democracy in America by Alexis de Tocqueville
- 21 Lessons for the 21st Century by Yuval Noah Harari
- The Open Society and Its Enemies by Karl Popper
- Reflections on the Jewish Question by Jean-Paul Sartre
- The Jewish War by Flavius Josephus
- The Tyranny of Communication by Ignacio Ramonet
- The New Watchdogs by Serge Halimi
Philosophy and thoughts
- Meditations by Marcus Aurelius
- Thus Spoke Zarathustra by Friedrich Nietzsche
- The Structure of Scientific Revolutions by Thomas S. Kuhn
- Leviathan, by Thomas Hobbes
- Ethics by Baruch Spinoza
- The Social Contract by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
- Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant
- Totality and Infinity by Emmanuel Levinas
- The Capital by Karl Marx
- Essays by Michel de Montaigne
- The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism by Max Weber
- The Second Sex by Simone de Beauvoir
- Discipline and Punish by Michel Foucault
- The Republic by Plato
- Dream by Henri Bergson
Literature
- 1984 by George Orwell
- Animal Farm by George Orwell
- Solal by Albert Cohen
- Book of My Mother by Albert Cohen
- Words by Jean-Paul Sartre
- Man's Fate by André Malraux
- Froth on the Daydream by Boris Vian
- Persian Letters by Montesquieu
- The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Personal development and business
- Principles by Ray Dalio
- Atomic Habits by James Clear
- The Almanack of Naval Ravikant by Eric Jorgenson
- Deep Work by Cal Newport
- Start with Why by Simon Sinek
- Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill
Each of these books has provided me invaluable insights, critical perspectives, and essential frameworks that continue to guide my personal and professional journey.