Books

Sometimes I share book recommendations or write mini book reviews, and invariably people will ask me about a master list of books I’ve read so I wanted to put together that master list and you can find them all below. If you want my opinion on one of these before buying just shoot me an email.

Business / Work

The Ride of a Lifetime by Robert Iger
Never Split the Difference: Negotiating As If Your Life Depended On It by Chris Voss (Highly Recommend)
The Phoenix Project by Gene Kim, Kevin Behr, and George Spafford
It Doesn’t Have To Be Crazy at Work by Jason Fried and DHH
Remote: Office Not Required by Jason Fried and DHH
Rework by Jason Fried & DHH
Finding Flow by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
How To Fight a Hydra by Josh Kaufman
Profit First by Mike Michalowicz
The 4 Hour Work Week by Tim Ferris. This one is really showing it’s age.
Ego is the Enemy by Ryan Holiday
The Millionaire Next Door: The Surprising Secrets of America’s Wealthy by Thomas J. Stanley & William D. Danko
The Simple Path to Wealth by J L Collins
The Bogleheads’ Guide to Retirement Planning by Taylor Larimore, Mel Lindauer, Richard A. Ferri, Laura F. Dogu
The White Coat Investor by James M. Dahle, MD. This one is written for Doctors, but much of the advice can be applied to software developers.
Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less by Greg McKeown
Deep Work by Cal Newport
Anything You Want: 40 Lessons for a New Kind of Entrepreneur by Derek Silvers
Accounting Made Simple: Accounting Explained in 100 Pages or Less by Mike Piper
The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck: A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life by Mark Manson
Training Camp: What the Best Do Better Than Everyone Else by Jon Gordon
A Beautiful Constraint: How To Transform Your Limitations Into Advantages, and Why It’s Everyone’s Business by Adam Morgan & Mark Barden
Disrupted: My Misadventure in the Start-Up Bubble by Dan Lyons.
The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers by Ben Horowitz
A Higher Loyalty by James Comey
The Revenge of Analog by David Sax

Fiction

The Odyssey by Homer and translated by Emily Wilson (Great version)
The Way of Kings (The Stormlight Archive) by Brandon Sanderson This is book one in a three-part series and is the longest book I read at 1001 pages.
Reckoners Series by Brandon Sanderson that includes Steelheart, Firefight, and Calamity.
Harry Potter Half-Blood Prince (Book 6) and Deathly Hallows (Book 7) by J. K. Rowling. 18 years since the first Harry Potter came out and I finally finished the series. I’m honestly surprised it wasn’t spoiled for me.
Age of Myth: Book One of The Legends of the First Empire by Michael J. Sullivan
11/22/63 by Stephen King
Dune by Frank Herbert
Artemis by Andy Weir
Half a King by Joe Abercrombie. This book is part 1 of 3 in the Shattered Sea series.
Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes. I’ve been trying to get into the classics, and this was surprisingly fun.
Red Rising by Pierce Brown
Golden Son by Pierce Brown
Morning Star by Pierce Brown
Iron Gold by Pierce Brown
Artemis by Andy Weir
Ready Player One by Ernest Cline
Words of Radiance by Brandon Sanderson. This one is massive but good, I plan to finish this series in 2019.
We are Legion (We Are Bob) by Dennis E. Taylor. Surprisingly fun.
Seveneves by Neal Stephenson. First part great. Second part meh.
The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
Hatchet by Gary Paulsen. One of my childhood favorites!
Lord of the Flies by Wiliam Golding
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton
Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Great Expectations by Charles Dickens