My Book List

People sometimes ask me for book recommendations, the books that I’m reading at the moment, and/or books that I have lined up to read in the near future. As a result, I decided to make a page with an easy link to my book list on Amazon.

You can get most of these books in paperback, e-book, and audiobook version (hint: you can often get these books for free at your public library if you’re a member of it and via the Overdrive app).

Please note that you can filter the list by books that I haven’t bought yet (“unpurchased”) and those that I have bought/read already (“purchased”) by using the drop-down menu to the right of that page.

Also, I recommend checking out Jordan Harbinger’s book list over at his website. I’ve followed him for years and I highly respect him.

Click here to check out my book list!

Books

The Math Myth: And Other STEM Delusions by Andrew Hacker
The Ball Is Round: A Global History of Football by David Goldblatt
Confessions of an Economic Hit Man and The New Confessions of an Economic Hit Man by John Perkins
The Undercover Economist: Exposing Why the Rich Are Rich, the Poor Are Poor and Why You Can Never Buy a Decent Used Car! by Tim Harford
Plato’s Republic by David Roochnik
The White Man's Burden: Why the West's Efforts to Aid the Rest Have Done So Much Ill and So Little Good by William Easterly
The Price Of Inequality: How Today’s Divided Society Endangers Our Future by Joseph E. Stiglitz
The Philosophy Book: Big Ideas Simply Explained by DK
The Constitution: An Introduction by Luke Paulsen and Michael Stokes Paulsen
The Inevitable: Understanding the 12 Technological Forces That Will Shape Our Future by Kevin Kelly

The Coddling of The American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting Up A Generation For Failure by Jonathan Haidt and Greg Lukianoff and The Happiness Hypothesis: Finding Modern Truth in Ancient Wisdom by Jonathan Haidt
The Moment of Lift: How Empowering Women Changes the World by Melinda Gates
Breaking Cover: My Secret Life In The CIA And What It Taught Me About What's Worth Fighting For by Michele Rigby Assad
Poor Economics: A Radical Rethinking of the Way to Fight Global Poverty by Esther Duflo and Abhijit V. Banerjee
To Sell Is Human: The Surprising Truth About Moving Others by Daniel H. Pink
Winner-Take-All Politics: How Washington Made the Rich Richer — and Turned Its Back on the Middle Class by Jacob S. Hacker and Paul Pierson

Getting To Yes: Negotiating Agreement Without Giving In by Roger Fisher, William Ury, and Bruce Patton
When Helping Hurts: Alleviating the Poverty Without Hurting the Poor...and Ourselves by Steve Corbett and Brian Fikkert
Doughnut Economics: Seven Ways to Think Like a 21st-Century Economist by Kate Raworth
Upstream: The Quest To Solve Problems Before They Happen by Dan Heath
The Scout Mindset: Why Some People See Things Clearly and Others Don’t by Julia Galef

The Four: The Hidden DNA of Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Google and The Algebra of Happiness: Notes on the Pursuit of Success, Love, and Meaning by Scott Galloway
The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin
People, Power, and Profits: Progressive Capitalism For An Age of Discontent by Joseph Stiglitz
Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community by Robert D. Putnam
The Hidden Wealth of Nations: The Scourge of Tax Havens by Gabriel Zucman
Guide To Stoicism by St. George William Joseph Stock
Building the New American Economy: Smart, Fair, and Sustainable by Jeffrey Sachs
The Hacking of The American Mind: The Science Behind the Corporate Takeover of Our Bodies and Brains by Robert Lustig
Talking To Strangers: What We Should Know about the People We Don’t Know by Malcolm Gladwell
The Prosperity Paradox: How Innovation Can Lift Nations Out of Poverty by Clayton M. Christensen, Efosa Ojomo, and Karen Dillon
Secrecy World: Inside the Panama Papers Investigation of Illicit Money Networks and the Global Elite by Jake Bernstein
Building a StoryBrand: Clarify Your Message So Customers Will Listen by Donald Miller

The Givers: Wealth, Power, and Philanthropy in a New Gilded Age by David Callahan
We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Our Families: Stories From Rwanda by Philip Gourevitch
The Triumph of Injustice: How the Rich Dodge Taxes and How To Make Them Pay by Emmanuel Saez and Gabriel Zucman
The Alter Ego Effect: The Power of Secret Identities to Transform Your Life by Todd Herman
How Democracies Die: What History Reveals About Our Future by Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt
Football In Sun And Shadow by Eduardo Galeano
Grave New World: The End of Globalization, the Return of History by Stephen D. King
Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty by Daron Acemoglu and James Robinson
Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City by Matthew Desmond
The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change by Stephen R. Covey
The End of Fundraising: How to Raise More by Selling Your Impact by Jason Saul
Never Split The Difference: Negotiating As If Your Life Depended On It by Chris Voss and Tahl Raz
Nudge: Improving Decisions about Health, Wealth, and Happiness by Richard Thaler and Cass Sunstein
The His Dark Materials trilogy by Philip Pullman
Can American Capitalism Survive? Why Greed Is Not Good, Opportunity is Not Equal, and Fairness Won’t Make Us Poor by Steven Pearlstein

The Starfish and the Spider: The Unstoppable Power of Leaderless Organizations by Ori Brafman and Rod A. Beckstrom
The Subtle Art of Not Giving A F*ck: A Counterintuitive Approach To Living A Good Life by Mark Manson
What We Think About When We Think About Football by Simon Critchley
Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones by James Clear
Sizing People Up: A Veteran FBI Agent's User Manual for Behavior Prediction by Robin Dreeke and Cameron Stauth
Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World by Anand Giridharadas
Stillness Is The Key by Ryan Holiday

The Enlightened Capitalists: Cautionary Tales of Business Pioneers Who Tried to Do Well by Doing Good by James O’Toole
Supreme Inequality: The Supreme Court’s Fifty-Year Battle for a More Unjust America by Adam Cohen
Hit Refresh: The Quest to Rediscover Microsoft's Soul and Imagine a Better Future for Everyone by Satya Nadella
Foreclosure Investing for Dummies and Flipping Houses for Dummies by Ralph R. Roberts
Think Like a Rocket Scientist: Simple Strategies You Can Use to Make Giant Leaps in Work and Life by Ozan Varol
The Green New Deal: Why the Fossil Fuel Civilization Will Collapse by 2028 and The Bold Economic Plan To Save Life on Earth by Jeremy Rifkin
GDP: A Brief but Affectionate History by Diane Coyle
Extreme Economies: What Life at the World's Margins Can Teach Us About Our Own Future by Richard Davies

Casino Royale; Live and Let Die; Moonraker; Diamonds are Forever; From Russia With Love; Dr No.; Goldfinger; Thunderball; For Your Eyes Only; The Spy Who Loved Me; On Her Majesty’s Secret; You Only Live Twice; The Man With The Golden Gun; Octopussy and The Living Daylights; and Quantum of Solace by Ian Fleming
The Cult of Trump: A Leading Cult Expert Explains How the President Uses Mind Control by Steven Hassan
The Successful Speaker: Five Steps for Booking Gigs, Getting Paid, and Building Your Platform by Grant Baldwin
Real Estate Investing For Dummies by Eric Tyson and Robert S. Griswold
The Death of Expertise: The Campaign Against Established Knowledge and Why It Matters by Tom Nichols

Manhunters: How We Took Down Pablo Escobar by Steve Murphy and Javier F. Peña
Factfulness: Ten Reason We’re Wrong About The World — And Why Things Are Better Than You Think by Hans Rosling, Ola Rosling, and Anna Rosling Rönnlund
How To Read the Constitution — And Why by Kim Wehle
The Founding Fathers’ Guide to the Constitution by Brion McClanahan and David Cochran Heath
The Truth Detector: An Ex-FBI Agent’s Guide for Getting People to Reveal the Truth and The Like Switch: An Ex-FBI Agent's Guide To Influencing, Attracting, and Winning People Over by Jack Schafer, Ph.D. and Marvin Karlins Ph.D.
Gang Leader for a Day: A Rogue Sociologist Takes To The Streets by Sudhir Venkatesh
Scarcity: Why Having So Little Means So Much by Sendhil Mullainathan and Eldar Shafir

The Red and The Blue: The 1990s and the Birth of Political Tribalism by Steve Kornacki
The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided By Politics and Religion by Jonathan Haidt
Retired: What Happens To Footballers When The Game’s Up by Alan Gernon
Relentless: From Good To Great To Unstoppable by Tim S. Grover
The Fourth Industrial Revolution by Klaus Schwab
Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress by Steven Pinker
Banker to the Poor by Muhammad Yunus
The Big Short: Inside The Doomsday Machine and The Undoing Project: A Friendship That Changed Our Minds by Michael Lewis

Saving Capitalism: For The Many, Not The Few; The Common Good; The System: Who Rigged It, How We Fix It; and Just Giving: Why Philanthropy Is Failing Democracy and How It Can Do Better by Robert B. Reich
Trillion Dollar Coach: The Leadership Playbook of Silicon Valley’s Bill Campbell by Eric Schmidt, Jonathan Rosenberg, and Alan Eagle
Left of Bang: How the Marine Corps' Combat Hunter Program Can Save Your Life by Patrick Van Horne and Jason Riley
The Dichotomy of Leadership: Balancing the Challenges of Extreme Ownership to Lead and Win and Extreme Ownership: How U.S. Navy SEALs Lead and Win by Jocko Willink and Leif Babin
Sex At Dawn: How We Mate, Why We Stray, and What It Means for Modern Relationships by Christopher Ryan and Cacilda Jetha
The Story of Philosophy: The Lives and Opinions of the Great Philosophers by Will Durant

Man’s Search For Meaning by Victor E. Frankl
Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion by Robert B. Cialdini
The Signals Are Talking: Why Today's Fringe Is Tomorrow's Mainstream by Amy Webb
Dream Hoarders: How the American Upper Middle Class Is Leaving Everyone Else in the Dust, Why That Is a Problem, and What to Do About It by Richard V. Reeves
Tinker, Dabble, Doodle, Try: Unlock the Power of The Unfocused Mind by Dr. Srini Pillay
The Abundant Community: Awakening the Power of Families and Neighborhoods by John McKnight and Peter Block
We Are All Weird by Seth Godin
Unaccustomed Earth by Jhumpa Lahiri
The Hunger Games trilogy by Suzanne Collins
The Working Poor: Invisible In America by David K. Shipler
The entire Artemis Fowl series by Eoin Colfer
A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson
The 5 Love Languages: The Secret To Love That Lasts by Gary Chapman

A Long Way Down by Nick Hornby
Requiem for the American Dream and Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media by Noam Chomsky
Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman
The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power by Shoshana Zuboff
Band of Brothers: E Company, 506th Regiment, 101st Airborne from Normandy to Hitler’s Eagle’s Nest by Stephen E. Ambrose
The Future of Capitalism: Facing the New Anxieties by Paul Collier
The Art of War by Sun Tzu
The Prince by Niccolò Machiavelli
New Ideas From Dead Economists: An Introduction to Modern Economic Thought by Todd Buchholz
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander
Open Her: Activate 7 Masculine Powers To Arouse Your Woman's Love And Desire by Karen Brody
She Comes First: The Thinking Man's Guide To Pleasuring A Woman by Dr. Ian Kerner
Come As You Are: The Surprising New Science that Will Transform Your Sex Life by Emily Nagoski Ph.D
The Bourne Identity by Robert Ludlum
Ready Player One by Ernest Cline
The Fix: How Nations Survive And Thrive In A World In Decline by Jonathan Tepperman
Let’s Talk Politics: How Different Sides Approach the Same Issues by Matthew Bates and Habib Fanny

Misbehaving: The Making of Behavioral Economics by Richard Thaler
One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez
The Art of Worldly Wisdom by Baltasar Gracián
The 48 Laws of Power; The Laws of Human Nature; Mastery; and The Art of Seduction by Robert Greene
Grit: The Power of Passion and Perserverance by Angela Duckworth
The (Honest) Truth About Dishonesty: How We Lie To Everyone — Especially Ourselves; Irrationally Yours: On Missing Socks, Pickup Lines, and Other Existential Puzzles; Predictably Irrational, The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions; The Upside Of Irrationality: The Unexpected Benefits Of Defying Logic At Work And At Home; Dollars And Sense: How We Misthink Money And How To Spend Smarter (with Jeff Kreisler); and Payoff: The Hidden Logic that Shapes Our Motivations by Dr. Dan Ariely
Minimalist Living: Decluttering for Joy, Health, and Creativity by Genevieve Parker Hill
You Must Write A Book: Boost Your Brand, Get More Business, and Become the Go-To Expert by Honorée Corder
Real Artists Don’t Starve: Timeless Strategies for Thriving in the New Creative Age by Jeff Goins
The Road to Character by David Brooks