Top 10 Read’s of 2016

Below are my top 10 favorite reads of 2016. There were a lot of great books that didn’t make my “books of the year” for one reason or another. I also read a lot of BAD books. I always finish the books I don’t like because I want to know WHY I don’t like them, and if I ever write a book I want to be sure to not do THAT, whatever “that” is.

If you have any questions about a book or want a recommendation please leave a comment. And if you read any game-changing books in 2016 please share!

2016 Top 10 Reads

1. Shoe Dog by Phil Knight
2. Go Wild by John Ratey
3. Elon Musk by Ashlee Vance
4. Extreme Ownership by Jocko Willink
5. The Rational Optimist by Matt Ridley
6. Legacy by James Kerr
7. Lies my Teacher Told Me by Jame Loewen
8. Mob Rules by Louis Ferrante
9. Mindset by Carol Dweck
10. Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harari

Notable Mentions

The Power of NOW, Talk Like TED, To Sell Is Human, Crucial Conversations, Grit, The Book of Joy, Spring Chicken

All of 2016 Reads

• Shoe Dog by Phil Knight
• Go Wild by John Ratey
• Elon Musk by Ashlee Vance
• Extreme Ownership by Jocko Willink
• The Rational Optimist by Matt Ridley
• Legacy by James Kerr
• Lies my Teacher Told Me by Jame Loewen
• Mob Rules by Louis Ferrante
• The Book of Joy by Douglas Carlton Abrams
• Sapiens
• I Can See Clearly Now — Dr. Wayne Dyer
• Autoimmune Epidemic — Donna Jackson Nakazawa
• The Japanese Lover — Isabel Allende
• Letters from a Stoic — Seneca
• Illusions — Richard Bach
• Daring Greatly — Brene Brown
• Big Magic — Elizabeth Gilbert
• The Dark Bride — Laura Restrepo
• Time Keeper — Mitch Albom
• Awareness — Osho
• Awareness — Anthony De Mello
• How Full is your Bucket? — Tom Rath
• Everybody Writes — Ann Handley
• Fame, Fortune, And Ambition — Osho
• The Power of NOW — Eckhart Tolle
• The Psychophysiology of Self Awareness — Alan Fogal
• Tools of Titans — Tim Ferris
• What You Should Know About Politics… But Don’t — Jessamyn Conrad
• New Functional Training for Sports — Michael Boyle
• Maturity — Osho
• The 48 laws of Power — Robert Greene
• Intuition — Osho
• Talk Like TED — Carmine Gallo
• To Sell Is Human — Daniel Pink
• Crucial Conversations — Kerry Patterson
• Ready Fire Aim — Michael Masterson
• Leaders Eat Last — Simon Sinek
• Mindset — Carol Dweck
• The Charge — Brandon Burchard
• X10 Rule — Grant Cardone
• #AskGaryVee — Gary Vaynerchuk
• The Storytellers Secret — Carmine Gallo
• Money Master the Game — Tony Robbins
• Smarter Faster Better — Charles Duhigg
• The Moral Animal — Robert Wright
• Your Best Brain — Professor John Medina
• Grit — Angela Duckworth
• The Brain’s Way of Healing — Norman Doidge
• Traction — Gino Wickman
• Big Questions of Philosophy — Professor David Johnson
• BOLD — Steven Kotler
• The Virgin Way — Richard Branson
• Abundance — Steven Kotler
• Hardcore ZEN — Brad Warner
• Antifragile — Nassim Nicholas Taleb
• Predictably Irrational — Dan Ariely
• The Selfish Gene — Richard Dawkins
• NeuroLogic — Eliezer Sternberg
• Meditations — Marcus Aurelius
• A Little History of Philosophy — Nigel Warburton
• In The Plex — Steven Levy
• The Dorito Effect — Mark Schatzker
• Originals — Sheryl Sandberg
• Blue Mind — Wallace Nichols
• Ego Is the Enemy — Ryan Holiday
• The Ethical Slut — Janet Hardy
• Balanced and Barefoot — Angela Hanscom
• Think Like a Freak — Steven Levitt
• Spring Chicken — Bill Gifford
• Debt — David Graeber
• The Party is Over — Mike Lofgren
• The Righteous Mind — Jonathan Haidt
• The Subtle Art of Not Giving a Fu*k — Mark Manson
• The God Delusion — Richard Dawkins