Welcome to my Library

These are the books I have read or listened to (I’m a big Audible guy — usually at 3.5x speed). I’ve learned that most books could have been a simple blog post. The ones that are really good always force me to slow down or call me to read them again.

 
 

Business, Entrepreneurship & Sales

  • $100M Money Models, Alex Hormozi
  • $100M Offers, Alex Hormozi
  • 10x Is Easier Than 2x, Dan Sullivan and Dr. Benjamin Hardy
  • Building a StoryBrand, Donald Miller
  • Competing Against Luck, Clayton Christensen
  • Crush It!, Gary Vaynerchuk
  • Crushing It!, Gary Vaynerchuk
  • Ego is the Enemy, Ryan Holiday
  • Everybody Matters, Bob Chapman and Raj Sisodia
  • Extreme Ownership, Jocko Willink and Leif Babin
  • Find Your Why, Simon Sinek
  • Foolproof Hiring, Brad Smart
  • How to Get Ahead, Zak Slayback
  • Mastery, Robert Greene
  • Masters of Private Equity and Venture Capital, Lawrence F. Shulman ____
  • Multipliers, Liz Wiseman
  • Never Eat Alone, Keith Ferrazzi
  • Never Split the Difference, Chris Voss
  • No Rules Rules, Reed Hastings and Erin Meyer
  • Partnering, Jean Oelwang
  • Profit First, Mike Michalowicz
  • Start With Why, Simon Sinek
  • The 5 Levels of Leadership, John C. Maxwell
  • The Advantage, Patrick Lencioni
  • The Art of Principled Entrepreneurship, Andreas Widmer
  • The Art of Seduction, Robert Greene
  • The Culture Map, Erin Meyer
  • The E-Myth Revisited, Michael E. Gerber
  • The Infinite Game, Simon Sinek
  • The Internal Game of Startups, Isaac Morehouse
  • The Mom Test, Rob Fitzpatrick
  • The Personal MBA, Josh Kaufman
  • The Power of Giving Away Power, Matthew Barzun
  • The Private Equity Playbook, Adam Coffey
  • The Sweaty Startup, Nick Huber
  • The Ultimate Sales Machine, Chet Holmes
  • Unreasonable Hospitality, Will Guidara
  • Venture Deals, Brad Feld and Jason Mendelson
  • Why Leaders Eat Last, Simon Sinek
  • Zero Resistance Selling, Maxwell Maltz
  • Zero to One, Peter Thiel

Biographies & Memoirs

  • A Promised Land, Barack Obama
  • Andrew Carnegie, David Nasaw
  • Becoming, Michelle Obama
  • Benjamin Franklin, Walter Isaacson
  • Bolivar, Marie Arana
  • Elon Musk, Walter Isaacson
  • Gandhi 1914-1948, Ramachandra Guha
  • Greenlights, Matthew McConaughey
  • Leading, Alex Ferguson
  • Long Walk to Freedom, Nelson Mandela
  • Sam Walton: Made In America, Sam Walton
  • Shoe Dog, Phil Knight
  • Steve Jobs, Walter Isaacson
  • The Autobiography of John D. Rockefeller, John D. Rockefeller
  • The Autobiography of Martin Luther King, Jr., Clayborne Carson
  • The First Kennedys, Neal Thompson
  • The Power Broker, Robert A. Caro
  • The Ride of a Lifetime, Robert Iger
  • Titan, Ron Chernow
  • Tom Monaghan: A Life, David Pearce
  • Trump, The Art of the Deal, Donald Trump
  • What I Know For Sure, Oprah Winfrey
  • Will, Will Smith

Catholicism & Spirituality

  • Forty Dreams of St. John Bosco, St. John Bosco
  • He Leadeth Me, Fr. Walter Ciszek
  • Pilgrimage to the Museum, Steve Auth
  • Sacred Marriage, Gary Thomas
  • The Glories of Mary, St. Alphonsus Liguori
  • The Missionary of Wall Street, Steve Auth
  • The Pope and the CEO, Andreas Widmer
  • Three to Get Married, Fulton J. Sheen

CleanTech, Economics & Policy

  • American Nations, Colin Woodard
  • Blackout, Candace Owens
  • Caste, Isabel Wilkerson
  • Chip War, Chris Miller
  • Cobalt Red, Siddharth Kara
  • Conscious Capitalism, John Mackey and Rajendra Sisodia
  • Destined For War, Graham Allison
  • Disunited Nations, Peter Zeihan
  • Economics for Real People, Gene Callahan
  • Empire of Debt, Bill Bonner and Addison Wiggin
  • End Times, Peter Turchin
  • Enlightenment Now, Steven Pinker
  • Financial Reckoning Day, Bill Bonner and Addison Wiggin
  • How to Avoid a Climate Disaster, Bill Gates
  • Human Action, Ludwig von Mises
  • It's Our Turn to Eat, Michela Wrong
  • Let Trump Be Trump, Corey R. Lewandowski
  • Nothing to Envy, Barbara Demick
  • Open Veins of Latin America, Eduardo Galeano
  • Principles for Dealing with the Changing World Order, Ray Dalio
  • Speed and Scale, John Doerr
  • The Accidental Superpower, Peter Zeihan
  • The Age of Wood, Roland Ennos
  • The Bitcoin Standard, Saifedean Ammous
  • The Case for Climate Capitalism, Tom Rand
  • The Company, John Micklethwait and Adrian Wooldridge
  • The Creature from Jekyll Island, G. Edward Griffin
  • The Deficit Myth, Stephanie Kelton
  • The End of Race Politics, Coleman Hughes
  • The Gray Lady Winked, Ashley Rindsberg
  • The Long Boom, Peter Leyden and Peter Schwartz
  • The Network State, Balaji Srinivasan
  • The Smartest Guys in the Room, Bethany McLean and Peter Elkind
  • Trump's Enemies, Corey R. Lewandowski

Family, Legacy & Health

  • Atomic Habits, James Clear
  • Becoming a Matriarch, Lynn Nakimera-Mahner
  • Build Your Family Bank, Emily Griffiths-Hamilton
  • Childhood Disrupted, Donna Jackson Nakazawa
  • Dopamine Nation, Anna Lembke
  • Family Fortunes, Bill Bonner and Will Bonner
  • Family Wealth, James E. Hughes Jr.
  • How to Raise Successful People, Esther Wojcicki
  • Ikigai, Héctor García and Francesc Miralles
  • Leaving a Legacy, Johann Kurtz
  • My Plan for Living to 156, Dan Sullivan
  • Outlive, Peter Attia
  • Rich Routines, Steve Houghton
  • The Birth Order Book, Kevin Leman
  • The Bulletproof Diet, Dave Asprey
  • The Magnolia Story, Joanna Gaines and Chip Gaines
  • The Myth of Normal, Gabor Maté
  • The Sovereign Child, Aaron Stupple
  • Why We Sleep, Matthew Walker

Personal Development & Psychology

  • 12 Rules for Life, Jordan Peterson
  • Beyond Order: 12 More Rules for Life, Jordan Peterson
  • Bullshit Jobs, David Graeber
  • Connected, Nicholas Christakis and James Fowler
  • Essentialism, Greg McKeown
  • Getting Things Done, David Allen
  • Legacy, James Kerr
  • Limitless, Jim Kwik
  • NLP: The Essential Guide, Tom Dotz and Tom Hoobyar
  • Peak Performance, Steve Magness and Brad Stulberg
  • Read People Like a Book, Patrick King
  • Richer, Wiser, Happier, William Green
  • The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, Stephen Covey
  • The 12 Week Year, Brian P. Moran and Michael Lennington
  • The Black Swan, Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • The Daily Stoic, Ryan Holiday
  • The Defining Decade, Meg Jay
  • The Four, Scott Galloway
  • The Power of Positive Thinking, Norman Vincent Peale
  • The Richest Man in Babylon, George S. Clason
  • Think and Grow Rich, Napoleon Hill
  • Wanting, Luke Burgis

Literature, Classics & Communication

  • A Tale of Two Cities, Charles Dickens
  • Hamlet, William Shakespeare
  • Oliver Twist, Charles Dickens
  • Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen
  • Speak Like Churchill, Stand Like Lincoln, James C. Humes
  • The Merchant of Venice, William Shakespeare
  • The Scarlet Letter, Nathaniel Hawthorne
  • The War of Art, Steven Pressfield
  • Theatre of the Mind, Matt Furey
  • Where the Red Fern Grows, Wilson Rawls
 
 

What are your top book recommendations?