5 books I'm reading this month

2026-01-08 · Short · Ali · recording, 0:46 · watch on YouTube

Topic: Books and reading · mode: Review and recommendation · tags: Lesson from a book

Ali lists the five books he is reading in January 2026: Morgan Housel's The Art of Spending Money, Pierce Brown's Dark Age from the Red Rising series, I Am That by Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj and Rupert Spira's You Are the Happiness You Seek as bedtime reading, and Scott Galloway's Notes on Being a Man.

What is said

The parts of the video and what is said in each (★ — how much it matters to the video).

00:00:00 — Five books he is reading this month

★★ Ali has picked up Morgan Housel's new book The Art of Spending Money because he loved Housel's first book, The Psychology of Money, and is about 30% of the way through. — 00:00:00
★ Ali is reading Dark Age by Pierce Brown, which he believes is book five of the Red Rising series, and finds it really good. (hedged) — 00:00:00
★★ Ali calls Pierce Brown's Red Rising series absolutely amazing and says he has been recommending it to everyone he meets. — 00:00:00
★★ Ali's bedtime reading alternates between two spirituality books: I Am That, the talks with Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj, and Rupert Spira's You Are the Happiness You Seek, which his Kindle says he is 34% through. — 00:00:00 · Kindle
★ Ali has just got Scott Galloway's Notes on Being a Man on Kindle and is delighted to dive into it. — 00:00:29 · Kindle

Mentioned

Central: Dark Age · I Am That · Notes on Being a Man · The Art of Spending Money · You Are the Happiness You Seek

Also: Kindle · Morgan Housel · Pierce Brown · Red Rising · Rupert Spira · Scott Galloway · Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj · The Psychology of Money

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