Reading changed my life.
Every book below is one I’ve read that impacted my life.
I used to avoid reading as much as possible growing up. However, I trained myself to love reading as I grew older and realized the power of books.
Reading is a superpower. You can teach yourself how to do anything.
If you don’t know what to read that means you aren’t reading books. Virtually every book you read will have references and recommendations of other books to read. Start out by reading what you love.
“Read what you love until you love to read. Everybody I know who reads a lot loves to read, and they love to read because they read books that they loved. It’s a little bit of a catch-22, but you basically want to start off just reading wherever you are and then keep building up from there until reading becomes a habit. And then eventually, you will just get bored of the simple stuff.”
Elon Musk credits books with helping him achieve his success. When asked how he learned to build rockets, he famously replied, “I read books.”
When I read biographies the most common thing among the people I read about is that they all read books voraciously.
Make it a habit to read for 30 minutes per day. If you can’t do that start with one page per day.
Don’t have time? Rather than scrolling through social media open up your Kindle app and read for 2 minutes.
Below are all books I’ve read that have impacted my life.
Personal Development
- The Greatest Salesman in the World by Og Mandino
- Awaken the Giant Within by Tony Robbins
- The Success Principles by Jack Canfield
- Live It by Jairek Robbins
- As a Man Thinketh by James Allen
- The Values Factor by John Demartini
- Psycho-Cybernetics by Maxwell Maltz
- Becoming Supernatural by Joe Dispenza
Body and Health
- Blue Mind by Wallace Nichols
- Breath by James Nestor
- Why We Sleep by Matthew Walker
- The Molecule of More by Daniel Lieberman
Love and Relationship
- Keys to the Kingdom by Alison Armstrong
- The Amazing Development of Men by Alison Armstrong
- Conscious Loving by Gay and Kathlyn Hendricks
- The Man’s Guide to Women by John and Julie Gottman
- Getting the Love You Want by Harville Hendrix and Helen LaKelly Hunt
Leadership
- Legacy by James Kerr
- Relentless by Tim Grover
- Trillion Dollar Coach by Eric Schmidt
- Wooden on Leadership by John Wooden
Habit Building and Productivity
- Atomic Habits by James Clear
- Grit by Angela Duckworth
- Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
- The Art of Learning by Josh Waitzkin
- Deep Work by Cal Newport
- Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less by Greg McKeown
- Daily Rituals: How Artists Work by Mason Currey
- The War of Art by Steven Pressfield
Science / Technology
- Danielle by Ray Kurzweil
- Abundance by Peter Diamandis
- Bold by Peter Diamandis
- The Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins
- Genome by Matt Ridley
- Six Easy Pieces by Richard Feynman
- The Singularity Is Near by Ray Kurzweil
Business / Investing
- Measure What Matters by John Doerr
- Traction by Gino Wickman
- Influence by Robert Cialdini
- Poor Charlie’s Almanack by Charlie Munger
- Seeking Wisdom by Peter Bevelin
- Principles by Ray Dalio
- The Intelligent Investor by Benjamin Graham
- Money: Master the Game by Tony Robbins
- Common Stocks and Uncommon Profits by Philip Fisher
- Berkshire Hathaway Letters to Shareholders by Warren Buffett
Biography / Autobiography
- Benjamin Franklin by Walter Isaacson
- Walt Disney: The Triumph of the American Imagination by Neal Gabler
- Open by Andre Agassi
- Surely You’re Joking, Mr. Feynman! by Richard Feynman
- Einstein: His Life and Universe by Walter Isaacson
- Long Walk to Freedom by Nelson Mandela
- Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson
- Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse
- Iacocca: An Autobiography by Lee Iacocca
- A. Lincoln by Ronald White
- Titan: The Life of John D. Rockefeller by Ron Chernow
Writing
- Bird by Bird by Anne Lamott
- On Writing by Stephen King
- The Elements of Style by William Strunk
- On Writing Well by William Zinsser
- The Artist’s Way by Julia Cameron
Fiction
- Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card
- The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand
- The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho
- 1984 by George Orwell
- Shantaram by Gregory David Roberts
- The Bonfire of the Vanities by Tom Wolfe
- Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson
- The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
Spiritual
- Man’s Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl
- The Top Five Regrets of the Dying by Bronnie Ware
- Meditations by Marcus Aurelius
- Awareness by Anthony De Mello
- A New Earth by Eckhart Tolle
Extra Credit
- Guns, Germs, and Steel by Jared Diamond
- The Hero with a Thousand Faces by Joseph Campbell
- Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari
- Homo Deus by Yuval Noah Harari
- Collapse by Jared Diamond
- The Beginning of Infinity by David Deutsch
- Deep Simplicity by John Gribbin
Articles / Papers / Essays
- Why Software Is Eating the World by Marc Andreessen
- 1,000 True Fans by Kevin Kelly
- Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System by Satoshi Nakamoto
- The Changing World Order by Ray Dalio
- The Great Online Game by Packy McCormick
- The Great Monetary Inflation by Paul Tudor Jones
- How to Get Rich by Naval Ravikant
- Do Things That Don’t Scale by Paul Graham
- Spiky Point of View: Let’s Get a Little Controversial by Wes Kao
- Bitcoin Obsoletes All Other Money by Parker Lewis
- Positioning: The Difference Between Painkillers and Vitamins by Sean D’Souza
- Amazon’s Original 1997 Letter to Shareholders by Jeff Bezos
- Day One Manifesto by Jeff Bezos