2018 Reading List

These are books I finished reading in 2018 in order of completion. This article has a list of my favorites.

  1. American Icon: Alan Mulally and the Fight to Save Ford Motor Company by Bryce Hoffman
  2. Quitter by Jon Acuff
  3. The Promise by Robert Morgan
  4. Constructability Implementation Guide by Construction Industry Institute
  5. A Life in Parts by Bryan Cranston
  6. The Pixar Touch by David Price
  7. Everybody Lies: Big Data, New Data by Seth Stephens-Davidowitz
  8. Manners and Customs of Bible Lands by Fred Wight
  9. The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon by Brad Stone
  10. Inside Delta Force by Eric Haney
  11. Writing Great Fiction by James Hynes
  12. Make it Stick: The Science of Successful Learning by Peter Brown
  13. The Path to Power: The Years of Lyndon Johnson Vol 1. by Robert Caro
  14. Means of Ascent: The Years of Lyndon Johnson Vol 2. by Robert Caro
  15. Refuting Evolution by Jonathan Sarfati
  16. The Good Girl by Mary Kubica
  17. The Passage of Power: The Years of Lyndon Johnson Vol 4. by Robert Caro
  18. Work Rules!: Insights from Inside Google by Laszlo Bock
  19. Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK) by PM Institute
  20. Goodbye, Things by Fumio Sasaki
  21. Hero: Becoming the Strong Father Your Children Need by Meg Meeker
  22. Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion by Robert Cialdini
  23. Seeking Allah, Finding Jesus by Nabeel Qureshi
  24. Amusing Ourselves to Death by Neil Postman
  25. iWoz: How I Invented the Personal Computer by Steve Wozniak
  26. Verbal Judo by George Thompson
  27. Make Your Bed: Little Things that can Change Your Life by William McRaven
  28. Misbehaving: The Making of Behavioral Economics by Richard Thaler
  29. It Takes Two: Our Story by Drew Scott
  30. When God Shakes a City: The Modesto Revival by Glen Berteau
  31. Spiritual Leadership by J. Oswald Sanders
  32. Leonardo da Vinci by Walter Isaacson
  33. The Art of War by Sun Tzu
  34. The Hiding Place by Corrie Ten Boom
  35. Blood, Sweat, and Pixels by Jason Schreier
  36. Detailing for Steel Construction by AISC
  37. The Wizard of Menlo Park: Thomas Edison by Randall Stross
  38. The Abolition of Man & The Great Divorce by C. S. Lewis
  39. Welding Symbols on Drawings by E.N. Gregory
  40. Norse Mythology by Neil Gaiman
  41. Everything All at Once by Bill Nye
  42. How to Win Friends & Influence People by Dale Carnegie
  43. Michael Jordan: The Life by Roland Lazenby
  44. Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
  45. American Kingpin: The Epic Hunt by Nick Bilton
  46. The Mask of Masculinity by Lewis Howes
  47. Kevin Hart: I can’t Make This Up by Neil Strauss
  48. The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
  49. Molly’s Game by Molly Bloom
  50. Wait, What?: And Life’s Other Essential Questions by James Ryan
  51. Alexander the Great by Philip Freeman
  52. 48 Laws of Power by Robert Greene
  53. Building a Better Vocabulary by Kevin Flanigan
  54. Love Does by Bob Goff
  55. The Men Who Would Be King by Nicole LaPorte (The Dreamworks Story)
  56. Our Oriental Heritage: The History of Civilization Volume 1 by Will Durant
  57. Million Dollar Consulting by Alan Weiss
  58. No Excuses by Brian Tracy
  59. Tattoos on the Heart by Gregory Boyle
  60. American Sniper by Chris Kyle, Jim DeFelice, Scott McEwan
  61. If at Birth You Don’t Succeed by Zach Anner
  62. Essentialism by Greg McKeown
  63. Born a Crime by Trevor Noah
  64. The Case for Christ by Lee Strobel
  65. You’re Never Weird on the Internet by Felicia Day
  66. Star Wars: Darth Plagueis by James Lucerno
  67. The Innovators by Walter Isaacson
  68. I Am Legend by Richard Matheson
  69. The Testament by John Grisham
  70. Cashflow Quadrant by Robert Kiyosaki
  71. The Gift of Failure by Jessica Lahey
  72. Silver Linings Playbook by Matthew Quick
  73. Replay: The History of Video Games by Tristan Donovan
  74. AI Superpowers by Kai-Fu Lee
  75. The Willpower Instinct by Kelly McGonigal
  76. The Billion Dollar Spy by David Hoffman
  77. Living with a SEAL by Jesse Itzler
  78. Finding Ultra by Rich Roll
  79. Skunk Works by Ben Rich
  80. Onward: How Starbucks Fought for Its Life by Howard Schultz
  81. The ONE Thing by Gary Keller
  82. Living Beyond Your Capacity by Paul Chappell
  83. Coach Wooden and Me by Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
  84. Smartcuts: How Hackers, Innovators and Icons Accelerate Success by Shane Snow
  85. For the Love by Jen Hatmaker
  86. Scary Close by Donald Miller
  87. Endurance: Shackleton’s Incredible Voyage by Alfred Lansing
  88. They Call Me Supermensch by Shep Gordon
  89. American Pharoah by Joe Drape
  90. Into Thin Air by Jon Krakauer
  91. American Radical by Tamer Elnoury
  92. The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro
  93. Dracula by Bram Stoker
  94. Everyone Communicates, Few Connect by John Maxwell
  95. I Am Malala by Malala Yousafzsai
  96. Up from Slavery by Booker T. Washington
  97. The First Major: The Inside Story of the 2016 Ryder cup by John Feinstein
  98. Everybody, Always by Bob Goff
  99. The House of Morgan by Ron Chernow
  100. The Bible
  101. Refuting Evolution 2
  102. The Compound Effect by Darren Hardy

My reading lists from 2016, 2017 and 2019.

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