Books
Every book on the site
Books discussed or recommended in public.
154 entries · ordered by how many of 62 stacks contain each one, then A to Z
Counts include everyone on record: people who use or recommend an item, and people who discuss it, including critics. They measure neither agreement nor effectiveness.
- $$$Cheap: Roughly under $50, or under $15/month.01
Why We Sleep
Matthew Walker on what sleep does for memory, immunity and mood
On record from 8 of 62 tracked people: 5 recommend it, 3 have discussed it - $$$Cheap: Roughly under $50, or under $15/month.02
Atomic Habits
The practical manual for building and breaking habits
On record from 6 of 62 tracked people: 5 recommend it, 1 has discussed itjamesclear.com (opens in a new tab) - $$$Cheap: Roughly under $50, or under $15/month.03
Deep Work
The case that uninterrupted concentration is a rare and valuable skill
On record from 6 of 62 tracked people: 5 recommend it, 1 has discussed it - $$$Cheap: Roughly under $50, or under $15/month.04
Man's Search for Meaning
Viktor Frankl on surviving the camps and choosing your response
On record from 4 of 62 tracked people: 2 recommend it, 2 have discussed it - $$$Cheap: Roughly under $50, or under $15/month.05
The Daily Stoic
366 short Stoic passages with modern commentary, one per day
On record from 4 of 62 tracked people: 3 recommend it, 1 has discussed it - $$$Cheap: Roughly under $50, or under $15/month.06
The Almanack of Naval Ravikant
Collected thinking on wealth, specific knowledge and happiness
On record from 3 of 62 tracked people: 3 recommend it - $$$Cheap: Roughly under $50, or under $15/month.07
Business Adventures
John Brooks's twelve New Yorker stories about Wall Street and 1960s corporate America
On record from 2 of 62 tracked people: 2 recommend it - $$$Cheap: Roughly under $50, or under $15/month.08
Can't Hurt Me
David Goggins's memoir: abuse, obesity, three Hell Weeks and the tools he built on the way
On record from 2 of 62 tracked people: 1 recommends it, 1 has discussed itdavidgoggins.com (opens in a new tab) - $$$Cheap: Roughly under $50, or under $15/month.09
Digital Minimalism
A philosophy for using much less technology, on purpose
On record from 2 of 62 tracked people: 1 recommends it, 1 has discussed it - $$$Cheap: Roughly under $50, or under $15/month.10
Ego Is the Enemy
Ryan Holiday on the ways self-importance wrecks aspiring, succeeding and failing
On record from 2 of 62 tracked people: 2 recommend it - $$$Cheap: Roughly under $50, or under $15/month.11
Extreme Ownership
SEAL combat leadership principles applied to teams and business
On record from 2 of 62 tracked people: 1 recommends it, 1 has discussed it - $$$Cheap: Roughly under $50, or under $15/month.12
Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi's 1990 study of total absorption and what makes it happen
On record from 2 of 62 tracked people: 2 recommend it - $$$Cheap: Roughly under $50, or under $15/month.13
Outlive
Medicine 3.0 and the case for training decades in advance
On record from 2 of 62 tracked people: 2 recommend it - $$$Cheap: Roughly under $50, or under $15/month.14
Slow Productivity
Do fewer things, work at a natural pace, obsess over quality
On record from 2 of 62 tracked people: 1 recommends it, 1 has discussed it - $$$Cheap: Roughly under $50, or under $15/month.15
The 4-Hour Body
Self-experimentation manual for fat loss, strength and sleep
On record from 2 of 62 tracked people: 1 recommends it, 1 has discussed it - $$$Cheap: Roughly under $50, or under $15/month.16
The 4-Hour Workweek
Automation, elimination and the mini-retirement, from 2007
On record from 2 of 62 tracked people: 2 recommend it - $$$Cheap: Roughly under $50, or under $15/month.17
The Anxious Generation
Jonathan Haidt on what smartphones and social media did to childhood after 2010
On record from 2 of 62 tracked people: 1 recommends it, 1 has discussed it On record from 1 of 62 people · 137 entries, A to Z
- $$$Cheap: Roughly under $50, or under $15/month.
25 Hours a Day
Building a supplement company while serving as an active duty Army infantry officer
On record from 1 of 62 tracked people: 1 recommends itnickbare.com (opens in a new tab) - $$$Cheap: Roughly under $50, or under $15/month.
Aqua & Bondi
The iMac G3 and the years Apple spent finishing Mac OS X
On record from 1 of 62 tracked people: 1 recommends it512pixels.gumroad.com (opens in a new tab) - $$$Cheap: Roughly under $50, or under $15/month.
At Longevity's Table
Over 200 Italian regional recipes chosen to fit the longevity diet
On record from 1 of 62 tracked people: 1 recommends itvalterlongo.com (opens in a new tab) - $$$Cheap: Roughly under $50, or under $15/month.
Awareness
Anthony de Mello's talks on waking up, mostly about beliefs you never examined
On record from 1 of 62 tracked people: 1 recommends it - $$$Cheap: Roughly under $50, or under $15/month.
Be Useful: Seven Tools for Life
Penguin Press
Arnold Schwarzenegger's 2023 book on vision, work, failure and giving back
On record from 1 of 62 tracked people: 1 recommends it - $$$Cheap: Roughly under $50, or under $15/month.
Becoming a Supple Leopard
Reference manual of positions, faults and mobilizations, looked up by body part
On record from 1 of 62 tracked people: 1 recommends it - $$$Cheap: Roughly under $50, or under $15/month.
Beneath the Surface
Michael Phelps's memoir of his early career, written with Brian Cazeneuve
On record from 1 of 62 tracked people: 1 recommends it - $$$Cheap: Roughly under $50, or under $15/month.
Breath
James Nestor on nasal breathing, and what modern jaws lost
On record from 1 of 62 tracked people: 1 has discussed it - $$$Cheap: Roughly under $50, or under $15/month.
Build the Life You Want
Arthur Brooks and Oprah Winfrey on the science of getting happier
On record from 1 of 62 tracked people: 1 recommends it - $$$Cheap: Roughly under $50, or under $15/month.
Building a Second Brain
The case for one external note store, and four steps for running it
On record from 1 of 62 tracked people: 1 recommends itbuildingasecondbrain.com (opens in a new tab) - $$$Cheap: Roughly under $50, or under $15/month.
Built to Move
Ten physical tests and the daily practices that move each one
On record from 1 of 62 tracked people: 1 recommends it - $$$Cheap: Roughly under $50, or under $15/month.
Change Your Brain, Change Your Life
The book that took brain imaging arguments about mental health to a general audience
On record from 1 of 62 tracked people: 1 recommends it - $$$Cheap: Roughly under $50, or under $15/month.
Clear Thinking
Parrish on the ordinary moments where a decision is really made
On record from 1 of 62 tracked people: 1 recommends itfs.blog (opens in a new tab) - $$$Cheap: Roughly under $50, or under $15/month.
Daniels' Running Formula
Jack Daniels on pacing and training zones, built around the VDOT number
On record from 1 of 62 tracked people: 1 recommends it - $$$Cheap: Roughly under $50, or under $15/month.
Discipline Equals Freedom
A short, deliberately blunt field manual for self-discipline
On record from 1 of 62 tracked people: 1 recommends it - $$$Cheap: Roughly under $50, or under $15/month.
Effortless
Make the most essential activities the easiest ones to do
On record from 1 of 62 tracked people: 1 recommends itgregmckeown.com (opens in a new tab) - $$$Cheap: Roughly under $50, or under $15/month.
Endurance
Shackleton's 1914 Antarctic expedition, from the ship breaking up to the rescue
On record from 1 of 62 tracked people: 1 recommends it - $$$Cheap: Roughly under $50, or under $15/month.
Essentialism
The disciplined pursuit of less, applied to a career and a calendar
On record from 1 of 62 tracked people: 1 recommends itgregmckeown.com (opens in a new tab) - $$$Cheap: Roughly under $50, or under $15/month.
Every Night Is Pizza Night
A picture book about a girl testing whether pizza really is the best food
On record from 1 of 62 tracked people: 1 recommends it - $$$Cheap: Roughly under $50, or under $15/month.
Fast This Way
Dave Asprey on intermittent and extended fasting, and how to make it less miserable
On record from 1 of 62 tracked people: 1 recommends itdaveasprey.com (opens in a new tab) - $$$Mid: Roughly $50 to $500, or up to $50/month.
Fat Loss Forever
Layne Norton's book on losing fat and, more to the point, keeping it off
On record from 1 of 62 tracked people: 1 recommends itbiolaynestore.com (opens in a new tab) - $$$Cheap: Roughly under $50, or under $15/month.
Feel-Good Productivity
Energy and enjoyment as the engine of getting things done
On record from 1 of 62 tracked people: 1 recommends it - $$$Cheap: Roughly under $50, or under $15/month.
Find Your WHY
The workbook companion to Start with WHY, written with David Mead and Peter Docker
On record from 1 of 62 tracked people: 1 recommends itsimonsinek.com (opens in a new tab) - $$$Cheap: Roughly under $50, or under $15/month.
Finding Ultra
From overweight and alcoholic at 40 to ultra-endurance athlete
On record from 1 of 62 tracked people: 1 recommends it - $$$Cheap: Roughly under $50, or under $15/month.
Four Thousand Weeks
Oliver Burkeman on time management for a finite life, roughly four thousand weeks long
On record from 1 of 62 tracked people: 1 recommends it - $$$Cheap: Roughly under $50, or under $15/month.
Give and Take
Why givers cluster at both the bottom and the top of the results
On record from 1 of 62 tracked people: 1 recommends itadamgrant.net (opens in a new tab) - $$$Mid: Roughly $50 to $500, or up to $50/month.
Harder Than Last Time! The Complete Muscle & Strength Training Manual
Training manual and programs built on beating the previous session
On record from 1 of 62 tracked people: 1 recommends itgregdoucette.com (opens in a new tab) - $$$Cheap: Roughly under $50, or under $15/month.
Heavily Meditated
Dave Asprey on shortcuts to deep meditative states with breath, feedback and pain
On record from 1 of 62 tracked people: 1 recommends itdaveasprey.com (opens in a new tab) - $$$Cheap: Roughly under $50, or under $15/month.
Here is New York
E.B. White's 1949 essay on the city, short enough to read in an hour
On record from 1 of 62 tracked people: 1 recommends it - $$$Cheap: Roughly under $50, or under $15/month.
Hidden Potential
Measuring people by distance climbed rather than height reached
On record from 1 of 62 tracked people: 1 recommends itadamgrant.net (opens in a new tab) - $$$Cheap: Roughly under $50, or under $15/month.
Hold Me Tight
Sue Johnson on the conversations that repair an adult relationship
On record from 1 of 62 tracked people: 1 recommends it - $$$Cheap: Roughly under $50, or under $15/month.
How Not to Die
Michael Greger's nutrition case against the leading causes of death
On record from 1 of 62 tracked people: 1 recommends it - $$$Cheap: Roughly under $50, or under $15/month.
How to Read a Book
Adler and Van Doren's manual on the four levels of reading
On record from 1 of 62 tracked people: 1 recommends it - $$$Cheap: Roughly under $50, or under $15/month.
How to Take Smart Notes
Sönke Ahrens on the slip-box method behind Niklas Luhmann's output
On record from 1 of 62 tracked people: 1 recommends it - $$$Cheap: Roughly under $50, or under $15/month.
How to Talk So Kids Will Listen & Listen So Kids Will Talk
Adele Faber and Elaine Mazlish's 1980 parenting manual on listening
On record from 1 of 62 tracked people: 1 recommends it - $$$Cheap: Roughly under $50, or under $15/month.
I Promise
Picture book of daily promises about school, effort and community, for young children
On record from 1 of 62 tracked people: 1 recommends it - $$$Cheap: Roughly under $50, or under $15/month.
Insight
Tasha Eurich on self-awareness and the blind spots you cannot see
On record from 1 of 62 tracked people: 1 recommends it - $$$Cheap: Roughly under $50, or under $15/month.On record from 1 of 62 tracked people: 1 recommends it
- $$$Mid: Roughly $50 to $500, or up to $50/month.
Jacques Pépin's Complete Techniques
Photographed step-by-step instruction in classical French kitchen method
On record from 1 of 62 tracked people: 1 recommends it - $$$Cheap: Roughly under $50, or under $15/month.
Keep Going
Austin Kleon's ten rules for staying creative once the work stops being new
On record from 1 of 62 tracked people: 1 recommends itaustinkleon.com (opens in a new tab) - $$$Cheap: Roughly under $50, or under $15/month.
Kettlebell Simple & Sinister
Pavel Tsatsouline's minimal kettlebell program built on two lifts
On record from 1 of 62 tracked people: 1 recommends it - $$$Cheap: Roughly under $50, or under $15/month.
Leaders Eat Last
Why some teams pull together and others fall apart
On record from 1 of 62 tracked people: 1 recommends itsimonsinek.com (opens in a new tab) - $$$Cheap: Roughly under $50, or under $15/month.
Linchpin
Godin's 2010 argument for doing work nobody else could have handed in
On record from 1 of 62 tracked people: 1 recommends it - $$$Cheap: Roughly under $50, or under $15/month.
Meditations
Marcus Aurelius writing to himself, the founding text of practical Stoicism
On record from 1 of 62 tracked people: 1 recommends it - $$$Cheap: Roughly under $50, or under $15/month.
Memory Rescue
Eleven risk factors for memory loss, organized under the BRIGHT MINDS mnemonic
On record from 1 of 62 tracked people: 1 recommends it - $$$Cheap: Roughly under $50, or under $15/month.
Mistakes Were Made (But Not by Me)
Carol Tavris and Elliot Aronson on self-justification
On record from 1 of 62 tracked people: 1 recommends it - $$$Cheap: Roughly under $50, or under $15/month.
Moonwalking with Einstein
Joshua Foer's year training for the US Memory Championship, and what memory really is
On record from 1 of 62 tracked people: 1 recommends it - $$$Cheap: Roughly under $50, or under $15/month.
Never Finished
Goggins's second book: what he did after the first one made him famous
On record from 1 of 62 tracked people: 1 recommends itdavidgoggins.com (opens in a new tab) - $$$Cheap: Roughly under $50, or under $15/month.
Next Level
The perimenopause and menopause companion to ROAR, with programs attached
On record from 1 of 62 tracked people: 1 recommends itdrstacysims.com (opens in a new tab) - $$$Cheap: Roughly under $50, or under $15/month.
No Limits: The Will to Succeed
Michael Phelps on the preparation behind his Beijing gold medals
On record from 1 of 62 tracked people: 1 recommends itbooks.apple.com (opens in a new tab) - $$$Mid: Roughly $50 to $500, or up to $50/month.
On Food and Cooking
Harold McGee's reference on what ingredients are and what heat does to them
On record from 1 of 62 tracked people: 1 recommends it - $$$Cheap: Roughly under $50, or under $15/month.
Option B
Sheryl Sandberg and Adam Grant on resilience after loss
On record from 1 of 62 tracked people: 1 recommends itadamgrant.net (opens in a new tab) - $$$Cheap: Roughly under $50, or under $15/month.
Originals
How people champion new ideas and hold out against groupthink
On record from 1 of 62 tracked people: 1 recommends itadamgrant.net (opens in a new tab) - $$$Cheap: Roughly under $50, or under $15/month.
Permission Marketing
The 1999 book arguing for messages people actually asked to receive
On record from 1 of 62 tracked people: 1 recommends it - $$$Mid: Roughly $50 to $500, or up to $50/month.
Poor Charlie's Almanack
Charlie Munger's speeches and essays on mental models, misjudgment and how to think
On record from 1 of 62 tracked people: 1 recommends it - $$$Cheap: Roughly under $50, or under $15/month.
Power to the People!
Two lifts, low reps and no failure, drawn from Russian strength practice
On record from 1 of 62 tracked people: 1 recommends it - $$$Cheap: Roughly under $50, or under $15/month.
Psych
Judd Biasiotto on the mental training behind record-setting powerlifting
On record from 1 of 62 tracked people: 1 recommends it - $$$Cheap: Roughly under $50, or under $15/month.
Purple Cow
Godin's 2003 case for building the marketing into the product itself
On record from 1 of 62 tracked people: 1 recommends it - $$$Cheap: Roughly under $50, or under $15/month.
Quiet
Susan Cain on introverts in a culture built for talkers
On record from 1 of 62 tracked people: 1 recommends it - $$$Cheap: Roughly under $50, or under $15/month.
Ready to Run
Twelve standards to meet before running technique will hold
On record from 1 of 62 tracked people: 1 recommends it - $$$Cheap: Roughly under $50, or under $15/month.
ROAR
Training, fueling and racing built on female physiology, not male data
On record from 1 of 62 tracked people: 1 recommends itdrstacysims.com (opens in a new tab) - $$$Cheap: Roughly under $50, or under $15/month.
Same as Ever
Twenty three short stories about the parts of human behavior that never change
On record from 1 of 62 tracked people: 1 recommends itcollabfund.com (opens in a new tab) - $$$Cheap: Roughly under $50, or under $15/month.
Serve to Win
Novak Djokovic on the gluten-free switch he credits for his 2011 season
On record from 1 of 62 tracked people: 1 recommends itpenguinrandomhouse.com (opens in a new tab) - $$$Cheap: Roughly under $50, or under $15/month.
Shoe Dog
Phil Knight's memoir of building Nike from shoes sold out of a car trunk to a global brand
On record from 1 of 62 tracked people: 1 recommends it - $$$Cheap: Roughly under $50, or under $15/month.
Show Your Work!
Austin Kleon's ten chapters on sharing the process rather than the product
On record from 1 of 62 tracked people: 1 recommends itaustinkleon.com (opens in a new tab) - $$$Cheap: Roughly under $50, or under $15/month.
So Good They Can't Ignore You
Skills first, passion later: an argument against following your passion
On record from 1 of 62 tracked people: 1 recommends it - $$$Cheap: Roughly under $50, or under $15/month.
Source Code
Bill Gates's 2025 memoir of childhood, Lakeside, Harvard and the start of Microsoft
On record from 1 of 62 tracked people: 1 recommends it - $$$Cheap: Roughly under $50, or under $15/month.
Start with WHY
Simon Sinek's first book, on leading with purpose before product
On record from 1 of 62 tracked people: 1 recommends itsimonsinek.com (opens in a new tab) - $$$Cheap: Roughly under $50, or under $15/month.
Steal Like an Artist
Austin Kleon's ten-chapter manifesto on borrowing your way to your own work
On record from 1 of 62 tracked people: 1 recommends itaustinkleon.com (opens in a new tab) - $$$Cheap: Roughly under $50, or under $15/month.
Stillness Is the Key
The third of Ryan Holiday's Stoic books, on the mind, spirit and body at rest
On record from 1 of 62 tracked people: 1 recommends it - $$$Cheap: Roughly under $50, or under $15/month.
The 5 Second Rule
Mel Robbins's first book, on the countdown that gets you moving
On record from 1 of 62 tracked people: 1 recommends itmelrobbins.com (opens in a new tab) - $$$Cheap: Roughly under $50, or under $15/month.
The 5 Types of Wealth
Bloom's 2025 book on measuring wealth as time, social, mental, physical and financial
On record from 1 of 62 tracked people: 1 recommends itthe5typesofwealth.com (opens in a new tab) - $$$Cheap: Roughly under $50, or under $15/month.
The Alchemist
Paulo Coelho's short novel about a shepherd following his personal legend
On record from 1 of 62 tracked people: 1 recommends it - $$$Cheap: Roughly under $50, or under $15/month.
The Art of Possibility
Twelve practices from a conductor and a therapist for changing how you see things
On record from 1 of 62 tracked people: 1 recommends it - $$$Cheap: Roughly under $50, or under $15/month.
The Art of Spending Money
On using money rather than accumulating it, and why no formula fits everyone
On record from 1 of 62 tracked people: 1 recommends itcollabfund.com (opens in a new tab) - $$$Cheap: Roughly under $50, or under $15/month.
The Beginning of Infinity
David Deutsch on good explanations, and why the growth of knowledge has no ceiling
On record from 1 of 62 tracked people: 1 recommends it - $$$Cheap: Roughly under $50, or under $15/month.
The Book of Awakening
Mark Nepo's page-a-day reflections, read one morning at a time
On record from 1 of 62 tracked people: 1 recommends it - $$$Cheap: Roughly under $50, or under $15/month.
The Brothers Karamazov
Dostoevsky's last novel: faith, doubt, and what people owe each other
On record from 1 of 62 tracked people: 1 recommends it - $$$Cheap: Roughly under $50, or under $15/month.
The Bullet Journal Method
Ryder Carroll on the paper notebook system and what it is really for
On record from 1 of 62 tracked people: 1 recommends it - $$$Cheap: Roughly under $50, or under $15/month.
The Bulletproof Diet
Dave Asprey's high-fat, low-toxin eating plan, and the origin of the butter coffee
On record from 1 of 62 tracked people: 1 recommends itdaveasprey.com (opens in a new tab) - $$$Cheap: Roughly under $50, or under $15/month.
The Circle Diet
A dieting ebook pitched against keto, paleo and carnivore restriction
On record from 1 of 62 tracked people: 1 recommends itgregdoucette.com (opens in a new tab) - $$$Mid: Roughly $50 to $500, or up to $50/month.
The Complete Contest Prep Guide
A start-to-stage manual for natural bodybuilding and physique competition prep
On record from 1 of 62 tracked people: 1 recommends itbiolayne.com (opens in a new tab) - $$$Cheap: Roughly under $50, or under $15/month.
The Daniel Plan
A church-based health program written with Rick Warren and Mark Hyman
On record from 1 of 62 tracked people: 1 recommends it - $$$Cheap: Roughly under $50, or under $15/month.
The Diary of a CEO
33 laws for business and life, drawn from hundreds of interviews
On record from 1 of 62 tracked people: 1 recommends it - $$$Cheap: Roughly under $50, or under $15/month.
The Dip
When to quit and when to push through the hard middle of a project
On record from 1 of 62 tracked people: 1 recommends it - $$$Cheap: Roughly under $50, or under $15/month.
The Essentialism Planner
A 90 day paper planner built around one priority a day
On record from 1 of 62 tracked people: 1 recommends itgregmckeown.com (opens in a new tab) - $$$Cheap: Roughly under $50, or under $15/month.
The Food Lab
Home cooking worked out by experiment, grown from the Serious Eats column
On record from 1 of 62 tracked people: 1 recommends it - $$$Cheap: Roughly under $50, or under $15/month.
The Four Agreements
Don Miguel Ruiz's short 1997 book on four rules for living, rooted in Toltec tradition
On record from 1 of 62 tracked people: 1 recommends itmiguelruiz.com (opens in a new tab) - $$$Cheap: Roughly under $50, or under $15/month.
The Great Depression: A Diary
A lawyer's day-by-day record of the 1930s, written with no idea it was economics
On record from 1 of 62 tracked people: 1 recommends it - $$$Cheap: Roughly under $50, or under $15/month.
The Great Mental Models
Four illustrated volumes of thinking tools taken from several disciplines at once
On record from 1 of 62 tracked people: 1 recommends itfs.blog (opens in a new tab) - $$$Cheap: Roughly under $50, or under $15/month.
The Happy Body
Jerzy and Aniela Gregorek's morning program of slow lifts, stretching and eating rules
On record from 1 of 62 tracked people: 1 recommends it - $$$Cheap: Roughly under $50, or under $15/month.
The Headspace Guide to Meditation and Mindfulness
Andy Puddicombe's plain-language introduction to a ten-minute daily practice
On record from 1 of 62 tracked people: 1 recommends it - $$$Cheap: Roughly under $50, or under $15/month.
The High 5 Habit
Mel Robbins on a daily high five in the mirror and the self-talk behind it
On record from 1 of 62 tracked people: 1 recommends itmelrobbins.com (opens in a new tab) - $$$Cheap: Roughly under $50, or under $15/month.
The Home & Hotel Hypertrophy Handbook
Training when the equipment is a hotel treadmill or a bag of rice
On record from 1 of 62 tracked people: 1 recommends itgregdoucette.com (opens in a new tab) - $$$Cheap: Roughly under $50, or under $15/month.
The Infinite Game
Business as a game with no finish line, built on James Carse's idea
On record from 1 of 62 tracked people: 1 recommends itsimonsinek.com (opens in a new tab) - $$$Cheap: Roughly under $50, or under $15/month.
The Inner Game of Tennis
Timothy Gallwey's 1974 classic on quieting self-criticism to perform under pressure
On record from 1 of 62 tracked people: 1 recommends it - $$$Cheap: Roughly under $50, or under $15/month.
The Intelligent Investor
Benjamin Graham's 1949 classic on value investing and the moods of Mr. Market
On record from 1 of 62 tracked people: 1 recommends it - $$$Cheap: Roughly under $50, or under $15/month.
The Let Them Theory
Mel Robbins on releasing control over other people and reclaiming your own attention
On record from 1 of 62 tracked people: 1 recommends itmelrobbins.com (opens in a new tab) - $$$Cheap: Roughly under $50, or under $15/month.
The Little Book of Common Sense Investing
John Bogle's short case for owning the whole market cheaply and leaving it alone
On record from 1 of 62 tracked people: 1 recommends it - $$$Cheap: Roughly under $50, or under $15/month.
The Longevity Diet
The 2018 book pairing a daily eating pattern with periodic five-day fasting cycles
On record from 1 of 62 tracked people: 1 recommends itvalterlongo.com (opens in a new tab) - $$$Cheap: Roughly under $50, or under $15/month.
The Muscle Ladder
Jeff Nippard's 2024 training manual with 20 programs and photo demos of 80-plus exercises
On record from 1 of 62 tracked people: 1 recommends itjeffnippard.com (opens in a new tab) - $$$Cheap: Roughly under $50, or under $15/month.
The Obstacle Is the Way
Ryan Holiday's first Stoic book, on turning problems into the way forward
On record from 1 of 62 tracked people: 1 recommends it - $$$Cheap: Roughly under $50, or under $15/month.
The ONE Thing
Gary Keller and Jay Papasan on the one priority that makes everything else easier
On record from 1 of 62 tracked people: 1 recommends it - $$$Cheap: Roughly under $50, or under $15/month.
The Outsiders
William Thorndike on eight CEOs who ran their companies for cash and capital allocation
On record from 1 of 62 tracked people: 1 recommends it - $$$Cheap: Roughly under $50, or under $15/month.
The Overstory
Richard Powers's Pulitzer-winning novel in which trees turn out to be the main character
On record from 1 of 62 tracked people: 1 recommends it - $$$Cheap: Roughly under $50, or under $15/month.
The PARA Method
Short guide to sorting every file and note into four folders
On record from 1 of 62 tracked people: 1 recommends itbuildingasecondbrain.com (opens in a new tab) - $$$Cheap: Roughly under $50, or under $15/month.
The Power of Now
Eckhart Tolle on stepping out of the running commentary in your head
On record from 1 of 62 tracked people: 1 recommends it - $$$Cheap: Roughly under $50, or under $15/month.
The Practice
Short numbered sections on treating creative work as a daily practice
On record from 1 of 62 tracked people: 1 recommends it - $$$Mid: Roughly $50 to $500, or up to $50/month.
The Productivity Field Guide
MacSparky
Video course and book that builds a personal system from your roles, not your tasks
On record from 1 of 62 tracked people: 1 recommends itmacsparky.com (opens in a new tab) - $$$Cheap: Roughly under $50, or under $15/month.
The Psychology of Money
Nineteen short chapters on how people behave with money, not on what to buy
On record from 1 of 62 tracked people: 1 recommends itcollabfund.com (opens in a new tab) - $$$Cheap: Roughly under $50, or under $15/month.
The Quick and the Dead
A short kettlebell power protocol built on swings, snatches and generous rest
On record from 1 of 62 tracked people: 1 recommends it - $$$Cheap: Roughly under $50, or under $15/month.
The Rational Optimist
Matt Ridley's case that trade and specialization, not intelligence, drove human progress
On record from 1 of 62 tracked people: 1 recommends it - $$$Cheap: Roughly under $50, or under $15/month.
The Remains of the Day
Kazuo Ishiguro
Kazuo Ishiguro's novel of an English butler looking back on a life of duty and regret
On record from 1 of 62 tracked people: 1 recommends it - $$$Cheap: Roughly under $50, or under $15/month.
The Rock Says...
Dwayne Johnson's 2000 autobiography, written with Joe Layden at the peak of his WWF run
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The Second Mountain
David Brooks on the commitments that follow the first climb of career and status
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The Tao of Charlie Munger
Munger's lines on investing, business and living, gathered into one place
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The TB12 Method
Tom Brady's 2017 guide to pliability, band training, nutrition, hydration and sleep
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The Ultimate Anabolic Cookbook
High-protein versions of everyday food, with the nutrition figures printed
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The Underground Railroad
Colson Whitehead's novel of Cora's escape from a Georgia plantation
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The Untethered Soul
Michael Singer on the voice in your head, and what changes when you stop believing it
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The War of Art
Steven Pressfield's short book on resistance and turning pro
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The Wisdom of Sundays
Super Soul Sunday conversations excerpted, with Winfrey's own commentary
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The Wok
Nearly 700 pages on one pan, its physics and the cooking it makes possible
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Think Again
Rethinking and unlearning as skills worth practicing on purpose
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Thinking, Fast and Slow
Kahneman's map of the two systems behind your judgments
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This Is Marketing
The 2018 book that folds thirty years of Godin's teaching into one framework
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This Is Strategy
Strategy as a long commitment to a change, not as a set of tactics
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This Is Water
The Kenyon commencement speech by the author of Infinite Jest, about a 15-minute read
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Together is Better
An illustrated fable about asking for help, made to be given away
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Tools of Titans
Routines, habits and tactics from 200+ podcast guests
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Total Recall: My Unbelievably True Life Story
Arnold Schwarzenegger's 2012 memoir, from Thal to Mr. Olympia to Sacramento
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Tribes
A 2008 book on leading a group that already wants to go somewhere
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Unreasonable Hospitality
Will Guidara on how Eleven Madison Park treated the people who walked in
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What I Know For Sure
Oprah Winfrey's collected O magazine columns, grouped by theme
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When Breath Becomes Air
A neurosurgeon's memoir, written while he was dying of lung cancer at 36
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Where Are the Customers' Yachts?
Fred Schwed's 1940 comedy about Wall Street, still accurate about fees and forecasts
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Young Forever
Mark Hyman's 2023 book on the hallmarks of aging and his own longevity program
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