Reading List

2017 Book A Week 59 Total - Top 5 in Bold

How To Win Friends & Influence People by Dale Carnegie


Money Master The Game by Tony Robbins


Zero To One by Peter Thiel


On The Shortness of Life by Seneca


The Millionaire Next Door by Thomas Stanley


Speak: So Your Audience Will Listen by Robin Kermode


Mindset by Carol Dweck


Competing Against Luck by Clayton Christiansen


The Life Changing Magic of Tidying Up by Marie Kondo


Crush It by Gary Vaynerchuck


Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harari


How Will You Measure Your Life? by Clayton Christiansen


The Magic of Thinking Big by David Schwartz


The Dip by Seth Godin


Tribes: We Need You to Lead Us by Seth Godin


Fooled By Randomness by Nassim Nicholas Taleb


The Signal and the Noise by Nate Silver


Stealing Fire by Steven Kotler & Jamie Wheal


Predictably Irrational by Dan Ariely


Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman


Free: The Future of a Radical Price by Chris Anderson


The Black Swan by Nassim Nicholas Taleb


Nudge by Richard Thaler & Cass Sunstein


How Toddlers Thrive by Tovah Klein


Superforecasting by Philip Tetlock & Dan Gardner


Scrum by Jeff Sutherland


The Checklist Manifesto by Atul Gawande


The Untethered Soul by Michael Singer


The Willpower Instinct by Kelly McGonigal


The Way of the Seal by Mark Divine


Perennial Seller by Ryan Holiday


A More Powerful Question by Warren Berger


Eleven Rings: The Soul of Success by Phil Jackson


Deep Work by Cal Newport


Barking up The Wrong Tree by Eric Barker


Where are the customers' yachts? by Fred Schwed


A Universe From Nothing by Lawrence Krauss


Why Buddhism Is True by Robert Wright


The Effective Executive by Peter Drucker


Angel: How to Invest in Technology Startups by Jason Calacanis


The Dao of Capital by Mark Spitzngel & Ron Paul


The Greatest Story Ever Told So Far by Lawrence Krauss


Principles: Life and Work by Ray Dalio


Scale by Geoffrey West


Everybody Lies:  Big Data, New Data by Seth Stephens-Davidowitz


The Four Seasons of Marriage by Gary Chapman


Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder by Nassim Nicholas Taleb


Dollars & Sense by Dan Ariely


Standard Deviations by Gary Smith


48 Laws of Power by Robert Greene


A Man for All Markets by Edward Thorp


The One Thing by Gary Keller


First, Break All the Rules by Marcus Buckingham


Goodbye, Things by Fumio Sasaki


Radical Candor by Kim Scott


Peak by Anders Ericsson & Robert Pool


Solve For Happy by Mo Gawdat


Head Strong by Dave Asprey


The Sports Gene by David Epstein


2018 Book A Week 57 Total - Top 5 in Bold

The Book of Joy by Dalai Lama & Desmond Tutu

A Short History of Nearly Everything by Richard Matthews

Homo Deus by Yuval Noah Harari

Lead with a Story by Paul Smith

The Case Against Sugar by Gary Taubes

The Marshmallow Test by Walter Mischel

Chaos Monkeys by Antonio Garcia Martinez

The Intelligent Investor by Benjamin Graham

Mastery by Robert Greene

When by Daniel Pink

The 50th Law by Robert Greene

The Rise of Superman by Steven Kotler

The Goal by Eliyahu Goldratt

Skin In The Game by Nassim Nicholas Taleb

The Coaching Habit by Michael Bungay Stanier

The Motivation Myth by Jeff Haden

The Total Money Makeover by Dave Ramsey

I Don't Have Enough Faith to be an Athiest by Norman Geisler

Brain Maker by Michael Pullmutter

Endure by Alex Hutchinson

The Culture Code by Daniel Coyle

The Power of Moments by Chip Heath

Thinking in Bets by Annie Duke

Living with a Seal by Jesse Itzler

Adaptive Markets by Andrew Lo

Genius Foods by Max Lugavere

What is Real? by Adam Becker

Measure What Matters by John Doerr

The Square and the Tower by Niall Ferguson

Life 3.0 by Max Tegmark

Our Mathematical Universe by Max Tegmark

Bad Blood by John Carreyrou

The Righteous Mind by Jonathan Haidt

You Are Now Less Dumb by David McRaney

The Power of Purpose by Les Brown

The Etymologicon by Mark Forsyth

The Order of Time by Carlo Rovelli

The Dictator's Handbook by Bruce Bueno de Misquita

College UnBound by Jeffrey Selingo

Make It Stick by Peter Brown

The Hero with a Thousand Faces by Joseph Campbell

Conspiracy: Peter Thiel, Hulk Hogan, Gawker by Ryan Holiday

21 Lessons for the 21st Century by Yuval Noah Harari

The Coddling of the American Mind by Jonathan Haidt

On Grand Strategy by John Lewis Gaddis

Unbeatable Mind by Mark Divine

12 Rules for Life by Jordan Peterson

Enlightenment Now by Steven Pinker

Flow by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

Team of Teams by General Stanley McChrystal

Atomic Habits by James Clear

Popular by Mitch Prinstein

Blitzscaling by Reid Hoffman

This is Marketing by Seth Godin

The Innovator's Dilemma by Clayton Christiansen

To Sell is Human by Daniel Pink

Made to Stick by Chip Heath


2019 Book A Week 54 Total - Top 5 in Bold

The Better Angels of our Nature by Steven Pinker

The Advantage by Patrick Lencioni

The Year of Less by Cait Flanders

The Art of the Argument by Stefan Molyneux

Your Money or Your Life by Vicki Robin

Braving the Wilderness by Brene Brown

The Happiness Hypothesis by Jonathan Haidt

Free Range Kids by Lenore Skenazy

Can't Hurt Me by David Goggins

The Big Leap by Gay Hendricks

The Charisma Myth by Olivia Fox Cabane

Born to Run by Christopher McDougall

Factfulness by Hans Rosling

Moonshots by Naveen Jain

Dare to Lead by Brene Brown

Relentless by Tim Grover

Why Are All The Black Kids Sitting Together In the Cafeteria? by Beverly Daniel Tatum

Why Nations Fail by Daron Acemoglu

Tribe: On homecoming and Belonging by Sebastian Junger

Great at Work:  How Top Performers Work Less and Achieve More by Morten Hansen

The Laws of Human Nature by Robert Greene

Superintelligence by Nick Bostrom

The Self-Driven Child by Ned Johnson

Game Changers by Dave Asprey

Captivate by Vanessa Van Edwards

The Gulag Archipeligo by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Trillion Dollar Coach by Eric Schmidt, Jonathan Rosenberg, and Alan Eagle

Decisive by Dan Heath & Chip Heath

Traction by Gino Wickman

A Random Walk Down Wall Street by Burton Malkiel

The Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins

The Third Door by Alex Banayan

How to Change Your Mind by Michael Pollan

Alchemy by Rory Sutherland

The Talent Code by Daniel Coyle

Extreme Ownership by Jocko Willink

Talking to Strangers by Malcolm Gladwell

Influence by Robert Cialdini

The 33 Strategies of War by Robert Greene

Ultralearning by Scott Young

What You Do Is Who You Are by Ben Horowitz

7 Habits of Highly Effective People by Stephen Covey

Loserthink by Scott Adams

Moonwalking with Einstein by Joshua Foer

The Infinite Game by Simon Sinek

Flip the Script by Oren Klaff

The Case Against Socialism by Rand Paul

Stillness is the Key by Ryan Holiday

The Man Who Solved the Market by Gregory Zuckerman

Quiet by Susan Cain

Smart People Should Build Things by Andrew Yang

The War of Art by Steven Pressfield

The Source by Tara Swart

Being Mortal by Atul Gawande


2020 Book A Week 91 Total - Top 5 in Bold

VC by Tom Nicholas

Leap First by Seth Godin

Raising Men by Eric Davis & Dina Santorelli

Never Split the Difference by Chris Voss

The Four Obsessions of an Extraordinary Executive by Patrick Lencioni

Unfu*k Yourself by Gary John Bishop

Super Human by Dave Asprey

Range by David Epstein

Lost Connections by Johann Hari

The 5 Second Rule by Mel Robbins

Leadership Strategy and Tactics by Jocko Willink

The Moral Landscape by Sam Harris

The Future is Faster Than You Think by Steven Kotler & Peter Diamandis

Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products by Ryan Hoover & Nir Eyal

The Madness of Crowds by Douglas Murray

Fascism by Madeleine Albright

Reboot by Jerry Colonna

Prediction Machines by Avi Goldfarb, Ajay Agrawal & Joshua Gans

Dream Teams by Shane Snow

Black Privilege by Charlamagne tha God

It Takes What it Takes by Trevor Moawad

Upstream by Dan Heath

The Four Agreements by Don Miguel Ruiz

Indistractable by Julie Li

Winners Take All by Anand Giridharadas

Profit First by Mike Michalowicz

Don't Burn This Book by Dave Rubin

The Power of Now by Echkart Tolle

Free Will by Sam Harris

Civilized to Death by Christopher Ryan

Hustle Harder, Hustle Smarter by Curtis Jackson

Caffiene by Michael Pollan

The Courage to Be Disliked by Ichiro Kishimi & Fumitake Koga

Dad is Fat by Jim Gaffigan

I Can't Make This Up by Kevin Hart

The Way I Heard It by Mike Rowe

The Richest Man in Babylon by George Clason

Kingonomics by Rodney Sampson

When the Wolves Bite by Scott Wapner

Unified by Tim Scott & Trey Gowdy

The Third Wave by Alvin Toffler

Stop Doing That Sh*t by Gary John Bishop

Hate Inc by Matt Taibbi

How to Have Impossible Conversations by James Lindsay & Peter Boghossian

How to Be an Antiracist by Ibram X Kendi

Stamped from the Beginning by Ibram X Kendi

Acid for the Children by Flea

Cooked by Michael Pollan

Across That Bridge by John Lewis

Fear by Thich Nhat Hanh

The Alter Ego Effect by Todd Herman

The Achievement Habit by Bernard Roth

Breath by James Nestor

Living in Flow by Sky Nelson-Isaacs

The Money Tree by Chris Guillebeau

The Budda and the Badass by Vishen Lakhiani

In Defense of Food by Michael Pollan

Rage by Bob Woodward

Grain Brain by David Perlmutter & Kristin Loberg

Based on a True Story by Norm MacDonald

How to Destroy America in Three Easy Steps by Ben Shapiro

The Courage to Be Happy by Ichiro Kishimi & Fumitake Koga

The Five Dysfunctions of a Team by Patrick Lencioni

The Starfish and the Spider by Ori Brafman & Rod Beckstrom

Essentialism by Greg McKeown

Stretch by Scott Sonenshein

Entrepreneurial Leap by Gino Wickman

No Rules Rules by Reed Hastings & Erin Meyer

Elon Musk:  Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future by Ashlee Vance

12 Pillars by Jim Rohn

Freed to Lead by Dredd & OBT

Curios by Ian Leslie

Salt Sugar Fat by Michael Moss

The Law by Frederic Bastiat

Talk Like Ted by Carmine Gallo

The Happiness Advantage by Shawn Achor

Shoe Dog by Phil Knight

10% Happier by Dan Harris

Greenlights by Matthew McConaughey

What the Dog Saw by Malcolm Gladwell

Is This Anything? by Jerry Seinfeld

Think Like a Monk by Jay Shetty

Why We Sleep by Matthew Walker

Caste by Isabel Wilkerson

Waking Up by Sam Harris

The Second Mountain by David Brooks

Blueprint by Nicholas Christakis

Mere Christianity by C.S. Lewis

Turning Pro by Steven Pressfield

Lives of the Stoics by Ryan Holiday & Stephen Hanselman

A Field Guide to a Happy Life by Massimo Pigliucci


2021 Book A Week  59 Total - Top 5 in Bold

The Road to Character by David Brooks

Life of the Party by Bert Kreischer

Willpower Doesn't Work by Benjamin Hardy

The Grand Design by Stephen Hawking & Leonard Mlodinow

The Complete Book of Five Rings by Miyamoto Musashi

The Seven Decisions by Andy Andrews

Grateful American by Gary Sinise & Marcus Brotherton

The Simple Path to Wealth by JL Collins

Nonviolent Communication by Marshall Rosenberg

NurtureShock by Po Bronson & Ashley Merryman

The Innovation Stack by Jim McKelvey

Make Elephants Fly by Steven Hoffman

Spark by John Ratey

The Rational Optimist by Matt Ridley

Secrets of the Millionaire Mind by T. Harv Eker

The 5 Levels of Leadership by John C Maxwell

The 1-Page Marketing Plan by Allan Dib

Home Service Millionaire by Tommy Mello

Morality by Johnathan Sacks

The Power of Vulnerability by Brene Brown

A Runner's High by Dean Karnazes

Tao Te Ching by Lao Tzu (John Minford translation)

That Will Never Work by Marc Randolph

The Book on Rental Property Investing by Brandon Turner

What Money Can't Buy by Michael J Sandel

The Quick Fix by Jesse Singal

Future Proofing You by Jay Samit

Change Your World by John C Maxwell

The Upswing by Robert Putnam

The Hidden Spring by Mark Solms

Science Fictions by Stuart Ritchie

Pappyland by Wright Thompson

Blackout by Candace Owens & Larry Elder

Hard Times Create Hard Men by Stefan Aarnio

Bowling Alone by Robert Putnam

Heroes by Stephen Fry

The Forgetting Machine by Rodrigo Quian Quiroga

A Guide to the Good Life by William B. Irvine

Breathe by Rickson Gracie & Peter Maguire

The Boys in the Boat by Daniel James Brown

Think Again by Adam Grant

The Storyteller by Dave Grohl

The Almanack of Naval Ravikant by Eric Jorgenson

Decoding Greatness by Ron Friedman

Storynomics by Robert McKee & Thomas Gerace

Wanting by Luke Burgis

The Infinite Machine by Camila Russo

Four Thousand Weeks by Oliver Burkeman

Black Rednecks and White Liberals by Thomas Sowell

No Shortcuts to the Top by Ed Veirsturs

Masters of Scale by Reid Hoffman

Your Next Five Moves by Patrick David-Bet

Sacrifice by Rene Girard

The Education of a Coach by David Halberstam

Winnning by Tim Grover

Beyond Order by Jordan Peterson

Into Thin Air by Jon Krakauer

Skip The Line by James Altucher

The Comfort Crisis by Michael Easter


2022 Book A Week 79 Total - Top 5 in Bold

Fingerprints of the Gods by Graham Hancock

Principles for Dealing With the Changing World Order by Ray Dalio

Freedom by Sebastian Junger

Will by Will Smith & Mark Manson

Building a StoryBrand by Donald Miller

Where Men Win Glory by Jon Krakauer

KG A to Z by Kevin Garnett

Duct Tape Marketing by John Jantsch

Blue Like Jazz by Donald Miller

Magicians of the Gods by Graham Hancock

Compete to Create by Dr. Michael Gervais & Pete Carroll

The Evolution of Everything by Matt Ridley

High Output Management by Andrew Grove

438 Days by Jonathan Franklin

Hero on a Mission by Donald Miller

Empire of the Summer Moon by S.C. Gwynne

The Key Man by Simon Clark & Will Louch

Leadership is Language by L. David Marquet

The Toyota Way by Jeffrey Liker

The Audacity to Be You by Brad Reedy

Stolen Focus by Johann Hari

The Captain Class by Sam Walker

Wild at Heart by John Eldredge

The Journey of the Heroic Parent by Brad Reedy

The Cult of We by Eliot Brown & Maureen Farrell

Inner Engineering by Jaggi Vasudev

Super Founders by Ali Tamaseb

Small Giants by Bo Burlingham

The Boys by Ron Howard & Clint Howard

Courage is Calling by Ryan Holiday

North by Scott Jurek & Jenny Jurek

Tools of Titans by Tim Ferriss

Trust & Inspire by Stephen M. R. Covey

How to Think Like a Roman Emperor by Donald Robertson

A Handbook for New Stoics by Massimo Pigliucci

The Way of the Superior Man by David Deida

Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World by Jack Weatherford

The Warrior Ethos by Steven Pressfield

Guns, Germs and Steel by Jared Diamond

How to Talk So Little Kids Will Listen by Joanna Faber

Yearbook by Seth Rogen

Where the Deer and the Antelope Play by Nick Offerman

The Body by Bill Bryson

Dopamine Nation by Anna Lembke

Lost in the Valley of Death by Harley Rustad

greatness by David Cook

Find Your Why by Simon Sinek, David Mead & Peter Docker

Endure by Cameron Hanes

Battle for the American Mind by Pete Hegseth & David Goodwin

The Power of Regret by Daniel Pink

A Walk in the Woods by Bill Bryson

The Man Who Broke Capitalism by David Gelles

Bullshit Jobs by David Graeber

Build by Tony Fadell

Plays Well with Others by Eric Barker

Do Hard Things by Steve Magness

This is Your Mind on Plants by Michael Pollan

How to Be Perfect by Michael Schur

When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi

The Energy Paradox by Steven R Gundry

Toxic Positivity by Whitney Goodman

Liar's Poker by Michael Lewis

What's the Matter with Kansas by Thomas Frank

Solito by Javier Zamora

The Three Questions by Don Miguel Ruiz

You Owe You by Eric Thomas

I'd Like to Play Alone, Please by Tom Segura

Embrace the Suck by Brent Gleeson

Say What You Mean by Oren Jay Sofer

Giftology by John Ruhlin

Nasty, Brutish, and Short by Scott Hershovitz

Burn Rate by Andy Dunn

Retail Gangster by Gary Weiss

The Disappearing Spoon by Sam Kean

The Wim Hof Method by Wim Hof

Ikigai by Hector Garcia

If Nietzshe Were a Narwhal by Justin Gregg

Resilient by John Eldredge

The Bond King by Mary Childs

2023 Book A Week 58 Total - Top 5 in Bold

Path Lit by Lightning by David Maraniss

21st Century Monetary Policy by Ben Bernanke

What Happened to You? by Oprah Winfrey & Bruce D Perry

Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert M. Pirsig

Taste by Stanley Tucci

From Strength to Strength by Arthur C Brooks

168 Hours by Laura Vanderkam

Teach Your Child How to Think by Dr. Edward de Bono

Con/Artist by Tony Tetro

The Creative Act by Rick Rubin

The Neurotic Character by Alfred Adler

Pale Blue Dot by Carl Sagan

Business Made Simple by Donald Miller

How to Grow Your Small Business by Donald Miller

Power Vs. Force by Dr. David R. Hawkins

Who Not How by Dan Sullivan & Dr. Benjamin Hardy

The Art of Impossible by Steven Kotler

Govt Cheese by Steven Pressfield

Start with No by Jim Camp

I Contain Multitudes by Ed Yong

Never Finished by David Goggins

The Vital Question by Nick Lane

Endurance by Alfred Lansing

Fair Play by Eve Rodsky

The Psychology of Money by Morgan Housel

Raising Good Humans by Hunter Clarke Fields

The Body Keeps the Score by Bessel van der Kolk

Let My People Go Surfing by Yvon Chouinard & Naomi Klein

How to Get Rich by Felix Dennis

Legacy by James Kerr

Out of the Ashes by Anthony Esolen

Leadership and Self Deception by The Arbinger Institute

Tears in the Darkness by Michael Norman & Elizabeth Norman

The Information by James Gleick

The Rise of the Rest by Steve Case

The Burning by Tim Madigan

Building a Second Brain  by Tiago Forte

How to Take Smart Notes by Sonke Ahrens

The Splendid and the Vile by Erik Larson

Getting Things Done by David Allen

Manhood by Josh Hawley

Meat Eater by Steven Rinella

Move or Die by Chris Carlisle

A Mile at a Time by Mark Macy, Travis Macy & Patrick Regan

The Motive by Patrick Lencioni

Unreasonable Hospitality by Will Guidara

Gambler by Billy Walters

The Warmth of Other Suns by Isabel Wilkerson

Easy Money by Ben McKenzie

Scarcity Brain by Michael Easter

Misbelief by Dan Ariely

Think Faster, Talk Smarter by Matt Abrahams

Gonzo Capitalism by Chris Guillebeau

Decoding Boys by Cara Natterson

How to Do the Work by Dr. Nicole LePera

Build the Life You Want by Arthur C. Brooks & Oprah Winfrey

The Art of Power by Thich Nhat Hanh

Adversity for Sale by Jay "Jeezy" Jenkins

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