Books Read by Month

Below is a running list of the books I’ve read by the month I finished them. I starting tracking my books in January of 2018. I’ve linked any articles I have written about the books.

If you’d rather see this list in alphabetical order click here.

Books Read Since January 2018 – 290



2020 – 89 Books Read (so far)

July 2020

  • American Ulysses – Ronald C. White
  • Endurance – Alfred Lansing

June 2020

  • The 10X Rule – Grant Cardone
  • Just Mercy – Bryan Stevenson
  • Go Forward with Faith: The Biography of Gordon B. Hinckley – Sheri Dew
  • Democracy in One Book or Less – David Litt
  • How Will you Measure Your Life? – Clayton M. Christensen
  • George Lucas: A Life – Brian Jay Jones
  • So You Want to Talk About Race – Ijemoa Oluo
  • To The Rescue – Heidi S. Swinton
  • Dreams from My Father – Barack Obama
  • Cosmos – Carl Sagan
  • An Astronaut’s Guide to Life on Earth – Chris Hadfield
  • Roughing It – Mark Twain

May 2020

  • Exhalation – Ted Chiang
  • The Martian Chronicles – Ray Bradbury
  • Stories of Your Life and Others – Ted Chiang
  • The 15 Invaluable Laws of Growth – John C. Maxwell
  • The One Thing – Gary Keller
  • Good Leaders Ask Great Questions – John C. Maxwell
  • Tortilla Flat – John Steinbeck
  • The Grapes of Wrath – John Steinbeck
  • A Moveable Feast – Ernest Hemingway
  • Misery – Stephen King
  • The Gatekeepers – Chris Whipple
  • Brave New World – Aldous Huxley
  • To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee
  • Animal Farm – George Orwell
  • Thanks, Obama – David Litt

April 2020

  • Working – Robert A. Caro
  • The Firm – John Grisham
  • On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft – Stephen King
  • My Life With Bob – Pamela Paul
  • God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater – Kurt Vonnegut
  • Mother Night – Kurt Vonnegut
  • The Roads to Sata – Alan Booth
  • Antifragile – Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • Armageddon in Retrospect – Kurt Vonnegut
  • Salt Sugar Fat – Michael Moss
  • Bluebeard – Kurt Vonnegut
  • How Google Works – Eric Schmidt
  • A Life in Parts – Bryan Cranston
  • Endurance – Scott Kelly

March 2020

  • Educated – Tara Westover
  • Notes From a Small Island – Bill Bryson
  • Decision Points – George W. Bush
  • Who Moved My Cheese? – Spencer Johnson
  • The Perfect Mile – Neal Bascomb
  • The Black Swan – Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • Endure – Alex Hutchinson
  • Eat And Run – Scott Jurek
  • The Inland Sea – Donald Richie
  • Bush – Jean Edward Smith
  • After Dark – Haruki Murakami
  • The Five Dysfunction of a Team – Patrick Lencioni
  • What I Talk About When I Talk About Running – Haruki Murakami
  • The Paradigm – Jonathan Cahn
  • Red Notice – Bill Browder

February 2020

  • Beneath a Scarlet Sky – Mark Sullivan
  • The Art of War – Sun Tzu
  • How to Hide an Empire – Daniel Immerwahr
  • Leaders Eat Last – Simon Sinek
  • The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt – Edmund Morris
  • Maphead – Ken Jennings
  • Murder on the Orient Express – Agatha Christie
  • Never Split the Difference – Christopher Voss
  • Anansi Boys – Neil Gaiman
  • Never Let Me Go – Kazuo Ishiguro

January 2020

  • Spaceman – Mike Massimino
  • A Little History of Economics – Niall Kishtainy
  • Surely You’re Joking, Mr. Feynman! – Richard P. Feynman
  • The Selfish Gene – Richard Dawkins
  • And Then There Were None – Agatha Christie
  • Freakonomics – Steven Levitt
  • The Wright Brothers – David McCullough
  • The Remains of the Day – Kazuo Ishiguro
  • The Westing Game – Ellen Raskin
  • Death on the Nile – Agatha Christie
  • The Graveyard Book – Neil Gaiman
  • Emotional Intelligence 2.0 – Terry Bradberry
  • Genghis Kahn and the Making of the Modern World – Jack Weatherford
  • Extreme Ownership – Jocko Willink
  • Range: Why Generalists Triumph in A Specialized World – David Epstein
  • Multipliers – Liz Wiseman
  • Talking to Strangers – Malcolm Gladwell
  • Built to Last – Jim Collins
  • The Art of Wordly Wisdom – Baltasar Gracian
  • The Laws of Success – Sterling W. Sill
  • The Man Who Solved The Market – Gregory Zuckerman


2019 – 97 Books Read

December 2019

  • Good to Great – Jim Collins
  • Cats Cradle – Kurt Vonnegut
  • Emerson: The Mind on Fire – Robert D. Richardson
  • Slaughterhouse-Five – Kurt Vonnegut
  • Killing Floor – Lee Child
  • Things That Matter – Charles Krauthammer
  • The Passage of Power – Robert A. Caro
  • Temple and Comsos – Hugh Nibley
  • The Big Short – Michael Lewis
  • Master of the Senate – Robert A. Caro

November 2019

October 2019

September 2019

August 2019

  • Driven: An Autobiography – Larry H. Miller
  • I Will Lead You Along – Henry J. Eyring
  • Insights from A prophets Life Russel M. Nelson- Sheri Dew
  • Go Forward With Faith – Sheri Dew
  • Algorithms to Live By – Brian Christian and Tom Griffiths
  • Bowerman and the Men of Oregon – Kenny Moore
  • Born to Run – Christopher McDougall
  • Jack: Straight From the Gut – Jack Welch
  • Sam Walton: Made In America – Sam Walton *Read twice in the month.
  • Specter of the Past – Timothy Zahn.

July 2019

  • Thrawn: Treason – Timothy Zahn
  • Billion Dollar Whale – Tom Wright & Bradley
  • Bad Blood – John Carreyrou
  • Revenge of the Sith – Matthew Stover
  • The Everything Store – Brad Stone
  • Linchpin – Seth Godin
  • Consider the Lobster – David Foster Wallace
  • Pulphead – John Jeremiah Sullivan
  • Thrawn: Alliances – Timothy Zahn
  • Thrawn – Timothy Zahn
  • A Supposedly Fun Thing I’ll Never do Again – David Foster Wallace

June 2019

  • The Last Command – Timothy Zahn
  • Dark Force Rising – Timothy Zahn
  • Heir to the Empire – Timothy Zahn
  • Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? – Phillip K. Dick
  • The Good Neighbor – Maxwell King
  • The 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle – Stuart Turton

May 2019

  • Cannery Row – John Steinbeck
  • The Productivity Project – Chris Bailey
  • Civil Disobedience – Henry David Thoreau
  • Flowers For Algernon – Daniel Keyes
  • Napoleon: A Life – Andrew Roberts
  • Finding Ultra – Rich Roll
  • The Magic of Thinking Big – David Schwartz
  • On Tyranny – Timothy Snyder
  • Above The Line – Urban Meyer
  • What Every Body Is Saying: An Ex-FBI Agent’s Guide to Speed-Reading People – Joe Navarro 

April 2019

  • The Industries of the Future – Alec Ross
  • Outliers: The Story of Success – Malcolm Gladwell
  • The Sirens of Titan – Kurt Vonnegut
  • I Love Capitalism!: An American Story – Ken Langone
  • Idea Man: A Memoir by the Cofounder of Microsoft – Paul Allen
  • All These Things Shall Give Thee Experience – Neal A. Maxwell

March 2019

  • A Short History of Nearly Everything – Bill Bryson
  • How Will You Measure Your Life? – Clayton M. Christensen
  • Driven: An Autobiography – Larry H. Miller
  • Women and the Priesthood – Sheri Dew
  • The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions fail- But Some don’t – Nate Silver
  • Understanding Japan: A Cultural History – Mark Ravina
  • The Marathon Monks of Mount Hiei – John Stevens
  • The Innovators: How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses, and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution – Walter Isaacson

February 2019

  • Eat and Run: My Unlikely Journey to Ultramarathon Greatness – Scott Jurek
  • North – Scott Jurek
  • The Giver – Lois Lowry
  • The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business – Charles Duhigg
  • On Tennis: Five Essays – David Foster Wallace
  • Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen – Christopher McDougall
  • Larry H. Miller: Behind the Drive:  99 Inspiring Stories from the Life of an American Entrepreneur – Bryan Miller
  • Shoe Dog: A Memoir by the Creator of Nike – Phil Knight

January 2019

  • Measure What Matters: How Google, Bono, and the Gates Foundation Rock the World with OKRs – John Doerr
  • Chess Opening Names: The Fascinating & Entertaining History Behind The First Few Moves – Nathan Rose
  • Principles: Life and Work – Ray Dalio
  • Crime and Punishment – Fyodor Dostoevsky
  • The Talent Code: Greatness Isn’t Born. It’s Grown. Here’s How. – Daniel Coyle
  • Beyond Basketball: Coach K’s Keywords for Success – Mike Krzyzewski
  • Business Adventures: Twelve Classic Tales from the World of Wall Street – John Brooks
  • The Lean Startup – Eric Ries
  • The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August – Claire North


2018 – 104 Books Read

December 2018

November 2018

  • Angels and Demons – Dan Brown
  • The Da Vinci Code – Dan Brown
  • Log from the Sea of Cortez – John Steinbeck
  • Rent Collector – Camron Wright
  • Jack: Straight from the Gut – Jack Welch
  • Beyond belief – Jenna Miscavige

October 2018

  • Foundation – Isaac Asimov
  • QB: My Life Behind the Spiral – Steve Young
  • Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy – Douglas Adams
  • Tune In: The Beatles: All These Years – Mark Lewisohn
  • Story of your life – Ted Chiang

September 2018

  • Walt Disney: The Triumph of the American Imagination – Neal Gabler
  • Jailbird – Kurt Vonnegut
  • The Sirens of Titan – Kurt Vonnegut
  • The Alchemist – Paul Coelho
  • The Martian – Andy Weir
  • The History of Joseph Smith by His Mother – Lucy Mack Smith
  • Ringworld – Larry Niven

August 2018

  • Children of the Mind – Orson Scott Card
  • Xenocide – Orson Scott Card
  • Speaker for the Dead – Orson Scott Card
  • David And Goliath – Malcolm Gladwell
  • Enders Game – Orson Scott Card
  • The Snowball: Warren Buffett and the Business of Life – Alice Schroeder
  • Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – J.K. Rowling
  • Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince – J.K. Rowling
  • The Armchair Economist – Steven E. Landsburg
  • Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix – J.K. Rowling
  • Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire – J.K. Rowling
  • Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban – J.K. Rowling
  • Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets – J.K. Rowling
  • Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone – J.K. Rowling
  • Brigham Young Pioneer Prophet – John G. Turner

July 2018

  • Joseph Smith: Rough Stone Rolling – Richard Lyman Bushman
  • Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power – Jon Meacham
  • How Will You Measure Your Life? – Clayton M. Christensen
  • Guns, Germs, and Steel – James Diamond
  • Larry H. Miller: Behind the Drive:  99 Inspiring Stories from the Life of an American Entrepreneur – Bryan Miller
  • Christ and the New Covenant – Jeffrey R. Holland
  • Morning Star – Pierce Brown
  • The Magic of Thinking Big – David Schwartz
  • The Death and Life of Great American Cities – Jane Jacobs
  • Starship Troopers – Robert A. Heinlein
  • East of Eden – John Steinbeck
  • Cat’s Cradle – Kurt Vonnegut
  • Leonardo Da Vinci – Walter Isaacson

June 2018

  • On Tennis: Five Essays – David Foster Wallace
  • The 4-hour Work Week – Timothy Ferris
  • Titan – Ron Chernow
  • Creativity Inc – Ed Catmull
  • No Country For Old Men – Cormac McCarthy

May 2018

  • Tipping Point – Malcolm Gladwell
  • Option B – Sheryl Sandberg
  • Surely You’re Joking Mr. Feynman! – Richard P. Feynman
  • Shoe Dog – Phil Knight
  • The Wednesday Letters – Jason F. Wright
  • The Moon is a Harsh Mistress – Robert A. Heinlein
  • Blink – Malcolm Gladwell
  • Treasure Island – Robert Louis Stevenson
  • Some Fruits of Solitude – William Penn
  • Nineteen Eighty-Four – George Orwell
  • Outliers: The story of Success

April 2018

  • Being Nixon: A Man Divided – Evan Thomas
  • Great Gatsby – F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • The Third Policeman – Flann O’Brien
  • Essentialism – Greg McKeown
  • The Long Walk – Stephen King
  • Steve Jobs – Walter Isaacson
  • The Smartest Guys in the Room – Bethany McLean & Peter Elkind
  • Ready Player One – Ernest Cline
  • For Whom the Bell Tolls – Ernest Hemingway

March 2018

  • In Cold Blood – Truman Capote
  • The Sirens of Titan – Kurt Vonnegut
  • Crucial Conversations – Joseph Grenny, Al Switzler, Ron McMillan
  • Golden Son: Book II of the Red Rising Trilogy – Pierce Brown
  • Red Rising – Pierce Brown
  • The Journal of John Woolman – John Woolman
  • Barefoot to Billionaire – Jon M. Huntsman
  • Stranger in a Strange Land – Robert A. Heinlein
  • Boglehead’s Guide to Investing – Lindauer, Larimore, Leboeuf

February 2018

  • The Screwtape Letters – C.S. Lewis
  • Made to Stick – Chip Heath & Dan Heath
  • Slap Stick – Kurt Vonnegut
  • The Brothers Karamazov – Fyodor Dostoyevsky
  • Benjamin Franklin Autobiography – Benjamin Franklin

January 2018

  • Silence – Shusaku Endo
  • Player Piano – Kurt Vonnegut
  • Timequake – Kurt Vonnegut
  • The Lessons of History – Will and Ariel Durant
  • Strengths-Based Leadership – Tom Rath
  • The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn – Mark Twain
  • The Gospel At 30,000 Feet – Dieter F. Uchtdorf
  • The Adventures of Tom Sawyer – Mark Twain
  • Principles: Life and Work – Ray Dalio
  • We Have Always Lived in the Castle – Shirley Jackson