2021
Goal: 52 books
Current Count: 21
- Wealth, Actually – Frazer Rice
- Management Myth – Matthew Stewart
- Great Mental Models – Shane Parrish
- The Little Blue Book For Filmmakers – Carl Gottlieb & Toni Attell
- How Design Makes the World – Scott Berkun
- The Boy Who Would Be King – Ryan Holiday
- A World Without Email – Cal Newport
- What’s Your Problem? – Thomas Wedell-Wedellsborg
- No Rules Rule – Reed Hastings & Erin Meyer
- Powerful – Patty McCord
- Culture Code – Daniel Coyle
- The Business of Expertise – David C. Baker
- Traction – Gino Wickman
- Get a Grip – Gino Wickman & Mike Paton
- Rocket Fuel – Gino Wickman & Mark Winters
- Content Inc. – Joe Puluzzi
- Write Useful Books – Rob Fitzpatrick
- The CEO Only Does Three Things – Trey Taylor
- How to be a Chief Operating Officer – Jennifer Geary
- Productize – Eisha Armstrong
- What the Heck is EOS? – Gino Wickman & Tom Bouwer
2020
Goal: 52 books
Current Count: 33 books
- Richard Branson: Virgin King – Tim Jackson – Read my notes
- Indistractable: How to Control Your Attention and Choose Your Life – Nir Eyal
- Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future – Peter Thiel, Blake Masters – Read my notes
- The Win Without Pitching Manifesto – Blair Enns
- Silos, Politics, and Turf Wars – Patrick Lencioni
- The Five Temptations of a CEO – Patrick Lencioni
- Accounting Made Simple – Mike Piper
- The Mom Test – Rob Fitzpatrick
- The Four Obsessions of an Extraordinary Executive – Patrick Lencioni
- The Motive – Patrick Lencioni
- Start With No – Jim Camp
- Pitch Anything – Oren Klaff
- My Morning Routine – Benjamin Spall and Michael Xander
- Chop Wood Carry Water = Joshua Medcalf
- Draft No. 4 – John McPhee
- Death by Meeting – Patrick Lencioni
- The Truth About Employee Engagement – Patrick Lencioni
- Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products – Nir Eyal
- The Ideal Team Player: How to Recognize and Cultivate The Three Essential Virtues – Patrick Lencioni
- Wealth – Richard P Rojevk
- How to Be Invisible – J.J. Luna
- How to Get Rich – Felix Dennis
- Built to Sell – John Warrillow
- The Great CEO Within – Matt Mochary
- The Automatic Customer – John Warrilow
- 90-Minute Guide to Building Marketing Funnels That Convert – Keith Perhac
- It’s Your Ship – Michael Abrashoff
- What Got You Here Won’t Get You There – Marshall Goldsmith
- Tiny MBA – Alex Hillman – Read my review
- The Toliet Paper Entrepreneur – Mike Michalowicz
- Fix This Next – Mike Michalowicz
- Trillion Dollar Coach – Eric Schmidt, Jonathan Rosenberg, & Alan Eagle
- Personal MBA, 10th Anniversary Edition – Josh Kaufman
2019
Goal: 26 books
Final Count: 25 books
- The Millionaire Next Door: The Surprising Secrets of America’s Wealthy – Thomas J. Stanley, William D. Danko
- The Founder’s Dilemmas: Anticipating and Avoiding the Pitfalls That Can Sink a Startup – Noam Wasserman
- Getting Everything You Can Out of All You’ve Got – Jay Abraham
- Accounting Made Simple: Accounting Explained in 100 Pages or Less – Mike Piper
- Startup CEO: A Field Guide to Scaling Up Your Business – Matt Blumberg
- The 1% Windfall: How Successful Companies Use Price to Profit and Grow – Rafi Mohammed
- The Five Temptations of a CEO: A Leadership Fable – Patrick Lencioni
- The Four Obsessions of an Extraordinary Executive: A Leadership Fable – Patrick Lencioni
- Simple Numbers, Straight Talk, Big Profits!: 4 Keys to Unlock Your Business Potential – Greg Crabtree
- The Mom Test: How to talk to customers & learn if your business is a good idea when everyone is lying to you – Rob Fitzpatrick
- The Sorcerer’s Apprentices: A Season in the Kitchen at Ferran Adrià’s elBulli – Lisa Abend
- Every Tool’s a Hammer: Life Is What You Make It – Adam Savage
- How To: Absurd Scientific Advice for Common Real-World Problems – Randall Munroe
- Thing Explainer: Complicated Stuff in Simple Words – Randall Munroe
- Good Clean Fun: Misadventures in Sawdust at Offerman Woodshop – Nick Offerman
- Traction: How Any Startup Can Achieve Explosive Customer Growth – Gabriel Weinberg
- Everything Is F*cked: A Book About Hope – Mark Manson
- Stillness Is the Key – Ryan Holiday
- Obviously Awesome: How to Nail Product Positioning so Customers Get It, Buy It, Love It – April Dunford
- I Will Teach You to Be Rich, Second Edition – Ramit Sethi
- Why Does He Do That?: Inside the Minds of Angry and Controlling Men – Lundy Bancroft
- The Rosie Project: A Novel – Graeme Simsion
- Flawless Consulting: A Guide to Getting Your Expertise Used – Peter Block
- Company of One: Why Staying Small Is the Next Big Thing for Business – Paul Jarvis
- Developer Marketing: The Essential Guide – SlashData, Nicolas Sauvage, Andreas Constantinou