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my 10 favorite recent books
The Anatomy of Genres by John Truby
Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer
Meditations by Marcus Aurelius
The Odyssey by Homer
The Twilight World by Werner Herzog
The Unsettling of America by Wendell Berry
Nineteen Eighty Four by George Orwell
Stillness Is The Key by Ryan Holiday
Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor E. Frankl
David and Goliath by Malcolm Gladwell
150+ More books I’ve enjoyed REcently
Kitchen Confidential by Anthony Bourdain
The Comfort Crisis by Michael Easter
The Creative Act by Rick Rubin
Scarcity Brain by Michael Easter
Prepared by Michael Glover
Building a Story Brand by Donald Miller
Tribe by Sebastian Junger
Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents by Lindsay C. Gibson, PSYD
The Peace of Wild Things by Wendell Berry
The Fourth Turning is Here by Neil Howe
Building a Second Brain by Tiago Forte
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by J. K. Rowling
The Bhagavad Gita
The 48 Laws of Pawer by Robert Greene
Interviews and Conversations 1951 - 1998 by Henri Cartier- Bresson
The Laws of Human Nature by Robert Greene
Visual Thinking by Temple Grandin
Atomic Habits by James Clear
Animal Farm by George Orwell
Mastery by Robert Greene
The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
American Prometheus by Kai Bird & Martin J. Sherwin
Outdoor Kids in an Inside World by Steven Binella
Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson
A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare
How to Write a Song the Matters by Dar Williams
Show Your Work by Austin Kleon
The Unthinkable by Amanda Ripley
Homo Deus by Yuval Noah Harari
Put Your by Steven Pressfield
As a Man Thinketh by James Allen
On the Shortness of Life by Seneca
The Dip by Seth Godin
The Wim Hof Method by Wim Hof
Courage is Calling by Ryan Holiday
Ego is the Enemy by Ryan Holiday
Discipline is Destiny by Ryan Holiday
The Storyteller by Dave Grohl
What Makes Sammy Run by Budd Schulberg
Bet the Farm by Beth Hoffman
How to Tell a Story by The Moth
Harry Potter and the Sorcer’s Stone by J.K. Rowling
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets by J.K. Rowling
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban by J.K. Rowling
Amusing Ourselves to Death by Neil Postman
The Terminal List by Jack Carr
How to Take Smart Notes by Sönke Ahrens
Deep Work by Cal Newport
Character by Robert McKee
Shop Class as Soulcraft by Matthew B. Crawford
Essentialism by Greg McGowen
Gathering Moss by Robin Wall Kimmerer
Four Thousand Weeks by Oliver Burkeman
The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien
Meander, Spiral, Explode by Jane Alison
Antifragile by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Dopamine Nation by Dr. Anna Lembke, MD
Lights Out by Ted Koppel
The Science of Storytelling by Will Storr
This Is Marketing by Seth GodinThis Is Marketing by Seth Godin
Writing Picture Books by Ann Whitford Paul
Steal Like and Artist by Austin Kleon
Keep Going by Austin Kleon
Wilderness Essays by John Muir
Ikigai by Héctor García and Francesc Miralles
Nobody Wants to Read your Sh*t by Steven Pressfield
Do the Work by Steven Pressfield
The Apollo Murders by Chris Hadfield
Turning Pro by Steven Pressfield
On Writing by Stephen King
Less by Andrew Sean Greer
Call Us What We Carry by Amanda Gorman
The Essential Rumi
The Artist’s Way by Julia Cameron
A Guide to the Good Life by William B Irvine
The Bomber Mafia by Malcolm Gladwell
The 99% Invisible City by Roman Mars
Surely You’re Joking Mr. Feynman! by Richard Feynman
The Great Gadsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harari
The Nolan Variations by Tom Shone
The Psychology of Money by Morgan Housel
On Directing Film by David Mamet
Dialogue by Robert McKee
Bird by Bird by Anne Lamott
Mastering Fear by Brandon Webb
Impro: Improvisation and the Theatre by Keith Johnstone
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
Think Like a Monk by Jay Shetty
Ten Arguments For Deleting Your Social Media Accounts by Jaron Lanier
Consider This by Chuck Palahniuk
The Practice by Seth Godin
Breath: The New Science of a Lost Art by James Nestor
How to be Antiracist by Ibram X Kendi
The Fourth Turning by William Strauss and Neil Howe
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
Rising Strong by Brené Brown
Range by David Epstein
The Martian by Andy Weir
The Second Mountain by David Brooks
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
The Faraway Nearby by Rebecca Solnit
The Richest Man in Babylon by George S. Clason
Get Out of Your Way by Russ
Leonardo da Vinci by Walter Isaacson
Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson
Screenplay: The Foundations of Screenwriting by Syd Field
The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho
The Road to Character by David Brooks
Enough by John C. Bogle
Good to Great by Jim Collins
The Power of Habit by Charles Duhigg
Talking to Strangers by Malcolm Gladwell
The Tipping Point by Malcolm Gladwell
What Dog Saw by Malcolm Gladwell
Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell
Blink by Malcolm Gladwell
Start With Why by Simon Sinek
The Obstacle Is The Way by Ryan Holiday
Perennial Seller by Ryan Holiday
The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck by Mark Manson
Storynomics by Robert McKee
4 Hour Workweek by Tim Ferriss
Walden by Henry David Thoreau
The Hero with a Thousand Faces by Joseph Campbell
Story: Substance, Structure, Style and the Principles of Screenwriting by Robert McKee
Shoe Dog by Phil Night
Creativity, INC by Ed Catmull
The Anatomy of Story by John Truby
Built to Sell by John Warrillow
Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill
An Astronaut's Guide to Life on Earth by Col. Chris Hadfield
Tribes by Seth Godin
Principles by Ray Dalio
The Gifts of Imperfection by Brené Brown
Linchpin by Seth Godin
The War of Art by Steven Pressfield
4 Hour Chef by Tim Ferriss
Paddle Your Own Canoe by Nick Offerman
Purple Cow by Seth Godin
The Laws of Simplicity by John Maeda
Rich Dad, Poor Dad by Robert Kiyosaki
Rework by Jason Fried & David Heinemeier Hansson
The Lean Startup by Eric Ries
Remote by Jason Fried & David Heinemeier Hansson
Onward by Howard Schultz
4 Hour Body by Tim Ferriss
We by Charles Lindberg
Dad is Fat by Jim Gaffigan
Freakonomics by Stephen D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner
The Millionaire Next Door by Dr. Thomas J Stanley and Dr. William D. Danko
Elon Musk by Ashlee Vance
Emergency by Neil Strauss
Poke the Box by Seth Godin
The Happiness of Pursuit by Chris Guillebeau
Buffett - The Making of an American Capitalist by Roger Lowenstein
The Thank You Economy by Gary Vaynerchuk
Jab, Jab, Jab, Right Hook by Gary Vaynerchuk
The Intelligent Investor by Benjamin Graham
The Call of the Wild by Jack London
The School of Greatness by Lewis Howes
In Defense of Food by Michael Pollan
Extreme Ownership by Jocko Willink
Big Magic by Elizabeth Gilbert
Zero to One by Peter Thiel
The Only Investment Guide You'll Ever Need by Andrew Tobias
The Five Love Languages by Gary Chapman
No Rules Rules by Reed Hastings and Erin Meyer
Hell Yeah or No by Derek Sivers
Save The Cat! by Blake Snyder
World As I See It by Albert Einstein
No One Is Too Small To Make A Difference by Greta Thunberg
Moby Dick by Herman Melville
Boundaries by Dr. Henry Cloud
Unshakable by Tony Robbins
Space Chronicles by Neil Degrasse Tyson
The Anatomy of Story by John Truby