This is a rough list of the books I have read. It’s to serve as a reference so I can see what I have already read so I don’t read it again or remind myself if I want to re-read something. For you, it can b e useful to get an idea on what type of books I read.
The list is not 100% complete. I have probably forgotten to add books I have read. Also, sometimes, I add a book I read on my Good Reads account instead because it’s easier.
Do NOT try to read the books I read in the order I did. They are presented in the chronological order I read them and some of them turned out to be horrible books and should be skipped. I will make blog posts or mention it in some way if I think it’s good.
Books I have read and finished completely:
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Nonfiction:
1. Essays of Warren Buffett (Great book!)
2. Twitter Power 2.0 by Joel Comm
3. Learn to Earn by Peter Lynch
4. Beat the Street by Peter Lynch
5. One up on Wall Street by Peter Lynch
6. How to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie
7. The Only Three Questions by Phil Fischer (meh… I’d avoid this one)
8. 4 Hour Work Week by Tim Ferriss
9. Tap Dancing to Work (LOVED this)
10. The Millionaire Next Door
11. The Millionaire Mind
12. The Automatic Millionaire
13. Rich Dad Poor Dad (highly recommend to any beginner)
14. Rich Dad’s Increase your financial IQ
15. The Intelligent Investor (Any stock investor must read this)
16. Common stocks and Uncommon profits by Phil Fischer
17. Retire Young Retire Rich
18. Security Analysis (got through a fraction of this. This textbook is huge. Will get through all of it one day)
19. Automatic Wealth for Grads by Michael Masterson
20. Emotional Intelligence
21. People are Idiots and I can Prove it by Larry Winget (self-help book)
22. Crush it by Gary Vaynerchuk (great book for young people who want to know the importance of social media and the internet)
23. The Sages
24. The Big Short by Michael Lewis
25. Money Culture by Michael Lewis
26. Common Sense on Mutual Funds by John Bogle
27. Irrational Exuberance (Great book)
28. F.I.A.S.C.O. (Awesome book. Describes the disgusting, corrupt, manipulative nature and system of derivatives and investment banking)
29. Business Adventures by John Brookes
30. Life is what you make it by Peter Buffett
31. Likeable Social Media (skimmed it. Some parts are just really dull and useless. It is mainly for businesses wanting to use internet marketing. Not really useful for me)
32. Book of Investing Wisdom
33. Warren Buffett and the Art of Stock Arbitrage
34. Warren Buffett and the Interpretation of Financial Statements
35. The Tao of Warren Buffett
36. The Wit and Wisdom of Warren Buffett
37. The Warren Buffett Way
38. The Snowball (got half way through. Long book)
39. How to Effortlessly Attract women by Richard La Ruina
40. The art of thinking clearly by Rolf Dobelli
41. Lean in for Grads
42. Made in America by Sam Walton
43. Managing Oneself by Peter Drucker
44. A Gift to My Children by Jim Rogers (Great book!)
45. Total Money Makeover by Dave Ramsey
46. Rule #1 Investing
47. Payback time
48. Reminiscence of a Stock Operator
49. How to be a Billionaire by Martin Fridson
50. Emotional Intelligence
51. The Business of Happiness by Ted Leonsis
52. Drive the Surprising Truth to What Motivates Us
53. Against the Gods
54. Never Eat Alone
55. How to be Rich by Donald Trump
56. Poor Charlie’s Almanack
57. Jab, Jab, Jab Right Hook by Gary Vaynerchuk
58. I got my dream job and so can you by Pete Leibman
59. Little book that still beats the market
60. Strength Finders 2.0
61. The One Thing by Gary Keller
62. The Thank You Economy
63. What I Know For Sure by Oprah Winfrey
64. Purple Cow by Seth Godin
65. Random Walk down Wall Street
66. Thank You Economy by Gary Vaynerchuk
67. So Good they can’t ignore you by Cal Newport
68. The Education of a Value Investor
69. Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill
70. First Break All the Rules
71. Stocks For The Long Run
72. Good to Great (AMAZING book!)
73. Built to Last
74. Authentic Happiness
75. Stumbling upon Happiness
76. Black Swan
77. The Happiness Advantage
78. Before Happiness
79. 21 Secrets to Success and Happiness by John Templeton
80. Laws of Inner Wealth by Sir John Templeton
81. Road To Riches by Napoleon Hill
82. Awaken the Giant Within by Tony Robbins
83. Financial Freedom by Tony Robbins
84. Lessons in Mastery by Tony Robbins
85. 7 Habits of Highly Effective People
86. Laws of Success by Napoleon Hill (Highly recommended)
87. Getting There by Gillian Zoe Segal (Highly recommended)
88. Zero to One by Peter Thiel
89. A Bull in China by Jim Rogers
90. Success Through Stillness by Russell Simmons
91. Super Rich! by Russell Simmons
92. Manifest Your Destiny by Wayne M. Dyer
93. Business @ the Speed of Thought by Bill Gates
94. #GirlBoss by Sophia Amoruso
95. Excuses Begone by Wayne Dyer
96. Financial Freedom by Suze Orman
97. Grinding it Out by Ray Kroc (great book)
98. The Alchemist
99. The Lexus and the Olive Tree
100. The First Billion is the Hardest by T. Boone Pickens
101. The 100 Absolutely Unbreakable Laws of Business Success by Brian Tracy
101. Internet millionaires – The simple money making secrets of online millionaires
102. How to be a No-Limit Person by Wayne Dyer (worth it)
103. Creating Magic (best book on Leadership I’ve read)
104. Creativity Inc (4 stars)
105.Screw it Lets Do It by Richard Branson (great for eliminating excuses)
106. The Greatest Salesman Alive by Og Mandigo
107. The Checklist Manifesto
108. Laptop Millionaire
109. Your Erroneous Zones by Wayne Dyer
110. Rework by Jason Fried
111. $100 Start Up
112. Pro Blogger
113. The Science of Getting Rich by Wallace D. Wattles
114. The Virgin Way by Richard Branson
115. The Power of Habits (4.5 out of 5!)
116. Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell (3.6 out of 5)
117. Act like A Success, Think Like A Success by Steve Harvey
118. Personal Success Made Simple by Brian Tracy
119. I Will Teach You To Be Rich by Ramit Sethi
120. Linchpin by Seth Godin
121. Time Management by Brian Tracy
122. Achieve Your Goals by Brian Tracy
123. Hardwiring Happiness
124. The Everything Store
125. As A Man Thinketh
126. 100 Absolutely Unbreakable Laws for Business Success by Brian Tracy
127. Permission Marketing by Seth Godin
128. Napoleon Hill’s Golden Rules
129. Growth Hacker Marketing by Ryan Holiday
130. Mastery by Robert Greene
131. The Dip by Seth Godin
132. Getting Things Done by David Allen
133. The Red Queen by Matt Ridley
134. Delivering Happiness by Tony Hsieh
135. The Everything Store
136. This Book Will Teach You How to Write Better by Neville Medhora
137. Contagious
138. Decisive by Chip and Dan Heath
139. The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up : The Japanese Art of Decluttering and Organizing
140. Business Stripped Bare by Richard Branson
141. To Sell Is Human by Dan Pink
142. Why Women Have Sex
143. The Science of Success by Charles Koch
144. Why Beautiful People Have More Daughters
145. First: What It Takes To Win by Rich Froning Jr.
146. Mindset: The New Psychology of Success by Carol Dweck
147. Happier by Tal Ben Shahar
Books I have read partially:
Some books have a lot of filler content because the publisher wants the book to look bigger or the author just wants to add fluff so the book isn’t 10 pages long. I sometimes only read part of books because there are only parts of it that are useful or interesting to me (and this is not necessarily because the book is bad or has fluff). Here’s the list.
1. I could do anything if I only knew what it was
2. What color is your parachute?
3. I will teach you how to be rich
4. That idiot’s rich and I’m not?
5. The Millionaire Messenger
6. Money: Master the Game by Anthoyn Robbins
7. 40 Chances
8. The Millionaire Messenger by Brendon Burchard
9. Now, Discover Your Strengths
10. 7 Habits of Highly Effective People
11. I graduated .. now what?
12. The Snowball
13. How to travel for free (or pretty damn near it)
14. How to get Rich by Felix Dennis
15. The Narrow Road by Felix Dennis
16. 15 Secrets Successful People Know About Time Management: The Productivity Habits of 7 Billionaires, 13 Olympic Athletes, 29 Straight-A Students, and 239 Entrepreneurs
17. Mate: Become the Man Women Want by Tucker Max
18. Leave your mark
19. Click Millionaire
20. Shoe Dog by Phil Knight
21. It’s Easier to Succeed Than Fail
22. Recession Proof Graduate by Charlie Hoehn
23. Scientific Advertising by Claude Hopkins
24. Confessions of an Advertising Man by David Ogilvy
Fiction:
1. The Harry Potter Series (7 books)
2. Bartimaeus Sequence (first 3 books)
3. Inheritance Sequence
4. A couple books in this mouse series (forgot what it’s called)
5. Series of Unfortunate Events Series
6. DaVinci code by Dan Brown
7. Quite a few books that are tales of the mice/rats with human traits that carry swords and fight and have castles. It was quite good.
8. Another series that was pretty damn good that should be made into a movie. Forgot what it was called but it was like “the Merlin series”. It is about the childhood of Merlin the wizard
9. The Alchemist (good book recommended by Will Smith. One of the most sold books of all time. Great for personal development)
10. Crestomanci Series
I have compiled a reading list of over 1000+ books that I have decided to get through. I will add them to the “Finished Reading” list below as I go through them. I would say they are a compilation of over 100+ reading lists from Warren Buffett and Bill Gates’ reading lists to Top 10 or Top 20 Reading Lists. The topics range from business, success, economics, investing, money, finance, self-success, self-help, fitness, health, self-improvement, biographies (of all sorts of amazing people from Arnold Schwarzenegger to Warren Buffett to Steve Jobs to Gene Simmons to name a few), psychology, happiness, and marriage/love. Many have tremendously impacted and helped many successful people make their way in life. One giant chunk of my list is on what you would label as “How to Get Rich” books. But not in the traditional “get rich quick scam artist” sense. Reading these will not immediately make you rich or guarantee it. What I have found (and you should understand that the ones that get on my list go through a large filter of my own making to make sure they are legitimate, relevant, reputable, and authored by amazing people) is that the ones I pick up end up giving you a hard, cold truth that it is not easy but this is what you can do and these are the mindsets you can have and these are the misconceptions poor people have and so on. But I will save the details for my reviews, which I will be doing in video format on my Youtube channel. The ones I pick up are usually either bestsellers, very popular, highly recommended from a lot of reputable sources, and/or authored by very reputable people. T
A good portion of my “To Be Read” reading list can be seen on my Amazon Wish List. The rest of my reading list (which is larger than my Amazon Wish List… which already has 1000+ books on it) is on paper somewhere, saved, accessible somehow, or already bought. Leave a comment if you have any questions.
Amazon Wish List: http://amzn.com/w/NUDIHFWT11Q
Some books are just not worth reading fully. A lot of the book may just be hundreds of pages of fluff that waste your time to read and were made just to make the book thicker so it can be published.