My 2018 Reading List

I did a lot of reading this year, and 2018 was my most prolific year yet with a total of 55 books read, averaging more than one book per week.

Reading a mix of both fiction and non-fiction has been a goal this year. In non-fiction, business, personal development, and high performance books have taken over most of the books I’ve read this year. I don’t see this changing any time soon as I am to improve myself and my abilities as an online entrepreneur.

There are a lot of mindset and habit changes I plan on implementing over the coming year as a result.

A new thing for me has been to tackle biographies. Though they’re often quite long and normally take me several weeks to finish (I usually have several books on the go at once ) – but I find they have a LOT of lessons to impart.

I find what I learn from reading biographies really sticks in my mind much better than typical self-help or instructional non-fiction books. I plan on reading more biographies of historical figures who I admire in the future.

*Starred books are ones I REALLY enjoyed, thought were important, and that I learned the most from. I highly recommend these books and plan on reading them again myself. Books with a number in brackets after them (2) are books I’ve already read before – this denotes a re-read.

My 2018 Reading List

1. Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future – Ashlee Vance
2. Trump: The Art of the Deal – Donald Trump
3. The 48 Laws of Power – Robert Greene
4. Ender’s Game (2) – Orson Scott Card
5. Fooled by Randomness – Nassim Nicholas Taleb
6. *The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind – Julian Jaynes
7. The Crack in the Cosmic Egg – Joseph Chilton Pierce
8. Tribe of Mentors – Tim Ferriss
9. Iron Gold – Pierce Brown
10. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind – Yuval Noah Harari
11. Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow – Yuval Noah Harari
12. The Hard Thing About Hard Things – Ben Horowitz
13. Surely You’re Joking Mr. Feynman – Richard Feynman
14. *Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance – Robert Pirsig
15.  Zen in the Art of Archery – Eugen Harrigel
16. The Song of Achilles – Madeline Miller
17. The Act of Creation – Arthur Koestler
18. Circe – Madeline Miller
19. The San Francisco Fallacy – Jonathan Siegel
20. Crazy Rich Asians – Kevin Kwan
21. So Good They Can’t Ignore You – Cal Newport 
22. A Court of Frost and Starlight – Sarah J. Maas
23. *Win Bigly – Scott Adams
24. Foundation – Isaac Asimov
25. Skin in the Game – Nassim Nicholas Taleb
26. *Shoe Dog – Phil Knight
27. Predictably Irrational – Dan Ariely
28. Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion – Robert Cialdini
29. *Healing Back Pain: The Mind-Body Connection – John Sarno
30. Getting to Yes – R. Fisher & W. Ury
31. The Power of Habit – Charles Duhigg
32. Then She Was Gone – Lisa Jewell
33. *The Second Sex – Simone de Beauvoir
34. Unshakeable – Tony Robbins
35. The Bone Season – Samantha Shannon
36. How to Fail at Almost Everything & Still Win Big – Scott Adams
37. Life 3.0 – Max Tegmark
38. *The Education of Millionaires – Michael Ellsberg
39. Laura & Emma – Kate Greathead
40. Turtles All the Way Down – John Green
41. *The Charisma Myth – Olivia Fox Cabane
42. The Assassin’s Blade (2) – Sarah J. Maas
43. You Are a Badass – Jen Sincero
44. The Obstacle is the Way – Ryan Holiday
45. Dot Com Secrets – Russell Brunson
46. How to Win Friends and Influence People – Dale Carnegie
47. Rebecca – Daphne du Maurier
48. The Quick and Easy Way to Effective Speaking – Dale Carnegie
49. Kingdom of Ash – Sarah J. Maas
50. Finite and Infinite Games – James P. Carse
51. The Pisces – Melissa Broder
52. Principles – Ray Dalio
53. Thinking Fast and Slow – Daniel Kahneman
54. Mastermind Dinners – Jayson Gaignard
55. The Knife of Never Letting Go (2) – Patrick Ness 

Have you read any of the books above? I’d love to discuss with you. Leave a comment below, I’d love to hear your thoughts on what you’ve been reading.