Below are the books I’ve read in 2019. I have tried to divide them by how much I enjoyed them and how valuable I found them. Click to buy on Amazon via my referral link (price stays same for you but helps support the SportsBiz Book Exchange).
Highly Recommended:
Digital Minimalism, Cal Newport
Peak Performance, Brad Stulberg & Steve Magness
Stillness is the Key, Ryan Holiday
The Passion Paradox, Brad Stullberg & Steve Magness
Master of the Senate, Robert Caro
The Fish That Ate The Whale: The Life and Times of America’s Banana King, Rich Cohen
The Laws of Human Nature, Robert Greene
Belichick: The Making of the Greatest Football Coach of All Time, Ian O’Connor
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil, John Berendt
Brothers, Rivals, Victors, Jonathan W. Jordan
On The Shortness of Life, Epictetus
Lonesome Dove (fiction), Larry McMurtry
Man’s Search for Meaning, Viktor Frankl
Ten Arguments for Deleting Your Social Media Accounts Right Now, Jaron Lanier
No Country For Old Men, Cormac McCarthy
Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World, David Epstein
Recommended:
Team of Teams: new Rules of Engagement for a Complex World, Stanley McChrystal
Inferno: The World at War, 1939-1945, Max Hastings
The Personal MBA, Josh Kaufman
Augustus: The Life of Rome’s First Emperor, Anthony Everitt
UI is Communication, Everett McKay
The Art of Learning, Josh Waitzkin
Start Something That Matters, Blake Mycoskie
Tiger Woods, Jeff Benedict & Armen Keteyian
Dallas 1963, Bill Minutaglio & Steven L. Davis
Education of a Coach, David Halberstam
A Farewell to Arms (fiction), Ernest Hemingway
The General vs. The President, H.W. Brands
You Are Not So Smart, David McRaney
Creative Selection, Ken Kocienda
Sum: Forty Tales from the Afterlives
Shutter Island (fiction), Dennis Lehane
The Little Book of Stoicism, Jonas Salzberger
Eichman in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil, Hannah Arendt
How to Live: A Life of Montaigne in One Question and Twenty Attempts at an Answer, Sarah Bakewell
The Chicago Cubs: Story of a Curse, Rich Cohen
How to Lead When You’re Not in Charge, Tracy Scroggins
Skin in the Game, Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Catastrophe 1914: Europe Goes to War, Max Hastings
American Ulysses: A Life of Ulysses S. Grant, Ronald White
Darkest Hour: How Churchill Brought England Back from the Brink, Anthony McCarten
Don’t Make Me Think, Revisited: A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability, Steve Krug
The Library Book, Susan Orlean
Sprint: How to Solve Big Problems and Test New Ideas in Just Five Days, Jake Knapp
Friday Night Lights, H.G. Bissinger
Call Sign Chaos: Learning to Lead, Jim Mattis
Micromastery: 39 Little Skills to Help You Find Happiness, Robert Twigger
The Mask of Command, John Keegan
Blockchain: The Next Everything, Stephen P. Williams
The Big Sleep, Raymond Chandler
The Strenuous Life, Theodore Roosevelt
All The Pretty Horses, Cormac McCarthy
Others:
Courage: The Joy of Living Dangerously, Osho
Rapt: Attention and the Focused Life, Winifred Gallagher
Starting and Closing: Perseverance, Faith, and One More Year, John Smoltz
The Avengers: A Jewish War Story, Rich Cohen
My Morning Routine, Benjamin Spall & Michael Xander
The General (fiction), C.S. Forester
Radical Acceptance, Tara Brach
Ready Player One, Ernest Cline
The World Atlas of Coffee, James Hoffman
Black Dahlia (fiction), James Ellroy
Death Without Company (fiction), Craig Johnson
Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World, Jack Weatherford
Kindness Goes Unpunished (fiction), Craig Johnson
How to Be A Stoic, Massimo Pigliucci
Paddle Your Own Canoe, Nick Offerman
The Willpower Instinct, Kelly McGonigal
Next: The Future Just Happened, Michael Lewis
The Practicing Mind, Thomas M. Sterner
Two Kinds of Truth (fiction), Michael Connelly
Coach Wooden’s Pyramid of Success, John Wooden & Jay Carty
Meditation for Fidgety Skeptics, Dan Harris
Fear: Trump in the White House, Bob Woodward
The Mastery of Love, Don Miguel Ruiz
H3 Leadership: Be Humble. Stay Hungry. Always Hustle, Brad Lomenick
Previous Years’ Reads
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