Below are books that I have read over the years. Some of these are referenced in my stories and some are simply things that I read. If they have an * after them it serves as a recommended book.
Reading List
Attached - Amir Levine
5 Languages of Love - Gary Chapman
The Attachment Effect - Peter Lovenheim*
Talking To Strangers - Malcom Gladwell*
Presence - Amy Cuddy
Stumbling on Happiness - Daniel Gilbert
The Power of Habit - Charles Duhigg
Thinking, Fast and Slow - Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky*
The Subtle Art of Not Giving A F*ck - Mark Manson*
Nudge - Richard Thaler
Moon Walking With Einstein - Joshua Foer*
Range - David Epstein*
Finite and Infinite Games - James Carse
The Body Keeps The Score - Bassel Van Der Kolk*
Homecoming - John Bradshaw*
When - Daniel Pink
Drive - Daniel Pink
To Sell is Human - Daniel Pink
Change Your Questions, Change Your Life - Marilee Adams
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The Giving Tree - Shel Silverstein
Insight - Tasha Eurich
Rising Strong - Brene Brown
The Upside of Stress - Kelly McGonigal*
The Design of Everyday Things - Don Norman*
Complex PTSD: From Surviving To Thriving - Pete Walker*
Modern Man In Search of A Soul - Carl Jung*
Man’s Search For Meaning - Victor Frankl*
The World’s Religions - Huston Smith*
The Inner Game of Tennis - Timothy Gallwey
The Undoing Project - Michael Lewis
12 Rules For Life - An Antidote to Chaos - Jordan Peterson*
Emotional Design - Don Norman*
The Box:How the Shipping Container Made the World Smaller and the World Economy Bigger - Marc Levinson*
Extreme Ownership - Jocko Willink and Leif Babson
Greenlights - Matthew McConaughey
Alchemy - Rory Sutherland*
Leadership Strategy and Tactics - Jocko Willink
David and Goliath - Malcom Gladwell
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance - Robert Parsig
Fire Lover: A True Story - Joe Wambaugh
Give and Take - Adam Grant
Liars Poker - Michael Lewis*
The Fifth Risk - Michael Lewis
East Of Eden - John Steinbeck
The Old Man and The Sea - Ernest Hemingway
Money Ball - Michael Lewis
A Small Death In Lisbon - Robert Wilson
Never Split The Difference - Chris Voss
Why We Sleep - Matthew Walker*
Astrophysics For People In A Hurry - Neil de Grasse Tyson
The Kite Runner - Khaled Housseini
A Thousand Splendid Suns - Khaled Housseini
Make Your Bed - William McCraven
Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents - Lindsay Gibson*
The Selfish Gene - Richard Dawkins*
The Red Breast - Jo Nesbo*
Nemesis - Jo Nesbo
The Snowman - Jo Nesbo*
Phantom - Jo Nesbo
The Leopard- Jo Nesbo*
The Bat - Jo Nesbo
Cockroaches - Jo Nesbo
Open - Andre Agassi*
The Lean Start Up - Eric Ries
Kitchen Confidential - Anthony Bourdain*
Omnivore’s Dilemma - Michael Polan
1984 - George Orwell*
Winning Ugly - Brad Gilbert
Switched On - John Elder Robinson*
Norse Mythology - Neil Gaimen
Tom Sawyer - Mark Twain
Huckleberry Finn - Mark Twain
On Becoming A Person - Carl Rogers*
Finding Your Element - Ken Robinson
Lord of the Flies - William Golding
The Prince - Machiavelli
7 Habits of Highly Effective People - Stephen Covey
Breath - James Nestor*
Everything is F*cked: A Book About Hope - Mark Manson
Atlas Shrugged - Ayn Rand*
The Fountainhead - Ayn Rand
Anthem - Ayn Rand
Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
Animals in Translation - Temple Grandin*
The Dichotomy of Leadership - Jocko Willink and Leif Babson
Humankind - Rutger Bergman*
Emotional Intelligence - Daniel Goleman*
The Phoenix Project - George Kim
The Martian Chronicles - Ray Bradbury
2001: A Space Odyssey - Arthur C. Clarke
2010: Second Odyssey - Arthur C. Clarke
The Stand - Stephen King
Misery - Stephen King
Bury My Heart At Wounded Knee - Dee Brown
The Hand Maids Tale - Margaret Atwood
The Psychology Of The Child - Jean Piaget
The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe - C.S. Lewis
Boys Adrift - Leonard Sax
The Visual Investor - John Murphy
Beyond Good and Evil - Friedrich Nietzsche
Lucifer’s Hammer - Jerry Pournelle and Larry Niven*
The Worst Hard Time - Timothy Egan
Catch-22 - Joseph Heller
The Untethered Soul - Michael Senger
Flowers For Algernon - Daniel Keyes
NueroTribes - Steve Silberman*
The Art of Learning - Josh Weitzkin
High Fidelity - Nick Hornby
About A Boy - Nick Hornby
Juliet, Naked - Nick Hornby
American Gods - Neil Gaiman
The Winter of Our Discontent - John Steinbeck
The Power of Now - Eckert Tolle*
Beyond Order - Jordan Peterson
My Antonia - Willa Cather
The Rational Male - Rollo Thomassi
Psych 101 - Paul Kleinman
Thank You For My Service - Matt Best
This Is Your Brain On Sports - Jon Wertheim*
T: The story of testosterone the hormone that dominates us and divides us - Carole Hooven*
Trying Not To Try - Edward Slingerland
The Asshole Survival Guide - Robert Sutton
America Before - Graham Hancock*
Why Women Have Sex - David Buss and Cindy Meston
Hooked - Nir Eyal
Shoe Dog - Phil Knight*
Thinking in Pictures - Temple Grandin
No More Mr. Nice Guy - Robert Glover
Start Up - Jerry Kaplan
What Everybody is Saying - Joe Navarro
Toxic Parents: Overcoming Their Hurtful Legacy And Reclaiming Your Life - Susan Forward and Craig Buck
Trapped In The Mirror - Ellen Golomb
The Davinci Code - Dan Brown
What The Dog Saw - Malcolm Gladwell
Stiff - Mary Roach
The Way Of The Superior Man - David Deida
Fight Club - Chuck Palahniuk*
Choke - Chuck Palahniuk
Snuff - Chuck Palahniuk
L.A. Requiem - Robert Crais
Demolition Angel - Robert Crais
The Watchman - Robert Crais
Chaos - Making A New Science - James Gleick*
The One Thing - Gary Keller
The Boys In The Boat - Daniel James Brown
Evolve Your Brain - Joe Dispenza
Tribe - Sebastian Junger
Girl With The Dragon Tattoo - Stieg Larson
Girl Who Kicked The Hornets’ Nest - Stieg Larson
The Girl Who Played With Fire - Stieg Larson
Why Zebras Don’t Get Ulcers - Robert Sapolsky*
First Among Equals - Jeffery Archer
48 Laws of Power - Robert Green
Drunk - Edward Slingerland
Getting Past Your Past - Francine Shapiro
Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
Animal Farm - George Orwell
Bomber Mafia - Malcolm Gladwell
Alive - Piers Paul Read
Heart Breath Mind - Leah Lagos
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde - Robert Louis Stevenson
Behave: The Biology Of Humans At Their Best And Worst - Robert Sapolsky
Peak Mind - Amishi Jha
This Your Mind On Plants - Michael Polan
Atomic Habits - James Clear
The Mindful Brain - Daniel Siegal
Waking Up: A Guide To Spirituality Without Religion - Sam Harris
Shape - Jordan Ellenberg
Good Morning Monster - Catherine Gildiner*
Will - Will Smith
Lying - Sam Harris
Recovering From Emotionally Immature Parents - Lindsay Gibson
Unsettled:What Climate Science Tells Us and What It Doesn’t - Steve Koonin
Life - Keith Richards
The Power of Regret - Daniel Pink
Chaos Monkeys - Antonio Garcia Martinez
The 50th Law - 50 Cent and Robert Greene
Capitalism and Freedom - Milton Friedman
EMDR - Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing - Francine Shapiro and Margot Silk*
The Gulag Archipelago Volume 1 - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
The Obstacle Is The Way - Ryan Holiday
Becoming Supernatural - Joe Dispenza
The Enneagram of Belonging - Chris Heuertz
Unbroken - Laura Hillenbrand
Barking Up The Wrong Tree - Eric Barker
22 Immutable Laws of Marketing - Jack Trout and Al Ries
Wonderful Wizard of Oz - Frank Baum
Blink: The Power Of Thinking Without Thinking - Malcolm Gladwell
Plays Well With Others: The Surprising Science Behind Relationships - Eric Barker
The Caine Mutiny - Herman Wouk*
Learned Optimism - Martin Seligman
The Art of Seduction - Robert Greene
Exit Music - Ian Rankin
The Complaints - Ian Rankin
The Naming of The Dead - Ian Rankin
Blue Ocean Strategy - W. Chan Kim and Renee Mauborgne
How To Change Your Mind - Michael Pollan
Be Exceptional - Joe Navarro
How to Win Friends and Influence People - Dale Carnegie
Free - Chris Anderson
Rationality - Steven Pinker
Catcher and the Rye - J.D. Salinger
Scattered - Gabor Mate’
The Pleasure of Finding Things Out - Richard Feynman
Mother’s Who Can’t Love - Susan Forward
When The Body Says No - Gabor Mate’
Inventing Ourselves - Sarah Jane Blakemore
The Brain’s Way of Healing - Norman Doidge MD*
Healing Developmental Trauma - Laurence Heller PhD and Aline LaPierre PsyD*
The Book Of Joy - Dalai Lama, Desmond Tutu, and Douglas Abrams
Stealing Fire - Steven Cotler and Jamie Wheal
Friday Night Lights - H.G. Bissinger
Social Intelligence - Daniel Goleman
The Boy Raised As A Dog - Bruce Perry
Zero to One - Peter Theil
Surrounded By Narcissists - Thomas Erikson
Lonesome Dove - Larry McMurty*
Build - Tony Fadell
The Meaning of Marriage - Timothy Keller
Helping the Child Who Doesn’t Fit In - Stephen Nowicki and Marshall P. Duke
Story Teller - Dave Grohl
Perennial Sellers - Ryan Halliday
Will I Ever Fit In - Stephen Nowicki and Marshall P. Duke
Iacocca - Lee Iacocca
Fast Asleep - Dr. Michael Mosley
Games People Play - Eric Berne MD
War of the worlds - H.G. Wells
Elephant in the Brain - Simler and Hanson
Gravity’s Century - Ron Cowan
Recapture the Rapture - Jamie Wheel
In The Realm Of Hungry Ghosts - Gabor Mate’
The Gene - Siddhartha Mukherjee
No Bad Parts - Richard Schwartz
The New Executive Brain - Elkhonon Goldberg*
Hold On to Your Kids - Gordon Neufeld, Gabor Mate’
The Laws of Medicine - Siddhartha Mukherjee
The Big Picture - Sean Carrol
Why Calories Don’t Count - Giles Yeo
The Song of The Cell - Siddhartha Mukherjee
Genetics for Dummies - Tara Robinson and Lisa Spock
Disunited Nations - Peter Ziehan
Unmasking Autism - Devon Price
Sacred Cow - Diana Rodgers and Robb Wolf
Gulag Archipelago Volume 2 - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
The Biggest Ideas In The Universe - Sean Carrol
Lost Connections - Johann Hari
Coyote America - Dan Flores
Greater Than The Sum Of Our Parts - Richard Schwartz*
Pattern Seekers - Simon Baron-Cohen
Our Inner Ape - Frans De Wall
Into Thin Air - Jon Krakauer
Disunited Nations - Peter Zeihan
Different: Gender and Our Primate Heritage - Frans De Wall
Losing My Nobel Prize - Brian Keating
All The Pretty Horses - Cormac McCarthy
Don’t You Know Who I Am? - Ramani Durvasula*
Stolen Focus - Johann Hari
The Gulag Archipelago Volume 3 - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Texas - James Michener
Maps of Meaning - Jordan Peterson*
The Creative Act - Rick Rubin*
The Rum Diary - Hunter S. Thompson
Fear and Loathing In Las Vegas - Hunter S. Thompson
Aware - Daniel Siegel, MD
The Saad Truth About Happiness: 8 Secrets For Leading The Good Life - Gad Saad
Focus - Daniel Goleman
A Primate’s Memoir - Robert Sapolsky
The Ancient City - Numa Denis Fustel de Coulanges*
The Science of Sleep - John Medina
On The Origin Of Time - Thomas Herron
The End Of The World Is Just The Beginning - Peter Zehan
Projections - Karl Deisserhof
If You’re In My Office It’s Already Too Late - James Sexton
Brain Rules - John Medina
Mindsight - Dr. Daniel Siegel
What Got You Here Won’t Get You There - Marshall Goldsmith
Winning - Tim Grover
The Parasitic Mind - Gaad Saad
A Brief History of Time - Stephen Hawking
Magician of the Gods - Graham Hancock
Hells Angels - Hunter S. Thompson
The Sun Also Rises - Ernest Hemingway
Gone Girl - Gillian Flynn
Transform: Habits of Superior Managers - Dan Siegel and Daniel Goleman
Smarter Faster Better - Charles Duhigg
A Synthesizing Mind - Howard Gardner
Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
Longitude - Dave Sobel*
How to Tell a Story - Aristotle
The Source - Tara Swart
Start With Why - Simon Sinek
No Country For Old Men - Cormac McCarthy
Radiation - Robert Peter Gale and Eric Lax
What You Do Is Who You Are - Ben Horowitz
Music And the Brain - Aniruddh D. Patel
Thinking in Bets - Annie Duke
The Power of Language - Viorica Marian
On Writing Places - William Zinsser
The Strange Order of Things - Antonio Demasi
Awaken The Giant Within - Tony Robbin
On Writing To Learn - William Zinsser
Bird By Bird - Anne Lamont*
The Pattern Seekers - Simon Baron Cohen
The Brain That Changes Itself - Norman Doidge MD
Mastery - Robert Greene
The Bible - Gospels of Christ
Trading in the Zone - Mark Douglas
The Periodic Table - Primo Levi*
Influence - Robert J. Cialdini*
Antigone - Jean Anouilh
The Marginal Revolutionaries - Janek Wasserman
Hitman - Bret Hart
Dialectical Behavior Therapy - Theresa Williams
The Illiad - Homer
The Odyssey - Homer
Dialogue - Robert McKee
Action - Robert McKee, Bassim El-Wakil
The Dao of Capitalism - Mark Spitzangel with Rand Paul
Economics in One Lesson - Henry Hazlitt
Fooled By Randomness - Nassim Taleb
How To Get What You Want - Zig Ziggler
Innovation and Entrepreneurship - Peter F. Drucker
The Myth of Normal - Gabor Mate
The Anarchy - William Dalrymple
Relentless - Tim Grover
Cultish - Amanda Mantell
The Legend of Bagger Vance - Steven Pressfield
Mysteries of Modern Physics - Sean Carroll
The King James Bible - Various
Blitzed - Norman Ohler
The Eyes of The Dragon - Stephen King
The Inner Game of Golf - Timothy Gallwey
The Downhill Lie - Carl Hiaasen
Emotional Agility - Susan David
Permission To Feel - Marc Brackett
Verbal Judo - George Thompson
Feeling and Knowing - Antonio Damasio
Same As Ever - Morgan Housel
The Road To Serfdom - Friedrich A. Hayek*
Man And His Symbols - Carl Jung*
The Source - James Michener
The Crossing - Cormac McCarthy
Thus Spoke Zarathustra - Friedrich Nietzsche
Liberalism In the Classical Tradition - Ludwig Von Mises
Life Is In the Transitions - Bruce Feller
5 Types of People Who Can Ruin Your Life - Bill Eddy*
Stop Being Reasonable - Eleanor Gordon-Smith
A Wrinkle Time - Madeleine L’Engle
Supercommunicators - Charles Duhigg
Sapiens - Yuval Noah Harari*
An Outsider’s Guide To Humans - Camila Pang
Outer Dark - Cormac McCarthy
Consciousness and the Brain - Stanislas Dehaene*
Healing Developmental Trauma - Laurence Heller, PhD and Aline LaPierre, PsyD*
The Comfort Book - Matt Haig
The Polyvagal Theory - Stephen W. Porges*
Nexus - Yuval Noah Harari
Psycho-Cybernets - Maxwell Maltz M.D. Dan S. Kennedy*
How To Stop Time - Matt Haig