This year totaled 56 books. To be clear, I’m less concerned about remembering everything; I love the cross-pollination of ideas much more. I’m going for quantity and listening at ~2.5X speed. The more ideas I gather from different disciplines, the more I draw parallels from seemingly unrelated fields. This is my sweet spot.

I’ve divided up all the books I read this year by the rating scale I use for my Book Notes page. Let me know if you want any of the notes I took for a particular book, and I’ll post it and share a hyperlink.

5 Stars: Loved It (17 books)

Non-Fiction

• Expert Secrets by Russell Brunson
• Crushing It! by Gary Vaynerchuk
• At Your Best by Carey Nieuwhof
• Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson
• The Checklist Manifesto by Atul Gawande
• Soldier Secretary by Christopher C. Miller
• Sea Stories by William H. McRaven
• Life Undercover by Amaryllis Fox
• Chickenhawk by Robert Mason
• Scars and Stripes by Tim Kennedy
• Build by Tony Fadell
• The Art of Clear Thinking by Hasard Lee
• See, Solve, Scale by Danny Warshay
• Buy Back Your Time by Dan Martell
• The Power of Stillness by Jacob Z. Hess, Carrie L. Skarda, Kyle D. Anderson, and Ty R. Mansfield
• Die with Zero by Bill Perkins

Fiction

• Leviathan Wakes (The Expanse, #1) by James S.A. Corey

4 Stars: Liked It (16 books)

Non-Fiction

• Influence by Robert B. Cialdini
• You Need a Budget by Jesse Mecham
• When to Jump by Mike Lewis
• Outdoor Kids in an Inside World by Steven Rinella
• Come Fly The World by Julia Cooke
• The Opposite of Woe by John Hickenlooper
• Make Life Beautiful by Syd & Shea McGee
• Crisis of Command by Stuart Scheller
• Venture Deals by Brad Feld
• Gun Barons by John Bainbridge, Jr.
• Be Useful by Arnold Schwarzenegger
• The Last Lecture by Randy Pausch
• Building by Mark Ellison
• Winning the War in Your Mind by Craig Groeschel

Fiction

• Invincible Iron Man: Ironheart, Vol. 1: Riri Williams by Brian Michael Bendis (Writer), Stefano Caselli (Illustrator), and Marte Garcia (Illustrator)
• Star Wars: Rogue One Adaptation by Jody Houser (Writer), Emilio Laiso (Artist), Paolo Villanelli (Artist), and Rachelle Rosenberg (Artist)

3 Stars: It Was Okay (15 books)

Non-Fiction

• The Total Money Makeover by Dave Ramsey
• Rage Against the Minivan by Kristen Howerton
• I Didn’t Do the Thing Today by Madeleine Dore
• What If Love Is the Point? by Carlos & Alexa PenaVega
• Inferno by Joe Pappalardo
• Leadership by Henry Kissinger
• The Hiltons by J. Randy Taraborrelli
• The Next Millionaire Next Door by Thomas J. Stanley
• The Monuments Men by Robert M. Edsel
• The Way of the Knife by Mark Mazzetti
• Mended Wings by Colin P. Cahoon
• Confessions of a Recovering Engineer by Charles L. Marohn, Jr.
• The Things We Make by Bill Hammack
• The Psychology of Money by Morgan Housel

Fiction

• Batman/Spawn: The Classic Collection by Frank Miller (Writer), Todd McFarlane (Writer), Doug Moench (Writer), Alan Grant (Writer), Chuck Dixon (Writer), and Klaus Janson (Illustrator)

2 Stars: Disliked It (7 books)

Non-Fiction

• The Revolutionary by Stacy Schiff
• David and Goliath by Malcolm Gladwell
• Adventures in Opting Out by Cait Flanders
• The Proximity Principle by Ken Coleman
• Balkan Ghosts by Robert D. Kaplan

Fiction

• The Three-Body Problem (Remembrance of Earth’s Past, #1) by Cixin Liu
• The Amazing Spider-Man: Renew Your Vows, Vol. 1: Brawl in the Family by Gerry Conway (Writer) and Ryan Stegman (Illustrator)

1 Star: Hated It (1 book)

Non-Fiction

• Business Adventures by John Brooks

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