Reading

$20 Life Lessons

The following is an organic list of what I've read so far on the quest to be wiser every day.

I hope to fill out book notes for the various books I've read (not all of them) and it will be a work in progress.

Goal: 2 books a month for 1,760 books over 70 years.

If you have any requests on book notes, are dying to recommend a book I MUST read, or would just like to chat about a book feel free to reach out here! 

2022

• Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad

• A Man Without a Country - Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

• A Cook’s Tour - Anthony Bourdain

• The Stranger - Albert Camus

• Yes to Life - Viktor Frankl

• How to Start Writing (and When to Stop) - Wislawa Szymborska

• Letters to a Young Poet & The Letter from the Young Worker - Rainer Maria Rilke

• The Way to Love - Anthony De Mello

• Open - Andre Agassi

• Let My People Go Surfing - Yvon Chouinard

• The Little Book of Hygge: Danish Secrets to Happy Living - Meik Wiking

• Amp it Up - Frank Slootman

• The Five People You Meet in Heaven - Mitch Albom

• Become What You Are - Alan Watts

2021

• The Practice - Seth Godin

• On Writing - Stephen King

• The Psychology of Money - Morgan Housel

• A Job to Love - School of Life

• Dune - Frank Herbert

• Dune Messiah - Frank Herbert

• A Guide to the Good Life - William B. Irvine

• The Long Tail - Chris Anderson

• Turning Pro - Steven Pressfield

• Norwegian Wood - Haruki Murakami

• Life is Elsewhere - Milan Kundera

• Kitchen Confidential - Anthony Bourdain

• On Writing Well - William Zinsser

• The Courage to Be Disliked - Ichiro Kishimi & Fumitake Koga

• Bird by Bird - Anne Lamott

• Slaughterhouse V - Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

• Hell Yeah or No - Derek Sivers

• How to Live - Derek Sivers

• 100 Baggers - Chris Mayer

2020

• Getting Things Done - David Allen

• Radical Acceptance - Tara Brauch

• The Messy Middle - Scott Belsky

• Let Your Life Speak - Parker Palmer

• Warrior Ethos - Steven Pressfield

• Self Reliance and Other Essays - Ralph Waldo Emerson

• Rational Optimist - Matt Ridley

• Why We Sleep - Matthew Walker

• The Monk of Mokha - Dave Eggers

• Flow - Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

• Lessons of History - Will & Ariel Durant

• Dear Shareholder - Lawrence Cunningham

• Black Swan - Nassim Taleb

• Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World - Jack Weatherford

• Zero to One - Peter Thiel

• The 80/20 Principle - Richard Koch

• Essentialism - Greg McKeown

• When Breath Becomes Air - Paul Kalanithi

• Tuesdays with Morrie - Mitch Albom

• Modern Man in Search of a Soul - Carl G. Jung

• 12 Rules for Life - Jordan Peterson

2019

• The Inner Game of Tennis - W. Timothy Gallwey

• Ego Is The Enemy - Ryan Holiday

• Anything you Want - Derek Sivers (2nd Read)

• Business Model You - Tim Clark, Alexander Osterwalder, Yves Pigneur

• Originals - Adam Grant

• Awakening the Giant Within - Tony Robbins

• Maverick - Ricardo Semler

• Not Fade Away: A Short Life Well Lived - Laurence Shames, Peter Barton

• Predictably Irrational - Dan Ariely

• The Alchemist - Paulo Coelho

• All These Wonders - The Moth

• Reboot - Jerry Colonna

• Trillion Dollar Coach - Eric Schmidt, Jonathan Rosenberg, Alan Eagle

• The Art of Learning - Josh Waitzkin

• Skin In The Game - Nassim Taleb

• Brave New World - Aldous Huxley

• Delivering Happiness - Tony Hsieh

• Stick with It: A Scientifically Proven Process for Changing Your Life-for Good - Sean D. Young

• The Magic of Thinking Big - David J. Schwartz

• The Art of Non-Conformity - Chris Guillebeau

• Awareness - Anthony DeMello

2018

• Man's Search for Meaning - Viktor Frankl

• Think and Grow Rich - Napoleon Hill (2nd Read)

• Tools of Titans - Tim Ferriss

• Anything you Want - Derek Sivers

• The Obstacle is The Way - Ryan Holiday (2nd Read)

• Designing Your Life - Bill Burnett & Dave Evans

• How to Have a Great Career - Larry Smith

• Intelligent Fanatics - Ian Cassell & Sean Iddings

• Rework - Jason Fried

• What I Talk About When I Talk About Running - Haruki Murakami

• Tribe of Mentors - Tim Ferriss

• The War of Art - Steven Pressfield

• Drive - Daniel Pink

• Start with Why - Simon Sinek

• Losing My Virginity - Richard Branson

• Effective Executive - Peter Drucker

• Managing Oneself - Peter Drucker

• Stumbling on Happiness - Dan Gilbert

• The Dip - Seth Godin

• The Icarus Deception - Seth Godin

• The Richest Man in Babylon - George S Clason

• Antifragile - Nassim Taleb

• Tao Te Ching - Lao Tzu (Stephen Mitchell Version)

2017

• Small Giants: Companies That Choose to Be Great Instead of Big - Bo Burlingham

• A Man for All Markets - Edward Thorp

• Influence - Robert Cialdini

• The One Thing - Gary Keller & Jay Papasan

• The Warren Buffett way - Robert Hagstrom

• Thinking Fast and Slow - Daniel Kahneman

• Competition Demystified - Bruce Greenwald, Judd Khan (2nd Read)

• Vagabonding - Rolf Potts

• How Will you Measure Your Life - Clayton Christensen

• Moonwalking with Einstein - Joshua Foer (Stopped in Ch.1. To return when I can appreciate it)

• Margin of Safety - Seth Klarman

• The Little Book That Beats the Market - Joel Greenblatt

• Poor Charlie's Almanack - Charlie Munger

• The Tao Jones Averages: A Guide to Wholebrained Investing - Bennett W. Goodspeed

• Common Stocks and Uncommon Profits - Phil Fisher (3rd read)

• Meditations - Marcus Aurelius/Gregory Hays Translation (Stopped @80%: To return When I'm ready to fully understand it)

• Beating the Street - Peter Lynch

• Financial Shenanigans - Howard Schilit & Jeremy Perler

• Strategic Logic - J Carlos Jarillo

• High Performing Investment Teams - Jim Ware

2014 - 2016

• Intelligent Investor - Ben Graham

• Power of Habit - Charles Duhigg

• Superforecasting - Phil Tetlock & Dan Gardner

• The Five Rules for Successful Stock Investing - Pat Dorsey

• The Art of Value Investing - Whitney Tilson

• The Education of a Value Investor - Guy Spier

• Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets - Nassim Taleb

• The Dhando Investor - Mohnish Pabrai

• The Little Book That Builds Wealth - Pat Dorsey

• The Outsiders - William Thorndike

• The 4 Hour Work Week - Tim Ferriss

• Liar's Poker - Michael Lewis

• The Big Short - Michael Lewis

• Blink - Malcolm Gladwell

• The Tipping Point - Malcolm Gladwell

• The Outliers - Malcolm Gladwell

• The Millionaire Real Estate Investor - Gary Keller

• The Success Equation - Michael Mauboussin

• Value Investing From Graham to Buffett and Beyond - Bruce Greenwald & Judd Khan & Paul Sonkin & Michael van Biema

• The Buy-Side - Turney Duff (audiobook)

• You Can Be a Stock Market Genius - Joel Greenblatt

• The Most Important Thing: Uncommon Sense for the Thoughtful Investor - Howard Marks (audiobook)

• The Hard Thing About Hard Things - Ben Horowitz (audiobook)

• Shoe Dog - Phil Knight (audiobook)

• Zero to One - Peter Thiel (audiobook)