Books that will change your life

“Do people even read anymore?!”

This was the response I got recently when I mentioned that I have a bit of a reading obsession. I set a goal for 2020 to finish 2 books a week, giving me a grand total of 104 books read in a year. (I documented the results here)

I asked for recommendations on LinkedIn & Facebook for the last 10 books to finish off my list with the caveat that only life-changing books be recommended.

I needed 10, I got 50… then 60… then 70… now we’re at 89!

Since I now have a whole list of books to read, I figured some of you may be interested in a list of life-changing books…. so… here is the list.

Title – Author – Recommended by
Bolded titles are books I have read (and also recommend).

	Title	Author	Recommended by
1	The Spy and Traitor	Ben Macintyre	Mort Jorgensen
2	Good to Great	Jim Collins	Devin Peterson
3	Sapiens	Yuval Noah Harari	Andrew Merino
4	The Audit Principal	Arbinger Institute	Michael Deru
5	How Will You Measure Your Life	Clayton Christensen	Ian Shields, Mike Zahajko
6	The Undoing Project	Michael Lewis	Ian Shields, Jack Saunders
7	The Obstacle is the Way	Ryan Holiday	Joe Chacon
8	Ego is the Enemy	Ryan Holiday	Kyle Ivins
9	Stillness is the Key	Ryan Holiday	Kyle Ivins
10	Range	David Epstein	Kyle Ivins
11	Leading an Inspired Life	Jim Rohn	Etu Moli
12	The Hard Thing About Hard Things	Ben Horowitz	Etu Moli
13	The Slight Edge	Jeff Olson	Etu Moli, Aaron Livingston
14	The Alchemist	Paulo Coelho	Jordan Hanks, Sam Christensen, Dylan Anderson
15	When Breath Becomes Air	Paul Kalanithi	Lauren Colby
16	Being Mortal	Atul Gawande	Lauren Colby
17	12 Rules for Life	Jordan Peterson	Lauren Colby
18	Leadership and Self-Deception	The Arbinger Institute	Lauren Colby, Mike Zahajko
19	Bonds that Make Us Free	C. Terry Warner	Lauren Colby
20	Essentialism	Greg McKeown	Lauren Colby, Laura Stewart
21	Unbroken	Laura Hillenbrand	Lauren Colby, Melissa Macleod, Rachel Ray
22	Born to Run	Christopher McDougall	Lauren Colby, Jeff Larson
23	Natural Born Heroes	Christopher McDougall	Lauren Colby
24	The Way of Kings	Brandon Sanderson	Jonathan Slaven
25	The Boys in the Boat	Daniel James	Jordyn Parry, Chrissy VanLeeuwen
26	The Day The World Came to Town	Jim DeFede	Jordyn Parry
27	The Year of Less	Cait Flanders	Jordyn Parry
28	Seabiscuit	Laura Hillenbrand	Melissa Macleod
29	Think Like a Monk	Jay Shetty	Drew Worth
30	Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah	Richard Bach	Stephanie Cannon
31	Educated	Tara Westover	Tobi Bishop
32	Watership Down	Richard Adams	Tobi Bishop
33	Enlightenment Now	Steven Pinker	Jack Saunders
34	The Righteous Mind	Jonathan Haidt	Jack Saunders
35	The Coddling of the American Mind	Jonathan Haidt	Jack Saunders
36	Something Deeply Hidden	Sean Carroll	Jack Saunders
37	Breath	James Nestor	Jack Saunders
38	The Bible	Many	Ryan Ray, Tom Burton
39	The Apocrypha	Many	Ryan Ray
40	The Nightingale	Kristin Hannah	Mia Sliwoski
41	Born a Crime	Trevor Noah	Melissa Macleod
42	Factfulness	Hans Rosling	Melissa Macleod
43	The Moment of Lift	Melinda Gates	Melissa Macleod
44	The 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle	Stuart Turton	Melissa Macleod
45	Dune	Frank Herbert	Ron Case, Mike Zahajko
46	Happiness Advantage	Shawn Achor	Mike Zahajko
47	Never Split the Difference	Chriss Voss	Mike Zahajko
48	Great by Choice	Jim Collins	Mike Zahajko
49	The Last Lecture	Randy Pausch	Mike Zahajko
50	The Book of Mormon	Many	Erik Soderborg, Tom Burton
51	A Short History of Nearly Everything	Bill Bryson	Erik Soderborg
52	The Fountainhead	Ayn Rand	Erik Soderborg
53	Atlas Shrugged	Ayn Rand	Erik Soderborg
54	Small Great Things	Jodi Picoult	Erik Soderborg
55	Alexander Hamilton	Ron Chernow	Erik Soderborg
56	Enemy at the Gates	William Craig	Erik Soderborg
57	Why We Sleep	Matthew Walker	Evelina Petrova
58	The 8th Habit	Stephen Covey	Kat Keddington
59	David and Goliath	Malcolm Gladwell	Michael Ryan
60	Moby Dick	Herman Melville	Carl Ellis
61	Endurance: Shackleton’s Incredible Voyage	Alfred Lansing	Bogdan Gnatyshyn
62	Atomic Habits	James Clear	Pam Massey, Jeff Larson
63	The 4 Agreements	Jan Miguel Ruiz	Pam Massey, Reg Spittle
64	The Innovator’s Dilemma	Clayton Christensen	TJ Lokboj
65	Principles	Ray Dalio	TJ Lokboj
66	Cashflow Quadrant	Robert Kiyosaki	TJ Lokboj
67	American Dirt	Jeanine Cummins	Laura Stewart
68	Siddhartha	Hermann Hesse	Reg Spittle
69	On the Shortness of Life	Seneca	Reg Spittle
70	The Catcher in the Rye	JD Salinger	Reg Spittle
71	Peace Like a River	Leif Enger	Phillip Pay
72	Ishmael	Kurt Vonnegut	Holly Ojalehto
73	The Power of Now	Eckhart Tolle	Holly Ojalehto, Will Bowman
74	Man’s Search for Meaning	Viktor Frankl	Holly Ojalehto
75	I Know This Much is True	Wally Lamb	Jeff Larson
76	Unscripted	Ernie Johnson Jr.	Scott Child
77	Trillion Dollar Coach	Eric Schmidt	Christopher Corbett
78	The Promise to the One	Jason Hewlett	Mark & Kris Marshall
79	The Lost Secret: Unlocking the Hidden Chapters of Napoleon Hill’s think and Grow Rich	Monica Main	Mark & Kris Marshall
80	You are the Guru	Gabrielle Bernstein	Mark & Kris Marshall
81	The Lincoln Hypothesis	Timothy Ballard	Mark & Kris Marshall
82	How to Win Friends and Influence People	Dale Carnegie	Brad Ball
83	Americana: A 400 Year History of Capitalism in America	Bhu Srinivasan	Brad Ball
84	Caste	Isabel Wilkerson	Lisa Bonta Sumii
85	Be Our Guest	James Allworth & Karen Dillon	Tom Burton
86	Get a Grip	Gene Wickman & Mike Paton	Tom Burton
87	Traction	Gene Wickman	Tom Burton
88	Value Proposition Designer	Alex Osterwalder	Tom Burton
89	Extreme Ownership	Jocko Willink and Leif Babin	Nathan MacDonald

What books am I missing?