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. Those of you that have followed this blog for a long time will know that my book list has actually been public for a long time on this page, but I thought it would be better to make it more prominent. Besides, if anyone ever wants to get me a birthday or Christmas gift, well, just click the button below and you’ll know what to get me.

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). I’ll be updating my list and this page as I find new books to read.

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.

Books i’ve read in recent months and years

If you’re looking for more inspiration, here are the books that I’ve read in recent months and years (in either ebook, paperback, or audiobook version). Feel free to add your suggestions in the comments section!

• The Ball Is Round: A Global History of Football by David Goldblatt

• 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

• Breaking Cover: My Secret Life In The CIA And What It Taught Me About What's Worth Fighting For by Michele Rigby Assad

• The Four: The Hidden DNA of Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Google by Scott Galloway

• Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community by Robert D. Putnam

• 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 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

• Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones by James Clear

• Casino Royale; Live and Let Die; Moonraker; Diamonds are Forever; From Russia With Love; and Dr No. by Ian Fleming

• Retired: What Happens To Footballers When The Game’s Up by Alan Gernon

• Relentless: From Good To Great To Unstoppable by Tim S. Grover

• 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 by Robert B. Reich

• 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; and The Art of Seduction by Robert Green

• 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