Reading engages the mind, reduces stress, increases knowledge, and so much more. If you are looking for your next book to read, in no particular order, here are books I have read (and recommend), currently reading, and intend to read:
Currently Reading
Have Read
Business, Finance, and Leadership
- Rich Dad Poor Dad: What the Rich Teach Their Kids About Money That the Poor and Middle Class Do Not (Robert Kiyosaki)
- Building a StoryBrand: Clarify Your Message So Customers Will Listen (Donald Miller)
- Hacking Growth: How Today's Fastest-Growing Companies Drive Breakout Success (Sean Ellis)
- Strengths Based Leadership: Great Leaders, Teams, and Why People Follow (Tom Rath & Barry Conchie)
- Start. (Jon Acuff)
- Good to Great (Jim Collins)
- How to Invest in Real Estate: The Ultimate Beginner's Guide to Getting Started (Brandon Turner & Josh Dorkin)
- Business Model Generation: A Handbook for Visionaries, Game Changers, and Challengers (Alexander Osterwalder & Ynes Pigneur)
Faith-based
- How to Worship a King: Prepare Your Heart. Prepare Your World. Prepare The Way. (Zach Neese)
- Truly Free: Breaking the Snares That So Easily Entagle (Robert Morris)
- God's Armor Bearer (Terry Nance)
- Not a Fan: Becoming a Completely Committed Follower of Jesus (Kyle Idleman)
Health and Fitness
- Bigger Leaner Stronger: The Simple Science of Building the Ultimate Male Body (Mike Matthews)
- Deskbound: Standing Up to a Sitting World (Kelly Starret, Juliet Starrett, & Gen Cordoza)
History, Memoirs, and Biographies
- Flying the SR-71 Blackbird: In the Cockpit on a Secret Operational Mission On a Secret Operational Mission (Richard Graham)
Future Reads
- How To Win Friends and Influence People (Dale Carnegie) Re-read
- Excellence Wins: A No-Nonsense Guide to Becoming the Best in a World of Compromise (Horst Schulze, Ken Blanchard, & Dean Merrill)
- Richest Man in Babylon (George Clason) Finish Reading
- Capital Gaines: Smart Things I Learned Doing Stupid Stuff (Chip Gaines)
- Never Eat Alone, Expanded and Updated: And Other Secrets to Success, One Relationship at a Time (Keith Ferrazzi)
- When: The Scientific Secrets of Perfect Timing (Daniel Pink)
- Cashflow Quadrant: Rich Dad's Guide to Financial Freedom (Robert Kiyosaki)
List of Alt-MBA Books (Compiled from several lists):
- Measure What Matters: How Google, Bono, and the Gates Foundation Rock the World with OKRs (John Doerr)
- The Culture Code: The Secrets of Highly Successful Groups (Daniel Coyle)
- Influence: Science and Practice (Robert Cialdini)
- The 48 Laws of Power (Robert Greene)
- The Ride of a Lifetime: Lessons Learned from 15 Years as CEO of the Walt Disney Company (Robert Iger)
- The 4-Hour Workweek: Escape 9-5, Live Anywhere, and Join the New Rich (Tim Ferriss)
- Thinking, Fast and Slow (Daniel Kahneman)
- Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game (Michael Lewis)
- The Lean Startup: How Today's Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses (Eric Ries)