The Library

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)