My Reading List

Below are a list of some of the books I have enjoyed reading or always desired to read.

Please post comments with your thoughts on any books that you may have read, want to read, or recommendations to add to my list. There are just too many good reads out there to add all in one place!

“The things I want to know are in books; my best friend is the man who’ll get me a book I ain’t read.”

-Abraham Lincoln

1984 by George Orwell

The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People by Steven Covey

A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway

Animal Farm by George Orwell

Anthem by Ayn Rand

The Art of the Start: The Time-Tested, Battle-Hardened Guide for Anyone Starting Anything by Guy Kawasaki

Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand

Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin by Benjamin Franklin

The Autobiography of Malcolm X by Malcolm X & Alex Haley

The Autobiography of Martin Luther King, Jr. by Martin Luther King Jr.

Business Model Generation: A Handbook for Visionaries, Game Changers, and Challengers by Alexander Osterwalder & Yves Pigneur

The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger

The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right by Atul Gawande

Choke by Chuck Palahniuk

Crazy Love: Overwhelmed by a Relentless God by Francis Chan

Cunt: A Declaration of Independence by Inga Muscio

Damned by Chuck Palahniuk

The E-Myth: Why Most Small Businesses Don’t Work and What to Do About It by Michael Gerber

Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman’s Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia by Elizabeth Gilbert

The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development: A Cheat Sheet to The Four Steps to the Epiphany by Brant Cooper & Patrick Vlaskovits

Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk

First Things First by Steven Covey

The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand

The Four Steps to the Epiphany: Successful Strategies for Products That Win by Steven Gary Blank

Fugitives and Refugees by Chuck Palahniuk

Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell

The Greatest Salesman in the World by Og Mandino

Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad

Haunted by Chuck Palahniuk

Invisible Monsters by Chuck Palahniuk

Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte

Kite Strings of the Southern Cross: A Woman’s Travel Odyssey by Laurie Gough

The Law of Success by Napoleon Hill

The Lean Startup: How Todays’ Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses by Eric Ries

Lullaby by Chuck Palahniuk

Mein Kampf by Adolf Hitler

Messy Spirituality by Michael Yaconelli

Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf

One Small Step Can Change Your Life: The Kaizen Way by Dr. Robert Maurer

Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

The Prophet by Kahil Gibran

Pygmy by Chuck Palahniuk

Snuff by Chuck Palahniuk

The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway

Survivor by Chuck Palahniuk

Tell All by Chuck Palahniuk

Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can’t Stop Talking by Susan Cain

We the Living by Ayn Rand

What the Most Successful People Do Before Breakfast by Laura Vanderkam

Whipping Girl: A Transsexual Woman on Sexism and the Scapegoating of Femininity by Julia Serano