Looking for a good book to read? Always interested to take on new perspectives and concepts? Like to think (or be confronted with) out-of-the-box thinking? Not interested in books >500 pages? Then this (so far very short list...) could be just right for you =)

1. Manu‘s favourite books

2. The 4-Hour Body
Topics
• Lose Fat, gain muscles
• Improve Sleep, Sex, Endurance…
• All kind of nice tools and tips =)
Why you should read it
• Very interesting perspectives
• New concepts for all kind of stuff
• Strong out-of-the-box-thinking
• Actually really saving time and
efforts ;-)

3. The Unincorporated Man
Topics
• Crowd-based, income-contingent
loans (in extremis…)
• Government vs Market
• New technologies & their effects
Why you should read it
• Opens up new paradigm(s)
• New perspective on current
world
• An awesome lot of concepts
worth to be thought trough…
• Very enjoable story anyways…

4. The Art of clear thinking („Die Kunst
des klaren Denkens…/ Handelns)
Topics
• Thinking traps…
• …and how to avoid them
• How our brain works…
Why you should read it
• Improve clear thinking
• Very diverting to read (52 x +/- 3
pages per concept)
• Complex concepts easily
explained
• Wide range of applicability

5. Makers
Topics
• 3rd industrial revolution
• 3D-printing, CAD, CNC
• DIY-Entrepreneurship, Crowd-x
Why you should read it
• Some of the most interesting
business trends depicted,
explained and thought further on
<250 pages
• Encouragement to get
entrepreneurially active =)

6. Parkinson‘s Law
Topics
• Deadlines as inspiration
• Resource needs in-/decrease with
availability
• …
Why you should read it
• Very interesting concept(s) =)
• Help to increase productivity

7. The 4-Hour Workweek
Topics
• Increase productivity
• Ways out of 9-5 thinking
• Focus on outcomes, not input
• Tips and Tricks on how to realize
the things above…
Why you should read it
• Well, 4h would be nice right? ;-)
• Interesting food for thought
• Inspiration to become an
entrepreneur =)