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
- The Sirens of Titan – Kurt Vonnegut
- Means of Ascent: The Years of Lyndon Johnson – Robert A. Caro
- Call Sign Chaos: Learning to Lead – Jim Mattis
- The Path to Power: The Years of Lyndon Johnson – Robert A. Caro
October 2019
- Einstein: His Life and Universe (Abridged) – Walter Isaacson
- The Blessing Way – Tony Hillerman
- A Man Called Ove – Fredrik Backman
- Jurassic Park – Michael Crichton
- John Adams (Abridged) – David McCullough
- The Ride of a Lifetime – Bob Iger
- Working – Robert A. Caro
- The Power Broker – Robert A. Caro
September 2019
- The Goal: A Process of Ongoing Improvement – Eliyahu M. Goldratt
- The Right Stuff – Tom Wolfe
- The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11 – Lawrence Wright
- Steve Jobs – Walter Issacson
- The Apache Wars: The Hunt for Geronimo, the Apache Kid, and the Captive Boy Who Started the Longest War in American History – Paul Andrew Hutton
- Going Clear: Scientology, Hollywood, and the Prison of Belief – Lawrence Wright
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
- Sand County Almanac – Aldo Leopold
- Elon Musk – Ashlee Vance
- Without Reservations: How a Family Root Beer Stand Grew Into a Global Hotel Company – Bill Marriott
- Freemasons for Dummies – Christopher Hodapp
- Anne Frank: The diary of a young girl – Anne Frank
- Origin – Dan Brown
- Chess: Become a Chess Master – Beginners Guide – Henry Abott
- Inferno – Dan Brown
- The Lost Symbol – Dan Brown
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