The Bookshelf

You are what you read.

A running inventory of what’s on my shelves — 291 titles across 13 categories. Some shaped how I think, some I keep coming back to, and some are just along for the ride.

Business, Strategy & Leadership

The Score Takes Care of Itself
Bill Walsh
Good to Great
Jim Collins
The Innovator's Solution
Clayton Christensen
7 Powers
Hamilton Helmer
Blue Ocean Strategy
Kim & Mauborgne
Loonshots
Safi Bahcall
Turn the Ship Around!
L. David Marquet
The Great Game of Business
Jack Stack
High Output Management
Andrew Grove
Powerful
Patty McCord
Extreme Ownership
Jocko Willink & Leif Babin
The Dichotomy of Leadership
Jocko Willink & Leif Babin
No Rules Rules
Reed Hastings
The Culture Code
Daniel Coyle
The Little Book of Talent
Daniel Coyle
The Motive
Patrick Lencioni
Multipliers
Liz Wiseman
Radical Candor
Kim Scott
Dear Chairman
Behind the Cloud
Marc Benioff
Business Adventures
John Brooks
Knowledge and Decisions
Thomas Sowell
The Goal
Eliyahu Goldratt
The Systems Bible
John Gall
Hardball

Startups, Product & Growth

The Lean Startup
Eric Ries
The Startup Way
Eric Ries
The Hard Thing About Hard Things
Ben Horowitz
High Growth Handbook
Elad Gil
Founders at Work
Obviously Awesome
April Dunford
Hooked
Nir Eyal
Hacking Growth
Sean Ellis & Morgan Brown
Growth Hacker Marketing
Ryan Holiday
Product-Led Growth
Wes Bush
Product-Led Onboarding
Product-Led Onboarding
Ramli John
Continuous Discovery Habits
Teresa Torres
Traction
Gino Wickman
From Impossible to Inevitable
The Millionaire Fastlane
MJ DeMarco
Monetization
Caleb O'Dowd
Get Scalable
Get Scalable
Ryan Deiss
The Messy Marketplace
The Messy Marketplace
Brent Beshore
Rework
Jason Fried & David Heinemeier Hansson
Remote
Jason Fried & David Heinemeier Hansson
Sprint
Jake Knapp
Amp It Up
Frank Slootman
Rise of the Data Cloud
Slootman
Learn or Die
The First 90 Days
The E-Myth Revisited
Michael Gerber
Retention Point
Robert Skrob
Ready, Fire, Aim
Michael Masterson
Click Here
Alex Schultz

Marketing, Copywriting & Sales

Building a StoryBrand
Donald Miller
Pitch Anything
Oren Klaff
To Sell Is Human
Daniel Pink
Sell More Faster
Tell to Win
Peter Guber
Captivate
Vanessa Van Edwards
Never Split the Difference
Chris Voss
Getting Past No
William Ury
Crucial Conversations
How to Argue
Ogilvy on Advertising
David Ogilvy
Confessions of an Advertising Man
David Ogilvy
The Adweek Copywriting Handbook
My Life in Advertising
Claude Hopkins
Scientific Advertising
Claude Hopkins
The Copywriter's Handbook
Robert W. Bly
Very Good Copy
Jab, Jab, Jab, Right Hook
Gary Vaynerchuk
Hug Your Haters
Jay Baer
Conversational Marketing
The Ultimate Marketing Plan
Tribes
Seth Godin
This Is Marketing
Seth Godin
The Challenger Sale
Storytelling Animal
Jonathan Gottschall
Stories Sell
Matthew Dicks
Wanting
Luke Burgis
Category Pirates: Snow Leopard
Category Pirates: Snow Leopard
The Art & Business of Ghostwriting
The Art & Business of Ghostwriting
Nicolas Cole
The Customer Support Handbook
Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion
Robert B. Cialdini
Pre-Suasion
Robert Cialdini
Being Direct
Lester Wunderman
Billion Dollar Websites
Billion Dollar Websites
Dylan Ander
The Ultimate Sales Machine
Chet Holmes
Magnetic Marketing
Dan Kennedy
The Ultimate Sales Letter
Dan Kennedy
No B.S. Direct Marketing
Dan Kennedy
Fanatical Prospecting
Jeb Blount

Finance & Investing

The Intelligent Investor
Benjamin Graham
Poor Charlie's Almanack
Charles Munger
The Warren Buffett Portfolio
Robert G. Hagstrom
Warren Buffett's Next Door
Matthew Schifrin
The Education of a Value Investor
Guy Spier
Common Sense on Mutual Funds
John Bogle
Winning with Data
Capital in the Twenty-First Century
Piketty
The Financial Crisis Inquiry Report
The Signal and the Noise
Nate Silver
Your Money & Your Brain
Jason Zweig
Analysis for Financial Management
Higgins
The Sovereign Individual
Davidson & Rees-Mogg
Million Dollar Habits
Brian Tracy
Money: Master the Game
Tony Robbins

Self-Improvement, Psychology & Philosophy

Atomic Habits
James Clear
Deep Work
Cal Newport
Thinking, Fast and Slow
Daniel Kahneman
Think Twice
Mauboussin
Range
David Epstein
The Great Mental Models, Volume 1
The Great Mental Models, Volume 1
Shane Parrish
The Great Mental Models, Volume 2
Shane Parrish
Clear Thinking
Shane Parrish
Thinking Strategically
Think Like a Freak
Levitt & Dubner
How to Lie with Statistics
Darrell Huff
Superforecasting
Philip Tetlock
Superintelligence
Nick Bostrom
The PARA Method
Tiago Forte
Seeking Wisdom: From Darwin to Munger
Peter Bevelin
Lying
Sam Harris
Free Will
Sam Harris
Man's Search for Meaning
Viktor Frankl
Success Through Stillness
Russell Simmons
The Daily Stoic
Ryan Holiday
The Obstacle Is the Way
Ryan Holiday
Ego Is the Enemy
Ryan Holiday
Stillness Is the Key
Ryan Holiday
Discipline Is Destiny
Ryan Holiday
Conspiracy
Ryan Holiday
Perennial Seller
Ryan Holiday
Meditations
Marcus Aurelius
The Myth of Sisyphus
Albert Camus
The Last Lecture
Randy Pausch
The Noticer
Andy Andrews
Permission to Feel
Marc Brackett
The Attributes
Rich Diviney
Outlive
Peter Attia
The 4-Hour Body
Tim Ferriss
The 4-Hour Chef
Tim Ferriss
Tools of Titans
Tim Ferriss
Smartcuts
Shane Snow
David and Goliath
Malcolm Gladwell
Bad Therapy
Abigail Shrier
The Coddling of the American Mind
Lukianoff & Haidt
Skin in the Game
Nassim Taleb
Sapiens
Yuval Noah Harari
Flow
Csikszentmihalyi
Stolen Focus
Johann Hari
Nudge
Thaler & Sunstein
Think and Grow Rich
Napoleon Hill
Mindset
Carol S. Dweck
Gorilla Mindset
Mike Cernovich
On Killing
Grossman
Don't Shoot the Dog!
Karen Pryor
The Boys in the Boat
Daniel James Brown
The QBQ (Question Behind the Question)
John Miller
The Warrior, the Magician, the Lover
The Warrior, the Magician, the Lover
It's Not How Good You Are, It's How Good You Want to Be
Paul Arden
The Almanack of Naval Ravikant
Eric Jorgenson
The Anthology of Balaji
Eric Jorgenson
The 12 Week Year
Brian Moran & Michael Lennington
The Courage to Be Disliked
Ichiro Kishimi & Fumitake Koga

Writing

On Writing Well
Zinsser
Writing That Works
On Writing
Stephen King
The Writing Life
Annie Dillard
Everybody Writes
Ann Handley
Words from the White House
Paul Dickson
Additional Dialogue: Letters of Dalton Trumbo
A Thousand Naked Strangers
A Thousand Naked Strangers
Kevin Hazzard

Politics, History & Biography

1984
George Orwell
The Federalist Papers
The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
Hamilton
Ron Chernow
Titan
Ron Chernow
The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt
Edmund Morris
Theodore Rex
Edmund Morris
The Years of Lyndon Johnson: Master of the Senate
Robert Caro
The Patriarch
David Nasaw
Decision Points
George W. Bush
Churchill: Great Contemporaries
Thirteen Days
Robert F. Kennedy
The Great Influenza
John M. Barry
The Least of Us
Sam Quinones
How to Destroy America in Three Easy Steps
Ben Shapiro
Why We're Polarized
Ezra Klein
The Red Decade
Lyons
The Fourth Turning
Strauss & Howe
Sam Walton: Made in America
Elon Musk
Ashlee Vance
Elon Musk
Isaacson
The Wolf of Wall Street
Jordan Belfort
Arnold (Schwarzenegger)
The Autobiography of Malcolm X
Alex Haley
The Marxification of Education
James Lindsay
To Save Everything, Click Here
Evgeny Morozov
The Technological Republic
Up from Slavery
Booker T. Washington
Come and Take It
Cody Wilson
Firearms, Traps & Tools of the Mountain Men
Prairie Fire
Clay Martin
The Lessons of History
Will & Ariel Durant
Dominion
Tom Holland
The Book of Elon
Eric Jorgenson
Endurance

Fiction & Literature

The Great Gatsby
F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Road
Cormac McCarthy
Invisible Man
Ralph Ellison
Walden
Thoreau
Complete Tales & Poems of Edgar Allan Poe
Collected Poems of Langston Hughes
The Neon Bible
John Kennedy Toole
American Gods
Neil Gaiman

Jack Carr (Terminal List series)

The Terminal List
True Believer
Savage Son
Only the Dead
In the Blood
The Devil's Hand
Red Sky Mourning

Faith / Christian

Holy Bible (NIV)
The Bible Recap
Tara-Leigh Cobble
Making Sense of God
Timothy Keller
The Christian Atheist
Craig Groeschel
The Sacred Mushroom and the Cross
John Allegro
T.D. Jakes (title unclear)
Life @ Work

Family, Parenting & Health

Good Inside
Dr. Becky Kennedy
Bringing Up Bébé
Pamela Druckerman
Home Game
Michael Lewis
Ina May's Guide to Childbirth
The Birth Partner
Penny Simkin
The Nursing Mother's Companion
Kathleen Huggins
The Nursing Mother's Guide to Weaning
Kathleen Huggins
The Labor Progress Handbook
Mate
Tucker Max & Geoffrey Miller
Prepared
Diane Tavenner
Grain Brain
David Perlmutter
The End of Alzheimer's
Dale Bredesen
The Truth
Neil Strauss

Outdoors, Hunting, Fishing & Cooking

MeatEater Fish and Game Cookbook
Steven Rinella
The Complete Guide to Hunting, Butchering, and Cooking Wild Game, Volume 1: Big Game
The Complete Guide to Hunting, Butchering, and Cooking Wild Game, Volume 1: Big Game
Steven Rinella
The Complete Guide to Hunting, Butchering, and Cooking Wild Game, Volume 2: Small Game and Fowl
Steven Rinella
The Scavenger's Guide to Haute Cuisine
Rinella
MeatEater Guide to Wilderness Skills and Survival
American Hunter
Prepared
Mike Glover
The Complete Book of Fly Fishing
McNally
The Compleat Lefty Kreh
The Compleat Lefty Kreh
Fly-Fishing for Smallmouth
Clouser
A Passion for Tarpon
A Passion for Tarpon
Andy Mill
Barr Flies
The Fishes of Tennessee
The Freshwater Mussels of Tennessee
Body of Water
Dombrowski
Afield
Hiking Tennessee (Falcon Guides)
Hiking Trails of the Smokies
The Best in Tent Camping: Tennessee
Vagabonding
Rolf Potts
Park Ranger Handbook
Preserving Wild Foods
Electric Smoker
Beer-Topia
Sous Vide at Home
Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat
Deskbound
Kelly Starrett
Spartan Up!
Joe De Sena
Peak
Anders Ericsson
Craig & Fred
Craig Grossi
FM 21-76 Survival (1970)
U.S. Army Field Manual